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Investigative: Manitoba hospitals low on essentials for feeding babies, reading heart rates due to supply chain issues
Nurses say Manitoba's hospitals are low on critical supplies they use to feed premature babies, deliver intravenous nutrition to sick children and adults, and monitor patients' vital signs.
Hospitals have been short on some supplies for the past several weeks, a spokesperson for Shared Health has confirmed.
Investigative: LEFT OUT OF THE COVID-19 PAY BUMP, MANITOBA ER NURSES SAY THEY FEEL ABANDONED BY PROVINCE, UNION
An emergency room nurse at Winnipeg's St. Boniface Hospital is struggling to provide care to three patients with COVID-19.
Two of them are screaming at her. They want to leave the ER. They're homeless. She's scrambling to find them a place in Winnipeg where they can self-isolate.
feature: Families hope trauma-informed policing becomes the rule, rather than the exception, in MMIWG cases
It was nearly a decade ago that Sue Caribou's family gathered at a landfill in Winnipeg as police began to search for the remains of her missing niece Tanya Nepinak.
"They said they would clean a spot for us where we can see them searching. But instead, when I got there, I got chased away. We didn't get to watch like they promised us. They broke a lot of promises," Caribou said.
Original Reporting: Prairie drought drives Canada's canola, wheat production down more than 35%: StatsCan
Curtis McRae opens a half-empty grain bin and picks up a handful of seeds.
"It's not pretty canola," he jokes. The farmer from St. Andrews, Man., only managed to grow half the canola he expected this year. All of his grain crops suffered as the Prairies were battered by months of drought.
This summer's drought drove down crop yields for the entire country, the federal agency says. Several major grains grown in Western Canada had the largest yearly yield decrease on record.
Political reporting: New Manitoba health minister not responsible for reproductive health, despite holding purse strings
Manitoba's Department of Health may be in charge of the funding, but the Progressive Conservative government has decided talking about reproductive health — including abortion — remains a women's issue.
The office for newly appointed Health Minister Heather Stefanson confirmed she'll continue the PC government's practice of sending questions about reproductive health care to the minister for the status of women.
DATA ANALYSIS: Hundreds of Manitoba teachers fear pandemic hurting students in school and beyond
Manitoba teachers fear their students are falling behind academically and will experience psychological impacts from the pandemic, according to a questionnaire filled out by 1,027 Manitoba teachers and education workers.
CBC News sent an invitation to fill out a questionnaire — voluntarily and anonymously — to educators across Canada. In Manitoba, 833 classroom teachers, 125 teaching support staff and 63 administrators, including principals and vice-principals, responded between April 26-28.
Part of CBC News’ Schooling Under Stress series.
Original Reporting: Cancer patient dies alone in Winnipeg hospital after family denied palliative visits
A terminally ill woman has died alone after hospital staff prevented family from staying by her bedside, despite the fact she was in palliative care.
Cora Krall was admitted to Winnipeg's St. Boniface Hospital April 24 because of complications from cancer. On May 6, her oncologist signed paperwork deeming her palliative — which should have provided an exemption from the visitor restrictions currently in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Breaking story: More than 1,600 evacuees leaving 4 Manitoba First Nations as wildfires burn near Ontario border
Four First Nations in eastern Manitoba are being evacuated because of smoke from forest fires burning near their communities.
The Red Cross says more than 600 people have already been flown out of Little Grand Rapids and Pauingassi First Nation.
original reporting: Expedia charges man almost $6,200 for 1-night stay at a Holiday Inn
A Manitoba man says he'll never use Expedia again after the booking company billed him nearly $6,200 for one night at a hotel — with fees and taxes accounting for all but about $200 of the cost.
Justin Smerchanski was travelling on business and logged onto Expedia.ca Monday morning to book a room for the following evening in the town of Willmar, Minn.