Association of Manitoba Municipalities Archives - Page 13 of 14

Community Wind Plans Move Ahead A Step

By Daniel Winters July 2, 2009

Standing in the breeze just east of Forrest, Dan Mazier watches as a two-man crew prepares to raise a 60-foot tower in a canola field. Atop the tower will be a device for minute-by-minute measuring local wind speed, sending the data wirelessly via cellular phone signal to a computer. At the end of two years,

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AMM’s Leaders Want Rural Medical School

By Lorraine Stevenson June 25, 2009

Manitoba’s budget for recruiting foreign doctors would be better spent providing medical training to people from rural and remote communities, a Brandon physican who is proposing a 25-seat medical school for Brandon University says. Dr. Derry Decter gained more support for the idea at a meeting of southwestern municipal leaders last week. They gave him

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Funding Flows To Help Reduce GHGs

By Lorraine Stevenson May 14, 2009

Wiser use of water, more recycling and less idling are all activities Virden’s mayor hopes local residents will adopt in coming months. Theirs is one of 14 rural and urban centres chosen to take part in the Community Led Emissions Reduction pilot program, an initiative aimed at helping more Manitobans contribute to a 20 per

News

Eco Dev Needs Refocus: Report

By Lorraine Stevenson May 7, 2009

A new provincial report says too many groups are doing economic development work across rural and northern Manitoba, and recommends a “single window of delivery” be created instead. Titled Manitoba Connects: Building A New Rural Manitoba Economic Development Strategy, the 37-page report by Serby Consulting contains findings from consultations begun by the province last fall

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What They Say And What They Do

By Lorraine Stevenson May 7, 2009

“The way you conduct yourselves makes the whole thing work.” – BETH JOHNSON Is your local council a model of good governance or dysfunctional mess? Beth Johnson has seen both, and pretty much everything in between. The former mayor of Delta, B. C. now runs a consulting company to help elected and appointed officials work

News

Southwestern Cattle Producers Demand Drought Aid

By Ron Friesen April 2, 2009

“A disaster is a disaster.” – LARRY MAGUIRE, MLA Last year, flooded Interlake farmers who couldn’t harvest hay complained they were on an unequal footing with drought-stricken producers in southwestern Manitoba. Now cattle producers in the southwest region say they should get the same government assistance as their Interlake colleagues received last month because they’re

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Not Much New For Agriculture In 2009 Provincial Budget

By Ron Friesen April 2, 2009

“Little pots of money for various things.” – DOUG DOBROWOLSKI, AMM Manitoba’s latest provincial budget contains a smattering of initiatives useful to farmers but little new spending on agriculture programs themselves. The government plans to spend $225.7 million on agriculture in 2009-10, a 3.2 per cent increase from the previous year. Spending on risk management,

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Getting hands on cash could be tricky

By Lorraine Stevenson February 5, 2009

“I don’t think that money is going to get to the people who need it the most.” – AMM PRESIDENT DOUG DOBROWOLSKI Manitoba’s share of the federal budget’s allocated funding for infrastructure was basically “up for grabs” at the end of last week, as municipal leaders fear tight deadlines, their own cash shortages and uncertainty

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$82 million to flow to rural and northern Manitoba

By Lorraine Stevenson January 29, 2009

“It goes a long way and it’s good to see this money is going out to rural and northern Manitoba.” – Association of Manitoba Municipalities President Doug Dobrowolski Smaller communities and cities in Manitoba are getting $82 million this year to help repair water and sewer systems, roads and bridges and recreational facilities. Recently Federal

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More help needed to control spurge

By Lorraine Stevenson January 8, 2009

“We’re just on our own. There’s other weed districts around but they’ve got all they can handle.” BOB BROWN, DEPUTY REEVE, R. M. OF CORNWALLIS Municipal leaders want the provincial government to step up aid for local government’s trying to control the spread of leafy spurge, a voracious noxious weed now said to be infesting

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Community Wind Plans Move Ahead A Step

AMM’s Leaders Want Rural Medical School

Funding Flows To Help Reduce GHGs

Eco Dev Needs Refocus: Report

What They Say And What They Do

Southwestern Cattle Producers Demand Drought Aid

Not Much New For Agriculture In 2009 Provincial Budget

Getting hands on cash could be tricky

$82 million to flow to rural and northern Manitoba

More help needed to control spurge

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