Pet Bereavement – Moving Forward with Love and Grief – Tika’s Story – Part 2

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Pet loss can be devastating; there’s no doubt about it. In this personal story of pet bereavement you will learn an alternative path along the grief journey, one which will lead to an everlasting relationship with your beloved companion.  

Eight months have passed since Tika, my 14.5 year-old German Shepherd soul dog, crossed the Rainbow Bridge (May 28, 2021). I’m sitting on the couch where she used to lay, surrounded by photos and her …

Comfort and Care for our Senior Paralyzed Dog with Degenerative Myelopathy – Tika’s Story – Part 1

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Pets play a very special role in our lives, unlike that of any humans. If you’ve had the opportunity to bring a pet into your family, to experience unconditional love, you’ll know that this is truly a gift. Age creeps up on them very quickly, and our lives together are so short.  But there are ways, whereby providing special comfort and care, you may be able to extend your pet’s life, sometimes by years! Let …

Four Seasons on Yellowknife Lakes

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One of the many great things about Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (my home town) is the great outdoors, fresh air, wide open spaces and ease of access to nature – you’re never more than 10 minutes away from a fresh water lake.  Boating, jet-skiing, tubing, swimming, ice fishing, snowmobiling, skiing, skijoring, dogsledding, and more!  You can enjoy being out on the lakes year round, with plenty of room for social distancing!  Let me share with you …

New Website and Another Year Off for Tawna Brown

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Welcome to my new website! It has been over two years since my last blog post and I’m excited to announce that it’s the end of the hiatus for me, at least in terms of my website!  I feel as though life has been on fast forward for so long. While I haven’t quite mastered how to slow things down, I am getting better at filtering things out, and prioritizing and investing my time in …

Deline Northwest Territories Indigenous Self-government

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September 1, 2016, is the effective date of the Deline Final Self-government Agreement, the agreement (modern day Treaty) which established the Deline Gotine Government, Canada’s first and only community-based Aboriginal public government, located in Deline, Northwest Territories. Deline is a small Dene community (population 550) situated along the shore of Great Bear Lake in the Sahtu region of the Northwest Territories.

Over the coming days, there will be no shortage of news coverage on the …