GNWT shares pictures from Indigenous Language courses

Environment Canada has issued an orange warning for air quality for Norman Wells and the Tulita Region, due to wildfire smoke. “Wildfire smoke is causing very poor air quality and reduced visibility,” warned the federal agency in an advisory issued Tuesday evening. Environment Canada has issued an orange warning for air quality for Norman Wells and the Tulita Region, due to wildfire smoke. On June 23, the federal agency also issued a heat alert for a number of areas in the N.W.T. 

Being able to share a futuristic vision with people in the N.W.T. and beyond continues to be an important segway in his journey says artist Morgan Zoe.“No one was doing this back then, because there was no AI back then in 2019. No one was combining sci-fi tropes with Indigenous aesthetics and themes, specifically, Northern Dene culture futurism and cyberpunk,” said Zoe. After December 2020, the artist began “putting pen to paper” creating the series.

Housing NWT celebrated a major milestone in the construction of the new 50‑unit social housing multi-plex in downtown Yellowknife, holding a “topping out ceremony” to commemorate the placing of the final beam on the building’s roof structure.

A ceremony was held this past Saturday to celebrate the renaming of Yellowknife’s main street to Wıìlıìdeh Avenue.

Crown Indigenous Relations Minister Minister Rebecca Alty says negotiations are about to begin with the North Slave Metis Alliance on potential agreements on land, resources and self-government. “We will begin negotiations this week with the North Slave Métis,” said Minister Alty at an event this weekend in Yellowknife celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day.