Internet connectivity is something our neighbours to the south take for granted.

This story is part fact and part fiction because it happened a long time ago and some of the details are a little fuzzy but the brunt of it is true. In the early 1970s I was working for a Yellowknife company Precambrian Mining Services Limited. The summer exploration season was wrapping up early and they asked me if I would go to Norman Wells for a few months to help with an expediting service they were running there, primarily for the oil and gas industry.

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How do you break a bias when it is so deeply ingrained into our culture as a whole?

Complacency is developed and is fed by frustration and not being heard.

Well, what do you know. CBC has reported that court documents show that Rick Edjericon owes the territorial government $113,000, yet he was able to run for and get elected as MLA for Tu Nedh茅-Wiilideh. Whoa!

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