Canada: North

CBC - North (3 hours 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 (5 hours 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 (8 hours 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 (9 hours 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 (11 hours 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 (12 hours 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 (14 hours 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 (14 hours 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 (15 hours 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 (17 hours 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 (A day 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 (A day 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 (A day 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 (A day 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 (A day 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 (A day 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 (A day 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 (A day 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 (3 days 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 (3 days 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 (3 days 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 (3 days 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 (3 days 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 (3 days 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 (4 days 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 (4 days 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 (5 days 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 (5 days 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 (6 days 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 (6 days 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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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CBC - North (A week ago)

Whitehorse transit fares are likely going to be increased incrementally, thanks to an unexpected funding boost from the territorial government.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

The fate of an Inuvik man serving a nine-year prison sentence is now in the hands of three Northwest Territories Court of Appeal judges.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

The government of Nunavut announced the opening of the new Chesterfield Inlet air terminal building on Wednesday.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

CBC Yukon hosted a federal election forum on Tuesday for candidates running to be the Yukon's next MP.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Whether they live in larger centres like Yellowknife or smaller communities like Fort Smith and Inuvik, many N.W.T. voters say they want candidates to be accountable and connected to the challenges Northerners face.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Some households in Puvirnituq, Que., haven't received water delivery for days on end, and the mayor said the village is having to crowd-source from local businesses and organizations for help to get delivery trucks and drivers.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

More than 100 people gathered for a screening of an Oscar-winning documentary at the Capitol Theatre in Yellowknife on Monday. The film, No Other Land, was shown by YK Citizens for Ceasefire, a local group calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

The City of Whitehorse is in the middle of updating its traffic bylaw to increase fines – including parking fines. On Monday, councillors debated how much those fines should go up.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Mildred Hall School was put into lockdown on Tuesday while Yellowknife RCMP responded to a report that a student uttered a threat with a knife. 

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CBC - North (A week ago)

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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CBC - North (A week ago)

With less than two weeks left in this federal election campaign, some Yukoners feel that Indigenous issues have been missing from the conversation.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Complaints about drug use, public urination, noise and other problems have been circulating since the non-profit Connective took over operation of the shelter in 2022.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

In the $1-million category, there are two projects from Nunavut, one from the N.W.T., one from the Yukon and one that spans Nunavut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Const. Cole Williams of the Whitehorse RCMP must quit his job in the coming days — or get fired — after sexually assaulting a colleague in 2022, the force's conduct board has ruled. 

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CBC - North (A week ago)

An announcement from the territory's new Department of Transportation and Infrastructure says the spill happened on April 4 while a fuel delivery truck was being filled, and that it was the result of human error.

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CBC - North (A week ago)

Eight mushers started the Nunavut Quest dog sled race on Tuesday – a journey from Pond Inlet to Igloolik that's expected to take them each a week to complete. 

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

A report presented to the village's council recently said the volunteer fire chief position has been vacant since 2022 and it does not appear anyone in the fire department wants to take the job under current conditions — but it does offer a solution.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

The CRTC is looking to implement an internet service subsidy in Canada's North but who will be eligible and how much the subsidy will be worth are still being decided.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

In a committee meeting on Monday, several Yellowknife city councillors expressed their support for expanding the Kam Lake light industrial area. Councillors heard the results of a public engagement and a market study about the expansion.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Crown and defence lawyers have recommended a five-year prison sentence for a 21-year-old Edmonton man who came to Yellowknife to sell cocaine and brought a handgun along with him.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

The RCMP and the minister of health in Nunavut are figuring out how to respond to 32 recommendations that emerged from a recent coroner's inquest in Kimmiruit – a days-long hearing for which they both say they're thankful. 

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Buffalo Sabres team apparel is no longer the hot commodity it once was in the Yukon. That's because local hockey star Dylan Cozens has been traded away.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

A hands-on welding program in Fort Smith, N.W.T., is helping Indigenous women gain skills, confidence, and a new sense of direction.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

New rules mean that restricted pets in the Yukon needed permits as of April 5 to be in compliance with territorial regulations – but some pet owners say they had no idea.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Sunday is the last day the Ruth Inch Memorial Pool will be open. It's a place where Yellowknifers have been able to swim, soak and steam for nearly 37 years.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

David Leitch, a teacher at the local school, said parents and students wanted to do more with the Inuinnaqtun language, and together they came up with the idea to create a simple translation app. 

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Some residents in Whitehorse's Takhini neighbourhood are not convinced the new École Whitehorse Elementary School won't seriously affect traffic in the area, despite proposed mitigations laid out in a recent traffic impact assessment.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

The Mackenzie Valley Environment Impact Review board accepted the Pehdzéh Kı̨ First Nation's request for confidentiality to simultaneously protect Indigenous knowledge and ensure project routing impacts can be heard.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

On Thursday, final submissions began in the trial of Erich Rauguth. Rauguth is charged with failing to provide a breath sample after being involved in a fatal vehicle collision in Dawson City, Yukon, in 2023.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

The Green Party's federal candidate for the Northwest Territories is appealing to the Supreme Court of Canada after being handed a 51-day jail sentence by the B.C. Court of Appeal this week.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

The failure, which caused a partial power outage, happened shortly after representatives from the Yukon Energy Corporation and Yukon Development Corporation started taking questions from politicians in the assembly Wednesday afternoon. 

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

People in Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., had the opportunity this week to share their feelings about the proposed Mackenzie Valley Highway project — both good and bad.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

NTPC says the increase is needed to cover rising fuel prices, inflation, and major capital costs, including the Taltson Hydro Overhaul Project.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Three of the four candidates running to be the MP for Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou spoke to CBC about their priorities.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Yukon Energy says it's still committed to developing more renewable energy — but says that in the short term, the territory needs more capacity to burn fossil fuels.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Many media outlets around the world reported Camilla Hempleman-Adams as the first woman to trek solo across Baffin Island, causing outrage among some Nunavummiut.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

The Yukon government buys food for government-run facilities such as hospitals, schools, jails and continuing care homes. Some local farmers wish more of that business would come their way.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

The N.W.T. is expected to put forward three legislative proposals to tackle crime and allow expedited evictions, but a lawyer and civil rights groups say similar legislation has been deemed unconstitutional.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

A Yellowknife woman says she is out $26,000 due to a cryptocurrency scam that involved a fake news story. 

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Nikita Paziuk says that when she lost the contract to run the liquor store in Fort Smith, N.W.T., the territory kept her in the dark about it until late last month — days before the new operators were set to take over.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

The town of Inuvik, N.W.T., is cleaning up some derelict lots by purchasing them and developing them for sale.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

An independent report examining how the Northwest Territories government responded to the catastrophic 2023 wildfires won't be made public until later this spring — months after it was originally expected. 

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

For some Yukon voters, it's become a central concern as they decide how to cast their ballots in the federal election this month: who will fight to protect the territory against threats to the Arctic?

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Searchers in Inuvik went out on trails by snowmobile, while others went door-to-door, Tuesday morning to search for signs of Lance Briere. Two private investigators have also joined the efforts.

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

Ted Blondin, a well-known Tłı̨chǫ elder in the N.W.T., is being remembered as a kind and loving family man, a jokester, and a land-claim negotiator who leaves behind a "really big legacy.” 

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

The Yukon government has purchased a former pet store next door to the Whitehorse emergency shelter and will have an NGO run support services from the property — though details, for now, are scarce. 

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CBC - North (2 weeks ago)

In an email to CBC News, Keewatin Air president Ryan DeGroot said a Beechcraft King Air 200 "experienced a landing gear malfunction on arrival at Yellowknife airport." 

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

The executive director of the N.W.T. and Nunavut Chamber of Mines says easing property taxes is one way the N.W.T. government could support the territory's struggling diamond mines.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Over the last couple of years, the N.W.T. has seen an increase in dental travel to Yellowknife. The territory's health minister says its unlikely to slow down anytime soon.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

It was shaping up to be a busy spring weekend for businesses and events in Yellowknife, until a power outage shut almost everything down on Saturday afternoon.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

The federal election campaign is gradually ramping up in the Yukon, with candidates holding events, knocking on doors, putting up signs and otherwise trying to increase their visibility. 

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

The N.W.T. government has asked the Canadian Transportation Agency for adjudication on CN Rail's decision to not fix its damaged rail line between Hay River and Enterprise, saying the company has a legal obligation to keep the line functional.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Dawson City, Yukon's annual ice bridge is now closed to the public. Rain and warm temperatures over the weekend have created unsafe conditions for travelers, the territory says.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Ilitaqsiniq, an organization that serves as a literacy council and cultural program provider in the territory, organized the multi-day workshop, with instructors from Rankin Inlet and Coral Harbour.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Accessing inpatient addiction treatment in the North can take months, a delay that two Fort Smith, N.W.T., women say is costing lives. They are calling for a permanent, culturally-grounded treatment centre built in the N.W.T.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Brenda Schofield and Mervin Chicksi discovered they were half-cousins in 2023 after submitting their DNA to an ancestry website. Schofield visited the North for the second time late last month.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Northwestel says it upgraded its security software as the company deals with the growing issue of phishing and spoofing scams.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

A broken breaker at a power distribution substation caused Saturday's extended power outage in Yellowknife, Naka Power says.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

The federal election is just a few weeks away, and CBC Yukon has been talking to voters and asking what matters to them and what they want to hear from their candidates.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Youth and young adult take on the Cree Regional Youth Winter Journey, where they walk from Waskaganish on March 18, to arrive in Eastmain on March 25.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

The recommendation comes after a week of witness testimony at the coroner's inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Kimmirut resident George Arlooktoo, who stabbed himself during a confrontation with RCMP officers on Feb. 9, 2019. 

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Bill 310 would give the Yukon Medical Association (YMA) representational rights, making it the sole bargaining agent for doctors on matters of compensation. The legislation would also establish dispute resolution and binding arbitration for doctors.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Police in Fort Smith, N.W.T. have charged two Alberta men with drug trafficking after finding 311 grams of "suspected cocaine" after executing a search warrant in the community.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Camilla Hempleman-Adams has made international headlines with her claims of being the first solo woman to trek across Baffin Island — but Inuit question that.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Imperial Oil has asked the Mackenzie Valley Review Board to initiate a third environmental assessment related to its oilfield in Norman Wells, N.W.T. – this time, for its nearing closure.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

The city this past week started another year of actively monitoring the slope, using radar scanners, groundwater data, and other methods.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

A lithium exploration company working in the N.W.T. says getting a mine ready for production could be anywhere from six to eight years away – but already, it's evaluating how it would get the material refined and battery ready without relying on China. 

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai said on Thursday that the territorial government was ending rebates for Tesla products, cancelling some of its Starlink accounts, and quitting the social media platform, X.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

All the N.W.T.'s major diamond mines are reporting millions of dollars in losses from last year as they face inflationary costs and slumping diamond prices. 

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Dene counsellors Roy and Jean Erasmus say a new healing lodge will offer cultural immersion, and healing for grief and traumas to promote wellness for people and families in Indigenous communities.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

The dog attacked other dogs in the community and was put down on Monday, health officials said.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

An iconic pet reindeer beloved by many in Alaska's largest city has been euthanized, just weeks after someone tampered with his cage and possibly poisoned him, his caretaker said Wednesday.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

The Whitehorse hospital will begin a return to its regular surgery schedule next week, after more than two months of disruptions because of problems with equipment sterilization.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

City officials say only Northview Residential REIT, the owner of Sunridge Apartments in Yellowknife, can authorize residents to return, following a fire that displaced people from the 25-unit complex. 

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Over the past five years, the Yukon has consistently had the highest job vacancy rate in the country, according to the report. 

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Both prosecutor and defence agree that Noel Avadluk, who was declared a dangerous offender and sentenced in 2017 to remain in prison indefinitely, should be released in a little more than two years.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Myles Cane and his three kids had driven down to Edmonton for a hockey tournament over the weekend. They reached their hotel around 8 p.m. Friday and 20 minutes later – the family's beloved 2005 Ford Excursion was gone.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

The Yukon government says compromise — ensuring harvest opportunities while reining in others, to conserve animal populations like deer — is front and centre to its new hunting and fishing rules.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

The Yukon's new rules for rental properties aim to strike a "fair balance between tenants and landlords," but voices on both sides of the issue say they don't feel empowered by the changes.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

A whooping cough outbreak in Igloolik, Nunavut, has ended about three and a half months after it started, according to the territory's health department. 

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

RCMP in Whitehorse are looking for witnesses after a collision between an RCMP SUV and a cyclist on Tuesday in the city's downtown.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

MLAs appear ready to summon representatives of the Victoria Gold receiver to answer questions at the Yukon's Legislative Assembly, just as an Ontario court approved the company's request to increase its borrowing limit.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

A formerly stray dog named Jackie bolted into the forest on the first day in her new home in Juneau, Alaska, after being rescued from an overburdened shelter in Los Angeles County, where she faced possible euthanasia.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Federal Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault was in Whitehorse on Monday, pitching a plan to build a 120,000-person national civil defence corps., and expand Canada's reserve forces.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Crystal Linklater was removed from her role as a Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation councillor last week. It comes after council called on Linklater to resign in January.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

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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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

The family of an Inuvik, N.W.T., man who's not been seen for almost two months is still hopeful that he'll be found. Lance Briere, 32, was last seen in Inuvik on Feb. 8.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

The Oakville Hornets U15 girls hockey team hosted the Rankin Rock for a week of celebrating sport and building cultural connections.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Here's who's running this month for Nunavut's only seat in the House of Commons.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

The Yukon Medical Association (YMA) is pushing for changes to how doctors in the territory negotiate contracts with the government, saying the current system is creating "discord and fragmentation" in the health-care system.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

Two more people from the Northwest Territories have now been charged following an alleged shooting in Fort Resolution last week, according to the RCMP.

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CBC - North (3 weeks ago)

The Taltson hydro facility is finally back online — nearly two years after it was shut down for a big overhaul project, and now costing a total of $115 million – according to the Northwest Territories Power Corporation (NTPC).

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CBC - North (4 weeks ago)

The Steensby port and rail project was approved in 2012. But Inuit hunters believe environmental conditions, and the climate, have changed a lot since then. They're calling for an environmental reassessment before the project can commence.

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CBC - North (4 weeks ago)

A week-long coroner's inquest looking into the death George Arlooktoo, 28 began in Kimmirut, Nunavut on Monday. 

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CBC - North (4 weeks ago)

Canada's northern affairs minister signed off on the Sahtú Land and Water Board's recommendation that Imperial Oil be given a temporary licence for its operation in Norman Wells, N.W.T.

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CBC - North (4 weeks ago)

N.W.T. Premier R.J. Simpson says the new minister responsible for strategic infrastructure, energy and supply chains will focus on projects such as the Mackenzie Valley Highway and the Taltson hydroelectric expansion.

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CBC - North (4 weeks ago)

Singer-songwriter Elisapie won the adult alternative album of the year category for Inuktitut while Deantha Edmunds, an opera singer, won classical composition of the year for her piece, Angmalukisaa. 

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