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What it's like self-isolating at a Yellowknife hotel
Catherine Pigott is a TV producer with CBC North. She recently self-isolated at a Yellowknife hotel, an option for N.W.T. residents due to the COVID-19 pandemic border restrictions, and wrote about her experience.
'I've never felt so at home': Tom Power, host of CBC's q, hosts Nunavut Music Week
q host Tom Power calls his first visit to Iqaluit for Nunavut Music Week 'transformative,' and says the Iqaluit music scene 'stacks up against anything happening in North America right now.'
Bell, Northwestel announce funding for new suicide prevention program
Two major telecommunications companies have announced funding to bring a new mental health program to Nunavut that trains people to recognize when someone is having suicidal thoughts, and offer help.
Nunavut Arctic College apologizes for last-minute cancellation of Inuit Studies course
Nunavut Arctic College’s board of directors has apologized to students in the Inuit Studies program for not notifying them their program was cancelled until after they returned from Christmas break.
Remembering Jojo: Dene man loved life, music, bingo and Behchoko, N.W.T.
Joseph Jean Washie, better known as Jojo, was a fixture at every dance and bingo game in Behchoko. Born with Down syndrome, Jojo lived life on his own terms in a community that loved and protected him.
Yellowknife author debuts memoir two decades in the making
Yellowknife author Laurie Sarkadi's memoir Voice in the Wild, written over more than two decades, launches this weekend.
Vote down Education Act changes, Nunavut Tunngavik tells MLAs
Nunavut's land claims organization is calling on the legislative assembly to reject controversial changes to the territory's education act, saying the amendments violate Inuit rights to control their own education system.