It usually takes two seasons of playing ball to break in a new catcher’s mitt. “It only took three quarters of a season to break in a new glove when you were catching those hard pitches from Floyd Daniels,” says former Team NWT teammate, now Nahendeh MLA Shane Thompson. “Like…
Increasing funding for artists in the North, and debunking the myth of applying to bureaucrats, and appealing to fellow artists, that’s the message the Canadian Council for the arts CEO is bringing to all three Territories this month. Simon Brault is in Yellowknife this week, fresh of the trail from…
Multiple western and Russian media outlets are reporting that Russian Su-27 warplanes forced away a NATO F-18 jet after it approached an aircraft carrying Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu over international waters today. TASS, a Russian news agency reports that Shoigu’s plane was flying from Russia’s Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad…
Members of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation have given Chief Edward Sangris a fourth mandate as chief. According to preliminary results from returning officer Lynda Commerford, Sangris received the most check marks on the ballot for chief of Dettah with 133 votes, a post he has held since 2007. Former…
Investing in Women and Gender Equality in Territorial politics. That is what NWT MP Michael Mcleod announced alongside NWT Status of Women Minister Caroline Cochrane. THe northern investment totals just over a millions dollars with $525,000 for the NWT with the territory kicking in another $121,000. Nunavut will receive $600,000….
Alberta RCMP are investigating the death of a man in High Level that happened on Friday afternoon as a homicide. A post was shared on a High level buy and trade Facebook page on Friday saying a mand had been shot. CTV news reports High Level RCMP were requested by…
Fort Simpson’s Jessie Loutit is bringing home a silver medal from the Pan American Games in Peru. She and Larissa Werbicki from Saskatchewan captured Canada’s first rowing medal of the 2019 games. The Globe and Mail and Independent Sports News reports they rowed to silver with a finish in Lima…
Renowned French photographer, author, film maker and retired Oblate Priest Rene Fumoleau has died. He was Born in France in 1926 and came “down North” to Denendeh as a young priest in 1953. His first parish was in Rádeli Kóé/Fort Good Hope, which involved a long boat journey down the…
27 teams competed in the 75,000 dollar traditional Men’s handgame tournament hosted by the Fort Nelson First Nation over the August long-weekend. But after all the drumming, calls, chants and guessing… it was a team from Chateh, Alberta who came out on top in first place captained by Fabian Chonkolay….
It’s nice to sit around a camp fire, enjoy a cup of bush tea or coffee and chat with friendly folks about your life and challenges. The City of Yellowknife is partnering up with the Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation. In a news release issued Thursday, Mayor Rebecca Alty says “the…