UK: 43,000 may have received false negative COVID results

DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: For years I had a big crush on my older sister’s hot-looking best friend who was often over at our house. My sister found out about my crush and told me, “I’ll kill you, if you go after my friend!” I was crushed at the time, and kept my distance, although I still had erotic dreams about that girl a lot.

This fall my sister is going to university out of province, and her friend is still here in Winnipeg, going to the same college as I am. I ran into her recently at a mall. She looked me up and down and said, “Wow!” Was she teasing me like a little boy or was she actually flirting with me now my sister’s out of the way?

More importantly, do I need my sister’s permission to ask out this friend of hers now she lives in Ontario? Please help!

— Still Awkward, But Interested, North Kildonan

A property listing from Niverville is worth a close look. It covers 25,000 square feet, has a 40-foot clear-span ceiling rated at 36 tons, 2,400 amps of power, radiant heat in the concrete, pre-cast walls, and four acres situated at the intersection of Wallace Road and Provincial Road 311. The advertisement states that it’s brand new and asks $9.5 million.

This is Jette Studios, and it has never hosted a single production.

Three years ago Julijette and Volume Global announced a private investment of $30 million aimed at setting up a studio village in phases, which was to create as many as 300 jobs. The local member of the legislative assembly referred to Niverville as the Hollywood of the north. The province had already committed $40.6 million to infrastructure in and around the town and then, in April, pledged an additional $10 million for road work on the grounds that it would lead to a smoother drive to the studio. The building opened in the spring and was put up for sale on August 16.

It has not been made public why the property is for sale, and it would be unfair to speculate about the finances of a private company from outside. However, there is a reasonable question underlying this situation, and it goes beyond just one building: given all the public money that has been spent, what does Manitoba actually own?

DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My husband, who earns a hefty income, stayed in the city most of the summer working, except for a few long weekends with the kids and me at the cottage. He has giant work projects that need daily tending.

I work hard, too, with our four kids, two dogs and a cat. But I have to tell you I got a shock last week after coming home to organize my family team for a thorough cleaning of our three-storey home.

You’ll never guess what they found up in the attic — hidden boxes of sexy women’s lingerie that all looks brand-new.

I’ve kept my mouth shut so far, but my mind is spinning.

LONDON (AP) — British health officials said Friday that 43,000 people may have been wrongly told they don’t have the coronavirus because of problems at a private laboratory.

The U.K. Health Security Agency said the Immensa Health Clinic Ltd. lab in the central England city of Wolverhampton has been suspended from processing swabs after the false negatives.

Will Welfare, the agency’s public health incident director, said it was working “to determine the laboratory technical issues” behind the inaccurate tests.

The issue was uncovered after some people who were positive for COVID-19 when they took rapid tests went on to show up as negative on more accurate PCR tests.