More than two year's since the NWT's worse wildfire season on record, when the majority of the territory's population was ordered to evacuate, I wanted to see how people are coping with the mental, community and cultural impacts. cabinradio.ca/272558/news/...

In what one lawyer said was a “pretty extraordinary” decision, an NWT Supreme Court justice has set aside an arbitration agreement and allowed the case to proceed in open court. cabinradio.ca/275201/news/...

This morning marks the beginning of a landmark trial in BC where @amberbracken.bsky.social and @thenarwhal.ca are suing the RCMP. The CAJ continues to stand with Amber and The Narwhal. Full statement: https://loom.ly/C9tqr00

I called number for the Local Matters campaign from the Canadian Media Guild on Facebook. The call was answered by an employee of the group behind Canada Proud, one of the loudest advocates for defunding the CBC. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/i...

Here are 10 of my favourite photos I took in 2025: Cars travel on the ice road between Dettah and Yellowknife.

As 2025 comes to a close here are 10 of my favourite articles I wrote this year, in no particular order: I really enjoyed talking to the authors of Price of Gold on what we can learn today from Giant Mine. cabinradio.ca/264132/news/...

“If it were to help nation building, then Nunavut children should not have to go to school hungry, people should not have to live in overcrowded housing conditions, students shouldn't have to go to schools that are deteriorating,” Lori Idlout said. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The GNWT asked the court to order a man suing a former RCMP officer and the NWT and Canadian governments over alleged childhood sexual abuse to pay security for costs. The NWT Supreme Court found that would not be in the interests of justice. cabinradio.ca/272276/news/...

Yikes.

Advocates are calling on the NWT government to redirect all out-of-territory gender-affirming healthcare away from Alberta. cabinradio.ca/269199/news/...

“I think we gave it the sort of mournful, haunting spin on it that it deserved,” cabinradio.ca/268352/news/...

“Our hope is that these will be taken and used as a basis to update the guidelines, or just to update many aspects of gender-affirming care in the territory and improve people’s lived experiences.” cabinradio.ca/267941/news/...

An NWT Territorial Court judge reduced a woman’s sentence for a serious assault by six months as RCMP violated her Charter rights by filming her naked in police cells. cabinradio.ca/267404/news/...

In a “highly exceptional” case, an NWT man on house arrest for sexual assault will not face jail time for breaching court-ordered conditions. The original sentencing judge disagreed with a conditional sentence but had little discretion to alter the joint submission. cabinradio.ca/266534/news/...

I spoke with Maggie Helwig, author of Encampment: Resistance, Grace and an Unhoused Community and rector of St Stephen-in-the-Fields, about encampments, the housing crisis and homelessness. cabinradio.ca/266084/news/...

Was great getting to chat with the authors of Price of Gold about how Indigenous, labour and environmental activists fought back against pollution and what we can learn from Giant Mine today. thhttps://cabinradio.ca/264132/news/yellowknife/qa-the-authors-of-price-of-gold-on-learning-from-giant-mine/

Wonderful excerpt from Maggie Helwig's book encampment in The Walrus. Just picked up a copy of the book at Yellowknife Books. thewalrus.ca/churchyard-e...

“He is hearing disproportionately from the industries that represented the 20th century economy, not the 21st century economy … as the rest of the world electrifies and moves towards a cleaner economy.” thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...

A representative of the encampment requested fire extinguishers and fire-retardant tarps and tents on Sept10. cabinradio.ca/264384/news/...

Tiffany Ayalik and Inuksuk Mackay worked closely with composer Ariel Marx, contributing vocals and throat-singing to the original score of The Last Frontier. cabinradio.ca/264001/news/...

Following deliberations over the weekend, a mistrial was declared in the case on Sunday evening after the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict. cabinradio.ca/263929/news/...

Home Base YK staff unionized more than a year ago but still have no collective agreement. The employer and union are now in conciliation. During certification, a report indicating which employees wanted to unionize was inadvertently sent to the employer and union. cabinradio.ca/262425/news/...

Lawyers presented their final arguments in the trial of Zakk Lafferty, 26, who is facing a second-degree murder charge in the August 2023 death of 17-year-old Deijean Drybones. cabinradio.ca/263341/news/...

“The reason we’re here is to ensure that every Indigenous person can find their song and can play their drum and become who the ancestors made them be,” said BC First Nations Justice Council chair Kory Wilson.

I've been following this project that aims to deploy a hydrokinetic turbine in the Mackenzie River by Fort Providence. It is moving to the next stage of research with plans to launch a demonstration project in 2026. cabinradio.ca/261386/news/...

As many Canadians reckon with their country’s history, a loud and organized group of people continues to minimize and deny the harm residential schools and other colonial policies did to Indigenous Peoples. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is about commemorating the ongoing impacts of the residential school system, not about dunking on political opponents or pushing a political agenda of resource extraction.

Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day – a time to raise awareness for the ongoing impacts of residential school and remember the children who never came home.

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...