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Manitoba Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin suggests many vaccines are victims of their own successes: they work so well that over time some feel they don't need them. But he urges everyone, not just those at-risk, to get the COVID-19 vaccine, in order to protect themselves and others. Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/1.5866205

Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin urged Manitobans to press on as he announced 133 new cases of COVID-19 and three more deaths on Monday. Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/1.5868561

"We simply cannot let this Christmas turn into a tragedy for many families."

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Manitoba Public Health is falling weeks behind in disclosing potential public exposures to COVID-19 outside of schools.

We're live tonight at 6:00 on Facebook. Here's some of the top stories we're working on: The province is getting extra help to hand out tickets to COVID-19 rule-breakers.... And Videos surfacing on social media are forcing health officials to dispel rumours from people who still don't think the COVID-19 is real. Also In the midst of this pandemic, The Forks still hopes it can find a way to help Winnipeggers get outside safely this winter.

Fred Sasakamoose, one of the first Indigenous athletes to play in the National Hockey League, has died after being hospitalized with symptoms of COVID-19. He was 86 years old.

"It's the year 2020. A lot of our business is done just on location, online and home offices. We don't need that physical store to operate as a legitimate business in Winnipeg."

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Are you already looking for alternative ways to celebrate this year's holiday season? Even if COVID-19 restrictions ease in the coming weeks, people should not be planning for large family gatherings this holiday season, warned Manitoba's chief public health officer on Tuesday. Dr. Brent Roussin reported 12 more deaths related to COVID-19 and 476 new cases.... Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/1.5814301

Manitoba continues to have the highest per-capita rate of new coronavirus cases in Canada, as the province added hundreds of new cases on Wednesday and the number of patients in hospitals pushed the health-care system to the brink.

Manitoba's chief public health officer and chief nursing officer give an update on the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Winnipeg care home, owned by for-profit company Revera, currently has staffing levels that amount to 3.16 hours of care a day per resident, compared to a health authority "baseline" of 3.6 staff hours per resident day, the WRHA says.

Dr. Brent Roussin says younger Manitobans can also experience severe outcomes of the virus. Read more here: www.cbc.ca/1.5804818

A 102-year-old Vancouver woman says she's received phone calls from as far away as England after clinching the Guinness World Record for oldest curler this month.

Court documents allege HBC owes more than $3.5 million in rent and other fees at five Quebec shopping malls, an amount that continues to climb by more than half a million dollars each month.

The province of Manitoba is planning to release information about the race, ethnicity and income of COVID-19 cases, and is considering collecting information about occupation and housing as well.

Lisa Liang was awarded a Future 40 designation from CBC Manitoba in 2016. Lisa graduated from the University of Manitoba with her PhD in 2019, where she specialized in medulloblastoma, which is a form of aggressive childhood brain tumour. She's now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary where she's conducting research on what factors cause breast cancer and melanoma cells to spread in the lungs. Lisa hopes that her research will lead to the discovery of therapeuti...cs that can prevent this process. Her advice to 2020 Future 40 nominees is this: "As a researcher, I believe that curiosity and life-long learning are important for great discoveries. No matter what career path you’re on, you should always strive to be challenged and to build on your skill set." The last day to enter the Future 40 storytelling project is TODAY! Nominate a friend (or yourself): www.cbc.ca/mbfuture40

This Nova Scotia couple managed to have families from both sides of the border at their wedding with a little help from a boat. #TheMoment

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Manitoba has once again broken its daily record of reported new COVID-19 cases. Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/1.5761783

"There's basically a perfect storm of situations that is making things extremely difficult," said Philippe Lagacé-Wiens, a medical microbiologist and physician at St. Boniface Hospital. "So, what I'm really imploring people to do is to really step up to reduce transmission."

We're live tonight at 6:00 on Facebook: Here's some of the top stories we're working on: Manitoba reported 146 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, making it the fourth record-breaking day in less than a week. ... And Manitoba reported two more COVID-19-related deaths on Wednesday Also The RCMP is asking for help after a body found in southern Manitoba is identified as missing Winnipegger Bud Paul

"Will it unleash the hounds of politics, as those hoping to get the key to the mayor's office elbow and jockey toward the prize? In that environment, what kind of mayor will Brian Bowman be, now that he is no longer chained to the future of another run for office?" writes CBC's Sean Kavanagh in this analysis piece on the Winnipeg mayor's announcement on Friday.

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A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from last week's grab that it's jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said Friday.

On Monday, public health officials announced the death of a Winnipeg man in his 40s who had COVID-19. He is the youngest person in Manitoba to die due to the disease to date. Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin said Tuesday the man didn't have underlying health conditions, which makes his death "very rare."

The five-year saga to sign a new lease for Shaw Park hit yet another error as city staff said the financial information provided by the ball club "does not represent a full disclosure."