It is time.

kneecap's response to being banned from Canada.

Report: At this point we are just trying to figure who Canadian Parliament WON'T give a standing ovation to

“A new report says there are reasonable grounds to conclude that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out since the start of the war with Hamas in 2023” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sad to be missing this. cabinradio.ca/255657/news/...

I love a man with a silly moustache, I fear.

I would encourage anyone who has filed an access to information request in the NWT to fill out this survey before Sept 29 as the GNWT is reviewing the territory’s ATIPP Act. haveyoursay.nwt-tno.ca/atipp-review

Nearly one year ago, a coroner's inquest issued 11 recommendations to prevent future in-custody deaths of intoxicated people, particularly in Tuktoyaktuk, which has no ambulance service nor sobering centre. I asked the RCMP and GNWT what they have done since. cabinradio.ca/257333/news/...

I would let the farmer from the Fisher-Price farm set ruin my life.

Disappointed, once again, by unethical media practices and reporters taking up resources that should go to NWT evacuees. How many more resources on ethical reporting need to be published and bad behaviour needs to be called out for this to stop being common place?

“It is hard to see how the proposed amendments will solve the problems we know exist in this act without creating new problems.” cabinradio.ca/255574/news/...

"Stopping misinformation requires a coordinated push from every corner of society: researchers, policy makers, educators. No single fix will do it. But we can hold the line. We don’t have to let the lies take over." thewalrus.ca/before-you-s...

So glad Meta is blocking Canadian news while fake photos of wildfires in the NWT are being widely shared on Facebook. :/

Trying to stay whimsical in these ever unwhimsical times.

It's pretty late in the wildfire season but two NWT communities issued evacuation orders this week. Meanwhile Tuktoyaktuk is dealing with damage from flooding. cabinradio.ca/256039/news/...

This summer, Denis Morin swam Williston Lake, the Peace River, Slave River and Mackenzie River. He says this will be his last long-distance swimming trip. cabinradio.ca/254814/news/...

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system said 514,000 people - close to a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza - are experiencing famine, with the number due to rise to 641,000 by the end of September. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

cabinradio.ca/254053/news/... The renowned Tłı̨chǫ author Richard Van Camp and his team have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds toward creating the new novel, which Van Camp has given the working title Angels with Antlers.

Once again writing about Yellowknife pigeons. cabinradio.ca/253282/news/...

Yet another abhorrent overreach from the Trump administration. www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

Mason Mantla's short story, titled Reverse Don't Work, will be published in the winter 2025 edition of The Malahat Review. The special issue is dedicated to contemporary Indigenous storytelling with guest editor Richard Van Camp. cabinradio.ca/253642/news/...

"People are looking to blame someone on the difficulties we're facing in life right now — inflation, housing, et cetera — and South Asian people are unfortunately the target of that.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

CAJ condemns targeted killing of journalists in Gaza. Read full statement on CAJ website: https://caj.ca/caj-condemns-targeted-killing-of-journalists-in-gaza

Incredibly disappointed with the deluge of racism and anti-immigrant sentiment online and elsewhere in the NWT related to this video, particularly from an MLA, who has since apologized. cabinradio.ca/253489/news/...

When you tell your editor you managed to track someone down for a story in the phone book.

Earlier this summer I had the privilege of attending a Wildfire Journalism Bootcamp. The Mitigating Wildfire Initiative at Simon Fraser University just released this toolkit that came out of the session. www.sfu.ca/dialogue/wha...

From mallards, to sandhill cranes and warblers, you can find lots of interesting birds in Yellowknife. cabinradio.ca/252587/news/...

This month marks 20 years since the Tłı̨chǫ Agreement, the first comprehensive land claim and self government agreement in the NWT, came into effect. cabinradio.ca/252789/news/...

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime

The CPJ is appalled by Israel’s killing in Gaza on Sunday of five Al Jazeera staff — correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa — as well as freelance journalist Mohammad al-Khaldi.” cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Yellowknife resident Amy Lam was among the activists that travelled to Egypt earlier this summer for the Global March to Gaza. I recently sat down with her to talk about the experience. cabinradio.ca/249305/news/...

The NWT government had sought an order from the Canadian Transportation Agency requiring CN to repair and resume operations on a rail line between Enterprise and Hay River, which was damaged by wildfire in 2023. cabinradio.ca/252020/news/...

Noel Tesfazion was recently convicted and given an 18-month conditional sentence for possessing cocaine for the purpose of trafficking in Yellowknife in May 2019. He is now appealing arguing that the charge should have been thrown out due to Charter rights violations. cabinradio.ca/251792/news/...

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

That Sydney Sweeney jeans ad is really … something huh?

"For many months, these independent journalists have been the world's eyes and ears on the ground in Gaza. They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering." www.cbc.ca/news/world/n...

Our CAJ team is growing! Delighted to have some excellent new board members, including @tyolsen.bsky.social @alexanderquon.bsky.social and @blakeemily.bsky.social. We have another Alberta opening, preferably from Edmonton! Interested? DM me and let's make the world better for Canadian journos.

“Targeting a journalist for simply doing their job is a cowardly act that endangers not only the reporter, but also the vital public interest work that journalism represents. Carrie Tait should be saluted for her work — not spoofed or surveilled.” caj.ca/statement-on...

Pls credit independent journalists!!!

The GNWT issued its first public bulletin warning of blue-green algal blooms in Great Slave Lake in July 2023. A new phenomenon in the North, the blooms have increasingly been observed in the lake. cabinradio.ca/249051/news/...

"Canada may need to be structured to serve the country in ways it hasn’t had to in the past.” www.ctvnews.ca/canada/wildf...

Questions arose about why staff and students at two Yellowknife schools were informed about high lead levels in drinking water on May 27 when the GNWT had received initial test results in January and secondary test results in April. cabinradio.ca/248587/news/...

This summer’s tree planting effort is part of a larger six-year plan to plant 13 million trees across Tłı̨chǫ lands. The project is in response to the increasing frequency, size and intensity of wildfires and their impact on the land, wildlife and communities. cabinradio.ca/248422/news/...

In its latest annual report, the Giant Mine Oversight Board raised concerns about how current remediation work could impact a future permanent solution for arsenic trioxide dust stored underground. The remediation project says it's ensuring future access to the dust. cabinradio.ca/246308/news/...

In 2009, Emrah Bulatci was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Cst Christopher Worden and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. The NWT Supreme Court recently rejected his "faint hope" application for early release. cabinradio.ca/247550/news/...

The NWT health authority is employing a unique shift-bidding system to entice locum physicians to fill critical shifts at Stanton Territorial Hospital's emergency department this summer. cabinradio.ca/247254/news/...

Conversations around homelessness and public safety in Yellowknife have often involved finger-pointing between levels of government and public complaints framing the issue as us versus them. Some people are hoping to change that with a more collaborative approach. cabinradio.ca/242958/news/...

The Dene Nation identified banishment as a priority area for a new task force to explore. We looked at how that could work across the NWT's Indigenous governance landscape. cabinradio.ca/242614/news/...

Around 75 people rallied in downtown Yellowknife. cabinradio.ca/243405/news/...

A man was arrested and charged in Yellowknife as part of a drug trafficking operation more than six years ago. While he has yet to face trial, a judge ruled the years long delay is not unreasonable. cabinradio.ca/242783/news/...