Manitoba’s NDP government is promising to build, saying in its third throne speech it will construct an overpass at the location of a bus crash that killed 17 seniors, set up the province’s first supervised consumption site and build a new fuel-burning generation station to stave off a forecast power shortage.

The address — which outlines the priorities of Wab Kinew’s government for the coming legislative session — also commits to improving the health-care system for staff and patients.

The province will begin the process of ending mandatory overtime for health-care workers, starting with nurses, said a copy of the speech read in the legislature Tuesday by Lt.-Gov. Anita Neville.

"You wouldn't get on a plane with a pilot who has worked two back-to-back shifts. Why should you go to an E

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