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Posted: Feb 25, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 26 "Sufficient aftercare services are not available" to people returning from southern addictions treatment, says MLA Frieda Martselos.(Mario De Ciccio/Radio-Canada) N.W.T. MLAs seek a slew of mechanisms to improve addictions treatment in the territory including aftercare and permanent funding for harm reduction measures like managed alcohol. Thebacha MLA Frieda Martselos said there are no adequate aftercare programs to support people ...

Reinstate N.W.T. Language Bureau, legislative committee recommends Last March, Monfwi MLA Jackson Lafferty was silenced because a Tłı̨chǫ interpreter was not present in the house. A legislative committee suggested Tuesday that shouldnt happen again. Social Sharing Committee revisited a 2020 incident when no Tłı̨chǫ interpreter was available, and the house carried on Posted: Feb 10, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 10 In March of 2020, MLA Jackson Lafferty was asked to apologize ...

Posted: Feb 09, 2021 10:31 AM CT | Last Updated: February 9 Highway 3 between Yellowknife and Fort Providence in March 2018. The Tlicho Government says six lives were lost on the road between Behchoko and Yellowknife in 2020. (Walter Strong/CBC) The tragic death of Kelly Washie, who was struck and killed by a transport truck on Dec. 31, has prompted a big discussion about safety on the road between Yellowknife and Behchoko. In the legislature Monday, Monfwi MLA Jackson Lafferty explained that...

MLAs contemplate territorys budget as N.W.T. Legislative Assembly goes back in session The Legislative Assembly is back in session to consider its operations budget and big ticket issues like housing, tourism and how to rebuild the economy after COVID-19. Social Sharing

A Sahtu teen sounds the alarm over lack of N.W.T. addictions treatment and wants MLAs to listen up Seventeen-year-old Sierra McDonald from Norman Wells, N.W.T., is adding her voice to the many that have called for an addictions treatment facility in the territory. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Jan 09, 2021 7:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 9 Seventeen-year-old Sierra McDonald says mental health isnt talked about enough and that an addictions treatment centre in the Northwest Territories...

How many lives are we going to lose? asks N.W.T. MLA after fatal Highway 3 accident Following a fatal accident on Highway 3 on New Years Eve, Monfwi MLA Jackson Lafferty is calling once again on the N.W.T. to provide cell phone coverage in the area. It is a safety issue and I certainly hope the government will act on it. Social Sharing Monfwi MLA Jackson Lafferty repeats his call for the N.W.T. govt to provide cell coverage on Highway 3 CBC News · Posted: Jan 07, 2021 12:33 PM CT | Last Upd...

Posted: Jan 06, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 6 Kelly Washie, 45, was killed last week after being struck by a tractor trailer on Highway 3 between Yellowknife and Behchokǫ̀.(Submitted by Joyce Washie) A Behchokǫ̀, N.W.T., man killed in a fatal New Years Eve collision on Highway 3 is being remembered as a kind man with a great sense of humour.  And Kelly Washies sister is also pushing for cellphone service along the stretch of highway where her brother died. Washie, 45, was i...

But a May 27 confidence motion citing concerns with Noklebys performance — the first attempt to push her out of cabinet — Initially, a vocal contingent of supporters vouched for Nokleby. An online petition to "Save Minister Katrina Nokleby" garnered nearly 1,500 signatures and Cochrane expressed her "complete confidence" in the minister.  But Nokleby faced additional ire this summer when plucked Procurement Shared Services, which deals with such contracts, out of Noklebys hands and pla...