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Fort Liard resident says wood stove program recipients chosen ahead of meeting
An initiative to install hundreds of woodstoves in N.W.T. communities was met with frustration when community members in Fort Liard found the list of who would recieve a stove was predetermined prior to the meeting.
Housing NWT sometimes evicts tenants in winter. MLA asks why notices served in coldest months
The N.W.T.'s housing corporation has evicted seven tenants from their homes since November for what it describes as illegal activities or disturbances, according to a spokesperson for the corporation. It's an issue one MLA raised in the Legislative Assembly last month.
N.W.T. faces uncertainty over changes to Jordan's Principle, which funds 60% of school support assistants
The N.W.T. education department will meet with federal Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu about how sweeping changes to Jordan's Principle funding will affect N.W.T. which relies on the fund to pay more than 60 per cent of the territory's educational assistants.
Mackenzie highway route 'should be our call', says Pedzéh Kı̨ First Nation
The chief of Pedzéh Kı̨ First Nation says his community does not oppose the highway but takes issue with the current proposed route, which enters moose habitat and runs over unstable landslide-prone areas.
Use of N.W.T. man's Indigenous name in integrity commissioner complaint an 'invasion'
Three complaints dismissed against two N.W.T. MLAs were made using the namesake of a well-known broadcaster. The complaints alleging code of conduct violations and conflict of interest were roundly dismissed by the integrity commissioner.
Indigenous leaders say lack of oversight on tailings spills a danger to water rights
The Keepers of the Water and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation say research analyzing the last decade of tailings spills backs up their concerns about monitoring of the oilsands and shows Alberta's energy regulator is failing to independently investigate a majority of spills.
'Who gave the order?' Dene national chief, MLA want accountability for culture camp raid
On Sept. 13, ENR officers descended on Łutsel K'e Dene First Nation's cultural camp at Timber Bay, within the Thaidene Nëné National Park Reserve and that has the community's MLA calling for a review and apology to ensure it never happens again.
CBC North searching for Denesųłıné Yatie host after 9 months off the air
Fort Resolution elder Robert Sayine says he is concerned about how long Denesųłıné Yatie, the CBC's Chipewyan language programming has been off the air. CBC North says the search has been long, and difficult but that the program will return.
'I just needed to do something': Tłı̨chǫ man volunteers in Ukraine to deliver aid
A Tłı̨chǫ man from Behchokǫ̀, N.W.T., says his military training prepared him to deliver aid in Ukraine, where he once taught English. John Rabesca has been transporting food, supplies and military equipment to Ukrainians affected by Russia's military invasion.
YKDFN pushes back against Tłı̨chǫ's call to be included in Yellowknife land acknowledgments
Ndilǫ Chief Fred Sangris says a request by the Tłı̨chǫ for the land acknowledgements in Yellowknife to recognize the area as being part of their traditional territory doesn't respect agreements between their nations, and undermines Akaitcho First Nations ongoing land claim negotiations.