Wealthy Canadian couple chartered a plane to the Yukon, got vaccines meant for Indigenous elders, authorities said Updated: January 26
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Print article Located deep in Canada’s Yukon near the Alaska border, the community of Beaver Creek is home to only about 100 people, most of them members of the White River First Nation. So when an unfamiliar couple who claimed to work at a local motel showed up at a mobile clinic to receive coronavirus vaccines, it didn’t take long for locals to become suspicious. Authorities soon found that the pair were actually wealthy Vancouver residents who had chartered a private plane to the Alaska Highway outpost so that they could get shots intended to protect vulnerable Indigenous elders.
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