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As football fans from across Canada blitz into Winnipeg for the upcoming 103rd Grey Cup game, the province officially proclaimed this week as the 103rd Grey Cup Festival Week in Manitoba.

On November 25, 2015, Steinbach RCMP received a report of a theft that occurred at Clearspring Centre in Steinbach, Manitoba.

A new program will provide $100,00 in funding to purchase new food processing equipment in commercial community kitchens.

Beginning December 1, 2015, a new high visibility orange licence plate will be issued to Manitoba snowmobilers with the purchase or renewal of a Snopass.

City of Steinbach mayor Chris Goertzen, along with the mayors of Manitoba’s cities, met in Brandon on November 23 during the AMM Annual Convention to establish priorities for the coming year.

Steinbach MLA and PC House Leader, Kelvin Goertzen, has been appointed to serve on the Midwest-Canada Energy Committee together with representatives from Saskatchewan, Ontario and elected officials from the Midwest United States.

As well as a commitment to increase annual tourism spending made in the 2015 throne speech, the Manitoba government, Manitoba Chambers of Commerce and Travel Manitoba will host a tourism industry summit to develop a long-term vision for growth in the tourism sector with input from the tourism industry and other associated businesses.

The Manitoba government is funding four new child-care centres in partnership with public schools as it moves forward on its commitment in the 2015 throne speech to provide 12,000 new spaces, support early childhood educators and create a universally accessible child-care system for families.

Manitoba is now home to nearly 150 nurse practitioners, up from just four 10 years ago, who provide essential health services to Manitobans across the province including in rural and northern communities.

The Manitoba government is investing nearly $20 million in several significant information technology projects in 2015 to improve access to digital health-care services for Manitobans.