NWT Premier Floyd Roland has signed the historic, yet controversial, devolution agreement-in-principle, despite the backlash from the territory’s Aboriginal leaders. The ceremony took place last Wednesday morning, where both Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs John Duncan and Roland signed the document. Only two Aboriginal groups, the NWT Métis Nation and the Inuvialuit, signed on [...]
Premier Floyd Roland is set to sign the controversial devolution agreement today, regardless of the amount of support coming from aboriginal leaders. The agreement-in-principle will be signed in conjunction with the federal government, and sets the terms for transferring Canada’s authority over NWT land and resources to the territorial government. But aboriginal leaders in the [...]
The Government of the Northwest Territories announced last week that it will no longer ask the NWT Supreme Court whether or not it has the authority to regulate subsistence hunting of barren-ground caribou. Instead, GNWT officials and regional Aboriginal leaders will come to an agreement and when, and how, caribou hunting should be managed.
