Manitoba expects the number of COVID-19 patients in its intensive care units to exceed the peak of the second wave by the end of the May long weekend, and that number could double again before summer, modelling suggests.A look down the hallway of a restricted COVID-19 unit at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre late last year.…
First Nations leaders in Manitoba are racing to vaccinate 100,000 people in 100 days to avoid complications with melting ice roads in the spring, and fire season in the summer.The vaccination clinic in Pimicikamak/Cross Lake, Man., can handle up to 1,000 people a day. (Cameron MacIntosh/CBC)First Nations leaders in Manitoba are racing against an early spring melt…
A massive overhaul of Manitoba’s education system will concentrate almost all of the province’s elected school boards and hand much of the decision-making power to a new authority appointed by the province.The Manitoba government plans to eliminate elected school boards, under a bill now in second reading before the legislature. (Jeff Stapleton/CBC)A massive overhaul of Manitoba’s…
A First Nation in northern Manitoba will be receiving military aid to battle its COVID-19 outbreak, the community’s chief told CBC News.Members of the Canadian Armed Forces, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Inc. visited Pimicikamak, also known as Cross Lake First Nation, last weekend to assess how best to help the COVID-19…
COVID-19 continues to disproportionately affect Indigenous people in Manitoba, with 625 new cases and 11 deaths among First Nations people with the illness in the past week, officials said Friday.A gymnasium in Shamattawa First Nation has been set up with cots as the Red Cross helps the fly-in community amid surging COVID-19 numbers. As of Friday,…
On a Nov. 11 when Canadians were urged to mark Remembrance Day at home to avoid the novel coronavirus, confirmed cases of COVID-19 continued to surge, with Ontario setting a new record for daily cases and Manitoba setting a new record for deaths.A man reads a headstone at the field of honour for fallen Canadian…
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister vows to ramp up COVID-19 enforcement and says his government is giving “serious consideration” to imposing a curfew.Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister spoke to media Monday about new COVID-19 restrictions his government is mulling, including the possibility of a curfew. (John Woods/The Canadian Press)Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is vowing to ramp up…
The time is now for a provincewide shutdown due to surging COVID-19 numbers straining the health-care system, over a dozen Manitoba doctors say.Dr. Anand Kumar is an ICU attending physician for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority and a professor of medicine at the University of Manitoba. (John Woods/The Canadian Press)The time is now for a provincewide…