October 23 2020

Nickel Belt News Volume 60 • Issue 43

Friday, October 23, 2020

Thompson, Manitoba

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Respect COVID-19 but don’t fear it, doctor says

BY IAN GRAHAM

EDITOR@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET

After months with few or no positive tests for COVID-19, Northern Manitoba has seen a significant upswing lately, with 17 cases in Thompson since the start of October and the number of northern cases increasing from 18 to 45 over a twoweek period Oct. 5-19.

Despite that, Northern Regional Health Authority (NRHA) medical officer of health Dr. Michael Isaac says that people need to keep the virus in perspective.

“Many people will recover from COVID without ever needing to go to hospital and certainly we [in Manitoba] have very few deaths,” Isaac said Oct. 16. “If we look at all of the cases that we’ve had in Manitoba so far, approximately one per cent of people [who test positive] would die from COVID, one per cent of people would need an … intensive care unit admission, a further four per cent of people would have a hospitalization but then be discharged home.

After accounting for all of those individuals, about 94 per cent of people would recover from COVID at

More than 90 per cent of people who contract the virus recover at home home. Many people do very well after having COVID and I think it’s important to have that message out there.”

However, by practising good hygiene, maintaining physical distancing from people outside their household and limiting the number of people they come in contact with, northern residents can not only protect themselves but also others who are more at risk of severe outcomes, like people with compromised immune systems, heart conditions, high blood pressure and lung conditions, as well as anyone over 65 years of age, the cohort that contains most of the 42 Manitobans who have died so fat from COVID-19.

“Those sorts of conditions can make individuals more susceptible as well sometimes even at younger ages,” says Isaac.

Though the complete list of COVID-19 symptoms is long and includes a cough,

fever, runny nose, muscle aches or chills, headache and loss of sense of taste or smell, many people may only experience one of those symptoms or not experience them all that same time. Even if your symptoms are mild, however, it is important to self-isolate and then seek testing.

“Ideally we’re having people tested … about 24 hours after symptoms start and have them isolate for that whole period until they get their test results back,” Isaac says. “That makes our job a whole lot easier in public health because then when we go to ask who may have you been in contact with it’s a fewer number of people.

If you’ve got mild symptoms and you continue to go out in the community and gather with friends and family and don’t get tested until six or seven days after your symptoms start, by the time we get your positive results we

can be sometimes 10 to 14 days behind in terms of trying to find people that you may have been in contact with and then isolate them. That lag time really does make a difference for us.”

Contact tracing divides people into three categories: close contacts, medium-risk contact and low-risk contacts. The first group includes anyone who spent 15 minutes or more within six feet of a person who has tested positive for the virus.

Medium-risk contacts are those who were not that close to or in the company of an infected person for a shorter period of time.

Close contacts are expected to self-isolate themselves and get tested if they develop COVID-19 symptoms.

“We would also help to facilitate testing somewhere around day five to seven of their last exposure even if they’re asymptomatic,” Isaac says.

Medium-risk contacts are asked to self-monitor themselves, including taking their temperature twice a day, for two weeks, while low-risk contacts do not have to take any special precautions beyond those everybody is asked to take because they aren’t at any greater risk of infection than the general public.

With flu season on the horizon, Isaac says everyone who can is encouraged to get the flu vaccine.

“It would be possible to have both influenza and COVID at the same,” Isaac says, though many parts of the world that have already had their flu season saw lower numbers than usual this year, perhaps because of COVID pandemic precautions.

Because COVID-19 is easily transmitted and people who haven’t been infected have no immunity to it, preventing all infections isn’t a reasonable goal.

“It’s going to be impossible not to have any cases of COVID,” Isaac says. “We want to try and keep the numbers low.

We want to be able to not overwhelm our healthcare system. We want to not try and overwhelm our public health system so it’s important that we try as much as possible to contain the virus.”

Taking steps to avoid infection is recommended; panicking about COVID-19 is not.

“I think one of the best ways to put it was, a First Nations leader, Chief Glenn Hudson down in Peguis, his messaging to the community was that we need to respect COVID but not fear COVID and I think it’s a really apt description. It’s something to be respected. We each have our part to play and our part to do but sometimes fear can lead to some negative outcomes or stigma and again we want to try and avoid that.”

Manitoba Cree Nation elder speaks out about racist treatment at Winnipeg hospital

BY NICOLE WONG

LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER SOURCE: WINNIPEG SUN

A Cree elder decided to speak on her experience with racism at a Winnipeg emergency room and hospital at a press conference Oct. 16.

Sadie North, a 72-yearold woman from Bunibonibee Cree Nation, alleged that a clerk at the hospital was rude to her and that a doctor had made assumptions on her alcohol use.

On Sept. 6, she fell ill from cellulitis so her daughter, Sheila North, decided to take her to the Grace Hospital to get treatment. Upon reaching the hospital, Sadie was unable to walk. Sheila helped her mother in but was immediately told that Sadie had to go in by herself because of COVID-19 restrictions.

“I was on my walker, and

I tried hard to push myself with my feet and help myself to the desk, and from there I could hear her (the clerk), ‘It’s this way, it’s this way. Come here. Help yourself.’ It was empty. Nobody was there at all. No patients at all. Nobody. I don’t know how, but I did it anyway. I struggled,” said Sadie.

Sadie was told to wait in the waiting room. While there, her condition had worsened, and she started vomiting. During that time, no one was there to help her.

Luckily someone noticed her later and she was then treated with antibiotics. The next day, a doctor came in and asked about her alcohol use.

When the doctor asked her how much alcohol she had consumed prior, Sadie felt the need to defend herself. She felt hurt that the doctor was accusing her of drinking alcohol as well as

when the clerk talked down to her when she entered the hospital.

“People are assuming that our sick loved ones are doing this to themselves and that they shouldn’t be asking for more than they deserve,” said Sheila.

Sheila has been working on addressing this issue by contacting the hospital’s patient relations. The hospital’s representatives had told the North family that the staff are currently undergoing cultural training. However, Sheila believes that both the doctor and the clerk should be fired for their misbehaviour.

“First and foremost, I would like to reach out to Sadie North. I am so sorry about what has happened to you, and it shouldn’t have happened to anyone. I know her, and she has been an outstanding citizen, a very gracious woman, and it is sad

that it is happening to such a beautiful person like her,” said Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Grand Chief Garrison Settee. “This is indicative of how racism still exists in our society and our healthcare system.

It should not be perpetuated and there should be legislation and policy to eradicate it. There should be more severe consequences for people that continue to exhibit such behaviour.”

A Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) spokesperson commented that Grace Hospital is committed to providing the very best experience possible to every person who comes to them for care.

“In collaboration with WRHA Indigenous Health Services, we have been actively engaged with Elder North and her family over the last number of weeks to listen and to understand

Bunibonibee Cree Nation member Sadie North, left, with her daughter Sheila, right, says she was accused of abusing alcohol when she went to a Winnipeg hospital for treatment in September. their concerns,” said the spokesperson. “We are sincerely sorry for her experience, and we have extended that apology to her and her family directly. We are committed to continuing our conversations with them to ensure that we do every-

thing possible to address their concerns.”

Nicole Wong 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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New podcast episode on Kerrie Ann Brown killing marked 34th anniversary of her 1986 disappearance

BY IAN GRAHAM

EDITOR@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET

It’s been 34 years since his 15-year-old sister Kerrie Ann Brown disappeared after a house party and was found dead a little north of Thompson a few days later, but Trevor Brown remains optimistic that her killer or killers will be identified.

“I think we’re close,” Trevor Brown told the Thompson Citizen in an Oct. 15 interview, the day before the anniversary of Kerrie’s disappearance on Oct. 16, 1986 after going to a party with a friend in the Westwood area. “My intuition tells me that we’re close to people being arrested.”

The CBC podcast Someone Knows Something, which examined the case of Kerrie Ann Brown in its fifth season in 2018, released an update episode about the case on Oct. 16, in which Trevor Brown and host David Ridgen try to determine if there is any connection between events believed to have occurred around the time Kerrie’s disappearance and continue their investigation into a phone call that a Thompson RCMP dispatcher received the morning after

Kerrie went missing from a man who said he had killed someone, two days before her body was found.

One of these events was an incident a woman recalled with a white van being driven by people she believed were members of a martial arts club and the other an incident in which a man says he saw Patrick Sumner, who was initially charged with the crime but had charges dismissed due to lack of evidence, in the Westwood area the night Kerrie went missing. That incident was determined to have likely taken place years later, as a young woman seen with Sumner did not know him at the time of Brown’s disappearance.

“Part of the process of Someone Knows Something is to look at tips, tips that are viable but also to look at rumours and things like that to dispel them so there’s a little bit of that going on as well,” said Ridgen Oct. 13.

The podcast episode includes Trevor Brown and Ridgen taking a road trip to Norway House to try to determine which officer the caller who said he’d killed someone was looking for

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Thompson Citizen photo courtesy of David Ridgen Jim Brown, left, and Trevor Brown, right, with David Ridgen, centre, producer of CBC’s Someone Knows Something podcast, which released an update episode Oct. 16 on the investigation into the murder of Kerrie Ann Brown in Thompson 34 years earlier. when his after-hours call was rerouted to Thompson, which used to the the dispatch centre for Northern Manitoba RCMP operations before being consolidated with southern Manitoba in a Winnipeg call centre in the 1990s. They learn that there may have been an officer there named Mike Labrasseur at the time, which matches dispatcher Marnie

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“They’ve gleaned a lot of “If they say they found the caller, how did they find the information from that autcaller if they have nothing to opsy about this crime and compare the caller to?” said so have I,” he says. “There’s Trevor Brown. “You want to something there that they make this claim, prove it.” feel, if it gets out publicly, Since the last update epi- it compromises the integrity sode of Someone Knows of the investigation.”

Something season five Ridgen hopes the latest aired in March 2019, Trev- podcast episode will reach or Brown and his father Jim new ears who haven’t heard have won a court battle to it before and possibly lead to receive a copy of Kerrie’s more tips coming that may autopsy report, which Trev- help identify who killed or had before but lost while Kerrie Ann Brown. Almoving between Thompson though he has been successand Winnipeg. A court order ful in previous seasons in prevents them from discuss- actually finding the alleged perpetrator of other crimes, ing details of the autopsy, kelly.bindle.mla.offi ce@gmail.com but Trevor Brown says he that isn’t the only goal of his Constituency Office: believes it may be important podcast investigations.

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Ridgen’s investigation has helped him.

An application for revision must: “It’s been therapeutic I a) Be in writing; would say,” he says. “I’m b) Set out the roll number and legal description of the assessable in a better headspace toproperty for which a revision is sought; c) Set out which of the matters referred to in subsection 42(1) are at day than I was even five issue, and grounds for each of those matters; years ago … because of the d) Be filed by delivering it or causing it to be delivered to the office amount of work, the energy above or by serving it upon the secretary, at least 15 days before I’ve invested in trying to find the scheduled sitting date of the board. the answers that we’re all The final date on which the Secretary of the Board must receive looking for. I’m in a better applications is October 26, 2020. mindset today than I can reThompson RCMP membering being in in quite Secretary Board of Revision Drug Tip Line a long time. Definitely just Town of Lynn Lake being involved in the proBox 100, 503 Sherritt Avenue cess has been very beneficial Lynn Lake, MB R0B 0W0 for me.”

Schaefer’s memory of the person asking for an officer with a French-sounding name. An attempt to track down a list of all the RCMP members who have served at the Norway House detachment proves fruitless however.

After writing a letter to RCMP commissioner Brenda Lucki, who used to be stationed in Thompson, Brown received a reply from Manitoba RCMP commanding officer Asst. Commissioner Jane MacLatchy saying that RCMP investigated the call, that the identity of the caller is known and that he has been cleared as a suspect in Kerrie’s murder.

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One year after body of Bobbie Lynn Moose was found in Thompson, police still need information about her last weeks alive

RCMP photos Manitoba RCMP appealed to the public Oct. 19 for information about the death of Bobbie Lynn Moose of Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, who was found dead near Nelson Road in Thompson just over a year earlier on Oct. 17, 2019.

BY IAN GRAHAM

EDITOR@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET

With more than one year having passed since the body of Bobbie Lynn Moose was found in a grassy lot on Nelson Road in Thompson on Oct. 17, 2019, RCMP are once again appealing for more information about how she spent the last few weeks before her death in an effort to find out who killed her.

Moose, aged, 29, left behind two children, two brothers, six sisters and 18 nieces and nephews when she was killed a few weeks after being dropped off in Thompson by a family member on Oct. 1 of last year, failing to live up to the words she always used when parting from her family – “Don’t worry about me. I’ll be back.”

“By putting out her photograph again and reminding people again that Bobbie was a person that was cared for deeply by her family I’m trying to get people to remember her and spark their memories about that period of time,” said Cpl. Morgan Page of the Manitoba RCMP Major Crime Unit in an interview with the Thompson Citizen Oct. 19. “My hope was

that by sharing a bit about Bobbie we might generate renewed interest and also further information about her time in Thompson in the days leading up to her death.”

Page and other Major Crime Unit investigators were in Thompson last week to follow up on tips and information that had come forward but police still need to know more about what Moose was doing between the time she arrived in Thompson and when her body was found.

“Sometimes what might be important to me might not necessarily mean anything to the person whose memory it is but any little thing could help us and direct us in our investigation to help bring closure to her family,” Page said.

Because Moose did not have a residence in Thompson, police believe she may have been in contact with other transient residents.

“Part of the circumstances of this investigation that have made it different than some others is that Bobbie was pretty transient,” Page says. "She lived between Thompson and Nelson House. There is a community there that

does that regularly travels between Thompson and their home communities.

We have to make an effort to reach all those people.”

Despite a significant effort to get the word out in the days and weeks following Moose’s death – including more than 300 interviews and watching more than 52,000 hours of surveillance video as well as going door to door in Thompson seeking out more information – RCMP are still missing vital information to point them in the direction of her killer or killers.

“We have put the message out quite effectively … but I do believe there is somebody out there that has the piece of the puzzle that we are looking for that might be able to assist us and find out the truth about what happened to Bobbie,” Page says.

Anyone with information on Moose’s death or her whereabouts and activities in the weeks leading up to her death can contact the Thompson RCMP detachment at 204-677-6909 or Manitoba Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. Tips can also be submitted online at www.manitobacrimestoppers.com.

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BREATHE: New message encouraging northern First Nations to get the flu shot

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Keewatinohk Inniniw Minoayawin Inc. (KIM) has released a new video called “Breathe� that started running for 30 days nationwide Oct. 12 as a public service announcement.

This video is the first phase of the KIM’s Immunity Wellness campaign designed to promote awareness of minoayawin, which is Cree for wellness, and to encourage northern First Nations in Manitoba to protect their loved ones by getting the flu vaccine in preparation for the influenza season. “We aimed to deliver strength-based messaging with this video to encourage First Nations citizens on how they can best prepare for the flu season, and to protect their loved ones through getting the flu vaccine,� said Dr. Barry Lavallee, KIM’s chief executive officer in a press release.

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activities and related non-professional services necessary in caring for the personal needs and comfort of the patient. This is an integrated position that includes coordination and scheduling of dental procedures for the Operating Room (OR). This will require expertise in developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with a broad range of individuals and organizations. The OR Dental Assistant will function within the provisions of the Vision, Mission, Values, policies and procedures of the Northern Health Region (NHR) and will incorporate NHR core competencies into working practice (Customer/ Client Focused, Initiative & Pro-activity, Diversity Awareness, Teamwork, and Collaboration, Development of Self and Others, and Adaptability).

REAL ESTATE LEGAL ASSISTANT

The incumbent must fulfill the requirements of the Criminal Records/Vulnerable Employer: Law North Corporation Person, Child Abuse Registry checkLaw and Adult Abuse Registry check, and adhere to all Northern Health Region policies and procedures.

Qualifications: 1–2 years experience/training in real estate/ Qualifications: support.

Must be proficient in Word, Excel and t administrative Grade 12 education or equivalent t Outlook.

Successful completion of a recognized Dental Assistant Program required Duties will include real estate conveyancing, keyboarding, t word Current active practicing registration with Manitoba Dental Association processing, light bookkeeping and administrative t Excellent knowledge of Windows based programs (Microsoft Word, Excel, functions.

Ability to type 40 wmp, accuracy, organizational and Outlook, and Internet) skills essential. training and t communication Minimum three (3) years’are experience as aLegal Dentalsecretarial Assistant required t bookkeeping Previous experience working with preferred is an asset. experience in anPediatric officecases environment t Salary Abilitywill to speak Cree an asset be commensurate with experience.

For complete list of qualifications please visit our website How to apply: Send resume and cover letter,www.nrha.ca.

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resonates with northern First Nations and speaks to First Nations’ connection to culture, language, families, and to the land.�

In collaboration with www.thompsoncitizen MKO, KIM has been providing informative, accurate, and consistent messaging for northern First Nations in regards to the pandemic. Both KIM and MKO are encouraging all First Nations people toWarehousing get & Bianchini vaccinated for the flu this Thompson’s year. “For a number of years, ASSISTANT PROPERTY Manitoba Health has pri- who is dedic • We are looking for someone oritized getting vaccines develop management skills for long term f out• to Nations comFullFirst time, permanent, 35 + hours per wee munities, it’s able to so passbasically criminal background check, access to own transportation. goingand out as we speak and • Must have excellent communication/typ will be going out over the Microsoft basic bookkee next with period of Office time and and • Preparing bank deposits, able to organize, p then reports it will be up to the by deadline dates. communities withto work indep • Attention toworking detail, ability the health-care providers to confidentia a team environment applying set• upBeoptions forideas people to open to new and changes that m in day to day operations. receive the vaccine,â€? said • Ability to fill in forpopulathe manager when req Mike Routledge, carry company celladvisor phone in case of eme tion health medical • Training provided, flexible work enviro for KIM. on experience. — Nicole Wong is aStart Lo-date: ASAP cal Journalism Initiative Email resume to Carolyn Tu reporter who works out of manager@friulirentals.c the Winnipeg Sun.orThe fax Loto: 204-677-319 cal Journalism Initiative is31 Oak St. Of or drop off at funded by the government Closing date: February 16, 2 of Canada.

We appreciate the interest of all applicants

with wage requirements to: Please submit resumealong

by February 2, 2018 to: Lori Rasmussen, Recruitment Officer Contact: Surinder Rai 867 Thompson Drive South

By Mail: MB R8N2nd Thompson, 1Z4Floor, 436 Thompson Dr. N. Fax: (204) 778-1477Thompson, MB., R8N 0C6 Email: recruiteast@nrha.ca

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By E-mail: surinder@lawnorth.ca

Northern RHADate: has a Representative Strategy, we encourage all applicants to selfClosing OctoberWorkforce 23, 2020 declare. Criminal Record, Child Abuse, & Adult Abuse Registry Checks are required. We thank all candidates for applying.

Only those selected for will be you contacted.

We thank you for your interest and interview will contact if you are selected

for an interview.

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