2024

Community, Featured, News December 4, 2024

‘We are a community and we heal together,’ says sober advocate

Sobriety celebration event wraps up National Addictions Awareness Week in Yellowknife


Ildiko Etthizine drove nearly eight hours from High Level, northern Alberta, for an event in Yellowknife celebrating the resilience of Indigenous people on their sobriety journeys. Etthizine shared her 16-year journey battling alcohol addiction to a room full of residents on Sunday. The event, held as part of National Addictions…

Featured, News December 4, 2024

Indigenous rights champion and Order of Canada member Gail Cyr remembered

Founder of the NWT Native Court Workers Association, former Yellowknife city councillor and member of the NWT Human Rights Commission passed away this week at the age of 71.


Gail Cyr was known for her unwavering bravery fighting for Indigenous people in the North, and her life’s work was recognized nationally in 2022, when she was invested into the Order of Canada. Cyr passed away on Tuesday, her son Jesse Wheeler posted to social media. She was 71. “Thank…

Featured, Health, News November 28, 2024

One confirmed case of bird flu swoops into the NWT, but no sign of outbreak

Low risk to other feathered creatures, transmission to humans is rare, relatively mild, but CPHO advises caution


The Department of Environment and Climate Change (ECC) has confirmed one case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, in a raven, with one additional suspected case. Testing identified the H5N1 strain, which is highly infectious among birds, NWT Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Kami Kandola stated…

Featured, Justice, Law courts, News November 27, 2024

Overworked jail staff delayed obtaining Alberta records on high-risk offender before he attacked

Judge clears GNWT after Jason Bard randomly attacked a fellow inmate, causing serious injuries that required stitches, treatment for a concussion


A lawsuit by the victim of a random, vicious jailhouse attack by a “dangerous violent offender with anti-social personality disorder” has provided a rare glimpse into the internal operations at North Slave Correctional Complex (NSCC). Jason Bard was 28 years old and incarcerated at NSCC in 2018, when he randomly…

Featured, News, Police November 27, 2024

Search on in Tuktoyaktuk area for Northern Store burglary suspect

The community's key retail business was broken into on weekend, with suspect fleeing with goods on stolen snowmobile, say RCMP


Tuktoyaktuk RCMP are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect after the burglary of the community’s Northern Store early Saturday morning. Electronics and cigarettes were stolen from the business, after which the suspect stole a snowmobile and fled the area, stated a release. Video surveillance was obtained showing…

Featured, Justice, Law courts, News, Police November 27, 2024

Yellowknife jail guard attacker shot dead by Winnipeg police on weekend

His family impacted by residential school system, Jordan Charlie’s troubled upbringing resulted in a string of brutally violent crimes


A Nunavut-born man shot dead Sunday by Winnipeg Police after police say he stabbed a cop in the neck was the same person who viciously assaulted a corrections officer inside Yellowknife’s North Slave Correctional Complex in 2019. Twenty-four-year-old Jordan Charlie’s violent life came to a quick end Sunday at a…

Featured, News, Police, Reconciliation, Weather November 26, 2024

Community-minded RCMP officer collects coats for 120 needy kids in Aklavik

Const. Jason Emmons and wife, Larissa, found many youth in the Arctic community did not have adequate winter clothing


A caring RCMP officer and his wife took it upon themselves to find a way to provide proper winter clothing for more than 100 children in Aklavik. Constable Jason Emmons and his wife, Larissa, in 2023 found that many youths in the Arctic community did not have adequate winter clothing,…

Featured, News, Police November 26, 2024

Reported drive-by shooting of vehicle ends with RCMP gunpoint takedown of suspects

About $20,000 cash, believed to be the proceeds of crime, crack cocaine, ski-masks and several edged weapons seized by police


Three people were arrested at gunpoint by RCMP officers after reports of a drive-by shooting near Walmart on Sunday. A motorist was allegedly followed by another vehicle that pulled up alongside, and a masked individual pointed a gun at the victim’s vehicle after which a thud was heard, leading the…

Community, Featured, News November 25, 2024

More than 100 Yellowknife students march in support of Addictions Awareness Week

The walk was organized by the Tree of Peace Friendship Centre


More than a hundred youth and community members marched through downtown Yellowknife, braving wind and snow, to raise awareness for drug and alcohol addictions on Monday. The walk, organized by the Tree of Peace Friendship Centre, kicks off Canada’s National Addictions Awareness Week. This year’s theme is forging connections, highlighting…