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It\u2019s frustrating for Rosie Harris to go to the two stores in Nain and be unable to buy essential items like toilet paper, baby wipes, \u00a0cleaning supplies, ketchup, or rice, due to the Kamutik W ferry being \u00a0unable to deliver to the Inuit community on Labrador\u2019s north coast. Harris has four young children at home who are picky eaters, and \u00a0without staple foods they eat, the mother has had a hard time cooking \u00a0enough food they enjoy. She\u2019s also been unable to buy the sensitive \u00a0laundry detergent her daughter needs, she says. \u201cWe are in a crisis, and people need to treat it that way. If not for \u00a0yourself, then think of the children and think of the elders,\u201d Harris \u00a0says. \u201cIf this was anywhere else in Canada, something would… <\/p>\n

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It\u2019s frustrating for Rosie Harris to go to the two stores in Nain and be unable to buy essential items like toilet paper, baby wipes, \u00a0cleaning supplies, ketchup, or rice, due to the Kamutik W ferry being \u00a0unable to deliver to the Inuit community on Labrador\u2019s north coast. Harris has four young children at home who are picky eaters, and \u00a0without staple foods they eat, the mother has had a hard time cooking \u00a0enough food they enjoy. She\u2019s also been unable to buy the sensitive \u00a0laundry detergent her daughter needs, she says. \u201cWe are in a crisis, and people need to treat it that way. If not for \u00a0yourself, then think of the children and think of the elders,\u201d Harris \u00a0says. \u201cIf this was anywhere else in Canada, something would... <\/p>\n

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