OMG this made me remember No Bless Yous for Giacomo and I’m so happy

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹

Sad to hear that Stephen Lewis, one of my personal heroes, has passed away. His global HIV/AIDS work has saved and improved countless lives.

Judge Robert Gorin is expected to make a decision in the case on March 27. cabinradio.ca/283084/news/...

“If communities are not seeing the benefits that we would like to see, we’re going to be loud and clear in that messaging.” nunavutnews.com/2026/03/13/n...

A member of the armed forces based in Yellowknife is facing trial for a charge of sexual assault stemming from an incident at a military housing unit last year. cabinradio.ca/282951/news/...

Check out some awesome giant snowsculptures on a frozen lake in Yellowknife. cabinradio.ca/282654/news/...

"He was like the core of the family." More than two and a half years after his death in Fort Providence, Gilbert Matto's family is still seeking justice. cabinradio.ca/282498/news/...

❗On Friday evening, the CAJ learned that journalist Rachel Gilmore had recently been approached in public by individuals linked to, or implicated in, an investigation she had written, and was published by The Tyee that focused on white nationalists. https://loom.ly/z22FRzg

I went to check out the first Rag Tag Races on Yellowknife's Niven Lake. cabinradio.ca/281394/news/...

A five-person commission tasked with reviewing the NWT's electoral boundaries recommends the legislature adopt a new 22-district model. cabinradio.ca/281594/news/...

A team of three Yellowknifers won bronze, and were three votes shy of the audience choice award, at the Nallikari Snow Fest in Oulu, Finland. cabinradio.ca/281793/news/...

It's been a long wait, as the previous Yellowknife Islamic Centre was torn down in 2019, but the city's Muslim community now has a permanent place to gather. cabinradio.ca/281556/news/...

I’d probably be into hockey if there were more boys kissing and less misogyny and committing violence against women.

TOMORROW AT 10 A.M. ET: How to collaborate with the courts with Blair Rhodes and Danielle Stone Learn how to form relationships with people working in the courthouse, how to access their province’s legal resources and what federal legislation protects you. REGISTER: https://beeid.org/c45af2d2c069

"The Bracken trial will determine whether Canadian courts give the RCMP the authority to decide who counts as press. If the answer is yes ... any journalist who gets too close to the people they cover may do so at their legal peril." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

oh so now i have to go through a whole day?

A couple of Canadian journalists (myself included) have started a fundraiser for Trenth Ernst & Tumbler Ridgelines. Since the shooting, he's stopped writing. We're hoping to get him some short-term support for these hard times. Donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-tr...

AFP Fact Check says an Ontario resident has been misidentified as the suspect in the Tumbler Ridge shooting on social media and by some news outlets. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

The new "is it cake?" is "is it AI?" but way less fun.

For those journalists covering the events in British Columbia, the CAJ has a Peer Support Program. Reach out if you need help. caj.ca/peersupport/

A fuel truck in a military convoy heading north for Operation Nanook-Nunalivut overturned on NWT Highway 1, spilling an estimated 2,900 litres of fuel.

A snow carver from Yellowknife says “art is inherently political” after returning from a snow sculpting competition in Minnesota where a sculpture was destroyed for its political message. cabinradio.ca/278014/on-ai...

The NWT finance minister highlighted the national spotlight on Arctic security as she released the territory's proposed budget for 2026-27. cabinradio.ca/278245/news/...

Northwestern Air Lease is facing two law suits related to a fatal plane crash in Fort Smith in January 2023. cabinradio.ca/277720/news/...

Went to check out this fun clinic that encouraged women, girls and 2SLGBTQ+ people to hit the slopes at Yellowknife's Bristol Pit. cabinradio.ca/277801/news/...

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

A Gwich’in man from Inuvik says he barely made his flight back to Canada after border officers at a US airport required further documentation of his Indigenous status. cabinradio.ca/276646/news/...

The GNWT says it's not planning to develop a standalone AI policy for the public service as it's generative AI guideline and existing privacy and information management policies are adequate. Some experts disagree. cabinradio.ca/275766/news/...

Honestly, Heated Rivalry doing better than most US shows at a time when Hollywood is completely dead feels like Toronto‘s revenge for the Dodgers winning over the Blue Jays

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed says it's been 'challenging' navigating the 'new lens' of Mark Carney's leadership, with the national body having to pitch investments to the feds in 'almost like a Dragon’s Den approach.' www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

NWT RCMP say police used “appropriate” force during an arrest in which an officer hit an Indigenous man with a truck and drove over him outside Fort Good Hope, breaking his leg A judge found police used excessive force and did not tell the man why he was being arrested. cabinradio.ca/274409/news/...

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/...