{"id":57734,"date":"2015-08-01T00:22:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T16:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=57734"},"modified":"2015-08-01T00:22:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T16:22:44","slug":"federal-and-manitoba-governments-promise-channels-to-ease-flooding-near-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/01\/federal-and-manitoba-governments-promise-channels-to-ease-flooding-near-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal and Manitoba governments promise channels to ease flooding near reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18481\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Brandon-Manitoba-flood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18481\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Brandon-Manitoba-flood.jpg\" alt=\"Robyn Verindon tweeted, &quot;my hometown Brandon Manitoba :\/ #mothernature #manitobaflood&quot; \" width=\"700\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Brandon-Manitoba-flood.jpg 700w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Brandon-Manitoba-flood-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Brandon-Manitoba-flood-600x397.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A previous flood in Manitoba (Photo from Twitter\/Robyn Verindon)\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WINNIPEG &#8211; The federal and Manitoba governments are promising $495 million for two channels to ease flooding near communities such as Lake St. Martin, a reserve that has been flooded out for four years.<\/p>\n<p>The money is to pay for two outlet channels that will help reduce water levels on Lake St. Martin and Lake Manitoba.<\/p>\n<p>The province constructed a temporary emergency channel after a flood in 2011 forced thousands &#8211; primarily from the Lake St. Martin First Nation &#8211; from their homes.<\/p>\n<p>The reserve&#8217;s residents spent years in hotel rooms and other accommodations, and the community is still rebuilding on higher ground.<\/p>\n<p>Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger says having two permanent channels will protect lives and reduce the social and economic impacts of flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Manitoba is paying two-thirds of the cost, and the federal government says its share is contingent on the project meeting requirements under a $14-billion infrastructure program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG &#8211; The federal and Manitoba governments are promising $495 million for two channels to ease flooding near communities such &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":18481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-57734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}