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A senior Manitoba civil servant has been disciplined for failing to comply with a government directive against non-essential travel.
A senior Manitoba civil servant has been disciplined for failing to comply with a government directive against non-essential travel.
Jerin Valel, the province s director of technology transformation, travelled to Las Vegas in March to referee at a Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts event.
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Premier Brian Pallister, left, at the Manitoba Legislative building with Jerin Valel, Director of technology and transformation, priorities and planning secretariat March 23, 2020.
In February, Premier Brian Pallister issued a directive barring government appointees from travelling for leisure purposes outside permitted areas.
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As few as 40 per cent of people working with some of the province s most vulnerable people residents of personal care homes are vaccinated against COVID-19.
As few as 40 per cent of people working with some of the province s most vulnerable people residents of personal care homes are vaccinated against COVID-19.
Care home administrators and the organization that represents many such facilities in the province are trying to persuade Manitoba s vaccine task force to let the same nurses looking after residents give shots to fellow staff members.
Jan Legeros, executive director of the Long Term & Continuing Care Association of Manitoba, said the group is hearing from member facilities that between 40 to 45 per cent of care home staff have been vaccinated.
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THE headlines generated from the Pallister government’s latest economic blueprint last week were largely focused on tax cuts. What it should be considered, however, is its considerable financial commitment to improving the province’s health-care system.
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THE headlines generated from the Pallister government’s latest economic blueprint last week were largely focused on tax cuts. What it should be considered, however, is its considerable financial commitment to improving the province’s health-care system.
This is not a misprint.
Despite the narrative from opposition parties that health-care funding has been frozen by a cruel and heartless government, Mantoba’s 2021 budget makes historic investments in our health-care system. One needs to look no further than Manitoba’s Clinical and Preventive Services Plan and the investments planned for its implem
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Manitoba civil servant loses title after premier learns he travelled to Las Vegas to referee UFC match
A senior Manitoba civil servant was stripped of his assistant deputy minister title after Premier Brian Pallister learned he travelled to Las Vegas to referee a UFC match, but the government refuses to say whether the employee had been granted permission for the travel.
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