Photograph By Thompson Citizen files Thompson RCMP arrested three people for impaired driving, including one who was involved in a hit-and-run collision, over the course of 12 hours May 1-2. The first arrest occurred in the afternoon, after police received a complaint of a rear-end collision at Princeton Drive and Thompson Drive, near Mystery Lake Road. Officers received information that led them to locate the suspect vehicle at an address on Poplar Crescent. A 28-year-old woman was arrested for impaired driving and taken to the detachment, where she provided breath samples that were more than twice the legal limit of 80 mg % (.08) while driving. She is due to appear in court July 28 on charges of driving with a blood alcohol concentration over the legal limit and failing to stop after an accident. Her licence was suspended for 90 days and her vehicle seized and impounded,
For a residential property assessed at $174,680, the total taxes before the provincial education tax credit is applied will be $3,656 compared to $3,584 in 2020. For a commercial property valued at $1 million, total taxes would be $36,030 this year compared to $35,447 last year, a difference of $583. The total city budget, if passed without changes, will be about $41 million. About 69 per cent of that is accounted for by salaries and benefits (47 per cent) and paying for RCMP services (22 per cent). The city said in a press release that council decided to include an increase in property taxes this year in order to attempt to qualify for federal-provincial grant funding for road work and water and sewer work. Though they are still pending approval, obtaining these grants would see the city complete $5.7 million of road work with less than $1 million of city money provided and $6.8 million in water and sewer work while contributing $1.8 million of city funds. The city said in a pr
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The location of the variant case is unknown - information about the location of variant cases, other than which of the five Manitoba health regions the case was found in, has not been released. As of April 13, 479 total variant of concern cases have been found throughout Manitoba. Two people have died from COVID-19 variants in Manitoba. Flin Flon/Snow Lake district Another 132 net new COVID-19 cases were reported throughout Manitoba April 13, including 34 new cases in the NHR. Out of those 34 cases, nine new cases were found in the Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry Portage/Sherridon health district. There are, as of April 13, 20 active cases of COVID-19 in the district, up from 13 a day earlier.
The sample has not yet been categorized to determine if it is the B.1.1.7 (United Kingdom) variant or the B.1.351 (South Africa) variant. Provincewide, there have been 479 COVID-19 cases involving variants of concern detected so far and 154 of them are considered active. The vast majority have been in the Winnipeg region and the north was the last health region without any cases involving variants prior to today. Overall, 135 new positive tests for COVID-19 were reported in Manitoba on Tuesday, 89 of them in Winnipeg and 34 in the north. There were five new cases each in the Prairie Mountain and southern health regions and two in the Interlake-Eastern health region. The five-day test positivity rate April 13 was six per cent.