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Given the recent Wildfire events, including the evacuation of the City of Yellowknife and the fact that the services of the Yellowknife Amateur Radio Society and of the amateur radio service were not called upon by civil authorities, the Society is carrying out a comprehensive review of all of its emergency planning including any role that the amateur radio service should play in civil defence activities. Comments are welcome and can be submitted to
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[2023-09-14] While Yellowknife remains under an Evacuation Alert and a number of communities in the South Slave are just starting to be "repatriated", the Society is returning its website back to normal operations. Local amateur radio operators no longer are requested to maintain a radio watch on the VE8YK and VE8RAE repeater network. Many thanks to those who maintained HF contact with the south during the Evacuation Order. The Society will be re-examining its emergency planning along with that of the the GNWT's NWT Emergency Plan and the City of Yellowknife Emergency Plan. Comments may be email to the Society via the reflector -
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There is an interesting article on the Cabin Radio website about COVID-19: https://cabinradio.ca/126850/news/health/coronavirus/in-the-next-pandemic-what-would-kandola-and-cochrane-do-differently/ . The article includes a summary of the recommendations made in: Learning from the Response to COVID-19 at https://www.fin.gov.nt.ca/sites/fin/files/resources/learning_from_the_response_to_covid-19-report_and_recommendations.pdf . That document was published in March 2023. The Government of the Northwest Territories website page is at https://www.fin.gov.nt.ca/en/resources/learning-response-covid-19-report-and-recommendations .