NDP Would Hire 100 New Doctors For Manitoba

Manitoba will have 100 more doctors within four years if the NDP is re-elected, Premier Gary Doer said Monday.

He made the pledge while unveilling a $5.36 million physician recruitment plan to train more doctors, provide funding to help relieve overworked physicians in rural and northern Manitoba, and establish a pool of cash for moving and relocation costs when doctors are recruited to work in Manitoba.

100 New Doctors

Odds & Ends From The Campaign

Here is a mixed bag of news from the campaign trail in Manitoba:
Populations vary widely in Manitoba's 57 ridings - Tories unveil schools plan - Liberal MP blasts wheat board vote
On the Campaign Trail

Manitoba Liberals Unveil Platform

Manitoba Liberals unveiled their Election Platform today

Liberal Leader Encounters Heckler At Housing Announcment

Manitoba's Liberal leader ran into a persistent heckler at an event today

Tories And New Democrats Make Promises

-Tories would ban sale of Hydro
-Doer promises more police

NDP Unveil 7 Point Platform

Gary Doer has unveiled the New Democrats 7 point platform.

Oppositon Needs An Issue

Manitoba's Opposition parties are sorely in need of a biting, relevant issue to take on the Doer New Democrats.

CBC. Manitoba

On The Campaign Trail - April 24th

Candidates are on the campaign trail today with lots of activities.

Daily Wrap

From the pages of the Winnipeg Free Press:


-Doer promises to hire another 700 nurses
-McFadyen pledges to cut Manitoba sales tax to 6%

First Day Of Campaign Has 'Green' Theme

The first full day of campaigning in the Manitoba election had 'Earth Day' as a backdrop. As a result, all parties were out in force at Earth Day activities around the province.

In perhaps the biggest announcement of the young campaign so far, NDP Leader Gary Doer has committed to making Kyoto emission targets provincial law by 2012. Environmentalist David Suzuki called the initiative a positive step, noting it goes past political promises by pledging to become a law.

In separate statements, Liberal Leader Jon Gerrard and Conservative Leader Hugh McFadyen blasted the NDP government's environmental record.

CBC Manitoba

Tories Kick Off 'Petty And Bitter Campaign'

"The Tories kicked off what's expected to be a petty and bitter provincial election campaign by filing a complaint with Elections Manitoba over a stray government ad.

The ad, touting the goodies in the NDP's recently released budget, ran Saturday morning on CTV. By law, the government is supposed to pull all non-essential ads once the campaign period begins.

"This wasteful spending we've seen over the last number of months just continues on into the campaign," Tory MLA and campaign co-chair Kelvin Goertzen said Saturday.

But government staff said an order was sent Friday to all media outlets -- including the Winnipeg Free Press -- at about 4:15 p.m. asking them to pull all government ads, including job postings. The News Media Services office issued the order even before Premier Gary Doer formally called the election, fearing any delay would make it impossible to catch all the ads in time. "

Winnipeg Free Press

MANITOBA VOTES - 2007

Manitoba voters are going to the polls on May 22nd and Buckdog is going to blog the whole race.

2007 Manitoba Election Website

Doer Calls Election

Manitoba Political Leaders Kick Off Campaigns