To most of us, they are anonymous numbers in a grim and ongoing count.
But each one represents one of the more than 900 Manitoba lives lost over the past year to COVID-19.
Many have gone without a published obituary marking their loss. Without family and friends able to gather to grieve at a funeral and, later, celebrate their memories.
Manitoba’s first positive case was announced March 12, followed by three more the next day. The first COVID-19 hospital admission occurred March 17, and the province declared a state of emergency on March 20. We’re in this together and we’re grieving together, Mayor Brian Bowman said then. Our deepest condolences to the friends and family of the deceased.
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Extortionist demanding $1M murdered unconnected Alberta man to prove he meant business, Crown suggests
One day after a Medicine Hat, Alta., man received a letter that demanded $1 million and included a vow that somebody would be murdered to prove the seriousness of the threat, a random victim was fatally stabbed in the city, a jury heard Wednesday.
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Robert Hoefman is charged with the 2017 murder of James Satre of Medicine Hat and the extortion of another man
Posted: Mar 03, 2021 3:25 PM MT | Last Updated: March 9
Prosecutors say James Satre, 63, of Medicine Hat, Alta., pictured here, was murdered as part of a plot to prove a letter demanding $1 million from another Medicine Hat man was serious. Robert Hoefman is on trial for first-degree murder and extortion.(Saamis Memorial)
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Jan 19, 2021 11:48 AM
A Court of Queen’s Bench Justice is exonerating former RM of Sherwood councillor Tim Probe on a breach of trust for a second time.
Justice Brian Scherman released his decision Monday.
In 2018, Probe had been acquitted on charges of breach and trust and municipal corruption. The Crown appealed the breach of trust charge leading to the second trial.
In February of 2016, Probe and another member of the RM of Sherwood council got together with Jeff Poissant recording the conversation in which an alleged “vote-trade” was discussed.
Justice Scherman wrote that he could not tell if there was an actual vote trade because of the poor quality of the audiotape. He also could not find that Probe acted dishonestly and that he was simply lobbying by saying he would support what Poissant wanted if his concerns on the matter were addressed.