The business Pallister named is planning to appeal the fine.
However, the public health department has navigated the tension between citizens rights to know and an individual s right to privacy deftly, Driedger said.
Health officials owned up to their mistakes, such as revealing the school name, grade, classroom and bus route of the first student to contract COVID-19, Driedger said. Facing pushback, the province reneged on its promise to reveal such detailed information of student infections.
The first known positive COVID-19 case in Manitoba s school system was a student at Churchill High School in Winnipeg. Health officials revealed too much information about that case, says one expert, but made changes to avoid that in later cases.(Holly Caruk/CBC)
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An expert says the pandemic recession has been dubbed a ‘she-cession’ because it has ‘heavily fallen on women’ who are more likely to work in the most affected fields, and whose hours may be constrained due to increased child-care responsibilities.
Now more than a month into code-red COVID-19 restrictions, many Manitobans are reporting strain in their personal lives, finding both relationships and personal finances challenged by the conditions of the pandemic.
Now more than a month into code-red COVID-19 restrictions, many Manitobans are reporting strain in their personal lives, finding both relationships and personal finances challenged by the conditions of the pandemic.