The Manitoba Public Utilities Board has approved a .06% over-all general rate decrease for basic compulsory motor vehicle premiums to be effective March 1, 2020 for a 13-month period.

The Director and CEO of VIDO-InterVac is confident the construction of a pilot scale vaccine manufacturing facility will allow it to dramatically speed up the testing of new vaccine candidates.

Starting 8pm on December 5, a transformer, weighing about 179,000 kilograms (almost 200 tons), will travel a carefully planned route from Winnipeg to Manitoba Hydro’s Riel Converter Station east of the city.