Northwestel is moving technical support staff from Yellowknife to Whitehorse, which has left affected employees wondering for months about their future at the company.

Wilbert Cook, executive director of the Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation, had been on the job for less than two weeks when he spoke with CBC News at the foundations Healing Camp last Friday.

Chinese visitors to the territory surpassed Japanese for the first time in the 2017-18 fiscal year. Last year, that margin widened dramatically. Two-and-a-half times more Chinese visitors arrived in the 2018-19 fiscal year than Japanese visitors.