Warning: Some scenes and imagery may be disturbing to some audiences. Mark Dryneck spent hours roaming the streets of Yellowknife seeking shelter and aid but found none. The night was April 10. “I was freezing cold and I was feeling helpless,” he says. Dressed in only a long sleeve shirt,…
There was much fanfare when the GNWT introduced new legislation last month to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Premier Caroline Cochrane called it a “truly significant step towards reconciliation.” But not everyone is on board just yet. Late last year, before the legislation…
Growing up in Churchill, Manitoba, Brenda O’Connor remembers times when fish was served for every meal. That’s all we ever ate all summer long was fish for breakfast, lunch and dinner,” she said. “Never got sick of it then and still not sick of it.” O’Connor got to show off…
As of April 29, residents can no longer access COVID-19 or monkeypox vaccines at the Yellowknife Covid clinic inside Centre Square Mall. However, services will still be available through Yellowknife Public Health until the end of June. Beginning May 1, residents can book appointments for the Covid-19 vaccine at the…
An NWT man wanted in connection with a sexual assault has been found by police. Twenty-eight-year-old Alex Roche was apprehended on Thursday, according to an RCMP officer. The officer said he was not apprehended in Hay River, despite the Hay River RCMP issuing a warrant for his arrest, although the…
Tensions and tempers ran high at a meeting for members of the Salt River First Nation in January. Jeannie Marie-Jewell, a distinguished SRFN Elder, was there in Edmonton, filming. Then she passed the phone to her neighbour, Toni Heron: She had some questions for acting chief Brad Laviolette. “On what…
A “special police operation” that took place in Hay River late last week was a series of drug-related raids, according to RCMP. The raids were part of a larger operation that also involved three traffic stops between April 1 and 15. In total, eleven people have been arrested and charged…
Last updated Friday, April 14 at 12:15 p.m. The mace of the legislative assembly is coming to the communities of the Beaufort Delta later this month. The symbolic mace will be visiting Aklavik’s Moose Kerr School on April 25, Tsiigehtchic’s Chief Paul Niditchie School on the morning of April 26,…
The elected chief of the Salt River First Nation has been suspended by council for the fourth time in a row. Both Toni Heron and her lawyer confirmed that late last week, Heron was suspended for another 60-day term. Less than a month after being elected in September, Heron was…
Thaddeus McNeely has pled guilty to manslaughter and two counts of aggravated assault. According to court documents, 24-year-old McNeely appeared in court on Monday before Justice Louise Charbonneau. McNeely pled not guilty to the most serious charge of murder, but pled guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter. By entering…