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Heading into a tariff year, Manitoba banks on growth while forecasting decline
Manitoba's 2025-26 budget is a mix of optimism and caution, with big spending increases and revenue-growth projections sharing space with contingencies for economic disaster.
Cost of redeveloping former Bay building in Winnipeg now $310M, Southern Chiefs says
The cost of redeveloping the former Bay building in downtown Winnipeg has risen more than 50 per cent, and some of the amenities that were planned have been scaled back or removed altogether.
Southern Chiefs' Organization to adjust cost, scope of downtown Winnipeg Bay redevelopment
The Southern Chiefs' Organization is slated to adjust the cost and scope of its planned redevelopment of the former Bay building in downtown Winnipeg in what will be the first update about the project since the departure of senior officials in the organization.
Southwestern Winnipeg homeowner burning mad about muddy berm
A bitter dispute has led to the muddy mother of all fences rising between two neighbours in the "wild west" of Winnipeg's Wilkes South neighbourhood, where $1-million homes coexist with agricultural land, working horse stables and small industrial operations.
Analysis
Federal election 2025: Where change might come in Manitoba when Carney calls the election
Within days, new Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to call an election. Here are the Manitoba seats most and least likely to change hands.
Agboola tapped to take second crack at winning Saint Boniface-Saint Vital back for Conservatives
The federal Conservative Party has nominated a candidate for the Winnipeg riding of Saint Boniface-Saint Vital.
Former Manitoba PC leadership candidate Shelly Glover working to form new right-of-centre party
Former Conservative MP Shelly Glover, who came within 373 votes of becoming Manitoba's Progressive Conservative Party leader and premier in 2021, says she's trying to form a new right-of-centre alternative to the Manitoba Tories.
PC leadership hopeful Khan breaks with interim leader, won't call refusal to search landfill a mistake
Manitoba Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Obby Khan has declined to support his interim party leader's contention it was a mistake for the former PC government to refuse to search a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of murdered First Nations women.
Manitoba PC leadership candidates condemn Trump tariffs, hold fire against president himself
The candidates to lead Manitoba's Progressive Conservative Party condemned Donald Trump's tariffs on Canadian goods on Friday but were more circumspect about their opinions of the U.S. president himself.
Cuts to U.S. weather forecasting, climate science create dark clouds for Canadian counterparts
Cuts to the U.S. agency responsible for weather forecasting and climate science have left scientists on this side of the border concerned about the reliability of data Canada needs to predict dangerous events, conduct accurate flood forecasts and understand broader changes to the climate.