Mayor Natasha Kulikowski is inviting Inuvik residents to join her at the Arctic Market Tents to talk about some of Inuvik’s most important issues. Meetings with the Mayor will run every Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m., starting on July 29th. Each session will be open to six residents, where Mayor Kulikowski…
The Government of the Northwest Territories extended the public health emergency for the ninth time on Thursday. The announcement was made by Diane Thom, minister of health and social services, in a press release. NWT residents entering the territory will continue to be required to self-isolate for 14 days in…
Six people received fines of $1,725 over the past month for breaking Northwest Territories COVID-19 protocols. Fines were issued to three people in the Dehcho, two in the South Slave and one in the North Slave region, a press release from the Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO) says. The first…
In an effort to be transparent, the territorial government has created an interactive visual dashboard to allow residents an easier look at COVID-19 data, through visual aids such as graphs and maps. The data shows updated daily statistics on new cases, recovered cases, completed tests, a breakdown of symptoms and…
Dennis Nelner says it would not have been unusual for all sorts of people to be living under his mother’s roof when she was alive. He says many young Fort Simpson residents moved into his mom’s basement as their first foray away from home. Madeline Nelner would also invite people…
Charlene Catholique has officially been missing for 30 years, but continues to be at the center of a police investigation. On July 22, 1990, 15-year-old Catholique was last seen walking on Highway 3, near Behchokǫ̀, toward Yellowknife, looking for a ride. Catholique, originally from Łutselk’e, has been featured on Canada’s…
The Government of the Northwest Territories is extending COVID-19 relief modifications to income assistance until the end of September. Income assistance was modified by the GNWT in March to exempt the Canada Emergency Response Benefit and the Canada Emergency Student Benefit from income assistance calculations. Additionally, the reliefs allow monetary…
A more inclusive approach to setting financial policy is coming to the NWT through a public online budget dialogue with several online sessions planned to discuss the budget for 2021. The Government of the Northwest Territoires is hosting online sessions that will take place between July 20th-August 4th, where residents…
The Edmonton CFL team has dropped the word Eskimo from its name. The club made the announcement on Tuesday, issuing a press release stating “Recent findings demonstrate that views regarding the team name are shifting.” The word Eskimo has been criticized as racist for years, but the club previously defended…
A wildfire discovered over the weekend outside Norman Wells is believed to be human caused. The department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) says on its NWT Fire page the wildfire was discovered on Saturday, July 18 around 7 p.m., approximately eight kilometres southeast of Norman Wells. (Un message en français…