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Featured, Industry, News September 16, 2020

NWT organizations receive $640K in food security funding

The federal government announced this funding as part of the $100M emergency fund for food security in April.


The federal government has contributed a one-time lump sum to help N.W.T organizations improve food security. Michael McLeod, MP for the N.W.T, announced $640,000 in funding to respond to the increased needs of the community during the pandemic, as stated in a press release. The funds will go to 19…

Featured, News September 15, 2020

Award-winning Indigenous journalist says he was arrested for doing his job

“I’m really torn, I won’t say I won’t be back there,” says Karl Dockstader.


Karl Dockstader – Indigenous man, father and journalist – was arrested and charged for simply doing his job, he says. Protestors have been occupying the McKenzie Meadows development in Caledonia, ON, for months, renaming it 1492 Land Back Lane. According to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the federal government failed to get…

Featured, News September 11, 2020

Majority of Nechalacho mine employees Indigenous, northern residents

Ndilǫ Chief Ernest Betsina says he is happy that over half the employees hired at the Nechalacho rare earths mine are Indigenous.  Cheetah Resources, who are overseeing the project, issued a news release detailing the companies hiring numbers in the Northwest Territories. The Nechalacho mine is being run by the…

Environment, Featured, Health September 11, 2020

COVID-19 wastewater program coming to the NWT

The government says samples of sewage water may help detect the presence of COVID-19 in local communities.


The government is launching a wastewater testing program to potentially detect the presence of COVID-19 in the territories. The program will collect sewage samples from Hay River, Yellowknife, Inuvik, Fort Smith and Fort Simpson. The government says they suspect this program to cover half the population’s and 100 per cent of all…