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Workshop aims to train students in digital tools to tell their stories
A touring workshop in digital storytelling is visiting communities in the Northwest Territories in hopes that students will share their stories and culture with a global audience.
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Inuvik comedy troupe brings Northern life to the small screen
A series of short videos compiled into a 13-minute television show for Northwestel TV, is bringing the lighter side of Northern living to a new audience.
Ice carving championship returns to Yellowknife's Long John Jamboree
De Beers announced Monday it would contribute $25,000 and return as sponsor of the Inspired Ice N.W.T. Ice Carving Championship.
N.W.T. Dene leaders call for halt to B.C.'s Site C dam construction
Dene leaders in the N.W.T. are calling for an immediate halt on construction of the Site C Dam in northern B.C., saying it violates treaty rights on their traditional homeland.
N.W.T.'s Aboriginal wellness centre will go ahead, health minister assures
Despite concerns that an Aboriginal wellness centre would not be included in Yellowknife’s new hospital, the N.W.T.’s health minister is assuring Indigenous leaders that it will go ahead.
New Stanton hospital expected to be 'enclosed and weather tight' by late fall
Basic work on the exterior of the new Stanton Territorial Hospital building in Yellowknife should be done by late fall, according to the contractor.
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On nearly losing a dad to a violent attack by a brother with FASD
Two years ago, Pat Kane got a call from a doctor who told him his father had been severely beaten and wasn't likely to live. Later, he learned that his brother had been arrested. 'I knew right then what happened, and strangely enough, I wasn't the least bit surprised,' he writes.