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November 5, 2025, News ReleaseManitoba Government Passes Legislation to Respond to Meth Crisis “The Manitoba government has passed legislation that would address the growing meth crisis across the province, giving police and health-care professionals more options to offer treatment immediately to people intoxicated by drugs in a safe space that protects the public, Housing, Addictions and Homelessness Minister Bernadette Smith announced today.”
November 7, 2025, News ReleaseManitoba Government Delivers on Promises to Make Communities Safer “The Manitoba government is delivering a bold legislative agenda that puts people first by making communities safer, defending democratic rights, protecting affordable housing and modernizing the rules that shape daily life in Manitoba, government house leader Nahanni Fontaine announced today.”
Beginning on July 1, 2026, instead of paying seven percent retail sales tax on the purchase of manufacturing and processing equipment and having that tax later refunded through the manufacturing investment tax credit, the purchase of certain equipment will be exempt from retail sales tax.
The purchaser of the equipment will still be eligible for the one percent non-refundable component of the tax credit.
The full eight percent (seven percent refundable, one percent non-refundable) of the tax credit will continue to be available for the manufacturing and processing assets, including buildings, that are not eligible for the retail sales tax exemption.
October 16, 2025, News ReleaseManitoba Government Acts to Protect Democracy and Fundamental Freedoms The Manitoba government has introduced legislation that would require any provincial legislation invoking Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, commonly known as the notwithstanding clause, to be automatically referred to the Manitoba Court of Appeal for an opinion on whether the law violates charter rights, Premier Wab Kinew and Justice Minister Matt Wiebe announced today.
The Manitoba Law Library would like to acknowledge with gratitude that we are situated on Treaty One Territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation.
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