Former MLA turned wellness counsellor Roy Erasmus was left scratching his head after he was randomly assaulted outside a grocery store in downtown Yellowknife last week.

Actually, the longtime SA国际影视传媒 columnist and his wife, fellow counsellor and co-owner of Dene Wellness Warriors, was left on a medevac flight to Edmonton after being ordered by a doctor to see a plastic surgeon to repair the damage to his face.

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He was struck by the irony that he almost never uses a full-sized cart when shopping for groceries; he said he was using it to move a case of bottled water he and Jean had just bought to hand out around the post office. He said he was punched as he was returning to his vehicle, which was parked in the stall along the building second-closest to the garbage bins on the ShopperSA国际影视传媒檚 Drug mart side of the lot.

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The assailant got in the back seat of a black Dodge Ram pickup that was waiting for him in the parking lot. Erasmus took a picture of the rear as it was leaving; on the advice of Yellowknife , Yellowknifer is not reproducing the licence plate number.

Erasmus reported the assault to police, who are investigating, according to spokesperson Marie York-Condon.

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Erasmus is keeping his chin up in the meantime.

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