Winnipeg Free Press By: Dylan Robertson | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020
OTTAWA Politicians have been urging people to social distance for months, but two of Manitoba’s most powerful men haven’t seen each other since long before the pandemic began.
OTTAWA Politicians have been urging people to social distance for months, but two of Manitoba’s most powerful men haven’t seen each other since long before the pandemic began.
MP Dan Vandal, Manitoba’s sole cabinet minister, said he last spoke with Premier Brian Pallister at Grey Cup victory festivities more than a year ago. During these tough pandemic times, Canadians expect their governments to work together, Vandal told the
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Peguis Chief Glenn Hudson argues his people know how to safely gather, even when visitors come from out of town.
Peguis First Nation is proceeding with its “relaxed” lockdown days this week, with its chief suggesting Premier Brian Pallister could better protect Manitoba amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, instead of slagging band councils.
Peguis First Nation is proceeding with its relaxed lockdown days this week, with its chief suggesting Premier Brian Pallister could better protect Manitoba amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, instead of slagging band councils. Our restrictions are over and above what’s currently in place in our province, Peguis Chief Glenn Hudson told the
“They cut corners every day, every day,” said Justin Gee, vice-president of First Nations Engineering Services Ltd.
Gee said he encountered these recurring problems while overseeing the work of a construction firm, Kingdom Construction Limited (KCL), during the building of a water treatment plant 10 years ago in Wasauksing First Nation, along the eastern shore of Georgian Bay, about 250 kilometres north of Toronto.
“You have to be on them every step of the way,” said Gee, who was the contract administrator on the project. “You can’t leave them on their own.”
Today, this plant is among seven First Nations water and wastewater infrastructure projects in two provinces, funded by the federal government, that have all involved work by KCL, an Ontario-based firm.
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WINNIPEG – OPINION – Manitoba’s premier is like a broken record.
This week, the leader of the province that has the highest proportion of Indigenous residents, demeaned them yet again.
After being asked about Peguis First Nation Chief Glenn Hudson holding “relaxed lockdown” days during the holidays (families will be permitted to visit one household), Brian Pallister called the decision “a massive mistake.”
He said: “COVID does not discriminate, neither should we and we are not going to have two sets of rules around who gets to have Christmas and how it’s celebrated this year because we’re all doing our part to protect one another.”
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Now that Santa Claus has been cleared to land on roof tops as an essential worker though if we really want to talk about the potential for spreading the virus, I’m not sure this was the wisest decision we can all start dreaming of an isolation Christmas with that stress gone.
In all seriousness, the fat man in red should be taking off from the North Pole in a matter of days let him be the only visitor you have this season.
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