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The men s transitional home in Fort Good Hope established and run by the K ásho Got’ıne Housing Society. Arthur Tobac said the transitional home really highlighted the effect having a roof over your head can have.(Amanda Blair)
This is part six of a series on the housing crisis in the Northwest Territories
While the NWT Housing Corporation said they re going to need $500-$600 million dollars to improve housing conditions in the N.W.T., almost double the cost predicted in 2017, some community leaders across the territory have taken it upon themselves to find a solution for their people.
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MLA Lesa Semmler, who is a nurse and worked in health promotion for 20 years, said the government of the Northwest Territories should have provided more public health education before the vaccine arrived so it could gain wider acceptance.(Mario De Ciccio/Radio-Canada)
As the Moderna vaccine rolls out in the N.W.T., Indigenous leaders say the territorial government must address vaccine hesitancy if it wants to reach target immunization levels.
The territory received 7,200 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine last week, and unveiled its
But Inuvik MLA Lesa Semmler says information sessions should have been conducted earlier by community health nurses to increase confidence in the vaccine.