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Manitoba reserves have come to the rescue of non-Indigenous people who are waiting on the sidelines of a provincial COVID-19 vaccine rollout that's one of the slowest in Canada. "For First Nations people, kinship means a lot to us," said Virginia Lukianchuk, who oversees the rollout at Sandy Bay First Nation. "It's difficult for First Nations people to tell people no." Like many reserves, Sandy Bay has offered doses to numerous non-Indigenous people who work on the reserve, and spouses of band members. It also welcomed essential workers from the neighbouring town of Amaranth, whos...

Article content It is time for more than an upgrade. The Portage District General Hospital Foundation presented to Portage la Prairie city council Monday night as a first step in the process of getting a new hospital built in the city. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. It's time for a new hospital in Portage Back to video The facility comes with a $283M price tag and 10 per cent of that number is usually covered by the community while the remaining cost is taken on by the government. Tara Pettinger, Executive director at the PDGHF, says an archite...

THE Manitoba Metis Federation has received a small shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the province, ...

Winnipeg Free Press By: Dylan Robertson THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES/John Woods Manitoba First Nation Pandemic Response Coordination Team public health lead Dr. Marcia Anderson: “We’re going to see even higher hospitalization rates in even younger First Nations people, if we don’t do something about it." OTTAWA — First Nations leaders are trying to drum up an interest in COVID-19 vaccinations and fight conspiracy theories to avoid a catastrophic third wave. OTTAWA — First Nations leaders are trying to drum up an interest in COVID-19 va...

Melanie Ferris has been encouraging community members to get their shots. (Melanie Ferris/Facebook) Article continues below advertisement ↴ Some Portage residents outside of the current vaccine eligibility groups managed to receive a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine earlier this month. In order to prevent wasting expiring Moderna vaccines, Long Plain First Nation expanded eligibility at a vaccination clinic being held at its Keeshkeemaquah Urban Reserve last week. The clinic was planned for Long Plain's on-reserve band members who live in Keeshkeemaquah Village who did not have tran...