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Featured, News October 19, 2021

Tłı̨chǫ family ask for prayers, support as daughter hospitalized with severe COVID

"I've gone through some hardships in my life. But COVID took a toll on me and my family,” says Norma Zoe.


Norma Zoe says she is living every parent’s worst nightmare. She spoke with CKLB over the phone on Monday afternoon while sitting in an Edmonton hospital beside her 13-year-old daughter Julissa Mantla, who has a severe case of COVID-19. “She wants to go home,” Zoe says, “if I could, I…

Featured, News July 21, 2021

GNWT to remove border checkpoint near Fort Smith

The territorial government announced it will be removing the highway 5 checkpoint at the NWT-Alberta border near Fort Smith.  A press release says the checkpoint will be up until July 31.  The checkpoint was established early in the pandemic as a preventative measure for ensuring no one could enter the…

Community, Featured, Health, News February 28, 2021

Chateh entering two-week lockdown

Residents of Chateh are under a mandatory two-week lockdown as of 9 a.m. today, according to Dene Tha’ First Nation. The first nation posted an advisory on social media, which outlines the rules during lockdown. Full household lockdown, no one leaves their home Nobody in or out of the community,…

Featured, News January 8, 2021

‘I don’t wish this on any parent; this COVID, it’s deadly’

Numerous communities offer support to family of an NWT COVID patient, who's in an Edmonton hospital.


On Saturday, Dec. 5 Myrine Kakfwi felt sick.  “By Monday, he said he was coughing so bad that he started coughing up blood,” says Dolly Pierrot, Myrine’s mother.  Now just over a month later he sits in the Intensive Care Unit of an Edmonton hospital, diagnosed with COVID-19.  Myrine grew…

Environment, Featured, News August 5, 2020

GNWT ‘considering all options’ if Alberta continues to not meet monitoring obligations

The Canadian Press acquired a report that indicates monitoring of the Athabasca was suspended due to COVID.


Smith’s Landing First Nation Chief Gerry Cheezie says he is “shocked” by reports the Government of Canada and Alberta have suspended certain oilsands monitoring projects. Joslyn Oosenbrug, department of Environment and Resources (ENR) spokesperson, says the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) was recently made aware of the contemplated suspension…

Environment, Featured, News July 15, 2020

SLFN Chief upset by suspended oilsand monitoring

'We have zero benefits from the oilsands projects, but we get 100 per cent of the environmental issues'


Smith’s Landing First Nation Chief Gerry Cheezie says his community has been battling Alberta on environmental practices for more than 50 years. So the fact the province suspended its environmental monitoring for oilsands companies without notifying the Northwest Territories, “is nothing new”. “We have zero benefits from the oilsands projects,…

Featured, Health, News July 15, 2020

NWT residents can now register for organ and tissue donation

With over 600 applicants in Alberta still awaiting a transplant, Alberta is asking the NWT for help. Northwest Territories residents can now voluntarily join the Alberta Organ and Tissue Donation Registry to increase the number of donors and improve the chances of a match for those waiting. The Government of…