The Slave Geological Province Corridor project got a financial boost this week. Transport Canada is giving $30 million and the Government of the Northwest Territories is adding another $10 million for environment regulation review and planning studies. The corridor is essentially a two-lane gravel road that would run from Yellowknife…
You may soon need to be a little older to buy cigarettes in the NWT The Standing Committee on Social Development agreed with proposed legislation that would increase the age of purchase from 18 to 19-years old. The committee agreed with the change despite citing arguments for the age to…
About 3 million barren-ground caribou roamed the NWT 25 years ago. Since then, the number has dropped 500,000—with some herds seeing an even sharper decrease over that time. Now the Conference of Management Authorities (CMA) is developing a recovery plan for the species and it wants to hear from residents….
Even with the proposed offsets, the carbon tax is going to cost residents, says Sara Brown. Brown is the CEO of the Northwest Territories Association of Communities (NWTAC), which represents all 33 communities in the territory. On Thursday evening, she presented to the Standing Committee on Government Operations during a…
Nunavut MP Hunter Tootoo has announced he will not be seeking re-election this fall. In a statement on social media, Tootoo said, “I appreciate very much the encouragement and support I have received from Nunavummiut all across the Territory over the past months. But after much consideration, I have made…
In the evening of Sunday, July 14, two American tourists in the Hanbury Lake area, 480 kilometres east of Yellowknife, found a grizzly bear shredding their foldable canoe. They sent a distress call to the International Emergency Response Coordination Centre, a global search and rescue dispatch centre, which relayed the…
If you want to have your say on how the N.W.T. should put a price on carbon, then show up Thursday evening at the Legislative Assembly. The Standing Committee on Government Operations is hosting a public meeting for feedback on the proposed carbon tax. The meeting comes a couple of…
Today is the first of a two-day mediation session to try and get the federal government back to the negotiation table with the Athabasca Denesuliné. If mediation doesn’t work then Minister Carolyn Bennett, of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), will need to answer to the courts. Ron Robillard…
MP Michael McLeod announced a handful of clean technology projects in the territory that will be getting federal funding. The total dollar amount is $3.8 million dollars for six projects in the NWT. The largest portion, $2 million, is going to the University of British Columbia to develop carbon sequestration technology for…
Intranasal Naloxone is now available in clinics, pharmacies, health centres and hospitals in all 33 communities in the Northwest Territories. Naloxone is used to counteract the effects of an opioid overdose in emergency situations. While injectable Naloxone kits have been available since 2016. The new kits include a nasal spray….