Opinion

Things are always changing and evolving.

A few weeks ago I read and reviewed Bryan Trottier’s memoir, All Roads Home: A Life On and Off the Ice, which had this fantastic forward by the Saskatchewanian author Jesse Thistle.

Food and fuel prices continue to climb and Northerners are feeling the pressure as wages fail to climb with them.

The power of song. Now that Halloween is over, I thought I’d share a couple songs I remembered that the radio stations would often play in the lead up to Halloween.

This past week was just a perfect time for the NWT Human Rights Commission as a member working with commission staff and other commissioners.

One after another, Elders described how mining had negatively impacted their lands during a water stewardship conference in Dettah last week.

I hope I didn’t snore.

Over the past few years, the pandemic prompted school closures and remote learning that drew international attention to issues of students missing school — what researchers call “non-attendance.”

My story this week is to express appreciation for the SPCA, their workers and the work they do to save abandoned, ill and disabled animals.

Poverty is more expensive than implementing programs to leave no one behind.