Representation quota: pity seats or a kick-start for change?
You don’t even need all five fingers to count the number of women MLAs in the territory. In fact, you could chop three off and still be OK. Both MLAs Julie Green and Caroline…
Articles by Francis Tessier-Burns
GNWT project uses augmented reality posters to educate youth on cannabis
Cody Fennell says his pot education posters are an opportunity to portray cannabis users as regular people instead of criminals. The four posters, Stoned Cold Facts, Homegrown, Doobie or not Doobie, and Blazed and…
Department of Health’ Cultural Safety plan is ‘new way of doing business’: Minister
On Wednesday, the Department of Health and Social Services presented a draft of its new Cultural Safety Action Plan. The two-year plan focuses on “relationship-based care” as a way to improve the outcomes of…
ENR management plan cuts caribou harvest among other protections
On Monday, the department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) submitted its Joint Management Plan for the Bluenose-East Herd to the Wek’èezhìi Renewable Resources Board (WRRB). This came as news to the Economic Development…
City ‘can’t afford’ to not bring polytechnic university to Yellowknife: study
“You can’t afford not to do this,” Chris Loreto told Yellowknife council in regards to bringing a polytechnic university to the city. But how exactly to go about it is a different question. More…
New Dene wellness centre brings treatment back to the North
What began as a volunteering opportunity turned into a full-time job for Hiedi Yardley at the new Dene Wellness and Development Centre. The new centre takes over the former Nats’ejee K’eh drug and alcohol…
Yellowknife-Dettah ice road finally open
The Yellowknife-Dettah ice road officially opened Friday, January 11. The Department of Infrastructure says the road is safe for vehicles weighing up to 5,000 kilograms and the weight limit will go up as conditions…
Wet’suwet’en chiefs come to ‘temporary’ agreement with natural gas pipeline workers
Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs have agreed with the RCMP to let Coastal GasLink workers pass the Unist’ot’en camp temporarily. Last night, members of the camp explained the decision on their website in a post titled,…
Dozens protest in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en First Nation
“Denendeh in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en unceded territory,” read a sign taped to the windows in front of MP Michael McLeod’s Yellowknife office. The sign was one of about a dozen showing support for the…