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Community, Featured, News, Politics May 12, 2023

Service cuts, price increases on the table as MACA set to administrate Fort Resolution

"I feel like we're being treated like children being disciplined," says one former resident

Changes to municipal services may be coming for residents of Fort Resolution as the GNWT prepares to place the hamlet under administration. Earlier this week, the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs (MACA) announced it intends to place the hamlet under administration, citing “financial and operational difficulties.” In doing, so,…

Community, Featured, News May 8, 2023

Fort Resolution to be placed under administration due to financial difficulties

Minister of MACA Shane Thompson to 'release council from their duties and appoint a Municipal Administrator.'

The community of Fort Resolution will soon be placed under administration due to “financial and operational difficulties,” according to the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs (MACA). The department made the announcement early on Monday afternoon via a press release. Under the territory’s Hamlets Act, in placing the community under administration,…

Community, Featured, News, Police October 6, 2022

Update: Body of Fort Resolution man found by search party

The 42 year-old was reported to have fallen off a boat on Monday, Oct. 4

Updated 10:15 a.m. Oct. 11. Police say a community-led search party has found the body of a Fort Resolution man who fell into the Slave River last week. The RCMP announced on Tuesday the body of 42-year-old George Giroux was found by a community search party on Oct. 8….

Featured, News May 10, 2021

Multiple firefighters resign from Fort Resolution fire department

Most of Fort Resolution’s volunteer fire department resigned Sunday night due to a disagreement with the community’s SAO, says the former fire chief. Arthur Sanderson was the first to resign after what he describes as an issue around the department’s phone alert system. Deninu Kųę́ First Nation Chief Louis Balsillie,…

Featured, News February 18, 2021

Taltson River trappers to receive compensation, but what’s next for them?

A trapper who had his Taltson River cabin flooded says the government compensation will help him, but he’s worried about the long-term effects of the flooding. Arthur Beck told CKLB in an interview at the time that trappers would need assistance from the territorial government. Last week Shane Thompson, minister…

Featured, News January 22, 2021

‘Ice right up to the windows’: Trapping cabins near Taltson River flooded, frozen

Arthur Beck says his trapping season is finished as all his trapping equipment is under several feet of ice.

A trapper from Fort Resolution was saddened to discover his cabin near the Taltson River had a solid floor of ice up to its windows. Arthur Beck, a long time hunter and trapper, says upon discovering the state of his cabin, he measured the water level to be about 12…

Featured, News December 2, 2020

Dental visits resuming in six NWT communities

Visiting dental services that were suspended as a result of the pandemic will be returning to six communities. A press release says the chief public health officer has issued COVID-19 precautions and approval to health facilities. Communities that will be receiving private dental teams include Fort Providence, Sambaa K’e, Fort…

Featured, Law courts, News, Police October 19, 2020

Crown rejects manslaughter plea for axe-wielding Fort Resolution man

"His eyes were open, staring," says RCMP officer at the scene of the crime.

The content below may be disturbing On Monday, court heard a Fort Resolution man admit to killing another man with an axe. However, Chad Beck did not agree with the second degree murder charge he is facing from the incident that occurred on July 1, 2018, where 27-year-old Cameron Sayine…

Community, Entertainment, Featured, News October 6, 2020

Fort Resolution teen places 4th in Miss Canada Globe

“To be an Indigenous woman and to be a part of it,” says Chaslyn McKay, Miss Canada contestant, “was already like winning.” Chaslyn McKay, an 18-year-old Dene and Cree woman, from Denı́nu Kų́ę́, N.W.T., competed in this year’s Miss Canada Globe, only to prove to herself and to her community…

Featured, News, Politics September 5, 2019

Edjericon back on the ballot for Tu Nedeh-Wiilideh

Edjericon is back on the ticket. Richard Edjericon, a former chief of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, and former chair of the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board is joining the race for MLA in the riding of Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh. In 2015 he was defeated by incumbent Tom Beaulieu. Beaulieu…