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Essential reads for January 7, 2022

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Omicron tsunami washes over Manitoba

Daily infections rocket past 3,200, but real number many times that

Danielle Da Silva
7:15 PM CST Friday, Jan. 7, 2022
6 minute read

Chris Kitching:

Police cast eye on charity fishing event proceeds

Proceeds from the 2021 Full Tilt Winter Walleye Tournament were supposed to be donated to the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)

Martin Cash:

Winnipeg funeral-home operator has been waiting 12 years to offer cremation-like process

Kevin Sweryd has been trying for more than 10 years to get funeral home regulations in Manitoba changed to allow for a 16-year-old technology called alkaline hydrolysis that uses water instead of flames to reduce the body to ashes.

Kevin Rollason:

Prominent names among those lost in 2021

Harry Lazarenko (Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg Free Press files)

Mike McIntyre:

Keeping Jets home games in Winnipeg the right decision

MTS Centre. Winnipeg Jets. September 30 2011. Fisheye lens @ 15mm from Mark Chipmans seat in Owners Box in Press Box. (TREVOR HAGAN/WINNIPEG FREE PRESS) rink arena empty arena</p>

Ben Waldman:

Winnipeg teen is wasting no time in following his magazine dreams

<p> Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press</p><p>Jackson Toone, 17, creator of the Don’t Waste Time skateboarding zine, holds up holds up copies of the latest issue prior to its launch party at the Edge Skatepark.</p>

Melissa Martin:

Troubling truth, terrible trauma

<p>The medical intensive care unit at the Health Sciences Centre Mikaela MacKenzie/Free Press files</p>

Dan Lett:

Be COVID cautious with use of rapid tests

COVID-19 rapid antigen tests.

Editorial:

Support of Bill 21 challenge is justified

<p>MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES</p><p>Former Manitoba premier Brian Pallister</p>

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