By Sonal Gupta, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer A helicopter carrying ballots is scheduled to land in Fox Lake — a remote community in northern Alberta cut off by melting ice roads and mud-slicked trails — in a last-ditch effort to make sure residents can vote in Monday’s federal election. Hundreds of eligible voters are once again fighting for their right to cast a ballot. In 2021, voters in the northern Alberta First Nation — accessible only by barge in warmer months or by ice road in winter — showed up on election day to vote at the local school gym, the location printed on their official Elections Canada voter cards. But the polling station never arrived. There were no staff, no ballots and no notice. “It was…
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