Updated Oct. 27. The Mackenzie River/N’dulee ferry crossing near Wrigley is now closed for the season. The department of Infrastructure closed the MV Johnny Berens on Monday night due to blowing snow and poor visibility. It also closed the MV Lafferty near Fort Simpson, but that ferry reopened on Tuesday…
A Yellowknife resident working at Gahcho Kué diamond mine has tested positive for COVID-19. The employee was tested after another worker from Yellowknife received a false positive earlier this week. As a precaution the mine tested 18 workers who traveled in with this worker. De Beers Group confirmed the case…
A Fort McPherson man convicted of sexual assault has been designated a long-term offender and will be spending two years in prison. Chief Justice Louise Charbonneau gave her ruling for the fate of Johnny Simon on Friday at the Yellowknife courthouse. Simon was convicted of sexual assault in 2018 for…
K’atl’odeeche First Nation’s (KFN) On the Land Fall Hunt Program kicked off this week. Participants will spend 12 days learning about harvesting, preparing traditional foods, gathering, tanning moose hides, and teaching traditional land history. KFN in a Facebook post says they began the event with a prayer ceremony led by…
Dr. Kami Kandola says there is no risk of COVID-19 exposure for anyone at École St. Joseph in Yellowknife, despite a letter circulating social media claiming otherwise. The note found on Facebook appeared to show École St. Joseph letterhead and stated two after hour school program workers had come into…
In her debut novel, the Yellowknife author shares an intimate work of fiction on the idea that through storytelling, readers can heal past traumas. In Ndè-Tı-Yat’a, Lafferty confronts the themes of identity, stereotypes, language and abuse. Rooted in her own truth and lived experiences, Lafferty says, these are important conversations…
“Inuvialuit remember a time when our rights to harvest were under threat from outsiders,” says Duane Ningaqsiq Smith. The chair and CEO of the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation has decried the violence against Mi’kmaq fishers in southwestern Nova Scotia. “IRC is concerned that the failure of the RCMP and Department of…
Steve Norn, MLA for Tu Nehdé-Wiilideh, says the territorial government’s self-isolation centres have a “darker aspect that we never really considered”. Norn said some Elders told him the centres feel “like residential school all over again”. Norn brought up the point in asking for better mental health resources for people…
The territorial government has received confirmation that an individual in Inuvik has COVID-19. “This individual… is recovery safely at home,” reads a GNWT public notice. On Friday, the government announced three presumptive cases — one in Inuvik and two in Yellowknife. The person in Inuvik drove to the community from…
The NWT lost about 4,000 jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but most of those were non-residents. Caroline Wawzonek, minister of Finance, said her department expects the labour market to rebound to 90 per cent of pre-pandemic levels by the end of the year. However, not all job sectors will…