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A petition to bring about a special election to change how supervisors represent the residents of Floyd County has been denied.
The Coalition for Better County Government gathered over 1,000 petition signatures in an effort to move from currently electing three at-large supervisors to having one supervisor each representing three districts of equal population. However, the validity of the petition came into question when over 400 signatures were submitted on papers without verbiage of the petition’s initiative, as required on all papers being submitted.
At their regular Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday, Board President Linda Tjaden said that was the core issue.
The province has seconded Kurt Janzen from the Crown corporation to serve as the new director of Manitoba's COVID-19 immunization clinics, a spokesperson for the Progressive Conservative government said Friday in a statement.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Danielle Da Silva | Posted: 3:13 PM CST Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020
Last Modified: 5:54 PM CST Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 | Updates
Winnipeg Free Press
With the first 900 doses of COVID-19 vaccine having arrived safely in Manitoba and ready to be plunged into the arms of health-care workers, the province will begin the monumental task of immunizing at-risk residents. This is a monumental challenge a historic challenge, Premier Brian Pallister said during a media briefing Tuesday. I ask all Manitobans for their patience and understanding as we gradually roll out our program as more vaccine becomes available.
On Tuesday morning, a cargo plane carrying the province’s initial shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, stored in ultra-cold freezers, touched down in Winnipeg.