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(Winnipeg Free Press)Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief public health officer.
COVID-19 crisis: Manitoba’s chief public health officer will give an update on the latest coronavirus numbers at a news conference. With COVID-19 numbers spiking, Dr. Brent Roussin will be holding briefings every weekday instead of three days per week. Manitoba reported a record five-day positivity rate of 13 per cent Monday, as well as 392 new cases and 10 deaths. Danielle Da Silva reports. READ MORE
Few flu cases: Canada is seeing “exceptionally low” levels of influenza this fall despite testing more than twice as many people as usual. Dr. Gerald Evans, chair of infectious disease in the department of medicine at Queen’s University, said preventive measures taken against the spread of COVID-19, and a decrease in travel, are the reasons for the decrease. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Pandemic poll: A growing number of Canadians said they would get inoculated after encouraging news from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s vaccine trial, a new poll found. Sixty-nine per cent of respondents said they plan to get vaccinated, an increase of four per cent from one month earlier. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
Info on inner-city shooting: The Winnipeg Police Service is expected to release more information about a shooting that took place near Isabel Street and Elgin Avenue on Monday afternoon. READ MORE
Tapped for Biden’s team: U.S. president-elect Joe Biden is expected to announce key members of his future White House staff. Sources told The Associated Press former campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon will serve as a deputy chief of staff, and campaign co-chairman Rep. Cedric Richmond and campaign adviser Steve Ricchetti will play senior roles. READ MORE
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Mike Sudoma / Winnipeg Free PressShoppers stream in and out of a Walmart as they shop during the code red lockdown in Winnipeg on Monday.
‘Unfair playing field’: Allowing large stores to sell essential and non-essential items while smaller businesses are forced to close “doesn’t make sense,” the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says. Temur Durrani reports. READ MORE
Coronavirus course: The Free Press sat in on an anthropology course about COVID-19 being taught at the University of Manitoba. The class of fewer than 20 students has studied past pandemics, read about anti-lockdown rallies and done research into how people have been coping during the crisis. Maggie Macintosh reports.
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‘Mistakes’ made in Manitoba: Federal Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller suggested Monday that the Manitoba government made errors in preparing northern communities for a second wave of the coronavirus. “I’m facing this in Manitoba — needing to work with the provincial government, knowing that mistakes have been made with respect to the second wave,” he said. “Opaskwayak Cree Nation is an example of that. We need the regional health authorities to be stepping up, and we’re there to help.” Danielle Da Silva and Dylan Robertson report. READ MORE
Parents pen open letter: Hundreds of Manitoba parents have signed an open letter demanding the provincial government use $85 million in federal funding to keep schools safe during the pandemic. Kellen Taniguchi reports. READ MORE
Affordable housing proposal: A new City of Winnipeg report calls on council to explore creating tax incentives and waiving parking requirements to increase affordable housing builds. Joyanne Pursaga reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Nov. 17, 1964: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that British prime minister Harold Wilson sided with the United States and against French president Charles de Gaulle over the future of the North Atlantic alliance; Wilson, having recently taken office as prime minister, categorically rejected the prospect of a separate European nuclear deterrent. In Minneapolis, two Winnipeg coin dealers were charged with smuggling about $6,400 worth of coins and commemorative medals into the United States without paying roughly $2,000 in duty; the men had originally been arrested in August.
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