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- Sports & Recreation
- February 22, 2016
Yellowknife city councillors reject winter games bid
- Education, Video
- February 22, 2016
Commissioner sings on anti-bullying day
- Environment
- February 22, 2016
The Beverly Caribou Herd’s headlong rush to extinction
- Politics
- February 22, 2016
Finance minister unveils $150-million budget gap
- Environment
- February 22, 2016
January sets new record lows for Arctic ice levels
- Health & Wellness
- February 22, 2016
‘New’ ambulance provider lands in Inuvik

Politics

Finance minister unveils $150-million budget gap 0
The GNWT’s dire financial picture came into focus Feb. 19 as Finance Minister Robert C. McLeod announced he needs to find $150 million to avoid budget deficits.

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Environment

The Beverly Caribou Herd’s headlong rush to extinction 0
The once massive Beverly Caribou herd that roamed the Canadian Barrenlands for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, has vanished from the planet, and evidence recently published in the scientific journal, Arctic, by GNWT wildlife biologist Jan Adamczewski and his colleagues details the events that led to the herd’s demise in a period of less than 20 years.

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Industry

Operations at Nexen Long Lake suspended following fatal explosion 0
An on-site explosion at Nexen Energy’s Long Lake facility, a subsidiary of Chinese-owned CNOOC Ltd., has shut down operations after one employee was killed and another critically injured.

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Sports & Recreation

Yellowknife city councillors reject winter games bid 0
Yellowknife’s play for the 2023 Canada Winter Games likely met its end at a Feb. 16 council meeting, where councillors unanimously announced their intent to vote against the bid.

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Arts & Culture

Finding some Yellowknife rock in Wildrose country 0
It’s a gloomy and overcast Sunday afternoon in Edmonton as I walk anxiously up to the entrance of the DV8 for the Wacken Metal Battle Alberta press conference.

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Editorial

Act now or face a violent reaction 0
Thus far pipeline debates have focused on immediate dangers, including the potential for explosions or ruptures, versus the benefits of job and wealth creation, specifically in Alberta.

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Opinion

A traditional twist on Stop Bullying Day 0
Ingenious as always, Chief Sunrise Education Centre on the K’atlodeeche First Nations Reserve is putting a Slavey spin on the anti-bullying initiative Pink Shirt Day by hosting Sets’ani Day instead.

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Other News

Commissioner sings on anti-bullying day 0
- Education, Video
- February 22, 2016
On the first Pink Shirt Day since a student at JBT Elementary School in Fort Smith was injured in a bullying incident in October, NWT Commissioner George Tuccaro brought the healing power of music.
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‘New’ ambulance provider lands in Inuvik 0
- Health & Wellness
- February 22, 2016
An ominous sign warns travellers of the dangers of heading toward the Arctic Circle: “there are no emergency medical services on the Yukon portion of the Dempster Highway.”
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College week lights up Aurora students across NWT 0
- Education, Slideshows
- February 22, 2016
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Hay River’s Schumann exchanges business life for government cabinet posts 0
- Northerners
- February 16, 2016
Wally Schumann knows how to build on an opportunity.
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Baby boom retirements keep Mine Training Society busy 0
- Education
- February 16, 2016
Mining in the NWT may be under pressure, but the Mine Training Society (MTS) that provides its skilled workers is still hopping.
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UAlberta North picks up where Circumpolar Institute left off 0
- Education
- February 16, 2016
At its launch on Feb. 1, the UAlberta North office hosted a panel, where academics, students, filmmakers and Indigenous peoples of the circumpolar North shared their stories and their expertise.
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