Manitoba Task Force News Today

Fresh off a real deployment to the B.C. Southern Interior, members of a top Canadian search-and-rescue team are in Penticton this week for training.

The fastest growth in overall cases has been found in the Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/Leaf Rapids/O-Pipon-Na-Piwin/Granville Lake district, where a whopping 57 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in provincial data Jan. 14, bringing the region up to 144 active cases. Help may soon be on the way for the remote community, about 240 kilometres almost due north of Flin Flon. The Town of Lynn Lake announced Jan. 13 that members of Manitoba Task Force Four, a provincial emergency response team from th...