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The Yukon First Nation Education Directorate says changes to the Jordan's Principle rural nutrition program will create 'significant barriers' for accessing funding. New operational requirements call for individual children's names and status card numbers attached to each funding proposal.
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The Putting People First report, published in 2020, was the result of a territorial health care review conducted by an independent panel. That panel made 76 recommendations to improve Yukon health care, including creating a distinct health authority, a Whitehorse walk-in clinic and land-based healing programming.
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Kativik Ilisarniliriniq school board has partnered with Montreal's John Abbott College to bring some post-secondary courses to Nunivik. They hope its a first step that could lead to a full diploma program, and a post-secondary institution, in Nunavik one day.
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An accessible housing project the N.W.T. Disabilities Council has been working on for years has fallen through after a disagreement with Housing N.W.T., and the chair of the council says N.W.T. residents living with disabilities are the ones to pay the price.
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Speaking after the conclusion of a western and northern premiers' summit in Yellowknife on Thursday, Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai said BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have invited the territories to join their trade pact, the New West Partnership Trade Agreement.
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Kody Smith, 29, entered guilty pleas in territorial court last month to one count each of robbery using threats of violence and failing to stop a vehicle being pursued by police. The charges were related to a robbery at Heather's Haven last May and the subsequent police chase.
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Housing officials in Yellowknife formally broke ground on a future public housing building Tuesday. The building, set to go up on empty lots on 50th Street between the Raven Pub and the Gold Range Bistro, is expected to bring 50 public housing units to Yellowknife's downtown area by fall of 2026.
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In March, a major pipe connected to a pump station froze, causing a water crisis in the small village of Puvirnituq, Que., home to many Inuit. On Saturday, the village council declared a state of emergency after a weekend house fire. Dr. Marie-Faye Galarneau, a physician working in the village's hospital, explains what she has seen on the ground so...
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For Sikhs, Vaisakhi marks the creation of the order of the Khalsa in 1699 — a defining moment in Sikh history which gave the faith its final form. But it's also an opportunity to come together, with large events acting as opportunities for people from different communities to meet and celebrate.
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Mandy Gull-Masty, former grand chief of Eeyou Istchee, was appointed Canada's Indigenous Services minister this week. She is the first Indigenous cabinet minister to hold the portfolio responsible for providing services for First Nations, Inuit and Métis.
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The village's pipeline, which connects the water pumping station to the treatment plant, has been frozen since at least March. That has forced the village to drive further out of town to truck in water and have it manually chlorinated, slowing delivery to the community of roughly 2,100 people.
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During the 2023 wildfires, the government of the Northwest Territories used its 2018 emergency plan — and, according to a consulting firm tasked with reviewing the territory's emergency response, that plan should have worked. The problem? Very few people knew about it.
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Conflict is brewing over the illegal occupancy of a plot of land along the Liard River, which is withdrawn as part of the Dehcho Process. The occupants are ordered to leave by Aug. 1, but they say they have a right to be there and have nowhere else to go.
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A wildfire near Fort Smith, N.W.T., is now under control, meaning it's not expected to grow beyond its current boundaries, according to N.W.T. Fire. The town had been on evacuation notice for a wildfire started around Primrose Lane and Carl's Drive, within a few hundred metres of homes.
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A.Y. Jackson, a member of the celebrated Group of Seven, made several trips to the N.W.T. during his life and created works that depict the territory's colourful landscape, as well as its mining heritage. Some of those works can be seen at the Legislative Assembly building in Yellowknife.
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Richard Olsen, the manager of fire operations for the territorial government, said fire behaviour modelling from Natural Resources Canada shows "normal” fire activity is anticipated in the territory until the end of June, but fire danger is expected to ramp up in July and August.
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Located about 56 kilometres northwest of Haines, American Pacific has been looking for a mix of copper, silver, gold and zinc on the roughly 25,000 hectare property located in the Chilkat Valley, an ecologically significant watershed that provides vital habitat to moose, grizzlies and all five species of salmon.
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David Browne is the head of policy for conservation and advocacy organization Birds Canada. He spoke with Hilary Bird, the host of CBC's Trailbreaker, about why he is concerned changes to the U.S.'s Migratory Bird Treaty Act could impact species in the north.
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Cole Sinclair was arrested in Whitehorse last December on a warrant issued under the federal Extradition Act. He faces nine charges in central Oregon's Deschutes County in relation to the 2023 death of Evelyn Weaver, including first-degree murder, robbery and unauthorized use of a vehicle.
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