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Featured, News January 11, 2021

Online campaign encourages communities to participate CRTC public consultation

#NWTDigitalDivide highlights lack of internet in remote communities.


An NWT organization is reminding residents to share their thoughts on the quality of telecommunications services in the North.  DigitalNWT.ca’s campaign #NWTDigitalDivide, reminds residents of the Jan. 20 deadline for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC) online public consultation. Kyle Napier, of Fort Smith, is a spokesperson for DigitalNWT.ca….

Featured, News January 11, 2021

Man charged with homicide after body found last Friday

One man has been charged with homicide after a body was discovered in Yellowknife last Friday. Moran Nitsiza of Yellowknife was arrested, the RCMP say in a press release. Police say the incident occurred near one of the city’s shelters in a building in the area of 50 St. and…

Community, Featured, Health, News January 8, 2021

Lack of engagement creating ‘barriers’ for COVID vaccine rollout: MLA Semmler

GNWT says special vaccine characteristics easier to account for with mobile teams.


Lesa Semmler says she feels like the territorial government is trying to reinvent the wheel when it comes to administering the COVID-19 vaccine. The Inuvik-Twin Lakes MLA says the GNWT should do more to leverage local healthcare workers in the regional centres to get the vaccine to communities. The COVID-19…

Featured, News January 8, 2021

RCMP investigating sudden death in Yellowknife

Police are investigating after a 38-year-old man was found dead in a Yellowknife building. In a press release, the RCMP say they responded to a call to service regarding a “sudden death.” The man was found unresponsive on Jan. 8 around 7:30 a.m. in a building in the area of…

Featured, News January 8, 2021

‘I don’t wish this on any parent; this COVID, it’s deadly’

Numerous communities offer support to family of an NWT COVID patient, who's in an Edmonton hospital.


On Saturday, Dec. 5 Myrine Kakfwi felt sick.  “By Monday, he said he was coughing so bad that he started coughing up blood,” says Dolly Pierrot, Myrine’s mother.  Now just over a month later he sits in the Intensive Care Unit of an Edmonton hospital, diagnosed with COVID-19.  Myrine grew…

Community, Featured, Health, News January 7, 2021

Yellowknife COVID testing site moves to ensure enough space

The new testing site will be located at 108 Archibald Street, across from the Folk on the Rocks location.


The COVID-19 testing site in Yellowknife has moved for the sake of space. The NWT Health and Social Services Authority (NTHSSA) announced the move from the primary care clinic to 108 Archibald Street. The move is to ensure the testing site has adequate surge capacity and reduces the impact on…

Community, Featured, News January 6, 2021

Sunrise Festival in Inuvik goes online to celebrate the light

“I think the [community] is excited for the vaccine to come along, so we can come together again,” says Challis.


Inuvik residents have grown accustomed to the darkness but say they’re excited to welcome back the light. This year residents cant gather for its annual festival, instead, they meet online. Today at 1:39 p.m. begins the first sunrise of a new year for the community. “It just becomes a pattern…

Community, Featured, Health, News January 6, 2021

Remote communities first to receive vaccines for all eligible adults

Vaccines for the general population will arrive in mid-March. 


Residents in the NWT’s most remote communities should expect to see mobile vaccination teams arrive starting next week. On Tuesday, the territorial government released its strategy to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. While the majority of doses will be kept for priority groups over the next two months, some communities will…