Federal elections are exciting times, since the future of the country is at stake, so we have compiled information from the past, present, with projections into the future, to offer some perspective.
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Why are our rivers so low, what is happening to our water and what does that mean for the future? Each year there is a spring flood in April. The snow drains from the land in spring and supercharged streams fill their banks, turn into small rivers and together rush toward lower ground, becoming waterways in their journey to the sea. Rivers peak, pushing out the ice, then run swollen and dirty well into May.
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In the news this week is the large number of small communities in Northern Canada that have no resources to support women vulnerable to abuse from their mates; no “women’s shelters” where they can seek refuge with their children, or victim’s counsellor services to advise them of their rights or attend to them after they are beat on.
READ MOREWhen it comes time to vote, we the electorate are susceptible, even gullible, swayed by TV sound bytes and images crafted by marketing gurus; the worst example is the throng following Donald Trump. Surely we in Canada don’t want to be like that!
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The NWT Legislative Assembly’s Standing Committee on Social Programs is touring communities seeking input, an attempt to “modernize mental health legislation” in the territory, but in spite of widespread demands for reform in how mental health issues are dealt with, the meetings often suffer small turnouts.
READ MOREIn many First Nation communities the voter turnout for federal elections is low. Rock bottom in fact. That has been the case in our Journal reporting in Fort Chipewyan and other small communities in the municipality of Wood Buffalo for decades, and the pattern is echoed across the country.
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