Politics

Residents, downtown homeless campers ‘all have to get along,’ says Premier R.J. Simpson

One city MLA calls for compassion, while other says nearby residents ‘held hostage’ by season’s first encampment downtown


“There’s no legal authority for us to remove an encampment. We can’t go down there with a bulldozer and knock it down. We have to work with the individuals who are staying there … help them find somewhere to stay, whether that’s a shelter, whether that’s a different location that’s…

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NWT rookie MP Rebecca Alty scores sought-after cabinet seat

The territory's first cabinet minister in two decades has promised to work on progressing land claims, and on major infrastructure projects


The NWT’s rookie MP Rebecca Alty is the country’s Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet announced Tuesday morning. The politically savvy, self-described policy nerd was appointed by a man born in Fort Smith and spent his early years in Edmonton. She is the NWT’s first…