Brandon’s Nigerian community met with School Board officials this week with an urgent appeal to make schools safer. A 15-year-old Nigerian boy continues to recover from stab wounds suffered in what police say was a racially motivated attack on June 10th. The group says the attack was not an isolated incident, and that Nigerian students have been dealing with unchecked racism for some time. They urged the school board to partner with them to protect students, and suggested creating culturally safe spaces within schools.
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Downtown safety, the Park Community Centre, transitional housing, and future infrastructure improvements will be some of the issues discussed at a meeting in Brandon this evening. It’ll be held at Princess Park at 6:30 pm hosted by councillor Kris Desjarlais. If it rains, it’ll move indoors to the A.R. McDiarmid building.
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Carberry residents will get a look at three options for redesigning the intersection of the Trans-Canada and Highway 5 this evening. The meeting will also gather more public input and outline the next steps in making the intersection safer after a deadly crash in 2023 that killed 17 seniors. The ‘restricted crossing U-turn’, or RCUT, is the apparently the leading design, but some locals call it too confusing and dangerous.
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After nearly a month out of their homes, 4,800 wildfire evacuees from Flin Flon will begin returning today. Recent rain has lowered the fire risk across most of Manitoba, but there are still some pockets of high fire danger
in the northwest and south. There are currently 18 fires still burning.
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The province has introduced a program to try and save you money on your energy bill. It’ll help with the cost of ground-source heat pumps that could shave as much as $1,000 off your heating bill in the first year. The government says it’s also a big step toward a greener, more sustainable province.
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The Manitoba government has opened a new office in Washington D.C. it hopes will advocate for the province as the tariff war between Canada and U.S. continues. The goal of the office will be to “develop relationships with U.S. lawmakers, industry leaders and trade officials to promote strong ties with Manitoba.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s controversial ‘major projects bill’ could be through the Senate by Friday. Bill C-5 has upset Indigenous and environmental groups who criticize the government for trying to fast-track permits. Carney says new “nation-building” projects are needed due to the trade war with the U.S.
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Dozens of Canadians left the Middle East on a flight the federal government chartered on Tuesday. Global Affairs says it’s helped more than 600 Canadians, permanent residents and eligible family members leave Israel, Iran and the West Bank in the past week. While the war in Gaza continues, a ceasefire between Israel and Iran appears to be holding.
