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The province is investing $86,000 through its Export Support Programming to assist 19 small and medium-sized Manitoba companies expand the export of their products and services into more diversified markets.
The move was announced by Business, Trade and Job Creation Minister Jamie Moses in advance of potential U-S tariffs coming into effect.
Moses says it’s a crucial time to support Manitoba companies market their products to a global audience, with the threat of U-S tariffs looming.
For 2024-25, the Manitoba government awarded funding to 19 small and medium-sized companies with the industries represented including agriculture, manufacturing, education and bio-environmental.
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New provincial funding has been assigned to help address critical winter road conditions in the north.
Manitoba’s winter road system is made of temporary routes built to provide access to remote northern communities, allowing residents to receive fuel, building materials, food supplies, and various goods and services.
Depending on weather conditions, the road network is open from late January to mid-March. Manitoba’s winter road system is over 2,356 kilometers long, crossing a variety of terrains including muskeg, streams, rivers, and lakes.
Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Lisa Naylor announced an increase of $1.8 million (totaling 11.3 million) to enhance and maintain the province’s winter road system
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Residents in Eriksdale and the surrounding area will have a chance to provide input on the design and development of a new Emergency Room in that community.
A project open house will take place on March 6th at the Eriksdale Recreation Centre, with multiple consultation meetings also set for February and early March with frontline staff and physicians, elected First Nation and municipal leaders in the area, and First Nation and tribal council directors.
Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care Minister Uzoma Asagwara said in a news release that community advocacy has always been at the heart of this project, adding it will be critical to maintain that by bringing community members into the design process,
There will also be an online survey accessible at https://ierha.ca/news-updates/.
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The Friends of Riding Mountain National Park are inviting everyone to check out the park this weekend during their Winter Adventure Weekend.
Saturday highlights include boot hockey, an ice fishing village open house, a hot dog and smokies BBQ fundraiser, and winter games, as well as live music and a group snowshoe and family snow camping.
Sunday includes a chili and bun fundraiser, winter scavenger hunt and kids snow carving.
Winter equipment rentals, a photo booth, and "Let's Talk S'omores" will also take place over both days of the festival.
Most of the events are free to take part in, with the exception of winter equipment rentals and fundraising meals.
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Doctors Manitoba has launched a campaign to encourage winter fitness and combat medical misinformation.
The organization representing the province's physicians said it's looking to combat the spread of false medical information online as part of this year's Getting Healthy campaign.
This program encourages Manitobans to focus on their well-being during the winter by offering incentives to those who pledge to improve their health.
Participants in the Doctors Manitoba Getting Healthy campaign can take a pledge to do things like catching up on immunizations or taking steps to move more, eat healthier, get better sleep, or reduce stress to earn a chance to win prizes.
This year's grand prize is a Churchill trip for two.
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Connie Malcolm of Bacon Ridge is off the hook.
Last February, Ste. Rose RCMP executed a search warrant at a home on the Ebb & Flow First Nation. They seized pre-packaged cocaine, crystal meth, crack cocaine, firearms, ammunition, cash, prepaid credit cards, and drug-related paraphernalia.
The 42-year-old Malcolm was arrested as a result, however, on Thursday in Dauphin Provincial Court, the charges against Connie were stayed.
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The Manitoba Art Network is bringing a special musical tour to Indigenous schools across Manitoba.
Nelson Little, an award-winning Métis musician will embark on a first-of-its-kind journey to 18 indigenous schools to share his music and story with students.
As part of his shows, Little will conduct music workshops with students designed to inspire creativity and connect young participants to the power of music.
His storytelling and ability to turn real-life events into moving songs make this tour this year's highlight.
All the stops and dates are listed below:
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Swan River was one of five Manitoba communities to set new January heat records on Tuesday.
According to Environment Canada, Tuesday's high of 4.7 Celsius in Swan River shattered the previous record of 1.0 set back in 1992.
Steinbach also broke a 33-year-old on that day, with their temperature of 2.9 Celsius breaking the previous high mark of 1.5 C.
Carberry reached a high of 2.5 C, narrowly edging its record of 2.0 set in 1983.
Other records set that day were in Winnipeg - where their temperature of 3.4 on Tuesday edged the 1976 record of 3.3, while Oak Point's record of 2.1 Celsius broke the record of 0.1 set in 2005.
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In the wake of Parks Canada's announcement this week that it was no longer feasible to try and eradicate Zebra Mussels found in Clear Lake, Manitoba Hydro has started researching how its Brandon Generating Station may be impacted in the future.
Clear Lake connects to the Little Saskatchewan River and down south to the Assiniboine River, where dead Zebra Mussel larvae were discovered last December.
In a story in the Brandon Sun, the province's electric and natural gas utility said it is reviewing its assets that may be at risk at the Brandon plant, while also announcing a plan to increase monitoring next season.
They are also looking at treatment options that may be required in the coming months, which may include using chlorine over a 10 to 14-day period in the summer to kill Zebra mussels that become too densely populated.
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The province has directed Prairie Mountain Health to reduce for-profit nursing agency costs by 15 per cent by March 2026 as part of a systemwide effort to refocus funding on nurses in the public system.
Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care Minister Uzoma Asagwara blamed the previous Tory government for cutting services, closing ERs and firing nurses resulting in millions overspent on private nursing agencies.
Asagwara added this direction comes alongside the Manitoba government’s efforts to invest in publicly funded health care and encourage nurses to join the public system.
In the past, Manitoba held hundreds of distinct contracts with more than 70 private for-profit agencies, with little to no policies on how to limit those agencies’ impact on the nurses working in the public system or the rates they charge to publicly funded service delivery organizations, according to the Minister.
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Public Works in Gilbert Plains wants to remind residents that some work is being done on a water break tomorrow morning at Hwy 10 and the Valley River.
If you are in the northeast part of the municipality and have municipal water, you may experience low pressure or no water starting at 9:00 am on Thursday, January 30, 2025.
The municipality thanks residents for understanding and aims to resolve this as soon as possible.
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