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The federal government announced Canada is going deeper into deficit.
It's forecasted to increase by almost $2 billion to $19.6 billion, up from the $17.8 billion projected earlier.
“Deficits for the foreseeable future and Justin Trudeau talked about how the budget will balance its self. Well, clearly it won’t. The deficit’s more than three times what he said it would be and next year it will be even higher.”
MP Robert Sopuck says these deficits are not good and there are some economic headwinds Canada might go through next year.
“When you look at the great increase of the CPP premiums for everybody the average family is paying a little over 800 dollars extra in taxes. So, just when our economy is heading into some difficult times, this kind of overspending and increased taxation will do nothing to help our economy.”
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Sewer lines are getting flushed in Gilbert Plains.
The municipality announced that they are starting today and will continue for the next five days.
If you have any questions contact the municipal office.
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The Gilbert Plains Co-op is holding their Equity Days today and tomorrow.
People get equity cheques based off of how much money they spent at Co-op in the past year.
Lisa White, office manager, says people should come out to collect their cheque. There will also be coffee, doughnuts, and a door prize.
There’s also a spin the wheel game. It’s like the Wheel of Fortune and whatever you land on you get that percentage off of your in-store purchases. The wheel can land on anything from 5-50 percent off.
Any cheques that aren’t picked up will eventually be mailed out.
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Lights are changing on Main Street in Dauphin.
The city bought a brand new set of Christmas lights.
“I think that it insights the Christmas spirit in people and the other thing is we live in a really cold and dark climate in the winter. So anything we can do to sort of brightens things up.”
“ Some of the lighting that we invested into is going to stay up year round. So it’ll be turned on late into the winter season so that we do have those pops of brightness throughout.”
Melisa Stefaniw says if you’re interested you can pick up some of the old sets no longer in use.
“We did sell some of the lights, they are still available. You can contact us here [at city hall] to chat. We did get rid of a few of them, there was still a little bit of life left in them and they certainly could have been refurbished, but they were at the end of the line for Main street Dauphin.”
They are being turned on as part of Moonlight Madness weekend, this weekend.
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Preliminary numbers for the 24-Hour Giving Challenge are in.
The Dauphin and District Community Foundation collected $25,725 in donations up until the end of Friday.
Kit Daley is still waiting for numbers from the Winnipeg Foundation to get the total results from the donations made on Saturday.
She expects to hear the results from the main collection day by next Wednesday, at the latest.
They have to wait for all cheques to clear and make sure all payments are processed.
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The success of Canada’s National Ukrainian Festival was a topic during the group's AGM.
Their annual meeting took place last night, and they discussed this year’s event and the future of the festival.
Reports presented indicated that the festival enjoyed a successful year, financial statements show that the board made a slight profit in 2018 up from 2017.
Kayla Gillis is returning as president of the festival to help lead the board and new executive.
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Last night just before midnight two people were snowmobiling on the Winnipeg River, NE of Winnipeg.
The ice was not strong enough to hold them and they fell into the river.
A search was immediately initiated from the south shore on Fort Alexander First Nation by the Powerview RCMP and continues this morning.
RCMP and fire services from Sagkeeng First Nation are also helping in the search.
The identities of the snowmobilers haven't been confirmed yet.
The ice is dangerous at this time, and the RCMP are asking everyone to stay off the unstable surface.
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Just before midnight last night, there was a break in attempt at Academy Video.
Tami Turner, owner of Academy Video says whoever tried to break into the store couldn’t get in because the alarm went off and the bars kept the people out.
The windows were broken by paving stones that were thrown through the window.
Movies were all over the floor in the store because of the stones.
Nothing was stolen from the store.
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A DRCSS student is representing Dauphin’s youth on City Council.
Ashton Kaleta has been named the council youth rep this year which will see him participate in regular council meetings.
“My principal asked me to, and I thought it would be cool.”
Mayor Dowhan wanted to get young people involved and asked the principal at the high school for a name.
“Everybody talked about the youth in Dauphin, and they weren’t represented at our council meetings. They have a lot to contribute to our community and their insights on whether recreation, safety, etc.” The mayor continued, “I looked into the municipal act, and there is a provision for that. And also encourage young people to look at public office once they are age of majority and look at it as a career and service to their community.”
Ashton does not have a vote on council but can debate and bring up issues during meetings.
“I’m helping make Dauphin a better place to live,” Ashton said.
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Today is the National Day of Remembrace for road crash victims.
As of the end of October, 63 people have been killed in motor vehicle collisions on public roadways in Manitoba this year.
The day is a reminder to all motorists that they must think about the consequences of risky actions while behind the steering wheel.
“Distracted driving. Impaired driving. Not wearing a seatbelt. Driving too fast for road or weather conditions. These are the driving factors behind most road fatalities in Manitoba. Every single road death is a tragic and heartbreaking event that too often didn’t need to happen,” said Satvir Jatana, vice-president responsible for communications, Manitoba Public Insurance.
Each year around 30 people are killed as a result of distracted driving and 25 are killed in alcohol-related crashes across the province.
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Snowmobile season is right around the corner.
The snowmobile trails will be open when there’s enough snow to groom the trails.
Once the first trail grooming has been done they will go out and determine if the trails are safe enough to use.
President of the Dauphin and District Snowmobile Club, George Carrier, has some safety tips.
“Drive sober, drive safe, obey the signs and just use common knowledge.”
There are a few rules out on the trail. You need to have a trail permit, obey the speed limits and stop signs.
Trail permits cost 150 dollars and can be picked up at MPI.
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