Work is to begin this week on Brandon’s new water treatment plant. The facility will cost about $139-million dollars and is set to be completed in June 2029. During construction, access to the south parking lot at Queen Elizabeth Park will be closed – the north lot will remain open.
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A longtime tenant of Brandon’s Town Centre mall is reportedly looking to relocate. The Brandon Sun says Prairie Mountain Health (PMH) is considering building new offices on an empty lot across the street on Princess Avenue, and is also looking at the former Westoba Credit Union building on 10th Street. PMH, which employs about 100 people, needs more space.
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Nominations are now open until December 4th for Manitoba’s annual Excellence in Education Awards. The categories are Teaching Excellence, Outstanding New Teacher, Outstanding Team Collaboration, and Outstanding School Leader. The awards will be handed out next spring.
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Your ‘double-double’ will cost you more now. Tim Hortons is raising coffee prices for the first time in three years – about 3-cents-a-cup. The price of coffee beans has more than doubled recently. Outside of drive-thrus, we’re paying almost 28% more for coffee at the grocery store.
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We’re getting bigger, and not in good way. A Canadian Health Measures Survey found more than two-thirds of Canadians aged 18 to 79 have a ‘body mass index’, or BMI, that classified them as overweight or obese – and nearly
one third of kids aged 5 to 17 are also considered overweight. While BMI has its limitations, experts still say it’s a ‘pretty good tool’ for tracking obesity trends.
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The union for Canada Post workers calls the latest offer from the Crown corporation ‘a major step backwards’. The offer last Friday included a 13.5% wage increase over four years, but removed a signing bonus and added provisions for expected job cuts. 55-thousand postal workers are on a country-wide strike.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is to meet with U-S president Donald Trump in Washington tomorrow. Trade and security are expected to be high on the agenda.
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And as expected, Taylor Swift’s ‘The Official Release Party of a Show Girl’ debuted at number one at movie theatres over the weekend – it brought in $33-million. Rounding out the Top 5 were ‘One Battle After Another’ starring Leo DiCaprio, ‘The Smashing Machine’ with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Emily Blunt, ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse’ and ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’.
