Communities across Canada held events and ceremonies on Thursday to honour the spirits of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people.
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“The whole project [is about topics] that we truly believe need to be brought up in Thompson or the world and that we feel close to our hearts,” says Grant. That is certainly the case for Amber Frost, also 13, who is focusing on MMIWG and suicide awareness with Grant. “It’s very important to me because I lost a few people to this,” Frost says. “I think no one should die because of what their culture is or how they look or how they sound or how they speak or how they style their hair.” As part of their work on suicide awareness, Grant and Frost are creating a video about people who lost children or relatives to suicide.
Posted: Apr 19, 2021 4:00 AM CT | Last Updated: April 19
Pimicikamak, also known as Cross Lake Cree Nation, doled out extra vaccine doses to hundreds outside the community last week.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
In Thompson, Man., almost every teacher is now at least partially vaccinated against COVID-19 after a nearby First Nation shared hundreds of extra doses with people outside the community last week.
Educators and front-line workers, including police officers, were among those surprised with a chance to get immunized when Pimicikamak, also known as Cross Lake Cree Nation, ran a four-day vaccine clinic to dole out a stockpile of extra doses, Chief David Monias said.
Public health has confirmed that there is a second positive case of COVID-19 in the Snow Lake area and it is linked to the first case. The second confirmed case is a Hudbay employee who was not symptomatic while at work and both individuals are currently self-isolating, reads an Oct. 22 statement from Hudbay and the Town of Snow Lake. Two new cases each have been reported in the The Pas/OCN/Kelsey health district, with another two cases found in the Thompson/Mystery Lake district and another two cases marked as unknown district. Thompson has now reported 25 cases of COVID-19 - 12 of those cases are still active, while the remaining 13 are now considered recovered. There are currently 45 active cases of COVID-19 in northern Manitoba.