The NWT will receive an additional $7 million annually for health care for the next 10 years. The money comes as part of a new agreement between all provinces and territories, and the federal government. While Premier Caroline Cochrane welcomed the money, she also said it is not enough to…
Passengers of the inaugural Canadian North flight from Yellowknife to Calgary got a warm welcome at the Calgary International Airport on Tuesday morning. Canadian North relaunched direct flights between Calgary and Yellowknife this week. Canadian North is an Inuit-owned company, jointly owned by the NWT’S Inuvialuit Regional Corporation and the…
Arsaniq Deer’s life changed the day she witnessed her mother receive traditional Inuit tattoos and at that moment, she says, was filled with a new sense of purpose. “I would never forget those days, it was so special and so meaningful for me,” she says. Deer is a 23-year-old artist…
Two candidates will compete for the vacant seat on the council of the Délı̨nę Got’ı̨nę Government this spring. Dora Blondin and Roy Modeste are the two candidates following the closing of the nomination period, according to a document signed by Chief Electoral Officer Graeme Drew on Feb. 10. The election…
Rose McNeely was walking to work last Wednesday morning when she saw something dark in the road. Initially, she thought it was a garbage bag or maybe even a caribou hide. It was still dark out, so she went home to get her husband. They drove back to the spot…
The Government of the Northwest Territories is considering a zone-based approach to fuel price rebates. Minister of Finance Caroline Wawzonek confirmed such a system was in the works during a sitting of the Legislative Assembly on Feb. 8. The assembly is debating what to do about coming increases…
Just do something, anything. That was the message to a handful of MLAs during a committee meeting on food security held Wednesday night. Presenters handed MLAs a menu of solutions: school food programs, funding for food vouchers in communities, more support for harvesters, reducing the operational costs for producers, trade…
The department of Health and Social Services is warning about an ongoing chicken pox outbreak in Tuktoyaktuk. Multiple people in different households have recently contracted the disease, although the department did not say exactly how many. A Jan. 22 community hockey game and a Feb. 2 Canadian North flight from…
There are few surprises in the GNWT’s 2023-24 budget. Minister of Finance Caroline Wawzonek tabled the budget in the Legislative Assembly early Wednesday afternoon. For the upcoming fiscal year, GNWT is projecting $2.48 billion in revenue and $2.31 billion in expenditures. This would result in an operating surplus of $178…
When Wendy Stephenson was a teacher in Wekweètì 40 years ago, getting students interested in books was a challenge. “In the 70s, 80s, there weren’t a lot of materials that were relevant to kids that were living in communities,” she says. She wrote a handful of children’s books — Randy…