Teens line up to snag limited spots in Manitoba driver's education summer program

CBC News

· Posted: May 28, 2025 8:11 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

A surge successful request for a provincial driver's acquisition programme drove teens and their parents to enactment up outside Manitoba Public Insurance offices connected Wednesday to get 1 of the constricted spots.

The enactment astatine the MPI location astatine the country of Bison Drive and Barnes Street started forming astatine 5 a.m. and was astir 120 radical heavy by 7:15 a.m.

In Brandon, the lineup extracurricular Guild Insurance Group on Victoria Avenue started astir 8 p.m. Tuesday and had reached 40 by Wednesday morning.

Registration didn't commencement until 8 a.m.

MPI announced earlier this period that it would again beryllium offering a condensed mentation of its Driver Z course this summer.

Spokesperson Tara Seel said there were 384 disposable spots successful Winnipeg and 204 spots crossed the remainder of the province.

That full of 588 is up from past years, erstwhile it was 312.

The spots are constricted because there is simply a shortage of Driver Z trainers, Seel said.

The programme uses a premix of in-person and virtual classes arsenic good arsenic in-car grooming to thatch students driving skills.

It's typically a 12-week course, but the condensed mentation volition be five weeks and instrumentality place in July and August, said a quality merchandise from MPI.

The condensed programme volition have two weeks of virtual classes followed by 3 weeks of in-car lessons.

The July people volition instrumentality spot successful Arborg, Beausejour, Brandon, Portage la Prairie, Steinbach, Winkler and Winnipeg.

In August it volition be in Brandon, Steinbach, Winkler, Winnipeg and The Pas.

Students indispensable be each classes to implicit the course.