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Manitoba throne speech dominated by health-care promises
The Manitoba government pledges to improve health care safety, launch a supervised consumption site, and invest $3 billion in energy infrastructure to stabilize power supply.
- Manitoba's throne speech was dominated by promises to improve healthcare, including creating a patient safety charter, eliminating mandatory overtime for nurses, and establishing staff-to-patient ratios in priority areas like emergency rooms.
- The province plans to build new schools and childcare spaces, as well as dual-fuel turbines to help Trump-proof the economy and heat homes during winter.
- Other initiatives include creating an Indigenous corporation for the Port of Churchill expansion, a task force to combat meth, and legislation to ban the sale of dangerous weapons online and in public spaces.
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Manitoba outlines key priorities in this year's throne speech
This year’s throne speech focused on progress made over the last two years, with new steps to improve health care, lower costs, and keep communities safe, as the province outlines its plan for the year ahead. The throne speech focused on health care, introducing three new bills aimed at improving patient safety, creating a patient […]
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Read Full ArticleManitoba throne speech promises supervised consumption site by January, overpass at site of deadly bus crash
Manitoba’s NDP government is promising to build, saying in its third throne speech that it will construct an overpass at the location of a bus crash that killed 17 seniors, set up the province’s first supervised consumption site and build a new fuel-burning generation station to stave off a forecast power shortage.
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Leaning Left5Leaning Right0Center3Last UpdatedBias Distribution63% Left
Bias Distribution
- 63% of the sources lean Left
63% Left
L 63%
C 37%
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