WINNIPEG – An outside review of what happened at Maples personal care home is finished. Dr. Lynn Stevenson, a former deputy health minister in BC, has made 17 recommendations and the province promises to implement all of them. She says there was a pandemic plan in place at Maples but the home wasn’t prepared for…
Pandemic Artifacts Wanted
WINNIPEG – The Manitoba Museum says it’s on the hunt for modern materials that can help preserve history in the making, and everyone in the province could have a future artifact without knowing it. Historians there are asking for donations of things that can help tell the now unfolding story of Manitoba’s COVID-19 experience long…
City Considers Algae Fix
WINNIPEG – City Hall is considering a $10.5 million capital project – that comes with a more than $2 million annual operating price tag – in a search for solutions to the city’s phosphorus problem. The proposed processing concept is in response to algae infestation on Lake Winnipeg fed by the chemical after sewage treatment…
COVID Survey Time Again
WINNIPEG – Premier Brian Pallister and Dr. Brent Roussin are once again asking Manitobans to weigh in on loosening the current COVID-19 restrictions which expire February 12th. You can take the survey here. The province is considering the following changes: • allowing food services, including restaurants and lounges, to reopen at 25 per cent capacity…
2 Deaths, 109 Cases
WINNIPEG – The province is reporting two deaths today from COVID-19. There are 109 new cases of the virus. 3,340 cases are active, 25,791 people have recovered, for a total of 29,968 cases so far. 264 Manitobans are in hospital right now, 36 of them in the ICU. The five day test positivity rate in…
Lotto 6/49 Winning Numbers
WINNIPEG – Here are the Lotto 6/49 winning numbers from Wednesday, February 3rd. Good luck! The $8.7 million jackpot wasn’t won so Saturday’s draw will rise to $12 million. In the event of any discrepancy between this information and the WCLC, the latter shall prevail. Photos: WCLC
Lotto Max Winning Numbers
WINNIPEG – Here are the Lotto Max winning numbers from Tuesday, February 2nd. Good luck! The $25 million jackpot wasn’t won so Friday’s draw will rise to $30 million. In the event of any discrepancy between this information and the WCLC, the latter shall prevail. Photos: WCLC
CUPE Official Resigns
WINNIPEG – The president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Manitoba has resigned, and its board of directors replaced by an administrator, as police investigate allegations of sexual assault. Abe Araya was arrested in Winnipeg on January 21 after the Brandon Police Service issued a warrant in connection with an investigation that was opened…
Free Bus Service?
WINNIPEG – The city is looking at free Winnipeg Transit for all. Councillor Vivian Santos’ motion asking administration to develop no fare bus program has been passed unanimously at the community committee level and it now goes to the standing policy committee on infrastructure renewal and public works. She says her idea would break socioeconomic…
Report: Racial Bias At WFPS
WINNIPEG – All Winnipeg Fire Paramedic staff will undergo more education and training after an outside investigator discovered implicit racial bias in the service. According to a leaked report, two firefighters failed to help with a badly hurt Indigenous woman after repeated requests from a paramedic. The paramedic is also a person of colour and…