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In 2016, the Kaskawulsh Glacier retreated and the Slims River was reduced to a trickle. The waterway was dramatically rerouted south, to the Kaskawulsh River. Since, all that water has flowed into the Alsek, emptying into the Pacific. That could be dealing a blow to Kluane chum salmon.
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A flood watch has been issued for Old Crow, Yukon, along with an evacuation alert for some residents due to ice jams downstream on the Porcupine River. Flood risk in the Dawson area, meantime, has gone down after ice jams on the Klondike and Yukon Rivers released.
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In a news release sent around 2 p.m. on Friday, RCMP said they were conducting a "planned police operation" on 57th Street and asked the public to avoid the area. About an hour later, RCMP said the operations were over and several people were taken in custody.
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Joe Savikataaq Jr. wore a tuque with the Star of David and the word Israel during a public event celebrating the Inuit Nunangat University. Amid high tensions over the Israel-Hamas war, the use of the symbol at a public event has drawn heated criticism on social media.
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Lauren Seabrook is a Yellowknife resident and health-care worker. She says medical professionals in the Northwest Territories and Alberta have been advising her to relocate out of the territory because the system cannot match her needs as a complex patient with a feeding tube.
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Angela Code is infinitely curious and committed to revitalizing her Dene traditions. She's constantly learning and teaching land-based skills, dabbling in sewing, art projects, or "nerding out” over the science of hide tanning. With her mother, Mary, she shares reflections on finding intergenerational healing by honouring their family's...
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Northerners took to the streets on Tuesday to raise awareness of violence against Indigenous women in Canada. In Yellowknife, people gathered at the legislative assembly and listened as the Yellowknives Dene Drummers sang a prayer song. In Iqaluit, residents also marched through the capital. And in the Yukon, community members in Haines Junction...
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With the Ruth Inch Memorial Pool out of commission for just over a year, the City of Yellowknife is now working on identifying the next steps for the facility and using the occasion to review what the future of some of its other facilities should look like.
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RCMP say several individuals are in custody following a police operation in the N.W.T. community that began early Friday afternoon and ended shortly after 8 p.m. RCMP say their investigation continues and residents can expect to see an increased police presence.
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The government of the Northwest Territories has announced $30 million for education bodies next school year, but it's still too soon to say what impact that funding will have, or how it might spare schools from the pain of losing Jordan's Principle funding.
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Jaelyn Jarrett remembers moving from Nain, N.L., to Ontario as an eight-year-old when she heard, for the first time, the word 'Puatugi'. That memory led the Carleton University master's student on a journey to trace the origin of the word, which she hopes could offer answers to racial divisions today.
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The Government of the Northwest Territories has announced $30 million for education bodies next school year. But it's still too soon to say what impact that funding will have, or how it might spare schools from the pain of losing Jordan's Principle funding.
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An emergency can happen at any time. That's why the Yukon government is encouraging residents to have a 72-hour kit on hand. But in the North, affordability and accessibility of goods to build a kit can create challenges. Chris MacIntyre learns what should go into a kit, and builds one of his own.
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Three women who have reported allegations of historical sexual assault by the same individual say they want to tell their stories publicly despite several publication bans in the case. They hope to use a 2023 amendment to the Criminal Code that makes it easier for complainants to waive a publication ban on their names and anything that would...
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The First Nation of Nacho Nyäk Dun says it has no opinion about the possible sale of the mothballed Eagle gold mine to Boroo Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based mining company. The First Nation does, however, have many opinions about the process that led to Boroo gaining the exclusive right to negotiate with the mine's current owner, the Yukon...
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Seasonal businesses are removing boards from windows and opening doors once again in preparation for the upcoming tourist season. Some said they feel trade conflicts with the United States and high fuel prices won't have much of an impact on the local economy.
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The territorial government is in the early stages of exploring the potential to host the 2035 Canada Winter Games in the Northwest Territories. A working group of representatives from the territorial and city governments, sport partners and the chamber of commerce are advancing the work of the bid on behalf of the N.W.T. government.
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The Yukon Quest sled dog race is set to make a comeback next year, organizers say, after the iconic race was cancelled this winter. The organization announced Tuesday that two races will take place on Feb. 6, 2027 and follow the traditional route along the Yukon River.
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The territorial government is in the early stages of exploring the potential to host the 2035 Canada Winter Games in the Northwest Territories. A working group of representatives from the territorial and city governments, sport partners and the chamber of commerce are advancing the work of the bid on behalf of the GNWT.
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The territorial government is proposing changes to the Vital Statistics Act and Name Change Act to align the legislation with human rights standards in Canada. The proposed slate of changes focus on what appears on birth certificates, who can access vital records and how births are registered.
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The agreement means Boroo is the only company negotiating with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, which is managing the Eagle gold mine on behalf of the Yukon government. Over the next three months, the two sides will negotiate the details of a sale, and consult with the Yukon government and First Nation of Nacho Nyäk Dun.
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The hunter and trappers organization in Naujaat, situated roughly 525 kilometres from the proposed port, wants the project to be reconsidered. Naujaat is in the Kivalliq region, so at first glance, the HTO didn't anticipate being affected by a project far away on Baffin Island. But it says more recent research has changed that.
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After four decades of cultural exchange, the City of Whitehorse says it has officially withdrawn from its annual youth exchange program with its Japanese sister city, Ushiku. The decision, which Mayor Kirk Cameron blamed on budgetary constraints, has upset a number of parents and former participants who described the program as "priceless.”
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Nunavik leaders are exploring the idea of banishment as a way to block drugs and alcohol entering their communities. 'We want to make it clear to everyone in Canada that we are welcoming, but we're not welcoming people that are there to destroy people's lives,' says the president of Makivvik.
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Arviat, Nunavut, a community of about 3,200 people on the western coast of Hudson Bay, was selected by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami to host the university's main campus in part because it is known as an 'education leader' and has a strong connection to Inuktitut, the Inuit language.
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Over 200 people attended the Department of National Defence's town hall in Yellowknife Thursday. Many people who lined up to ask questions about the project's impact on the local economy, its longevity, its impacts on the environment and more at the town hall.
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Justice Minister George Hickes said talks with the N.W.T. and federal governments to introduce security screening for northern flights at Yellowknife Airport are in its preliminary stages – a measure Kitikmeot residents, particularly in Cambridge Bay, have long called for.
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New federal funding will cover the next five years of the Pacific Salmon Strategy Initiative. The announcement is a relief to the chair of the Yukon Salmon Subcommittee, Dennis Zimmerman, who says, given the territory's salmon populations are at historic lows, the money can't come soon enough.
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The Nunavut government's exclusive maritime carrier is bumping up shipping costs for the upcoming sealift season — particularly through Churchill, Man., to Kivalliq communities. It now costs exactly the same amount of money as shipping goods from Bécancour, Que.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford has reversed course on the purchase of a $28.9-million private jet for his travel — a controversy that has raised questions about how often Canada's leaders fly on private aircraft. CBC News reached out to offices of the premier from coast to coast, to see how the provinces book air travel.
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MLAs from all three parties voted in favour of an opposition motion, which included amendments proposed by the Yukon Party. The motion urges the Yukon government to work with First Nation governments, the 405 Alexander Advisory Committee and RCMP on a review of the Whitehorse Emergency Shelter.
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Peter Qayutinuak Jr. was part of a group of five Taloyoak, Nunavut, residents who were headed for Gjoa Haven on snowmobiles on Apr. 7 for a volleyball tournament. There was a blizzard and they tried to beat it, but Qayutinuak ended up getting separated from the group, and he wasn't found for another three days.
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Yukon University says it now acknowledges that one of its employees did discriminate against Melissa Antony when she was terminated in 2023. The admission marks a reversal for the university, which has maintained for the last two and a half years that Antony's early contract termination did not constitute discrimination.
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A proposed law in Alberta would increase private access to medical diagnostic testing without a doctors referral. The territorial government says the impact of Bill 29 is not yet clear, and a Northern health care worker worries private paid-for care could erode public health.
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The N.W.T. government is now working with educators to draw up a policy that would improve "student engagement and mental health, while respecting the authority of education bodies and providing flexibility to meet the unique contexts and needs of individual communities."
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The U.S. government plans another oil and gas lease sale for Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — following two prior sales that saw no interest from major oil companies and amid ongoing litigation aimed at blocking drilling in a region seen as sacred by the Indigenous Gwich'in.
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The owner of a Yellowknife dogsled business says he's not concerned by extra scrutiny of his kennels. The city's municipal enforcement division says it's investigating concerns raised about the conditions at Beck's Kennels, while Yellowknife RCMP say they are also looking into a complaint about an unnamed local kennel.
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Northern parts of the Canadian Rockies, which supply much of the N.W.T. water, have seen above-average snowfall. But scientists say it is too soon to know if the snow will alleviate drought, reduce wildfire risk or increase the risk of flooding in the territory.
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An organization representing amateur sports in the Yukon is decrying "major cuts" to sport and recreation funding by Lotteries Yukon, and asking the territorial government to fill the gap. The premier says it's an issue of spending at the territory's lottery commission.
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The deadline for Ottawa's gun buyback has passed with 81 firearms being declared in the N.W.T. under the program. Now gun owners still have a few more months to dispose of, or permanently deactivate, their banned assault-style firearms — but it's still unclear how that will be enforced in the N.W.T.
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When the salmon stopped running, Carissa Waugh (Ékè Éwe) started beading. A new short film, "Beading Atsua Ku," shows how Waugh uses her artwork to try to decolonize climate conversations while exploring her connection to salmon, her ancestors and future generations.
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