Late Winnipeg artist’s husband closing studio

Late Winnipeg artist’s husband closing studio

SEVEN years after her death, the husband of Winnipeg artist Caroline Dukes is closing her studio and dispersing her remaining art works.

"It is important to me that as many of her pieces as possible remain in this city which she loved so much," said Alfred Dukes, now 86 and living in Toronto where his sons reside.

Caroline Dukes, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor, was noted for her large-scale paintings best suited for institutional settings.

However, family friend Abe Anhang says the Dukes collection also consists of primary sketches and drawings, watercolours and etchings.

Close to 5,000 net new health-care workers added since 2023 election, province says

Manitoba has added 4,725 net new health-care workers to the provincial system since the NDP won the October 2023 election, Premier Wab Kinew told reporters today.

The government’s total includes 370 doctors, 1,464 nurses, 2,152 health-care aides and 607 allied health professionals.

“We know how hard health-care workers are working right now, and we know patients are waiting too long for care,” Kinew said in a news release. “Our hospitals and front-line health-care teams are under significant pressure, and the people working in them continue to step up for Manitobans every single day.”

He said the additional workers are helping health-care teams to respond to pressure and care for more patients.

Two-time cancer survivor trades blows with angry Lake Winnipeg in epic 12-hour fundraising swim

After 12 hours of wind, waves and a painful shoulder, Jonathon Fenton has finished what he started, making it across Lake Winnipeg.

The 62-year-old two-time cancer survivor completed the roughly 26-kilometre swim Sunday, a year after shoulder problems forced him to stop 16 kilometres into his first attempt.

The swim was the second year of Fenton’s Jonny’s Big Swim fundraiser, which supports the Alberta Cancer Foundation, CancerCare Manitoba Foundation and Health Sciences Centre Foundation.

He raised roughly $48,000 this year, bringing the two-year total to about $90,000.

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Shelters overwhelmed as rising vet costs forcing some owners to surrender pets

In the fall of 2022, Tara Miller was faced with a difficult decision: keep her car or sell it to pay for a second knee surgery for her dog.

Ultimately, she needed her car to commute during the winter and decided to manage her dog Corby’s arthritis with medication and home therapy.

“Mentally it probably broke me,” said the 54-year-old.

While insurance covered two-thirds of the dog’s initial $6,000 surgery, Miller had to pay the remaining $2,000. That was on top of the $500 checkup before the surgery and the monthly $175 pet insurance premium.