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Amanda Bazan is the Green Party candidate for Rossmere in the upcoming provincial election.<\/div>\n
“The Green Party champions a lot of causes I believe in,” Bazan, a 32-year-old health care clerk, told The Herald. “This the first time I’ve done something like this. I’m a little surprised with myself, but it’s time to do more than complain on the internet.”<\/div>\n
Bazan grew up in River East, attended St. Mary’s Academy, and worked for six years at the McDonald’s on Henderson and Whellams Lane. Currently a resident of downtown Winnipeg, her mother and grandmother still live in Rossmere. <\/div>\n
As a clerk at Health Sciences Centre, Bazan has seen first hand how changes to the health care system have impacted people.<\/div>\n
“The health care system is very near and dear to me,” she said. “We should not have abandoned our ERs.”<\/div>\n
Bazan would like to see more access points to the health care system opened throughout the city, Rossmere included.<\/div>\n
“We need somewhere people can access if their family doctor is full,” she said. “Some people can’t into their doctor’s office for days.”<\/div>\n
While Bazan may be a political novice, she believes that to be successful in the election, she doesn’t necessarily need to be elected to the Legislature.<\/div>\n
“I’m not delusional,” she said. “I know I’m running in a Conservative riding. I see a win as a Green differently. It’s us having a united voice to affect change within all parties, pushing the envelope.”<\/div>\n
As a Millennial, Bazan believes that more action on environmental issues is needed, at the provincial, civic, and federal levels.<\/div>\n
“One thing we’d like to bring in is free transit, or at least better public transit,” she said. “Better public transit involves it being more affordable.”<\/div>\n
Now that she has taken her first steps into the political arena, Bazan said she expects to keep fighting the good fight for years to come.<\/div>\n
“We just need to get out there and be a part of this process,” she said. “Anyone who is willing to put the work in can be part of the changes we need to see. I would absolutely like to see more of that in the future.”<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":287131661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"education-subject":[],"media-literacy-topic":[],"post_topic":[],"content_type":[24],"class_list":["post-557895721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-herald"],"acf":{"short_title":"","seo_title":"","deck":"","story_tag":"","byline":"Sheldon Birnie","updates":null},"apple_news_notices":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/herald\/2019\/08\/22\/bazan-returns-to-roots-in-rossmere","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Bazan returns to roots in Rossmere","url":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/herald\/2019\/08\/22\/bazan-returns-to-roots-in-rossmere","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/herald\/2019\/08\/22\/bazan-returns-to-roots-in-rossmere"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/sb-Election-Bazan-Aug28.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/sb-Election-Bazan-Aug28.jpg"},"articleSection":"The Herald","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"feedloaderapi"}],"creator":["feedloaderapi"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Our Communities","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2019-08-22T19:26:00Z","datePublished":"2019-08-22T19:26:00Z","dateModified":"2019-08-22T19:29:07Z"},"rendered":"