More cash for roads, health care
The stop at the hospital, plus the trip there, is expected to improve after the provincial government announced more money to fix the roads and improve health care in western Manitoba in yesterday’s annual speech from the throne. The speech, which outlines the NDP government’s legislative agenda for the upcoming year, promised $400 million a year for the next 10 years to fix and improve roads like Highway 10 north and south of Brandon. It also included a pledge on the province’s part to put more cash towards the city’s money-losing transit system and additional features for the Brandon Regional Health Centre, including a new regional cancer treatment centre and a pediatric resident to take the burden off the part-time child medicine specialists brought in now.
