The acting sub-chief for Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., is encouraging his community members to use a visiting trauma response team that’s there to help people cope in the aftermath of a stabbing attack that killed one person and injured two others.
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Posted: Mar 15, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: March 15
April Martel, chief of K atl odeeche First Nation, stands in front of the checkpoint put in place at the reserve s entrance on March 20, 2020. She relied on the expertise of the elders throughout the pandemic to make tough decisions for her people s safety. (Anna Desmarais/CBC)
It s been a year since the World Health Organization deemed COVID-19 a worldwide pandemic.Â
Dr. Kami Kandola, the N.W.T. s chief public health officer, said in a
news conference on that day the territory had been preparing for a pandemic for weeks. Â
In the days and weeks that followed, the territory
Posted: Dec 15, 2020 7:00 AM CT | Last Updated: December 15, 2020
Raymond Yakeleya is one of three Sahtu beneficiaries who claim financial irregularities and wrongdoings around the purchase of Canol Outfitters in 2017. (Livia Manywounds/CBC)
A three-year controversy surrounding the purchase of an outfitting company in the Sahtu region of the Northwest Territories came to a head last week at the Sahtu Assembly.
Canol Outfitters, previously known as Rams Head Outfitters, was purchased in 2017 by the Sahtu Land Corporations for $5.8 million. Much of that money came from a loan from the Sahtu Secretariat Inc. (SSI). At the time of the sale, then-chair of the secretariat Ethel Blondin-Andrew told CBC that the money for the loan came from a