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Airliner loaded with Canadian residents shot down by Iran
Workers search the crash site of a commercial airliner that was shot down by the Iranian military after taking off from Tehran on Jan. 8. (Ebrahim Noroozi / The Associated Press files)
It’s better not to think of the last moments of Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752, climbing away from Tehran in the early morning hours of Jan. 8. It’s better not to think about what the passengers must have felt and thought when the first missile struck, followed 23 seconds later by a second and, then, a final, fatal plunge.
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Whiteland Developers CEO Paul Jhand (front) and president Sam Sidhu. Whiteland is investing $65 million into the development of InksPort, a new 68-acre business park at CentrePort. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
It’s a tough time to make any predictions about the future, but Paul Jhand and Sam Sidhu of local firm Whiteland Developers are pretty confident in one prognostication: Manitoba’s industrial real estate sector will perform well in 2021, just as it has throughout the pandemic-riddled 2020.
It’s a tough time to make any predictions about the future, but Paul Jhand and Sam Sidhu of local firm Whiteland Developers are pretty confident in one prognostication: Manitoba’s industrial real estate sector will perform well in 2021, just as it has throughout the pandemic-riddled 2020.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Dan Lett | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Friday, Dec. 18, 2020
Opinion
When Manitoba finally bends the curve on this second, tragic outbreak of COVID-19, will we have finally learned our lesson?
When Manitoba finally bends the curve on this second, tragic outbreak of COVID-19, will we have finally learned our lesson?
It s too early to say that we are, in fact, bending the curve. Total daily case counts appear to the naked eye to be somewhat lower, but that s largely an optical illusion; our test positivity and fatalities per capita are still extremely high. Manitoba continues to register at the high end of pandemic metrics on a global basis.
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The city was forced to make some tough financial decisions in 2020, Mayor Brian Bowman says. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
If Mayor Brian Bowman could change Winnipeg’s pandemic response thus far, he would try to add a face mask mandate earlier.
If Mayor Brian Bowman could change Winnipeg’s pandemic response thus far, he would try to add a face mask mandate earlier.
During a wide-ranging year-end interview with the
Free Press, the mayor said he now believes putting that restriction in place earlier in the summer may have helped better prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The Spencers work from home, only leave for essential errands, and in the spring, shrank their family of four s bubble.
The Spencers work from home, only leave for essential errands, and in the spring, shrank their family of four s bubble.
They ve done everything right and followed all the provincially mandated rules but they still contracted COVID-19.
The Spencers not their real name, to protect their children’s privacy decided they would not take additional risks when the school year began on Sept. 8, knowing their circle would grow to an unknown extent.
They swapped visits with grandparents, dinner parties and extracurricular activities for their children’s education and well-being in public school.