Better Manitoba roads
The Manitoba government has announced it will spend an additional $300 million on highway construction and maintenance over the next two budget years.
The province spends $257 million a year in highway capital and maintenance. The additional spending will increase annual provincial highway investments to almost $400 million a year, a 50 percent increase.
In a first for Canada, Manitoba law requires all money collected through gas taxes in the province be invested in roads and transit.
Co-operator award
Bryan Tudor has received the Can-adian Co-operative Association global co-operator award.
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The award is the highest honour bestowed upon a member of the CCA. It is awarded to an individual who has consistently demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to the CCA’s international development work and the Co-operative Development Foundation of Canada.
Tudor has worked for Saskatchewan Wheat Pool for 27 years and began his involvement in the larger co-operative movement in the mid-1970s while staffing co-operative youth seminars.
His commitment to international development began with board positions with Save the Children-Canada and the Saskatchewan Council for International Co-operation in the 1980s and 1990s.
In 1991 he received the SCIC global citizen award and was president of Save the Children-Canada from 1993-95. In 2002 he received a co-operative merit award for his outstanding contribution to the co-operative sector.
Tudor was a member of the CCA international program committee for six years and provided technical assistance to CCA projects in China, Vietnam and Mongolia.
Ag Canada funding
Agriculture Canada has announced $750,000 in new funding to support bio-material research and commercialization at the Composites Innovation Centre in Winnipeg.
The centre helps companies develop and commercialize new composite materials and technologies.
Since its inception in the fall of 2003, the centre has completed more than 20 industry driven projects and is sponsoring 23 others.
