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Report outlines 10-year reconciliation roadmap for Yellowknife – Cabin Radio
November 6, 2025 An intergovernmental partnership table, reconciliation scorecard and inclusive land acknowledgment are among recommendations in a new report that aims to help the City of Yellowknife advance reconciliation. The city hired Tanya Tourangeau – a Dene woman from the NWT and a reconciliation consultant – to prepare the report, which was recently published […]
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Three themes the NWT government picked out from the federal budget – Cabin Radio
November 5, 2025 Is the new federal budget a win for the North, is there not much of substance, or is it too soon to tell? NWT Premier RJ Simpson and finance minister Caroline Wawzonek seemed to select from all three columns as they gave their response to the budget in a Tuesday afternoon press […]
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‘People think Wi-Fi is a premium:’ Inuit youth brings free internet to Arctic community – Nunatsiaq News
Nov 5, 2025 Jessie Kakkik says getting good Wi-Fi changed his life Jessie Kakkik stands a few metres from his home across from Qikiqtarjuaq’s Northern store with his black, off-brand phone in his hand. “I can open YouTube,” he says. Quickly, the app pops up on his screen ready to show videos. “Or Facebook,” he […]
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Charity plans NHL alumni game in Iqaluit next year – Nunatsiaq News
Nov 4, 2025 Hockey Helps the Homeless to bring Jordin Tootoo, ex-Leafs to city to help local charities An Ontario charity is lacing up for what it says will be four days of hockey, fun and supporting community organizations in Iqaluit next year. And it plans to bring some former National Hockey League stars along […]
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How residents see the NWT’s fiscal future – Cabin Radio
November 4, 2025 As the NWT government prepares its next budget, it says residents are concerned with growing debt and communities want more collaboration on spending decisions. Each year, the territory asks residents to provide input on the upcoming budget through a survey and holds budget engagement sessions with Indigenous and community governments, businesses, industry […]
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Idlout hopes ‘austerity’ in federal budget won’t shortchange Nunavut housing – Nunatsiaq News
Nov 4, 2025 NDP MP says needs of Indigenous people must be acted on in government spending plan With Tuesday’s federal budget expected to include targeted cuts in some areas of government spending, Nunavut MP Lori Idlout says she is taking a wait-and-see approach before deciding whether she will vote for it. Prime Minister Mark […]
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Staff housing shortage ‘is leaving classrooms without teachers’ – Cabin Radio
October 31, 2025 Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon is urging the NWT government to take action to address the housing crisis in isolated communities, which he says is driving some teachers away. Speaking in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday, Edjericon said schools in smaller communities have long struggled to provide quality education because of the […]
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Jordan’s Principle cuts: YCS ‘won’t be able to sustain’ some programs – Cabin Radio
October 31, 2025 Yellowknife Catholic Schools has become the latest NWT school board to sound the alarm over the impending disappearance of Jordan’s Principle funding. More than 200 positions in schools across the territory have been lost or jeopardized by the federal decision to revamp the qualifying criteria for Jordan’s Principle, a fund used to […]
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Exploding heads, zombies: Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ high school students film hits the big screen – CBC
Oct 31, 2025 Students’ short film will debut at Yellowknife International Film Festival Four teenage filmmakers can’t stop giggling as they recount the making of their film No Hope. In the opening scenes, zombies flood the band office of Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ First Nation. This is the creative vision of a group of high school students […]
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Rhino discovery shows Arctic ‘big centre’ for mammal evolution: Researchers – Nunatsiaq News
Oct 31, 2025 Epiaceratherium itjilik, or Frosty, discovered in Devon Island crater The fossil of an Arctic rhinoceros unlike anything discovered before sat buried below the Earth’s crust for roughly 23 million years, before permafrost heave brought it back to the surface of a High Arctic impact crater on Devon Island. It was the 1980s, […]
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