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Training, emergency keep Canadian Rangers busy in Northern Manitoba

BY IAN GRAHAM EDITOR@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET

Canadian Rangers have been busy in Northern Manitoba in the past month-and-a-half, conducting exercises in Gillam and Lynn Lake and responding to locate people stranded in a snow groomer, says Capt. Wade Jones, commanding officer of the 4th Canadian Ranger Patrol Group’s Manitoba patrols.

“During Christmas we did a request for assistance from the RCMP detachment in Churchill and that was for two stranded people in a trail groomer that had been stranded for 48 hours and that was on Christmas Eve,” Jones says. “It’s life and limb. These guys have been out there for 48 hours, they have no survival gear.

Five Rangers from Gillam left and recovered the individuals, helped them got them back to Gillam.”

There are eight Canadian Ranger patrols in Manitoba and they help out in about eight to 10 such searches per year.

“Some communities don’t even have RCMP,” Jones says. “In many locations we are the only organized group and the RCMP know that and the government of Canada knows that, that relationship between the armed forces and the RCMP, particularly when it comes to search and rescue, that we react.”

As class A part-time reservists in the Canadian Armed Forces, Canadian Rangers are required to complete 12 days of training per year. During a recent training exercise in Gillam, Rangers set out

east towards York Factory on the coast to find Pancho Lake, named for a World War I veteran.

“We went to look for the plaque [in honour of the solider] and to clean it up, clear the brush around it,” said Jones. “We’re going to see if we can find the family, supposedly they still live in Winnipeg, and we’ll send them some pictures of the plaque.”

The plaque, however, is only a pretense for practising the skills that Rangers require.

“It sounds like it’s focused on this, going out and doing that, but in reality it’s the preparations, the navigation to get there, it’s the winter survival skills it’s the snowmobile maintenance,” says Jones.

“To do one thing, a whole bunch of other skills are covered at the same time.

This gives them a reason for being out but it’s covering off a whole bunch of things that we want them to do.”

A week later, about 20 Canadian Rangers from Lac Brochet, Churchill, Gillam, Lynn Lake, St. Theresa Point and Snow Lake as well as one each from Powell River and Dease Lake, B.C. gathered in Lynn Lake with six Rangers staff members before heading out to Kinoosao on Reindeer Lake just over the Saskatchewan boundary.

“We brought all these Rangers together, two or three or four from each location, and then the exercise was centred on preparing Rangers for a request for assistance from the RCMP or local policing agency,” said Jones.

Nickel Belt News photo courtesy of Capt. Wade Jones Canadian Rangers light a fire during a recent group training exercise near Lynn Lake.

“We covered things like ground search and rescue, long-range navigation by snowmobile, wilderness first aid, casualty preparation and casualty evacuation by air, hasty landing strips for aircraft on skis, snowmobile maintenance, bush fixes. Some guys are really good at that stuff.

The idea behind having a collective exercise is to pass on either new information or to review and practise their skills that they already know so that we have an even knowledge base in all of the patrols in the province and obviously at the same time there’s leadership involved so we develop some of those Ran-

gers’ leadership skills.”

For some of the patrols’ members, these exercises are just a way of passing on knowledge while for others they’re a way to pick up additional skills.

“Because there’s such a transient population in Northern Manitoba, we’ve got people from all over the country and all over the world actually who come to live in Manitoba,” Jones says. “They don’t necessarily have those skills so when they join the Rangers we can’t make the assumption that they know all those outdoor living skills and stuff like that, the key Continued on Page 2

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NORWAY HOUSE CREE NATION CHIEF & COUNCIL ELECTION 2018

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Thompson hospital lab needs significant capital upgrades, says 2016 internal report

NOTICE OF PUBLIC FORUM AND GENERAL CHIEF AND COUNCIL ELECTION FOR ONE (1) CHIEF AND SIX (6) COUNCILLORS POSITIONS A PUBLIC CANDIDATES FORUM for Norway House Cree Nation members will be held on: FEBRUARY 27th, 2018 Beginning at 5:00 pm at the Norway House Cree Nation Multiplex, Auditorium The Election for One (1) Chief and Six (6) Councillor Positions will be held as follows: DATE: March 6th, 2018 TIME: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm PLACE: Norway House Cree Nation Multiplex-Auditorium Note: Candidates may withdraw in writing at any time up to ¿ve (5) days before the Election by ¿ling to the Electoral Of¿cer or Deputy Electoral Of¿cer a notice in writing of his/her intention to withdraw. Once the ballots are printed, the candidates name will remain on the ballot, and the votes will not be counted on Election Day. Note: Mail in Ballot packages can be requested by the Elector if they are unable to attend the polls or live off reserve by contacting the Electoral Of¿cer or Deputy Electoral Of¿cer.

CHIEF CANDIDATES (6) Ron Evans Samantha Folster Tyler Duncan Gilbert Fredette

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COUNCILLOR CANDIDATES (36) Anthony Apetagon Wayne Luke Anderson Johnny Anderson Langford Saunders Leslie McKay Jr. Samantha Folster Henry Moore Loretta Bayer Sandra Clarke Thomas (Tucker) Muswagon Cindy Paupanekis Gerald (Joe) McDonald Brian Captain Jr. Allan Wilson Clayton D’Aoust Patricia Morin Andrew Simpson John Henry Jr. Darlene Osborne Trudy Hart

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Conditions at the Thompson General Hospital lab are “a significant risk to quality and safety,” according to a Diagnostic Services Manitoba (DSM) internal document obtained

by CBC. At the time the document was written in 2016, air quality and lighting conditions in the Thompson lab were so poor they were impacting the ability to provide test results when humidity shut machines down and workers couldn’t see well enough to accurately interpret test results.

The 2017-18 Annual Health Plan, drafted to provide an overview of DSM’s priorities to the provincial government, also said that the lab cannot expand to offer new rapid tuberculosis testing without a total redevelopment. Renovations to heat-

ing, ventilation and air conditioning systems in the lab were approved and are expected to be complete in March.

The Thompson lab was identified as the top capital priority for DSM in the plan, which was temporarily posted online accidentally, and it was the eighth year in a row that a renovation had been requested.

Bob Moroz, president of the Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals, which represents workers at the Thompson lab, told the CBC the issues noted in the document had been brought to the government’s attention many times.

Thompson’s lab was built in 1961 and has not been significantly renovated since, though the number of tests performed there has increased

nearly two-and-a-half times since 2003. The document also said diagnostic imaging at the lab has gone up 30 per cent in recent years and that only one of the two radiology suites is easily accessible for those in wheelchairs and stretchers.

A health department spokesperson told the CBC that the Progressive Conservative government invested $30 million into high-priority capital upgrades at health facilities and personal care homes last year, including roof repairs, lab upgrades, mould remediation, window replacements and work on heating, ventilation and cooling systems.

Services provided by DSM will become part of a new provincial health organization called Shared Health Services Manitoba in the spring.

Jacks of all trades are key Continued from Page 1 things that we look for in a Ranger, so we review lots of individual skills as well.

Every community or every patrol location there’s always those key individuals, the long-time residents that are the jack of all trades.

Those are the guys that we have in our patrols and those are the key guys that teach everybody else. We had guys from Snow Lake teach things, guys from Gillam were teaching things.

We, as the staff, we don’t normally do that stuff. We allow the Rangers to do that themselves except for when it comes to technical things like wilderness first aid or something like that, then we have instructors.”

Jones says some Canadian Rangers seem to be able to extricate themselves from just about any sticky situation.

“I’ve seen guys break a throttle cable in the middle of nowhere and they’ll put a tent up around the snowmobile, take that throttle cable off, take the wires and braid it all back together and shorten it. It’s enough to get them home. Those are the skill sets that we’re looking for, guys who can do everything with nothing because that’s what they’re going to be faced with one time or another.”

During the most recent exercise, the Northern Manitoba Rangers had the chance to try out the C-19, the new Colt Canada rifle

that will become the Rangers’ standard issue firearm, replacing the venerable Lee Enfield .303.

“It’s a very nice rifle,” Jones says. “It’s quite an upgrade from the .303 and I hope it lasts as long as the .303 did which it probably won’t. The Rangers love it.

We’re in the process actually, all across Canada, starting March this year is when it’s going to be issued.”

But while a renewed focus on Canadian Rangers in the last decadeand-a-half has seen them equipped with new gear, Jones says sometimes the old ways still work.

“In 2009 we went from Kitimat, B.C. to Churchill, Manitoba by snowmobile.

Each province is a company

so each province was responsible for a segment of it so I was responsible for from Points North Landing in Saskatchewan to Churchill and the longest leg across no-man’s land is between Lac Brochet and Tadoule Lake. We had done it the year before just to prove the route and when we were doing that there was a guy that had done it when he was 12 years old with his dad and he led us and only once did he ever ask me [for assistance]. He couldn’t remember if the portage to the next lake was in this bay or in that bay. That’s pretty amazing. Their ability to navigate traditionally is better than map, compass or GPS of today.”

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Steve Ashton outspent 3-to-1 by Wab Kinew in leadership contest he lost by similar ratio

BY IAN GRAHAM EDITOR@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET

NDP leader Wab Kinew outspent his rival Steve Ashton about three-toone in last summer’s party leadership campaign, which he won by receiving about three times as many votes as the former Thompson MLA. Financial statements filed by Kinew’s campaign team with Elections Manitoba Jan. 6 showed that the Fort Rouge MLA spent $66,970.29 on campaign expenses, $863.83 less than the $67,834.12 in contributions he received.

Kinew took the contest by a margin of 728 votes to 253 for Ashton in the leadership votes Sept. 16.

Ashton spent $20,273.28 in his third unsuccessful bid at becoming leader of the Manitoba NDP, while receiving contributions of $13,907.05, leaving him with a $6,366.21 deficit, statements filed Jan. 25 show.

Kinew’s campaign spent more on promotional materials as well as on honoraria and salaries than Ashton spent in total. The now-leader spent nearly $6,000 on office expenses, more than $2,000 each on transportation/accommodations and advertising, and more than $1,000 per category on furniture and equipment, bank charges and office supplies and postage, and nearly $2,000 on telephone service.

In comparison, Ashton spent $14,350 on honoraria and salaries, his campaign’s largest expense, and less than $1,000 on each of the categories of advertising, promotional materials, fundraising, equipment and furniture, bank charges, office supplies, transportation and accommodation, and telephone service.

Only eight people contributed $250 or more to Ashton’s campaign, including himself, his brother and his wife, with his own contribu-

Nickel Belt News photo by Kyle Darbyson NDP leader Wab Kinew, left, seen here during a leadership forum with rival candidate Steve Ashton in Thompson last July, outspent the former Thompson MLA three-to-one to win the party’s September leadership vote. tion of $4,000 the largest.

That contribution is actually in violation of Mani-

Majority of winter roads now open

About two-third of Manitoba’s winter roads were open as of Jan. 29, including those to Garden Hill, Red Sucker Lake, St. Theresa Point, Wasagamack, Oxford House, Gods Lake Narrows, Pikwitonei and Thicket Portage.

The 11 roads yet to open included those to Brochet, Lac Brochet, Tadoule Lake, Pukatawagan, Ilford, York Landing, Gods River, Matheson Island, Stevenson Island, Poplar River, Little Grand Rapids and Pauingassi.

The provincial government said Jan. 26 that 13 of 23 communities that rely

on winter roads are now accessible and the remainder of the 2,400-kilometre network expected to be open within two weeks.

“Approximately $10 million will be spent this year to ensure our winter roads are suitable for the delivery of essential goods to remote Manitoba communities,” said Infrastructure Minister Ron Schuler in a press release. “Thanks to largely favourable conditions, more than half of all winter roads are already open.”

More than 2,500 shipments are delivered to isolated communities without

toba’s Elections Financing Act section 34 (2), which states: “The total value of all contributions made by an individual to one or more leadership contestants dur-

ing a particular leadership contest period must not exceed $3,000.”

About two-thirds of Kinew’s contributions came in denominations of $250

or more, with 78 contributors of at least $250 in total, including former cabinet colleagues of Ashton’s like Andrew Swan and James Allum.

year-round road access in a typical winter road season, the province says. The cost of the winter road system is split between the provincial and federal governments.

Sections of the road may close on short notice for repairs due to variable weather. Drivers hoping to travel on winter roads can check if they are open and find out the conditions by visiting www.manitoba511.ca, calling 511 or following the road closures Twitter account at www.twitter.com/ MBGovRoads. A Manitoba 511 app is also available at http:// residents.gov. mb.ca/511.html.

Man charged with murdering woman in St. Theresa Point A 34-year-old man is charged with seconddegree murder after a 35-year-old woman died in St. Theresa Point just after midnight Jan. 28.

Island Lake RCMP responded to a call about 12:15 a.m. on Sunday regarding a woman being

taken to the St. Theresa Point nursing station, where she was pronounced dead.

Investigation revealed that the woman had been assaulted and Jonathan Wood was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, 13 counts of

breaching a recognizance order and four counts of failing to comply with a probation order.

Wood remains in custody and the RCMP Major Crime Unit and forensic identification system are assisting the ongoing investigation.

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Council reaffirms commitment to new grant-in-lieu agreement, green lights cannabis retailers

BY KYLE DARBYSON KYLE@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET

The city’s 2018-2022 grant-in-lieu (GIL) agreement with Vale was once again the centre of attention during the Jan. 29 council meeting at City Hall.

Council approved this agreement, which slashed the amount of money Vale contributes to the city, the School District of Mystery Lake and the Local Government District of Mystery Lake by 20 per cent from the 2017 level, by a 7-2 vote at their Jan. 2 meeting, Coun. Ron Matechuk brought forward a motion to rescind that resolution at the Jan. 15 meeting, believing that the committee responsible for negotiating this new GIL agreement with Vale didn’t do their part in representing the community’s best interests.

Coun. Duncan Wong voted in favour of Matechuk’s motion to rescind on Jan. 29, saying that the committee and Mayor Dennis Fenske were not completely transparent with regards to how the negotiations played out.

Even though the mayor resigned from his position at Vale at the end of 2017, Wong suggested that Fenske’s previous ties with the company had something to do with this outcome, an accusation that the mayor vehemently denied.

“I don’t know how much clearer I can make this,” Fenske said addressing Wong. “The process was

Nickel Belt News photo by Kyle Darbyson Coun. Ron Matechuk explains why he wanted to rescind council’s approval of the new grant-in-lieu agreement during their Jan. 29 meeting at City Hall. followed. All of council was made aware of the updates.

Our legal representation reviewed with our staff … and at the end of the day this council passed a resolution to accept the grantand-lieu as was presented by parties involved.”

Coun. Judy Kolada also threw her support behind Matechuk’s motion to

rescind, saying the committee “should have had more emphasis on having a concern for the community that houses the Vale employees.”

However, Coun. Penny Byer, one of the members of the negotiating committee, said that because of the 1956 Agreement between the province and Inco, now inherited

by Vale, the city has very little leverage regarding the final amount. According to a formula in that agreement, Vale is only required to pay a minimum of around $1,455,213 in 2018, based on a projected average workforce

of approximately 1,050 employees (about $1,400 per employee).

“Both the company’s and the city’s situations are discussed. Is it a negotiation? No,” she said.

“And Coun. Kolada, who has been on previous GIL teams, of all people would know that or should know that.”

Matechuk wasn’t convinced, though.

“This committee was sent in to negotiate a fair grant-in-lieu of taxes,” he said. “I believe that this committee failed miserably … and was duped on a grand scale by being told that it is not a negotiation.”

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In the end, familiar battle lines were drawn, as council voted to reject this resolution to rescind 6-3, with only Matechuk, Wong and Kolada in favour.

LEGAL SALE OF MARIJUANA In stark contrast to their discussion about the GIL, council was in complete agreement about the prospect of regulating the sale of retail cannabis inside the City of Thompson.

While most of the councillors who spoke up during this part of the meeting cautioned the potential risks associated with this move – increased crime, more impaired driving – they also couldn’t deny that it could provide a boost to the local economy.

“There will be revenues from the sale of cannabis and the AMM, Association of Manitoba Municipalities, is lobbying hard on behalf of municipalities in Manitoba [to make sure] a large percentage of the revenue, the profits are turned back to municipalities,” said Byer.

Coun. Blake Ellis also pointed out that most other major Manitoba municipalities are moving forward with similar motions, which means that it would cost the city more to disallow the sale of cannabis.

“Whether you agree or disagree about the legalization of cannabis, if we don’t allow it our community we become an island,” he said. “Under the provincial legislation, in order to ban it from our community we would have to go to a plebiscite to our citizens and that’s an additional cost that the municipality would have to incur.”

Since the Manitoba government is projecting that cannabis retailers could begin operating in the province as early as July 2, council passed this resolution unanimously so that the administration could get started on preparing the necessary planning, zoning and licensing bylaw amendments to make this a reality in Thompson.

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The fall and human free will Is human nature after the fall so radically different in kind from human nature prior to the fall that human beings are unable to freely choose God? No. The answer lies in the distinction between habits and nature.

In the story of Adam and Eve, human beings were created as mature adult human beings. Maturity entails the rational control of one’s emotions and passions. It was just something that was given to them. This habit that is the subordination of emotions and passions to reason is called original righteousness or original justice, because it is right or fitting relationship between the two. It being given to them freely is called an infused grace from God, because it was not obtained through the normal human process of growth, wherein God and human beings work co-operatively to develop

human character. Technically, it was not a part of human nature, though it would have become the same if mature human beings had chosen to obey God in all things. Yet they failed the test of trusting.

Subsequent to the fall, that infused grace was removed and not made a part of human nature. Human emotions and passions are no longer naturally subordinated to human reason. Human beings are no longer born as adults fully mature; they are born as babies.

Maturity is now something that must be learned. The habit that is the subordination of the emotions and passions to human reason is now a process of repeated choice, building up the habit of virtue.

Concupiscence is name of failure in that process, the name for strong emotions and passions dominating human reason, from the Latin preposition “con”

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The mental powers that define the human mind and human nature (the power to be acted upon, the cognitive power to know, and the appetitive power to desire) are the same before and after the fall. The cognitive power to know is still able to know and understand descriptive, prescriptive and ontological truths, and to judge between true and false, right and wrong, perfect and imperfect. The appetitive power to freely choose is still able to choose

between real goods and apparent goods as ends and means and to form good habits to obtain and order those real and apparent goods. The content of what is rightly desired, what is really good for a human being because it fulfills a natural human need, remains the same before and after the fall. Hence there can be no radical difference in kind between the human nature before and after the fall. Man remains a rational animal possessing free will.

The only discernible difference is how habits are formed. Before the fall, hu-

man habits were infused; after the fall, human habits are learned. This is a superficial difference in degree, not kind; it is only a difference in length of time needed to acquire the habit. Most importantly, habits are not part of human nature; habits are products of nurture.

That being said, the so-called transmission of original sin though the generations is not the transmission of a something: bad habits of being unable to choose any real good related to God; it is the transmission of a nothing: the absence at birth of the good habits characteristic of a mature adult human being having the emotions or passions under the control or management of human reason. But for the story of the Adam and Eve, one might never have suspected how it is now was ever any different.

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graduate of University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School He is a criminal defence lawyer with 30 years experience, a member of the bars of Ontario, Alberta, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Manitoba.

He is a Senior Canadian Fellow at the Mortimer J. Adler Centre for the Studies of the Great Ideas, an American think-tank based in Chicago. He has published one book “Putting God on Trial: the biblical Book of Job,” a defence of God’s goodness in the face of his authorization of undeserved and unremitted evil in the life of Job and the world, which is taught at a number of Canadian, American and Indian universities and available through Amazon.

He is writing a second book “Putting Jesus on Trial: the biblical Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,” a defence of Jesus’ divinity.

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It appears that community water problems aren’t exclusive to Swan River.

Although, at the time of this writing, that central Manitoba town was faced with a loss of water throughout the entire community; five hours to the north, Snow Lake was recovering from a major water break that closed the school, uptown businesses, the community daycare and put the majority of the town on a boil water advisory.

Around suppertime on Jan. 24, people in the Snow Lake became aware of the problem through shared posts on a Facebook community bulletin board. Many noted that they had little or no water pressure and by 10 p.m. that evening the town’s chief administrative officer Ross Gilmore confirmed that a water main had “ruptured” near the community’s Joseph H. Kerr School. He noted that they would attempt to keep the water system charged and flowing to all neighbourhoods; however, the school, Wilfred T. Lipton Arena, Gordon M. Rupp Curling Rink, several businesses and the Brentwood Subdivision were reporting pressure that varied from low to none at all. Further to this, the town had applied for a dig permit and excavation of the line would begin as soon as it was received.

Ordinarily, when an underground water line breaks or leaks, water surfaces in a ditch or on the roadway giving workers

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some indication of where to dig. However, not so in this case; water never did surface. Snow Lake’s town foreman Andrew Smith advised in a further posting that the water main along the street in front of the school was installed directly over top the sewer main. “The sewer main is in very poor condition allowing water from the broken water main to flow directly into the sewer system and not showing itself on the surface of the roadway,” said Smith.

Due to depressurization of the waterline, a boil water advisory was issued by the province on the morning of Jan. 25. Following this, traffic was rerouted and town employees, supplemented by several contract workers, began the arduous task of locating and fixing the break. Working around the clock, they were able to determine the general area of the problem, but had trouble pinpointing the exact location. Using two excavators, one equipped with a ripper tooth to break through the frozen overburden, work continued until the leak was located.

“With over eight feet of frost and our water mains buried 10-feet, six inches below the surface, it made excavating the roadway extremely difficult and slow,” Smith added. “We located the break late Saturday morning (Jan. 27) and made the necessary repairs within a few

Marc Jackson

My Take on Snow Lake marc.jackson@post.com hours.” Cleanup lasted into Saturday evening, with the affected streets reopening to traffic by 8 p.m. that night.

By employing a temporary shunt between fire hydrants during the dig, workers were able to supply water at limited pressure to the Brentwood subdivision; certainly this helped prevent freezing of residential lines in the -30 Celsius temperatures.

Workers no sooner had the hoses rolled up, their equipment put away, and their feet up when they received another call to the community’s Sunset Bay Subdivision. Water had surfaced on the road on the corner of Lipsey Drive and McGilvray Avenue and the search for that leak began in haste. The vicinity of the leak had been located by Monday afternoon, but the leak had yet to be pinpointed.

The boil water advisory remains in effect until testing proves it potable.

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Another Lynn Lake home goes up in flames

Nickel Belt News photos courtesy of James Lindsay

BY IAN GRAHAM EDITOR@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET

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SUNDAY FEB 4

Eight days after battling a blaze that destroyed a home Jan. 19, members of the Lynn Lake Fire Department (LLFD) were back on the job Jan. 27 at a fire on Sherritt Avenue that destroyed a two-storey home.

LLFD Chief James Lindsay said firefighters were paged around 6:20 p.m. on Saturday and began arriving on scene within four minutes, some having seen the house on their way to the hall and reporting that it was already fully involved.

Nine firefighters brought the blaze under control by 8 p.m. when two members with pre-existing medical conditions left the scene.

The other seven continued to extinguish the main floor and advance on the secondfloor through a front bedroom window.

Lindsay, who was travelling home from Thompson when the page came in, arrived at the fire about 10:30 p.m., when it was still continuing to burn in three locations under the roof. Four hours later, the department decided to allow the fire to breach the roof in a controlled manner since the home was already a total loss.

“We would not be placing our members at any undue risk to save a structure that was already halfway to the landfill,” said Lindsay in an email to the Nickel Belt News.

Lindsay and another firefighter remained at the scene to control any flareups after the other firefighters were sent home at 3:30 a.m. Six hours later, six firefighters returned to help finish the job.

“The other firefighter who remained on scene all night was sent home to rest with my thanks and gratitude,” said Lindsay.

The fire was fully extinguished by 1:30 p.m. Jan. 28 with no injuries to occupants or firefighters.

A Jan. 27 fire that destroyed a two-storey home in Lynn Lake took more than 18 hours to extinguish.

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Proud to recognize RCMP for dedication and commitment This week, it has been my pleasure to publicly recognize and thank all RCwMP members throughout the country for their hard work, dedication and commitment. Thursday, Feb. 1 was the second Royal Canadian Mounted Police Day in Manitoba as a result of Bill 208, which had been introduced by Emerson Progressive Conservative MLA Cliff Graydon, passing in the Manitoba legislature and becoming law.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Day Act designates every Feb. 1 as Royal Canadian Mounted

Police Day in our province. The RCMP is part of Manitoba’s history dating back to 1873 when its predecessor, the North-West Mounted Police, was first based here to enforce the law in Canada’s newly acquired territory in Western Canada. In 1919, Parliament voted to form a national police force by merging the North-West Mounted Police and the Dominion Police of Eastern Canada, and on Feb. 1, 1920, the newly formed force was named the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

This Royal Canadian

Faculty of Social Work

Northern Social Work Program The University of Manitoba, Faculty of Social Work at Thompson is now accepting applications for the Northern Social Work Program. The deadline for submitting applications is March 1, 2018. The program is scheduled to begin September 2018. Students may complete the Northern Social Work Program as a full-time or part-time student.

The program provides post-secondary education for Residents of Northern Manitoba, in particular those who have not had the opportunity due to economic and cultural reasons, lack of formal education, linguistic barriers or residence in remote areas. Relocation to Thompson will be required.

Individuals can apply either under ACCESS or EXTERNAL categories. The ACCESS category is for mature students, 21 years or over, who have under 30 credit hours of university level courses. The EXTERNAL category is for regular students who have 30 credit hours or more of university level courses and are in good academic standing. For both categories, applicants must have resided in Northern Manitoba for 6 months or more prior to the application deadline or have been a long term resident of the North.

For information or applications contact the Faculty of Social Work at Thompson at 204-677-1450 or No Charge Dial 1-866237-5509 or visit http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/social_work/ programs/northern/591.html

MLA Report

Kelly Bindle

kelly.bindle.mla.office@gmail.com Constituency Office: Unit 3-40 Moak Crescent Thompson, MB R8N 2B7 204-677-2066

Mounted Police Day Act recognizes that history and the important role the RCMP plays in keeping our communities safe, as well as the fact that men and women of the RCMP have given much in service and sacrifice.

Separately, I found it wonderful to participate in the Close to Home Clinical Care Transition Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO) Health Directors meeting in Thompson this week.

Health care is the top

priority in the north and throughout the province.

Our government inherited a health-care system in which Manitobans waited longer for access to emergency departments than anywhere else in Canada, and changing that is necessary.

Our government’s new provincial organization, Shared Health, is leading the development of a provincial clinical and preventative services plan including a full review of rural health care.

This week’s MKO Health Directors meeting will

help to identify healthcare needs unique to Indigenous rural, northern and remote communities, as well as opportunities to provide better care, faster, for generations to come. I wish to thank MKO Grand Chief Sheila North Wilson for inviting me to attend, as well as MKO facilitators Inez Vystrcil-Spence, Moriah Davis, Karen Anderson, Abishek Sharma and all the guest speakers, participants and attendees for working to improve health care in our province.

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Nickel Belt News photos by Kyle Darbyson Jessica Castel poses for a photo with members of Thompson Fire & Emergency Services during her 24-hour run as fire chief on Jan. 26.

Fire chief for a day

BY KYLE DARBYSON KYLE@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET

On Jan. 26, Thompson Fire & Emergency Services was under new leadership for a 24-hour period.

Jessica Castel, a Grade 4 student from Burntwood Elementary School, won the chance to take over as the station’s fire chief after sketching a emergency escape plan for fire prevention week back in October 2017.

Not only did Castel re-

ceive a television and an Xbox One for her drawing, but she also got to hang out with local Thompson firefighters and boss them around.

After being pulled out of class in the morning, Castel had to contend with a full afternoon schedule that involved inspecting the fire station, meeting with city officials, eating ice cream and riding around in a fire truck.

Jessica Castel takes over the office belonging to now-reinstated Thompson Fire Chief John Maskerine.

Jessica Castel and deputy fire chief Shelby Brown pay a visit to deputy mayor Colleen Smook at City Hall.

Jessica Castel gets behind the wheel of a local fire engine before going out for a drive.

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ST. JAMES ANGLICAN 10 Caribou 677-4652 11 am Sundays ST. JOSEPH UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC 340 Juniper Drive 778-7547 ST. LAWRENCE ROMAN CATHOLIC Fr Shantha Gandamalla and Fr Guna Sekhar 114 Cree R. 677-0160 Sat. 6:30 pm & Sun. 10 am THOMPSON PENTECOSTAL Pastor Dan Murphy Youth Pastor Colton Murphy Children’s Pastor Karen O’Gilvie 126 Goldeye 677-3435 thompsonchurch.ca Sunday school 9:45 am, coffee time at 10:40 am Church Service at 11:00 am ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN 249 Thompson Drive 204-677-2799 Pastor Murat Kuntel Regular Hours: 11 am Church service CHRISTIAN CENTRE FELLOWSHIP 328 Thompson Dr. N. 677-4457 Sun. School 9:45 am • service 11 am FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 456 Westwood Dr. S. Ph. 778-8037 service @ 11 am LUTHERAN - UNITED CHURCH OF THOMPSON Congregations worship at 52 Caribou Rd. at 10:30 am Sundays.

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LIVING WATER CHURCH Pastor Archie McKay Ph: 677-2469 Sunday services @ 7:00pm.

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Munn Cup expected to host 21 teams in 2018

BY KYLE DARBYSON KYLE@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET

The Munn Cup atom hockey tournament has been a Thompson staple for almost the last half-century and the 48th iteration of this event is gearing up to be the biggest one in years.

While the number of participants has recently hovered around eight teams, Dayna Waring, the tournament’s communications chair, said they are expecting to host 21 teams from Feb. 16-18.

This group of competitors includes three hometown groups—the atom A and

AA Thompson King Miners and the atom B Carroll Aeros— and another 19 teams that hail from throughout the north, including Rankin Inlet, Nunavut.

“So it’s a big tournament for the north and we should see a lot of our hotels full as a result,” said Waring.

The communications chair also mentioned that this year’s Munn Cup will feature the traditional office events, including a free pancake breakfast and a “fun night” where all the tournament’s participants are invited to hang out

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For more information on the 2018 Munn Cup, please contact Waring at: daynabwaring@gmail.com.

Right: Members of the atom A and AA Thompson King Miners and atom B Carroll Aeros get in formation at the Thompson Regional Community Centre Jan. 27 to celebrate the upcoming 48th-annual Munn Cup tournament.

Below: Shaw TV host Bruce Krentz chats with members of the atom AA Thompson King Miners about their participation in the upcoming Munn Cup tournament.

Nickel Belt News photos by Kyle Darbyson

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