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How one survivor describes her Sixties Scoop payment and hopes to help others in the North

'This cheque is real. It’s real what happened. I didn’t just make it up,' says Nadine Delorme-Simon. 


“Blood money.” That’s how Nadine Delorme-Simon characterizes the payments from the Sixties Scoop settlement. It’s also a recognition of the “cultural genocide” she had to endure as a survivor of the Sixties Scoop. Across Canada, survivors like Delorme-Simon have started receiving interim payments of $21,000 from the settlement. These are…




Muskox on the menu in Fort Good Hope

A trailer filled with kitchen equipment in Fort Good Hope has become a makeshift meat processor, turning previously troublesome muskox into sausages and hamburger patties. Last week the department of Environment and Natural Resources was called into the community to deal with muskox near the airport. Instead of letting the…


Kátł’odeeche taking GNWT, Métis orgs to court over ‘unauthorized’ cabins

Chief says cabins are an "infringement of its Treaty and Aboriginal rights and titles".


The Kátł’odeeche Fırst Natıon is suing the territorial government, the Northwest Territories Métis Nation (NWTMN), the Hay River Métis Government Council (HRMGC) and its president, Trevor Beck. In a news release, the First Nation says the legal action comes after years of silence from the territorial government on “unauthorized cabin…


Gabe and Sarah Kochon celebrate 70 years of marriage

The Fort Good Hope community is wishing Gabriel (Gabe) and Sarah Kochon congratulations as they celebrate 70 years of marriage. The couple renewed their vows in North Slavey at the Church of Our Lady of Good Hope with members of the community in attendance. “It was a beautiful mass,” says daughter…


Bathurst caribou herd ‘not repopulating itself’

The latest results from the Tłı̨chǫ Government's monitoring program show a continuing decline.


Despite two years of “perfect conditions” for caribou, Tłı̨chǫ monitors are still seeing a low calf-to-cow ratio in the Kokètì ekwǫ (Bathurst) herd. Petter Jacobsen is the principal investigator with the Tłı̨chǫ Government’s Ekwǫ̀ Nàxoède K’è (Boots on the Ground) monitoring program. “The bulls are growing large antlers early in…