Jul 21 2023 — Emily Blake, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — INUVIK, N.W.T. — Rows upon rows of raised beds growing tomatoes, zucchini, beans, wildflowers and herbs line the inside of the Inuvik Community Greenhouse. Sunlight streams through the panes of the curved ceiling above as children sprinkle their crop ...
Jul 21 2023 — Emily Blake, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — INUVIK, N.W.T. — Greenhouses are becoming more popular in northern communities as a way to supplement available groceries and improve food security . Some involve hydroponics, a higher-tech way of growing that doesn’t use soil. For example, the Inuvik...
Jul 16 2023 — Emily Blake, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — INUVIK, N.W.T. — Off the side of the road not far from the airport in Inuvik, N.W.T., among the shrubs and spruce trees, a series of rusted metal bars are buried deep in the ground. Installed in 2004, they are helping researchers measure how the groun...
Jul 12 2023 — Emily Blake, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — YELLOWKNIFE — Several communities in the Northwest Territories have broken temperature records in recent days as residents try to beat the heat. Jesse Wagar, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, says Norman Wells and Fort Good H...
Jul 12 2023 — Emily Blake, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — INUVIK, N.W.T. — Several people wander into Hope House at lunchtime for a warm bowl of caribou stew, fresh baked bread and reprieve from the early July heat in Inuvik, N.W.T. The drop-in centre, which serves underhoused and disadvantaged people in the...
Jul 2 2023 — Emily Blake, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — YELLOWKNIFE — The head of the RCMP in the Northwest Territories says one of his top priorities is recruiting more Indigenous members and staff. In his first media address since taking over as commanding officer of the RCMP's G division in November 2022...
Jun 27 2023 — Emily Blake, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — YELLOWKNIFE — The Northwest Territories Power Corporation says it has improved its safety systems and processes since a worker died in 2021. Michael Chinna was struck in the head and neck by a column of ice outside an entrance at the Jackfish Lake die...
Jun 26 2023 — Emily Blake, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — YELLOWKNIFE — The Northwest Territories Power Corporation has been fined $200,000 for contravening the territory's Safety Act after a worker died from injuries he sustained at a Yellowknife power plant in 2021. Michael Chinna, who was in the fourth yea...
Jun 22 2023 — Emily Blake, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — YELLOWKNIFE — The federal government and Yellowknives Dene First Nation have signed a procurement framework agreement for the cleanup of Giant Mine, one of Canada's most contaminated sites. Ottawa says the agreement confirms its commitment to increase ...
Jun 22 2023 — Emily Blake, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — YELLOWKNIFE — The federal government and Yellowknives Dene First Nation have signed a procurement framework agreement for the cleanup of Giant Mine, one of Canada's most contaminated sites. Ottawa says the agreement confirms its commitment to increase ...
Jun 20 2023 — Emily Blake, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — IQALUIT, Nunavut — A national group representing Inuit says it hopes a review into how the Oblates handled allegations of a former priest sexually abusing children in Nunavut will bring change within the Catholic Church. A retired Quebec judge has been...
Jun 13 2023 — Emily Blake, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — YELLOWKNIFE — The Northwest Territories government is lauding changes to its health-care system that it says reduced wait times for mental health counselling by 79 per cent. The territory released a report Tuesday on its implementation of Stepped Care ...
Jun 13 2023 — Emily Blake, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — YELLOWKNIFE — The Northwest Territories government is lauding changes to its health-care system that it says reduced wait times for mental health counselling by 79 per cent. The territory released a report Tuesday on its implementation of Stepped Care ...
Jun 12 2023 — Emily Blake, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — A retired Quebec judge is to lead a review into how the Oblates handled past allegations that a former priest sexually abused Inuit children in Nunavut. The Oblates of Mary Immaculate, OMI Lacombe Canada and the Oblates of the Province of France said ...
Jun 9 2023 — Emily Blake, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — Raging wildfires and smoky skies across much of Canada have put a damper on travel this summer, resulting in cancelled plans and closed businesses. "We have had a few conversations with our members and we're already seeing domestic and international v...