At Brandon City Council tonight: a proposal to reduce the speed limit on a couple of streets around BU – also reports from the Museum, the Age Friendly Committee, and first reading on a bylaw to rezone two properties in the 2600 block of Princess Avenue for a 9-unit apartment building.
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Canada’s National Arabian Championship returns to Brandon next August. The Keystone Centre last hosted the event in 2019. In the past, the championship has attracted up to 800 horses, and generated more than $10-million for the local economy.
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Last week, Manitoba health-care support workers officially ratified a new contract. The new deal provides average wage increases of 27% over 4 years. The agreement covers 4,700 workers in Prairie Mountain Health region.
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The federal government is expected to boost the minimum hourly wage that must be paid to temporary foreign workers. It’ll increase to 20% above the provincial median hourly wage in an effort to encourage employers to hire more Canadian workers.
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The House of Commons returns today from a week-long break. Debate is expected to resume on a Conservative demand for documents on federal spending on green technology…and on Wednesday, a group of Liberal MP’s will reportedly confront Justin Trudeau to possibly force the Prime Minister to resign.
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A Newfoundland scientist, known for identifying a rancid, gelantinous mass that appeared on the province’s shores 23 years ago, can’t wait to get his hands on the strange white blobs that have washed-up recently. Steven Carr says the blobs look plant-based. The mound of goo he ID’d using DNA in 2001 was a badly decomposed sperm whale.
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Horror movie ‘Smile 2’ topped the weekend box office. The film took in a better-than-expected $23-million dollars. Second place went to ‘The Wild Robot’ with ‘Terrifier 3’ in third. Rounding out the top five was ‘Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice – and the romantic tearjerker ‘We Live In Time.’
