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When The Heart Says No: Trauma healing lodge on the way

When The Heart Says No: Trauma healing lodge on the way

The Dene Wellness Warriors are working on starting a trauma healing lodge for the NWT. Woohoo, yahoo, sign me up as a client too.
Book review: Fire transmutes the urban landscape into something else

Book review: Fire transmutes the urban landscape into something else

In 2016 Fort McMurray, one of Canadas wealthiest industrial centres, was faced with a wall of fire so powerful that it created its own climate. This environmental emergency led to the fastest, most extensive single-day evacuation in North American written history.
Heres how the Bank of Canadas interest rate hike to 5 per cent will impact Canadian households

Heres how the Bank of Canadas interest rate hike to 5 per cent will impact Canadian households

The Bank of Canada has just hiked its interest rate by another 25 points to five per cent the second quarter-point hike since Junes interest rate increase to 4.75 per cent. The central bank has been steadily increasing interest rates over the past three years in an effort to tame inflation.
Notes from the Trail: We can no longer eliminate Mother Nature from our designs

Notes from the Trail: We can no longer eliminate Mother Nature from our designs

It hit 30 C or higher in many parts of the North last week. On Monday, temperatures in both Norman Wells and Fort Good Hope exceeded 37 C. Weve seen these extreme temperatures increasing in frequency in the last few years. But this year, they started earlier and hit record highs faster.
Learning the strings with the Aurora Fiddle Society

Learning the strings with the Aurora Fiddle Society

If you want to learn to play the fiddle, the Aurora Fiddle Society may be a good place to start.
Darrell Taylor: Reconciliation begins with me

Darrell Taylor: Reconciliation begins with me

What does reconciliation mean? I have asked this question many times. I get many different answers. Reconciliation seems to mean different things to different people. I looked up this topic on the Canadian government website. As with most government documents there was a lot of jargon. It wasnt easy to follow.
Tales from the dump: Parking in Yellowknife seems to be getting worse

Tales from the dump: Parking in Yellowknife seems to be getting worse

Have you noticed that a lot of parking meters in Yellowknife seem to have a distinct lean to them? I am sure some people will blame climate change and melting permafrost for this because people blame everything on something, and climate change is all the rage.
Why renaming roads and how we tell stories matter for reconciliation

Why renaming roads and how we tell stories matter for reconciliation

The recent renaming of the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway in Ottawa to Kichi Z蘋b蘋 M蘋kan (Great River Road) comes as Canada Day invites Canadians to define not only where we are, but also who we are in our national imagination.
Labour Views: To fix healthcare, invest in the workers

Labour Views: To fix healthcare, invest in the workers

As the union representing all public healthcare workers in the NWT, we have a front seat view of the current system and its not looking good.
Happily divorced ever after: reconceptualizing divorce as an opportunity

Happily divorced ever after: reconceptualizing divorce as an opportunity

The word divorce conjures up a plethora of negativity. Thoughts may immediately go to failure, feelings of sorrow for any children involved or just plain anxiety about having your future go down the tubes and starting a new life on your own.