No apology from the Pope on residential schools

“I was homeless and struggling so much and ended up in a shelter. I had lots of jobs, I could just never keep them because I didn't have the skills to keep them so it took a long journey and fortunately I had people to help me through."

According to data collected by four Canadian universities for the Food Price Report, families across the country will spend an additional 4 to 6 per cent on food costs this year. Researchers from Dalhousie University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Guelf, found food prices in the Northern territories are two to four times even higher compared to prices in urban cities of the south.

Police in Hay River say that an Indigenous man is missing from the community and are asking the public for assistance to locate him.

The GNWT is reducing office hours including at the department of Education, Culture and Employment in the North Slave Regional and Community Service Centres in Yellowknife and Behchokǫ̀. While officials with the department say the reduced hours are currently temporary, they added it may become permanent.

The GNWT is considering whether to submit an official bid for the 2035 Winter Olympic Games, currently estimated to require an investment of $30 million.