The Wrap: Ethics complaint, critical health incidents, searching for missing people, life in Ukraine and a NoLo drinks shop takes off

NDP caucus chair Mike Moyes filed complaints with Ethics Commissioner Jeffrey Schnoor against Progressive Conservative Leader Heather Stefanson and former cabinet minister Jeff Wharton.

Moyes said the complaint asks Schnoor to investigate the two MLAs for corruption, for putting their own interests ahead of Manitobans’ and for violating the Conflict of Interest Act in an alleged attempt to get a proposed silica sand mine approved while the party was on the way out of office.

A quarterly report on critical incidents in Manitoba’s health system was published Friday.

It includes 10 deaths and 31 other incidents that resulted in serious and unintended harm to people using health-care services between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2022.

The document, which is short on details, identifies multiple incidents in which patients experienced delays in diagnosis and treatment, or where opportunities for earlier intervention were not recognized or realized.

The Bear Clan assists in locating hundreds of missing people annually, acting as a liaison between families, communities and authorities.

Last year alone, the organization partnered on 210 missing persons reports with Winnipeg police. Of those, it helped in locating 156 people.

The physical beauty of Kramatorsk remains — but the city is deeply scarred, and its full civilian life is suspended by the Russian invasion.

Around 60 per cent of the city’s 200,000 residents fled. There are few jobs and even fewer things to do. The war hangs over nearly every facet of life.

Yet somehow, under a constant shadow of grief and threat, life carries on, Melissa Martin reports from Ukraine.

While private wine stores and grocery stores have increased the number of non-alcoholic drinks they carry, what they’re offering is a drop in the bucket compared to what the Søbr Market has on hand.

The Academy Road shop offers upward of 750 NoLo (no- or low-alcohol) beers, wines, spirits and mocktails.

December saw a big increase in sales, mostly owing to people looking for alternatives to alcohol for holiday dinners, and business has continued to be brisk in the new year, thanks in large part to those doing Dry (or Damp) January, a no- or low-alcohol trend that has taken off via social media.