Bartley Kives @bkives Twitter profile

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

6 months

This is now a passive account. I'm keeping it around in the event Twitter improves in the future.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

In which Elon Musk’s poor COVID-science fluency leads an epigeneticist to call him “Space Karen.”

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Bartley Kives

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4 years

#COVID19 checklist: 1. Are you sick? Stay home. 2. Are you healthy? Stay home. 3. Don't know? Stay home. Thank you for coming to my pandemic talk.

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3 years

I know the multi-day snowstorm is depressing, but ... 1. It likely averted a drought that threatened ranchers and farmers 2. It lowered the risk of spring grassfires and summer forest fires 3. It reduced the threat of more backcountry travel bans We needed this snow.

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

Everything sucks again, so please just be freaking nice - and I don’t care if this is sappy, clichéd, repetitive or unoriginal.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

Shoutout to the gas-station attendants, retail clerks, fast-food employees and other workers who’ve spent 10 months dealing with pandemic-stressed people - mostly without hazard pay. I ran some errands today and ... I can not begin to express my gratitude.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

There is no reason to be smug about Alberta. It happened in Manitoba in May. It could happen here again if we become less vigilant. Alberta took some of our ICU patients when we had no capacity. Pardon the plea for civility, as I know it’s outside my role.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

End-of-the-week shout-out to every single person who pays attention and cares about at least one other human being and hopefully more.

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

After 22 months of this, all we got was a lousy T-shirt

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Bartley Kives

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6 years

Had a TappCar driver last night. A recent newcomer from Africa, he claimed he doesn’t know much about hockey. But he said he’s outraged Hellebuyck makes less than Mason. Concerned about cap space next year. This is what a professed lack of hockey knowledge is in Winnipeg.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

Vaccinated. First shot of AZ. No selfie, sorry.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

Hi. Just popping in briefly to note we’re closer to the end of this awful, horrible thing than we are to the beginning. Bye.

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Bartley Kives

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4 years

Manitoba now has only four active cases of #COVID19 . That’s the lowest active caseload since March 13, two days after the global pandemic was declared. Gratitude and vigilance.

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

On the bright side, Winnipeg will have a whiteout this April.

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Bartley Kives

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7 years

That feeling when you cut a TV piece and only after do your colleagues notice the kid crossing Selkirk Avenue with a pylon on his head.

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

Breaking: Your spirit, when you hear 30 to 80 cms of April snow is on the way.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

While almost everyone is on edge and suffering in some manner, please consider being a little nicer than you otherwise would be - in all interactions. Just asking for 1,379,262 friends.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

Manitobans have to wait until 6 p.m. to hear about new pandemic restrictions because the official in charge of public health is tied up in court today due to a lawsuit from seven churches opposed to pandemic restrictions. #COVID19

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

Side note: Anyone who claims media are promoting fear is doing you a disservice. People in my profession are doing their best to keep you informed. No one wants you to be scared. The "fear" angle you see on socials is cynical, denialist propaganda. Beware disinformation.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

Every Nurse in Manitoba is double shifted right now, including Darnell.

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Bartley Kives

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4 years

Keep Manitoba flat.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

Most humans are nice. Most humans are respectful. Keep doing what you’re doing, nice people. You have no idea how far those small acts of kindness go.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

Manitoba: You can go shopping again today Winnipeg Jets: Cool, we have a two-for-one sale

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

Here’s the deal, Manitobans: Take extra effort to remain at home and limit your contacts throughout the next month ... ... or face a tougher lockdown heading into Christmas. #covid19

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

Effective immediately, CBC’s #COVID19 coverage will focus first on hospitalizations and secondly in case counts. Case counts are no longer accurate and are also not the most important measure of the pandemic’s impact.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

One more piece of advice to add right now: Don’t just stay home as much as possible. Drive safe. Ride safe. Do not drive tired or even mildly impaired. Be careful walking on icy sidewalks. Hospitals are so busy right now, you don’t want to be a trauma patient.

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

I’m off until Jan. 17 to finish a book project. I’ll tweet some numbers while I’m off, but please visit for more comprehensive pandemic coverage. Have a happy new year and be safe.

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Bartley Kives

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8 years

Congrats, Finland. I still wish you had a different word for "testicle."

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Bartley Kives

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4 years

More recovered #covid19 patients than active cases for the first time in Manitoba! #cbcmb

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Bartley Kives

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6 years

“And for one brief moment in February, 2018, all of Canada was united by the performance of its hockey-playing women, a collective hatred of referees and the out-of-character antics of a slightly inebriated ice dancer ...”

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

Something good had to happen to Winnipeg some time this spring, and I guess this is ... it?

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

Jew here. I am angry, all right. I’m also humbled. The sad truth is the colour of my skin usually allows me to be invisible as a target for hate. Somehow, Indigenous, Asian, Black and other people of colour bottle up their anger every day.

Dr. Amy Tan

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Check in on your Black, Indigenous, Asian, racialized, Muslim & Jewish friends/colleagues right now. We weren't ok before this weekend. We definitely are not ok now.

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Bartley Kives

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4 years

Your quarantine name is your Visa number, expiry date and three-digit code.

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

So if I understand Twitter correctly, Barry Trotz would win a Stanley Cup for Winnipeg, fill every pothole on Kenaston, build a permanent flood-protection dike at Peguis and send the Russians packing from Ukraine.

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

WINNIPEG WOULD HAVE MULTIPLE TRANSIT CORRIDORS RIGHT NOW AND MAYBE EVEN LIGHT RAIL IF COUNCIL QUICKLY HEEDED THE RECOMMENDATION IN 1976 TO BUILD THE SOUTHWEST TRANSITWAY INSTEAD OF WAITING 43 YEARS TO COMPLETE IT

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

I used to make fun of people who watched kitten and puppy videos to feel better. Eight and a half months into the pandemic, I am one of them.

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

A first, tonight: Got the Jeep stuck in a snowbank after foolishly, lazily trying to flatten part of the back lane. Winnipeg being Winnipeg, a complete stranger helped me push it out. There’s still good in this city. Small acts of generosity go a long way.

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Bartley Kives

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4 years

Make Manitoba flat again. #covid19

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

We live in a parallel universe where Winnipeg is the absolute worst when it comes to managing the COVID yet somehow better than Edmonton at playing the hockey.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

Of the first 940,193 Manitobans to be fully vaxed, a grand total of 941 caught COVID-19. That is a 0.1 per cent infection rate.

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

I asked the CEO of Manitoba Shared Health if he asked public health for tougher restrictions.

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2 years

That is how you end a press conference! @bkives at his best! #questionhasbeenanswered

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

Dr. Brent Roussin's CV: - Medical degree - Master's in public health - Law degree Have a good night, folks.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

As per @brycehoye , a record 29,000 Manitobans have booked vaccination appointments so far today. That’s a single-day record. And counting.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

3 years

Reminder: Just be nice.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

So anyone 18 and up: Get ready to sign up for an appointment tomorrow, likely ~11:45 a.m.

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

Manitoba Minister Jon Reyes inspired 1,872* quote tweets and 352 replies on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022. Favourable comments: some Hot takes: many Deaths: RIP his mentions * Underestimated, because it’s only been 12 hours and people have nothing better to do

Jon Reyes

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Even after a 12 hour night shift at the hospital last night, my wife still has the energy to shovel the driveway. God bless her and all our frontliners. Time to make her some breakfast. 🙏🏽

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

As well, the total accumulation of snow so far is already within the predicted range. Complaining about relatively good fortune - and forecasters doing their jobs and authorities behaving responsibly - is quite something.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

I don’t often tweet personal things, but I’m immensely grateful my mother, 80, dutifully listened to public health advice since the pandemic began. She hasn’t had so much as a scare since the start. She got her Pfizer shot three weeks ago and likely has some immunity now.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

It’s as if all these people posting COVID misinformation on their FB never saw the house-hippo PSA.

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3 years

Out of 481,119 Manitobans with one vaccine dose ... ... 410 contracted #COVID19 more than two weeks after that dose. That's an infection rate of 0.09 per cent.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

That emergency alert you all just received was a reminder to stay home.

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

Reminder, on this unpleasant day and any other day: 1. Mute the trolls. 2. Block them if they're spamming your feed. 3. Block and report them if they're abusive. Have a good day and pay no attention to anyone who wishes you otherwise.

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Bartley Kives

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6 years

Winnipeggers: I don’t like all the intoxicated people downtown Also Winnipeggers: Nuit Blanche is great. So many intoxicated people downtown

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

According to @DFisman , Manitoba is now the only province west of the Maritimes with an R value below 1.0. Canada appears to be at the beginning of a fourth wave. #COVID19

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

Final thought: It’s unfortunate Hawerchuk didn’t get to see that.

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

Winnipeg smells like the inside of a campstove that got left out in the rain. The sky is every shade of grey in the Pantone set. The air tastes like your uncle Oscar’s den, before he quit smoking two packs a day. Living in the future sucks.

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

Former downtown Winnipeg Bay store to be transferred to Indigenous leadership, provide affordable housing

Downtown Winnipeg Bay building to be transferred to Southern Chiefs' Organization for mixed-use...

Government sources say the six-storey, 655,000-square-foot Bay building in downtown Winnipeg is to be transferred to Indigenous leadership and will be used partly for affordable housing.

www.cbc.ca

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Bartley Kives

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3 years

One week after Manitoba announced the elimination of its mask mandate, Doctors Manitoba is calling for continued indoor mask use as well as wider use of immunization cards. #COVID19

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

3 years

About that excuse you have to continue socializing despite the order not to do so: Consider how it would sound if you said it to an ICU nurse.

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

The sources of Manitoba weather misery face each other in the NHL western final. Colorado Low vs. Alberta Clippers.

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2 years

Met a celeb tonight. Photo by �� @mkochsch ⁩

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2 years

Oh my god, they (politically) killed Kenney.

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

Thank you, Regina Mayor, who I will not tag again, for providing some much-needed levity on a day when I really needed something to make me smile.

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Bartley Kives

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2 years

Had the sniffles and a wee bit of a sore throat. Went for a COVID test. It took three minutes, front to back, and I received the result in 18 hours. I am sharing this lest anyone think it’s still inconvenient to get tested. (And yes, it was negative.)

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

3 years

Manitoba has lowered general #COVID19 vaccine eligibility to anyone aged 24 and up.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

2 years

IMO, Castillo was Winnipeg’s MVP. Him, or the defensive line. Picking up a solid kicker late in the season was the most important player-personnel move the Bombers made.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

3 years

1. Pallister's office said so 2a. I do know what Pallister's office said 2b. I have never been a member of any party, but I have voted for five different ones 3a. I don't work for the Free Press 3b. Please don't stigmatize mental illness Thanks for playing.

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@bkives How the fuck do you know. You know nothing NDP lifer. Free Press writers are all angry depressed human beings.

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Bartley Kives

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4 years

Again: Wash your hands. Stay home when you can. Don't gather in large groups. Keep your distance in public. Wear a mask when you can't. Wear a mask when you shop (you must in Winnipeg region). Also consider: Support local businesses. We need them ... they need us.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

3 years

Just spoke to Shelly Glover, who says “I am the premier. I am the premier, not her.”

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@bkives

3 years

Manitoba is making the AstraZeneca #Covid19 vaccine available to anyone 40 or over - with no health preconditions, a government source confirms. Formal announcement to come.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

3 years

Manitoba has made the AZ change official. Anyone 40 and over can book an appointment, effective immediately.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

3 years

Winnipeg-Montreal. Just how the experts drew it up two weeks ago.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

4 years

Friesen said MB has to do more to reach young people. I asked if he's going to create a TikTok account. He said no.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

2 years

Winnipeg mayoral candidate gets bike stolen 85 minutes after promising to reduce bike theft. #wpg22

Winnipeg mayoral candidate gets bike stolen 85 minutes after promising to reduce bike theft | CBC...

A Winnipeg mayoral candidate had his bicycle stolen less than 90 minutes after announcing a cycling-infrastructure plan that included plans to reduce bike theft.

www.cbc.ca

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

2 years

And one last thing: The province says new restrictions are in place because of the threat posed by omicron. Omicron does pose a threat, but the rise in cases right now is the result of Manitoba's failure to contain delta over the past two months.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

3 years

Context, for anyone paying attention to Manitoba out east: On a per-capita basis, today's 494 cases is akin to Ontario announcing 4,940 cases in a single day.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

2 years

Advice for tomorrow: Stay home Stay home There is no need to roam When blizzards hit You can’t see sh*t Stay home Stay home stay home stay home

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

4 years

Manitoba’s pandemic performance, according to @KellyCaruk : “Today I couldn’t help but think watching the pandemic unfold in Manitoba is like a classic Bomber game. We came out strong with swagger only to completely shit the bed in the second half.”

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@bkives

3 years

Dr. Eric Jacobsohn says six Manitoba cardiac patients have died on the surgery wait list due to the lack of hospital capacity during the third-wave #COVID19 hospital crisis.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

3 years

From infection leader to vaccination leader: Manitoba now No. 1 among provinces in doses per capita | #COVID19

From infection leader to vaccination leader: Manitoba now No. 1 among provinces in doses per capita...

Manitoba has climbed to No. 1 among the provinces in per capita COVID-19 vaccine administration.

www.cbc.ca

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

3 years

In Manitoba, at this very minute, it is now legal to visit outdoors with (up to 5) people you don’t live with. #COVID19

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

3 years

Asleep. Wake to sound of drumming. Weird. Windows closed. Neighbours aren’t hippies. No one here drums. But … THE DRUMS ARE IN MY YARD. Open back door. Run out. No thought. Get very wet. Very quickly. No drums. Rain. Hard rain. *It’s been so dry I forgot what rain sounds like.*

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

2 years

Manitoba Public Health says it won’t provide COVID numbers on Monday and Tuesday. That would leave the public with a five-day gap between Christmas Eve and Dec. 29 at a time when case counts are spiking. CBC News has asked the province to reconsider.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

2 years

In a statement, every member of #wpgpoli city council has condemned the racist imagery on display in the city this weekend.

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@bkives

2 years

As per @CBCMarina , 18,000 kids aged 5-11 have their #COVID19 vax appointments. That's 1 in 7 kids in that age range on the first day of eligibility.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

2 years

I think he means Barry Trotz is interviewing Winnipeg.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

3 years

Winter Solstice in Winnipeg occurs at 4:02 a.m. Darkness maxes out tonight at 15 hours, 54 minutes and 36 seconds. This is not a metaphor.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

3 years

MB Justice says Springs Church has been charged with two counts of failing to abide by public health orders.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

2 years

I have barely been able to concentrate since I saw the image of a truck bearing a yellow Juden star drive down Broadway earlier this week. I didn’t think I would live long enough to see people forget what that symbol signified.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

3 years

Just another reminder to ignore trolls who jump into COVID threads to try to sow discord. Some are just jerks. Others may be more nefarious. When someone tries to upset you, you can simply mute.

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

2 years

Gillingham, with 27.5 per cent popular support in an election with 37 per cent voter turnout, now must work very hard. He has the weakest mandate of any mayor in modern Winnipeg history. That’s math. Not an opinion. #wpg22

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

3 years

Had the sniffles Monday. Went for a COVID test at 3 PM. Just checked my results and I am negative. That’s 33 hours and potentially even less for the turnaround time. ☑️

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Bartley Kives

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4 years

For the first time in my life, Halloween is scary.

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@bkives

2 years

NDP leader Wab Kinew says the premier refuses to tell protestors to leave and accuses her of capitulating to protestors. Says he’s concerned about the precedent. #mbpoli

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Bartley Kives

@bkives

3 years

And yes, I’m painfully aware the target audience for said message doesn’t get its public-health advice from Twitter and if it did, it wouldn’t choose to receive it from some dweeb reporter. Just shouting into the void here. Like the rest of you.

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Bartley Kives

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6 years

That’s more like it