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Environment, Featured, News, Politics, Reconciliation, Wildfires November 14, 2024

‘Who’s helping us to recover, emotionally, physically, spiritually, in all ways?’

Raw emotions on display from Behchokǫ̀ residents at after-action review open house of 2023 wildfire emergency response

Forty people gathered at tables in a school gymnasium in Behchokǫ̀ on Wednesday night, sharing stories of resilience, confusion and anger over the 2023 wildfire season. Repeated themes were the absent, slow or confusing communications from the GNWT, and a lack of help for evacuees when returning home after 10…

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First day at work for Indigenous Employment Policy is April 1

GNWT holds online information session Tuesday for employees' questions, as Affirmative Action Policy set to be replaced

GNWT holds online information session Tuesday for employees' questions, as Affirmative Action Policy set to be replaced

YWCA Canada apologizes for supporting colonial residential school system

YWCA NWT will now work with Indigenous leaders to clarify what historical involvement it had in the North, says executive director

YWCA NWT will now work with Indigenous leaders to clarify what historical involvement it had in the North, says executive director

Kátł’odeeche First Nation chooses financial specialist Elaine Auger for chief

Disaster recovery, economic development on the table as community settles lucrative modern Treaty Day payments

Disaster recovery, economic development on the table as community settles lucrative modern Treaty Day payments

Reflecting on tragic events, recommitting to action against gender-based violence

‘Most Indigenous children around my age were not raised on love. Most were raised on survival,' says Behchokǫ̀'s Kate Wedzin

‘Most Indigenous children around my age were not raised on love. Most were raised on survival,' says Behchokǫ̀'s Kate Wedzin

Northern nursing students check vital signs of health research

Fourth-year Aurora College nursing students show off the work they put into three-month projects

Fourth-year Aurora College nursing students show off the work they put into three-month projects

Community-minded RCMP officer collects coats for 120 needy kids in Aklavik

Const. Jason Emmons and wife, Larissa, found many youth in the Arctic community did not have adequate winter clothing

Const. Jason Emmons and wife, Larissa, found many youth in the Arctic community did not have adequate winter clothing

Tłegǫ́hłı̨ Got’įnę, GNWT and Ottawa initial draft of final self-government agreement

Significant milestone for Sahtu Dene and Métis of Norman Wells is a 'crucial step in moving beyond colonial systems of governance, says fed minister

Significant milestone for Sahtu Dene and Métis of Norman Wells is a 'crucial step in moving beyond colonial systems of governance, says fed minister

Ten-week camp for up to 30 Yellowknife homeless opens outside city

On-the-Land program will provide dorm-style cabins, heated outhouses and showers costing taxpayers $9.2K a day

On-the-Land program will provide dorm-style cabins, heated outhouses and showers costing taxpayers $9.2K a day

A $375M generational plan for Indigenous-led conservation, stewardship and economic development across the NWT

'We will take care of the land, the water, the animals, the plant life, and also take care of our communities and our people,' says Tłı̨chǫ Grand Chief Jackson Lafferty

'We will take care of the land, the water, the animals, the plant life, and also take care of our communities and our people,' says Tłı̨chǫ Grand Chief Jackson Lafferty

‘Who’s helping us to recover, emotionally, physically, spiritually, in all ways?’

Raw emotions on display from Behchokǫ̀ residents at after-action review open house of 2023 wildfire emergency response

Raw emotions on display from Behchokǫ̀ residents at after-action review open house of 2023 wildfire emergency response