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Re: Giant Tiger to close downtown store (July 31); Giant Tiger decision creates giant void for desperate population downtown (Aug. 1)

The recently announced November closing of the Giant Tiger store at Donald Street and Ellice Avenue is cause for some alarm. As a self-described community-focused, family discount store, the grocery and clothing chain has become an important part of Winnipeg’s downtown fabric, catering to, in Niigaan Sinclair’s words, “… people living less-privileged lives: people working low-paying jobs; those with no fixed address and the homeless population…”

Other existing downtown shopping options have anecdotally been described as too expensive and unaffordable.

Louise Bridge rehab out for tender

The initial phase of construction on the aging Louise Bridge is moving forward.

The city is seeking bids to rehabilitate the important transportation link’s substructure and stabilize the riverbank around it.

A new document to tender the project notes the city has budgeted about $12.7 million for that work.

BRANDON — The health minister has acknowledged short staffing has created problems at the Brandon hospital emergency department.

“This is, I would say, a long-standing challenge and it’s also a national challenge. We know that there’s a national shortage of ED physicians,” Uzoma Asagwara told the Brandon Sun Tuesday.

The province is tackling the problem from “every possible angle,” including by offering financial incentives, they said.

“That incentive has … helped to stabilize the commitment of baseline hours for doctors in Brandon’s emergency department and it’s also resulted in an additional 700 (annual) hours being added to the schedule,” Asagwara said.