From Nunavut With Love

From Nunavut With Love

The nurses in St. Boniface Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) called Cassandra Gordon’s baby “Wild Child”. He was a little fighter who wouldn’t give up – from birth, he showed everyone he wasn’t going to be defeated. Gordon and her baby, Kenneth, live with...
Realtor Gets Really Great Care

Realtor Gets Really Great Care

The business of everyday life isn’t cancelled this year – as Matthew Nicolas can tell you. Life goes on in the pandemic. Matthew knew this well, from his work as a Realtor with Royal LePage Dynamic Real Estate. Then, in early October, he became one of more than 13,000...
Coming Back From COVID

Coming Back From COVID

From a hero’s welcome home, to the lingering reminders of his battle with the virus, recovering COVID-19 patient Rick Sterzer is taking life in stride. Home is a peaceful cove in St. Vital, where all the neighbours know Sterzer and his wife Shannon Morden-Sterzer, and...
Lucky 13

Lucky 13

First as a boy and all through junior, senior, and beer league hockey, Sean Barnes has worn number 13. So on July 30, as Barnes found himself in station 13 at St. Boniface Hospital’s Bergen Cardiac Care Clinic for the insertion of a stent in his left anterior...
“Left untreated, I would die.”

“Left untreated, I would die.”

A nasty case of pneumonia saved Dylan Hill’s life. At only 42 years old, Hill was fit and healthy. He had been in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves for five years, and passed the required physicals. He had even run a full marathon in 2007 without any obvious signs of...