By Sonal Gupta, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer A helicopter carrying ballots is scheduled to land in Fox Lake \u2014 a remote community in northern Alberta cut off by melting ice roads and mud-slicked trails \u2014 in a last-ditch effort to make sure residents can vote in Monday\u2019s 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 \u2014 accessible only by barge in warmer months or by ice road in winter \u2014 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. \u201cIt was… <\/p>\n
By Sonal Gupta, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer A helicopter carrying ballots is scheduled to land in Fox Lake \u2014 a remote community in northern Alberta cut off by melting ice roads and mud-slicked trails \u2014 in a last-ditch effort to make sure residents can vote in Monday\u2019s 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 \u2014 accessible only by barge in warmer months or by ice road in winter \u2014 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. \u201cIt was... <\/p>\n