Health advise is now available for all NWT residents at the touch of a button. And it’s free. The GNWT says a toll-free 811 health advice line is now up and running. It says the new service is being offered 24-hours a day, seven days a week. A registered nurse…
Ken Kyikavichik says the past few years have been challenging for his people. “The amount of grief that’s gone on, especially over the last two years, has been exceptional,” the Gwich’in Grand Chief says. This year’s spike in suicides hit the communities of the Beaufort Delta the hardest: There were…
Last updated on Nov. 3 at 4:15 p.m. The deficit of the Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority has quadrupled in the six years since its creation, according to a report by a Legislative Assembly standing committee. Members of the Standing Committee on Government Operations, including Yellowknife North…
The Northwest Territories will not be getting its own addiction treatment centre any time soon. That’s according to the territory’s Minister of Health and Social Services. During a sitting of the Legislative Assembly on Thursday, October 20, Monfwi MLA Jane Weyallon Armstrong asked Minister Julie Green if she would commit…
Residents of Fort Simpson’s public housing have once again been inflicted with an infestation of bedbugs, and the housing authority says they aren’t sure why the community is such a hotspot for the pests. In September, CKLB received a tip from an anonymous source about another series of infestations in…
You know flu season is just around the corner when the NWT’s top health official gets her flu shot. Dr. Kami Kandola, the NWT’s Chief Public Health Officer, will be kicking off the NWT flu season by getting her annual flu shot Friday at the Centre Square Mall Vaccination Clinic…
Lisa Boivin was taken from her home community of Deninu Kųę́ when she was a baby. Nearly 40 years later, she reconnected with her father Bill Norn. Prior to his passing in 2016, Boivin says they spoke often of the meaning of their dreams. Boivin leaned on her father’s teachings…
More people have committed suicide in the NWT so far this year than in any other year in at least two decades. That’s according to newly-released data from the NWT Coroner’s Office. Eighteen suicides have been recorded so far in 2022, a significant increase over the 11 recorded in 2021….
A herring gull found in Yellowknife’s Niven Lake neighbourhood is the first confirmed case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in the territory. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) confirmed on Wednesday the bird, which was referred to wildlife officers in June, was confirmed this month as a…
A vaccine against the monkeypox virus is now available to select residents of the NWT. A limited supply of the Imvamune vaccine became available in the NWT on Monday. The vaccine is designed to protect against infection and disease rather than as a treatment. The virus can transmit from person…