Environment

NWT non-profit group offering on-the-land education trip for youths

Camp will combine traditional indigenous practices with cutting-edge monitoring in partnership with NASA and Ecology North


NWT students will soon have a unique opportunity to learn how to help protect the environment of the North, as the Protecting Our Lands Camp is now taking applications for participants. This program is being organized by Northern Youth Leadership, a non-profit group that works to help educate youths to…

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‘Who’s helping us to recover, emotionally, physically, spiritually, in all ways?’

Raw emotions on display from Behchokǫ̀ residents at after-action review open house of 2023 wildfire emergency response


Forty people gathered at tables in a school gymnasium in Behchokǫ̀ on Wednesday night, sharing stories of resilience, confusion and anger over the 2023 wildfire season. Repeated themes were the absent, slow or confusing communications from the GNWT, and a lack of help for evacuees when returning home after 10…