COVID-19

Waking up early, having homework, and catching the bus are regular routines that students are adjusting to as school returned on September 2, 2021.

Students of the Kenora Catholic District School Board have returned to in-class learning for a number of days now.

KCDSB Director of Education Paul White says there has been a sense of excitement as students have returned to the classroom.

The Town of Cochrane has no immediate plans to make vaccination mandatory for town staff but has established a disclosure policy.

Town CAO Mike Derricott says they are requiring staff to anonymously disclose their vaccination status.

"What we'd like to know is just a general understanding of the vaccination status of the organization so that we can make appropriate protocol decisions to protect the safety of our staffing team as well as the public and the people they interact with," says Derricott.

The data collection has only recently begun.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw admitted to a group of Primary Care Network Doctors yesterday, that she is responsible for Albertans believing that the pandemic is over with how people interpreted her decision to move to an endemic stage.

“I feel very responsible for the narrative that has made it more complicated to try to put additional public health measures in place because whether or not it was my intention what was heard at the end of July was COVID’s over, and we can walk away and ignore it and that has had repercussions.”

It's not a vaccine passport, it's a convenient card-sized printout.

That's how the provincial government is describing their new proof of vaccination records introduced today (Sept. 14)

Starting tomorrow, Albertans will be able to print a copy of their card-sized COVID-19 proof of vaccination or show it on their phone or tablet.

Work is also underway to make proof of vaccination available through a QR code.

The QR code is expected to be available in the coming weeks.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw admitted to a group of Primary Care Network Doctors yesterday, that she is responsible for Albertans believing that the pandemic is over with how people interpreted her decision to move to an endemic stage.

“I feel very responsible for the narrative that has made it more complicated to try to put additional public health measures in place because whether or not it was my intention what was heard at the end of July was COVID’s over, and we can walk away and ignore it and that has had repercussions.”

City workers that have direct contact with vulnerable members of the public will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Winnipeg's chief administrative officer Michael Jack is announcing Tuesday that by October 28, many front-line City of Winnipeg workers will need to have received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

"Implementing this vaccine requirement was not a decision we took lightly," Jacks says in a Tuesday-afternoon press conference. "It is something that we have been looking at closely since vaccines were rolled out in this province."

There are no Manitobans who are fully vaccinated receiving intensive care treatment for COVID-19.

There are 56 new COVID-19 cases in Manitoba, with 30 of those cases in people who have received no COVID-19 vaccine, nine who are partially vaccinated, and 17 who are fully vaccinated. 

New cases include: 

The Northwestern Health Unit has released its daily COVID-19 case update, and has found two new positive COVID-19 test results in the region.

One case each was found in the Kenora and Sioux Lookout Health Regions. The NWHU confirmed the positive COVID-19 case found in the Kenora region is considered not an active case anymore.

Follow up with the persons involved and their contacts has started according to protocol. Anyone who is identified as a contact for these cases will be contacted directly.

Currently, there are 9 active cases in the NWHU catchment area. 

Residents in Kenora, Rainy River and Fort Frances areas are all able to attend three COVID-19 walk-in clinics today.

Kenora’s clinic is being held at Beaver Brae Secondary School between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Fort Frances’ clinic is being held at Fort Frances High School between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Rainy River’s clinic is being held at the Rainy River High School between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is making an effort to bring real change to Northern Ontario.

That effort begins with their newly announced Northern Ontario platform.

The new platforms plan is to create and support good jobs, protect communities from the effects of climate change, and put reconciliation into action.

In an interview with the Q Morning Show Singh spoke on some of the major questions on people's minds. One question, in particular, is the COVID-19 pandemic.