A new waste reduction and recovery act allows for an extended producer responsibility program to be introduced in the N.W.T. It would shift the cost of recycling off governments and back on to companies that make the material in the first place.
Nunakput MLA Jackie Jacobson pleaded in the N.W.T. Legislature Tuesday that everything possible be done in the search for Frank Gruben, the Gwich'in Inuvialuit man last seen in Fort Smith in early May.
Friends and former colleagues are remembering Alfred Moses as a passionate community advocate, a leader, a lover of sports and a family man. Many learned of his death Tuesday.
As the territory's electoral boundaries commission gets ready to table its report to the N.W.T. Legislature next month, long-time party system advocate Kieron Testart talks about ranked ballots, the number of electoral districts, and why he thinks the time is right for wholesale change to the consensus system.
N.W.T. Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek told legislature that the money was part of a confidential settlement between the territory and the province relating to work done on the Deh Cho Bridge by the bridge’s original contractor, Atcon Construction. But when pressed on further details on the settlement, Wawzonek refused to provide them.