Kennedy Warns Manitoba Hog Industry Threatens Rural Fortunes
Environmental lawyer Robert F Kennedy Jr warns at a Liberal fundraiser that Manitoba's hog farming drive will ruin rural communities, push farmers out of business, and empower a few corporations. He cites low environmental protections, urges a moratorium on new large hog operations, and contrasts U S state experiences with potential Canadian impacts. The critic highlights air and water contamination risks and calls for strong regulation, enforcement funding, and infrastructure safeguards.
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Manitoba
Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Natural Resources Defence Council
Grandview grow operation bust nets nearly fifty marijuana plants
Parkland RCMP allege a Grandview couple and three other suspects ran a large grow operation. Investigators seized almost 50 marijuana plants in a Grandview home and an abandoned farm site, with buds and dried plants recovered and an estimated street value near half a million dollars. Suidys face Dauphin court in November. Also charged are three others in a prior multi million dollar bust linked to a buried school bus grow site near Pulp River conducted last October.
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Terrie Welwoo
Grandview
Parkland Rcmp
RCMP
Peter David Suidy
Jody Lynn Suidy
Dauphin
Pulp River
Canadian Senators face pay rise and part time toil
In 2001 Canadian senators granted themselves a 20 percent salary increase to 106 400 dollars and cut the per session penalty for missed meetings to 190 dollars. With a three day work week they pursued side jobs on corporate boards while the Senate sat just 67 of 85 sessions and left two weeks early, drawing criticism from opposition figures who call the Senate an elite political perk.
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Canada
Senate
Lorne Nystrom
Manitoba Health Beds and Staffing Spark Hallway Delays Debate
The Winnipeg Free Press quotes Doer on public awareness of hospital bed closures and staff cuts while noting election promises to reopen 100 beds. Since 1999, fewer than 50 beds opened and hallway waits rose from four patients in late September 1999 to twelve currently. The NDP cites staff shortages as the main cause, highlighting nurse enrollments and a two year diploma program amid 1587 vacant nursing positions and 32.75 percent full time nurses. Despite progress in some wait times for plastic surgery and ultrasound, overall wait times persist, with funds allocated to ambulances and doctor recruitment to address staffing gaps across Manitoba.
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Winnipeg Free Press
NDP
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