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Isolation rule on way out in Manitoba

Doctors say March 15 too soon to drop requirement

Katie May
1:41 PM CST Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2022
4 minute read

Chris Kitching:

Vulnerable Manitobans feeling forsaken as province lifts pandemic protections

<p>MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES</p><p>Doctors Manitoba estimates more than half of Manitobans are at increased risk of severe illness from COVID due to more than 20 factors — from age and underlying health issues to obesity and smoking.</p>

Danielle Da Silva:

Demand for booster shots stalls

<p>DANIEL CRUMP / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES</p><p>To date, 52.8 per cent of Manitobans 18 and up have opted for a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, compared to the more than 87.7 per cent of adults who have been double vaccinated.</p>

Chris Kitching:

Girl, 15, charged with murder, robbery after man’s body discovered in Assiniboine Park

<p>MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>The teen, whose hometown is 35 kilometres from the homicide scene in Tuxedo, has been charged with second-degree murder and robbery.</p>

Carol Sanders:

Ukraine dominates talk at Manitoba legislature

The Manitoba legislature was back in session. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)

Dan Lett:

Battlefield Fort Whyte alive with political possibilities

<p>MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS</p><p>Tory star candidate Ibrahim (Obby) Khan.

Jim Heintz, Yuras Karmanau, Vladimir Isachenkov and Dasha Litvinova / The Associated Press:

Refugee count tops 1 million; Russians besiege Ukraine ports

<p>An armed man stands at the Independent Square (Maidan) in the center of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Ukraine’s leader decried Russia’s escalation of attacks on crowded cities as a blatant terror campaign, while President Joe Biden warned that if the Russian leader didn’t “pay a price” for the invasion, the aggression wouldn’t stop with one country. (Efrem Lukatsky / The Associated Press)</p>

Mike McIntyre:

The NHL has an officiating problem

<p>BRANDON WADE / ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE</p><p>Much confusions ensued after Stars captain Jamie Benn went after Nashville Predators forward Yakov Trenin after Trenin delivered a headshot to John Klingburg.</p>

Alan Small:

KC Adams’ hopeful, twinkling response to revelations of unmarked graves

KC ADAMS Kaleeya, Age 5, 2021

Editorial:

Aiding Ukraine is simply returning the favour

Thousands of people rally in support of the Ukraine outside the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg Saturday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods

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