When Shania Young was in her second year of nursing school, she started struggling with her mental health. She also came to a realization. “There are so many barriers,” she says, “a lack of resources in our area.” Young is from Yellowknife and after seeing an email from a professor…
The Northwest Territories Disability Council will continue to run the Yellowknife Day Shelter and Sobering Centre in the city’s downtown. The NWT’s Health and Social Services Authority (NTHSSA) announced Friday that the disabilities council is the successful proponent after a request for proposals seeking bids for an operator for the…
Environment and climate change is one of the most important issues to Canadian voters; the same cannot be said for most of the NWT candidates in the upcoming federal election. Liberal Michael McLeod, Conservative Yanik D’Aigle, and People’s Party candidate Luke Quinlan all skipped out on a debate centred around…
The Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO) for the Northwest Territories has some very simple advice for people who vape or who are thinking about trying it. Dr. Kami Kandola says it you’ve already started – stop, and if you are thinking about trying a vapourizer, think carefully again. Kandola’s advice…
Warning: This story discusses domestic violence and homicide. It’s a well-known fact in the Northwest Territories that Indigenous women suffer disproportionate rates of domestic violence. Now there’s a Canada-wide study with a chapter in the NWT that is hoping to speak to survivors of “extreme domestic violence,” and friends and…
If Lianne Mantla-Look had listened to a doctor in Edmonton, she may have come back to Yellowknife without ever treating her stomach cancer. Instead, she stuck around and was convinced there was something wrong with her. She had to fight to have a series of biopsies done—more than 50 cross-sections…
“While Inuit are asked to take part in many surveys, most are not developed and controlled by Inuit.” That’s what makes the Qanuippitaa? National Inuit Health Survey different from those in the past, according to the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation. “It is the only Inuit controlled health survey that includes Inuit…
Anyone in Inuvik looking for a night off from cooking can look to the community greenhouse for a new food delivery service. Ashley Jacobson is the community coordinator with the greenhouse and is in charge of the delivery program. She says anyone can sign up for the program, and expect…
Learning about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is the easiest way to support someone living with it. That’s according to Korry Garvey of the Foster Family Coalition of the NWT. September 9 is FASD Awareness Day and the coalition hosted a public barbecue in Somba K’e park in Yellowknife to raise…
Yellowknifers who smoke downtown now have one less excuse if they are caught smoking too close to entrances of buildings. Maintenance crews from Northview Properties REIT have recently painted bright blue lines in front of several downtown businesses and office buildings, marking the three-metre distance smokers must keep between themselves…