Nearly three weeks after flooding forced some 700 people from their homes, many are still displaced. One person who's home was damaged asks whether Yellowknifers subject to a similar disaster would get the same treatment.
Some volunteers and fundraisers are speaking out about a perceived lack of response from the N.W.T. and federal governments during flooding in the Dehcho.
North Country Public Radio POTSDAM The state-run mass vaccination clinic at SUNY Potsdam has been one of the easiest places in the state for people to get an appointment. For weeks, it was one of the only places. It led to reports of people traveling for hours from downstate to get vaccinated. The Potsdam site doesn’t have a local residency requirement, and that means residents from anywhere in the state are able to get appointments. Beth Hudson and her husband live in Cohoes near Albany. She worried that she might take a vaccine from someone in Potsdam. But after seeing openings for a few weeks she decided that wasn’t the case.