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Friday, June 18, 2021

Thompson, Manitoba

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Self-taught custom cake maker vying to win greatest baker online contest

BY IAN GRAHAM

EDITOR@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET

A self-taught custom cake baker from Thompson is trying to move on to the next round of the online Greatest Baker competition. Mary-Lou Linklater is in the quarterfinal round of the competition and currently in second place in her group. Only the person with the most votes by June 17 by 9 p.m. central time will move on to the semifinals. Linklater originally got the idea of making custom cakes after she had difficulty getting a wedding

cake made. She taught her self the basics by watching YouTube videos and says that since then, she’s usually been successful at making customer’s cake dreams come true. “I like taking on challenging cake orders,” Linklater told the Thompson Citizen. “If someone comes to me with a custom cake and they want something and it interests me, the type of design they would like, then I take it as challenge and usually, 99 per cent of the time, it’s bang on.” Linklater was convinced to enter the contest by

family and friends. “A couple of my friends kept sending me the link to register, so friends and family kind of pushed me into it,” she says. They also helped keep her near the top of the leaderboard. “I held first place for the first three weeks,” Linklater says. “I was actually really surprised with the amount of support my friends and family have given me." It’s the first contest Linklater has ever entered. “I’ve never entered into any other contest ever before so this is all new to me

and it’s really exciting.” If she were to win, she would be featured in Bake From Scratch magazine, win a year’s supply of Stuffed Puffs and $20,000 that she would put towards expanding her custom cake business. “I would definitely try to start up a bakery for myself, convert my garage or one of my rooms into a little commercial kitchen,” Linklater says. One vote per Facebook account for day can be cast for Linklater at https:// greatestbaker.com/2021/ mary-lou-linklater.

Thompson Citizen photo courtesy of Mary Lou Linklater Mary-Lou Linklater of Thompson is trying to advance to the semifinals of the Greatest Baker online competition.

Most northern health districts have 10 or more active COVID cases as of June 14

BY IAN GRAHAM

EDITOR@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET

A majority of the health districts in Northern Manitoba had 10 or more active cases of COVID-19 as of June 14, with The Pas/Opaskwayak/Kelsey ahead by dozens with a total of 97 active cases. Fourteen new cases of the virus were reported in the north on Monday. Shamattawa/York Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake and Island Lake have the second and third highest number of active cases, with 39 and 38 respectively, followed by Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry/ Sherridon and Thompson/ Mystery Lake with 14 each. Four other districts have active case totals in the 11 to 13 range. 124 new cases of the virus were reported across Manitoba on Monday, including 80 in Winnipeg, 19 in the southern health region, seven in the Prairie Mountain health region and four in the Interlake-Eastern region. The five-day test positivity rate in the province June 14

was 10.7 per cent and two new deaths from COVID-19 were reported, taking the provincial total to 1,102. The 54th northerner to die from the virus, a man in his 70s with an infection caused by the B.1.1.7 variant, was announced over the weekend. 271 people were in Manitoba hospitals as a result of COVID-19 on Monday, including 60 in intensive care. Another 26 Manitobans are in intensive care units in Ontario and Saskatchewan. 26 who previously were being treated in ICUs outside the province have returned to Manitoba so far. There are 10 northern residents in hospital due to the virus, three of them in intensive care. There were two people linked to Thompson schools who tested positive for COVID-19 in the two weeks leading up to June 8 – one at Burntwood School and one at Riverside – as well as two at Mel Jonson School in Wabowden. There have been 515 COVID cases caused by vari-

ants of concern in the north so far, including 458 caused by the B.1.1.7 variant first identified in the United Kingdom and 26 by the B.1.617.2 variant, a sub-type of a variant first identified in India, also known as the Delta variant. 29 of the northern variant cases are unspecified variants. Although dropping case numbers and test positivity are good signs, chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin said June 14 that there is still risk. “The Delta variant does provide a risk to us. We’ll have to see how that Delta variant propagates here,” he said. “This is exactly why our reopening plans are cautious.” He also asked people to avoid the urge to gather in large groups to celebrate Father’s Day June 20. “This is another special occasion we’re not going to be able to celebrate the same way we did before the pandemic.” 69.3 per cent of Manitobans aged 12 and up have now received at least one dose of COViD-19 vaccine.

In the north the rate is 63.4 per cent and only three health districts have less than 60 per cent of residents at least partially vaccinated. Roussin said Manitoba was on its way to meeting its target of having 25 per cent of residents fully vaccinated by

Canada Day, as outlined in its reopening plan. “We’re going to meet that target before July 1,” said Roussin, encouraging people to get first doses of vaccine as soon as possible and second doses as soon as they are eligible, noting that vaccinated

people are not requiring hospitalization or ICU admission as a result of their infections at this point. Eligibility for second doses expanded Monday to include anyone who receive their first dose of vaccine up to and including May 10.

Cross Lake RCMP search turns up cocaine and cash, one man arrested

Wabowden RCMP use taser to subdue agitated man who threatened officers with a knife A Wabowden RCMP officer used a taser on a knife-wielding man June 9 after he was removed from a bus for being unruly. Police were called around 11:20 p.m. and found the man walking along Fleming Drive in Wabowden towards Highway 6. As an officer approached, the agitated man turned and pulled a knife from his waistband, then walked toward the officer in what

an RCMP press release described as a “threatening manner.” The officer advised the man he was under arrest and ordered him to drop the knife but the man did not comply. A second officer arrived on the scene and the suspect attempted to walk away, still holding the knife and uttering threats. One of the officers used a conducted energy weapon on the suspect, at which point the man

complied with the officers’ demand that he lie down. He was then taken into custody. A 30-year-old man from Tadoule Lake is charged with resisting arrest, uttering threats, possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose, carrying a concealed weapon and assaulting a police officer with a weapon. He remains in police custody and Wabowden RCMP continue to investigate.

RCMP photo Cross Lake RCMP seized cocaine and cash from a residence June 4 and arrested a man for drug trafficking. Cross Lake RCMP seized 10 grams of cocaine, money and drug paraphernalia while searching a residence on Mcleods Island June 4. Police executed a search warrant at the residence just before 11 p.m. June 4 and arrested a 45-year-old man on charges of drug trafficking, possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking and possession of property obtained by crime. He was released until a court date in Thompson on Aug. 27 and Cross Lake RCMP continue to investigate.

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Manitoba reopening plan bases restriction reductions on specific vaccination targets by three summer holidays BY IAN GRAHAM

EDITOR@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister announced a re-

opening plan June 10 that ties easing of public health restrictions to reaching specific targets for first and

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second dose vaccinations by set dates this summer. The 4-3-2-One Great Summer plan sets benchmarks for vaccinations by Canada Day, the August long weekend and Labour Day. The numbers in the plan refer to those three dates, four reopening categories – gathering and socializing, travel and tourism, shopping and services, and dining out and entertainment – and two responsibilities of Manitobans – getting vaccinated and following public health orders. If 70 per cent of Mani-

tobans aged 12 and up have received first doses of COVID vaccines by Canada Day and 25 per cent have gotten second doses, businesses, services and facilities can reopen at 25 per cent or greater capacity levels. If 75 per cent of the eligible population has first vaccine doses and 50 per cent have second doses by the August long weekend, capacity can be increased to 50 per cent or greater. If 80 per cent of those eligible have first doses and 75 per cent have second doses by Labour Day, businesses, services

and facilities can operate our ICUs,” said Roussin. with limited restrictions. Pallister said that if “Those are hit, we get the vaccination goals are our freedoms back, it’s that reached earlier than the simple,” said the premier, milestone holidays, restricthough chief provincial tions could be lifted faster educentr.dumont@gmail.com public health officer Dr. and vice-versa. Brent Roussin said specific “If we do worse then public health order chanwe’re not going to get our Sister Andrea Dumont ges would be based on freedoms back as fast.” other factors as well, inThe premier also said cluding case numbers, the that the exemption from test positivity rate and the self-isolation upon redemand on the health care turning to the province system. from other jurisdictions “If we start reaching for Manitobans who are these levels [of vaccina- fully vaccinated will also tion] we’re not going to apply to fully vaccinated expect to see high test visitors arriving from other positivity or demand on provinces.

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Outdoor gatherings of up to five people allowed on private property and in public places since June 12 BY IAN GRAHAM

EDITOR@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET

Manitoba made very minor changes to its COVD-19 public health orders June 9 by allowing outdoor gatherings of up to five people outdoors, though indoor gatherings with people from outside your household remain prohibited. “These are the only changes that will be occurring

at this time,” chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin said at a press conference last Wednesday afternoon. “We still have significant demands on our health care system.” Retails store capacity remains at 10 per cent or 100 people, whichever is less, and restaurants, bars, museums, libraries, galleries, hairdressers and other personal service businesses must remain closed, except for takeout, delivery or curbside services. Although the orders, which take effect June 12, do not specify that people must only visit with designated people, Roussin said

Manitobans should not be normal pre-pandemic basevastly increasing their close line of 72 ICU beds, said contacts and that people chief nursing officer Lanette from different households Siragusa. should wear masks and “Our hospitals are still practise physical distancing feeling stretched,” she said. when gathering outside. "Patients continue to be ad“While the risk of trans- mitted to ICU in very high mission of the virus is cer- numbers.” tainly diminished in the outOver 24 hours from June side setting, it’s not zero,” 8-9, eight patients were adRoussin said. mitted to intensive care, she The public health orders said, and 24 were admitted will be in place until at least in a 48-hour period over the June 26. previous weekend. The number of ManiNew travel orders intobans currently being treat- cluding an exemption ed in intensive care units, from self-isolation for fully both inside and outsidekelly.bindle.mla.offi the vaccinated ce@gmail.com Manitobans reprovince, for COVID-19 turning from other provConstituency Office: and other reasons, is far inces were being drafted Unit 3-40 Moak Crescent higher than the province’s and took effect June 11. Thompson, MB R8N 2B7 204-677-2066 Kelly Bindle

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Manitoba will award 14 $100,000 prizes and 20 $25,000 scholarships through two lotteries for all of the province’s residents who are partially or fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by early August and early September. Each of the two draws of the lottery, announced June 9, will see one prize awarded in the Northern Regional Health Authority area and Churchill (which is administered by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority) and one each in the southern, Interlake-Eastern and Prairie Mountain health regions as well as three in the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. The scholarships will be for youth aged 12 to 17 across the province. Anyone 12 and up who receives their first dose of COVID vaccine on or be-

fore Aug. 2 will be entered their eligibility by reportin the first draw. The second ing their vaccination to a draw will be for everyone public health office. 12 and over who has reA process to ensure inforceived two doses by Sept. 6. mation used to determine “Vaccination is the draw eligibility remains fastest way to overcome protected is in place and COVID-19 and safely re- the lottery will be run by store our services and ac- Manitoba Liquor & Lottertivities,” said Premier Brian ies, with a third-party audPallister in a news release. itor providing additional “Urgency is important. We oversight. need Manitobans to get vac“Trust and accountabilcinated to protect each other ity are an integral part of and protect our health-care every lottery, and we will system. The sooner we get ensure that all Manitobans vaccinated, the sooner we can have confidence in the can get our lives back. This fairness and integrity of lottery gives Manitobans this process,” said Manieven more reasons to roll toba Liquor & Lotteries up their sleeves – not once, CEO Manny Atwal. “As we but twice.” have seen in other jurisdicAnyone who has already tions, lotteries can act as RCMP been Thompson immunized is autoan incentive to encourage matically eligible though vaccination. We are proud Line they canDrug opt out Tip if they of our role in the goal to choose. People who have get as many Manitobans been vaccinated outside immunized as quickly as the province can ensure possible.”

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Pandemic drives do-over for Garden Hill First Nation students BY DAVE BAXTER

LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER, WINNIPEG SUN

A Manitoba First Nation has made the difficult decision to have all school students repeat their grade next school year because they believe pushing them through would do far more harm than good in the long run. Garden Hill First Nation, a fly-in community about 475 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, has approximately 1,200-grade kindergarten to Grade 12 students enrolled in the community’s elementary school and high school. Catherine Monias, the Garden Hill First Nation education director, said that because of the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has affected the community, both schools have been closed to in-person learning since early March of 2020, and remote learning has been a real struggle. “We just don’t have the Internet services out here and a lot of homes just don’t have the technology like they do in a lot of other communities,” Monias said. “We simply do not have the resources for large-scale remote learning.” The schools have sent homework packages to students since in-person learning was shut down, but Monias said because of strict lockdowns, even getting those packages to

homes has been a challenge. Now with the end of the school year closing in, Monias said the only decision that would be beneficial to student’s long-term educational needs is to hold them back. All Grade 1 to 12 students will start in the fall in the same grade they were in this school year, while kindergarten students will move forward to Grade 1. Many First Nations communities, like Garden Hill, have their own school divisions, which allows them to make local decisions for their schools like this decision to hold back students. “For them to succeed year after year they need to have competency in literacy and numeracy skills, so we can’t just push them on to the next grade,” Monias said. “They just won’t have that competency, and that is where we see students get frustrated, and that puts them at risk to drop out once they hit high school.” “If a child is lacking competency, they are not going to do well, and it is going to have a domino effect and lead to more and more of our students dropping out. We believe we are doing the right things for the kids and for the community.” And with all students learning and comprehending at different levels, Monias said the first thing the schools will do when students return in the fall

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Garden Hill First Nation, located in northeastern Manitoba near the Ontario boundary, will have all students at its elementary and high school repeat their current grade next year, with the exception of those in kindergarten. is a full review of where all their students are at, and where they need to get to succeed and move forward. “We call it recovery learning and it starts with a review of all the students,” Monias said. “Teachers will assess where their students are at and work to build up those skill levels, and the hope is that by next June they will have met the year’s outcomes.” Monias added that along with educational struggles the pandemic and lockdowns have been hard on students both socially and emotionally in the remote community. “It’s very hard for a lot of them,” she said. “It’s been traumatizing for them as we’ve been locked down. They see people in the community passing away from it, and they are really

scared.” Monias, who worked for years as a teacher before moving to her current position, says she now cannot wait for the day when students return to classes and to in-person learning. “My office window faces the elementary school and every morning I would see the kids get off the bus for school and I really miss that,” she said. “I would usually go outside and spend time with them in the morning, and I spend a lot of time visiting the high school. I’m looking forward to being around the students again.” - Dave Baxter is a Local Journalism Initiative reporter who works out of the Winnipeg Sun. The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the government of Canada.

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Hydro, and more. We also hosted numerous virtual town halls to learn more about what Manitobans’ biggest concerns are and we will have more events in the future. The PCs have introduced many pieces of legislation that will hurt Manitobans. For example, they made it easier for for-profit centres to get public dollars and play a role in our childcare system, which will make childcare more expensive, and for the government to interfere with post-secondary institutions and raise tuition. But as the official opposition party, we are able to delay the passage of five different bills till the fall so that Manitobans have more time to learn about the bills and organize against the negative changes they will usher in. The bills we chose to delay are: • Bill 64: the Education Modernization Act which would dramatically change our education system and

consolidates all northern school divisions into one. This bill will take away our local voices. • Bill 16: the Labour Relations Amendment Act, which would take away employees’ rights and ability to go to arbitration which would prolong strikes. • Bill 57: the Protection of Critical Infrastructure Act, which infringes on Manitobans’ rights to protest at locations like railroads, hospitals and more. • Bill 40: the Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Corporation Amendment and Liquor, Gaming and Cannabis Control Amendment Act, as it allows for the private sale of liquor, which will move public dollars into private hands without requiring mandates to fund addictions programming, which is current done by our Crown corporation. • Bill 35: the Public Utilities Ratepayer Protection and Regulatory Reform Act, as it transfers power over hydro rate setting from the

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Public Utilities Board to the government. I would encourage anyone who would like to speak about these bills at committee to do so. You can register by calling 204-945-3636. There were some positives that happened this session as well. We managed to pass a couple of our private member bills, including Point Douglas MLA Bernadette Smith’s Bill 223 –the Spirit Bear Day Act, which designates May 10 Spirit Bear Day in honour of Jordan Anderson, a Manitoban First Nations child who died while the provincial and federal governments fought over who would pay for his healthcare needs. Another NDP bill that passed was The Pas-Kameesak MLA Amanda Lathlin’s Bill 213 – the Reporting of Supports for Child Survivors of Sexual Assault Act (Trained Health Professionals and Evidence Collection Kits), which will help northern children who are victims of sexual assault access the care they need. Although we don’t return for the next session until the fall, I will continue to work on behalf of my constituents throughout the summer. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me at Danielle.adams@yourmanitoba.ca or by calling me at 204-677-2744.

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY REFERRAL CLERK

Under the general supervision of the Referral Supervisor, the clerk provides patient services for patients in transit by; local transportation, repatriation of patients upon medical clearance; arranging accommodation/boarding, any other special services required while in transit; maintain patient medical records; provide information regarding Non Insured Health Benefits; maintain medical confidentiality at all time and perform other duties.

All interested applicants must hand in a detailed resume, including at least two references, one being your latest immediate supervisor should be submitted to:

Saturday–Wednesday – Evening Full Time

QUALIFICATIONS: • The incumbent should have completion of Grade 12 or equivalent. • Must have knowledge of medical terminology. • Previous knowledge of the MTRS National Program • Must have current CPR and First Aid Certification. • Should have good communications and organizational skills. • Should have a thorough knowledge of transportation systems within the Province of Manitoba. • Should have a thorough knowledge of health care facilities within the Province of Manitoba. • Should be aware of native culture, lifestyles and spiritual beliefs. • Ability to speak Cree or Dene an asset. • Knowledge and proven proficiency in computers and various software programs (i.e. Database, Word processing, etc.) • work well under pressure – fast pace environment • Candidate must submit a Criminal Record Check or Fingerprint Check and also a Child/Adult abuse registry check;

Lisa Beardy, Office Manager Keewatin Tribal Council Inc. 23 Nickel Road Thompson, Manitoba, R8N 0L6 Fax No.: 204-677-0258 Email address: lbeardy@ktc.ca or dmcivor@ktc.ca

Applications will be accepted until 4:00 p.m Tuesday, June 22, 2021. We would like to thank those that apply for the position, but only those being considered for an interview will be contacted. For further information or a full job description, contact Dion McIvor, Referral Supervisor.

Monday to Friday – Full Time Day

Lisa Beardy, Office Manager Keewatin Tribal Council Inc. 23 Nickel Road Thompson, Manitoba, R8N 0L6 Fax No.: 204-677-0258 Email address: lbeardy@ktc.ca or dmcivor@ktc.ca

Applications will be accepted until 4:00 p.m Monday, June 28, 2021. We would like to thank those that apply for the position, but only those being considered for an interview will be contacted. For further information or a full job description, contact Dion McIvor, Referral Supervisor.