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Posted: Apr 12, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: April 12 K'atl'odeeche First Nation Chief April Martel, left, and Bill Enge, president of the North Slave Métis Alliance, right, are still hopeful their housing projects will one day come to light.(Anna Desmarais/CBC) This is part one of a series on the housing crisis in the Northwest Territories. When Bill Enge found out about a new $1 billion federal housing fund last year, he hired an architect, builder and real estate developer.  The president of the North Slave Métis Alliance put together a proposal for a project the alliance had in mind...

N.W.T. Métis leaders ask for inclusion in federal health care benefit Anna Desmarais © Senate of Canada/Jade Thériault Garry Bailey, president of the Northwest Territory Métis Nation, says the territory's health-care benefit for Métis forces them to apply for Indian status. Leaders in the N.W.T. are advocating for Métis inclusion in a national health-care insurance program for First Nations and Inuit people.  The Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) program for First Nations and Inuit covers some medicare costs — like dental, vision and out-of-territory medical trave...