The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) and Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario have extended their partnership agreement for the next ten years. According to a GNWT news release, the university and the territorial government have been working together for the past decade bringing research expertise and training opportunities…
For a place that doesn’t even have a carbon tax yet, the Premier has made a lot of noise about the issue. Again last week, he sat shoulder to shoulder with provincial premiers fighting the federal carbon pricing plan in court. The fact there’s no carbon tax in the NWT…
Nineteen mining exploration projects recently got a helping hand from the Government of the Northwest Territories. The GNWT announced it handed out just under $1 million through its Mining Incentive Program this year. The majority of that money, about $800,000 went to mining corporations and the rest to individual prospectors….
What do the premiers of Alberta, Ontario, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick have in common? They’re all opposed to the federal plan to price carbon emissions. They’re also the only provinces part of a special meeting with NWT Premier Bob McLeod taking place today in Calgary. Trista Haugland is communications coordinator…
Leaders from the Government of the Northwest Territories and Indigenous governments, who are partners in Devolution, sat down in Yellowknife Tuesday to discuss a range of issues related to lands and resource management at the Intergovernmental Council meeting. According to a news release from the territorial government, as a key feature…
MLAs are criticizing Minister of Finance Robert C. McLeod for a lack of detail on the implementation of the territorial carbon tax. Kam Lake MLA Kieron Testart is the chair of the Standing Committee on Government Operations. The committee originally had public meetings scheduled for this week on Bills 42…
The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) has announced that it will now financially cover the cost of a birth control drug for residents with a valid NWT Health Care Card who do not have full coverage for prescriptions under another program or group insurance plan. Mifegymiso is a prescription…
The Kas’ho Got’ine Men’s Transition Home in Fort Good Hope and the Sahtu’ot’ine Nats’eju Initiative on Reconnecting with Ourselves in Deline are just two of the recipients that will share in $400,000 in territorial government funding. In a news release, the Department of Health and Social Services stated that 12…
Going into their second to last sitting before the fall election, members of the Legislative Assembly were facing 18 bills with another four soon on the way. Two of them were handled quickly on Thursday afternoon. In a news release, MLA Cory Vanthuyne, chair of the Standing Committee on Economic…
To kick off National Nurses Week, the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Registered Nurses Association of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (RNANT/NU) signed and Memorandum of Understanding to introduce a single regulatory body for all nurses in the territory. Right now, nursing positions are registered differently—if at all—in…