Editorial
More than half of eligible Manitobans are now double-dosed. While the COVID-19 vaccination rates are cause for celebration, the way we got here is not.
More than half of eligible Manitobans are now double-dosed. While the COVID-19 vaccination rates are cause for celebration, the way we got here is not.
Manitoba’s vaccine task force appears to have failed to account for race-based risk factors when determining vaccination eligibility, likely leading to higher hospitalizations and worse outcomes for residents who are Black, Indigenous or people of colour, according to data released last week.
During the third wave of the pandemic, intensive-care admission rates were more than four times higher for BIPOC communities than for white residents. Racialized patients were also 10 years younger, on average, than their white counterparts and many were not yet eligible for a vaccine an indication of the shortcomings of a rollout based on age alone.
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School in July? Best summer ever!
Catching up or getting ahead, teens grateful to be back in class with other students and real, live teachers Save to Read Later
Summer break was underway and yet, for the first time in a long time, Anne Santos was eagerly getting ready to go to science class a welcome slice of normalcy for the 17 year old, even if it meant studying in a stuffy school building in July.
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Summer break was underway and yet, for the first time in a long time, Anne Santos was eagerly getting ready to go to science class a welcome slice of normalcy for the 17 year old, even if it meant studying in a stuffy school building in July.
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It s Wednesday afternoon at Birds Hill Provincial Park. The temperature is 20 degrees, with a cool breeze sweeping over the grounds of the Winnipeg Folk Festival.
It s Wednesday afternoon at Birds Hill Provincial Park. The temperature is 20 degrees, with a cool breeze sweeping over the grounds of the Winnipeg Folk Festival.
Chris Frayer and Lynne Skromeda both know it: the campers should be setting up right now, settling in to hear songs they’ve heard a hundred times and ones they’ve never heard before. The not-so-calm before the… well, storm is the wrong word. Before the commotion.
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A new study found more Manitobans were hospitalized at a greater number than other provinces during the third wave. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
The intense pressure of COVID-19 on Manitoba’s hospital system which forced 57 critically ill patients out of province for care was greater than all its western peers, leaving officials trying to understand why.
The intense pressure of COVID-19 on Manitoba’s hospital system which forced 57 critically ill patients out of province for care was greater than all its western peers, leaving officials trying to understand why.
Last month, as the third pandemic curve was trending downward, Manitoba public health reached out to federal counterparts at the Public Health Agency of Canada with a question: Was the proportion of COVID-19 cases in Manitoba requiring hospital care greater than what was seen in other provinces?
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Praising colonizers, racist dog-whistling a blow to reconciliation, say stunned Indigenous leaders, historians, politicians By: Dylan Robertson | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Wednesday, Jul. 7, 2021 Save to Read Later
Premier Brian Pallister might want to take a class in Canadian history after suggesting that colonizers did not mean to destroy Indigenous societies.
Premier Brian Pallister might want to take a class in Canadian history after suggesting that colonizers did not mean to destroy Indigenous societies. The people who came here, to this country before it was a country, and since, didn’t come here to destroy anything they came here to build, Pallister told reporters Wednesday, reading from pre-written notes.