700 people in Fort Simpson, N.W.T., displaced by flood, mayor says
An estimated 700 people have been displaced from their homes in Fort Simpson, N.W.T., the mayor said Monday morning, after the community of about 1,200 was flooded during seasonal ice breakup over the weekend.The papal grounds in Fort Simpson, N.W.T., where people gathered to welcome Pope John Paul II in 1987, were flooded on Saturday,…