Ethel Blondin-Andrew, a former N.W.T. MP and the former chair of the Sahtu Secretariat, said the kind of drugs coming into the communities and the potential for violence scare her.
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It will take two decades for supply development triggered by the Mackenzie Gas Project to disturb even 4% of the vast Northwest Territories, says a new study that highlights the scale of the frontier about to be opened up by the Canadian foray into Arctic industry.
Former nurse Lorraine M. Wright, researcher Parminder Raina and elders Reg and Rosemary Crowshoe are among 85 Canadians honoured with this year's Order of Canada. They've made contributions in the field of health care, the science of aging and truth and reconciliation.