CBC: Manitoba’s health system not ready for changes promised in throne speech: nurses union

November 19, 2025 —

Manitoba’s plan for changes to the health-care system, which it says will improve patient safety, has garnered mixed reactions from advocates and experts.

Dr. Sonia Udod, associate professor of nursing at the University of Manitoba, agreed there’s “good and bad” in the announcement. “Who will take care of the patients when there are no nurses to take over?” Udod said. “I’m not sure how that’s going to happen.”

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CBC: Die-off of hundreds of birds something Manitoba hasn’t experienced ‘at this scale’: biologist

Dr. Hannah Wallace, Lead Research Associate in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases at the University of Manitoba with expertise in viral immunology, said it is strange that after years of avian influenza circulating in North America there would be so many bird deaths at once.

Winnipeg Free Press: U of M researchers studying whether genetic testing helps zero in on effective mental-health treatment meds

“Someone with mental-health conditions, they (try) multiple medications, and sometimes it takes months or years to get to a point where those drugs work for them, or to have less side effects,” said Dr. Abdullah Maruf, the lead investigator on the study and assistant professor in U of M’s College of Pharmacy.