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Today’s must-read
The number of patients entering RAAM clinics in Manitoba has spiked as the drug crisis escalates, even as strained resources have kept the number from ballooning even further.
The number of visits to the clinics more than tripled from 2020 to 2025 — to 28,476 from 8,496. The number of RAAM clinics has also increased by one to seven.
There was a slight decrease in overall visits to the addictions treatment centres from 2024 to 2025. Provincewide, the number dropped to 28,476 from 28,523. Gabrielle Piché has the story.
The number of patients entering RAAM clinics in Manitoba more than tripled between 2020 and 2025 — from 8,496 to 28,476. (Mikaeal MacKenzie / Free Press files)
On the bright side
Retired nurse Helen Cooper has spent the last 20-plus years volunteering at arts organizations and festivals throughout the city.
Her longest ongoing role is with the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival, where for more than two decades she took on various roles before becoming a team leader.
She’s helped out at Manitoba Theatre for Young People for 12 years, is a regular choir host during Manitoba Choral Society’s ChoralFest every autumn and recently started volunteering at Prairie Theatre Exchange, where she’s been the cashier at the café, scanned tickets and greeted theatregoers at the door, among other duties. AV Kitching has more here.
Volunteering has given Helen Cooper the opportunity to meet, socialize and contribute with like-minded people. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On May 11, 1925: The Manitoba Free Press reported a Transcona man died after being shot by his friend with a rifle; police believed the death to be accidental. Saskatchewan’s fifth legislature was dissolved and an election was called; premier Charles Dunning vowed to pursue a provincial electric power plan, as well as to partner with Manitoba to pursue the completion of the Hudson Bay railway line.
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