The City of Winnipeg plans to significantly ramp up borrowing and spending on capital projects next year, with hundreds of millions more to fund major infrastructure projects like upgrades to the North End Water Pollution Control Centre and purchases of more buses.

The city’s capital budget grew from $677 million in 2025 to $1.19 billion in its draft 2026 budget, released Friday — a 76 per cent increase.

Most of that increase is due to the city’s commitment to fund one-third of the estimated $1.5 billion needed to build a nutrient removal facility, the third and final phase of the sewage treatment plant project. The 2026 budget will set aside $547 million for the project, to be financed through debt.

The city must complete the upgrades because the North End plant is running out of capac

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