Despite being organised just two days prior, almost 70 Yellowknifers convened at the Greenstone Building on Saturday, Jan. 22, to protest public health restrictions related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

While the socially-conscious group withstood -30 C weather, several more passersby voiced their support from the comfort of their cars by tooting their horns.

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Current Covid-related mandates are re-shaping the way Yellowknifers work and live. restricted non-essential businesses to host up to 25 people in their establishment, with each to show proof of vaccination and wear a mask when not seated.

In private dwellings, people are to allowed to gather in groups no larger than 5 persons or up to 10 if they reside in the same dwelling. They are required to physically distance at all times. The order also stated, SA国际影视传媒淒ancing, singing and playing of wind and brass instruments in a dwelling place are prohibited when persons from outside the household are present.SA国际影视传媒�

Several placards illustrated the groupSA国际影视传媒檚 frustration at the currents such restrictions with one reading, SA国际影视传媒楶laydates no mandatesSA国际影视传媒� and their message was clear: freedom of choice.

SA国际影视传媒淥nce a majority of the population is pro-choice, we may see the end of vaccine mandates and passes in the NWT and [across] Canada,SA国际影视传媒� said Brown.