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Vaccination an ordeal for elderly, family

Woman forced to hire stretcher service to get 95-year-old bedridden father to convention centre at same time immunization teams travel to care homes

Danielle Da Silva
7:00 PM CST Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021
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Kevin Rollason:

Proposed loosening of pandemic restrictions misses mark

The province is proposing restaurants such as The Nook (above) could open up to 50 per cent of their capacity, but each table would still be limited to people from one household. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)

Tom Brodbeck:

Delay second doses, immunize more Manitobans now

Vials for the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are displayed on a tray at a clinic set up by the New Hampshire National Guard in the parking lot of Exeter, N.H., High School, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Exeter. The temporary facility, operating out of a field hospital tent, administers both the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)</p>

Martin Cash:

As costs rise, menu prices could follow

MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>Dave MacKay, owner (left), and Jeff Klause, president pose for a portrait at Little Bones Wings in Winnipeg on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. Restaurants are dealing with across-the-board price increases from suppliers on top of everything else. For Martin Cash story.</p><p>Winnipeg Free Press 2021</p>

Niigaan Sinclair:

Warm fire, spark of community

JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSPeople warm up in a teepee at the Anishinative camp at Thunderbird House in Winnipeg Sunday, February 14, 2021.</p><p>Reporter: Sellar</p>

Alan Small:

CBC shows get up close and personal with Manitoba's polar bears

Merit Motion Pictures</p><p>A polar bear and her cubs during the filming of Kingdom of the Polar Bears in Churchill.</p>

Alison Gillmor:

Separated by 200 years, Forks scenes remind us of human connection to history

Peter Rindisbacher / Library and Archives Canada, e011161354</p><p>Winter fishing on ice of Assynoibain & Red River, by Peter Rindisbacher (1821).</p>

Taylor Allen:

Volleyball player was no ordinary superstar

BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES</p><p>Team Canada's Kerri Buchberger (left) and Janis Kelly try to block Germany's Susanne Lahme in 1996.</p>

Editorial:

Failing grade on emergency preparedness

Heavy rains in western Manitoba and Saskatchewan recently have raised the level of the Assiniboine River causing it to overflow its banks flooding roads and farmers fields. Aerial photo's east of Portage la Prairie area. July 08, 2014 Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press</p>

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