Canoe Lake youth walk promotes healthy, drug-free lifestyles
A group of youth in the Canoe Lake Cree Nation is looking to take their community back from the ravages of drugs and alcohol.
The local “Reclaiming our Community” walk was held earlier this week to promote positive, healthy and drug-free lifestyles.
“There’s been people smoking weed and there’s been older people getting into drugs like meth and crack and coke,” 17-year-old Kahley Iron, one of the teens who took part in the walk, said.
She said COVID-19 checkpoints in Canoe Lake are monitoring for alcohol but are not always catching some of the drugs coming into the community.