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Three outbreaks in Manitoba personal care homes have staff and families on high alert under the thre...

Three outbreaks in Manitoba personal care homes have staff and families on high alert under the thre...

Winnipeg Free Press Majority thought pandemic would last only six months, survey reveals By: Kevin Rollason | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Thursday, May. 6, 2021 Last Modified: 7:11 PM CDT Thursday, May. 6, 2021 | Updates Sunday will be a painful Mother's Day for Ruth Zimmerman. Her 76-year-old mother Jean died in December after contracting COVID-19 while being treated for diabetes complications at St. Boniface Hospital. How it works Click to Expand The survey of 800 Manitoba adults was conducted from April 23 to May ...

Winnipeg Free Press Public figure, private giver To most of his thousands of Twitter followers, Winnipegger Howard Wong was 'pizza Friday guy'; to others, he was an unassuming hero By: Melissa Martin  | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Monday, Mar. 15, 2021 Just after Thanksgiving, Howard Wong sent John Dobbin a message on Twitter to say he was already at the grocery store. The two had met in person once, years before, when Wong had come to take photos of a Folklorama pavilion. Mostly, they knew each other the way Wong seemed to know everyone in Winn...

  WINNIPEG -- Since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in March 2020, there has been a level of unpredictability with the disease. John Dobbin and his parents could have never predicted they would have been part of the largest COVID-19 hospital outbreak in October 2020. Dobbin's parents were hospitalized on the fifth floor of the Victoria Hospital the day after Thanksgiving for non-COVID-related infections and the COVID-19 outbreak soon followed. Mike and Gail Dobbin do everything together and they fought COVID together as well—something they almost didn't survive. "COVID almost killed ...