Despite having to move the event indoors – organizers of this year’s Canada Day celebrations in Yellowknife are calling it a resounding success. Dave Zethof – special events coordinator for the city – estimated some three to four thousand people showed up at the Multiplex yesterday for a multitude of…
Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May will be in Yellowknife Wednesday and Thursday. The public is invited to a community town hall tomorrow from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Northern United Place on Franklin Avenue. According to a news release – the purpose of the town hall is to spark…
A Yellowknife man has been sentenced to five years in jail after he was convicted of having sex with three underage girls. Joshua “Taz” Desjarlais, 27, who is originally from Fort Smith, was handed his punishment by Supreme Court Judge Shannon Smallwood this afternoon in Yellowknife. She had found him…
Patients requiring endoscopy services at Yellowknife’s new Stanton Territorial Hospital are out of luck – at least for now. The Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority (NTHSSA) is advising residents that endoscopy services, which were closed as part of the transition to the new Stanton Territorial Hospital, will continue…
A familiar face in Yellowknife and Northwest Territories politics has announced he intends to run in the Kam Lake riding in this October’s Territorial election. Robert Hawkins, 48, told CKLB Thursday that he is throwing his hat into the ring. Kieron Testart is the current MLA for Kam Lake. Hawkins…
After a half dozen successful speaking engagements with students in the Northwest Territories last month, the RCMP says it wants to bring ex-gang leader Michael “Bull” Roberts back this fall. The inspirational motivational speaker from Newfoundland was brought to the territory by the Mounties and the NWT Department of Justice,…
Expanded Same Day Access to primary care clinic services in Yellowknife will increase the number of available appointments each week. That’s according to the territorial government’s department of Heath and Social Services. In a news release, the department states that the expanded Yellowknife Primary Care Clinic hours will take effect…
A Yellowknife criminal defence lawyer is counting his blessings after a CKLB employee discovered a box full of sensitive DVDs, some belonging to him, at the city’s landfill site. Peter Harte thanked CKLB administrator Liselle Cook profusely after she recently found the box containing about 20 DVDs and CDs in…
Two Aurora College students have won Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS) scholarships worth $5,000 apiece. Joni Tsatchia and Karen Lepine, both from the Bachelor of Education program at the Thebacha campus in Fort Smith, are two of ten recipients from the Yukon and Northwest Territories. The research…
An veteran RCMP officer, currently based in Yellowknife, but well-known elsewhere in the Northwest Territories, has won a national highway safety award. Sergeant Todd Scaplen is the 2019 Recipient of the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators (CCMTA) Police Partnership Award. Introduced in 2007, the CCMTA Police Partnership Award honours…