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Peter Boken says he was denied bus transit from Yellowknife Accessible Transit System (YATS) even though he is approved to receive the service by the City of Yellowknife.

People of the Beaufort and Mackenzie deltas took the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation as their own in its second year of existence, with each community finding their own way to honour the memory of those who never made it home while finding ways to heal the survivors. Inuvik hosted a children’s carnival, Ulukhaktok made their own community-specific orange shirts, Tsiigehtchic walked with an orange flag donated by an anonymous benefactor and Fort McPherson lit up in orange.

A long overdue recognition was finally given to Edward Lennie, who was named to the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame during an Oct. 6 ceremony in Calgary.

The co-owners of the Monkey Tree are officially off the hook.

The second National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30, also known as Orange Shirt Day, was a sombre occasion for many in the territory.

When I was still a youngish reporter working in rural Alberta back in 2018, I noticed the United Conservative Party (UCP) — then still the opposition party — was making news almost weekly over a scandal, a gaffe or some other bizarre behaviour.

MPs on Thursday unanimously passed legislation today to temporarily double GST rebates to help low- and modest-income Canadians, and the bill will now be sent to the Senate.

A search and rescue operation is being scaled back on the Slave River near Fort Resolution, where a 42-year-old man reportedly fell off a boat and into the river.

Curling is back to full sweep

The Northwest Territories government and the union representing health-care workers in the territory have reached a temporary agreement aimed at addressing labour shortages.