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YELLOWKNIFE - The federal government is committing more than $2.4 million to create 30 new apprenticeships in the Northwest Territories' Tlicho region.
'This has the potential to improve the wellbeing of our people across our great North and our Canada, move us forward on the path toward reconciliation,' said Tłı̨chǫ Grand Chief Jackson Lafferty.
Tłı̨chǫ Grand Chief Jackson Lafferty says he is disappointed with the lack of communication from the government of the Northwest Territories after a planned renovation of Chief Jimmy Bruneau School was dropped from the territory’s recent capital budget.
Ndilǫ Chief Fred Sangris says a request by the Tłı̨chǫ for the land acknowledgements in Yellowknife to recognize the area as being part of their traditional territory doesn't respect agreements between their nations, and undermines Akaitcho First Nations ongoing land claim negotiations.
About a dozen residents spoke to the territory's standing committee on social development in Behchokǫ̀, N.W.T. on Monday about housing and homelessness prevention. It was the third and final public hearing organized by the committee.