Harvest Manitoba’s ‘Meals2GO’ school program made its first deliveries in Brandon on Thursday to Betty Gibson and King George Schools. The program, giving kids access to healthier foods, was expanded to 15 schools across Manitoba this year. Harvest dropped off around 300 nutrition kits, which included apples, oranges, yogurts, fresh milk, granola, and oatmeal, at each school.
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The Manitoba government has opened up applications for this year’s Student Advisory Council. It’s comprised of 30 students who meet regularly with education officials and with other stakeholders to discuss issues in the classroom, and in schools in general. Kids in grades 9 to 12 are invited to apply.
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The province’s doctors are looking to combat the spread of false medical information online as part of their ‘Getting Healthy’ campaign. Doctors Manitoba says a lack of access to physicians has more people looking for advice outside medical settings. A survey found 43% of Canadians are highly susceptible to believing in misinformation.
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The cold snap we had earlier this month caused a spike in electricity consumption – so high, that Manitoba Hydro had to buy additional power. On January 20th for example, we used 5111.5 megawatts of electricity – beating the old record load of 4600 megawatts the same month in 2013. Hydro says it adds about 7,500 customers each year, upping the amount of energy required.
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Manitoba is investing $86,000 to help 19 small and medium-sized companies expand the export of their products and services into more diversified markets. The province made the move in advance of U-S tariffs, which could
come into effect this weekend. Businesses receiving support include those in agriculture, manufacturing, education and bio-environmental.
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Three federal cabinet ministers are in Washington today making a final diplomatic push to convince Republican lawmakers, and president Donald Trump’s team, to stop tariffs on Canadian products. Ottawa has said if the Americans go ahead with tariffs, Canada will respond quickly and everything is on the table.
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The investigation continues into Wednesday’s crash between an American Airlines jet and a military helicopter in Washington DC. Reports say only one air traffic controller was working two positions at the time of the crash. There were no survivors and officials say it’s now a recovery mission. No Canadians were believed to have been aboard the plane that was carrying 64 people. There were three soldiers on the Black Hawk helicopter.
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The world’s first, true AI-powered hotel is set to open in Las Vegas this summer. The Otonomus Hotel boasts 550 rooms and 300 apartments. Each room is powered by Artificial Intelligence, and personalized for everyone who
stays from the digital check-in to an e-butler. The AI will also create your ‘avatar’, and will offer everything it knows about you through your avatar, like your favourite food and drinks
