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Nunavut Impact Review Board conducts hearing in Rankin Inlet

A single-vehicle accident on the Ingraham Trail on Monday evening has left one person with serious and potentially life-altering injuries, according to the RCMP.

K’atl’odeeche First Nation Chief April Martel is criticizing the GNWT for a lack of communication about the community’s long-term wildfire plan.

The next leader of the Assembly of First Nations will be tasked with unifying hundreds of chiefs at a time when reconciliation appears to be less of a priority in Canada, said an Indigenous policy expert.

Prices in Yellowknife have rising an average of 3.7 per cent in a year, according to the NWT Bureau of Statistics.

The Nunavut Liquor and Cannabis Board (NLCB) has hit popular Iqaluit restaurant the Storehouse Bar &Grill with a $5,000 fine for contravening the Liquor Act, it revealed in a Sept. 7 news release.

Residents of Hay River have been away from their homes for more than a month, but they are now finally getting to go home.

Recently elected Dettah Chief Ernest Betsina was told he could not appoint Great Slave MLA Katrina Nokleby as an essential worker during last month’s evacuation of Yellowknife, N’dilo and Dettah in a letter accusing the MLA of being “criminally liable.”

Top executives from Canada’s major grocery chains have agreed to work with the federal government on stabilizing prices, Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said on Monday, but few details have been divulged about how that will be achieved.

Minister Joanna Quassa has resigned from the Government of Nunavut’s cabinet, Premier P.J. Akeeagok revealed in a Sept. 18 news release.