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...

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