Manitoba bills

This Manitoba bill amends the Business Practices Act to regulate personalized algorithmic pricing — where retailers use consumer data and algorithms to charge individual customers higher prices than others. It also sets new rules for online retailers, online distributors, and businesses using electronic shelf labelling systems.

This Manitoba bill amends The Real Property Act and The Planning Act to clarify how easements (statutory rights) can be granted over public reserve land, and to confirm that land set aside for public purposes can also be used for municipal works.

This Manitoba bill amends the Apprenticeship and Certification Act to require the creation of an online public registry of certified tradespeople and apprentices within 60 days of royal assent, and allows the sharing of personal information with approved training providers.

This Manitoba bill amends the Securities Act to add new investor protections against misleading promotional activities and unfair practices, establish a regulatory framework for financial benchmarks, create a designated dispute resolution service for investment industry complaints, and update civil liability rules for securities disclosure documents.

This Manitoba bill formally recognizes Yellowquill University College as a degree-granting post-secondary institution within Manitoba's advanced education system, establishes its governance structure, sets out funding and information-sharing rules with the provincial government, and amends related legislation including providing a property tax exemption for the institution.

This Manitoba bill makes minor technical corrections, language updates, and small substantive tweaks across roughly 87 provincial laws, fixing drafting errors, updating terminology (such as replacing 'child pornography' with 'child sexual abuse and exploitation material'), harmonizing French and English versions, and repealing five obsolete private Acts.

This Manitoba bill updates highway traffic rules to formally regulate personal electric vehicles (e-scooters, skateboards, self-balancing scooters, unicycles), introduces rules for three-wheeled vehicles, and restricts automated driving systems to permitted pilot projects or technology testing permits.

This Manitoba bill amends three provincial statutes to regulate driver training schools (requiring written contracts, cancellation rights, and public reporting), clarify farm truck usage rules, and expand Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation (MPIC) counselling coverage to witnesses and family members of serious accident victims.

This Manitoba bill requires provincial sport organizations to adopt an inclusion policy, complete inclusion training, conduct demographic assessments of their participants, and report annually on efforts to increase participation from underrepresented groups.

This Manitoba bill creates a new electricity levy on cryptocurrency operations, large-scale data centres, and other large power supply projects that purchase electricity from Manitoba Hydro, and establishes separate customer rate classes for these operations. The levy rate can be set by regulation, but defaults to 100% of the standard electricity charges if no rate is prescribed.

This Manitoba bill updates public school rules around bullying (expanding the definition to include AI-generated content and group-based harm), clarifies superintendent qualifications and duties, and allows Indigenous educational organizations and other qualifying organizations to join the Manitoba School Boards Association.

This Manitoba bill amends three environmental laws — covering dangerous goods handling, general environmental regulation, and waste reduction — to expand fee-charging authority for inspections and document review, strengthen prohibitions on obstruction and false information, extend prosecution timelines from one to two years, and improve public disclosure through an expanded environmental registry.

This Manitoba bill amends the Child and Family Services Act to expand support for young adults in care up to age 21, broaden the definition of Indigenous law to include self-governance agreements, and allow the director to terminate guardianship or supervision orders when an applicable Indigenous law and service provider take over responsibility for a child.

This Manitoba bill amends the Adult Learning Centres Act to allow First Nation band councils to operate adult learning centres independently (without a partner institution), grant union-operated training centres similar standalone operating rights, and update annual reporting requirements to reference audited financial statements from the most recently completed fiscal year.

This bill updates Manitoba's Interprovincial Subpoena Act to expand its scope so that subpoenas issued not just by courts but also by boards, commissions, tribunals, and other bodies across all Canadian provinces and territories can be recognized and enforced in Manitoba through the Court of King's Bench.

This bill amends Manitoba's Planning Act and the City of Winnipeg Charter to streamline and clarify timelines for Municipal Board hearings and reviews of planning by-laws, expand the definition of minor subdivisions, and update rules for livestock operations — including allowing supply-managed farms to increase animal units by up to 15% without a new conditional use approval.

This Manitoba bill requires the provincial cancer authority to develop and maintain plans for breast cancer screening eligibility and expanded access, with a focus on underserved communities, and to report annually on screening outcomes.

This Manitoba bill amends the Highway Traffic Act to strengthen impaired driving rules, including zero blood alcohol requirements for commercial drivers and repeat offenders, longer roadside suspensions, and mandatory ignition-interlock program participation.

This bill amends The University of Winnipeg Act to restructure its Board of Regents, reducing membership from 36 to 21 members, introducing term limits, and requiring new governance by-laws covering conflict of interest, open meetings, and annual presidential performance reviews.

This Manitoba bill amends the Health System Governance and Accountability Act to allow the Minister of Health to set minimum nurse-to-patient ratios by regulation, and requires health authorities and funded health care organizations to prepare and submit compliance plans outlining how they will meet — and respond when they cannot meet — those ratios.