No matter how you look at it, Manitoba’s Oct. 3 election will be historic. Either Heather Stefanson — the first woman to serve as Manitoba premier — will be re-elected, or NDP leader Wab Kinew will become the first premier of First Nations descent and the first premier with Indigenous heritage in almost 150 years..
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Whatever your particular viewpoint, it is indisputable that Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief public health officer, has had an impossibly tough job the past year. In combatting the COVID-19 pandemic, he has not only had to manage the province’s public-health regulations, but also heed Brian Pallister, a micro-managing premier, who has his own agenda when it comes to balancing health and economics.
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Whatever your particular viewpoint, it is indisputable that Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief public health officer, has had an impossibly tough job the past year. In combatting the COVID-19 pandemic, he has not only had to manage the province’s public-health regulations, but also heed Brian Pallister, a micro-managing premier, who has his own agenda when it comes to balancing health and economics.