For fly-in doctors of Manitoba, work is far from home but close to the action
Remote nursing stations are a lifeline for First Nations and rural communities, and a fulfilling challenge for the physicians who choose the demanding line of work.
Canada’s worst violent crime problem is in Thompson, Man.
It’s the “machete kids” that worry Donnel Jonsson most. The property manager for Ashberry Place, a low-income apartment complex in Thompson, Man., has dealt with assaults, fires and even murder over the years. However, recent youth crime has him feeling unsafe, particularly along the city’s Spirit Way trail.
“Kids are going around and assaulting individuals walking the path, no reason why, they just come up to them and basically stab them or cut them across the face,” he says, pointing to a wooded section of trail below a 10-storey-high wolf mural.
A feral dog bite and a desperate search for the rabies vaccine
By the time I realized the dog was about to bite me, it was too late.
I’d seen the gaunt canine milling around, but feral dogs seemed to congregate on every corner in India, so one more roaming the grounds of Amritsar’s Partition Museum didn’t garner any special attention.
Sins of the flesh: The strange new crime trend taking over Winnipeg grocery stores
Some stores are hiring security guards and training staff to watch for suspicious behaviour—a challenge, because, well, there’s no stereotypical meat thief.
Investors wanted to save their town, but big dreams brought big trouble to Waskada
He has no employees, no products, and no factory.
But every day Keith Hannah walks into a small office building across from Innes’ Garage in Waskada, hoping to salvage some part of his dream — creating a Peak of the Market-style business for health foods in the province’s smallest incorporated municipality.
“I’m trying to get things straightened around,” said Hannah. “I lost a lot of money in this myself, a lot, and I’ve got other investors here who have lost a fair bit of money as well.”
Taxpayers have taken a bath, too. As part of its “Economic Action Plan,” Ottawa pumped $3.1 million into Farm Genesis Group Marketing Inc. in 2010.
Are farmers ready to profit from Canada’s booming halal market?
Navigating the narrow aisles of his Winnipeg shop with the energy of a man half his age, Yusuf Abdulrehman pauses to point out bright spices, dark teas and pastel sweets that have travelled across the globe to reach his prairie outpost.
“We don’t only sell halal meat, we have a variety of products coming from all over the world, coming from Syria, from Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia. This is why you need to be at the store to see it all. There is so much here,” he says, pointing to shelves stacked high beyond his own reach with tea sets and kitchen accessories.
After directing one customer to a nearby freezer and pausing to quickly say “As-salãmu ‘alaykum” to another, Abdulrehman leads the way to a side room, pulling out a variety of well-worn chairs and stools before settling in.
The stone angels: Winnipeg is Canada’s ’Kindness Rock’ capital
Winnipeg has fallen for the phenomenon like no other Canadian city, allowing its parks and streetscapes to fill with tiny seeds of cheer. While online rock-painting communities in places like Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver claim up to a couple thousand members, Winnipeg Rocks, a Facebook group, boasts more than 26,000—the equivalent of 3.6 per cent of the city’s population.
Overwhelmed Manitoba calls for help amid third wave of COVID-19
Manitoba hospitals are transferring patients to intensive care units as far away as Thunder Bay, Ottawa and Windsor, Ont., and the Premier is asking the federal government and the White House for help to cope with a crushing third wave that is overwhelming the province’s health care system.
The province, one of the few places in Canada where infections are increasing, recorded more than 600 new COVID-19 infections in a single day last week – eclipsing previous records and cementing its position as the North American hot spot. Manitoba has surpassed Alberta in having the most active cases per capita.
Second wave of COVID-19 causes further strain for Manitoba patients awaiting surgery
Two-year-old Hallie Thiessen scoops up a chunk of ice from the front yard of her home in Steinbach, Man., and puts it in her mouth. Since being diagnosed with eosinophilic gastrointestinal disease, ice is all she can eat.
Cari-Lynn Thiessen describes the yard as her daughter’s “buffet” only half-jokingly as a neighbour pulls over to ask how the pair is faring. The toddler’s rare diagnosis is characterized by adverse reactions to all food, a compromised immune system and inflammation of the entire gastrointestinal tract.
One bad kiwifruit can spoil the consumer relationship
Somehow, the name Chinese gooseberry didn’t quite fit the bill for a fruit grown in New Zealand. Was it a real gooseberry? Was it from China? Was it part of a communist plot to raise funds? Was it subject to berry tariffs or possibly a melon tax?
These were the questions that plagued the furry brown fruit until June of 1959, when producer Jack Turner suggested rechristening what was then called Hayward’s Chinese gooseberry as the modern kiwifruit. There was only one problem.
“It didn’t become part of our intellectual property,” said Mark Gardiner of Whitehall Fruit Packers, New Zealand’s largest producer of organic kiwifruit.
Non-profits among the worst offenders for unlivable wages in Canada, say employees, experts
It wasn’t an easy decision, but last summer, Amina Bambotia said “no” to facilitating a digital literacy project that spoke to her personal and professional experience because the salary offered fell far short of a living wage.
“While my passion for the initiative was strong, I had to prioritize my financial well-being,” said the Montreal-based equity, diversity and inclusion specialist, adding the non-profit’s proposal was downright disrespectful.
“Not-for-profits are just reinforcing poverty,” said Bambotia, who was offered $19,000 to develop, research, plan, schedule and deliver 89 training sessions over one year.
Menopause-inclusive workplaces help retain highly skilled women, so why are there so few of them?
Tracy Gomes was a project manager for a well-known multinational company, working with clients and travelling extensively, when she started to experience anxiety and trouble sleeping.
Later, her periods became so heavy she needed iron infusions to treat severe anemia, and soon she was making regular hospital visits. Then came the extreme water retention, up to 12 pounds in a week.
“And that was just perimenopause,” she said.
However, Gomes didn’t know it then, nor did her health practitioners. It was only when her cycle became irregular that her symptoms were finally attributed to the beginning of menopause.