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Preserving History On A Shoestring

By Lorraine Stevenson November 10, 2011

They preserve the past and they re open for the present, but the future is uncertain for many of this province s smaller museums. Filled as they are with local collections of artifacts, many run on near empty, with shoestring budgets and scant volunteer labour. The Manitoba Agricultural Museum is grappling with budgetary constraints and

Cereals, Hogs, Livestock, Opinion

Moving Beyond Invisible

By Laura Rance-Unger September 29, 2011

Some are saying it s been a ho-hum campaign so far as Manitoba politicians head into the final stretch of their race to the polls Oct. 4. But from this desk, one of the outstanding features of the 2011 election has been the farm and rural communities collective efforts to move beyond invisible. For far

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Pressing Rural Priorities

By Lorraine Stevenson September 8, 2011

If Portage la Prairie fixed all the sidewalks, roads and water mains it needs to, the city would be $11 million over budget. Now, they’re faced with another bill coming due – the anticipated $25 million it will take over the next five years to meet new provincial regulations for nutrient removal from waste water.

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New Municipal Waste Standards

By Lorraine Stevenson July 14, 2011

The Village of Dunnottar started testing a system that filters phosphorus and nitrogen out of municipal waste water in 2008. Outflows of the phosphorus were reduced by 62 per cent, and similarly for nitrogen over the past two years. If the community gets the green light from the province to fully implement this system, officials

Country Crossroads

Campaign Urges Province To “Put Communities First”

By Lorraine Stevenson June 23, 2011

Municipalities plan a grassroots campaign this summer to make sure the needs of small towns and rural municipalities aren’t forgotten as candidates for the fall election start making election promises. All 197 local governments are asked to pass resolutions that lay out their specific infrastructure needs, with price tag attached and make other community groups

Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Jun. 16, 2011

By Reuters June 16, 2011

Road repairs underway: Assessments are still underway, but repairing roads and bridges damaged during this year’s flooding could cost $40 million, Infrastructure and Transportation Minister Steve Ashton says. Advances of up to 60 per cent or $100,000, whichever is greater, of repair costs will be made to municipalities against disaster financial assistance claims. These advances

Country Crossroads

Home Isn’t Where The Heart Is

By Lorraine Stevenson June 9, 2011

Word the province will build 150 more housing units for Manitoba’s senior population is good news, say economic development officers who know their burgeoning numbers of 55-plus need it. But they also say 150 more homes for low-to moderate-income renters will make barely a dent in what’s become a critical housing shortage in the province.

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Unprecedented Overland Flooding

By Lorraine Stevenson April 21, 2011

In all his 25 years of flying over western Manitoba, Jon Bagley saw the springtime on the bald, flat prairie last week expressed in a way he’d never imagined possible – through raging creeks, washed-out roads and unprecedented overland flooding. In fact, provincial officials were calling the situation this spring some of the worst flooding

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Municipalities Get One Per Cent Of PST In Provincial Budget

By Ron Friesen April 21, 2011

Manitoba’s municip alities have achieved their long-term goal of receiving a fixed share of the provincial sales tax for infrastructure projects – sort of. The provincial government is promising legislation requiring one point of the seven per cent tax be invested each year in municipal infrastructure and transit. The promise is in Finance Minister Rosann

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Municipalities To Push Hard For Infrastructure Money

March 31, 2011

Manitoba municipalities are vowing to campaign vigorously during the provincial election this fall for more money to fix the province’s crumbling infrastructure. The Association of Manitoba Municipalities says it will unveil a strategy next month to lobby electioneering politicians for additional funding to upgrade roads, bridges, sewers and water utilities. It’s the first time AMM

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Tag Archives Association of Manitoba Municipalities

Preserving History On A Shoestring

Moving Beyond Invisible

Pressing Rural Priorities

New Municipal Waste Standards

Campaign Urges Province To “Put Communities First”

In Brief… – for Jun. 16, 2011

Home Isn’t Where The Heart Is

Unprecedented Overland Flooding

Municipalities Get One Per Cent Of PST In Provincial Budget

Municipalities To Push Hard For Infrastructure Money

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