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Environment, Featured, News, Politics, Reconciliation, Wildfires November 14, 2024

‘Who’s helping us to recover, emotionally, physically, spiritually, in all ways?’

Raw emotions on display from Behchokǫ̀ residents at after-action review open house of 2023 wildfire emergency response


Forty people gathered at tables in a school gymnasium in Behchokǫ̀ on Wednesday night, sharing stories of resilience, confusion and anger over the 2023 wildfire season. Repeated themes were the absent, slow or confusing communications from the GNWT, and a lack of help for evacuees when returning home after 10…

Featured, News, Police November 13, 2024

Loaded gun, drugs and $30K seized during traffic stop on Highway 3

Two adults from Hay River and a 16-year-old from Toronto face charges


Behchokǫ̀ RCMP seized a loaded handgun, approximately 25 grams of suspected crack-cocaine and $30,000 in cash from a vehicle stopped on Highway 3 near Edzo around midnight yesterday. Following the investigation, 35-year-old John Antoine and 26-year-old Jessica Sabourin, both from Hay River, as well as a 16-year-old youth from Toronto…

Environment, Featured, News, Politics, Reconciliation November 12, 2024

Massive $375M Indigenous-led conservation partnership set to be signed in Behchokǫ̀

Project Finance for Permanence to create long-term protection and stewardship of lands and waters across the NWT


One of the largest Indigenous-led land conservation initiatives in the world is set to be celebrated on Thursday in Behchokǫ̀, with $375 million in funding from various sources. This work, occurring under the name Northwest Territories Project Finance for Permanence (NWT PFP) brings governments and the philanthropic community together to…

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…