Westman

Manitoba Government Invests in Rural Health Care With STARS

Media Release

The Manitoba government has signed a contract with Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service (STARS) to continue emergency patient air transport to critically ill or injured Manitobans, Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care Minister Uzoma Asagwara announced today.

Manitoba Government Keeping Rent Affordable in Westman Region

Media Release - July 11, 2025

The Manitoba government is investing in the maintenance of affordable housing in the Westman region, Housing, Addictions and Homelessness Minister Bernadette Smith announced here today.

“Our government has a goal to end chronic homelessness in Manitoba and to do that, we not only need to build more affordable housing but also invest in the units we already have,” said Smith. “These repairs will keep housing affordable for families and seniors in Westman.”

Canada’s labour market topped expectations in June amid a surprise surge in hiring.

Statistics Canada said Friday that the unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a percentage point to 6.9 per cent in June as the economy added some 83,000 jobs.

The vast majority of those jobs were part-time, the agency said, with 47,000 positions added in the private sector.

A Reuters poll of economists heading into Friday’s release had expected the jobless rate would rise to 7.1 per cent in June as employment levels held flat.

The Killarney Cruise Night was cut short last night as a severe weather system crept in from the west. The decision was made to end the evening a half hour earlier and get vintage vehicles on the move, and folks off the street, as tornado warning alerts for Boissevain were popping up on cell phones.

The International Peace Garden (IPG) will have two adaptive chairs available for use on July 13, August 9 and Sept. 11 from 9 AM to 5 PM.

The motorized chairs run on tracks that allow them to move easily over varied terrain. Visitors with limited mobility are welcome to use the chairs for one-hour intervals to explore the garden with friends and family.

The NDP's leadership race to replace Jagmeet Singh will formally begin in September, with a six-month race to follow according to a rules framework adopted by the party's national council. 

A new leader will be chosen no later than March 29, when the party holds its 2026 convention in Winnipeg.

An entry fee of $100,000 has been set for candidates to show their "organizational and fundraising capacity."

Debates and other leadership events hosted by the party will be streamed online in both official languages, according to the framework. 

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose 35 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports on Aug. 1 in a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney posted on social media Thursday night, evidently setting a new date for bilateral negotiations between the two countries. 

Canada and the United States had committed to working on a new economic and security agreement with a July 21 deadline for a deal. The boosted tariff pressures call into question progress toward the initial time frame.

Fundraising efforts are in full swing for the Killarney New Horizon Seniors' Centre's expansion project.  Local residents have been attending a variety of summer events to work their way up to the $300,000 cost to expand the building 30 feet to the front of the building on Mountain Avenue.

New Horizon Seniors' President, Barb Case, says the reason for the expansion was quite simple; they've outgrown their facility.

It was a stormy evening for some pockets of Western Manitoba with several Tornado Warnings and Severe Thunderstorm Warnings issued Thursday night.

Both the Municipality of Boissevain-Morton and Cartwright-Roblin had Tornado Warnings issued mid-evening with Environment Canada indicating the particular storm cell which travelled over those regions was showing rotation on RADAR. Several storm chasers on the ground also reported on social media it was rotating, and one indicated a funnel cloud briefly extended downward from the cell while it was northwest of Boissevain.

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