WARNING: The pictures and details in this article may be disturbing to some viewers. Workers at the Brady Landfill in Winnipeg made a grisly discovery last week five hens were found alive and moving among thousands of euthanized hens that had been dumped. It is not the first time this has happened. Brittany Semeniuk, the animal welfare consultant for the Winnipeg Humane Society, told CTV News the workers made the discovery on April 1, and alerted The Good Place: Farm Rescue & Sanctuary. When the workers at the landfill noted that some of the chickens were not in fact killed like they were supposed to be, they called the farm animal sanctuary who came as soon as they could to rescue these chickens, Semeniuk said.
WINNIPEG Infectious disease experts and advocates for frontline workers are calling for a revised vaccination strategy amid growing concern over the severity of more infectious COVID-19 variants in younger people. Experts who spoke to CTV News said vaccinating based on age was the right strategy to start, but they are now calling on provinces to push younger workers providing essential services closer to the front of the line. Dr. Alexander Wong, an infectious-disease physician in Regina, Sask., said a revised strategy is needed because of an increasing number of severe outcomes in younger Canadians as more transmissible variants circulate.
WINNIPEG For some Manitobans, shopping locally might be difficult depending on where they live. However, one man is hoping to make it easier to boost the reach of those local businesses. Joshua Vatnsdal, who is the owner of Prairie Flavours, is helping get that local taste to Manitobans with the help of a retrofitted ambulance. I saw (the ambulance) sitting in the field and I asked the farmer if she was willing to sell it and she agreed. It still smells like farm a little, said Vatnsdal. He is currently in the process of taking out the walls in the vehicle and setting it up to bring the food to others.
WINNIPEG A grass fire that burned in a field Monday afternoon in Charleswood was close to burning some homes in the neighbourhood, according to one resident who witnessed the fire. At approximately 2:30 p.m., Jim Macgregor and his wife Christine noticed the blaze burning in the field behind his home on Charleswood Road and Rannock Avenue. “Our living room faces the field behind us, which is west of our house, and she noticed a lot of smoke, so we rushed outside just to see what was happening,” Jim said. “There were flames all about the field, and also flames into our yard, but not quite at our house.”