News - Manitoba

The Office of the Fire Commissioner (OFC) and Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship are responding to a request from the Rural Municipality of Stuartburn to assist with a new fire that started overnight.

Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship advises, effective immediately, it is lifting the restriction for the application of nutrients to crop land and golf courses across southern Manitoba for this spring.

On behalf of its new smartphone customers in the province TELUS is donating $49,000 to the CancerCare Manitoba Foundation for clinical trials that help fight cancer in children.

Manitoba Health advises that more blacklegged tick populations have been identified in the province.

Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship is urging individuals with ice shacks on any lake or river in southern or central Manitoba to take the structures off the ice as soon as possible, as long as conditions allow a safe removal.

Manitoba celebrated its first Consumer Rights on March 15, recognizing the importance of protecting consumers and ensuring the rules governing consumer transactions are fair and reasonable.

The Manitoba Consumer Protection Office is cautioning consumers to beware of internet payday loans offered by Loansalberta Inc., as this company is not licensed under the Consumer Protection Act to offer, arrange or provide payday loans to Manitobans.

New funding totalling $1.8 million for early literacy and numeracy initiatives will improve reading, writing and math skills of students from kindergarten to Grade 8.

The Manitoba government will begin community consultations on a new provincial crime-prevention strategy aimed at identifying and enhancing programs that reduce crime and build strong communities.

A record number of medical students has signed up to serve in rural and northern communities that need them the most in exchange for free medical school thanks to a recently expanded doctor-recruitment initiative.