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The Manitoba Federation of Labour says it's time to raise minimum wage in Manitoba.
Dozens rallied at the Manitoba Legislature on Tuesday afternoon to call for an increase in the province's minimum wage to $15 an hour, a $4-per-hour hike from the current minimum wage of $11 per hour.
The Federation States that the province needs to follow in the footsteps of others like Ontario, which has proposed legislation to boost minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2019, and Alberta, which has promised to do the same by October of next year.
British Columbia's NDP govenrment has also said it has plans to get to $15 per hour by 2021, and raised minimum wage by 50 cents this year to $11.35.
The rally was held during International Basic Income Week, a week of action for the concept of basic income that started in Europe in 2008 and has spread worldwide.
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The course, initially developed for the Department of National Defence, focuses on how to cope with stress and how to spot the signs of a problem. It has been adapted for first responders and is now being offered to paramedics in Manitoba for the first time.
Trainers began working on the program in May and paramedics will be able to sign up starting in October.
The Road to Mental Readiness course aims to improve short-term performance and long-term mental health outcomes, provide tools and resources for support, and reduce barriers to care. The $100 course will first be offered at PAM's office in Winnipeg, and expanded to sites in rural Manitoba starting in 2018.
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Hundreds of volunteers, soldiers and police are frantically digging through ruins of a collapsed Mexico City school in hopes of finding survivors in the wake of a 7.1 magnitude earthquake.
They have found the bodies of at least 25 students and teachers underneath the rubble.
Outside the school gates, rumours ran through the crowd of anxious parents that two families had received text messages from girls trapped inside, though nobody could say for sure whether it was true.
There are at least 248 confirmed fatalities so far in Mexico's deadliest earthquake since 1985.
And, in Puerto Rico, thousands are bracing for Hurricane Maria's direct hit this morning.
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A new addition has been put into place at the Dauphin Medical Clinic.
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The official ground breaking ceremony for dauphin’s second Habitat for Humanity home was held last night.
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There has been vandalism to the number 4 fairway at the Dauphin Lake Golf Resort over the weekend.
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The lock down has been lifted at Winnipeg’s international airport.
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Manitoba Infrastructure’s Emergency Measures Organization reports the next Alert Ready public awareness test is scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 20, at 1:55 p.m.
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A Roblin local musician recently received an award at the Josie Music Awards 2017.
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An Open Forum on the proposed changes to corporate taxes was held yesterday by the Dauphin & District Chamber of Commerce.
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Construction on the $23-million Dauphin Regional Health Centre Redevelopment will soon be heading into a key project phase.
As renovation work has progressed throughout the spring and summer, project officials are now just over a month away from opening the renovated Temporary Emergency Department / Special Care Unit space. The Temporary Emergency Department will soon result in some significant changes to the way people gain access to the hospital. Some of the most notable changes that will impact the general public when the Temporary Emergency Department opens (which is anticipated at the end of October) will include: the complete closure of the DRHC front door entrance (off 3rd St. SW); the closure of the front entrance vehicle ramp and walkway ramp to the general public; the opening of a temporary hospital entrance for all public access. (Entrance will be located between the Hospital and Community Health Building — at the rear of the buildings); additional access to the hospital’s back parking lot, which has opened off Jackson Street. The new access will be the preferred entrance/exit to the parking lot, which will lead to the new temporary entrance of the hospital; changes to the general public and staff parking areas at the back of DRHC; and general ‘way-finding’ within the hospital.
Prairie Mountain Health reminds you to watch for way-finding signage both inside and outside facilities which include the DRHC, Dauphin Community Health Building and Dauphin Personal Care Home.
PMH remains committed to providing additional timely information as we get closer to critical change over dates that will impact all of our health partners, stakeholders, staff and the general public.
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