Housing Minister Paulie Chinna visited Ottawa last week to meet with Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Ahmed Hussen to discuss the dire housing needs in the Northwest Territories. “There’s a need for more funding in the NWT in regards to our housing issues,” Minister Chinna said. “We do…
Coleen Hardisty was one of dozens of demonstrators holding signs outside of MP Michael McLeod’s office on Friday. Hardisty is a member of Denedeh Against DAPL, which organized the demonstration in support of Wet’suwet’en land defenders in British Columbia. RCMP have arrested more than 20 land defenders since last week,…
Yellowknife RCMP have confirmed that an Indigenous woman was forced to spend 11 straight days and nights jailed in an RCMP holding cell over the Christmas holidays. CKLB is choosing not to use the young woman’s name at this time. She says she was arrested for breaching her bail conditions….
Updated: February 7 to reflect Minister Simpson’s ‘Personal Explanation’ given in the house. Minister R.J. Simpson says he wasn’t surprised to see Dr. Tom Weegar be replaced earlier this week as president of Aurora College and associate deputy minister of postsecondary education renewal. But the minister of education, culture and…
A territorial government department, tasked with helping craft and enforce laws and rules, has itself now confessed to violating a government safety regulation. The Northwest Territories fire marshal says he has spoken to staff at the Yellowknife courthouse who he says now admit they violated the occupancy limit in a…
Yellowknife Centre MLA Julie Green said she was just as surprised as everyone else when she heard Dr. Tom Weegar was being replaced as the man in charge of transitioning Aurora College to a polytechnic university. The territorial government announced his replacement earlier this week. Dr. Weegar had been in…
It’s taken two days for the RCMP to tell the public there was a school lockdown in Tsiigetchic earlier this week. In a news release sent Thursday morning, Fort McPherson RCMP said it received a call on Tuesday about a potential threat at the Chief Paul Niditchie school. Richard Andre,…
It’s a very special week here in the NWT as NHL legends are visiting the North for Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada. CKLB Radio has captured some of those special moments at the Hockeyday events, we will be adding to this on-going gallery throughout the week. Day 1 Day…
Eric Wardell’s story begins with him talking about how the world was not designed for people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). “I didn’t see anything wrong with stealing,” Wardell said in the film. “I have over 80 convictions on my record.” Wardell was one of eight people to…
The Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority has released 11 videos to help residents understand various cancers. According to a news release, the videos come from a handful of community consultations across the NWT. So far, only five of the 11 videos have been released, including “What is Cancer?”,…