The North
Conversations about Canada's Northwest Territories from Cabin Radio. Meet the people at the heart of everything that's important about the North and the Arctic.
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Meet the new execution entity, same as the old execution entity (opens the original)
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The GNWT is planning a new arm's-length agency to get the Mackenzie Valley Highway built. Caroline Wawzonek walks us through it – and we ask how the territory is going to ensure northerners get meaningful jobs and economic development from major projects. Elsewhere, Cabin Radio legal eagle Gillian Bourke talks us through the Residential Tenancies Act. What do renters and tenants need to know about the basics? In the newscast: the Dene National Assembly begins and the Office of the Auditor Genera
Antoine Mountain, Behchokǫ̀ pipes (opens the original)
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A survivor of multiple NWT residential schools, Antoine Mountain will make an appearance at a flag-raising ceremony marking the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Ottawa on Wednesday. Also on the show, former YWCA NWT executive director Lyda Fuller discusses the fallout from the charity's decision last week to sack her successor. In our 15-minute newscast, The North Tonight, Behchokǫ̀'s chief celebrates – but says more has to happen – as the community receives around $5 million to fix
Come From Away (and horses from away) (opens the original)
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Yellowknife borrowed some horses all summer so residents could ride. There was only one "unplanned dismount." The organizers are on the show. So is the director of Ptarmigan Ptheatrics' version of Come From Away, which started its audition process today. In The North Tonight, our 15-minute newscast: upheaval at YWCA NWT, Gwich'in groups try to get through their latest conflict, and a northern union objects to new federal legislation.
Help us tell the story of NWT justice (opens the original)
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Cabin Radio reporter Cody Punter wants to hear from you as he finishes a year-long project following the NWT's court system. Outgoing Yellowknife mayor Ben Hendriksen is also on the pod to discuss why he withdrew from next month's election and what kind of leader the city needs next. In The North Tonight, our 15-minute newscast: an NDP MP presses the Liberal government over funding for residential school survivors and the NWT records Canada's only shrinking population.
Is this a YK housing solution? (opens the original)
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A new fund might offer some hope for affordable housing in the NWT, plus why the territory is moving to permanent DST. In our 15-minute newscast, The North Tonight: KFN's chief resigns, a school lockdown in Behchokǫ̀, a $100K lotto winner somewhere in the NWT and an alpaca farm makes its return in Fort Smith.
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