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Northwest Territories Premier McLeod offers up eight NWT rivers to China for...

Premier McLeod’s speaking notes: Canada China Business Council Premiers’ Panel (2012/09/13)read more

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NDP MPs Linda Duncan and Dennis Bevington take action to protect Slave River

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Artist Diane Boudreau's 'Species at risk' in the Northwest Territories

Dianne Boudreau is (as so many are) a transplant from the south. From Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec,  from Acadian roots.. since June of 2000, she's made here home in Yellowknife. As her bio...

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Yellowknife's Wildcat Cafe reopens after two-year hiatus

Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a supporting member of rabble.ca.After a two-year-long renovation that amounted to a rebuild (with considerable controversy  and delays)...

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Language apps help preserve endangered aboriginal languages in the Northwest...

The most recent is Inuvialuktun One By Yamózha Kúé Society "…Paarutit! The Government of Northwest Territories Department of Education, Culture and Employment, and the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource...

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Northwest Territory Assembly's "mortgage-burning" party budgeted at $400,000

Today's issue of the Yellowknifer reports that the NWT's Legislative Assembly has decided to spend $400,000 on what one MLA calls a "mortgage-burning" party.... to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the...

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Northern NDP MPs Formally Request Auditor General Investigate Nutrition North

"...Six Northern New Democrat MPs have written to Auditor General Michael Ferguson after all three territorial legislative assemblies voted unanimously for an audit of the Conservative’s failed...

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The crisis in the cost of Northern living

FROM THE HOUSE OF COMMONS - Dennis Bevington is the MP for the Western Arctic."There is a spiralling cost of all goods and services in Northern Canada, be it in the three territories or across the...

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Yukon Council of First Nations declares territory to be frack free

Whitehorse, Yukon June 28th, 2013''Today the Council of Yukon First Nations passed the following resolution:"Be it resolved that the Council of First Nations calls on the Yukon Govt. to prohibit...

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Inuit communities document their climate-change knowledge and experience

Inuit Communities Document Their Climate Change Knowledge and Experience [Inspired by a posting on Facebook]read more

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Only NWT First Nations Addictions Treatment facility looses GNWT contract to...

NWT's K'atl'odeeche First Nation Reserve: Nats’ejee Keh Treatment Centre contract not renewedThe notice...GNWT "...negotiating contracts with a number of southern treatment programs in Alberta and...

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'Tiny House Movement' in Sub-Arctic Whitehorse, Yukon

"… Heaven on wheels: A mobile tiny house from the Great White North - Yukon-based tiny house builder Laird Herbert unrolls Leaf Version.2, a cozy, amenity-filled home-on-wheels that's built to...

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Nutrition research and human biomedical experimentation in Aboriginal...

Yellowknife NWT's Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox posted the following to her Facebook feed:read more

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$46.19/kg Strip Loin Steak

Image posted to "Feeding My Family" in Nunavut Facebook Group by Israel Mablick Sr.read more

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Dear NWT Premier McLeod: Please make housing a priority at the Council of the...

July 17, 2013Dear Premier McLeod:I would like to express my concern regarding the high rate of poverty in our country and encourage you to make affordable housing a top priority when you host the...

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What every citizen NEEDS to know about photographing and filming police...

Via/thanks to/from The Canadian Privacy Law Blog"...Thursday, August 23, 2012 Photographing and filming police officers in CanadaThe Ottawa Citizen [had] a very good editorial on the practice of police...

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Wood Buffalo National Park, World's Largest Dark Sky Preserve

The Park'sMike Keizer Facebooked a link about an hour ago read more

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Aurora watching? Yellowknife's the best says Japanese expert

"Three reasons Yellowknife NWT is the best place to watch the Aurora Borealis"Doctor Yohsuke Kamide, Nagoya University a Japanese Aurora Borealis expert visited Yellowknife once again Saturday March 2...

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Touting Harper's visit to Hay River, NWT

Sandy Lee, current Harper appointee and ex-Conservative Party candidate in the NWT's riding of the Western Arctic, , touting tickets to @PMHarper's Western Arctic Conservative Association party thing...

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Video: Idle No More greets Prime Minister Harper in Hay River NWT

August 19, 2013  Idle No More in Hay River NWT greets Prime Minister Harper on his northern tour

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