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ABOVE THE FOLD

Essential reads for January 21, 2021

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After 10 weeks, province allows visitors, haircuts

Code-red restrictions loosened just a tad

Carol Sanders
1:43 PM CST Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021
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Tom Brodbeck:

Province delivers responsible reopening plan

Premier Brian Pallister and chief Provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin unveiled a set of proposed eased business restrictions in a Tuesday morning media release. (File)

Dylan Robertson:

Ottawa questions Manitoba's vaccination timeline

Deputy Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Howard Njoo. THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES/Justin Tang</p>

Malak Abas:

Some eager to connect, some willing to wait as province loosens pandemic restrictions

JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p>Leanne Hanuschuk is looking forward to bringing her mom to visit her great granddaughter.

Maggie Macintosh:

Snow class is in session... build your own chair

Laura Secord School teacher Ellen Lamont holds an outdoor science class at the school in Winnipeg Wednesday, January 20, 2020. Lamont has been taking her early years students outside as much as possible this year, as she embraces the benefits of outdoor education while choosing a safer mid-pandemic teaching alternative to a indoor classroom. Lamont and her class have built a snow classroom outside the Wolseley school.</p><p>Reporter: Macintosh</p>

Ben Waldman:

Winnipeg musicians respond to pandemic in different ways through music

RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ENT - Isolation Diary Portrait of Ava Wray relaxing next to her bedroom window with her guitars and diaries next to her. Some musicians have shunned COVID 19 from their output. Ava Wray has embraced it in some ways. Her song “Isolation Diary” is a funny track that uses her mundane experience as subject matter. Ava Wray Ben Waldman story Jan 20,. 2021

Ben Waldman:

Where's Bernie? Winnipeg, of course

(Twitter)

Mike Sawatzky:

Lacquette's long road back continues

Brigette Lacquette took a a slapshot to an ankle during a skills workout in December of 2019, fracturing her fibula — the same bone she broke 10 years earlier. (Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press files)

Editorial:

Time to unify province's health portfolio

MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES</p><p>Minister of Health Heather Stefanson </p>

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