The Manitoba government has presented its proposed budget implementation and tax statutes amendment act that would bring into effect important tax relief for individuals and businesses, Finance Minister Scott Fielding announced today. “Manitobans deserve a break,” said Fielding.  “We are giving Manitobans a break by putting money back on the kitchen table for families, seniors and households across the province.” In Budget 2018 the province confirmed it would increase the threshold under which individuals pay no income tax by $2,020 over the next two years, taking more than 30,000 lower income Manitobans off the tax rolls. Fielding noted the proposed legislation would implement key tax measures announced in the budget and others including: providing an innovative new Child Care Centre Development Tax Credit that would give businesses an incentive of up to $10,000 over five years to create licensed child-care centres in communities for working families; simplifying the process for claiming the Primary Caregiver Tax Credit by removing complicated paperwork and allowing caregivers to self-assess their eligibility and register instead of applying for pre-approval; raising the small business income tax threshold to $500,000 from $450,000, saving individual businesses up to $6,000 a year and injecting $7 million back into the economy annually beginning in 2019; eliminating the one per cent profit tax on credit unions and caisses populaires starting in 2019; and exempting fertilizer bins purchased by farmers for farm use and drill bits designed specifically for oil or gas drilling rigs from the retail sales tax. The minister noted the proposed legislation also includes technical amendments and other measures such as: amending The Fuel Tax Act to provide a carbon tax exemption for inter-jurisdictional commercial passenger and cargo flights, to ensure Manitobans and businesses would continue to have competitive access to air service to other parts of Canada and the world; amending various acts to allow chiropractors to provide services through a professional corporation like in other provinces and other self-regulated professions in Manitoba; implementing a financial component of Manitoba’s non-medicinal cannabis regulatory system, which is designed to help drive out the illegal market by keeping prices low and promote public safety as the province’s top priority; and updating The Health Sector Bargaining Unit Review Act to reflect the creation of Shared Health Services as the provincewide health employer. “We made a promise to fix the finances, repair the services and rebuild the economy,” said Fielding.  “We are keeping the promises we’ve made to Manitobans.” Learn more about Budget 2018 at www.gov.mb.ca/budget2018/index.html. View a copy of the proposed legislation at https://web2.gov.mb.ca/bills/41-3/pdf/b034.pdf.

Source: Brandon Police Service Media Release At approximately 8 p.m. Police attended a Business located at the Coral Centre in the 900 Block of 18thstreet North, after receiving a call of a male attempting to steal some items and was currently swinging a hatchet around while still inside the store. The suspect was observed walking out of the store and when Police attempted to stop him, he fled on foot discarding the hatchet in the process. After a brief foot pursuit and a warning that the Taser would be deployed the suspect stopped. The 33-year-old male from Brandon was lodged at the Correctional Centre and will appear in Court today after being charged with Possession of a Weapon Dangerous, Resist Arrest and Theft Under $5000. No one was injured or directly threatened during this incident.

At around 9:30 Tuesday night, Brandon Fire and Emergency Services and Brandon Police Service responded to the intersection of 18th St. and Victoria Ave for a two-vehicle collision. Two vehicles collided in the intersection, causing one vehicle to face south in the northbound lanes of 18th St. with heavy front-end damage, while the other vehicle was facing east in the northbound lanes of 18th St. Traffic going northbound from McTavish Ave to Victoria Ave on 18th St. was blocked off and rerouted for a short period of time. Nobody was injured in the collision. Thank you Liam Pattison Photography

TOWNHALL MEETING ON BORDER CROSSING This evening Larry Maguire, member of Parliament for Brandon - Souris, hosted Michelle Rempel, member of Parliament for Calgary Nose Hill, for a town hall meeting on the 'illegal' Border Crossings into Canada. At the Riverview Curling Club of Brandon, Michelle Rempel spoke with the aide of a slide presentation entitled, "Increase in illegal Border Crossings", to a room of approx 160 residents. Both Members of Parliment are part of a House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizen and Immigration. Although tangible things such as our Borders are clear; some items such as how the term illegal is applied to asylum seekers via the presentation - are not so clear. The presentation also highlighted the Conservative parties actions to "hold feet to the fire" of the Liberal government and The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada. Whereas their main solution to the irregular immigration that Canada is dealing with would be to close the Safe 3rd Country loophole. Photo Credit - Gord Paziuk Story submitted to BDNMB via - Joe Blake

Source:  Brandon Police Service Media Release $32,000 Worth of Cocaine Seized after Vehicle Stop: At approximately 4:20 p.m. Police conduced a traffic stop on Dominion Way. The driver of the vehicle and sole occupant was arrested for Possession of Cocaine for the Purpose of Trafficking after a search of her vehicle resulted in approximately 8 ounces of Cocaine being located. The street value of the Cocaine is estimated at $32,000. The 30-year-old female from Winnipeg was later released and is scheduled to appear in Court in October.