Bailey Moreton

Bailey is new to the north, arriving from Ottawa where he studied journalism at Carleton University. He has worked for newspapers in Halifax, Windsor, and Ottawa. He came to the north hoping to see polar bears. He will settle for a bison. If you have a tip, send it to 905 252-9781, or [email protected].

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YKDFN calls for apology and compensation for Giant Mine

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Listen here: You can’t tell the story of Yellowknife without telling the story of the Indigenous groups who lived here before settlers arrived. And you can’t tell the story of the...

Michael Fatt

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Michael Fatt arrived in Yellowknife in 2008. He moved into a tent behind the legislative assembly.  Fatt would spend six years living homeless in Yellowknife, moving around between different locations. “I did...

Tawna Brown — Globe-trotting photographer

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Listen here: COVID-19 has disrupted many things this year. Travel has been one of the aspects of life most heavily impacted by the pandemic, with many countries shutting down their borders...

Sarah Kalnay-Watson — Yellowknifer on set

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Listen here: If you’re hoping to make it in the movie industry, most people would probably head for the glitz and glamour of New York or Los Angeles. But one Yellowknifer...

Ronan Seeley – Yellowknifer in the NHL

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Considering he'd been working towards it for most of his life, draft night for a Yellowknife native Ronan Seeley looked remarkably low key.  Ronan wasn't even watching at the time...

Ryan Shank – ‘The Colonel Sanders of the North’

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Lots of people have taken up new projects during the pandemic. Ryan Shanks' project earned him the nickname ‘The Colonel Sanders of the North.’  “I've lived here in town for about...

Marcel Marin – Yellowknife musher

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Listen here: Marcel Marin is a local musher who's trying to keep dog sledding going in the territory, even amid COVID-19. Marin is one of the organizers of the Underdog 100,...

Tough times in the skies

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The pandemic has had devastating impacts on a number of businesses. Especially airlines, who have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic, leading to NWT flights being impacted. Air Canada announced...

Dettah COVID-19 vaccine clinic

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Listen here: “We have a population where housing is an issue, and where families live, very close-knit and in close-quarters....

‘We have to just hope’: Hawa Dumbaya-Sesay

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The NWT YWCA has sounded the alarm about the lack of affordable housing in Yellowknife and elsewhere in the...

Jamie Bastedo – Changing the climate conversation

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Listen here: Climate change? Remember that? 2019’s looming world disaster is still a major threat, despite the focus in the news...

Gastown expanding during a pandemic

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Listen here: Most businesses are facing tough times at the moment, making cutbacks or closing all together. Few are expanding their...

Yellowknife celebrates Lantern Festival

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Listen here: February 12 marks the beginning of festivities for Chinese New Year. There are several events happening in Yellowknife throughout...

Online taxi survey surveys YK residents

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Listen here: The Status of Women Council has launched an online survey, asking Yellowknife residents to report incidents of harassment...

Allan Code — filming a Pandemic at the End of the World

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Listen here: Pandemics on the kind of scale seen with COVID-19 seem like a rarity.  But they are all too common...

Fighting Covid – Big River Service Centre

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Ice-road truckers who are supposed to be isolating have been trying to enter the Big River Service Centre. The gas...
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GNWT releases Tourism 2030 strategy

Northwest Territories
The Government of the Northwest Territories has released Tourism 2030: Sustainable Journeys Ahead, a new five-year strategy to help grow and support the territory’s tourism sector.

GNWT apologizes for 2022 raid of Lutselk’e cultural camp

Northwest Territories
GNWT issued an apology on behalf of the territorial government to the Lutselk'e Dene First Nation for a raid at a camp at Artillery Lake back in 2022. Simpson said that a review of the conduct of wildlife officers is ongoing. Four years ago, the community was subject to what Elders and community members described as a "traumatic" raid by wildlife officers for allegedly harvesting caribou considered off limits in the zone. The search warrant was later deemed unlawful in N.W.T.’s superior court.

Feds, GNWT say affordable, accessible housing in works for Northerners

Northwest Territories
Inuvik’s Blueberry patch will be the site of much needed affordable and accessible housing units. Plans for the new social housing development include 40 units. Monique M. LaPlante, with Canada Mortgage and Housing, reported that the common areas will be barrier free, and 35 per cent of units will be accessible. Minister Rebecca Alty and Minister Lucy Kuptana reported the new housing project was launched as part of a $19 million collaboration between the federal and territorial government.