Taxpayer case against more public spending in Manitoba
Peter Holle argues taxpayers are funding expanding health and education bureaucracies rather than improving results. He cites higher tax burdens, rising class sizes, and rising doctor and nurse counts with stagnant outcomes, urging price mechanisms and choice rather than more spending, and questions party plans to raise taxes for public services.
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Manitoba
Nurses’ Union
Teachers’ Society
Gary Doer
MGEA
Manitoba Teachers Society
Winnipeg
Tragic Choking Fatalities and Local Crime Updates
A Rosenort three year old Jordan Boyachek died after choking on orange at the community rink on March 7. His parents and responders could not save him and he was brain dead later that day. The family donated his kidneys liver pancreas heart and eyes to keep him alive through others. RCMP credit Lac du Bonnet crime watch for leading to a theft suspect after tracking a 1992 Skidoo MX. A Stonewall man, Michael Monkman, received 18 months in prison for driving impaired causing bodily harm to a mother and her 11 month old child, with additional penalties and probation. Joanne Woods and her infant daughter survived critical injuries from the same crash.
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Rosenort
Jordan Boyachek
Jordan
Betty Boyachek
Ryan
Betty
Gary
Morris
Health Sciences Centre
Boyacheks
Lac du Bonnet
Stonewall
Michael Monkman
Monkman
Manitoba
Joanne Woods
Joanne
Winnipeg
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GST & Pst Inc
Gregory Nesbitt
Michelle Gensiorek
Dorothy Barr
Connie Kay
Shirley McMurachy
CCNA