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This is Manitoba

This is Manitoba

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Get into some local listening - we celebrate Manitobans and lean into challenging conversations. Join homegrown host Marcy Markusa for a new episode every Friday that centres around one story from our province. Whether you hail from the oil patch in Virden or the wheat fields of the Red River Valley, if you fly home to Island Lake or you make music in Winnipeg - This is Manitoba is a podcast for you.

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Episodes
  • Manitoba students are falling through the cracks. Can universal screening for learning disabilities help?
    Oct 31 2025

    Advocates say early universal screening for learning disabilities could change lives — but teachers worry it may not be the best use of limited classroom resources. Host Marcy Markusa speaks with Karen Velthuys from the Learning Disabilities Association of Manitoba, Lillian Klausen, president of the Manitoba Teachers Society, and Melanie Rosenfelt, who talks about being diagnosed with two learning disabilities at age 43.

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    29 mins
  • Why are American doctors moving to Manitoba?
    Oct 24 2025

    From better work-life balance to Canada’s universal health care, more U.S. doctors are finding reasons to move to Manitoba. Dr. Arleigh Trainor shares her reasons for leaving the States, and Dr. Alison Carleton talks about what's attracting physicians to rural Manitoba.


    And more U.S. doctors are on their way, Manitoba’s health minister says. What does that say about the province’s doctor recruitment push? CBC’s Faith Fundal speaks with Dr. Nichelle Desilets, president of Doctors Manitoba, about what this means for the province’s health-care system.


    CBC's Cory Funk is guest host

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    16 mins
  • Winnipeg's $757M plan to widen Kenaston Boulevard
    Oct 17 2025

    Homeowner Carol Styles speaks with host Marcy Markusa about living on Carpathia Road, facing possible expropriation as part of the Kenaston Boulevard widening project, and the uncertainty that's shaped her family's life for more than two decades.


    Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham speaks with Marcy about the $757-million plan to widen Kenaston and replace aging bridges, and addresses residents’ concerns about communication, expropriation and city growth

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    27 mins
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