Rally decries pandemic restrictions from steps of city hall By: Jordan Ross
People fed up with Manitoba’s coronavirus restrictions gathered outside Steinbach City Hall Saturday for a two-hour rally that began with upbeat music and ended with fines.
People fed up with Manitoba’s coronavirus restrictions gathered outside Steinbach City Hall Saturday for a two-hour rally that began with upbeat music and ended with fines.
The event, organized online, was the second Hugs Over Masks protest held in Steinbach in the past two months.
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An organizer who only identified herself as Sharon said the event was planned to to protest government restrictions and the loss of civil liberties during the pandemic.
Brandon Sun By: Tyler Clarke
Warren Michael, who calls himself “The Old Man” on his gofundme page, is ‘walking a cross Canada’ with a literal cross on his back, to raise money for “veterans, clean drinking water for First Nations, mental health issues, autism awareness, and cancer research.” He’s seen here on his way out of Brandon as he walks eastbound on the Trans-Canada Highway on Friday afternoon. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)
Hauling a veteran’s cross on his back, a Kelowna, B.C., man passed through Brandon on Friday during his “March A Cross Canada.”
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Hauling a veteran’s cross on his back, a Kelowna, B.C., man passed through Brandon on Friday during his March A Cross Canada.