The Manitoba Dental Association is investigating after a 23-year-old woman from the Morden-Winkler area died following a dental appointment late last month. The organization says at this point they don’t have all the information adding, a tragedy like this is rare.
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The search for the remains of two Indigenous women at a Winnipeg area landfill has entered Phase 4 – sifting through materials in a targeted zone. Some items found indicate the correct date range and time. It’s believed the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, the victims of a serial killer, were taken to Prairie Green landfill in 2022.
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Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has promised that nobody will be jailed for having tuberculosis again. He was reacting to a CBC report about a woman from God’s Lake First Nation who spent a month in custody at the Women’s Correctional Centre near Winnipeg. Under the law, Geraldine Mason was detained for allegedly not consistently taking her TB meds, and posing a health threat to others.
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Manitoba has the second-highest rate of HIV infections in the country, and the Public Health Agency of Canada says injection drug use is the most common risk factor. The province, meantime, says it’s invested over
$8-million to increase access to care and to promote HIV awareness.
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The Assembly of First Nations is hosting a special chiefs assembly in Ottawa today. On the agenda – child welfare, economic reconciliation and First Nations policing. They’ll also discuss calls for a national inquiry into systemic racism in policing.
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Ottawa is thinking about giving additional powers to the Canada Border Services Agency to patrol the U-S Border. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says the RCMP and CBSA are also working on a list of new equipment. In-coming U-S president Donald Trump has threatened hefty tariffs on Canadian imports to secure the border.
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The Canada Post strike has cost small-and-medium-sized businesses more than three quarters of a billion dollars – this from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. Key issues for striking workers include a push to expand parcel deliveries into the weekend, benefits and wages. No new talks have been scheduled yet.
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The Bank of Montreal believes the country’s ‘Vibecession’ will end next year. They say monetary policies and a manageable decline in population should do the trick. ‘Vibecession’ is when Canadians are not feeling the good economic news when they continue to struggle with high grocery, rent and mortgage costs.
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Three lottery tickets sold in the province were winners last weekend – and one of them, a $25,000 6/49 SuperDraw prize, was sold in rural Manitoba. The other two winning tickets, worth $25,000 and one million dollars, were purchased in Winnipeg.
