Canadian Armed Forces arrive to assist Bearskin Lake First Nation with COVID-19 outbreak
CBC
Members of the Canadian Armed Forces had arrived in Bearskin Lake, a First Nation in northern Ontario gripped by an outbreak of COVID-19 that has seen more than half the population infected.
Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said Saturday that soldiers are conducting an initial assessment.
More than half of the roughly 400 people living in the remote First Nation 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, Ont., have tested positive for COVID-19. Even more are in quarantine.
It's left the community with a dwindling number of people to perform essential tasks such as delivering wood, food and medicine to those in isolation.
"We need external personnel to come in and help us. We need human resources," Charles Fox, a member of Bearskin Lake and a former Ontario regional chief, previously told CBC News.
P.E.I.'s Public Schools Branch is looking for 50 substitute bus drivers, and it'll be recruiting at three job fairs on Saturday, June 8. The job fairs are located at the Atlantic Superstore in Montague, Royalty Crossing in Charlottetown, and the bus parking lot of Three Oaks Senior High in Summerside. All three run from 9 a.m. until noon. Dave Gillis, the director of transportation and risk management for the Public Schools Branch, said the number of substitute drivers they're hiring isn't unusual. "We are always looking for more. Our drivers tend to have an older demographic," he said.