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  WINNIPEG -- Its a tale of one province divided into two thanks to the weather. Depending on where you live in Manitoba, the weather situation could be extremely different. Winnipeg and much of southern Manitoba dealt with the first heatwave of the year. A special weather statement was issued by Environment Canada on Tuesday saying temperatures were going to hover around the 30 Celsius mark. Tuesday wasnt the only warm day, as several temperature records were set on Monday. The Arnes are...

Photograph By Thompson Citizen files Stella Locker, who died April 29 at the age of 87, and served seven consecutive terms as a city councillor, beginning in 1989 until her retirement from municipal politics in 2014, all while helping to run a business, was sometimes viewed as a person who was against everything, but the reality was more nuanced then that. The Thompson Citizen once received a letter to the editor, while Locker was still a member of council, suggesting tha...

“Most of my life, I’ve lived up north,” Larocque, who is Métis, told the Thompson Citizen in a May 11 interview. “My parents met in Churchill. I’ve lived in Wabowden, Leaf Rapids, Flin Flon, The Pas, Wanless, Thompson. The north is my home and it always has been. When I got married, I left the north and then when I came back I noticed that nothing had changed. It broke my heart to see the condition of the north when it used to be so prosperous.” In Larocque’s view, having an M...

Jeremiah Spence 21, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, robbery and failure to comply. He was remanded into custody. Just before 10 p.m. April 30, Leaf Rapids RCMP responded to a stabbing that injured a 37-year-old man. Responding officers provided first aid to the victim until emergency services arrived and he was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Investigation led to the arrest of a 17-year-old female who is charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and po...

The 19-year-old agreed with that assessment. "Yes, your honour, I agree to go to adult," he told the judge, who ordered that his sentence would be served at an adult facility. Shelley Briem, the victims mother, who lives in Thompson, said the day before the placement hearing that she was glad Judge Redhead had imposed an adult sentence on the 19-year-old man, meaning that he faces life imprisonment with no chance of parole for seven years dating from April 7, 2009, when he was arrested, charged...

The race is on for the province to nearly double its capacity and deliver 20,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses a day next month. The race is on for the province to nearly double its capacity and deliver 20,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses a day next month. In just four weeks, vaccine deliveries are expected to ramp up significantly, but on Friday, the province only had the capacity to dole out about 12,500 lifesaving shots. The Manitoba government has set a goal to give out 20,000 jabs daily in order ...

  WINNIPEG -- The province of Manitoba is planning to ramp up its vaccine capacity to deliver 20,000 doses per day in the second quarter of 2021. During a technical briefing on Wednesday, Johanu Botha, the co-lead of Manitoba’s Vaccine Implementation Task Force, said the province is preparing to bolster its vaccine rollout. Botha said the province is expecting to have a "significant increase" in vaccine supply. He said the province is getting ready to be able to deliver 1.5 million doses...

Posted: Feb 03, 2021 10:17 AM CT | Last Updated: February 3 Manitoba hopes to provide 20,000 COVID-19 vaccine shots per day from April to June.(Tyson Koschik/CBC) comments In total, that would amount to 1.5 million doses in those three months. But that hinges on vaccine supply, Johanu Botha, co-lead of the provinces vaccine implementation task force, said Wednesday. "That does remain the limiting factor," he said. "But our goal is to be prepared for the full amount of vaccine coming our way...

Northern Manitoba and the province as a whole recorded some of the lowest numbers of new COVID-19 cases in recent days Jan. 26 but the threat of a more deadlier variant now present in Canada has prompted the provincial government to bring back self-isolation requirements for people arriving in Manitoba from other provinces. Ninety-four new cases of the virus were announced by the provincial government on Tuesday, including 36 in the Northern Regional Health Authority. The largest increases in...

Photograph By Thompson Citizen files Northern Manitoba posted a triple-digit increase in new COVID-19 cases Jan. 21, accounting for more than half of all the new cases in the province and more than Winnipeg and the other three health regions combined. 105 of 198 new cases of the virus announced by the province on Thursday were in the north, with the Island Lake health district seeing 43 new cases, the Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/South Indian Lake/Leaf Rapids health district 16 ...