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This article was published 17/2/2015 (2041 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

Manitoba continues to be one of the more giving provinces in Canada.

The latest report from Statistics Canada says that on a per capita basis, more Manitobans donated to charity in 2013 than any other province in the country. The reports found that 25.3 per cent of Manitobans claimed charitable donations through their tax filings that year, slightly more than Prince Edward Island (24.1 per cent) and Saskatchewan (23.4 per cent).

Manitoba benevolence actually increased from 2012 to 2013, up 0.7 per cent. The Keystone province was one of the few provinces that saw the number of donations go up from the previous year.

Canada saw its total donations drop one per cent from 2012 to 2013, the report says.

In terms of actual dollars, the total donation amount in the country rose 3.5 per cent to a whopping $8.6 billion. The largest increases were in Prince Edward Island (7.5 per cent), Manitoba (6.0 per cent) and Alberta (5.9 per cent).

The median donation in Manitoba in 2013 was $390, well above the national average ($280).

On a city level, Winnipeg continued to be among the leaders in the charitable donation game in 2013.

Only Ottawa (27.2 per cent) saw more people on a per capita basis give to charity than Winnipeg, which came in at (26.6 per cent).