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Share this article OTTAWA, ON, July 29, 2021 /CNW/ - Advancing gender equality is a key priority for the Government of Canada. The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified systemic and longstanding inequalities, with women and girls disproportionately impacted by the crisis. Women have faced job losses and reduced work hours, shouldered the majority of the additional unpaid care responsibilities at home, and continue to be on the front lines of the pandemic. As Canada moves towards an inclusive recovery, meaningful progress to advance gender equality is needed now more than ever to ensure no one is left behind.
To further support critical recovery efforts led by the women s and equality-seeking movement, today the Honourable Maryam Monsef, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development, announced 237 projects to receive funding under the $100 million Feminist Response and Recovery Fund call for proposals.
Yellowknife residents scramble to cover childcare, staffing after COVID-19 closes schools
Parents and businesses in Yellowknife are trying to arrange childcare and staffing after territorial health officials ordered over the weekend that all schools would be closed until further notice in the wake of a COVID-19 outbreak at N.J. Macpherson School.
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N.W.T. health officials ordered all Yellowknife schools to close as of Monday due to a COVID-19 outbreak
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Posted: May 03, 2021 2:26 PM CT | Last Updated: May 3
N.J. Macpherson School in Yellowknife. Territorial health officials ordered all schools in Yellowknife to close until further notice on May 2 following a COVID-19 outbreak at the school. ( Liny Lamberink/CBC)
Posted: Mar 17, 2021 2:00 AM CT | Last Updated: March 17
COVID-19 has helped create a supportive community hub that advocates in Yellowknife have called for for years. Clockwise from top left: John James Smallgeese, Alfred Betsidea, Diana Lubansa, Patricia Ross, Joanne Lennie and Andrew Sewi.(Mario De Ciccio and Kate Kyle/CBC)
In March 2020, before the pandemic hit, a rust-coloured former motel near Yellowknife s downtown sat fully furnished and empty, while elsewhere in the city, people experiencing homelessness were couch-surfing, staying in a shelter or even sleeping in a stairwell.
When the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the Northwest Territories, the borders closed within hours. Within weeks, the empty two-storey motel was transformed.
Posted: Feb 25, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 26 Sufficient aftercare services are not available to people returning from southern addictions treatment, says MLA Frieda Martselos.(Mario De Ciccio/Radio-Canada)
N.W.T. MLAs seek a slew of mechanisms to improve addictions treatment in the territory including aftercare and permanent funding for harm reduction measures like managed alcohol.
Thebacha MLA Frieda Martselos said there are no adequate aftercare programs to support people in their recovery. She wants three facilities staffed with mental health workers built in the South Slave, central N.W.T. and the Beaufort Delta to provide those programs. With the structure and routine suddenly gone, when they return home, people can easily slip back into their addictions, she said.
This Yellowknife nursing student is fighting cancer â and for her housing
Yellowknifer Toni Anderson and her four children must move out of Aurora Collegeâs student housing by June 30 while the single mother of four undergoes cancer treatment because sheâs not a full-time student. Anderson intends to return full-time next January.
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Toni Anderson and children told to leave student housing by late June because she won t be a full-time student
Posted: Feb 18, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 18
Toni Anderson, a second-year nursing student at Aurora College who is undergoing treatment for cancer, has been told she and her four children have to move out of their student housing unit by the end of June because she won t be a full-time student next semester. She s a part-time student now but the college made an exception for her this semester.(Kate Kyle/CBC)