Posted: Apr 29, 2021 8:54 PM CT | Last Updated: April 30
Former Manitoba MLA Kevin Chief got his COVID-19 vaccination at a new Indigenous vaccine clinic at the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre on Higgins Avenue in Winnipeg on Thursday.(CBC)
A prominent former Manitoba MLA delivered a message Thursday for anyone who is eligible for a COVID-19 vaccination, but has yet to get one. We need you, said Kevin Chief, who joined Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew in getting the jab at new urban Indigenous vaccine clinics that opened on Thursday. Please get this vaccine as soon as possible, said the former NDP MLA for Point Douglas, who is now a community development adviser with True North Sports and Entertainment. It s so, so important.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Cody Sellar
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Kevin Chief gets his COVID-19 vaccine from Dr. Barry Lavallee, CEO of Keewatinohk Inniniw Minoayawin, at the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre Indigenous immunization clinic on Thursday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
Kevin Chief gestured to a cluster of tents draped in orange tarps opposite the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre on Higgins Avenue.
Winnipeg Free Press
Kevin Chief gestured to a cluster of tents draped in orange tarps opposite the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre on Higgins Avenue.
The centre opened a vaccination clinic Thursday morning, and the former Point Douglas MLA was illustrating the importance of having the walk-in site for inoculation.
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Former NDP cabinet minister Kevin Chief has a new role as senior adviser of community development at True North.
For Kevin Chief, there’s one major difference between his former job as an MLA for Point Douglas and his current one with True North Sports and Entertainment.
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For Kevin Chief, there’s one major difference between his former job as an MLA for Point Douglas and his current one with True North Sports and Entertainment. I get to wear sport shirts to work, he laughs, I haven’t worn a suit in months.
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