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The George Black ferry in Dawson City, Yukon has transported passengers across the Yukon River for over 50 years. The Yukon's department of Highways and Public Works plans to replace the aging vessel with something more environmentally, and cost efficient.
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A town hall Tuesday, held by Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart and Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins, was meant to give the MLAs a better understanding of what people tied to the nominee program are facing, and what they'd like to see from the program in the future.
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The Alberta government is proceeding with legislation that would ban gender-affirming care for youth under 16. The territory's 2SLGBTQ+ community is seeking federal support in light of restricted health care access to puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy under Bill 26.
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The measures include a temporary reduction in property taxes paid by N.W.T. mines to the territorial government, and allowing Ekati and Gahcho Kue diamond mines to use around $4 million from a fund previously set aside for green projects to reduce mine emissions for general operations.
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Scientists have discovered that a tooth found near Old Crow, Yukon, in 2018 belonged to the oldest known woolly mammoth in North America. The discovery challenges the popular belief that mammoths crossed into North America from Siberia in the last 100,000 years.
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Nunavik's 14 villages rely heavily on diesel power, so the region is exempt from most oil-powered heating bans in Quebec. The housing bureau says those exemptions could be hurting Nunavimmiut as fewer people are training in oil-powered heating, and parts for repairs are becoming hard to come by.
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"I know there's other focuses but I think the environment has to be a priority, especially for our youth and for all of us," one voter in Haines Junction told CBC News. "We have to think about other things than just day-to-day stuff, we have to think about the future of our children.”
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Earlier this month, the governments waved the project through and onto the licensing phase — which is in the purview of the Yukon Water Board — but subject to a raft of new provisions, many of which deal with salmon, First Nations' land use and, connected to those, vested rights.
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The number of people considered "unsheltered" in Yellowknife saw a dramatic increase between 2021 and 2024, according to a new city report. That's even as the overall homeless population — which includes those in transitional housing or couch surfing — saw a much more modest increase over that period.
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The Food Bank Society of the Yukon has joined Food Banks Canada in calling on political parties to reduce food insecurity in Canada by 50 per cent by 2030. Last month, the Yukon food bank fed nearly 2,000 Yukoners, an increase of 67 people from the month before.
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Hundreds of people showed up for the debut of Aukkauti, a play about the origin of Nunavik, when it debuted at the Puvirnituq Snow Festival last month. The production was written by Lisa Koperqualuk, Daniel Gadbois and Adamie Kalingo and was performed by the Aaqsiiq Theatre Company entirely in Inuktitut.
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The Yukon's Department of Education says it's still considering a proposal to hire full-time substitute teachers at F.H. Collins Secondary School in Whitehorse. This comes after what the department calls a "miscommunication" about the school council's request for more teachers being denied.
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The Yukon and federal governments say Yukon Energy's licence for its Whitehorse hydroelectric dam should be renewed for another 25 years — but they've also laid out some new terms and conditions or revised some that were recommended by environmental assessors.
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Carbon taxes, military bases, fighting against tariffs – these are some of the big-ticket policy announcements heard from the major parties so far in this federal election campaign. But in Nunavik, many residents say they just want action to address the basics, like food insecurity, mental health and addictions treatment.
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Gladiator Metals recently began drilling in the Whitehorse copper belt with a class 1 permit. It also applied for a class 3 exploration permit, which would allow it to expand work over the next five years throughout its whole 35-kilometre Copper Belt project.
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Mark Carney's father Robert Carney was a federal Indian day school principal in the Northwest Territories in the 1960s, at a place where residential school boarders also attended. Yet three historians are urging caution when approaching that complicated legacy. Here's why.
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There was a lengthy power outage in Yellowknife and Behchokǫ̀ on Saturday afternoon. The Northwest Territories Power Corporation says power was restored in Behchokǫ̀ about one hour after the outage began, but some parts of Yellowknife are still without power.
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CYFN says it doesn't have money to sustain services like its "necessities of life” program, which provided families with vouchers for things like groceries, children's clothing and baby products, as well as programs for short-term housing and respite care.
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In response to a call out for stories, CBC received almost two hundred comments, and 124 distinct travel tales. Yukoners were eager to share their experiences bringing up albino corn snakes, pints of olive oil and lilac tree trimmings – all on Air North flights.
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