Canada: North

CBC - North (31 minutes ago)

Pillai called his two years as Yukon premier 'the greatest honour of my life,' but said he felt it was time to move on.

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CBC - North (An hour ago)

After months of disruption, residents in Puvirnituq have a temporary solution to its frozen water pipe problems. But some other Nunavik villages are still dealing with similar issues.

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CBC - North (An hour ago)

A recent study has found that climate change is altering Arctic plant composition, with some species declining in response to warmer temperatures, while others flourish. Researchers studied over 2,000 plant communities across the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, and Scandinavia over four decades.

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CBC - North (9 hours ago)

The Safe at Home Society has been granted $3.45 million for youth programming that's aimed at combating homelessness in Whitehorse, while the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition is also working on a new plan.

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CBC - North (10 hours ago)

Kativik Ilisarniliriniq said the agreement includes a housing allowance for locally hired staff, a $7,500 signing bonus for Nunavik-based professionals and a yearly $2,600 bonus for returning staff. 

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CBC - North (10 hours ago)

Bradley Storm Beaulieu was given a 3.5-year prison term to serve immediately following sentences he's currently serving for unrelated impaired driving offences.

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CBC - North (12 hours ago)

A Stanton Territorial Hospital ER doctor is saying they want more transparency when it comes to staffing issues and work conditions. Staff are expected to work long hours, and feel disrespected.

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CBC - North (12 hours ago)

The new low-barrier shelter will have three floors with 44 beds of emergency shelter, 13 transitional housing rooms, a warming centre as well as a kitchen and dining room to feed clients.

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CBC - North (14 hours ago)

Over eight episodes, the fictional hamlet of Ice Cove, Nunavut, brought audiences humour, culture and community — and there's more on the way, as Arctic comedy North of North is renewed for a second season. 

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CBC - North (14 hours ago)

Two people were killed and another person suffered minor injuries in a collision on the Alaska Highway near Teslin, Yukon, early Wednesday morning.

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CBC - North (20 hours ago)

It's been more than two years since Benjamin Symington and Michael Bennett were fatally shot in Mayo, Yukon, and Na-Cho Nyӓk Dun Chief Dawna Hope says residents are 'still not feeling quite safe.'

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CBC - North (20 hours ago)

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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CBC - North (A day ago)

The Town of Hay River, N.W.T., is investing in some of its local non-profits organizations. The Hay River Youth Centre and Hay River Watch, a neighbourhood watch program, will each receive $2,500 to support their initiatives.

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CBC - North (A day ago)

A Crown prosecutor says former N.W.T. teacher and coach Neil Barry, who is on trial facing sexual assault charges, made several "inappropriate choices" over the years involving some of his players.

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CBC - North (A day ago)

It's been more than two years since Benjamin Symington and Michael Bennett were fatally shot in Mayo, Yukon, and Na-Cho Nyak Dun Chief Dawna Hope says residents are 'still not feeling quite safe.'

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CBC - North (A day ago)

Village officials in Haines Junction, Yukon, say the local water system is again functioning normally after some hardware had to be replaced. Residents had been asked to conserve water while the problem was fixed.

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CBC - North (A day ago)

Fentanyl mixed with a rare benzodiazepine was detected in drugs seized between Fort Good Hope and Norman Wells. The chief public health officer of the N.W.T. is warning that the territory is seeing an increased presence of methamphetamine and higher quantities of fentanyl.

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CBC - North (A day ago)

The risk of wildfires around Fort Liard and Nahanni Butte is expected to be high in the next couple days, the N.W.T. government said Wednesday.

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CBC - North (A day ago)

N.W.T.'s Municipal and Community Affairs Minister Vince McKay has appointed a municipal administrator for the Hamlet of Enterprise, saying the move is necessary to stabilize operations and ensure good governance.

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CBC - North (2 days ago)

The Yukon government says an employee at Whitehorse's Selkirk Elementary School has been removed from their job after "allegations of harm towards students."

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CBC - North (2 days ago)

Gladiator resumed drilling in the Whitehorse copper belt in 2024. An application to expand exploration to a class 3 permit is going through the assessment process. If approved, Gladiator would expand drilling throughout the whole 35-kilometre Copper Belt project, most of which is within city limits.

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CBC - North (2 days ago)

In a decision released Wednesday, the Northwest Territories Court of Appeal upheld William Aleekuk's conviction for attempted murder, but stayed his conviction for aggravated assault.

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CBC - North (2 days ago)

The territorial government closed the highway early Wednesday morning, and reopened it to single-lane traffic a few hours later.

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CBC - North (2 days ago)

A network failure to the Village of Haines Junction's water system has forced the municipality to issue a public notice asking residents to limit water usage until the problem is resolved.

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CBC - North (2 days ago)

Nunavut RCMP have asked an external body to investigate them after a Nunavut man died during an interaction with police over the weekend.

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CBC - North (2 days ago)

"Territorial formula financing is the largest source of the government's revenues and the primary driver of overall revenue growth,” N.W.T. Minister of Finance Caroline Wawzonek

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CBC - North (2 days ago)

The Dene National chief in the N.W.T. says local communities are "at the crossroads" in the ongoing drug crisis, and he wants to strike a task force to find solutions.

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CBC - North (2 days ago)

The Yukon government says an employee at Whitehorse's Selkirk Elementary School has been removed from their job after "allegations of harm towards students."

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CBC - North (2 days ago)

There's no opening date yet, but the N.W.T. government says it's developing a new, temporary housing option for people who are homeless in the N.W.T.

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CBC - North (2 days ago)

For Red Dress Day in Yellowknife on Monday, people gathered for a march and feast to support the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

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CBC - North (3 days ago)

RCMP say they seized a loaded stolen handgun and several types of drugs from a rental home in Norman Wells, N.W.T., on Saturday.

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CBC - North (3 days ago)

Yukon wildland firefighter Alex MacPhail is urging the territory to provide easier access to cancer coverage for those working in the wildland fire industry. MacPhail said current process is precarious.

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CBC - North (3 days ago)

Government funding has been secured for a temporary dock in a northern Alberta community that made headlines last year after Indigenous leaders raised concerns about contamination at a federally owned facility. 

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CBC - North (3 days ago)

Dr. Kami Kandola, the N.W.T.'s chief public health officer, is urging people to confirm whether they've been vaccinated against measles and be alert to any symptoms after a case of measles was confirmed in the territory over the weekend.

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CBC - North (3 days ago)

The N.W.T.'s justice minister says the territorial government will consider possible rent control measures when it reviews the territory's Residential Tenancy Act later this year.

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CBC - North (3 days ago)

With Whitehorse's Philmar RV Centre and Fireweed RV Services both set to close in the coming weeks, people in the city will soon have fewer options to get their RVs ready for the camping season.

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CBC - North (3 days ago)

A former teacher and coach in the N.W.T. accused of sexually assaulting some of his players denied he had any kind of sexual contact with his accusers.

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CBC - North (3 days ago)

Power was out in Fort Smith, N.W.T., for more than an hour on Monday afternoon because of issues with the Taltson power system. Hay River and Yellowknife also saw brief outages.

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CBC - North (4 days ago)

Yellowknife's Catholic school board has temporarily closed Weledeh Catholic School and École St. Patrick High School because of a case of measles. Families of students at Sir John Franklin High School were also notified of possible exposure.

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CBC - North (4 days ago)

There is no deadline to make a database on contaminated sites in Nunavut publicly available, according to the government's environmental liabilities project manager.

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CBC - North (4 days ago)

Yellowknife city council opted to appoint Hendriksen to fill the seat left vacant by newly-elected MP Rebecca Alty. Councillors Garrett Cochrane and Stacie Arden-Smith also put their names forward for the job.

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CBC - North (4 days ago)

Faro's crane and sheep festival draws visitors from across the Yukon and beyond to celebrate spring with the migration of the animals back to their spring habitats.

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CBC - North (4 days ago)

A helicopter carrying two pilots crashed during a Horizon Helicopters test flight on Friday afternoon. The company says one of the pilots died in the crash.

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CBC - North (4 days ago)

Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai, Northwest Territories Premier R.J. Simpson and Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok say they will be exploring the creation of a "territorial trade zone" that would make sure modern treaties with Indigenous people, and the needs of the territories are recognized as trade barriers come down.

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CBC - North (4 days ago)

2 Yellowknife city councillors want to be city's next mayor

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CBC - North (4 days ago)

Government funding has been secured for a temporary dock in a northern Alberta community that made headlines last year after Indigenous leaders raised concerns about contamination at a federally owned facility. 

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CBC - North (4 days ago)

It's an idea that already has the support of the Council of Yukon First Nations and Alaska Native people, whose cultures are also intertwined with the river.

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CBC - North (4 days ago)

Sahtú MLA Danny McNeely is scheduled to visit each community in his region this week, along with representatives of Food Banks Canada and Nutrition North, to talk about building food bank services in each one.

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CBC - North (5 days ago)

Sixteen girls on a hockey team from Ontario were each gifted handmade parkas during an exchange that brought them to Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, for a week. 

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CBC - North (5 days ago)

Much of northern Alberta under fire bans, restrictions as province faces hot, dry weather

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CBC - North (5 days ago)

The Yukon is experiencing an increase in gun violence. CBC News sat down with Yukon RCMP Chief Supt. Lindsay Ellis to talk about the issue.

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CBC - North (5 days ago)

The pool in Ross River, Yukon, will remain closed for at least another year. The territory's department of Highways and Public Works conducted a detailed structural and geotechnical investigation of the pool last fall and found severe foundational and structural issues.

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CBC - North (6 days ago)

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is investigating a Friday helicopter crash near Whitehorse.

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CBC - North (6 days ago)

Hundreds of people gathered in Whitehorse and Yellowknife on Friday to show solidarity with the victims of last week's attack at a Filipino cultural festival in Vancouver.

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CBC - North (6 days ago)

The James Bay Cree Communications Society (JBCCS) launches a puppet show to encourage young and older audiences to hear and speak Cree language.

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CBC - North (6 days ago)

Watson Lake, Yukon, resident Cassandra Hanchar was sky-gazing on Wednesday night hoping to see the Northern Lights. Instead, she witnesses something else and even caught it on camera.

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CBC - North (6 days ago)

The Yukon government failed to properly respond to and support students and families affected by the improper use of holds and isolation at Whitehorse's Jack Hulland Elementary School, according to a new report by the office of the territory's child and youth advocate.

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CBC - North (6 days ago)

The Yukon Legislative Assembly's spring sitting ended Thursday with MLAs passing the 2025-26 budget, which the Liberal government says includes record spending on health care, more money for police, and for communities. 

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CBC - North (6 days ago)

A Yellowknife businessman has pleaded guilty to defrauding the Business Development Bank of Canada.

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CBC - North (6 days ago)

Tristan Hamm admitted he was not a Yukon resident when he purchased a Yukon resident hunting licence and killed two black bears and a grizzly bear over a five-day period in May 2023.

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CBC - North (6 days ago)

The Dene National chief, N.W.T. Chief Public Health Officer Kami Kandola and organizations serving vulnerable youth say education is one piece of the puzzle to address drug-related harm in the territory. 

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CBC - North (A week ago)

"It hurts to see her trapped in a body that doesn't work anymore,” Virginie Bourque's partner said in a victim impact statement. "It hurts to see her suffer, it hurts to see that her young adult years were taken away from her… It's been nothing but heartbreaking.”

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Several people in Nunavik say voting booths closed early in their communities on election day — or didn't open at all. Now, some are calling for recourse to prevent this from happening again.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

"It hurts to see her trapped in a body that doesn't work anymore,” Virginie Bourque's partner said in a victim impact statement. "It hurts to see her suffer, it hurts to see that her young adult years were taken away from her… It's been nothing but heartbreaking.”

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Housing N.W.T. is increasing its rental rates by hundreds of dollars for residents in some of its units — and some tenants are saying it's a big financial hit for them, at the wrong time.  

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CBC - North (A week ago)

The Northwest Territories Medical Association says it is pleased the territory is increasing pay for locum physicians, but that the size of the increase will determine how effective it is.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

RCMP in Whitehorse say they have arrested and charged two women after an incident at the Blood Ties Four Directions building Wednesday night.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Habitat for Humanity is building two duplexes, four units total, in Yellowknife's Niven neighbourhood. Applications for the new units opened on Thursday, and the goal is to have people moving in this fall.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

RCMP in Whitehorse say they have arrested two women and recovered a firearm after an incident at the Blood Ties Four Directions building Wednesday night.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

A spokesperson for Northwestel says a telecommunications disruption that affected cellular calling in Inuvik has been resolved, but that the company isn't able to share the cause of what happened. 

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CBC - North (A week ago)

The heap leach facility at the Casino mine will be different from the one that failed last summer at the Eagle gold mine, according to the mining company.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

The Yukon government says the spring snowmelt means a "large amount" of extra water is being managed at the site of the Eagle Gold mine near Mayo. Some is being discharged untreated.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

The Association of Yukon Fire Chiefs has changed its name to the Association of Yukon Firefighters and Chiefs.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Therese Tuccaro Secondary School in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., was founded after local officials declared an education emergency over high school completion rates. Five years later, it has graduated 122 students.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Another complainant testified on Wednesday at the sexual assault trial of a former N.W.T. teacher and coach, and said that Neil Barry touched him inappropriately on two occasions. 

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CBC - North (A week ago)

A new group in Whitehorse called Grey Matters hopes to try out such a radical concept at a time when political polarization seems to be on the march, driven at least in part by a flood of online misinformation.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

The health authority is also creating a premium for night shifts, a travel stipend and is launching a program to incentivize long-term locums.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Voters in several Nunavik villages say polls closed early - or didn't open at all. Elections Canada says those shortcomings shows the work that still remains for the organization.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

The Hay River Regional Health Centre will only have two nurse practitioners on site this week for assessment and triage because of staffing shortages. Patients needing further care can access a doctor over the phone or will be medevaced.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

A tuberculosis screening clinic begins this week at the Arviat hamlet office and will continue until June, with all residents aged 13 to 40 asked to come and get tested. 

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CBC - North (A week ago)

NDP MP Lori Idlout, who was among the last to find out on Tuesday she was re-elected to the House of Commons, said she's "humbled” by her narrow victory. Though her party has lost official status, she said it hasn't lost its voice.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

The Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority says closing the emergency department at Stanton Hospital is "not an option” — after doctors warned such closures were a possibility because of severe staff shortages. 

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Whitehorse city council has passed bylaws to increase parking fines in the city, and also delay an increase to bus fares. 

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CBC - North (A week ago)

While eligible voters were casting their ballots in the federal election on Monday, some students in Iqaluit also cast a ballot as part of the Civix Student Vote program.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Students in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., returned to a newly-renovated school on Tuesday morning. The renos are part of an ongoing project to improve the 35-year-old Mangilaluk school building.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Mandy Gull-Masty has been elected in Abitibi–Baie-James–Nunavik–Eeyou, making her the first Cree woman to serve as a Member of Parliament for the region.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Whitehorse city council wants to make template building designs available to the public, to combat a permitting backlog.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

As the final polls in Nunavut reported in Tuesday morning, Lori Idlout eked out a narrow victory to secure another term as the territory's NDP MP.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

A recent discovery on the land is raising alarm among hunters in the Northwest Territories, after a Saskatchewan hunter found 16 caribou infected with a parasite, near Rennie Lake, N.W.T. and shared the images online.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

It happened Sunday night on Selkirk Street when RCMP were called to a report of gunshots in the area. 

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Rebecca Alty, the newly elected Liberal MP in the Northwest Territories, says she's looking forward to representing the territory in Ottawa and getting to work. 

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Liberal Brendan Hanley says he felt relieved, excited, and a bit fatigued when he learned the Yukon had re-elected him as their MP – with more than 50 per cent of the vote – on Monday. 

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Brendan Hanley handily won a second term as Yukon's Liberal MP, with all but one of the territory's polls yet to report results.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Liberal Rebecca Alty, the Yellowknife mayor who threw her hat into the race to be the N.W.T.'s next MP, has won a seat in the House of Commons. 

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CBC - North (A week ago)

The N.W.T.'s integrity commissioner is recommending that the Legislative Assembly pay the legal fees of a former nurse who says an MLA's harassment led to her losing her job.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

The City of Yellowknife says the new aquatic centre in Yellowknife will open May 5 and that a grand opening for the $71-million dollar build would be announced in the coming weeks.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Jill Aalhus, the executive director of Blood Ties Four Directions, said a spike in overdoses included some that happened at the supervised consumption site in downtown Whitehorse. Nobody died, but Aalhus said onsite drug testing revealed an unknown substance that has advocates concerned.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

A deadly attack at a Vancouver street festival celebrating Filipino culture has left many Northerners shaken, scared and grieving.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

RCMP say five people – one who has since died – have been charged with kidnapping using a firearm and other weapons-related offences following an incident earlier this month in Whitehorse. 

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

The Nunavut government says it's working on guidelines for employees about using artificial intelligence.  The topic came up Friday during hearings of the Standing Committee on Oversight of Government Operations and Public Accounts. The use of unapproved third-party applications, like WhatsApp, was also discussed. 

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

It's federal election day across Canada. Here's what you need to know to cast your ballot in the North, and watch the results after the polls are closed.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

This week, N.W.T. Premier R.J. Simpson published an open letter arguing that Canada "cannot afford to overlook the Northwest Territories.” He spoke to CBC's Meghan Roberts about that letter, and why he is hopeful that politicians in Ottawa are ready to invest in the territories.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Teslin Tlingit Council youth Grace McLeod, 12, and Dylan Smarch, 11, are heading to Winnipeg, Manitoba in May to receive the 'Imagine a Canada' award for the second time in a row.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

In the past, hamlet food vouchers were funded by the Inuit Child First Initiative. But Ottawa says that program is for temporary relief, and not for 'universal' programs like food vouchers.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Arctic security, reconciliation, housing and food supply are all discussed to varying degrees in party platforms

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Damien Haogak sees the impact of climate change, rising costs of living and the lack of investments in northern infrastructure. The Yellowknife resident is looking for a federal party that sees the value in investing in the Arctic beyond a military presence.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

A Yellowknife jury heard this week from one of the complainants who alleges that former N.W.T. teacher Neil Barry sexually assaulted him in 2009.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Hannah Lafferty hit Germaine Mantla with her father's Ford pickup truck outside a Yellowknife apartment complex in 2022. Mantla later died of his injuries. On Friday, Lafferty was found guilty of dangerous driving causing death.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

More than 7 million Canadians voted at advance polls over Easter weekend, but the Yukon was the only province or territory where the number of advance poll voters decreased from last election.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

N.W.T. doctors say that if the territorial government doesn't take action, there will be closures at the emergency room at Stanton Territorial Hospital this summer.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

From Northern Quebec to the United Nations, Cree youth share insights on Indigenous self-governance at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on April 22 in New York.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Indigenous governments are seeking resolution on land claims. Here's what N.W.T. MP candidates have said so far on how they will approach outstanding claims, resource development and self-governance.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

While federal party leaders have been focusing on Arctic sovereignty in the lead up to the federal election, some Nunavut residents say it has been overshadowing more urgent issues.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

If the mayor's job becomes vacant after federal election day next week, city council has a few possible courses of action.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Police and Manitoba's conservation service are investigating after RCMP say intruders broke into cabins on a remote lodge in northern Manitoba and hunted caribou there during the winter months.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Students at Yellowknife's St. Patrick High School had a chance to meet some of the N.W.T.'s federal election candidates on Thursday and ask questions about things that matter to them, including the cost of living, the drug crisis and community safety.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

The Nunavut Quest, also known as Pangaggujjiniq, is a dog sled race from Pond Inlet to Igloolik that takes place each spring. This year, competitors took eight days to complete the 500-kilometre journey.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

RCMP in Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., say they seized about 261 grams of what they believe is crack cocaine at the community's airport on April 20.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

A skier has been rescued from Auyuittuq National Park near Pangnirtung, Nunavut, after being injured in a polar bear attack early Thursday morning.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Police are investigating after Yukon's NDP candidate Katherine McCallum said she received offensive sexual texts during an online election forum on Wednesday. 

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

In a public health advisory Thursday, the department said the illness — which can be contracted by anyone — is most severe typically in children under a year of age. Whooping cough is a respiratory disease that spreads easily.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Leaders from around the Sahtu region gathered in Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., this week to discuss the impacts of the drug crisis and to work together to find solutions. 

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

In a news release Thursday, police said they were called to the reserve just before midnight Tuesday night after receiving a complaint of people being unlawfully in a residence.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

A Yukon NDP private member's bill, touted by the party as being transformative for the territory's health-care system, passed third reading in the Yukon Legislative Assembly last week.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

In a post on its Facebook page on Wednesday, Yukon Hospitals said Whitehorse General is prioritizing urgent needs and patients may experience delays in undergoing tests and receiving results.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

The NunatuKavut community council says it willing to fight against Memorial University for leaving the group out of its draft Indigenous verification policy. 

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Neil Alexander Barry, now 49, is charged with three counts of sexual assault and three counts of sexual exploitation.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai announced a new first-time home buyers program on Wednesday to help cover the cost of a down payment on a new home.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

A service dog in training is bringing comfort and connection to Fort Smith residents. JJ the English lab, visits care homes, classrooms and other organizations.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

A northern review board has ordered an environmental assessment of Imperial Oil's plan to eventually shut down and clean up its operation at Norman Wells.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Poll workers in Dawson City, Yukon had to get creative to ensure all residents had the opportunity to vote after the ice bridge connecting West Dawson to the main townsite closed early this season.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

A fire at the Yellowknife landfill Tuesday was likely caused by electronics that weren't disposed of correctly, according to the city.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

A volunteer-run boxing gym in Délı̨nę, N.W.T. is helping some youth in the community get active, grow their confidence, and improve their mental health.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Water levels across the Northwest Territories this spring are lower than average and while flood risks are average to low, the territory's Department of Environment and Climate Change says communities still need to be prepared.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

The N.W.T. government shipped more than 9.6 million litres of fuel up winter roads to eight communities this past winter, in part to make up for the lack of barge shipments last year.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Reconciliation is an important issue in the upcoming election for some N.W.T. voters who say they want the next federal government to protect and advance Indigenous rights.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

"We've really seen an increase in misinformation about substance use and harm reduction and the toxic drug crisis kind of across the country,” Jill Aalhus, the executive director of Blood Ties Four Directions, said in an interview this month. 

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Four federal candidates, all vying for N.W.T.'s lone seat in Ottawa, speak about their goals at an election forum hosted by CBC News' Hilary Bird.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

The MLA for the Mackenzie Delta in the N.W.T. will be taking a leave of absence for a nine-week treatment program in Victoria, B.C., in the wake of a March 16 incident in Fort McPherson where he was charged with impaired driving.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

The estimated population growth in Yellowknife over the last decade varies depending on who you ask — and it could affect how the city makes planning decisions.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Transportation and logistical issues are behind the delay in getting much-needed portable school classrooms to Colville Lake, N.W.T., according to the territorial government. 

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

From Old Crow to Watson Lake, the Yukon has been in the midst of what some advocates have described as a housing crisis for years now, with the most recent data from the Yukon Bureau of Statistics indicating a vacancy rate of just more than one per cent.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

The cost of living is a concern for many N.W.T. community organizations and they want to know how candidates running to be the territory's next MP intend to address it.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

An exhibit titled My Big Bougie Beaded* Earrings is the first at the Hudę Njú Kú gallery in the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre from new curator Teagyn Vallevand.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Some young people in Yukon don't see why they have to wait so long to be old enough to vote.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Police said Thursday that 26-year-old Skye Dick of Ross River had been injured "reportedly from an incident involving a motor vehicle," and that she died from her injuries.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew and Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok have signed a memorandum to work together on a proposed hydroelectric and fibre optic project and ask Ottawa for capital funding.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

The Yukon health department says it's trying to fix the staff shortage and avoid a closure, possibly with a reduction in service hours instead of a full-blown shutdown.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Zein Michkaeel Gova pleaded guilty in N.W.T. Supreme Court earlier this week to the possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking and to illegally carrying a loaded semi-automatic pistol.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Here's what federal candidates have to say about their promises if elected to represent the Abitibi-Baie James-Nunavik-Eeyou riding, and more specifically, Eeyou Istchee. 

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

"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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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Jody Bräul is used to travelling over the U.S. border for ski and hiking trips with friends, but now they wonder if the gender-neutral marker on their passport could be problematic.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Justice Annie Piché said preventing Frederick Blake Jr. from acting as grand chief could cause uncertainty to the Gwich'in participants. 

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