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].

Author Archive

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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Minister Caroline Wawzonek speaks about Northern infrastructure investments

Northwest Territories
Caroline Wawzonek, Minister of Finance and Minister of Strategic Infrastructure, Energy and Supply Chains, has released a statement on the infrastructure investments in the North announced earlier this month.  

Hay River conducting public survey on impacts of climate change

Town of Hay River
The town of Hay River is conducting a public survey on the impacts of climate change as part of their Climate Adaption Plan. The plan will focus on how climate change is affecting people in town, what actions and priorities are identified as important and will gauge how concerned people are about it.

Investigators interviewing witnesses in Yellowknife after 35-year-old dies in custody

Northwest Territories
Saskatchewan RCMP report that they are currently interviewing witnesses and collecting evidence after a 35-year-old man from Nunavut was found dead less than three hours after being taken into custody on Thursday. A team from Sask. has been deployed to Yellowknife to conduct the investigation as an independent agency.

Freezing of chambers at Yellowknife’s Giant Mine to begin this summer

Northwest Territories
The Giant Mine remediation project team says thermosyphons are going to be installed at the underground chambers this summer. Currently, 237,000 tons of arsenic remain stored in the chambers on site. Crews are finishing internal work inside the new water treatment plant at Giant Mine. Commissioning activities are scheduled to start later this year and full operation of the new water is scheduled to begin in 2027.

Housing NWT completes hybrid housing project in Délı̨nę

Northwest Territories
Housing NWT has completed a hybrid housing project, bringing two new duplexes to Délı̨nę, bringing four new social housing spaces to the community. Their hope is that this hybrid construction pilot project can help pioneer new approaches to expanding housing in Northern communities.