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Featured, Health, News July 23, 2020

GNWT launches visual COVID-19 data dashboard

"Because making data accessible is important and having data available on the pandemic will always be relevant," says the GNWT.


In an effort to be transparent, the territorial government has created an interactive visual dashboard to allow residents an easier look at COVID-19 data, through visual aids such as graphs and maps. The data shows updated daily statistics on new cases, recovered cases, completed tests, a breakdown of symptoms and…

Community, Featured, Health, Life Style, News July 22, 2020

Fort Simpson resident looks to honour mom’s legacy with housing project 

Dennis Nelner hopes the project can be used as a blueprint in other communities.


Dennis Nelner says it would not have been unusual for all sorts of people to be living under his mother’s roof when she was alive. He says many young Fort Simpson residents moved into his mom’s basement as their first foray away from home. Madeline Nelner would also invite people…

Featured, News, Police July 22, 2020

Police continue to investigate Charlene Catholique disappearance 30 years later

She was last seen at the intersection of Highway 3 and Behchokǫ̀ Access Road on July 22, 1990


Charlene Catholique has officially been missing for 30 years, but continues to be at the center of a police investigation. On July 22, 1990, 15-year-old Catholique was last seen walking on Highway 3, near Behchokǫ̀, toward Yellowknife, looking for a ride. Catholique, originally from Łutselk’e, has been featured on Canada’s…

Featured, News, Politics July 22, 2020

Income assistance relief measures extended until end of September

The Government of the Northwest Territories is extending COVID-19 relief modifications to income assistance until the end of September. Income assistance was modified by the GNWT in March to exempt the Canada Emergency Response Benefit and the Canada Emergency Student Benefit from income assistance calculations. Additionally, the reliefs allow monetary…

Featured, Industry, News July 22, 2020

GNWT to host public budget dialogue sessions

The budget dialogue will allow NWT residents a chance to share their views on spending priorities.


A more inclusive approach to setting financial policy is coming to the NWT through a public online budget dialogue with several online sessions planned to discuss the budget for 2021. The Government of the Northwest Territoires is hosting online sessions that will take place between July 20th-August 4th,  where residents…

Community, Featured, News July 20, 2020

Community continues search for missing Tuk man

'We don't like to give up too soon on our membership on our people in our community,' says community searcher Tyrone Raddi


A search group in Tuktoyaktuk has no deadline for ending its mission to find community member Ernest Raymond, who has been missing since last week. The search is a community effort — with countless cooks donating food to the volunteers walking along the shores, flying drones and out in boats…

Community, Featured, Justice, Life Style, News July 20, 2020

How one survivor describes her Sixties Scoop payment and hopes to help others in the North

'This cheque is real. It’s real what happened. I didn’t just make it up,' says Nadine Delorme-Simon. 


“Blood money.” That’s how Nadine Delorme-Simon characterizes the payments from the Sixties Scoop settlement. It’s also a recognition of the “cultural genocide” she had to endure as a survivor of the Sixties Scoop. Across Canada, survivors like Delorme-Simon have started receiving interim payments of $21,000 from the settlement. These are…