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MLAs in Canada’s Northwest Territories to hear from public on carbon tax changes

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Monday, January 16, 2023 at 11:46
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‘My constituents up here, we’re really hurting,’ says Nunakput MLA, who opposes carbon tax increases Northwest Territories MLAs will hold

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Housing demand, costs rose across northern Canada in 2022: CMHC report

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 09:07
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Rates of ‘core housing need’ higher in the North than elsewhere in Canada, especially in Nunavut The Northern economy grew

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N.W.T. no longer offering rheumatology services, patients must travel to Edmonton

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 09:21
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Local services ‘have become increasingly difficult to organize,’ says spokesperson for health authority People in the N.W.T. who live with

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Tłı̨chǫ gov’t and mining company reach agreement, keeps 4 sites protected

CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 25, 2022 at 09:26
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‘It’s good news for us, good news for our region, our people,’ says Tłı̨chǫ Grand Chief Jackson Lafferty A mining company

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Elon Musk’s Starlink high-speed satellite internet service begins northern rollout

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 4, 2022 at 18:19
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Starlink’s coverage map suggests all three territories will have access in the first quarter of 2023 High-speed internet could be

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N.W.T. MLAs call on government to take immediate action on suicide prevention

Natalie Pressman, CBC News @natpressman
Posted: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 08:28
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Members of the N.W.T. Legislative Assembly are calling on the government to take immediate action on suicide prevention.  A motion

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School boards in Canada’s N.W.T. ‘concerned’ by shortage of substitute teachers

Emma Grunwald, CBC News
Posted: Monday, September 12, 2022 at 08:28
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The Yellowknife public board’s list of supply teachers for this year is half its average number School boards in the

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Nurses decry ‘unsustainable’ conditions at hospital in Canada’s Northwest Territories

Natalie Pressman, CBC News @natpressman
Posted: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 at 08:49
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Operating rooms staffed with fewer than half the nurses that should be working, according to union Nurses in the Northwest

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Cleanup of historic oil spill in northern Canada underway, source still unknown

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at 15:45 — Last Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at 15:50
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There’s an iridescent shine on the wet pavement near the foot of the Northwest Territories Power Corporation property along the

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Resource extraction in North needs tools to fight climate change, says Canada’s transportation minister

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 15:59
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Canada’s transportation minister says all economic sectors — including resource extraction in the North — need their own tools to

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Electric vehicles in Canada’s North start reliably in cold, but long-distance “range anxiety” is real

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 10:43
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Extreme cold might reduce how far her electric vehicle can drive on a single charge by 40 per cent, but

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Meet the 3 northerners being named to the Order of Canada

Luke Caroll, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, December 29, 2021 at 10:51
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Being named to the Order of Canada is, for one longtime Yellowknifer, made more special by the fact another Indigenous

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N.W.T.’s Indigenous language program starts to pay off in Canadian Arctic

Luke Caroll, CBC News
Posted: Monday, November 22, 2021 at 16:16
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Susan Peffer says she can have conversations in Inuvialuktun as a result of the N.W.T.’s Mentor-Apprentice Program (MAP). “Every time

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Canada’s Northwest Territories reports 53 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 09:40
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Territorial count stands at 246, a decrease of 11 since Friday The N.W.T.’s Office of the Chief Public Health Officer

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Gov’t staff being redeployed to help deal with closure of Yellowknife shelters in Canada’s Northwest Territories

CBC News
Posted: Monday, September 13, 2021 at 15:30
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Health Minister Julie Green also said the city has offered up an arena as a possible day shelter space As

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