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2 Tuesday April 28 2015 POLITICS ABORIGINAL NEWS BRIEFS Police rescue man walking on thin ice in Behchoko Emergency rescue workers from Behchoko teamed up to save a man found walking on thin ice near the community last week. On the afternoon of Apr. 23 local RCMP were dispatched when a man was reported as walking around Marian Lake which already had patches of open water from warming temperatures. After attempts to negoti- ate with the individual were unsuccessful a trio of rescue workersventuredontotheunstableicetoretrievetheman who was then transported to Stanton Territorial Hospital. Tlicho Government Speaker arrested jailed for drunk driving TheSpeakeroftheTlichoGovernmentPeterArrowmaker hasbeenarrestedandchargedwithdrunkdrivinganddriv- ing while disqualied. Arrowmaker is currently serving a 90-daysentenceasaresultandhasbeenbannedfromdriv- inguntil2024.FollowingthearresttheTlichoGovernment announced they are in search of a new Speaker a position Arrowmaker has held since being appointed in 2007. RCMPinvestigateweekendshooting and high speed chase in Yellowknife Police in Yellowknife are investigating what they believe to beatargetedshootingthattookplacetheeveningof Apr.26 leaving one man with non-life threatening injuries. Police led a pursuit as suspects attempted to evade police though two suspects were eventually arrested. A third individual was arrested separately and later released. Evidence from early investigations indicates it was a targeted attack by parties known to one another. On the morning of Apr. 27 RCMP had located a rearm believed to have been used in the shooting. The investigation is ongoing. NNSL 3.3125 x 5.75 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS The Department of Education Culture and Employment ECE is accepting nominations for inductees to the 2015 Education Hall of Fame. Nomination forms are available online at www.ece.gov.nt.ca or visit your local District Education Council ofce or Regional ECE Service Centre for assistance. DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS IS FRIDAY MAY 1 2015. For more information please contact ECE Public Affairs at 867 920-6147 or email ecepublicaffairsgov.nt.ca. Aboriginal Affairs minister offers interview to off-air CKLB Radio Territorys Aboriginal radio station looking to GNWT for core funding all staff now laid off By MEAGAN WOHLBERG CKLB Radio has been off the air for nearly a year in the Northwest Territories due to funding issues with the federal government but that seemed to be news to the Aboriginal Affairs ministers ofce who offered an inter- view to the station regarding the federal budget last week. CKLB program director Deneze Nakehko received a message from AANDC Min- ister Bernard Valcourts press secretary Emily Hillstrom last Wednesday offering the station an interview with the minister to discuss the most recent Economic Action Plan. But CKLB run by the Na- tive Communications Soci- ety NCS of the NWT shut down programming in July last year after years of fund- ing disputes with the depart- ment of Canadian Heritage. Themajorityofstaffwerelaid off and all news and Aborig- inal language programming was stopped leaving only automated music on the air. As of last Friday the nal remaining staff at the sta- tion - including Nakehko - were laid off. In his response Nakehko thanked Hillstrom for the offerbuttooktheopportunity to explain the situation and relay a message back to Ot- tawa about their new budget. For the life of the Conser- vative government our core fundinghasdiminishedbeen infrequentandunreliable.We are no longer able to pay staff or offer any Dene language or original radio programs. We were hoping for some good news with this current budget but for us it is more of the same actually worse than the same he wrote. Unfortunately our dedi- cated audience are left unin- formed and unable to fully participateinthedemocratic processes of this country. Please inform the Minister that he and the Conservative governmenthavefailedtoad- equatelysupportagenciesthat wouldotherwisecommunicate the work that they do to the people of the North. That response was also shared with Canadian Heri- tageandtheCanadianRadio- TelevisionandTelecommuni- cations Commission. Nakehko said he found it odd that he was offered an in- terview when CKLB has often been denied opportunities to question the federal govern- ment in the past. The station was the only news agency un- able to ask questions during both Prime Minister Stephen Harpers visit to the NWT for the devolution signing and his following Northern tour in 2013. CKLB looks to NWT government for funding The NCS board met for its AGM on Apr. 17 in Yellow- knife where the directors discussed the future of the radio station known as the voice of Denendeh due to its once thriving Dene language content and presence in the small communities. Nakehko said the meeting didnt result in much positive news for the station but said theyhaventgivenupyet.NCS CEO Les Carpenter met with theNWTgovernmentsdepart- mentofEducationCultureand EmploymentECElastweek toseeiftheGNWTcouldoffer more funding support. NCSislookingfor990000 from the department which would essentially make the GNWT the stations core funderbasedontherationale that the territory is the only jurisdictionwithDeneamong its ofcial languages. They are also hoping CKLB might benetfromongoingnegotia- tionsbetweentheGNWTand Ottawa over co-operation on ofcial languages. ECE spokesperson Jac- queline McKinnon couldnt give any details on the con- versations but said a follow up meeting is being planned for further discussion. Though CKLB received a combination of federal and territorial funding totalling morethan550000between July 2014 and January 2015 - including 102500 from ECE - most of that funding was back-dated for previous scal years and had to go to- wards paying past-due bills. Itwasntuntilthestationhad shutdownthatitbeganreceiv- ingfederalinstallmentsforthe 2014-15 scal year. Canadian Heritage blames incomplete reporting on the part of NCS for the funding delays. AccordingtoNakehkocore fundingforthestationhasgone down over the years mean- ing the station has struggled to stay aoat in terms of pay- ing staff and maintaining its aging equipment. NCS wants to see block funding for more than one year at a time. NakehkosaidHeritageof- cialswerentawarethatCKLB was off the air until January despite two reports led late lastyeartothedepartmentex- plaining the situation which raisesquestionsastowhether or not representatives are reading the reports. Still NCS has put in its an- nualrequestforfundinginthe hopesthatamorepositivear- rangementcanbeworkedout with the federal government. PhotoLesleyJohnson CKLB Radio is looking for close to 1 million a year in core funding from the GNWT to re-start programming. The station run by the Native Communications Society of the NWT stopped its news and language broadcasts last July.