A funeral being held Friday for respected Yellowknives Dene elder Muriel Betsina has been moved from St. Patrick’s Church to St. Patrick’s school gymnasium in order to accommodate what’s expected to be a large gathering. Muriel was a long time resident of Ndilo and is the mother of current chief…
NWT South District RCMP have just wrapped up the first edition of a boating safety tour along the MacKenzie River. Police stated in a news release that from July 15 to 19, Special Constable Jordan Groenewegen of the Hay River detachment with the assistance of local members, visited Fort Providence,…
A Yellowknife woman is crying foul against Air Canada after she says she feels she was discriminated against due to her Indigenous race when she was removed from a Vancouver to Yellowknife flight last Friday. Rachel Tambour-Zoe tells CKLB that she thought she had paid $150 each to upgrade her…
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…
An out-of-control wildfire, burning about 40 kilometres northwest of Yellowknife, is still too dangerous to put firefighting crews on the ground to battle it. That word from personnel from the Department on Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) in a conference call with the media on Monday. Smoke from that fire,…
There is an air quality advisory in effect Monday for the Thebacha Region including Fort Smith and the Salt River Reserve as well as Yellowknife. Wildfire smoke is causing poor air quality and reducing visibility at times. Individuals may experience symptoms such as increased coughing, throat irritation, headaches or shortness…
Daniel Masuzumi was elected on Monday, taking over from Wilfred McNeely Jr. Here’s what Masuzumi wants to get done first. He added that homelessness was another issue he wants to tackle, saying he wanted to offer better support for people to get out of poverty. That also means looking for…
For a place that doesn’t even have a carbon tax yet, the Premier has made a lot of noise about the issue. Again last week, he sat shoulder to shoulder with provincial premiers fighting the federal carbon pricing plan in court. The fact there’s no carbon tax in the NWT…
“We want to be as one.” That’s what Ndilo Chief Ernest Betsina told reporters after the City of Yellowknife supported the Yellowknives Dene First Nation push to re-draw the boundaries between the two communities. In June, YKDFN council passed a resolution supporting the changes. The most noticeable difference would come…