Neepawa Considers Yellowhead Plan To Widen Highway
Neepawa hosts open house as DS Lea consultants outline widening of Yellowhead Highway 16 with trees removed and centre medians. Access on Main Street may be reduced to cut accidents amid 111 collisions 1994 to 1998. traffic lights unlikely due to low volume. Funding and provincial approval will shape final changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neepawa
Gerry LeMoal
Ds-Lea Consultants
LeMonl
Yellowhead
Russell
Department of Highways
Tory
Manitoba farmers gain high dollar value crop insurance option
Manitoba Agriculture Minister Rosann Wowchuk announced a new high dollar value crop insurance option for the coming year. The plan allows coverage levels to rise up to 25 percent above current prices, with protection adjusted if market prices improve within five months. Commodity price data come from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to set premiums and compensate losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
Rosann Wowchuk
Wowcnuk
Manitoba Crop Insurance Corp
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Shortage Strains Brandon Health System Sees Nurse Bed Gaps
Brandon Regional Health Authority warns rural doctors and clinics to divert patients due to a persistent nurse shortage and 15 vacant nursing posts amid peak flu season. Up to forty staff call in sick daily, hospital beds are tight, and officials stress emergency admissions only while coordinating with other health authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandon Health Authority
Brandon Regional Health Authority
Charles Watson
Southwestern Manitoba
Brandon
Brandon Rha
RHA
Earl Bachman
Bachman
Sandra Delorme
Marquette Rha
Winnipeg
Rural areas left out in telecom access dispute
Manitoba and Saskatchewan petition the CRTC to review a decision they say leaves rural and northern residents with substandard access while cities gain faster services. They argue the policy focuses only on the Yukon Northwest Territories Nunavut and northern British Columbia, defining basic service as low speed Internet and individual line service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terrie Welwoo
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
CRTC
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Nunnavut
British Columbia
Ufairs
Ron Lemieux
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Province
LeMoal
Ogic
By Terrie Welwood
Kay Vincent
Vern Rosnoski
Heart and Stroke Fund
Heart and Stroke Foundation of
Russell - Vern Rosnoski
Children’s Hospital
Winn
Bannatyne Street
Our Spport
Brandon General Hospital
Basa Ze
Prato
Tene Wa
Brave Souls
Lions Journey For Light
Ike Duck
Austin
Terry Rolf
Russell and Area Lions Club
Lions Eye Bank
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