More Manitoba residents saw their electricity restored Thursday — one week after a major snowstorm brought down power poles and transmission towers and delivered another wallop to farmers.
Manitoba Hydro said some 6,500 homes and businesses remained without power, down from 9,000 Wednesday and 53,000 on Saturday. Most of the remaining outages are in rural areas and First Nations communities in central Manitoba and the Interlake region to the north.
The storm started last Thursday and dumped up to 100 millimetres of rain and snow across a wide swath of the province. Previous wet weather had already saturated the ground, and the storm brought a further halt to fall harvest in many areas.
“We are in emergency mode to get the crops off,” said Bill Campbell, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers of Manitoba, the province’s largest farm group.
“It is absolutely a mess out here and we are really struggling with mental health and how to cope with this.”
The Manitoba government said more than half of flax, soybean and corn crops had yet to be harvested — a level well below the average over the previous three years.
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See Also:
(1) Storm recovery work could take five years, says city forester
(2) Winnipeg seeks emergency funding to help with storm cleanup
Just ONE example. In 2017, Trudeau pledged $250M to the Chinese-owned Asian Infrastructure Bank to build roads, bridges, and pipelines halfway around the world. An entity controlled by communist China. Trudeau has been cutting China a cheque for $50M every year since 2017 and will continue to do so each year until 2022. China needs Canadian tax dollars? This China? The China that announced 2018’s military budget as 1.11 trillion yuan (US$165.5 billion), an 8.1% increase on 2017, and 2019’s budget has a huge increase. Yes, that China.
A country that spends $165 billion plus on it military needs $250 million from a country that cut defence spending in 2018 and have ignored it in 2019? China needs $250 million dollars from a country that replaces its ancient out of date fighter aircraft with ancient out of date fighter aircraft from an Australian used airplane lot to save money? China’s infrastructure or Canada’s. Canada’s military veterans or China’s infrastructure? Our $250M means freeing up $250M more that China can spend on its military.
All that Canadian tax money to China while in 2018 Trudeau told a disabled Canadian military veteran “Why are we still fighting against certain veterans’ groups in court? Because they are asking for more than we are able to give right now,”
More? Okay. 30,000 homeless Canadians sleeping on the street each day, I guarantee you’d be hard pressed to find a single foreigner who crashed our imaginary border without permission is so doing. Trudeau has filled entire hotels with these foreign con artists, fraudsters, welfare leaches. There is never a shortage of money for them. It is never a situation where they are told flat out “we are unable to give right now”.
Every province (well perhaps exception Quebec) faces the same problems as Winnipeg. But it just so happens I live in Winnipeg. Today the city alone (as is the province) is facing costs of 10’s of millions of dollars to clean up and repair damage from an early winter snow storm. As a result critical infrastructure repairs are going to be shelved for who knows how long for lack of funds. You know, stuff like inadequate sewage treatment plants that dumps millions of litres of raw sewage into our rivers and lakes every year. A city sewer system in many places about 100 yrs old and falling apart. Same for the water supply system. Streets full of potholes. Many other infrastructure projects that should have been dealt with years ago now punted onto the back burner for who knows how long because of this single environmental event.
There is no money for today let alone tomorrow. Well, except for China (and other countries) that is…
Get the hell out and vote tomorrow. Sadly there is no best party. Based on the pathetic options IMO there is no upside to this election. Simply vote for the party you think will do the least damage to our nation.