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Selkirk CAO touts decommissioned gas plant as home for new Manitoba Hydro generating station
The City of Selkirk's chief administrative officer wants Manitoba Hydro to consider building a proposed fuel-combustion generating station on the site of an East Selkirk plant the Crown corporation had shut down less than four years ago.
Manitoba Hydro proposes $1.4B fuel-burning generating station to stave off winter power shortages
Manitoba Hydro is proposing to spend $1.36 billion on a new fuel-burning station capable of generating 500 megawatts of electricity on demand, in order to stave off a power shortage expected as soon as five winters from now.
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U of M defence, security experts urge Canadians to watch what Trump does, not what he says
Defense and security experts urge calm, say Trump's overtures to Putin may not mean the worst for the future of NATO or Canada's close, 85-year-old military alliance with the United States.
PC leadership candidate Obby Khan leads Wally Daudrich in MLA endorsements
Roughly half of Manitoba's Progressive Conservative MLAs have endorsed a candidate in the party's leadership race — and every one of those endorsements belongs to Obby Khan.
As Trump muses again about absorbing Canada, Kinew calls diplomatic efforts in D.C. a success
While President Donald Trump repeated his desire to absorb Canada into the United States, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew tried to assure his constituents he and other Canadian leaders are doing everything they can to improve cross-border relations.
Liberals poised to nominate former FMCC, Festival du Voyageur director in Saint Boniface-Saint Vital
The Liberal Party of Canada is poised to name the former director of the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre as the party's candidate in the Winnipeg riding of Saint Boniface-Saint Vital for the next federal election.
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Police HQ questions remain, but inquiry may not answer what the city and public want to know
There is a disjunction between the police HQ inquiry the city asked the province to commission and what the NDP government has chosen to serve as the basis for an inquiry — not to mention what the public wants to know.
Manitoba to spend $2M on inquiry into Winnipeg's police headquarters
Manitoba will spend up to $2 million on its inquiry into the construction of Winnipeg's police headquarters, according to an NDP government order in council made public on Tuesday.
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A potential U.S. trade war has breathed some life into the fraught idea of shipping oil through Hudson Bay
Canada is suddenly considering its short- and long-term export and transport options for the oil industry, which includes breathing some life into the idea of transporting oil across northern Manitoba and filling tankers at a Hudson Bay port.
Manitoba Tory leadership candidate jokes about letting polar bears loose to combat homelessness
Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party leadership candidate Wally Daudrich joked to a group of party members that he could reduce homelessness in Winnipeg by letting polar bears loose downtown.