Anyone age 12 and up who lives or works in the NHR can receive a first dose of vaccine at the Flin Flon site - youth ages 12-17 can only receive Pfizer-BioNTech doses, as the Moderna vaccine has not yet been approved for use in people under age 18. Second doses will also be available for people who qualify. Under current provincial eligibility rules, anyone who received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine before March 29 (including all Indigenous people 12 years old and older) and people who have one of a list of health conditions or take certain medications can book appointments for second doses. A full list of qualifying medications and health conditions can be found on the provincial government website.
Working underground at Hudbay Minerals 777 copper-zinc-gold-silver mine in Flin Flon, Manitoba. Credit: Hudbay Minerals.
Manitoba has ranked in the top 20 of the Fraser Institute’s annual list of the most attractive mining jurisdictions for 21 of the last 23 years, and has an exceptional mineral profile across an entire suite of metals from copper, nickel, zinc and gold to diamonds, graphite and strategic minerals. The province produces 18 of the 31 minerals that Canada placed on its new list of critical minerals released at the PDAC Convention in March.
“We know that the pre-Cambrian Shield is well-endowed with world-class deposits that have been mined for decades, however as we’ve talked about often, there’s large areas that were under-explored and these are areas that have a huge amount of potential for Tier-One discoveries,” Shastri Ramnath, the founding president and CEO of privately held Exiro Minerals Corp., told participants in The Northern Miner’s second-quar
252 of the new cases were in Winnipeg, with 50 in the southern health region, 42 in the Prairie Mountain region, 40 in the Interlake-Eastern region and 18 in the north. The Cross Lake/Pimicikamak health district had six new cases since Tuesday, while three other northern districts, including Island Lake and Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/Leaf Rapids/O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation (South Indian Lake)/Granville, had three new cases each, according to the provincial government website. Across the province, there are 293 people in hospital due to COVID, including 231 with active infections. Sixty-one of those with active infections are in intensive care as well as 19 people who are no longer considered infectious.
Three more deaths from the virus, two of them linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern, were also reported, making the total number of Manitobans who have died from COVID-19 1,019. The Grand Rapids/Misipawistik/Mosakahiken/Moose Lake/Easterville/Chemawawin health district had the nighest number of new cases in the north, with 11, while there were five new cases in the Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry/Sherridon district and four each in the Cross Lake/Pimicikamak and Pukatawagan/Mathias Colomb health districts, according to the provincial government website. Three active cases listed in the Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/Leaf Rapids/O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation (South Indian Lake)/Granville on the website on May 19 have been removed and there are no active cases in the district listed anymore. Thompson/Mystery Lake had two new cases and has a total of four active cases.
WINNIPEG It s a tale of one province divided into two thanks to the weather. Depending on where you live in Manitoba, the weather situation could be extremely different. Winnipeg and much of southern Manitoba dealt with the first heatwave of the year. A special weather statement was issued by Environment Canada on Tuesday saying temperatures were going to hover around the 30 Celsius mark. Tuesday wasn t the only warm day, as several temperature records were set on Monday. The Arnes area set a record of 32 C, which beat the old record of 30 C which was set in 1970. The Fisher Branch area also broke a record set in 1970 by having a temperature of 31.2 C.