The court filing claims DTFN community members are direct descendants of the Oceti S’Akowin Nation, which were the original inhabitants of the land located near the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers.
This week Winkler city council released a request for proposals to bring a public transit pilot project to the city.
The 9,470-square-meter facility, which is expected to be fully operational in October, will be a “fully integrated” health centre that will provide emergency, in-patient and palliative care, dialysis, rehabilitation therapy, and diagnostic community-based programs and services for residents in NHCN and the surrounding areas.
The losses for some farmers in the area could be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and collectively this growing season will likely be in the millions for Dauphin-area farmers.
The NDP government announced the Brandon Police Service (BPS) will receive $270,000 through the Criminal Property Forfeiture Fund, which puts proceeds related to crime back into communities.
The Mayor of Portage la Prairie Sharilyn Knox said it was a wakeup call for Portage, she said it should also be a wakeup call to all Manitoba communities, both big and small, that human trafficking can and does happen, and that people should be watching for signs that it might be happening in their communities.
The Steinbach-based Hanover School Division (HSD) said that after monitoring the results of a cell phone ban pilot project at the Stonybrook Middle School this past school year, the division has now voted to implement a cell phone ban for all K-8 students.
More than two dozen health-care support workers in western Manitoba got news last week they will not receive back pay for extra work as COVID spread through health-care facilities across the province.
Portage la Prairie city council held a special meeting of council to “formally acknowledge and apologize for past mistakes of the City in order to rebuild relationships with our Indigenous partners.”
Among those who said they had seriously considering quitting their jobs, the majority of respondents said it was because of current workloads and due to “work stress affecting my wellbeing.”
