August 2024 - CKLB Radio

Featured, News, Police August 30, 2024

UPDATE, ARREST MADE: Alleged sexual offender on the run, police seek public’s assistance

Dallas Abraham is described as being 6’2’’ and about 200 pounds

Fort Smith RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance in locating Dallas Abraham, who has been charged with multiple sexual assault and assault offences against the same person. These charges include two counts of three counts of sexual assault, one count of uttering threats, one count of assault causing bodily harm,…

Featured, News, Police August 30, 2024

19-year-old charged for drug trafficking offences in Yellowknife

Police seized 100g of crack cocaine, $12,000 in cash, and 3 loaded firearms

A 19-year-old from Alberta is facing 10 charges related to drug trafficking and possession of weapons after Yellowknife RCMP executed a search warrant early Thursday morning. Police seized about $12,000 in cash, 100 grams of suspected crack cocaine, three loaded firearms and other drug trafficking paraphernalia. Three people were arrested,…

Featured, News, Police August 30, 2024

Floatplane forced landing on the highway, no injuries reported

1 pilot and 2 passengers were on board, says the Transportation Safety Board

A floatplane was forced to make an emergency landing on an NWT highway yesterday afternoon, said Fort Simpson RCMP. The incident happened on Highway 1 near River Bridge, about 15 kilometers from Fort Simpson, according to CBC. The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) told CKLB that there were 1 pilot and…

Featured, Health, News, Police August 30, 2024

Dangerous experimental drug seizure prompts public health warning

Para-flurofentanyl was detected in recent drug bust enroute to Yellowknife, prompting Chief Public Health Officer's to raise alarm

A potentially lethal synthetic drug created for research purposes in the 1960s but was never intended for human use has been seized in the NWT, prompting a public health warning. Para-flurofentanyl was detected in a recent drug seizure enroute to Yellowknife, prompting the Chief Public Health Officer to issue a…

Culture, Education, Featured, History, News, Politics, Reconciliation August 29, 2024

Indigenous languages in NWT need more than just lip service to thrive

For more than two decades, the GNWT has ignored many recommendations from its own languages commissioner

“The French language community has struggled hard to achieve recognition of their language in the NWT. Their work serves as a model in many ways for the work, which is needed on Dene languages.” Former languages commissioner Fibbie Tatti, in her 2004 report to the Assembly The erosion of Indigenous…

Community, Featured, Health, News August 29, 2024

Boil water advisory for Sambaa K’e lifted

A precautionary advisory was issued on July 15 due to a mechanical failure in the water treatment system

The boil water advisory for the community of Sambaa K’e has been lifted. The advisory was issued by the community government and the Chief Environmental Health Officer on July 15. It was due to a critical mechanical failure in the community water treatment system that caused muddy water. “There have…

Featured, News, Politics, Weather, Wildfires August 28, 2024

GNWT scorched in critical report over response to 2023 wildfires

Environment and Climate Change Dep't was unable to cope with unprecedented situation; many improvements already made for this year

Misinformation from the public, poor internal communications, contractors “exploiting” the emergency, casual firefighters showing up drunk or high, and a lot of on-the-job stress and subsequent mental health issues were some of the previously unknown aspects from last year’s wildfire season. A 212-page review of NWT’s Environment and Climate Change…

Featured, News, Police August 28, 2024

Suspected drug dealer arrested at Délı̨nę airport

Tip from public led RCMP to meet passengers as they disembarked

A Yellowknife man with several warrants has been arrested at the Délı̨nę airport after the police received a tip about his flight. Délı̨nę RCMP says they found approximately 17 grams of suspected cocaine and other paraphernalia during the arrest. As a result of the investigation, 43-year-old Billy John McNeely has…

Featured, News, Police August 27, 2024

Two Inuvik women charged with murder, performing an indignity to human remains

Thirty-nine-year-old man found dead behind a building early Sunday morning; court later issues publication ban on details of scene

Two Inuvik women are charged with murder and performing an indignity to human remains after a man was found dead behind a building early Sunday morning. After Inuvik RCMP received a report that a body had been in the Beaufort Delta community, they discovered the 39-year-old man. As a result…

Environment, Featured, History, News, Wildfires August 27, 2024

First independent look behind the scenes of GNWT’s handling of 2023 wildfires out Wednesday

'It is our job as leaders to learn from the challenges we faced in an emergency of this scale and put those lessons to work,' says Minister Jay Macdonald

One-half of the territorial government’s “biggest after-action review” into the historic wildfire season last year will be released tomorrow at noon. Prior to that, there will be a 30-minute media availability with staff members to answer technical questions regarding the review based on an embargoed report sent to media today….