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Pandemic expected to hamper Manitoba tourism with a 3-year hangover
Manitoba's tourism industry is not expected to fully recover from the COVID-19 pandemic until 2024, thanks to greatly reduced international visits and a lingering aversion to travel in general, the Conference Board of Canada projects.
Gym owners call pandemic-support program unfit for business
On Monday, Manitoba topped up the funding for its Safe at Home grant program, which pays artists, non-profit organizations and some businesses and to provide free virtual programming.
COVID-19 'vaccine passports' could be abused in Manitoba, legal experts warn
Legal experts warn Manitoba must ensure COVID-19 immunization cards won't be used to discriminate against people in the workplace, at gathering places or anywhere else within the province when the wallet-sized documents are made available this spring.
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Lessons from Pauingassi: How a variant scare at a remote First Nation can better prepare Manitoba
The unsettling prospect of a more contagious COVID virus variant reaching one of Manitoba's more remote communities focused the province's attention on the threat ahead.
Analysis
Divining Providence: The multiple aims behind Brian Pallister's vaccine gambit
Assuming Brian Pallister is aware the vaccine he just purchased may only arrive after everyone in Manitoba gets their shots, the question remains whether the premier has a different goal in mind.
Winnipeg firefighters accused of racism have been 'tried and convicted' in public: union
United Fire Fighters of Winnipeg president Alex Forrest said Friday he intends to defend four firefighters removed from active duty over allegations the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service failed to transport an Indigenous patient to hospital in October.
First Nations are exerting more control over their borders. Health care could be next
Pimicikamak is among the First Nations that have exerted more control over their borders during the pandemic. COVID-19 has turned a spotlight on the substandard state of health care in remote communities — and First Nations' desire to improve it by assuming more control of it.
As COVID-19 spreads across the north, Thompson feels the social and economic pain
As COVID-19 spreads across Manitoba's north, it's Thompson's turn to feel the pain — even though most of the new cases are elsewhere in the Northern health region.
New health minister pledges to learn from Manitoba's earlier pandemic mistakes
Manitoba's new health minister says the province is learning from mistakes made earlier in the pandemic, hints at a return of reproductive health to her portfolio and won't rule out a future run for premier.
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The Patrik Laine trade: Yet another unhappy Finnish for Winnipeg
Patrik Laine for Pierre-Luc Dubois seems to make sense for the Winnipeg Jets. But there is a bigger picture at play for Winnipeg, where professional sport plays an outsized role in the civic psyche.