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Posted: Apr 19, 2021 4:00 AM CT | Last Updated: April 19 Pimicikamak, also known as Cross Lake Cree Nation, doled out extra vaccine doses to hundreds outside the community last week.(Evan Mitsui/CBC) In Thompson, Man., almost every teacher is now at least partially vaccinated against COVID-19 after a nearby First Nation shared hundreds of extra doses with people outside the community last week. Educators and front-line workers, including police officers, were among those surprised with a chanc...

Police were notified around 9:30 p.m. Sunday about the injured man by a 23-year-old snowmobiler who had been with the injured man and another man aged 60 when the eldest one got injured. The 23-year-old had ridden to Split Lake to summon help while the other two men remained at a cabin near Dafoe Lake as the injured man could not make the trip to Split Lake. Though the man was not alone and in a cabin with supplies, offices determined that he needed medical assistance immediately. The injure...

Winnipeg Free Press By: Shirley Ducharme and Doreen Spence Posted: Photo credit: Michael Tyas The Missi Falls Control Structure, which raises the level of Manitoba’s fourth-largest lake by three metres. The provincial government will soon decide whether to disregard our wishes and grant Manitoba Hydro a final licence for the Churchill River Diversion, a project that diverts up to 95 per cent of the fl...

Photograph By Ramsey Cook Photograph By Ramsey Cook Photograph By Ramsey Cook Ramsey Cook determining some species-specific measurements with a caliper in the Wildlife Management Lab at the University College of the North campus in The Pas. Photograph By Ramsey Cook Tansi! My name is Ramsey Cook and I am from Split Lake. I belong to Tataskweyak Cree Nation. It was here my grandparents Eve and Joseph Keeper and my u...

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Nancy from Split Lake. (Give the Word/Facebook) Article continues below advertisement ↴ A prayer warrior from Split Lake is rejoicing as over 800 children in her community are receiving their very own Bibles. "We had a lady from Arborg contact us and just said she had a friend named Nancy up in Split Lake who has a huge heart for the children in her community. Nancy and a couple of other women pray regularly for the kids there," says Ryan Rempel at Give the Word.  There are roughly 860...

Eight of the new northern cases announced Monday came from the Island Lake health district, while two were from Thompson and one each were from the Sayisi Dene/Tadoule/Barren Lands/Brochet/Northlands/Lac Brochet and The Pas/Opaskwayak/Kelsey health districts. There have now been 4,149 positive tests for COVID-19 in the Northern Regional Health Authority (NRHA) since the pandemic began. 718 of those cases are currently considered active. Public health was able to recategorize a number of cases...

Over the weekend, 1,816 northern Manitobans were considered as active COVID-19 cases. On Monday, thanks to a jump in validating old COVID-19 cases as recovered, that number dropped to 718.

The Flin Flon health district is back to three active cases of COVID-19, while cases in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan remain at high levels.

The district that saw the most new cases was the Thompson/Mystery Lake district, where 35 new cases were reported overnight. Accounting for recoveries, the district has jumped from 89 active cases Tuesday to 106 active cases Wednesday. Since the pandemic began, 594 people in the Thompson district have tested positive. The north remains Manitobas COVID-19 hotspot, due in large part to persisting outbreaks in the Island Lake and Shamattawa/York Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake district. The Isla...