To most of us, they are anonymous numbers in a grim and ongoing count.
But each one represents one of the more than 900 Manitoba lives lost over the past year to COVID-19.
Many have gone without a published obituary marking their loss. Without family and friends able to gather to grieve at a funeral and, later, celebrate their memories.
Manitoba’s first positive case was announced March 12, followed by three more the next day. The first COVID-19 hospital admission occurred March 17, and the province declared a state of emergency on March 20. We’re in this together and we’re grieving together, Mayor Brian Bowman said then. Our deepest condolences to the friends and family of the deceased.
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WINNIPEG A man who stabbed a Winnipeg foster home manager to death will not be eligible for parole for 15 years. Kane Moar, 23, was found guilty by a jury last September of second-degree murder for the death of Ricardo Hibi. The sentence carries an automatic life sentence with parole eligibility set between 10 and 25 years. The Crown argued Moar should not be eligible for 18 years, the defence said it should not be raised beyond ten years. Justice Vic Toews landed on 15 years calling Moar’s actions brutal and unprovoked. ”He remains a high risk to reoffend violently.” said Toews Moar, while on parole and facing charges related to a death inside Stony Mountain Institution, went to a foster home on McGee Street in December 2018.
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Most British Columbians have never heard of Kip Warner, executive director of the Canadian Society for the Advancement of Science in Public Policy.
But the Vancouver senior software engineer may become better known as a result of a lawsuit that the society recently filed against the B.C. government and Dr. Bonnie Henry in her capacity as the provincial health officer.
It s hoping to have the legal action certified as a class action.
And the society wants nothing less than a court declaration that all ministerial orders and public health orders in response to the pandemic be set aside as unreasonable .