Leons Headlines Jan 15: A brief warm-up with highs above freezing today (+1) Thursday (-2) give way to a deep freeze return this weekend, with highs near -20°C and lows in the -30s.
-City of Brandon’s finance director announces plans for significant funding of 6 big projects in 2025 alongside an 11.7% property tax increase, with a public open house scheduled for discussion Thursday.
-MB homelessness reduction plan includes $175K for interim supportive housing in Brandon, part of a province-wide initiative to house 700 homeless individuals. The government is also buying apartment buildings, plans to start clearing Wpg encampments next month.
-Hear updates on downtown Brandon’s economic, safety & community development at the State of the Downtown event tonight at City Hall, starting at 6:00.
-Unifor Local 101R members at CPKC Railway, representing over 1200 workers, have voted in favor of strike action.
-Police watchdog investigating incident in Dominion City after 33yr old man dead after police shooting in southern MB.
-MB man sues 2 health authorities claiming he waited 37 hours to have appendix removed.
-Businesses report sales up 5-9% after Ottawa’s GST holiday, which ends February 14.
-MB residents receive carbon rebates today, averaging $150 per person or $300 for a family of four.
-While 70% of Canadian EV owners save on gas and maintenance, they want more reliable charging options and prefer gas vehicles for cold, long trips.
-For the fourth year, PBR Canada’s Cup Series returns to Brandon May 23-24 featuring top Canadian & international bull riders.
-Jets blow out Vancouver Canucks 6-1, behind natural hat trick by Kyle Connor.
-Wheat Kings on the road in Victoria tonight.
Here he is, in all likeliness our next PM, a guy named Mark Carney. Who the heck is he? A banker. In fact the most powerful banker in the country, a guy in charge of the Bank of Canada, and he ran the Bank of England too. Mark’s gearing up to run for Liberal leader and take over from Justin Trudeau, calling himself an “outsider” while pointing out Canada’s big economic issues. He’ll announce his campaign in Edmonton this week, and Chrystia Freeland might jump in too before the leadership vote on March 9.
Vacationers Signing NDA’s when problems arise? Why? All-inclusive resorts sometimes ask guests to sign NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) to keep complaints off social media. Negative posts about bad experiences can go viral and hurt their reputation fast, even if the issues are minor or resolved. By limiting what unhappy guests can share publicly, resorts protect their brand image and focus on handling issues privately instead of battling bad PR online. A Yokrton family just came back from a Mexican nightmare.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sunwing-cancun-resort-sick-guests-nda-1.7427511
INVESTIGATION Vegas. Is it our imagination or is Vegas getting really expensive. I used to love the coupon books, the two for one margarittas, 99 cent foot long hot dogs and cheap hotel says. Apparently it is not our imagination, Vegas Quietly pivots DOUBLING prices since 2018. And if you don’t make a six figure salary, it might no longer me the city for you.
Brandon to MEXICO CITY with just ONE STOP?!?! It’s coming. Unfortunately not this winter but May. WestJet has just announced a direct flight from Calgary to Mexico City route to start this Spring!
The end of TikTok. Careful. As fans of TikTok flood to other apps in hopes of keeping content going on other Chinese platforms, it’s important to remember the ban is not TikTok specific, but rather adversarial specific, meaning any Chinese app could be banned including the ones people are moving to!
https://www.polygon.com/tiktok/508413/tiktok-ban-rednote-lemon8-chinese-social-media-apps
