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Old Posted Sep 18, 2014, 2:53 PM
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Pretty sure every province, except for AB and SK have a net loss of inter provincial migration IIRC. Including the biggies like Ontario, Quebec and BC. All the gains are made in international migration. It was posted on SSP somewhere a couple months back.
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Pretty sure every province, except for AB and SK have a net loss of inter provincial migration IIRC. Including the biggies like Ontario, Quebec and BC. All the gains are made in international migration. It was posted on SSP somewhere a couple months back.
But it says Manitoba is tops in international migration. My question is why would those people not just immigrate directly to Alberta, for example. Is it easier to get into Manitoba?
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Ahh, ic. I know Manitoba had an aggressive migrant program up until last year I think. Adding something like 15000-20000 immigrants per year. That's been shutdown or downsized now. So everybodies waiting to see what the numbers will look like over the next couple years. likely there will be a slowdown in population growth from what Ive been hearing.
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But it says Manitoba is tops in international migration. My question is why would those people not just immigrate directly to Alberta, for example. Is it easier to get into Manitoba?
I believe Manitoba's immigration program has been considered a model for other provinces to follow.

Also note though - tops for % increase in population due to international immigration, not total people immigrated. Ontario gets the largest number of immigrants.
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I believe Manitoba's immigration program has been considered a model for other provinces to follow.
Yeah, this is true. Except that the feds won't lift the cap on total provincial nominees and the province already receives somewhere on the order of 30% of the total. If other provinces try to model after us, we could be in big trouble.
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Good article on Bipole III.

"Bipole III, located on the wrong side of the province, will burden ratepayers for many years."

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opi...277180591.html
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Good article on Bipole III.

"Bipole III, located on the wrong side of the province, will burden ratepayers for many years."

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opi...277180591.html
Conservatives need to go after Selinger and the NDP hard on this issue come election time. Horrible decision to go down the west side of the lake.
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That was the only wedge issue in the last election and it sucked. Conservatives turned the debate into a question of which side of the province we should build on, which got environmentalists' backs up. The real debate should be over whether we build at all. Hydro's plans are downright wasteful and also bad for the environment. Not to mention the NDP's scheme to finance aggressive, pointless hydro development with tax dollars--which Hydro will repay with jacked up hydro rates--is kind of spooky.
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Or we can run out of power in 20 years and all die over the winter. A bit dramatic on my part, yes. Then we can burn natural gas or pay high costs to import power from elsewhere. Maybe they should use that approach to sell the dams. One is required for domestic use, the other is to profit. It's the huge risk of spending $15B that is scary.

Building a power line through farmers fields is less intrusive on the environment then building through forest (which is still required on the western route too). But it's longer and requires more effort to build, which is bad for the environment. So what do we do, nothing or something?

Did you know Manitoba imports power in the winter from the USA when it's really cold?
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On another note, CWB facility near St. Adolphe was made public today.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bus...urce=d-tiles-2

Wheat board to build Manitoba grain facility in run-up to privatization

By: The Canadian Press
Posted: 11:32 AM

WINNIPEG - The Canadian Wheat Board is building another grain-handling facility in Manitoba as it gears up for privatization.

The wheat board says the new elevator to be built near St. Adolphe, south of Winnipeg, will be able to store 34,000 tonnes of grain when it begins operating in 2016.

The Crown-owned organization says the facility will provide excellent rail access to its Thunder Bay terminal as well as to western ports, the U.S. and Mexico.

The CWB has been busy buying and building to strengthen its network, which includes other grain facilities in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.

The company also plans to add a grain facility in Alberta to its holdings.

Under federal law, the CWB is to be privatized no later than July 31, 2017, but the board says it expects to beat that deadline and hopes to present its plan to Ottawa early next year.

"CWB's rapidly growing network of grain-handling facilities continues to attract considerable interest by farmers, potential investors and the public," CEO Ian White said Friday in a release about the St. Adolphe project.

The federal government passed a law in 2011 that stripped the Canadian Wheat Board of its monopoly on western wheat and barley sales. Farmers can still market their grain through the board, but now it is a voluntary decision.

The cost of the new St. Adolphe facility was not released.
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Building a power line through farmers fields is less intrusive on the environment then building through forest
Destroying farmland isn't all that great either. Besides a group of retired engineers from Hydro has described the line through as "a thread on a football field".
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Did you know Manitoba imports power in the winter from the USA when it's really cold?
A combined cycle gas plant near Elie would eliminate need for all new dam construction AND Bipole III, and winter imports..
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A combined cycle gas plant near Elie would eliminate need for all new dam construction AND Bipole III, and winter imports..
Ask anyone at Hydro for an honest answer on how the wind farms are working out?
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New pics from Manitoba filming of war movie Hyena Road

Two production photos have been released from the Paul Gross-directed Afghanistan war movie Hyena Road, currently shooting at CFB Shilo.

Produced by Rhombus Media, in association with Buffalo Gal Pictures and Whizbang Films, the film is touted as being in the mould of The Hurt Locker and Lone Survivior. It was also written by Gross (Passchendaele), who was inspired to pen the script after visiting Canadian troops in Afghanistan in 2010.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/art...ce=d-more-news

Nice to see the film industry in Manitoba doing shoots provincially, a much better year than previous ones.
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White City has released it's town plan/vision for a town center. I'm not sure what to think of it.

http://issuu.com/townofwhitecity/doc...7e1caad70506/0
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White City has released it's town plan/vision for a town center. I'm not sure what to think of it.

http://issuu.com/townofwhitecity/doc...7e1caad70506/0
At first look I like it. Rather than continue it's strip-mall-along-the-TCH plan, it looks like they will centralize a lot of their civic buildings and some retail in a town centre type of area.
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White City has released it's town plan/vision for a town center. I'm not sure what to think of it.

http://issuu.com/townofwhitecity/doc...7e1caad70506/0
Who owns this land?
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Would anyone happen to know what the bedrock depth in morris is?
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Well there are ways to spin this forecast negatively but still a plus under a failing Provincial government.

Manitoba in economic elite
Forecasters predict top 4 provincial performance in 2015
Murray McNeill

Manitoba GDP 2.5 per cent for 2015.

He noted the consensus forecast for this year is for Manitoba to finish tied with Ontario for the third-best GDP growth, at 2.0 per cent. However, Finance Department officials are now thinking that estimate may be a bit conservative.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bus...ce=d-more-news
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Does anyone have any new information on the BHP Jansen project? Or any of the new mine sites in this area?
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