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By The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — Manitoba’s Opposition New Democrats are calling for more money for health care and public safety, changes to labour laws and a reopened debate about whether people should still change their clocks twice a year.
NDP Leader Wab Kinew laid out his party’s priorities Thursday in what he called an alternative throne speech — a list of top issues for a legislature sitting that is to start Tuesday.
By Jordan Press, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Party leaders hit the hustings at the start of the long weekend hoping to fire up their bases and their get-out-the-vote machines before turkeys are served on Thanksgiving tables — or drop on their chances at electoral success.
Justin Trudeau, Andrew Scheer, Jagmeet Singh and Elizabeth May all spent time Saturday in areas of the country where their parties have been competitive in the past, or that are seen as key to their path for electoral success.
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — Wab Kinew says that despite another majority win by Manitoba’s Progressive Conservatives, his New Democrats have increased their roster — a sign they are on the road to recovery after a historic defeat in the 2016 election.
“It’s with great humility that we accept the results of tonight,” Kinew said to cheers from the crowd in his concession speech Tuesday night.
By The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew is making a final pitch to Liberal and Green party supporters ahead of Tuesday’s provincial election.
Kinew is asking people who oppose the Progressive Conservative government to vote for the New Democrats who he says are the only party that can prevent a second Tory term.
By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — Manitoba Progressive Conservatives promised new environmental protection measures Saturday, while the NDP rallied troops in a traditional stronghold as the campaign to Tuesday’s provincial election entered its final days.
Tory candidate Rochelle Squires, who was minister for sustainable development, said her party will expand recycling programs to include organic waste if re-elected to a second term. She also promised to ban all recyclable material from garbage dumps.
By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — Manitoba Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Pallister flew north Friday — into territory that has not traditionally been Tory-friendly — as the provincial election campaign entered the home stretch and another poll suggested a somewhat-comfortable lead for the party.
Pallister, who is seeking a second mandate as premier, visited Thompson and other communities with deep NDP roots ahead of Tuesday’s vote.
By The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew has pledged to keep the province’s main health lab public if his party is elected Tuesday.
Staff at the Cadham Provincial Laboratory do diagnostic imaging and special tests, as well as investigate outbreaks.
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — Manitoba’s election campaign has entered its final days with the leaders of the two main parties focusing on their key messages as they hustle for votes in the home stretch.
The New Democrats continue to focus on health care and the Progressive Conservatives are driving home a tax reduction plan for the middle class.
WINNIPEG — NDP leader Wab Kinew says his government would ban mandatory overtime for nurses if he is elected.
Kinew said he would end the legislation currently used to filling “staffing holes” in the province’s health-care system.
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — The Progressive Conservatives pegged the cost of their campaign commitments Tuesday at $856 million while leader Brian Pallister knocked his knuckles on a dinner table and repeated his rallying cry of lower taxes and more money in people’s pocketbooks.
“The money on this table belongs to Manitobans,” he said as he also announced he would phase out a complicated education property tax if the Tories were to be re-elected next week.
