WINNIPEG – Premier Brian Pallister gave a COVID-19 enforcement update this morning. A total of 202 warnings and 100 tickets worth $181,574 in fines were issued last week. That’s up from $126,082 the week before. Last week’s tickets include: • 22 $5,000 tickets to businesses for various offences; • 48 $1,296 tickets to individuals for…
COVID Kills Young Too
WINNIPEG – Manitoba has reported a seven-day average of 11 deaths due to COVID-19 and 392 new cases of the virus every day, nearly three weeks after strict new public gathering and business restrictions were implemented in the province. While nearly all of the most recent deaths are related to outbreaks at personal care homes,…
Numbers Stabilize
WINNIPEG – The province’s chief public health officer says although the COVID-19 numbers aren’t exactly dropping, the restrictions introduced in Manitoba almost three weeks ago have kept the number of daily new cases from skyrocketing as officials feared they would. Dr. Brent Roussin says an earlier projection expected as many as 1000 new cases every…
2nd MPI Rebate
WINNIPEG – Just like in April, Manitoba Public Insurance is issuing another rebate. The province says policyholders will get on average about $100, although that still needs to be approved by the Public Utilities Board. MPI says the rebate which should be in the mail by the end of this month or early January is…
Young Night Hunter Busted
WINNIPEG – A 17 year old from Beausejour is accused of illegal night hunting. Conservation officers observed a truck with its headlights on in a field in the Mars Hills area late Friday night. The pickup was then pulled over on Highway 11. The teen driver was arrested with two rifles, ammunition and a whitetail…
Church Violates COVID Order
WINNIPEG – While one church in Winnipeg held a drive-in service on the weekend, another near Steinbach was prevented from doing so by RCMP. Hundreds of cars packed the parking lot at Springs Church on Saturday night. Police were on hand but there’s no word yet whether tickets were written. Mounties and their cruisers prevented…
Deaths Top 300
WINNIPEG – The provincial death toll from COVID-19 has hit 301. One of the 21 people who died on the weekend was a boy under 10 years old. That’s the youngest Manitoban to be killed by the virus. The province also announced 852 new cases of coronavirus on the weekend. Over half of them are…
RCMP Warn Churchgoers
WINNIPEG – The Mounties are reminding people, especially in the Steinbach area, that large gatherings of any kind are against current public health orders. The RCMP say in a statement that all places of worship must be closed and drive-in religious services aren’t permitted right now, even if people remain in their vehicles at all…
Hospital Moves To Care Home
WINNIPEG – A small hospital in western Manitoba has temporarily closed so its staff can focus on a nearby long-term care facility. The Prairie Mountain Health Authority says 18-bed Grandview Health Centre is closed until further notice as hospital staff and resources are being deployed to contain a COVID-19 outbreak at Grandview Personal Care Home,…
‘Loved Ones’ Dying
WINNIPEG – Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin says 70 per cent of the total COVID-19 deaths that have happened in Manitoba have happened in November as the rate of infection shows little sign of slowing down. Dr. Roussin says there have been more than 180 COVID-19-related deaths in November so far, up from…