2024

Culture, Environment, Featured, Life Style, News, Reconciliation November 11, 2024

Indigenous filmmakers shine at Yellowknife International Film Festival

Dene hunting knowledge, Behchokǫ̀ wildfire evacuation, climate change and language revitalization a few of the topics explored


aRTLeSS Collective won the NWT Film Commission’s Northern Filmmaker Award for Behchokǫ̀ Evacuation: Strength and Resilience in the Face of Fire on the final night of the 2024 Yellowknife International Film Festival. The documentary tells the story of nearly 2,000 Tłı̨chǫ citizens who, in the summer of 2023, were evacuated…

Featured, News, Politics, Reconciliation November 11, 2024

Team working on Dehcho Process question having to deal with GNWT

'It's really difficult dealing with them … the territorial government,’ says Dehcho First Nations Grand Chief Herb Norwegian


The territorial government is being blamed for delaying a process that would provide the Dehcho people with control over 50,000 square kilometres of surface and subsurface lands hugging the Mackenzie River, creating a new jurisdiction called Dehcho Ndehe. In a virtual town hall last week, the Dehcho Process negotiating team…

Community, Featured, News November 8, 2024

Former Indigenous Olympian shares residential school journey on the slopes

‘How I Survived’ podcast explores how sports influenced residential school survivors


A new podcast delves into the influence of recreational activities at northern residential and day schools and how it reflects the strength, resilience, and creativity of former students and survivors. It’s called How I Survived, and is co-hosted by former chief of Tulı́t’a and journalist Paul Andrew. He is accompanied…

Featured, News, Police November 7, 2024

Arson leads to drugs and illegal firearms cache in Hay River

Six handguns and long guns, ammunition, suspected crack cocaine seized; no arrests have been made


On Tuesday morning, Hay River RCMP received a report of a structure fire within the community. After the 7 a.m. fire was extinguished, an insecure firearm was found, stated a release. Having obtained a search warrant, police seized six firearms, ammunition, a small quantity of suspected crack cocaine packaged for…

Featured, Justice, News, Police November 5, 2024

Man, cocaine found in Inuvik hotel closet; cash, cut-down rifle in the room

An Edmonton man faces a long list of serious drug and weapons charges after arrest Monday, say RCMP


An Edmonton man was found hiding in a closet in an Inuvik hotel with 23 grams of suspected cocaine, say RCMP. Outside of the closet, police noticed an assortment of trafficking paraphernalia and a modified loaded .22 pump action rifle, its serial number filed down and ammunition nearby, reads a…

Community, Featured, News November 5, 2024

Gwich’in chef named one of Canada’s most powerful women

“I grew up in -40 weather. I ate caribou meat, moose, ducks and geese,” says Stephanie Baryluk. “My spin on Indigenous cuisine is quite different.”


“I think having a title this huge, in my mind, is like, how can this help our people? How can I inspire other Indigenous women to go after what they want?” Gwich’in Chef Stephanie Baryluk has been named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network for…

Art, Education, Environment, Featured, History, News, Reconciliation November 5, 2024

New Inuit toonie celebrates four-region northern unity

A Royal Canadian Mint first sees multiple artists on same coin, representing all areas of Inuit Nunangat, or homeland


The distinct ways of life and culture of the Inuit Nunangat are represented in a new $2 commemorative circulation coin out this week. The Royal Canadian Mint’s new toonie symbolizes Inuit unity through the four artists’ joint representation of the story of Nuliajuk — spirit of the sea — and…

Featured, News, Reconciliation November 4, 2024

Justice Murray Sinclair’s passing ‘leaves a gaping hole in our hearts’

Indigenous lawyer, judge and senator from Manitoba exposed racial injustice through Truth and Reconciliation Commission


Murray Sinclair, the groundbreaking Indigenous lawyer, judge and senator who led inquiries that exposed racial injustice and redefined how Canadians see Indian residential schools, has died. He was 73. Sinclair, whose spirit name is Mizhana Gheezhik (The One Who Speaks of Pictures in the Sky), died early Monday morning at…