We’re still expecting another wallop of winter this week. A storm system that could possibly dump up to 20 cm of heavy snow on Brandon is to arrive this afternoon and end overnight Friday. Expect travel to become more dangerous as the snow piles-up and visibilities are reduced. The Parkland region will likely get the most snow.
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U-S President Donald Trump is threatening large tariffs on the European Union and Canada if they work together to do economic harm to the U.S. In a social media today, Trump says the tariffs would be “far larger than currently planned.” Starting next week, Trump plans to impose 25% tariffs on all automobile imports to the U-S.
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Reacting to these latest tariffs – Liberal leader Mark Carney calls the move a “direct attack” on Canadian autoworkers, and promised swift action and support. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says his message to Trump is to “knock it off” – and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says Parliament should have been recalled ahead of the campaign to legislate emergency relief for potentially laid-off workers.
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Two Manitoba candidates have been named to run for the Liberals in next month’s federal election. Ninette business owner, Ghazanfar Ali Tarar, will run in Brandon-Souris – and Terry Hayward, the ‘Manitoba Election Readiness’ chair for the party, was acclaimed as the Liberal candidate in Riding Mountain.
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The fourth victim of a Manitoba serial killer has been identified as 30-year-old Ashlee Shingoose of St. Theresa Point. Because positive identification was not available, she had been referred to as Buffalo Woman. Remains of two women were found earlier this year at Prairie Green landfill near Winnipeg – and the remains of a third, along with Shingoose, are believed to be at that city’s Brady Landfill.
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Manitoba municipalities are reportedly facing staffing shortages at water and wastewater plants, and officials say this could put public health and economic development in jeopardy. Most training is done in Winnipeg and Brandon, and a solution is to expand training to smaller centres to keep workers closer to home. The province says it’s open to the idea.
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Saskatchewan is to become the first fully ‘carbon tax-free’ province in Canada. Premier Scott Moe says now that two major federal parties are ending the consumer carbon tax, Saskatchewan is taking the next step and
reducing the industrial carbon tax rate to zero. He says it’ll make industries more competitive, especially in these days of Trump tariffs.
