Fireweed, rocks, scruffy trees and safe haven greeted the future MLA for Lethbridge-East and her two young daughters when they arrived in Yellowknife on July 24, 1981.
READ MORE
This op-ed was originally published on i-politics, March 5, 2015.
READ MORE
Sitting MLA Michael Nadli has been sentenced to 45 days in jail. Before being charged with assault causing bodily harm in April, the Deh Cho MLA had indicated he intended to run for re-election.
READ MORE
A research project created to identify and address challenges of intimate partner violence in the Northwest Territories is headed into its fifth and final year, and the results aren’t pretty.
READ MORE
A lunchhour overview of the services available to victims of domestic violence in Fort Smith was like extra credit for two of the dozen or so Aurora College students who took it all in at Thebacha campus on Thursday.
READ MORE
In the news this week is the large number of small communities in Northern Canada that have no resources to support women vulnerable to abuse from their mates; no “women’s shelters” where they can seek refuge with their children, or victim’s counsellor services to advise them of their rights or attend to them after they are beat on.
READ MOREThe Northern Journal is an independent newspaper covering news and events in Northern Alberta and across the Northwest Territories.
207 McDougal Road, P.O. Box 990
Fort Smith, NT
Canada, X0E 0P0
Phone: 867-872-3000
Phone: 888-355-6729
Fax: 867-872-2754
Facebook
Twitter