Referee loses job after breaking COVID-19 travel restrictions to officiate UFC fight
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MMA referee Jerin Valel got in some trouble when he returned home to Manitoba, Canada after a stint officiating UFC 260 in Las Vegas last month. Valel, a civil servent with the provincial government, had travelled to Vegas despite a travel ban imposed on government employees on February 1 (per
The ban was instituted after a number of civil servants were caught going on vacation despite the government’s insistence that people only travel for essential trips during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Can you put a price on political pandering? If you re Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister, it adds up to a cool $1.3 million.
Can you put a price on political pandering? If you re Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister, it adds up to a cool $1.3 million.
Extensively reported Wednesday, the just-tabled 2021-22 provincial budget includes a controversial plan to send $190 million in education property tax rebate cheques to the owners of 658,000 tax-paying properties.
What was not included in the budget was the cost of physically mailing out the cheques.
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Winnipeg woman Sara Corrigan says she is chronic pain while she waits for surgery. Corrigan organized a rally outside the women s hospital at the Health Sciences Centre Saturday. (Austin Grabish/CBC)
Sara Corrigan says she feels like she s giving birth without an epidural every single day.
The 37-year-old electronic music artist was supposed to have a hysterectomy last November, but the operation was postponed until later this month when hospital staff were redeployed to take care of patients sick with COVID-19. I ve given birth naturally twice. I know what childbirth feels like, she said at a small rally she organized outside the women s hospital at Health Sciences Centre Saturday. I m in the hospital almost monthly.
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