January 22 2021

Nickel Belt News Volume 61 • Issue 3

Friday, January 22, 2021

Thompson, Manitoba

Serving the Norman Region since 1961

New COVID-19 cases still disproportionately high for Northern Manitoba as of Jan. 18

BY IAN GRAHAM

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Manitoba’s north continued to show a high number of COVID-19 cases relative to its population on Jan. 18, reporting 46 new cases, one more than Winnipeg had on the same day. 118 new cases were reported in the province on Monday, as well as four additional deaths, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 773. One of those deaths was a man in his 80s from the Northern Regional Health Authority (NRHA), whose case was linked to the outbreak and Rod McGillivary Memorial Care Home. His was the 29th death of a northern resident due to

COVID-19. The region’s 28th death, of a man in his 70s, was reported Jan. 17. The majority of the new cases reported n the north on Monday were from the Island Lake health district, where there were 30 new cases, bringing the total number of active cases in the region to 492. “We’re concerned that we’re seeing an increasingly disproportionate effect on First Nations,” said chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin at the Jan. 18 COVID-19 press conference There were also new cases reported in the Flin Flon/ Snow Lake/Cranberry/Sherridon health district (3), the

Grand Rapids/Moose Lake/ Easterville/Chemawawin health district (4) and the Gillam/Fox Lake, Thompson/Mystery Lake, The Pas/ Opaskwayak/Kelsey and Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/ South Indian Lake/Leaf Rapids health districts, all with two new cases. An outbreak was declared Jan 16 at the hospital in Lynn Lake, which implemented a curfew between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. beginning Jan. 18 for all residents except essential workers. Roussin said the curfew wasn’t a result of a direct recommendation from public health. “I think a curfew is always discussed and we see

that in other jurisdictions,” he said. “The real issue is finding ways to limit the amount of contacts.” There are 1,469 active cases in the NRHA as of Jan. 18, though the number is likely overstated. There have been nearly 3,000 cases of COVID-19 in the north so far, the third-highest number for any Manitoba health region behind Winnipeg and the southern health region. The five-day test positivity rate for Manitoba on Monday was 10.6 per cent and there were 289 people in hospital due to COVID-19, including 135 with active infections and 154 who are no longer considered infec-

tious. Twenty-three Manitobans are in intensive care due to active COVID infections while another 12 still in ICU are no longer considered infectious. Thirtythree northern residents, two whose cases are no longer considered active, are hospitalized due to COVID-19, including six in intensive care. Roussin said the goal is to let people know as early as possible this week what public health orders will look like after Jan. 22 so businesses have time to plan accordingly. “We’re going to try as early as we can this week to give that signal,” he said. “We know that businesses

will appreciate some of that prior notice to get things moving.” He also said that restrictions may be moving back to a region-by-region model soon and that public health orders may be eased differently in different health regions depending on their current situation. “That’s not off the table,” Roussin said. “I think we want to try to get back to that regional approach.” Nevertheless, some restrictions will remain in place for quite some time. “We are many months away from a place where we can start thinking about getting back to anything resembling being normal.”

Only a few eligible members of Northern Manitoba First Nations have refused COVID-19 vaccine, chiefs say BY IAN GRAHAM

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Leaders of some of the seven Northern Manitoba First Nations that have received their first shipments of COVID-19 vaccines say it is a turning point in the battle against the virus, even if a small percentage of people aren’t eager to be immunized. One of those leaders put himself forward as an example for others and received the first vaccination in Pimicikamak Cree Nation (PCN) and in any Manitoba First Nation. PCN Coun. Mervin Garrick was with Chief David Monias and another councillor to meet the plane when it arrived with the first shipment of 199 doses of the Moderna vaccine on Jan. 7. As an elder 70 or older, he was eligible to receive the vaccine and did so that night, with local nurse Brenda Frogge administering the shot. “Elders have called me, talked to me about the vaccine and I just told them it’s better to take it,” said Garrick during a Jan. 12 Zoom press conference organized by Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO). Monias said the example shown by Garrick and other elders who have already received their vaccinations is a good start to the immunization campaign. “They stepped up to be the first to show that this is a good thing, that it’s safe and that our people should

be vaccinated,” Monias said. York Factory First Nation (YFFN) Chief Leroy Constant said the first vaccination in the community was delivered Jan. 11 and that nine more people received their first dose Jan. 12. Ten more were scheduled to receive it on Tuesday. The community of less than 400 people received only 20 doses of the vaccine in their first shipment to vaccinate members aged 70 and older. “Once I qualify I will get the vaccine,” said Constant, who says his next vaccination challenge as chief will be getting people to take the trip to Thompson to get the Pfizer vaccine once the Thompson vaccination site is up and running, which is scheduled to be by Feb. 1. In Norway House Cree Nation, about 90 people had received the vaccine so far, said Chief Larson Anderson, including 19 personal care home residents, 30 to 35 care home staff and elders aged 70 and up. Overall, there haven’t been many people who have declined to get vaccinated, though mistrust about the vaccine and misinformation about COVID-19 are apparent. Anderson said three people initially refused to get vaccinated in Norway House but then changed their minds after talking to a doctor. Monias said there were two people who declined the shot in Cross

Lake, reasoning that they had never gotten immunized before and didn’t see the point in starting now, a sentiment that is also present in YFFN. “We have a lot of old school people in out community that don’t believe in the western way [of medicine],” said Constant. “We have to respect that.” Monias says it’s up to individuals if they want to get the vaccine or not and his role is to ensure that they make an informed decision. “It’s not my job to force people to take it,” he said. Some people are almost thrown into a state of panic by hearing that the virus is in the region, however. “People think that if you catch it you’re going to die,” Constant said, despite the truth that the vast majority of people who contract COVID-19 recover, most of them without any medical intervention. Dr. Michael Routeledge, a medical advisor to MKO and its new health entity Keewatinohk Inniniw Minoayawin, said COVID-19 has had a disproportionate effect on First Nations in general and MKO First Nations in particular, with First Nations citizens who contract COVID-19 making up more hospitalizations and intensive care admissions than their proportion of the overall population and dying at younger ages than Manitobans as a whole who succumb to the virus.

Thompson Citizen photo courtesy of Pimicikamak Cree Nation Pimicikamak Cree Nation councillor Mervin Garrick was the first resident of a Manitoba First Nation to receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine shortly after it arrived in Cross Lake Jan. 7. “That’s not surprising,” said Routledge. “We expected to see that.” MKO Grand Chief Garrison Settee said getting vaccinated is an important part of keeping First Nations members healthy. “Since the pandemic began we always knew we were the most vulnerable,” Settee said.

The leaders agree that better health care in their communities and better housing are the key to making First Nations better able to weather challenges like this pandemic in the future. ”The north has a lot of different challenges from the south,” said Constant. “Your fate is determined by a doctor over the phone a

lot of times. It’s not a good system.” Monias said First Nations need to be in charge of their own health care systems and facilities. “It has to be a paradigm shift on how health care is administered in the north,” said Settee. “The system has been broken and it needs to be changed.”

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Province providing $300,000 for mineral exploration activities near the Manitoba/Ontario boundary BY IAN GRAHAM

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A mineral exploration company is receiving $300,000 from the provincial government to help fund its drilling program in Manitoba’s remote northeast. BWR Exploration said in a Jan. 7 news release that it learned Dec. 30 that it would be receiving the funding from the Manitoba Mineral Development Fund once it provides confirmation of required permits and licensing for the proposed exploration and of additional funding. “We are pleased to see that the Manitoba government shares BWR’s vision of the economic potential that the Little Stull Lake area has, that can create near and long-term jobs for the nearby communities of Gods River and Gods Lake Narrows, thus strengthening the provincial economy and establish mutually rewarding partnerships between Indigenous communities and mineral exploration companies designed to stand the test of time,” said BWR’s CEO Neil Novak. The money will be used to upgrade an existing exploration camp to meet COVID-19 pandemic requirements for housing up to 15 people. BWR is proposing that this work be done in partnership with Manto Sipi Cree Nation (MSCN), which hopes to create a community-owned camp and exploration service company to work with mineral exploration companies. BWR took two members of MCSN to the camp in October while they were conducting a cleanup program. All remaining fuel drums at the site, which has been dormant for 12 years, were checked for leaks and safely stored in a temporary poly berm. Soil samples were also collected around the fuel storage area to check for contamination and one MSCN

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Little Stull Lake is located in northeastern Manitoba near the Ontario boundary and within the traditional territories of both Manto Sipi Cree Nation at Gods River and God’s Lake First Nation at Gods Lake Narrows. member visited several of the proposed historical drill sites with BWR’s geologist to learn about what kind of environmental disturbance exploratory drilling results in and what historical drill sites look like after a decade of natural regrowth. BWR Exploration holds exploration rights in the Little Stull Lake gold project area, which lies within the traditional territories of both MCSN and God’s Lake First Nation (GLFN). The area, which consists of 20 mining claims covering 28.4 square kilometres, was first drilled by Westmin Resources in the mid to late 1980s and then

again by Puma Exploration Inc. in 2007. BWR Exploration says the Little Stull Lake gold zone is a similar geological environment to that of the Monument Bay deposit 15 kilometres to the southwest. Following the provincial government’s announcement in November 2019 that it had completed a consultation protocol agreement with MCSN, BWR said it anticipated ongoing consultations with MCSN and eventual creation of exploration partnership agreements with it anf GLFN. Among the issues any exploration agreements must address is the fact that some

of the company’s mining claims are in areas covered by treaty land entitlement (TLE) claims. Under Treaty No. 5, which MSCN and GLFN are signatories of or adherents to, the First Nations were entitled to 160 acres of reserve land for each family of five, but they have not yet received that much land and have the right to select unoccupied Crown lands to be converted to reserve status. A successor program to the Mining Community Reserve Fund (MCRF), which was intended to provide assistance to mining communities affected by shutdowns due to ore depletion

as well as support mineral of Commerce (MCC) and exploration in Manitoba, the aligns with the priorities of MMDF is funded by a $20 the provincial government’s million initial contribution Look North task force and kelly.bindle.mla.offi ce@gmail.com from the provincial governaction plan for the Northern Office: which ment as well as up to six per Constituency Manitoba economy, cent of of annual revenuesUnitidentified mineral develop3-40 Moak Crescent under the Mining Tax Act.Thompson, ment as important to the longMB R8N 2B7 Communities, businesses term economic prosperity of Bindle including the204-677-2066 province and highlighted and Kelly organizations

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the importance of building stronger partnerships in the north to advance economic growth and development. “Advancing mineral exploration projects is critical to creating lasting economic benefits to communities in Northern Manitoba,” said Manitoba Chambers of Commerce CEO Chuck Davidson.

St. Theresa Point man sentenced to 18 years for beating wife to death in 2018 BY IAN GRAHAM

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A St. Theresa Point man who beat his wife to death while drunk in January 2018 has been sentenced to 18 years in prison following a manslaughter conviction last year. Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Chris Martin imposed the 18-year sentence on Jonathon Wood in a written decision delivered Jan. 12. Wood has been

in custody since the incident and received four-and-a-half years’ credit for pretrial custody, leaving him 13-and-ahalf years to serve. Wood and his wife Kathleen Wood were drinking and doing drugs with his brother and his brother’s girlfriend on the night that he killed her. Martin found that Wood had beaten her intermittently over the course of a few hours and characterized the assault as

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“merciless.” Jonathon Wood had been convicted four times previously of assaulting his wife, receiving a sentence of 18 months plus two years’ probation for the most recent incident after being convicted of assault causing bodily harm. At the time of Kathleen Wood’s killing, Jonathon Wood was bound by the conditions of a recognizance for an alleged assault against her

and others that took place in Winnipeg in September 2017 and was not supposed to be in contact with her or in St. Theresa Point. Martin found Jonathon Wood’s previous criminal record, which included eight convictions for assault, one of which was against a previous domestic partner, and nine convictions for breaching court orders, were aggravating factors, as were the brutality of the beating

and the fact that the victim Martin, noting that Jonathwas his spouse. Though on Wood’s previous conother cases presented by victions for assaulting his defence counsel showed wife had all occurred after that 15 years was usually verbal arguments when he the upper range of sentences was intoxicated. His level for spousal manslaughter, of intoxication at the time Martin said Jonathon Wood of the killing was a factor deserved a longer one as in Martin finding him guilty he “remains a danger” for of manslaughter rather than Thompson RCMP whom rehabilitation is only second-degree murder beDrug Tip Line a possibility. cause it wasn’t certain that “If he had simply fol- he had intended to cause her lowed the court orders, such serious harm that he she would be alive,” wrote knew it would likely kill her.

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Getting businesses open is vital, but will not eliminate owners’ need for additional supports: Manitoba chambers CEO BY IAN GRAHAM

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Manitoba Chambers of Commerce president and CEO Chuck Davidson vince the government to level the playing field between small businesses and big retailers like Walmart who were being allowed to continue selling non-essential items. It did, but not in the way that Davidson would have preferred. “The level playing field I wanted to see was let small businesses open,”

he said. ”The level playing field that the government decided to go with was making sure that Walmart wasn’t able to sell all those products.” Although the need for government programs to support businesses won’t go away when they are allowed to reopen, chambers of commerce, busi-

ness owners and customers themselves will also play an important role in ensuring their survival. “Those local businesses that have had their doors shut now, that are struggling, that are reliant on government subsidies, not every one of them is going to make it unless we can get their doors open,”

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Davidson said. “If we can’t encourage people within their local communities to support those local businesses that support the local community when times are good, that’s a challenge. If we don’t do that, there are businesses that are not going to get through this.” Davidson says his organization is also pushing the government to help brickand-mortar businesses that had to reinvent themselves as online shopping destinations to recover some of the money they had to spend to develop their online stores. Moving forward, Davidson says that offering online options will be more important than ever. “More and more people are expecting to do online business,” he said. “How do we create better digital infrastructure, specifically in rural Manitoba?” Asked about the business loan moratorium that has been in place at Communities Economic Development Fund (CEDF) for the past few years, Davidson says the provincial government needs to make a decision on which way to go, especially since northern entrepreneurs don’t have a lot fo financing options. “There needs to be a resolution to this one way or another,” Davidson said.

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ASSISTANT PROPERTY MANAGER • We are looking for someone who is dedicated and ambitious to develop management skills for long term future considerations. • Full time, permanent, 35 + hours per week, must be bondable, able to pass criminal background check, have driver’s licence and access to own transportation. • Must have excellent communication/typing skills, experience with Microsoft Office and basic bookkeeping preferable. • Preparing bank deposits, able to organize, prioritize and complete reports by deadline dates. • Attention to detail, ability to work independently and within a team environment applying confidentiality in all matters. • Be open to new ideas and changes that may improve efficiency in day to day operations. RCMP photo • Ability to fill in for the manager when required/willingness to A Grand Rapids RCMP officer trained in ice rescue helped carry company cell phone in case of emergency. retrieve a man from the Saskatchewan Riverwages Jan. based 13. • Training provided, flexible work environment, on experience. A man was rescued from RCMP officer trained as an Startin date: ice ASAPrescue technician tied the Saskatchewan River Email resume to Carolyn Turpie: Grand Rapids by an RCMP the rope from the throw bag officer trained inmanager@friulirentals.com ice rescue around his chest and crawled or fax to: 204-677-3195 Jan. 13. out onto the ice while other or drop off at 31 Oak St. Office. Grand Rapids RCMP re- officers and emergency redate: February 16, 2018 ceived a call forClosing assistance sponders acted as anchors. We appreciate the interest of all applicants, howevergrabbed only those the from the bridge spanning the The officer individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.

river around 9 a.m. Wed- male and together they were nesday and arrived to see pulled to safety and transan adult man being carried ported to the nursing station. downstream by the strong The officer was not injured current. Officers instructed during the rescue while the the man to swim toward the man he rescued suffered edge of the ice and he did minor injuries. so after being carried about About 90 RCMP offi50 feet further downstream. cers in Manitoba have been Police to reach the Posting trained over the last nine Home tried Care NurseExternal man with a rope throw bag years in ice rescue, which Colomb First Nation Authoritytois all seeking a but Marcel were unsuccessful. As Health is offered officers, individual to fulfill theparticularly role of Home Care thoseNurse. serving thequalifi manedwas beginning to lose consciousness, an in the north. Job Summary

Allegation that Pukatawagan RCMP officer intentionally hit a dog on the road being investigated Reporting to the Home Care Manager, the Home Care Nurse is responsible for promoting, protecting & preserving the health of Marcel Colomb community members through services directed to home care clients. The Home Care Nurse provides holistic care & practices nursing as defined by the Registered Nurses Act & in compliance with the College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba Standards of Practice & Canadian Nurses Association Code of Ethics; cares for & directs the overall care of clients; is responsible for advocating, providing information, educating & supporting clients to ensure that the highest possible standard of service is provided; follows Marcel Colomb policies & procedures; works in a multidisciplinary team & may be called upon to assist with other duties within the scope of the department. Position Requirements: • Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical • CRNM or CLPN – Active Registration • Valid Manitoba Class 5 Driver’s License The agency that investiity and has been assigned • Daily access to a vehicle gates police in Manitoba is to administrative duties, • Criminal record & child abuse registry checks looking into an allegation RCMP said in a press re• 2 years of related nursing experience that• an Profi RCMP in Word, lease.Excel, A Code of Conduct ciencyofficer in Microsoft Outlook Pukatawagan intentionally investigation of the matter • Immunization record up to date

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