Yellowknifer

The Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority (NTHSSA) is working towards roll out of the new Government of Canada approved Paxlovid Covid-19 drug treatment in the NWT.

Athletes, leagues and organizations were looking forward to Jan. 22 as the magic date when they could lace up the skates, put on the shoes or put up the nets to resume action this season.

Yellowknife resident Roy Dahl has been waiting for a kidney transplant for more than seven years and Covid-19 has caused further complications.

Yellowknifers are paying much more for many goods, the latest all-items consumer price index shows.

Out of 19 accepted proposals, two were recently chosen as recipients of the $100,000 Northwest Territories (NWT) Manufacturing Innovation and Technology Contribution.

When I first met people who had changed their names part-way through their lives, they weren’t part of the transgender community but part of the leftist-environmentalist diaspora in the oil-fuelled, cattle-studded city of Calgary. My friends named themselves after their favourite animals and the qualities they most respected in people. I remember my initial response as surprise, curiosity and an odd kind of judgement.

I’ll be the first one to freely admit that there are people out there smarter than me when it comes to things. Not many, mind you, but I act in deference to someone else sometimes when the situation calls for it.

We often speak of ‘back to normal,’ a ‘reset,’ or ‘before the pandemic;’ however, was it that desirable?

It’s become somewhat trendy over the past several years to acknowledge the historical usurping of Indigenous lands.