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Manitoba hotel owners should step up for wildfire evacuees, Kinew says

Manitoba hotel owners should step up for wildfire evacuees, Kinew says

National Post13-06-2025
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says some hotel owners in the province are not doing enough to help wildfire evacuees.
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Kinew said on Thursday after touring some fire-hit areas that while a large majority of hotel operators have been great, some need to open up rooms as there are evacuees still sleeping in cots in emergency shelters.
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