Ian Wishart

PC candidate in the Portage La Prairie Southern Manitoba race.

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Goertzen Remains Education Minister

October 23, 2019

Steinbach Online - ... • Scott Fielding (MLA for Kirkfield Park) – Department of Finance. The following MLAs retain their current legislative responsibilities: • Ian Wishart (MLA for Portage la Prairie) – legislative assistant to the Minister of Education; • Andrew Smith (MLA for Lagimodiere) – legislative...

PC incumbents voted back in

September 16, 2019

Winnipeg Free Press - ...Conservative incumbent candidates Ralph Eichler for Lakeside, Blaine Pedersen for Midland, and Ian Wishart for Portage la Prairie all celebrated easy wins on Sept. 10. One of the first candidates to be declared a winner on election night, Eichler is beginning his fifth term as MLA. Eichler won...

Pallister re-elected in Manitoba

September 11, 2019

The Producer - ...farm issues will have a strong voice in the legislature. ADVERTISEMENT Several farmers, including former Keystone Agricultural Producers president Ian Wishart, were re-elected last night. The NDP will form the official opposition in Manitoba. Leader Wab Kinew and the NDP took 18 seats – all in Winnipeg...

Wishart elected to third term as Conservatives take majority

September 10, 2019

The Graphic Leader - ...Conservative reign over the region continues. Progressive Conservative incumbent Ian Wishart has been elected for a third term as MLA of Portage la Prairie. Wishart has received approximately 64 per cent of the vote with just a few polls left to be reported. Andrew Podolecki of the NDP received 22 per...

Wishart re-elected in Portage la Prairie

September 10, 2019

Winnipeg Free Press - ...la Prairie voters have returned Ian Wishart to office for a third term. NDP candidate Andrew Podolecki and Liberal Party candidate Charles Huband proved to be no contest for Wishart, 65. Wishart captured 3,791 votes, with Podolecki a distant second with 1,342, with 42 out of 46 polls reporting on...

Addressing health, social issues

September 3, 2019

Winnipeg Free Press - ...the following questions to all registered candidates running for election in Portage la Prairie. Note: Progressive Conservative Party candidate Ian Wishart did not respond by press time. FILE PHOTO Charles Huband, Liberal Party candidate in Portage la Prairie. How are the health care needs of Portage...

PORTAGE VOTES: Get to know the candidates

September 3, 2019

The Graphic Leader - ...boundary will have to decide between three people vying for MLA when they head to the polls next week. Incumbent Progressive Conservative MLA, Ian Wishart, is seeking reelection for his third term and is challenged by Charles Huband of the Liberals and the NDP’s Andrew Podolecki. The Portage...

Wishart aiming for return to office

August 12, 2019

Winnipeg Free Press - Ian Wishart, 65, is running in his third election to represent Portage la Prairie as MLA. Wishart was first elected in the spring of 2011 — right at the height of the flood that severely impacted farm and pasture land in the Portage area. “It was an interesting year for this area. We had tons of flood...

Man. to help farmers protect wetlands

June 20, 2019

The Producer - ...province with real money. It was a popular topic of discussion at KAP and other farm meetings through the 2000s and 2010s, with farm leaders like Ian Wishart, now a government MLA, championing the concept of paying farmers for preserving vulnerable lands and ecosystems. ADVERTISEMENT Dan Mazier, another...

Letters, June 10

June 10, 2019

Winnipeg Free Press - ...when two of the commission members are Clayton Manness, who served as the minister of finance in the Filmon Progressive Conservative government, and Ian Wishart, former Tory minister of education and MLA in the current government? In my opinion, this is a done deal and the government is only having these...