Feds announce up to $49.5M for Inuvik airport upgrades
By Sarah St-Pierre · Money represents federal government’s first investment through the Arctic Infrastructure Fund Federal ministers announced up to $49.5
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Society (Canada)
First Nations-led Auntie’s House to incorporate cultural practices in Whitehorse youth group home
By Alexa MacKie ‘When children do go into care, it’s important that they do stay connected to their community and
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Arctic Winter Games to return in 2028 after all, this time in Alaska
Officials said earlier that the next games wouldn’t happen until 2029 Just months after organizers of the Arctic Winter Games
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First Nation in Dawson City, Yukon, plans for return of ancient baby mammoth ‘Nun cho ga’
Rare specimen found in 2022 currently being preserved at Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa It’s been four years since a
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WestJet strike leaves northern travel plans up in the air
By Jessica Davey-Quantick For one Yellowknife family, flight cancellations are more than just a disappointment: they could leave a teen
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Residential school survivors ‘overjoyed’ about return of travel funding for counselling in North
By Sarah St-Pierre Worries linger about what comes when funding runs out at end of fiscal year Joanne Charney said
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Travelling court cancels fall criminal trials in two Nunavik communities
By Ximena Sampson No criminal trials will be held in Puvirnituq or Inukjuak this fall, Radio-Canada has learned. Four years
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Canadian arctic science network awards $9.3M funding to 13 local reserach projects
A Canadian arctic science network is backing 13 local research projects with $9.3M in funding, it announced on Wednesday. The
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New Łutselk’e homes, locally managed, cut local housing waitlist down
By Samanntha Lee First Nation says it marks a step toward establishing housing department Five new modular duplexes — totalling
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Travel funding cut to residential school counselling program leaves clients without closure in N.W.T., Nunavut
By Sarah St-Pierre Counsellors contracted under a federal program found out travel funding was being cut on Friday Mental health
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Yukon’s find-a-health-provider waitlist down by half as territory welcomes new doctors
By Dana Hatherly The territorial government also created a new licensing path for some internationally trained physicians The Yukon’s waitlist
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2 Iqaluit group homes set to close, meaning children in care may be sent south
By Samuel Wat Advocates, workers and family members question whether that’s in the best interests of children and youth For
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Construction on Nunavut’s first addictions and trauma treatment centre to be done by end of summer
By Bianca McKeown Builders say construction will be done in 4 to 6 weeks Construction on Aqqusariaq, Nunavut’s first addictions
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Ottawa Invests $2M to Modernize Security at Whitehorse Airport
The Government of Canada is injecting just over $2 million into the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport for the purchase
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$2.5 Billion in Australian Radar System to Monitor the Arctic
The Government of Canada has finalized the purchase of over-the-horizon radar (OTHR) technology from Australia and the firm BAE Systems
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