Winnipeg Free Press By: Dan Lett | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Wednesday, May. 12, 2021
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Premier Brian Pallister and his government have been slowly, steadily building a wall around Manitoba Hydro to stop everyone customers, consumer advocates and opposition critics from seeing the true state of the utility s finances.
Premier Brian Pallister and his government have been slowly, steadily building a wall around Manitoba Hydro to stop everyone customers, consumer advocates and opposition critics from seeing the true state of the utility s finances.
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Manitoba Hydro power lines are photographed just outside Winnipeg, Monday, May 1, 2018. Manitoba Hydro has lost a bid to raise electricity rates this year by almost eight per cent. The regulator has also ordered the Crown utility to set up a new, separate rate class for First Nations communities, and has order
Open your financial books, PUB tells Manitoba Hydro after mulling request for public hearing
Manitoba Hydro is being told to open up its books, after a consumers group argued the public needs to know the financial state of the Crown corporation.
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In the week since the Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) asked their members to consider using alternatives to supplements containing palm byproducts, vice-president David Wiens admits there’s no way to gauge how many farmers have complied with the request.
The controversy, dubbed “buttergate,” arose in recent weeks from online discussions of why butter wasn’t getting soft at room temperature. That led Dalhousie University professor Sylvain Charlebois to write in the Canadian Grocer last month that, “since last summer, thousands of dairy farmers have been using livestock feed that has palm oil in it,” calling it the “most plausible reason” for the hardness of butter.
Posted: Mar 02, 2021 6:20 PM MT | Last Updated: March 7
Why Canadian butter is now staying hard at room temperature
CBC News Calgary1 month ago
3:28Canadian butter has become world news since Calgary s own Julie Van Rosendaal broke the story. Turns out it s all to do with diet. And now, some are calling for a clamp down on dairy feed regulations.3:28
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Manitoba insurance brokers will receive a commission from all online Autopac renewals when modernized service delivery becomes available in 2023.
Manitoba insurance brokers will receive a commission from all online Autopac renewals when modernized service delivery becomes available in 2023.
Manitoba insurance brokers will receive a commission from all online Autopac renewals when modernized service delivery becomes available in 2023.
After years of disagreement, a five-year deal was quietly signed on Nov. 24 by the Crown corporation and the Insurance Brokers Association of Manitoba without any public notice.
The 16-page agreement was arrived at after the government appointed a conciliator to get the public insurer to work out a deal with brokers about the future of online product sales. Currently, Manitobans can book a driving test and renew an insurance policy online, but that’s about it.