Opinion

Editor’s note: Yellowknife Coun. Stacie Smith delivered a powerful members statement at the June 14 regular council meeting. The message came following the finding of 215 unmarked graves of former residential school students in Kamloops in May.

Canned chicken. The first time I encountered a canned chick was while working out on the tundra. I had never even seen or heard of a canned chicken before. I was holding, a can of canned chicken in my hand. It was the first time I had ever seen or heard of such a thing.

I’m going to piggy-back on what our co-ordinating editor, Craig Gilbert, had to say in Wednesday’s Yellowknifer about all the wonderful things happening this coming weekend.

To the editor,

Back in April, the federal government announced $30 billion over five years to help offset the cost of early learning and child care services in Canada. Of course, there’s always a catch – provinces and territories would need to contribute their own funds before households would see a significant reduction in childcare costs.

By any standard – except the Northern standard – Hay River is a small town.

In November 1989 and March 1990, Inuit MLA Peter Irniq stood in the NWT legislative assembly to speak of the damage residential schools and their all-powerful staff, good and bad, had inflicted on the Inuit, Dene, Metis and Inuvialuit for many decades.

Friends, one of the things you get to do as a writer is the interviews, for print, TV or radio.

Dear Premier Cochrane,

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven, has a little bit of everything. It has sadness, romance, and even education about mental illness. This book was published in 2015 by Knopf Publishing Group and is a New York Times bestselling Young Adult book. It may be the perfect book for you. It isn’t part of a series but it was released as a movie on February 28, 2020. The book is 378 pages long and it’s written from both main characters’ point of view in the first person.