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A YourLink tower outside Weyburn, Sask. (YourLink.ca)

NYC equity firm to buy Xplornet

New investment expected to speed up rural broadband rollouts

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff February 28, 2020

A Manhattan private equity firm deep in “middle-market infrastructure” has committed to buy, and help improve service from, Canada’s single biggest rural broadband provider. New Brunswick-based, privately held Xplornet Communications announced Thursday it has signed a deal to sell majority control itself to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners. The two companies’ announcement didn’t put a dollar figure

KAP’s Bill Campbell says there’s a need to ensure rural infrastructure is part of any value-added strategy.

News

Election 2019: Parties promise infrastructure spending

By Geralyn Wichers September 7, 2019

ELECTION KAP says rural infrastructure must be renewed to allow for value-added production

Both Brian Pallister and Wab Kinew have promised renewed investment in infrastructure if elected. What remains to be seen is how this will address the rural infrastructure needs Keystone Agricultural Producers called a key election issue. “The $350-million-a-year provincial spending (on) infrastructure does not come close to dealing with the $11-billion infrastructure deficit our province

Pot Hole On City Street, A Hazard To Motorists

Local news, News, Other

Rural routes prominent on CAA’s worst road list

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 8, 2019

Three rural roads made the top ten of CAA’s list of Manitoba’s worst roads. Coming in second, Provincial Trunk Highway 34 near Austin. PTH 23, which runs roughly from Hartney in Southwestern Manitoba to La Rochelle in Southeastern Manitoba, is seventh on the list. PTH 32, near Winkler, rounds out the list at number 10.

Tom Geisler surveys damage to his farm, following flooding at Winslow, Neb., northwest of Omaha, on March 20, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Humeyra Pamuk)

Crops, Markets, Weather

U.S. farmers face devastation following Midwest floods

By GFM Network News, Humeyra Pamuk, P.J. Huffstutter, Tom Polansek March 20, 2019

Winslow, Neb./Chicago | Reuters — Midwestern farmers have been gambling they could ride out the U.S.-China trade war by storing their corn and soybeans anywhere they could — in bins, plastic tubes, in barns or even outside. Now, the unthinkable has happened. Record floods have devastated a wide swath of the Farm Belt across Iowa,

(Video screengrab from BJordan.liberal.ca)

Weather

Rural development strategy sought in federal shuffle

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff January 17, 2019

Rural economic development has been given a promotion at the federal level in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest cabinet shuffle. In the shuffle, following the departure of Treasury Board president Scott Brison from cabinet, Trudeau on Monday called up Bernadette Jordan, MP for the southern Nova Scotia riding of South Shore-St.Margaret’s, to head a newly

Manitoba communities say any new funding program that involves the federal government will feature more red tape and fewer repaired roads.

Local news, News, Other

Road Rage: RMs call foul on infrastructure program end

The Municipal Road and Bridge Program will be sorely missed by local governments

By Lorraine Stevenson December 6, 2018

Municipal leaders are up in arms over unexpected provincial cuts to a crucial program that helps pay for road and bridge repairs. A record number of councils backed a resolution condemning the end of the Municipal Road and Bridge Program at the Association of Manitoba Municipalities annual convention last week. The often-spirited discussion could have

Markets

Rising diesel could surge with U.S. infrastructure plan

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News January 31, 2018

CNS Canada — Diesel costs in Western Canada are roughly eight to 10 cents higher on average than anytime in 2017, and an industry expert warns that gap could grow even more with a potential surge of U.S. construction. “I think we’re already seeing more evidence of a robust, consumption-driven U.S. as more disposable income

Opinion, Other

Opinion: A rural view of the KPMG provincial review

By Lonnie Patterson January 8, 2018

*[UPDATED: Jan. 10, 2018] There has been much discussion and analysis of the KPMG Manitoba Fiscal Performance Review recently released by the provincial government. However, the potential impacts that will occur in rural and remote Manitoba communities, if some of the review’s recommendations are implemented, have not yet been part of the dialogue. The review

Municipal leaders support resolution asking the province to agree to a 40-40-12 cost-sharing formula as the new Investing in Canada infrastructure program rolls out. Cheryl Kingdon-Chartier, deputy mayor of Russell-Binscarth Municipality spoke to the matter during the convention in Brandon.

Local news, Other

AMM wants province to pony up

A stable funding formula would ensure local communities could access federal dollars

By Lorraine Stevenson December 18, 2017

Manitoba’s municipal leaders want to see the province commit to a 40 per cent contribution level under a proposed funding formula for major infrastructure projects. That formula is under discussion as the federal government rolls out its new Investing in Canada infrastructure program. Budget 2017 announced a second phase for federal infrastructure spending with the

Keith Currie was acclaimed to a second term as OFA president at the organization’s annual meeting Nov. 20-21 in Toronto. (John Greig photo)

OFA pre-election policy targets broader economic development

By GFM Network News, John Greig November 21, 2017

Stable rural areas and thriving farms can help urbanites with some of their biggest challenges. That’s the message from the Ontario Federation of Agriculture going into next year’s provincial election. The OFA talked about how it is framing its election strategy at its annual meeting, which ran Monday and Tuesday in Toronto. “With the election

Daily Network News

Italy crafts lab-grown snacks with fruit residues, plant cells and a 3D printer

China imposes curbs on beef imports to protect domestic industry

Prairie forecast: Northwesterly flow brings seasonable temperatures, weak systems

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