Petition to End Sexualized Dress Codes
An online petition is calling for an end to sexist dress codes in Manitoba's restaurants.
Amy Tuckett-McGimpsey says a sexualized dress code would be anything women are forced to wear that's different than men.
"Things like high heels, like short skirts, like cleavage-baring tops. I think that uniforms should be fairly gender neutral. And when you have sort of that binary of gender, you know, where it's either male dress code or female dress code, where does that leave trans folks, where does that leave androgynous folks?"
The petition at change.org has now surpassed 25,000 signatures.
Tuckett-McGimpsey says the Manitoba Human Rights Commission should issue a policy statement similar to one recently released in Ontario comdemning sexist dress codes in the workplace.
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Arctic Drones
Canada is looking for unmanned aerial drones to keep an eye on the Arctic.
Transport Canada is calling for tenders to supply at least one such aircraft to help look for environmental problems, keep tabs on shifting sea ice and look for foreign fishers.
Currently, the job is done by a Dash 7 turboprop -- but the department says an unmanned plane would allow it to make longer, more frequent flights.
The Defence department has also asked for drone.
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Sask Election Campaign
The leaders of the two major parties have made their pitch to rural voters in the April 4 Saskatchewan election campaign.
Both Saskatchewan Party Leader Brad Wall and NDP Leader Cam Broten delivered speeches Wednesday to the Saskatchewan Rural Municipalities Association convention.
Wall reminded delegates that his government cut the education property tax on farmland and improved a municipal revenue-sharing formula.
He also credited the agriculture industry for driving the provincial economy during tough times in the oil and gas sector.
Broten said an NDP government would end ambulance fees for patients transferred between facilities and would scrap a per-kilometre rate for ambulances, which he said unfairly hurts rural residents.
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Lucky Lady Wins Big, Plans to Give Back
A Winnipeg woman who won $3.6-million on the Lotto 6-49 says she plans to give back to the community and keep playing the lottery.
Leslie MacMillan won on the February 27th draw and picked up her cheque yesterday.
She said she's always given to charities but now she can give more.
It's not her first win, having cashed in a $50,000 prize in the past.
