Manitoba session focuses on rent, bills and safety

Manitoba’s third legislative session included more than 50 bills focused on affordability, health care and protections for residents. The next session is scheduled to begin Nov. 17.

Key measures included:

• Expanding rent control and strengthening protections for renters facing unfair rent increases.
• Removing provincial sales tax from grocery-store food and addressing unfair retail pricing.
• Using revenue from a new levy on crypto operations and data centres to reduce residential hydro bills by about $50 per year.
• Improving breast cancer screening, protecting workers and survivors of intimate partner violence, and removing pepper spray from retail shelves.