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Jets rookie Bjorck enjoying a three-game point streak

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Jets rookie Bjorck enjoying a three-game point streak

Ken Wiebe 7 minute read 6:04 PM EST

DALLAS — Viggo Bjorck couldn’t believe his eyes.

The Winnipeg Jets rookie forward had sent a backhand towards the empty net and was on the verge of being able to celebrate his first NHL goal when the puck bounced off the goal post late in Tuesday’s game against the New Jersey Devils.

There wasn’t much time to lament the missed opportunity as there was still a one-goal lead to protect.

Fortunately for the Winnipeg Jets, Kyle Connor sealed the win with an empty-net goal of his own, allowing Bjorck to breathe a sigh of relief in the waning moments of the 4-2 triumph.

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The Manitoba Nurses Union and the Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals are calling on the Manitoba government to improve safety for health-care workers.

Violence-related injuries in health care spike as enforcement flatlines: report

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Violence-related injuries in health care spike as enforcement flatlines: report

Chris Kitching 5 minute read Updated: 5:32 PM EST

Two of Manitoba’s largest health-care unions are calling on the province to improve protections for workers and hold employers accountable after a 41 per cent increase in violence-related injury claims.

The Manitoba Nurses Union and the Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals said positions with elevated rates of violence should be designated high-risk — the same as some manufacturing or construction jobs — to trigger more frequent inspections and enforcement by the provincial workplace safety and health branch.

“Employers have an obligation under Manitoba’s Workplace Safety and Health Act to take violence prevention seriously,” MAHCP president Jason Linklater said Thursday, after the unions released an interim report and seven recommendations.

“When they don’t, the Manitoba government has an obligation to hold them to account. As you can see from (the) report, that is not happening.”

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Updated: 5:32 PM EST

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Former city councillor Russ Wyatt before he lost the Transcona ward to Lora Meseman in the recent civic election.

Wyatt sought pandemic inquiry before election defeat

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Wyatt sought pandemic inquiry before election defeat

Scott Billeck 3 minute read 5:15 PM EST

Russ Wyatt pushed for a federal inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic before he was dumped from his council seat in the civic election last month.

Before he lost the Transcona ward to Lora Meseman, Wyatt introduced a motion calling for a federal commission to examine the pandemic and develop a national preparedness plan for future public health emergencies.

The motion, deferred in September and set to be considered by the East Kildonan-Transcona community committee Nov. 18, raises unsubstantiated claims about vaccine-related health issues and references conspiracy theories about the pandemic.

It proposes that the Federation of Canadian Municipalities call on Ottawa to establish a multi-party inquiry into the pandemic and its aftermath, when the federation meets at its annual convention next year.

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Emergency crews remained on the scene of a blaze in a three-storey walk-up apartment building at 269 Young St., Thursday afternoon.

Firefighter hurt at Young Street blaze

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Firefighter hurt at Young Street blaze

Morgan Modjeski 2 minute read 5:07 PM EST

A firefighter received a minor injury while working to contain a blaze in a three-storey walk-up apartment on Young Street.

Black streaks stretched from third-storey windows to the roof of the building at 269 Young St., where emergency crews remained on scene Thursday afternoon.

“First it was smoke, and then the flames just started gushing out,” tenant James Hyde said about the blaze. “You could see it spread,”

In a news release, the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service said the firefighter was assessed by a paramedic and didn’t require a trip to the hospital.

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Peter Nygard arrives at a courthouse in Toronto in 2023.

Manitoba government looks to quash Nygard lawsuit

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Manitoba government looks to quash Nygard lawsuit

Erik Pindera 5 minute read 3:55 PM EST

The provincial government is moving to have convicted sex criminal Peter Nygard’s lawsuit against it thrown out of court.

Former fashion mogul Nygard filed his statement of claim naming a slew of defendants in the Court of King’s Bench in March, over the failed prosecution in Manitoba’s provincial court last fall, which he alleged was the result of abuses of process.

Nygard, who’s in his mid-80s, had been set to stand trial on allegations he sexually assaulted and forcibly confined a woman, who was then 20, at his former corporate headquarters in Winnipeg in 1993, but the charges against him were stayed in October last year.

The judge on the case ruled his right to a fair trial had been breached because of lost evidence.

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