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'Holy smokes': Huge log believed to be 50 million years old unearthed at N.W.T. mine
A log of wood believed to be 50 million years old has been hauled up from below ground at Diavik diamond mine in the N.W.T. — a find that researchers say is remarkable but not uncommon.
Feds backtrack on characterizing northern military spending as new
National Defence Minister Bill Blair said last week the federal government was increasing its investment in northern military hubs from $218 million to $2.67 billion. The Department of Defence now says the higher figure stems from a change in accounting and isn't actually an increase.
12 million more trees to be planted on Tłı̨chǫ lands following $53M investment
The Tłı̨chǫ and federal governments announced a deal to plant 12 million trees over the next seven years in N.W.T., from locally-harvested seeds. Canada is putting nearly $45 million into the project while the Tłı̨chǫ government is pitching in more than $8 million.
Feds announce locations of 3 northern military hubs
The federal government announced Thursday the first hubs would be in Iqaluit, Yellowknife and Inuvik.
Auditor general 'disappointed' by Nunavut's lack of progress to protect children and youth
A new report from the auditor general of Canada finds that Nunavut's Department of Family Services has made initial steps to fix the service it provides to youth and children, but the changes haven't been big enough to make much of a difference.
Grocers say prices in some northern communities protected from tariffs, for now
Two grocery chains that serve the North say stores in remote communities that rely on large, infrequent shipments of goods are shielded from the effects of Canadian counter-tariffs – at least, for now.
Northern premiers announce plans to protect their economies as U.S. trade war begins
Canada's three northern premiers have announced measures to protect their territory's economies amidst a trade war with the United States.
Aurora College agrees to end deal that reserved Yellowknife's Tin Can Hill for campus
Yellowknife City Council is poised to terminate an agreement that reserves Tin Can Hill for the construction of polytechnic university campus — and Aurora College says it's fine with that.
'Our children are not artifacts': N.W.T. First Nation says efforts to find gravesites hampered by permit
The chief of Deninu Kųę́ First Nation says a territorial permit holding up his community’s effort to unearth unmarked graves erroneously calls children who died at residential school “archaeological artifacts."
North West Company accused of holding on to subsidy money in proposed class-action suit
A statement of claim filed before the Court of King’s Bench in Manitoba earlier this month calls the multinational Canadian grocery company with stores in northern Canada “outrageous” and “predatory” for not passing 100 per cent of a federal subsidy on to consumers like it’s supposed to.