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One positive COVID-19 test in the north among 24 new cases in Manitoba announced March 30

BY IAN GRAHAM

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One person has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus in the Northern Regional Health Authority (NRHA) area, chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin said at a press conference about the province’s coronavirus pandemic situation March 30.

The positive test was among 24 new probable or confirmed tests for COVID-19 announced by the provincial government on Monday, which brings the total number of cases in Manitoba so far to 96.

Four of the 96 people who have tested positive are currently in hospital, Roussin said, including one who is in intensive care. One person in Manitoba has died so far as a result of contracting COVID-19. Two people are listed as having recovered.

Roussin said he did not know when the positive test from the NRHA area was conducted and did not provide information about where the person who tested positive lives.

A woman from the Flin Flon area posted on a community Facebook group that

her daughter, who travelled outside of Canada in early March, was tested for COVID-19 last week and received news that she had tested positive for the virus.

Roussin said people should not make assumptions about their risk of exposure to the novel corona-

virus based on the number of probable or confirmed cases within their health region.

“It’s not really to change people’s behaviour,” Roussin said while addressing why COVID-19 cases are broken down by health region, saying that people

should practise physical and social distancing by staying home and away from other people as much as possible regardless of how many positive tests there have been in the area where they live.

Manitoba chief nursing officer Lanette Siragusa said that medical staff from within Manitoba who travel to other parts of the province for short-term work assignments have been instructed to stay home when they are sick to reduce the risk of exposing anyone to COVID-19 or other viruses and that organizations outside the province who provide temporary health care workers follow the same advice.

“We’ve been in contact with some of the agencies that provide staff from out of province that they should stay home if sick,” she said

Non-critical Manitoba businesses ordered to close April 1 for at least two weeks

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Non-critical businesses in Manitoba have been ordered to shut their doors to the public at 12:01 a.m.

April 1 for a period of at least two weeks as part of COVID-19 pandemic measures, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister an-

nounced at a March 30 news conference.

The Public Health Act order requires restaurants to stop serving food to customers on the premises, though they can still provide food through take out and delivery. Grocery stores can continue to operate, as can liquor and can-

Thompson RCMP investigating woman’s death A 52-year-old woman, originally from Shamattawa, died in Thompson General Hospital March 29 after being found in medical distress near Selkirk Avenue.

Thompson RCMP and Thompson Fire & Emergency Services (TFES) both responded to a report of a woman needing medical attention behind a business on Selkirk Avenue around noon Sunday. Paramedics were on the scene first and began providing medical care to the woman. She was then transported to hospital where she was later pronounced dead.

Thompson RCMP and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner are investigating.

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nabis stores, taxis, public transportation services, gas stations, hotels and all levels of government, among others.

Businesses that are not deemed essential can still take orders and operate remotely, and employees or others can still attend the businesses to provide security, perform repairs or take items off the premises if they are going to continue to operate remotely.

Mining operations are not subject to the shutdown, nor are utilities such as Manitoba Hydro.

Homeless shelters and other social service or health care providers can

continue to operate.

The closure of non-critical businesses will last until at least April 14.

Businesses that are allowed to continue operating must take steps to ensure physical distancing between their customers, though there isn’t a specific limit on the number of passengers a bus or airline can transport, said chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin.

“We need to continue to escalate our social distancing recommendations,” Roussin said. “If you are able to, stay home. You need to practise social distancing, physical distancing

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at all times. These orders are furthering that action that we’ve been taking all along.”

Pallister said the majority of Manitobans are doing their part to help lessen the impact of COVID-19, even through some of the steps cause personal and financial hardship.

“These practices will pay dividends down the road,” said the premier. “This is not a sprint. This is a marathon.”

A full list of public health orders currently under effect and a schedule of the businesses that can remain open can be found at www.manitoba.ca/covid19/soe.html.

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Podcasters ponder pandemic in latest episode

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EDITOR@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET Thompson’s homegrown Snow Day Podcast, produced by one current resident and three former Thompsonites, tackled the biggest topic in the world–the novel coronavirus– in their latest episode, recorded March 19 and released March 24.

“It’s what everybody in the world is talking about right now, almost literally, so if we were in a basement there’s noway we wouldn’t be talking about this,” said Krentz in the episode’s introduction.

The episode about a natural disaster is sort of a return to the podcast’s genesis, which came when the Krentz and the other four podcasters – Dr. George Alvarez, Stephen DeGroot and Les Hansen – were stuck in Thompson following a funeral by the blizzard of March 2017.

Hansen, who lives in Toronto, the biggest city in Canada

and in one of the provinces hit hardest by the pandemic so far, said it has flipped his world upside down.

“It has changed completely on its head in a very fast-paced, short amount of time,” he observed. “I shut down my office for my software company last week, sent everybody home, everybody’s working from home.”

The pandemic has also prompted different reactions for the four, with Krentz saying he feels unsettled because the uncertainty of what is going to happen conflicts with his tendency to be a planner, while Alvarez, an intensive care doctor, is feeling calm.

“I feel uber-focused,” he said. “I have this weird serenity.”

Hansen said his trips to the supermarket and driving around a mostly-deserted Toronto were eerie.

“There was a palpable ten-

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sion amongst people in the store, people lining up to hoard toilet paper and bottled water,” he said. “It’s unsettling.”

The podcasters also talked about how people working from home or not working at all need to maintain some sort of a routine, with Krentz noting that he gets up at the same time as he did when he had to leave his house for work, puts on work clothes and starts working at the same time.

“It’s so important in a time like this when you don’t have control to have a routine,” said DeGroot.

The nearly daily announcement of policies like school closures and limiting public gatherings are unrolled the way they are on purpose, says Alvarez.

“If everything in the last 10 days was done in one day you could imagine the true panic that would ensue,” he said, though they will still have a long-term impact. “This will be tattooed into the psyche for quite a while.”

Krentz said compliance with social distancing measures will be difficult to maintain.

“Staying the course is going to be the harder part,” he said.

“How do we keep that up and I hope that we can and we do.

That feels like a long shift.”

To listen to the podcast, search for Snow Day Podcast on a podcatching app or go to https://snowdaypod.podbean. com/e/snow-day-e32-covidmarch-19-2020/.

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Coronavirus pandemic precautions disrupt European field trip, could wipe out last few months of high school for Grade 12 students

BY IAN GRAHAM

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An educational field trip to Europe was supposed to be the last big high school milestone for Jaiden Crocker before prom and, finally, graduation.

But now, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, all those plans are up in the air and she doesn’t know if she will get to go on the trip she spent many hours fundraising for.

Crocker, who is in Grade 12, signed up last spring for a trip to Europe with EF Educational Tours Canada.

She and fellow classmates were supposed to take part in celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands from Nazi occupation and visit other significant First World War and Second World War sites in Belgium and France, including Anne Frank House and Vimy Ridge and the farm where Canadian Lt. Col. John McCrae wrote “In Flanders Field.”

But as the novel coronavirus spread to dozens of countries, including Canada, that trip was postponed and she may not be able to get a refund.

“In plain terms, I was pretty upset” when she was

informed in mid-March that the tour wouldn’t be going ahead as planned, says Crocker. The news came shortly after the final payment was made for the tour, which cost around $5,000 per student.

In addition to cash payments, Crocker and other students who were going on the trip had spent many hours fundraising by selling food items and running the canteen and 50-50 draws during Royal Canadian Legion bingo nights last spring and since the beginning of the current school year.

“I did it like every week,” Crocker says.

And, if the pandemic drags on, she may not get the trip she planned on or the money she paid for it back.

In an FAQ section of the EF Education Tours Canada website, the company said it is working with groups who planned to travel in 2020 to change the dates of those tours, amend an existing itinerary or change to a different tour, or arrange for each traveller to receive a future travel voucher.

Vouchers can be used for EF’s educational tours, as well as for tours for high school graduates, gap year

tours, language schools, cultural tours or group travel for 18- to 29-year-olds.

Vouchers are transferable, so they can be sold or transferred to a family member or someone else in the same school or community. They are issued in the amount of all the money paid by a traveller for their originally scheduled tour, minus a $199 non-refundable deposit and any additional non-refundable fees, such as the cost of the Global travel Protection Plan, if it was purchased.

“We are continuing to work with our groups, their schools, and individual families to provide flexible options for tours that have already been booked, including extending our Peace of Mind program to all tours no matter how close they are to their departure date; and to ensure that everyone feels safe as they select a modified option that works best,” said EF Educational Tours Canada in an emailed response to an inquiry from the Thompson Citizen regarding the reason only future travel vouchers and not refunds would be provided to participants whose scheduled trips were impacted by the

COVID-19 pandemic. “Our Peace of Mind program allows groups to change their itinerary, destination, or departure date or take a transferable voucher, which can be used for any tours in the EF family of programs or at EF’s International Language Campuses.”

EF Educational Tours Canada also said that if a group, its leader, a school or a school board cancelled a tour scheduled with the company, that travellers who purchased travel insurance may be able to make insurance claims.

Crocker would prefer a refund for the trip back than a different trip at a future date.

“I’d rather just have the money to save it for university than have to plan something all over again,” said Crocker, who is supposed to start classes at the University of Manitoba in September.

Not knowing what will happen regarding this tour is only one part of the larger uncertainty facing all students in Manitoba, though it is especially concerning to those who were in their last four months of high school.

“We went to school our whole life just to walk

across the stage and we might not even be able to get to do that,” said Crocker, who came to Thompson when she was in Grade 5.

Although school in the province is currently only cancelled until April 10, the interruption may last longer, perhaps the rest of the school year, which would mean no prom.

“A bunch of girls I know already have their dress-

es,” said Crocker. “They already have these dresses and we might not even get to wear them. We don’t know if we’re going to see the people that we’ve been going to school with our whole lives. I just hope that everything gets under control and it doesn’t get worse here and that we can go back to school and finish off our senior year the way that it should have been.”

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 April 13, 2020. The program is scheduled to begin September 2020. Students may complete the Northern Social Work Program as a full-time or part-time student.

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 information or applications contact the Faculty of Social Work at Thompson at 204-677-1450 or No Charge Dial 1-866-237-5509 or visit http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/ social_work/programs/northern/591.html

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Tenders will be received by the Purchasing Agent at City Hall, 226 Mystery Lake Road, Thompson, MB. R8N 1S6. Tender details and closing dates are as follow:

The automated carts must be placed along your curb no later than 8 am on the day of scheduled pickup AT LEAST one metre apart from other cart/objects. No Parking on residential streets between the hours of 8 am and 4:30 pm during Garbage/Recycle days for that area. Example: if it is Westwood’s Garbage/Recycle day there is to be no parking on the residential streets in the Westwood Area. This is to aid in the safety for both the residents of Thompson as well as City crews.

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Wednesday, April 1, 2020, at 03:00 P.M. (CST) RFP #20-12946 – SUPPLY AND INSTALLATION OF ONE (1) ELECTRIC DESICCANT DEHUMIDIFIER AT THE THOMPSON REGIONAL COMMUNITY CENTRE Wednesday, April 8, 2020, at 03:00 P.M. (CST) RFT # 20-12942 – WATER AND SEWER RENEWALS FOR THE CITY OF THOMPSON Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at 03:00 P.M. (CST) RFT #20-12947 – SUPPLY OF COLD PATCHING MATERIAL TO THE CITY OF THOMPSON RFT #20-12948 – SUPPLY OF READY MIX CONCRETE TO THE CITY OF THOMPSON RFT #20-12949 – SUPPLY OF ONE (1) MEDIUM DUTY FLEX WING MOWER TO THE CITY OF THOMPSON Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 03:00 P.M. (CST) RFT #20-12950 – SUPPLY OF ONE (1) WATER LEAK NOISE CORRELATOR TO THE CITY OF THOMPSON Bid documents may be obtained from the office of the Purchasing Agent, 120 Seal Road, Thompson, MB. Phone (204) 677-7974, email purchasingagent@thompson.ca between the hours of 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.

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The lowest or any submission need not be accepted by the City of Thompson. The City shall have the right to evaluate competing bids in accordance with its own criteria for evaluation applied to the work being proposed, whether or not such criteria has been expressly related to the Proponents. The City of Thompson reserves the right to award work to the Proponent which it deems to be in the best interest of the City.

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A planned reduction of the provincial sales tax, from seven per cent to six per cent, scheduled for July 1, will not go ahead this year as a result of the pandemic, Pallister said.

The federal government’s credit rating allows it to borrow money for as much as one percentage point less than provinces can, the premier says.

“They’ll pay a lot less to get that money,” he said. “If we can borrow at one per cent less then we’re going to have the funds available for health care.”

Health care is the big-

gest expense provinces have, Pallister said in a press release, accounting for nearly half of most provincial budgets.

“Different provinces are going to run into liquidity problems,” Pallister said.

“The reality is our economies have slowed down because people have to stay away from work.”

Manitoba NDP leader Wab Kinew said in emailed statement that Pallister should be making sure Manitobans have the health care resources and other supports necessary to cope with the novel coronavirus pandemic first and worrying about the funding of them

later.

“Manitobans need help today - front line health care workers need more supports, regular workers need help making ends meet, and businesses need help meeting payroll,” said Kinew. “Yet there was no announcement of any new program to help struggling Manitobans today. Funding our health care system properly has never been more important than right now - and Mr. Pallister’s history of underfunding health care and cutting ICU [intensive care unit] beds have forced us to play catch up in the middle of a pandemic.”

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School board opts for status quo, School board opts for status quo, School board opts for status quo, School board opts for status quo, Travel into Lac nowquo, requires School board opts forBrochet status prior approval of chief and council which way will city council go? which way will city council go? which way will city council go? which way will city council go? which way will city council go?

B B B B B Man with knife pepper sprayed and disarmed in Garden Hill First Nation

with an opinion – for- bers and, given that ment that it spreads the One of the arguments would only be true if with an opinion – for- bers and, given that ment that it spreads the One of the arguments would only be true if are?

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An entrepreneur who won a provincial business award after taking over Calm Air when her husband Arnold died, Gail Morberg was also a noted philanthropist and a dedicated volunteer.

Morberg died Feb. 27 at the age of 79, just a few months shy of her 80th birthday, leaving Manitoba without one of its most generous donors to organizations in the north and Winnipeg.

“She was a very generous soul and a person that, if you did know her and she asked you to do something, it was very hard to say no,” says Sandra Ross-Hitch who worked for Calm Air for 16 years while the Morbergs were the owners, including the four years between Arnold Morberg’s death in 2005 and the sale of the company for $59 million to Exchange Income Corporation in 2009. “She just had that knack, that personality that made you want to do things for her, for your community because she’s asking

Gail Morberg you to and that takes a talent.

She was a special woman. People wanted to follow her because she was doing that first.”

Born in Saskatoon in 1940, Gail co-founded Calm Air with Arnold in Stony Rapids in 1962 and together they grew it into the

largest privately owned airline in Canada, eventually relocating its headquarters first to Lynn Lake and then to Thompson.

“She made you feel like you were a part of a family and that’s what I’ll miss about both of my employer parents now passing

away,” said Ross-Hitch.

Morberg became well-known for her generosity in Winnipeg after selling the airline, financing the construction of a new kitchen at Siloam Mission and purchasing a St.Boniface home for $550,000 to turn it into a residence for homeless people. She also donated $1 million to A Port in the Storm for their efforts to establish a residence for northern and rural patients who have to travel to Winnipeg for medical treatment after having previously contributed $100,000 to the organization in 2009. She also donated $25,000 to Thompson’s Northern Spirit Manor for the purchase of a handivan because one of Calm Air’s former employees was a resident there.

One of the founding board members of the Thompson Community Foundation, which now gives away over $100,000 locally per year, Gail and her late husband were inducted into the order of Thompson in 2011 and she was also named Manitoba Business

Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008.

“Arnold passed away so then she stepped up and she was actually in the company in every day after that,” recalls RossHitch. “Of course she had a president in Gary Beaurivage but she was in every day and would see employees and that and make sure that everything was running smoothly. She just stepped in and there was no misstep. It was like, ‘OK, Dad’s not here anymore but mom’s stepping in,’ like normal parents do in a family atmosphere. Mom’s now in charge. It’s the end of an era for many employees that started to work for Calm Air that felt like they were a part of a family and now our parents are gone.”

A celebration of Morberg’s life was originally planned in Winnipeg for what would have been her 80th birthday April 15 but was postponed until June 19 due to the ban on large public gatherings imposed as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Two bus lines running between Thompson and Winnipeg have suspended passenger service temporarily

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Two of the bus lines that normally run between Thompson and Winnipeg have temporarily stopped, as NCN Thompson Bus announced March 25 that it is suspending its passenger services, though still transporting freight, until April 12.

“The safety of our employees, clients and community is more important than travelling between our locations, the ability to be on

buses, like airplanes to social distance is extremely challenging and we don’t want to endanger anyone’s well-being,” said NCN Thompson Bus in a Facebook post last Wednesday. “We continue to monitor the situation closely with Manitoba Health and plan to be back in full operation on April 12th unless other events develop.”

Mahihkan Bus Lines announced March 18 that service between Thompson and Winnipeg and between The Pas and Thompson would

be suspended for two weeks.

Maple Bus Lines said in a service bulletin posted on its Facebook page March 24 that it is still providing service between Thompson and Winnipeg every night from Sunday to Friday.

“We are employing a new social distancing on our coaches where passengers will be seated at every second row of seats to space everyone out,” said the bulletin. “This is not optional and has to be done to minimize any risks to our passen-

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gers. We are still following strict sanitizing guidelines and will continue to do so every time a coach is used.”

Calm Air is currently operating on a reduced schedule, offering one morning flight from Winnipeg to Thompson Monday to Friday and one afternoon flight from Thompson to Winnipeg Monday to Friday. Flights to Gillam and Churchill depart from Winnipeg every Tuesday and Thursday morning, stopping in Thompson en route. Flights from Churchill and Gillam to Winnipeg leave Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, stopping in Thompson along the way.

Perimeter Aviation said March 17 that it had instituted screening for passengers and that anyone with a confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infection would

NCN Thompson Bus announced March 25 that it is suspending passenger bus services until April 12, though it is still transporting freight. not be allowed to board its planes. The airline also said it is in the process of finalizing a new flight schedule to ensure the communities it serves would continue to receive regular service with enough capacity to move all passengers, cargo and mail without delays or interruptions.

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N.C. Crossroad Lanes 10 Pin & 5 Pin Bowling • Glow Bowling Sports Bar • Strikers Lounge Homemade Pizza • VLTs • Video Games Computerized Scoring • Birthday Parties Twoonie Tuesdays • Closed Sundays + Holidays 2nd Floor North Centre Mall - 677-4415 Nick Di Virgilio, Proprietor

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