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Highways Minister Harry Enns says the province has made a special $277,675 grant to Brandon, to help meet costs incurred by the city's transit system last year. TEN YEARS AGO An infusion of cash from the province will help rural regional health authorities address urgent funding priorities.
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Organized by economic and community development officers in the region who form the Southwest Regional Roundtable, chair Nola Warnica says when considering the future economic success of rural communities, inspiration for the youth-focused event came easily.
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I've represented a rural riding in a region of the country for nine years, and so I think I have a better understanding of rural Canada and of regional policy questions," said [SCOTT Brison]. "I see that as an advantage in Friendly Manitoba.
"Canadians still don't trust the NDP with their tax dollars and they don't trust the Conservatives with their basic fundamental human rights," Brison said. "Our party is very socially progressive, and at the same time we are economically responsible and fiscally responsible.
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A provincewide nurses strike would likely hurt services at Westman's rural hospitals, the CEO of the Assiniboine Regional Health Authority says. For small rural hospitals that often have only one registered nurse on shift at any given time, it's already difficult to fill slots when nurses call in sick.
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Put on by the Southwest Regional Immigration Committee and the Rural Development Institute (RDI), the all-day event brought in people from across the province.
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... bas spread outwards, including suburban and rural regions (Caulfield 1994; Parsons 1980; Phillips 19...International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2: 101-131. . Hanes, A. 2009. Condo sales...
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Manitoba's urban search and rescue (USAR) team operates on a provincial basis, with members from Winnipeg and Brandon police departments, RCMP, Manitoba Hydro, rural volunteers and several regional health authorities working together. Two members of Hong Kong's fire services department and training school have joined the team leaders in Brandon this week as part of a two-week nationwide tour of search and rescue practices.
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Our challenge isn't call volume," said John Jones, MTCC's director, "it's geography.
The MTCC and its 30-plus staff is the jewel in the province's otherwise patchy rural paramedic service. Three years ago, the MTCC replaced a hodgepodge of dispatch systems peculiar to each regional health authority, including some that were little more than a phone call to the nurses' station at a local hospital. Since then, the MTCC has streamlined and standardized the dispatch process and made much better use of the province's ambulances, in part because the centralized system always knows which ambulance is closest to an emergency, regardless of which regional health authority the ambulance might belong to.
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If elected premier, Ashton says he will ensure a comprehensive rural strategy is enlisted that includes decentralization of jobs from the provincial capital as well as investments in rural transportation, infrastructure and regional delivery services.
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... the first woman MP (Agnes Macphail from the rural Ontario constituency of South-East Grey) was elect... revealing a rural shortfall that crosses regional and party boundaries. On this dimension of the dem...