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Vax requirement expanded to include all City workers

The City of Winnipeg has expanded its COVID-19 vaccine requirement to now apply to all City employees.

Changes planned for some surgical procedures in Manitoba as Shared Health braces for Omicron impact

With a wave of the Omicron variant of COIVD-19 expected in the coming days, Shared Health announced it’s postponing some elective surgeries to ensure urgent and cancer surgeries can be carried out.

Family, police make plea for info on anniversary of 2014 fatal hit and run

Family members and Winnipeg Police marked the seventh anniversary of a fatal pre-Christmas hit and run on Sunday by renewing their call for any information that would help solve the case.

HOLIDAY FOOD DRIVE: Superstore, No Frills, Wholesale Club collecting for Harvest Manitoba

From now until Christmas Eve, all Winnipeg Real Canadian Superstore, No Frills and Wholesale Club stores will be collecting non-perishable food items as well as cash donations for Harvest Manitoba to support community members in need with its annual Holiday Food Drive.

Province invests $350K into Kennedy House restoration

The Manitoba government is investing $350,000 to support the first phase of the Kennedy House Restoration Project, an initiative to address structural concerns and preserve and maintain heritage elements of the historic building in River Road Provincial Heritage Park, Conservation and Climate Minister Sarah Guillemard and Sport, Culture and Heritage Minister Cathy Cox announced Friday.

Jets return to successful brand of hockey in win over Blues

Describing the Winnipeg Jets’ 4-2 victory over the visiting St. Louis Blues on Sunday afternoon at Canada Life Centre is a bit of a choose-your-own-adventure.

Zacharias tops Watling to claim first Manitoba women’s curling title

Four fresh faces will represent Manitoba at the national Scotties Tournament of Hearts in 2022.

JONES: Elks' GM search down to Ted Goveia, Chris Jones

NFL SUNDAY TAKEAWAYS: Chiefs, Packers rise to No. 1 in conference standings

Packers edge Ravens 31-30 on another failed Baltimore two-point conversion in final seconds

Jets season halted until after Christmas as NHL, NHLPA announce stop to cross-border travel

The Winnipeg Jets will not play another game before Christmas after the NHL and NHLPA agreed to postpone cross-border travel until after the Christmas break on Sunday.

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BRAUN: Travel in the age of Omicron not for the faint of heart

SIMS: Use CO2 as a material to make cool things instead of taxing us for it

Letters: December 20, 2021

Misunderstood creatures

Larry David reveals why he hates Christmas

'There's the loathsome music. The movies with their ridiculous, treacly sentiments,' Curb Your Enthusiasm star says

'Spider-Man' box office numbers climb in record books

LOS ANGELES — Final box office figures showed “Spider-Man: No Way Home” hauled in an even bigger audience than originally estimated, for a weekend total of $260 million at U.S. and Canadian theatres, distributor Sony Corp said on Monday.

Rapper Drakeo the Ruler's death brings a disorienting silence

Grief debilitates us by disorienting us. It shows up unannounced, then annihilates the contours of life until gravity feels capricious – meaning that, when grief isn’t sending us to the floor, it’s floating us outside of our bodies, outside of time. It makes us feel other ways, too, and Americans have become fluent in pretty much all of them as we continue to stare into a pandemic that won’t end, an era of climate catastrophe that keeps accelerating and the inertia of lawmakers who appear not to care. Our grief is everywhere, and our disorientation won’t relent.

MUST-SEE TV: Netflix's 'Emily in Paris' top this week's watch list

1. Emily in Paris Season 2 After landing her dream job in Paris, the new season picks up right after Chicago marketing exec Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) sleeps with Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) — the ex of her new pal Camille (Camille Razat). When: Wednesday on Netflix

'SNL' scraps show and sends cast home amid coronavirus fears; Tom Hanks and Tina Fey pitch in

In a first for “Saturday Night Live,” hours before an episode was set to air, producers scrapped the planned show and sent most of the cast home.

SUNshine Girl Natalie

SUNshine Girl Natalie, a 5-foot-5 Gemini, is creative and full of energy, spending her days as a part-time model and actress. She is also a singer, composer and pianist. (Jack Boland/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)

SUNshine Girl Kathryn

SUNshine Girl Kathryn is fit, fabulous and a returning favourite. This 5-foot-8 stunner recently studied recreational therapy for Geriatrics – and even made the Honour Roll, and is a proud hockey mom. (JACK BOLAND/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)

SUNShine Girl Kristy

SUNShine Girl Kristy, known as the ‘tattooedfitgirl’, is a fitness trainer who is always ready to rumble as a pro card athlete with Ultimate Fitness Events. (Jack Boland/Toronto Sun)

SUNshine Girl Julie

SUNshine Girl Julie is a professional makeup artist who owns her own company. This fiery boss lady is also a professionally trained dancer in ballet, jazz and hip hop. (Jack Boland/Toronto Sun)

SUNshine Girl Monique

SUNshine Girl Monique, a.k.a. @beautydivaglam, is a beauty and wellness expert. She loves fashion, anything with heels, kickboxing, yoga and spa treatments. (Jack Boland/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)

P and G recalls some conditioner, shampoo sprays on finding carcinogens

Procter & Gamble Co said on Friday it was voluntarily recalling some dry conditioner and shampoo sprays sold in the United States and Canada from its Pantene and Herbal Essences brands due to the presence of a cancer-causing chemical.

As seasons change, so do moods - here's a fast and fabulous way to boost yours

Chilly temps, shorter days and being cooped up inside can zap our energy and have us feeling a bit blue. And that steady diet of doomscrolling – a new variant spreading, another pandemic winter – is messing with our brain.

SEX FILES: Curb the office romances this holiday season

Sex and the City isn’t the only thing that’s getting a reboot this holiday season. After nearly two years of cancelled plans and Zoom get-togethers, many workplaces are opting to host in-person holiday parties. It’s a chance to network with the higher-ups, dig into a baked brie with wild abandon and catch up with co-workers without having to say, “Brenda, you’re muted!”

ASK AMY: This year, put ‘A Book on Every Bed’

Dear Readers: Every year at Christmastime, I ask readers to put “A Book on Every Bed.” I do so in memory of my mother, Jane, whose weekly trips to our town’s library always yielded armloads of books. In our household, we went without some things that other families had, but we always had books in abundance.

This time of year has you wanting a taste of nostalgia found in a Christmas classic

This time of year has me wishing for a taste of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol . Something about the celebrated English novelist’s holiday classic tale of redemption, forgiveness and love, all set against the backdrop of Victorian England, is simply timeless.

67 big rigs take part in Alberta Christmas Convoy

Edmonton-area parade attracted trucks from nearby locales

Northern Ontario drivers warned to watch for roaming bison

Nipissing OPP warn of bison on Highway 64

La Chrysler Airflow renaîtra en 2024 après 90 ans d’absence

La Chrysler Airflow, promise pour 2024, permettrait à Stellantis de rivaliser avec les Mach-E, ID.4 Solterra et autres électriques modernes.

Snakebit: The Shelby Mustang GT500KR returns with 900 hp

Shelby America is celebrating the company's 60th anniversary with this aggressively styled serpent

Operator of self-driving bus in Ontario critically injured in crash

Autonomous shuttle, limited to 20 km/hm apparently hits tree in Whitby in evening incident

As Told To: 'HIV is everyone's business as long as it exists' open in new tab

Jade Elektra (a.k.a. Alphonso King, Jr.) is a Toronto-based drag queen, musician, DJ, actor, writer and HIV+ activist, and has long been an advocate for people living with and affected by HIV.

Breakthrough infection could mean 'end game' for COVID open in new tab

Study finds found that the antibodies following infection were 1,000 per cent more effective at neutralizing the Delta variant than those produced two weeks after a second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

Digital therapeutics and the social determinants of health are on divergent pathways. Can they be reconciled? open in new tab

The best deterrent isn’t an emphasis on individual behaviour, but a change to public policy.

'Hope is like oxygen': How do we embrace the holidays in a time of loss and anxiety? open in new tab

From a virulent variant, renewed restrictions and empty seats around tables, many of us are struggling to find joy and positivity in the season.

Will Omicron cancel Christmas? Three experts advise how to stay safe this holiday open in new tab

'This is not the time to be attributing any kind of a runny nose to a cold,' says Dr. Susy Hota. 'It's COVID until proven otherwise'

Cannabis is helping this master chocolatier get back in business

Fourth-generation chocolatier Bernard Callebaut has been creating confectioneries for Canadians for 38 years. Now he's working with a new ingredient.

She's 28, a serial cannabis entrepreneur, and on Forbes 30 under 30 list

Week in weed: Pfizer's billion-dollar entry into marijuana, three Canadians granted access to psilocybin mushrooms, and how the gift of weed is budget-friendly with these ideas

Nine-year-old inadvertently narcs out mom after cannabis found in coat

Girl reported to have found cannabis in the pocket of her mother’s coat.

Toronto-based Avicanna teams with NBA star Al Harrington’s wellness company to launch re+PLAY topicals in Canada

Initial offerings in sports performance- and recovery-focused CBD wellness brand include muscle rub, body cream and foot/ankle cream products.

U.K. firm sets sights on building what it claims is world’s first carbon-negative medical cannabis facility

Glass Pharms to receive as much as $38.5 million in funding to advance its plan.