By Claire McFarlane, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Cabin Radio Fort Liard resident Evangelina Fantasque said she was “dumbfounded” to come across the words “eight years of nothing” spray-painted across the exterior walls of the Acho Dene Koe First Nation office earlier this month. Vehicles parked outside the office in the Northwest Territories community were also marked with the same words. “Who would do that?” Fantasque asked. She said she wasn’t sure what the graffiti was referencing until someone else pulled up behind her and mentioned the First Nation’s chief had been in the role for the past eight years. Fantasque believes Chief Gene Hope, first elected in 2017, could be the target of the graffiti. In an email to Cabin Radio, ADKFN general manager Boyd Clark said Chief Hope wasn’t… <\/p>\n
By Claire McFarlane, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Cabin Radio Fort Liard resident Evangelina Fantasque said she was “dumbfounded” to come across the words “eight years of nothing” spray-painted across the exterior walls of the Acho Dene Koe First Nation office earlier this month. Vehicles parked outside the office in the Northwest Territories community were also marked with the same words. “Who would do that?” Fantasque asked. She said she wasn’t sure what the graffiti was referencing until someone else pulled up behind her and mentioned the First Nation’s chief had been in the role for the past eight years. Fantasque believes Chief Gene Hope, first elected in 2017, could be the target of the graffiti. In an email to Cabin Radio, ADKFN general manager Boyd Clark said Chief Hope wasn’t... <\/p>\n