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McFadyen bets on Downs
ASSINIBOIA Downs ought to keep the bulk of its VLT revenue if the racetrack is to thrive, Tory Leader Hugh McFadyen said Thursday.
In an announcement at the track’s season kick-off event, McFadyen said he’d make sure the Downs keeps 75 per cent of its VLT revenue instead of the 66 per cent it now gets.
That will cost the province $1.35 million but McFadyen said it restores a revenue-sharing deal with the Downs that the NDP cut back four years ago.
The Downs has more than 100 VLTs which help keep the track viable year-round.
Biking through riding
GREEN Party candidate James Beddome is giving new meaning to the word “riding.”
Beddome is cycling across the riding of Minnedosa, pulling a trailer and camping along the way, with pitstops in various towns to talk to voters.
Beddome hit the road yesterday from Brandon and expects to cover about 300 km before he arrives in Minnedosa a few days before the vote.
“My only office is a cell phone,” joked the 23-year-old.
Beddome wants to raise awareness of greener modes of transportation and the challenges facing family farms.
Union protests Liberal ad
A union representing health care aides at St. Boniface General Hospital is demanding the Manitoba Liberal party yank its first campaign television commercial which uses one of their year-old union posters.
In a statement, UFCW Local 1869 president Aline Audette says the Liberals say they have the right to use the information.
“Local 1869 does not blindly support any political party,” Union representative Jim Sanford said.
The union is upset because the ad displays a poster used during a battle to prevent health care aide cutbacks.