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Featured, Health, News October 5, 2020

‘We always put ourselves last’: NFTI internship focuses on wellness

The 12-week program will dedicate two hours of everyday for participants to improve life skills.


A new paid program will offer Tłı̨chǫ residents the opportunity to improve life skills while learning how to farm. This 12 week paid internship is being run out of Hay River’s Northern Farm Training Institute (NFTI), in partnership with the Tłı̨chǫ Government. Leona Lafferty, career development manager for the Tłı̨chǫ…

Environment, Featured, News October 5, 2020

Gwich’in grand chief says he cannot imagine a future without caribou

"Our greatest concern is the caribou," says Ken Smith, grand chief of the Gwich'in Tribal Council.


“Without the Porcupine caribou herd, you take out who we are as a people,” says Ken Smith, grand chief of the Gwich’in Tribal Council. “That is a future we cannot comprehend,” he adds. Smith says he is concerned for the protection of the Porcupine caribou after the Trump administration opened…

Featured, News October 2, 2020

Foster Family Coalition plead for stolen tipi canvas to be returned

"It means a lot to us and a lot to the youth who come to the camp," says Tammy Roberts, executive director of the Foster Family Coalition of the NWT.


When Tammy Roberts discovered the tipi canvas at Camp Connections was missing, she first assumed it had blown away. But Roberts, the executive director of the Foster Family Coalition of the NWT, soon realized the tipi polls were sitting bare for another reason. “Once I realized it didn’t fall off,…

Community, Featured, News September 30, 2020

Behchokǫ̀ Tree of Honour ceremony first of many to remember missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls

‘Enough is enough’ says Jane Weyallon, president of the Native Women’s Association of the NWT. 


Two dozen people gathered near the cemetery in Behchokǫ̀ yesterday to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Yesterday’s gathering was the first of six upcoming Tree of Honour ceremonies across the territory hosted by the Status of Women Council of the NWT. “This is not a way of…

Featured, Health, News September 30, 2020

CPHO says new rapid test approval may shorten isolation period

The Northwest Territories chief public health officer (CPHO) says recently-approved rapid testing equipment may shorten the territory’s self-isolation period. This was announced in a press conference on Wednesday, hours after Health Canada approved the Abbott Diagnostics ID Now. “This is good news, not just for the Northwest Territories but all…

Featured, News September 30, 2020

‘To tackle the trauma of the past’: Orange Shirt Day in the NWT

In addition to wearing orange shirts on Wednesday, students attending K’àlemì Dene School are learning about the effects of residential schools. Annie Casson is the program support teacher who organized the school’s Orange Shirt Day. “We’re the community school of Ndilǫ, so it’s important for the school to be recognizing…

Featured, News September 30, 2020

NWT post-secondary schools sign collaboration agreement

Aurora College, Collège nordique francophone and the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning plan to share resources on future projects.


An agreement between three post-secondary institutions is providing an opportunity for more Indigenous programming in the Northwest Territories. On Tuesday, Aurora College, Collège nordique francophone and the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning signed a memorandum of understanding — formalizing a collaborative relationship between the three schools. Kelsey Wrightson, executive…