Four separate initiatives will help improve Manitoba’s ability to fight floods and manage water in the province including an independent eight-person task force that will look at Manitoba’s record flooding in 2011.
New census information released today by Statistics Canada shows Manitoba’s population growth between 2001 and 2006 increased by more than double that of the previous five-year period.
Manitobans have the chance to gain more knowledge of the province’s cultural diversity with the launch of Black History Month.
Figures released show Manitoba’s unemployment rate held steady at 5.4 per cent in January as the national rate increased.
Education Minister Nancy Allan and Manitoba Teachers’ Society president Paul Olson stressed the importance of reading when they visited Greenway School in Winnipeg School Division’s central district to read to students in recognition of “I Love to Read” month.
Projects that will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 2,000 tonnes a year over the next decade are receiving more than $230,000 in grants through the Manitoba Climate Investment Pilot Program.
A recently conducted poll by the Association of Manitoba Municipalities (AMM) shows Manitobans think investing in municipal infrastructure over and above existing levels should be a top priority for the provincial government over the next four years.
Last year the RCMP took down 53 marijuana grow operations of all sizes, seizing enough marijuana plants to just about cover a football field.
Manitoba communities affected by the unprecedented flood of 2011 will receive much-needed financial support totalling nearly $2.5 million.
Justice Minister Andrew Swan announced he will push the federal government at the upcoming meeting of federal, provincial and territorial justice ministers to adopt new and more serious charges for those who commit knife crimes, home invasions and carjackings.
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