Leons Headlines Nov 18: Harvest MB relaunches its Meals2Go program at Brandon’s Betty Gibson & King George schools providing 500–600 weekly meal kits to K–8 students due to rising need.
-Prairie Mountain Health hires 4 new nurse practitioners to help fill long-standing rural primary-care gaps in Shoal Lake, Melita, Dauphin, Canupawakpa FN & Brandon.
-Assiniboine College will launch a food services management diploma in September 2026 to train graduates for leadership roles in large institutional food service settings.
-Non-profits oppose Hydro’s proposed 3.5% 2026 rate hike, saying it hurts low-income residents. Hydro cites low revenues & aging infrastructure as reasons for an increase.
-Manitoba throne speech today will outline plans to create a Crown-Indigenous corporation and a possible overpass at Highways 1 and 5, site of the 2023 crash that killed 17.
-Manitoba will end sick notes unless employee is absent for 1 week, introducing provincial legislation next session, which starts Tuesday.
-MB will test the Alert Ready emergency system Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 1:55 p.m although some phones may not receive it due to coverage, compatibility, or settings.
-MPs narrowly pass Carney’s first budget, avoiding a Christmas election. The final vote was 170-168 with 4 abstentions. |
-Columbus Blue Jackets visit Wpg tonight to face the Jets.
-Wheat Kings visit Temple Gardens in Moose Jaw tonight to face the Warriors.
Cloned Meat is coming to a store near you and you won’t know it. Cloned meat isn’t a conspiracy theory — it’s real, approved, and moving toward Canada’s food supply fast. Regulators say it could hit store shelves sooner than most people think.
Inflation it tamed. Unless you have to eat or put a roof over your head. Then we’re not done with the Covid Hangover almost six years later. Inflation is finally close to normal again, except for food and shelter, which remain stubbornly high. Canadians say those two categories are still squeezing their budgets hard.
CHRISTMAS MOVIES are on TV. It didn’t take long for cable channels to start putting Christmas movies on TV and with streaming services loading up on Holiday classics, we wanted to know that Christmas movie you could watch 100 times every holiday season?!?!
While there’s no definitive, universal “most streamed Christmas movies of all time” list, since data varies by platform and measurement source, according to Nielsen and other tracking, the top 5 streamed Christmas films are:
Elf
Home Alone
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
The Grinch (2018)
A Christmas Story
Jelly Roll is now Veggie Roll? Wow. Jelly Roll is getting noticeably slimmer, and now he’s even ditching the beard. Fans spotted the transformation after he shaved it off in a new video shared by Bunnie XO. When he comes to Countryfest next Summer he’ll be half the man he used to be!
