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Community, Featured, Justice, Life Style, News, Politics July 16, 2020

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…

Community, Featured, News July 15, 2020

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…

Community, Environment, Featured, Health, Industry, Life Style, News, Tli Cho Yati July 14, 2020

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…

Community, Environment, Events, Featured, News July 13, 2020

First LGBTQ2S+ camp coming to NWT this summer

LGBTQ2S+ youth from across the North Slave can look forward to canoe trips, campfires and movie nights this summer. This will come as part of the Qmunity Camp NWT, the territory’s first LGBTQ2S+ overnight summer camp. The camp is being run in partnership by the Rainbow Coalition of Yellowknife, an…

Art, Community, Featured, News July 10, 2020

Farmers Market reopening offers artists much needed platform

After spending the past couple months working on commissions, Dene artist Darrell Chocolate was able to publicly showcase his work at the Yellowknife Farmers Market. The Yellowknife Farmers Market (YKFM) kicked off its summer season on Tuesday, July 7, after a hiatus as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The…

Community, Featured, News July 8, 2020

Funding allows Dechinta Centre to continue land-based learning, COVID-19 resiliency

Kristen Tanche attributes her time at the Dechinta Centre with developing her professional career involving land-based programming. “I was able to go back to the land where my forefathers and ancestors had frequented,” she says. “That wasn’t something that I had ever done before.” Shortly after finishing her third program…

Community, Featured, News July 8, 2020

Inuvik communications company upset with Northwestel expansion

The president of an Inuvik-based communications company says he is “disappointed” Northwestel chose his community to expand the Fiber-to-home service. A Northwestel press release says the Fiber-to-home service will offer improved internet speeds, reliability and data allowances. But New North Networks, a Inuvik-based communications provider that has been around since…

Community, Featured, Health, News July 7, 2020

Public health emergency extended, state of emergency ended

The territorial government has extended the public health emergency, but not the state of emergency. A Government of the Northwest Territories press release says it has been successful at managing the risk of COVID-19 using the Public Health Act, and has not had to use authorities under the Emergency Management Act….

Community, Environment, Featured, Health July 7, 2020

Boil water advisory lifted again in South Slave

For the second time, a nearly two month long boil water advisory has been lifted in Hay River, K’atl’odeeche First Nation, Enterprise and Kakisa. The advisory was put in place due to a higher than normal amount of turbidity — muddy water — as a result of the spring break-up,…

Community, Featured, News July 3, 2020

Inuvik structure fire deemed suspicious

The RCMP is investigating a fire near Inuvik that left one structure destroyed on June 26. Julie Plourde, spokesperson for the NT RCMP, says in an email police are investigating a structure fire, believed to be suspicious in nature in the area of Airport Lake. The now-extinguished fire was just…