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Manitoba will spend $8,414 per person on health care, a number that is slightly below the national average of $8,563, but third lowest in the country.

Jerry Primrose says his priorities will be safety, comfort and using northern knowledge to respond to issues as they arise.

Thompson’s new council discussed the Oct. 26 election, which slightly more than quarter of eligible voters participated in, at their first committee of the whole meeting Nov. 7.

$3.7 million for capital expenses going to 12 northern airports.

Indigenous leaders say a huge step towards healing and reconciliation from the horrors of the residential school system is for all Canadians to refer to what happened in those schools as acts of genocide.

Natasha Wood was spotted at the Winnipeg airport Nov. 3 and in Thompson on Oct. 28.

Chiefs from ⁠Red Sucker Lake, Garden Hill, Wasagamack and St. Theresa Point held a news conference Nov. 2 in Winnipeg to raise awareness about the dire state of mental health among their more than 15,000 residents.

The term for candidates elected on Oct. 26 officially began Nov. 2 at their inaugural meeting in Thompson City Hall.

Searchers found the body of 61-year-old Philip Rodgers on Oct. 30 with help from the Hutterian Emergency Aquatic Response Team.

Red Sucker Lake First Nation Chief Samuel Knott has declared a state of emergency after recent suicides and suicide attempts in the fly-in community that sits about 760 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg.