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Featured, News November 2, 2020

Dene Nation returns to the land during COVID-19

A conversation with Norman Yakeleya, Dene national chief and AFN regional chief, highlights how the Dene Nation turned to their traditions to deal with the current pandemic.


Submitted by Dene Nation When the COVID-19 pandemic was on the Denendeh horizon, Dene National Chief Norman Yakeleya says he made protocol and asked one of his Elders what his people should do to keep safe. “He said, ‘We heard about this before from our Elders, that something like this…

Education, Featured, News November 2, 2020

Indigenous language curriculum is coming to schools across the territory

This new curriculum will focus on oral proficiency, says GNWT spokesperson.


Our Languages is an Indigenous language curriculum set to launch across schools in the NWT. The GNWT describes the curriculum as a whole-school approach to language learning to ensure that Indigenous languages are heard and spoken throughout schools, at assemblies, and during routines and in all Northwest Territories classrooms. The…

Community, Featured, News November 2, 2020

Elections gearing up across NWT

Nominations opened on Monday, Nov. 2 for nine hamlets across the NWT: Aklavik, Enterprise, Fort McPherson, Fort Resolution, Paulatuk, Sachs Harbour, Tuktoyaktuk, Tulita and Ulukhaktok. According to the department of Municipal and Community Affairs’ election calendar, candidates need to submit their names by Nov. 16 at 3 p.m. The official…

Featured, News, Police November 1, 2020

RCMP investigating ‘suspicious’ death in Yellowknife

RCMP says officers responded to an incident in downtown Yellowknife early Saturday morning. Police say one person was found with “significant injuries” and was later pronounced dead. CKLB has heard the victim is an Indigenous woman but will be withholding the name until confirmation from the coroner’s office. In a…

Community, Featured, Life Style, News October 30, 2020

MLA wants to make power limiters illegal in the winter

Jackie Jacobson says the use of power limiters is “inhumane” during the winter months.  


On Nov. 9, the Northwest Territories Power Corporation will start using power limiters again on residents that can’t pay their bills. The corporation made the announcement earlier this month, reversing a decision from earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic. The reversal caught the attention of Nunakput MLA Jackie Jacobson, who represents…

Education, Featured, News October 29, 2020

GNWT releases plan to transform Aurora College into polytechnic university

Declining enrolment, graduation rates and reputation of the college is at the heart of this change, says Chris Joseph, person in charge of the college's transformation plan


The only public post-secondary institution in the NWT is getting an upgrade. After a couple of years of deliberation, the territorial government has released the implementation plan to transform Aurora College into a polytechnic university. The plan outlines a series of milestones over the course of a six-year period, focused…