Yellowknife pub owner calls for city-wide shutdown of non-essential businesses A co-owner of The Monkey Tree Pub says business has been 'extremely slow' since an outbreak of COVID-19 linked to N.J. Macpherson School was announced over the weekend. Social Sharing Co-owner of The Monkey Tree Pub says an outbreak in the city has reduced business to a trickle Posted: May 06, 2021 8:39 AM CT | Last Updated: May 6 The co-owner of Yellowknife's The Monkey Tree Pub fears a lull in patrons will drag on if the chief public health officer doesn’t come down hard and order the city's non-essential businesses to close for two weeks. (Sidney Cohen/CBC)