WINNIPEG — The province has unveiled a plan to improve land-use planning legislation that gives the Municipal Board power to override decisions made by local governments, such as the proposed housing project located on the Granite Curling Club’s parking lot.

“We’re untangling this severe mess that was created by the Tories,” Municipal and Northern Relations Minister Glen Simard said Friday, referring to amendments made in 2021 and 2022 to the Planning Act and the City of Winnipeg Charter by former premier Brian Pallister’s government.

The changes gave the provincial appointees to the Municipal Board the power to overturn development decisions made by elected officials in Manitoba’s municipalities.

Simard said the amendments “put a broad scope and powers in the Municipal Board’s hands.”

The Brandon Police Service won’t have body cameras until the end of winter, after initially estimating a fall 2025 implementation.

Insp. Jason Dupuis told the Sun on Friday that a lot of work has to go into the implementation, but that the service is “diligently working on it.”

He estimated a starting date for the cameras of end of February into March.

Part of the delay is because the service is upgrading all of the cameras on its vehicles and because of the “legwork” involved with getting systems set up.