News - Manitoba

Premier Greg Selinger and Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Christine Melnick today welcomed 40 new Canadians at a special Diamond Jubilee swearing-in ceremony for the nation’s newest citizens.

The province has added a new Amphibex AE 400 icebreaking machine to its ice-jam mitigation fleet, bolstering its ability to prevent and break up river ice jams.

All Manitobans are invited to discover the province’s natural beauty, diverse cultures, enticing food and the great outdoors by attending one of Manitoba’s many winter festivals.

The vast majority of students graduating from the first-in-Canada physician-assistant masters training program have chosen to stay in Manitoba to use their valuable medical skills to care for patients in hospitals, clinics and other health-care settings across the province.

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 2006 and 2011 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.