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Young and determined - Northern News Services (subscription)
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Young and determined
Northern News Services (subscription)
The NWT Mine Training Society is rolling out a new workshop aimed at guiding people into a job in the mining sector. Two teams that bounced back from losing their opening games faced off in the finals of the Fort Simpson Merchant's Mixed Bonspiel, ...
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There is a history of arrests involving Ecstasy seizures in the NWT, and two deaths in the territory have been linked to the drug since 2010, said Heron. RCMP Insp. Dave Elliott told city councillors last week that officers have encountered few ...
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Chamber of Mines against Ramparts park protection - Slave River Journal
Slave River Journal
Chamber of Mines against Ramparts park protection
Slave River Journal
By MEAGAN WOHLBERG, SRJ Reporter As the Ramparts region in the Sahtu comes one step closer to being permanently designated a protected National Wildlife Area, the NWT Chamber of Mines is pushing hard for the tract of land to stay open for future oil, ...
Climate change increasing Canada's boreal forest mortality reducing carbon ... - Bay Area Indymedia
Bay Area Indymedia
Climate change increasing Canada's boreal forest mortality reducing carbon ...
Bay Area Indymedia
It teems with wildlife—including billions of migratory songbirds, tens of millions of ducks and geese, and millions of caribou. The Canadian boreal is an irreplaceable global treasure. Climatic warming has affected forests ecosystems around the world ...
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Yellowknife athletes go for glory - Northern News Services (subscription)
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Yellowknife athletes go for glory
Northern News Services (subscription)
Athletes from across the NWT competed this past weekend in hopes of making the roster to represent Team NWT at the 2012 Arctic Winter Games in Whitehorse from March 4 to 10. Natisha Drygeese of Ndilo takes a practice shot in the Dene games snow snake ...
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A Vast Canadian Wilderness Poised for a Uranium Boom - Yale Environment 360
A Vast Canadian Wilderness Poised for a Uranium Boom
Yale Environment 360
It also contains large deposits of uranium, generating intense interest from mining companies and raising concerns that a mining boom could harm the caribou at the center of Inuit life. by ed struzik Until her semi-nomadic family moved into the tiny ...
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Pipeline will not cross Dene Nations land, elders vow - CANOE
Pipeline will not cross Dene Nations land, elders vow
CANOE
The Dene Nation is made up of more than 30 bands spread across northern Alberta, BC, and the Northwest Territories. Nearly a dozen band members signed onto the “Save The Fraser” declaration Friday, pledging to protect the Dene water and lands from ...
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No commitment on caribou tags - Northern News Services (subscription)
No commitment on caribou tags
Northern News Services (subscription)
Members of the NWT Wildlife Federation who were expecting a government response to their pleas to reinstate residential hunting tags for caribou went home disappointed last weekend. Cash might be short in Northland Trailer Park these days but that ...
No commitment on caribou tags - Northern News Services (subscription)
No commitment on caribou tags
Northern News Services (subscription)
Members of the NWT Wildlife Federation who were expecting a government response to their pleas to reinstate residential hunting tags for caribou went home disappointed last weekend. The federation held its annual general meeting (AGM) Saturday at the ...
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Trout Lake seeks to protect culturally important area - Northern News Services (subscription)
Northern News Services (subscription)
Trout Lake seeks to protect culturally important area
Northern News Services (subscription)
The community is currently moving the Sambaa K'e candidate protected area through the Northwest Territories Protected Areas Strategy. - map courtesy of the Northwest Territories Protected Areas Strategy Since 2004, the community has been using the ...
NWT minister hopes to reintroduce wildlife act - CBC.ca
NWT minister hopes to reintroduce wildlife act
CBC.ca
The Northwest Territories' Environment and Natural Resources Minister said he hopes to reintroduce the embattled Wildlife Act changes to the legislature this fall. Michael Miltenberger withdrew the bill in the summer after last-ditch efforts to get it ...
Hill Dispatches: Can First Nations become subjects rather than objects? - rabble.ca (blog)
Hill Dispatches: Can First Nations become subjects rather than objects?
rabble.ca (blog)
By Karl Nerenberg The scene is the Mid-Way Lake Music Festival, in the Northwest Territories (NWT). We're just off a remote stretch of the Dempster Highway, north of the Arctic Circle, in the territory of the Peel River, or Tetlit, Gw'i'chin people.
Don't turn NWT Ramparts into park, says chamber of mines - CBC.ca
CBC.ca
Don't turn NWT Ramparts into park, says chamber of mines
CBC.ca
(NWT Protected Areas Strategy) The NWT and Nunavut Chamber of Mines said making the Ramparts region of the Northwest Territories into a wildlife area could hurt the NWT's resources sector. The territory is considering turning a 10000 square kilometre ...
GNWT, Tlicho talk devolution - Northern News Services (subscription)
GNWT, Tlicho talk devolution
Northern News Services (subscription)
"I think it was historic because the Tlicho are the first aboriginal government in the Northwest Territories to have settled both their land claim and also to have a self-government agreement," Premier Bob McLeod said of the meeting.
Arctic Council needs tweaking, not an overhaul: ICC - Nunatsiaq News
Nunatsiaq News
Arctic Council needs tweaking, not an overhaul: ICC
Nunatsiaq News
She and fellow panelist, Kirt Ejesiak of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (Canada) both credit the council for allowing for direct input of its indigenous members. (PHOTO BY MEGAN HARRISON/GORDON FOUNDATION) The Arctic Council needs tweaking, ...
Fishing for answers on salmon in the Mackenzie - Slave River Journal
Slave River Journal
Fishing for answers on salmon in the Mackenzie
Slave River Journal
Anyone who catches a salmon in the Northwest Territories is encouraged to return the fish (or just its head, if the fisher chooses to eat the salmon) along with the catch date and location for a reward: a $50 gift card for Northern Store for the whole ...
Waterton Park has new superintendent - Lethbridge Herald
Waterton Park has new superintendent
Lethbridge Herald
"There's grizzly bears and wolves there, but they also have these huge herds of caribou . . . and polar bears, and other marine mammals, the whales and stuff like that." "You get these incredible 24 hour days of sunlight because we're well above the ...
Arctic Winter Games needs 700 more volunteers - CBC.ca
CBC.ca
Arctic Winter Games needs 700 more volunteers
CBC.ca
Five facts about the Arctic Winter Games The participating teams are Yukon, NWT, Nunavut, Nunavik, Northern Alberta, Alaska, Greenland, Saami (Finland, Norway and Sweden), and Yamal (Russia) The first games were held in Yellowknife in 1970 There are 19 ...
Government of Canada Supports the 2012 Arctic Winter GamesMarketWatch (press release)
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Government of Canada Supports the 2012 Arctic Winter Games - MarketWatch (press release)
Government of Canada Supports the 2012 Arctic Winter Games
MarketWatch (press release)
Competing teams will come from all across the circumpolar world including Canada (Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon, Northern Alberta and Northern Quebec), Greenland, Russia (Yamal), the Sapmi region (Norway, Sweden, Finland), and the USA (Alaska). ...
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Questions raised ahead of caribou herd count - Northern News Services (subscription)
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Questions raised ahead of caribou herd count
Northern News Services (subscription)
This year could be a pivotal one for caribou hunters as the government prepares to perform a new population survey on the Bathurst herd this summer. Former Yellowknives Dene leader Fred Sangris, says "All the caribou biologists should be living on the ...
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