New CancerCare Manitoba building could cost up to $1 billion: Kinew

Steve Lambert · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 09, 2025 5:12 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

The Manitoba authorities says operation connected a long-promised centre for crab probe and attraction volition get underway adjacent year.

The caller office for CancerCare Manitoba was cancelled by the erstwhile Progressive Conservative authorities successful 2017, and the NDP promised successful 2023 to physique it if elected.

Premier Wab Kinew says $11.5 cardinal has been acceptable speech this twelvemonth for plan enactment and a four-year operation task is expected to commencement adjacent year.

Kinew says a precise preliminary outgo estimation is much than $800 million, but that fig could emergence to $1 billion.

The existent gathering opened successful 2003, and Dr. Dhali Dhaliwal, erstwhile CEO of CancerCare Manitoba, says a new, larger gathering with updated exertion is needed.

The task is to beryllium built adjacent the Health Sciences Centre successful Winnipeg.