MLA acclaimed to replace ousted minister in Canadian Northwest Territories
MLA for Yellowknife Centre Julie Green will be the Northwest Territories’ newest cabinet minister, following a special meeting to replace
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Author: John Last, CBC North
Canada’s Northwest Territory ex-minister accused of insulting staff and ‘continual tantrums,’ ejected from cabinet
Northwest Territories MLAs voted to eject former industry and infrastructure minister Katrina Nokleby from cabinet following an extraordinary two-hour session
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New Zealander sails through Arctic on custom yacht in violation of COVID-19 restrictions
According to the Canadian government, he has no business being there. But 72-year-old Peter Smith is sailing the Northwest Passage
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Canada’s Northwest Territories decide fate of minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment
N.W.T. MLAs will sit Monday in an emergency session of the legislature after a cabinet minister was stripped of her
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Former officers from Canadian police reflect on how to fix policing in the North
Since the RCMP’s earliest days, it has relied on Indigenous people for survival. In the North, Canada’s project of extending
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What the Canadian territories’ different emergency laws mean for you
Northerners may be surprised to learn they’ve been living under two, simultaneous emergencies for most of 2020. No, murder hornets
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Indigenous groups paying the price for Russia’s massive Arctic fuel spill
In 2017, the New York Times called Norilsk “Russia’s coldest and most polluted industrial city.” It may not be getting colder but
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Canadian-style reconciliation commissions draw mixed reaction across Scandinavia
It began with a funding announcement — and a modest one at that. Last week, the Swedish government announced $175,000
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Why on-the-land educators see opportunity in a global pandemic
COVID-19 is forcing the reinvention of formal education Most students can identify with the feeling of looking wistfully out a
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More than 100 people refused entry to Canada’s North under COVID-19 travel bans
More than 100 people have been refused entry to Canada’s territories since travel restrictions were first put in place in
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5 lessons Nunavut can learn from the COVID-19 outbreak in Arctic Quebec
On Thursday, residents of Nunavut received the news they had been dreading: the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was identified,
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COVID-19 testing rates are falling across the Canadian North — here’s why
When health authorities in the Northwest Territories first started releasing their COVID-19 testing data, the total number of tests performed
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Canadian local leaders voice anger with N.W.T. policy on identifying communities with COVID-19
A pair of letters, sent from Fort Resolution Mayor Patrick Simon and Deninue K’ue First Nation Chief Louis Balsillie, are
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What Russia’s $300B investment in Arctic oil and gas means for Canada
North could suffer from increased traffic, potential spills Last month, the Russian government pushed through new legislation creating $300 billion
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Canadian Indigenous leaders stress need for less “colonial” approach to caribou conservation in North
For the next five days, Colville Lake, N.W.T., is the centre of the Sahtú. Leaders from across the region and
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