On the evening of October 3, 2023, I posted a snarky message on the website formerly known as Twitter: “Early election results from Manitoba suggest it’s gonna be a big night for territorial tweeters saying ‘first PROVINCIAL premier!’”
Wab Kinew’s New Democratic Party had just been voted to power in the easternmost prairie province, and I wasn’t the only one who had noticed a trend in some of the rapid-response reporting from journalists following the election results. Many people, including some reporters, had shared the claim that Kinew, who is Anishinaabe, would be the first Indigenous premier in Canadian history.
