There’s no telling how much the four-day boycott of Slave Lake by Driftpile Cree Nation hurt local businesses. But it certainly got a lot of attention, which was perhaps the point.
Announced on Nov. 8 by Driftpile Chief Dwayne Laboucan, it was a reaction to harsh comments by a frustrated Slave Lake town councillor on the subject of homeless people.
While some businesses are scaling back or closing because of COVID-19, Jo Burdeos says she opened BesTea in Slave Lake “because of the pandemic.”
“We love drinking bubble tea,” she says of herself and her family.
“On Friday, October 23, 13-year-old Mohamad (Moe Salloum) was diagnosed with mixed phenotype acute leukemia,” says Moe’s Brave Battle, which is a fundraising Facebook group. By Nov. 2, there were almost a dozen Slave Lake business, a local school, and individual fundraising for Moe S. throughout the month of November.
Gord Crawford of Expander Energy got so busy talking to town and M.D. people last week (maybe others) he didn’t have time for a proposed sit-down interview with your local paper. So we did it by phone when he got back to Calgary.
The Chief and Council of Driftpile Cree Nation wishes to condemn and express its deep disappointment in statements made by Town of Slave Lake Councillor Joy McGregor regarding the Indigenous homeless community in and around Slave Lake.
November 2 marked the start of a new bus service through Slave Lake to Edmonton. It’s called Horizon Bus Lines and is the project of a couple from Faust.
Save Chain Lakes North, a non-profit community group of concerned citizens, announced that NDP MLA Marlin Schmidt will table their petition Oct. 29. It had over 1,700 signatures demanding the provincial government keep three campgrounds and recreation areas fully open, protected and publicly managed north of Athabasca.
Legacy Childcare in Slave Lake recently received some COVID-19 relief funding, but enrollment remains limited.
Legacy Childcare has 184 licensed spaces, says executive director Abi Rayner. However, because of COVID-19 restrictions, it is only allowed to operate with a limited number of people.
Support workers at the Slave Lake Health Care Centre walked off the job on Monday morning, Oct. 26. They were participating in a province-wide protest by the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) against government cuts.
Lakeside Outreach School students and staff were back to work on Monday, Oct. 19 in a brand new location. The school now occupies the ‘Canyon Creek annex’ at CJ Schurter School, its new home for however long.