The City of Yellowknife, which has both a manager of public safety and an emergency preparedness manager, says it is doing what it can to be ready in case coronavirus comes to the city. In a news release issued Thursday, the city states that as the Novel Coronavirus: COVID-19 outbreak…
“For speaking the truth, I will not apologize.” That is what Monfwi MLA Jackson Lafferty said when he was told to apologize to Premier Caroline Cochrane. Speaker Frederick Blake Jr. then kicked out Lafferty for the rest of the day’s sitting. Blake called on Lafferty to apologize following his comments…
The Education Summit being held by the Dene Nation next Tuesday on the K’atl’odeeche First Nation Reserve in Hay River has been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak. The Dene Nation plans its first Education Summit The Summit was planned for March 17 to 18 by Dene leadership to encourage…
A new synthetic opioid drug called isotonitazene, has prompted a public warning from the RCMP in Nunavut. “The pills are white, in the shape of a triangle and could have an M or a P on one side and an 8 on the other,” Nunavut RCMP said. “The appearance of…
The coronavirus is sweeping across the world, therefore today the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it as a pandemic. Dr. Tedros is the Director-General of the World Health Organization. “We have called every day for countries to take urgent and aggressive action,” Dr. Tedros said on Twitter. “We have rung…
A Yellowknife drug dealer has been found guilty of the relatively rare charge of criminal negligence causing bodily harm for giving the powerful painkiller Fentanyl to a woman who subsequently overdosed. She survived after being treated at Stanton Hospital two days later. Court heard she’d been in a coma-like state…
Legislative Assembly Speaker Frederick Blake Jr. called on Monfwi MLA Jackson Lafferty to apologize to Premier Caroline Cochrane. Lafferty has repeatedly criticized the premier’s firing of former Aurora College President Tom Weegar. Late in February, he accused Cochrane of breaking the law when dismissing Weegar. He also tabled a legal…
The Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO) would like to provide an update to NWT residents on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). “As of March 10, no one in the NWT has tested positive for COVID-19,” Dr. Kami Kandola, CPHO of the GNWT said. “To date, 24 tests have been performed.” The…
A man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection to a fatal beating outside downtown Yellowknife’s Day Shelter and Sobering Centre last September. Court documents show that 33-year-old Victor Shane Ugyuk pleaded guilty Monday to punching Mark Poodlat in the head and face several times in front of the shelter….
It was a terrifying experience for mother Sunita Kochon after her son Preston Kochon was run over by a truck on Sunday in Yellowknife near the Snowcastle. CKLB Radio recently wrote about the six-year-old trapper from Colville Lake and his love for being out on the land with his grandfather….