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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 in their recovery. She wants three facilities staffed with mental health workers built in the South ...

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 shouldn't 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 after the Speaker ruled he had made comments that were "inappropriate and unparliamentary" in the h...

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 Washie had wanted to use the restroom, and since there are no washrooms along the road, he had to g...

MLAs contemplate territory's 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 isn't talked about enough and that an addictions treatment centre in the Northwest Territories is crucial.( Fostering Open Expression among Youth/Facebook) A high school student from Norman Wel...