Provincial News

The Manitoba government is making emergency financial support available for residents of Cranberry Portage and surrounding communities who have been evacuated from their homes due to wildfire activity.

A veterinary pathologist with the Western College of Veterinary Medicine is encouraging farmers to take steps to minimize the potential exposure of farm animals to migrating birds.

Improvements in the weather and work by crews on the fires in the areas around Flin Flon and The Pas, will allow residents of affected communities to return home on Sunday morning.

The Hydrologic Forecast Centre of Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure (MTI) is advising Manitobans to take precautions as portions of the province could get between 20 and 40 millimetres of precipitation in the next three days.

As another difficult wildfire season is underway in many provinces and territories, the governments of Canada and Manitoba are committed to continuing to support Canadians and Manitobans, while strengthening our ability to adapt to a changing climate.

Manitoba Agriculture’s weekly crop report, released earlier this week, indicates planting is now 30 percent complete across the province, up from four percent completed last week and slightly ahead of the five-year average of 29 percent.

Dauphin RCMP are asking the public for any information into the whereabouts of a missing man from the area, 48-year-old Ronald Adam Gabriel.

As of May 14 in the afternoon, fire WE010 near Flin Flon is approximately 31,600 hectares (ha) and continues to impact the cottage subdivisions of Sourdough Bay, Whitefish Lake, Twin Lakes, Schist Lake North and Cranberry Portage.

The Manitoba Wildfire Service, the Office of the Fire Commissioner (OFC), Manitoba Emergency Management Organization (EMO) and the Manitoba Fire Service are currently responding to a significant number of active fires in the area around Flin Flon and The Pas.

Manitoba’s pork producers are calling for the creation of a provincially appointed task group to develop solutions to the algae problem in Lake Winnipeg.