Manitoba Hydro
Manitoba Hydro is a Crown corporation owned by the Province of Manitoba that serves as the province's electric power and natural gas utility, handling electricity generation, transmission, and distribution as well as natural gas distribution for customers across Manitoba. It also exports electricity to wholesale markets in Canada and the midwestern United States.www.hydro.mb.ca
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Oct 9, 2026
Brett McGarryHOST
7:48, The Couch Potatoes is on Friday nights at 11:00, Saturday mornings at 11:00, and Sunday nights at 11:00 on CJOB, or you can listen in podcast form at cjob.com or wherever you find your favorite podcasts.[upbeat music] And now we wanna continue the discussion on work-life balance.
Brett McGarryHOST
Couple of days ago, Jim Toth sort of kicked this off, talking about, uh, remote work and how Manitoba Hydro workers who had the ability to work from home have been, uh, forced back into the office more days a week.
Brett McGarryHOST
[smacks lips] And we were just wondering about the question, like, is that a good thing? Is that a bad thing? Kind of led to sort of general discussions about work-life balance.
Brett McGarryHOST
And, uh, and we, and we know...
Stan HigginsGUEST
So, you know, we're working for Shell and Enbridge here locally.
Stan HigginsGUEST
We work a lot with Manitoba Hydro.
Stan HigginsGUEST
We do a lot of telecoms work.
Stan HigginsGUEST
We continue to do a lot of First Nations projects.
Dan AberhartHOST
Who knows the four elements of the predictive index on the call? 'Cause I had this eureka moment.
Dan AberhartHOST
I'd be terrible at Manitoba Hydro.
Dan AberhartHOST
Athena, are you gonna help me out here?
AthenaUNKNOWN
here?They're dominance, extroversion, patience, and formality.
Dan AberhartHOST
Yeah, just give it to me.
Dan AberhartHOST
Give it to me.
Dan AberhartHOST
Look up my test and tell me the results as, as related to working at Manitoba Hydro.
Dan AberhartHOST
How would I do?
Shadoe DavisGUEST
That's the first time, Sean, that I had recognized how people will respond emotionally, like really recognized, before COVID, how people will respond emotionally before they think through something logically, right? And then of course that, that little instance came to my brain every single time I saw their, the emotional reaction, fear with COVID, and now with this elbows up nonsense, and everything in between.
Shadoe DavisGUEST
I went, "Wow." Because none of them could explain it to me except for saying, "People are from there." I said, "So what? You know there's a town called Powervu out on Lac du Bonnet that closed down because Winnipeg Hydro merged with Manitoba Hydro and was no longer necessary, so they closed it.
Shadoe DavisGUEST
It's a ghost town.
Shadoe DavisGUEST
It's an hour and a half from here.