Erin Brohman

Winnipeg

Producer and Journalist at CBWK-FM (Thompson, MB)

CBC Manitoba producer, BJ, BScN, MN [email protected]

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'It's not working'

Apr 8, 2024 | cbc.ca | Erin Brohman |Tyson Koschik

With a nursing shortage and no hospital, Island Lake First Nations communities face health-care struggle Maggie Harper stood on a hill overlooking Island Lake as a helicopter carrying her mother took off from the landing pad alongside the nursing station in Wasagamack First Nation. She watched on that October day as the chopper rose and veered south toward St. Theresa Point First Nation, 12 kilometres away. Harper’s mother, Mona Harper, would be transferred to a medevac for the flight to the...
Island Lake search and rescue team dives deep to bring closure to families after drownings

Dec 3, 2023 | cbc.ca | Erin Brohman

Manitoba·NewThe Oogoogeek Dive Team in northeastern Manitoba's Island Lake region, which has members from three of four Island Lake First Nations, does underwater recovery to help bring closure to families and their communities after drownings. Oogoogeek dive team has 15 certified divers — 13 men, 2 women — who do underwater recoveryKurt Mason was in a boat using sonar equipment to search Island Lake for a lost community member when a loud voice came blaring over his two-way radio.
Food bank program helps northern Manitoba communities offset high cost of groceries | CBC News

Nov 27, 2023 | cbc.ca | Erin Brohman

Esther Ann Mason felt relief as she filled her cardboard box with a jar of peanut butter, three bags of rice and some frozen vegetables. It wouldn't replace the freezer full of meat she lost during a power outage in St. Theresa Point First Nation in October, but it was something. "It helps. Yeah, it helps. You don't know the high cost of food up here compared to Winnipeg," she said.