GNWT hangs up on health hotline
The GNWT has discontinued the use of their toll-free health care information hotline due to a lack of use. The NWT Health Line service was cancelled on Friday after six years of use. Residents can no longer call the 1-888 number to receive health-related information from a nurse 24 hours a day, seven days a [...]
NWT MP introduces bill to increase borrowing limit
Western Arctic MP Dennis Bevington introduced a private member’s bill to increase the Northwest Territories borrowing limit last week in the House of Commons. Bevington’s bill, which he introduced on Thursday, would increase borrowing limit and create a formula to establish the borrowing limit each year. It would require amendments to Section 2 and and [...]
GNWT expands breast cancer screening
The GNWT has announced an expansion to their breast cancer screening programs. Beginning in June, South Slave region patients will have access to the program which is set for a one-year time period. The expansion will increase the availability of screening procedures at the Hay River Hospital to two weeks a month, up from the [...]
GNWT withdraws caribou question
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.
Municipal leaders in town for AGM
Over 140 delegates are expected to attend this week’s Northwest Territories Association of Communities (NWTAC) annual general meeting in Hay River. NWTAC CEO Yvette Gonzalez said delegates from 23 of the association’s 27 member communities have registered to attend the meeting, which begins tomorrow and runs until Monday. As of May 4, 145 delates have [...]
Improve protection for foster families, group tells committee
Thirty people turn out for review of Child and Family Services Act An attentive crowd of approximately 30 people asked a government committee reviewing the Northwest Territories’ Child and Family Services Act to consider improving protection for foster families from false complaints while redefining the role of extended families in child protection matters during a [...]
Group awards high credit rating to GNWT
The GNWT has received a high investment grade credit rating showing that their fiscal plans are sound, according to officials. Moody’s Investors Service published its decision on March 26, giving the GNWT a Aa1 credit rating, just one level below the highest possible rating of Aaa.
GNWT responds to coroner’s report
The Government of the Northwest Territories responded Friday to the coroner’s report into the 2009 death of a Yellowknife man on the anti-depressant Venlafaxine. Minister of Health and Social Services Sandy Lee said the department took the recommendations in the March 2 report seriously and waited until the end of the month to respond since [...]
Hands off supplementary health, seniors say
A plan by the Government of the Northwest Territories to have high-income earners pay for a portion of their supplementary health care in order to open the program to low-income earners was resoundingly denounced during a town hall meeting in Hay River on Thursday evening. A crowd of approximately 60 people, mainly seniors, voiced their [...]
GNWT launches ‘Not Us’ drug-awareness campaign in Hay River
The ‘Not Us’ drug campaign kicked off on March 29 at the Community Hall. Hay River residents poured into the room full of food, fun and information bringing to light the risks involved with substance abuse.
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