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CBC News carried out a survey before the territorial election which asked MLA candidates what languages they speak. We followed up with MLA elects who said they speak an Indigenous language about how fluent they are in that language.
On Nov. 14, N.W.T. voters will head to polls to elect the next Legislative Assembly. The issues facing the territory are significant — the election comes after a summer of wildfires, and in the midst the impending closure of major diamond mines, a declining population and a housing crisis.
/CNW Telbec/ - Today, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Pablo Rodriguez, announced the Government of Canada's investment of $17,700,000 over three years...
Last year's floods threw ice chunks the size of small cars onto people's front lawns in Fort Simpson, N.W.T. Senior administrative officer Kevin Corrigan predicts that eventually, everyone will have to move off-island.
Brenda Gauthier, the N.W.T.'s languages commissioner, said Indigenous languages are absent from the territorial government's services and that government departments must support service delivery in 9 official Indigenous languages, not just French and English.