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Have your say on Jean Marie River/Redknife River projects
March 23, 2023 The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) is inviting residents to provide feedback on two highway infrastructure projects: the replacement of the Jean Marie River bridge and the removal of existing culverts and new bridge construction at Redknife River. The Jean Marie River Bridge – located on highway 1 approximately 65 km […]
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N.W.T. wants to contract an Indigenous-led treatment facility, but none are bidding for the work – CBC
Mar 23, 2023 The territory received proposals from two facilities, but neither met its criteria for Indigenous-led services The N.W.T. government’s search for an addiction treatment facility with Indigenous-led programing isn’t going well. The territory’s Health and Social Services Department was taking proposals from facilities it could work with early in the year, but the […]
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Mountain Province Diamonds Announces Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2022 Results
TORONTO and NEW YORK, March 22, 2023– Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. (“Mountain Province”, or the “Company”) (TSX: MPVD) (OTCQX: MPVD) today announces its financial and operating results for the fourth quarter (“the Quarter” or “Q4 2022”) and the full year ended December 31, 2022 (“FY 2022”). All figures are expressed in Canadian dollars unless otherwise […]
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Kenn Harper speaks Wednesday on Knud Rasmussen’s Arctic journey – Nunatsiaq News
Mar 22, 2023 Explorer travelled across the North a century ago to learn more about the lives of Inuit Author, historian and Nunatsiaq News contributor Kenn Harper will hold a talk in Ottawa Wednesday describing and celebrating the Fifth Thule Expedition of Knud Rasmussen that occurred close to a century ago. Throughout the early 1900s, […]
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NWT Indigenous leaders call for investigation of oil sands’ impacts – Cabin Radio
March 22, 2023 Leaders of northern Indigenous peoples are calling for a “full, independent investigation” of the downstream impacts of oil sands pollution. The call, issued at a water summit held in Inuvik last week, comes in the wake of controversy over months-long contamination emanating from Imperial Oil’s Kearl facility in northern Alberta. The Dene […]
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Health worker breached privacy rights over adoption: report – Nunatsiaq News
Mar 22, 2023 ‘Any slip, no matter how well-intentioned, can have serious consequences.’ privacy commissioner says Nunavut’s Health Department should apologize for a health clinic worker who violated an adoptive parent’s privacy, Nunavut’s privacy commissioner says. The incident — in which the clinic worker told another person about the pending adoption before the adoptive parent […]
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GNWT releases follow-up report on the overall well-being of residents since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic
March 20, 2023 The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) released its latest Social Indicators COVID-19 Pandemic report. The report examines the potential social impacts of health measures taken to protect against COVID-19. Highlights of the report’s findings include: The number of visits related to anxiety fell in 2022, but remain higher than they were […]
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2022 Indigenous Peoples Survey
21 March 2023 The 2022 Indigenous Peoples Survey (IPS), conducted by Statistics Canada, is currently in collection and the Government of Nunavut is encouraging Nunavut Inuit to participate. Topics of the survey include employment and unemployment, educational background, skills and training, health, and language, as well as questions about interest in and preparedness for government […]
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Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation will harvest opportunities with a full-scale oyster farm in Pomquet Harbour
From: Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency Investments in fishery scale-up will help the community generate training, jobs and revenue March 21, 2023 Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation has a deeply rooted connection to the nearby water and its resources. With a name that means “by the bay,” the Mi’kmaw of Paqtnkek have fished Pomquet Harbour as a source […]
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Biden’s green light to drill oil in Alaska threatens Indigenous Canadians – rabble
March 21, 2023 Joe Biden has broken with his party’s long held opposition to oil drilling in the Alaskan Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. On the eve of his first visit to this country, U.S. President Joe Biden approved a massive oil drilling project in Alaska – a project which will have significant impacts on the […]
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