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12 million more trees to be planted on Tłı̨chǫ lands following $53M investment
The Tłı̨chǫ and federal governments announced a deal to plant 12 million trees over the next seven years in N.W.T., from locally-harvested seeds. Canada is putting nearly $45 million into the project while the Tłı̨chǫ government is pitching in more than $8 million.
Feds boost spending on northern military hubs to $2.67B, announce locations for 3 of them
The federal government is increasing the amount of money it’s spending to build a network of northern military hubs to$2.67 billion. It also announced Thursday the first hubs would be in Iqaluit, Yellowknife and Inuvik.
Auditor general 'disappointed' by Nunavut's lack of progress to protect children and youth
A new report from the auditor general of Canada finds that Nunavut's Department of Family Services has made initial steps to fix the service it provides to youth and children, but the changes haven't been big enough to make much of a difference.
Grocers say prices in some northern communities protected from tariffs, for now
Two grocery chains that serve the North say stores in remote communities that rely on large, infrequent shipments of goods are shielded from the effects of Canadian counter-tariffs – at least, for now.
Northern premiers announce plans to protect their economies as U.S. trade war begins
Canada's three northern premiers have announced measures to protect their territory's economies amidst a trade war with the United States.
Aurora College agrees to end deal that reserved Yellowknife's Tin Can Hill for campus
Yellowknife City Council is poised to terminate an agreement that reserves Tin Can Hill for the construction of polytechnic university campus — and Aurora College says it's fine with that.
'Our children are not artifacts': N.W.T. First Nation says efforts to find gravesites hampered by permit
The chief of Deninu Kųę́ First Nation says a territorial permit holding up his community’s effort to unearth unmarked graves erroneously calls children who died at residential school “archaeological artifacts."
North West Company accused of holding on to subsidy money in proposed class-action suit
A statement of claim filed before the Court of King’s Bench in Manitoba earlier this month calls the multinational Canadian grocery company with stores in northern Canada “outrageous” and “predatory” for not passing 100 per cent of a federal subsidy on to consumers like it’s supposed to.
Fire at Yellowknife landfill extinguished, says city
A city spokesperson said the subsurface fire in a cell containing construction and demolition waste had been put out and that the solid waste facility has now returned to regular hours.
3 MLAs pitch idea of voting bloc as way to be taken more seriously by N.W.T. cabinet
Kieron Testart, the MLA for Range Lake, pitched the idea of forming a voting bloc to other regular MLAs during a media conference on Thursday. He said it was a way to get things done more quickly and hailed it as a way to "save consensus government."