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Your water's yellow, you're trying to stay sober and raise kids, and the options look bleak. To some people, this is how public housing can "feel like a trap."
Ten months with yellow water in Fort Simpson public housing
We followed one family trying to find a new home in Yellowknife public housing after the Garden Townhomes fire. They found it soul-destroying.
They lost their home in a fire. Then they lost their dignity.
"They took everything." A Yellowknife family whose home burned last fall are powerless as their belongings are removed with, they say, next to no communication.
Their home burned, then the car vanished. That was the start.
“Living day-to-day is tough. Not knowing where you’re sleeping more than one or two days ahead is stressful, it’s worrisome.”
NWT evacuee accommodation: What you say and what governments say
In Fort McPherson, a small community located above the Arctic Circle, residents say a drug addiction crisis is driven by housing issues, decades-long lifestyle changes rooted in colonization, and the brazen activity of dealers.
‘One death, we learn to deal with it. Multiple deaths was so hard.’
”The Canadian government had a policy at one time to assimilate: kill the Indian, save the man. Quebec now has a policy to kill the Indian to save the French language.”
‘Keep escalating the pressure’ against bill 96
In remembering Cheyenne Alexie, a family walks a path of grief
In November 2023, Fort McPherson, a remote Arctic community, lost five residents to overdose. Nine months later, one family reflects on the loss of a loved one, sobriety, grief, and finding a way forward.
Yellowknife's evacuation left vulnerable people at huge risk and some are still not accounted for, the city's women's society said in a damning account.