Cabin Radio has become a lifeline for people in NWT who need immediate and accurate information as raging wildfires threaten their homes
threaten their homes and communities. In local Facebook groups, people post screenshots of Cabin Radio articles, or copy and paste the text. Meta is blocking Canadian news content to protest federal policy, and the Cabin Radio team encourages the workarounds.
Williams founded Cabin Radio with four other people – Andrew Goodwin, Scott Letkeman, Sarah Pruys and Jesse Wheeler – to fill what they perceived as a hole in the media coverage of the Northwest Territories, he said. It seemed to him an interesting challenge to build an outlet that brought the speed and production value of the BBC’s coverage to a small community.
Roy took the picture as he was escaping the surging water himself. He and his two-person team then spent 20 hours a day for the next two weeks filing stories and updates to keep people informed about evacuations and help.“If you care about where you work and you care about your community where you’re based, then you need to try to help,” Roy said. “The whole basis of it is the necessity of trying to get information out to help people, to save lives, to get them to an evacuation centre.
These outlets proved especially crucial in remote Indigenous communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and during this summer of unprecedented wildfires, she said. Often, they were the only place residents could get reliable information in their language.
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