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Essential reads for January 3, 2022

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Crisis? What crisis?

Progressive Conservative party’s New Year’s Day fundraising message neglects to mention deteriorating COVID situation

Carol Sanders
7:00 PM CST Monday, Jan. 3, 2022
5 minute read

Chris Kitching:

Grocers ramping up staff, hours as demand for deliveries soars

Food Fare owner Munther Zeid is appreciative of COVID-positive customers who take steps to eliminate contact on doorsteps and warn staff of their status. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)

Gabrielle Piché:

Freelance furniture assembler just one of many services available on TaskRabbit

<p>JESSICA LEE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>While they co-ordinate jobs via TaskRabbit, ‘taskers’ like Bowers set their own rates for jobs they take on.</p>

Dan Lett:

No winners in Omicron roulette

<p>This colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (orange/red) was captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in 2020. (NIAID via ZUMA Wire/TNS)</p>

Eva Wasney:

New app offers an immersive audio tour of architectural highlights on the No. 10 bus

<p>A screenshot from the app of the Air Canada building and park.</p><p>MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Julie Penner, audio producer, and Susan Algie, executive director of the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, pose for a portrait at a #10 bus stop in front of Precious Blood church in Winnipeg on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. The two worked on Archi10, a new app that delivers an audio tour of local buildings while travelling along the #10 bus route. For Eva story. Winnipeg Free Press 2021.</p>

Through the lens: Looking back at some of our favourite photos of 2021

January 4 — Socially-distanced media watch the first Jets skate of the season through multiple layers of glass at the BellMTS Iceplex. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)

Mike Sawatzky:

Pair of Ice players will regret World Junior cancellation forever

THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES/Jason Franson</p><p>Canada's Carson Lambos checks Austria's Marco Kasper during third period IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship action in Edmonton on Tuesday, December 28, 2021.</p>

Unjustified arrests show China’s brutality

<p>Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon and Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, who was arrested on Monday under the new national security law, leaves Mong Kok police station after being released on bail on August 12, 2020 in Hong Kong, China. According to local police, Lai was arrested on suspicion of ‘colluding with foreign powers.’ (Anthony Kwan/Getty Images/TNS)</p>

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