WINNIPEG \u2014 Manitoba Finance Minister Adrien Sala tabled on Tuesday the provincial budget for 2026-27. Here are some highlights:<\/p>\n
\u2014 The provincial sales tax is to be removed, as of July, on all food at grocery stores. Basic groceries are already exempt.<\/p>\n
\u2014 The annual homeowners credit on education property taxes is to increase next year by $100, to $1,700.<\/p>\n
\u2014 The homeowners tax credit will be reduced for people with homes assessed at over $1 million and eliminated for owners of homes above $1.5 million.<\/p>\n
\u2014 The province will talk with municipalities and aim to make public transit free for students up to Grade 12.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Families receiving the biggest child care subsidies will see their $2 per day fee eliminated.<\/p>\n
\u2014 New money for health care, including $22.1 million for a cardiac care clinic at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
\u2014 $16.2 million toward a new road and airport at Wasagamack, a remote First Nation community.<\/p>\n
\u2014 The provincial tax credit for renters is to increase $50, to $625.<\/p>\n
\u2014 A projected deficit of $498 million on total spending of $27.3 billion.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 24, 2026.<\/p>\n
Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2014 Manitoba Finance Minister Adrien Sala tabled on Tuesday the provincial budget for 2026-27. Here are some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-558344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}