·NUUK, GREENLAND - Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada vice-president Kirt Ejesiak says Inuit need to be able to move more freely through Inuit territory, regardless of what country they are in.

·INUVIK - A small nuclear power plant could provide all the electricity residents need and at a much lower cost, according to Peter Lang.

·QAMANITTUAQ/BAKER LAKE - Areva Resources Canada Inc. will conduct $13 million in new drilling this year at its Kiggavik uranium project, says Barry McCallum, manager of Nunavut affairs for Areva.

·NUNAVUT - Through exploratory drilling at the Lac Cinquante uranium deposit, Kivalliq Energy Corporation wants to prove the viability of the Angilak project by early next year, the company announced earlier this month.

·QAMANITTUAQ/BAKER LAKE - Nunavut's new mining watchdog group says a uranium company in the territory should be charged for lacking proper permitting and failing to clean up a camp near Baker Lake.

· Whether big game hunting outfitters agree with the government's decision to restrict, and in some areas, ban caribou hunting has essentially become a moot point.

· Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is no small task. Our governments must have a sound knowledge of viable alternatives to oil and diesel, and a solid idea of costs, volumes, and other figures needed to come up with realistic targets.

· It must be awfully tempting right now for city council to jump headlong into a plan to extract heat from Con Mine and distribute it to the downtown core.

·IQALUIT - Nunavut's first civil society dedicated to monitoring uranium mining held its first public meeting in Iqaluit on Nov. 28.

·BAKER LAKE - The location of a public access road to the Kiggavik mine site was the big topic of discussion at an open house sponsored by Areva Resources in Baker Lake this past month.

· The new president of the Federation Franco-tenoise had some cautionary words for the territorial government following his election on Nov. 28.

· As we've braved bitter -50 C temperatures with the windchill over the past couple of weeks, it's been rather easy to forget our cadre of government ministers and MLAs shuffling around at the climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

· Yellowknife marked the 20th anniversary of the Montreal massacre last week with a vigil to remember the 14 slain by gunman Marc Lepine at Ecole Polytechnique.

·SAHTU - A large mineral deposit has been discovered 220 km west of Norman Wells on the property of a resource company with prospecting permits for the area.

·KIVALLIQ - One Grade 12 graduate in each Kivalliq community was awarded a new laptop by AREVA Resources Canada during graduation ceremonies held across the region early this school year.

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·NUNAVUT - A prospecting course has been touring many communities in Nunavut, teaching people how to hunt for stones that might hold the hint of buried treasure.

·QAMANITTUAQ/BAKER LAKE - It's like something out of a horror movie: a team of geologists working for Kivalliq Energy Corporation (KEC) touch down on a remote camp at Lac Cinquante, about 210 km north of Inuvik, and discover uranium drill core samples that have survived the elements for more than 20 years.

·CHESTERFIELD INLET - Areva Resources Ltd. can count Chesterfield Inlet Mayor Harry Tootoo among those who support its proposed uranium mine near Baker Lake, as long as all the proper precautions are put in place.

·SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - Among the people returning for Yellowknife's 75th anniversary was a woman who was raised by the town's most famous educator - Mildred Hall.

·BAKER LAKE - More than 200 people attended an open house at various times in Baker Lake this past month hosted by Areva Resources Canada Inc.

·BAKER LAKE - Peter Tapatai of Baker Lake is upfront and honest about his support for the mining industry.

·NUNAVUT - The company interested in looking for uranium in the western Kivalliq region is reconsidering in the wake of the regulatory obstacles from two levels of government.

·A report by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada has confirmed what Northerners have been saying for years: the food mail program is flawed.

·Is the territorial government even capable of saying no anymore? That's the question we're left with after witnessing the GNWT's latest capitulation to the demands of unionized workers.

·It really pays to have someone watching out for your best interests, as a few Yellowknifers recently learned first-hand.

·SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - While North American Tungsten won't be developing its proposed Mactung mine on the NWT side of the NWT/Yukon border, the territory still has a chance to benefit where it counts the most, CEO Stephen Leahy said.

·RANKIN INLET - The Kivalliq Inuit Association (KIA) won two Canadian North Mining Awards at the Nunavut Mining Symposium in Iqaluit earlier this month.

·BAKER LAKE - Anyone with concerns over uranium mining in Baker Lake will have the opportunity to have their voice heard this coming month.

·Thank heavens for Walt Humphries. Without his keen eye and inquisitive nature we may never have learned that the jail was throwing hundreds of books into the dump because corrections officials considered maintaining a library to be a waste of time.

·One of the problems with consensus government has been the regular MLAs' reluctance to wield power.

·The Dene Nation is understandably tired of the territorial government dragging its feet on completing the Mackenzie highway.

·KANGIQLINIQ/RANKIN INLET - The global financial meltdown has claimed another victim in the Northern mining industry.

· Hundreds of angry demonstrators and regular MLAs made cabinet capitulate and commit to returning to the drawing board on the idea of board mergers.

·Interviewing children is always an interesting experience.

·SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - News of the discovery of a massive gold-bearing shear zone underlying the Giant Mine claims in 1944 sparked a new gold rush. With the end of war, hundreds of men returned to Canada looking for opportunity. They found it in Yellowknife.

·QAMANITTUAQ/BAKER LAKE - A Vancouver-based exploration company is the second company this year to sign a memorandum of understanding with Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) granting the company permission to explore Inuit-owned land recently freed up by NTI's uranium policy.

· THEBACHA/FORT SMITH - Ann and Barkley Heron have just completed their first year as multimillionaires.

·THEBACHA/FORT SMITH - Ann and Barkley Heron have just completed their first year as multimillionaires.

·SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - Juliette Rivet has a message for people in the Mackenzie Valley: get tested for Helicobacter pylori.

·TULITA/FORT NORMAN - Soil contaminated with low levels of radiation was barged out of Tulita last week.

·QAMANITTUAQ/BAKER LAKE - The Baker Lake airport is a busy place, especially during summer, and it's all due to a bustling exploration industry on the hunt for uranium, gold and other metals and minerals in the area - by several accounts.

·DEH CHO - A final round of community consultations is underway to help determine the boundary that will be suggested for the Edehzhie protected area.

· Five years after a committee revamped the Official Languages Act to improve services to non-English speaking residents of the territory, people are still having trouble understanding basic healthcare in the capital.

· The NWT coroner's office has ruled there is no need for an inquest into the deaths of two Yellowknife teens who drowned last summer after they were left at a wilderness camp near Behchoko, but there is a need for comprehensive safety standards at wilderness camps.

·KANGIQLINIQ/RANKIN INLET - Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) has signed an agreement permitting a spin-off exploration company the right to explore for uranium.

·SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - Early in June, Sam Gamble, 30, became the new Green Party candidate for the Western Arctic, replacing Alex Beaudin. Gamble's parents moved to Yellowknife when he was one-year-old, where he grew up and continues to live today.

·THEBACHA/FORT SMITH - A forest fire threatening a small northern Saskatchewan town has driven most residents to safety in Fort Smith, where they have been welcomed with open arms.

·SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - Independent prospector Penelope Shaw should be focused on trekking the vast expanse of the Northwest Territories reading the earth in search of clues but instead, she has focused a piercing gaze at the GNWT's 2008/2009 budget, which passed unanimously on Tuesday.

·KIVALLIQ - A Saskatoon-based charter flight provider has customized its service to mining and exploration companies operating near Rankin Inlet and Baker Lake.

·YELLOWKNIFE - Around 1995, Art Dodman was all set to go to work - maybe build a dock on Great Slave Lake - when the boss phoned him and said that was enough.

·FORT FRANKLIN - The Deline Land Corp. will oppose all future uranium development in its district until outstanding issues having to do with the old Port Radium mine are resolved, the organization announced recently.

·KIVALLIQ - Representatives from six of seven Kivalliq communities met in Rankin Inlet this past week to form a regional liaison committee for the Kiggavik uranium project near Baker Lake.

·YELLOWKNIFE - As a field geologist, Brian Weir saw a lot of changes in his lifetime. He went from using a map and compass to a GPS, from unreliable short-wave radios to satellite phones and from a slide rule to a calculator. He saw a lot of changes in technology and to life in the North.

·The year 2007 is about to enter the history books and residents of the NWT have a lot to reflect on when looking forward into 2008.

·HAY RIVER - The Northwest Territory Metis Nation is considering a larger role for elders in its leadership structure.

·ARVIAT - If done in a socially and environmentally responsible way, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI), will support uranium mining - and in turn, uranium mining could support Nunavut's Inuit.

· With the territorial election now just around the corner, Yellowknife voters finally got a chance to see how the candidates in their ridings stack up head-to-head.

· It appears to be a good news headline: Yk1 keeps $200,000. The $200,000 the public school board gets to keep was money Education Minister Charles Dent threatened to cut from funding if the district failed to close down one of their schools. They were supposed to do that to make room for Catholic students displaced by the fire at Ecole St. Joseph in August of 2006.

·PORT RADIUM - Roughly 265 km east of Deline, amid towering cliffs, rocky islands and the almost turquoise waters of Great Bear Lake, sits Port Radium: birthplace of Canada's uranium industry.

·KIVALLIQ - Conservation groups are up in arms after uranium exploration permits have been issued for areas regarded as caribou calving grounds.

·BAKER LAKE - A slew of government, private, and non-government organizations were in Baker Lake last week discussing the hot topic of uranium.

·SNOWDRIFT - National and territorial mining associations are fighting a recent recommendation to reject a mining exploration application in the Thelon River area, east of Lutsel K'e.

·YELLOWKNIFE - Few people alive can claim to have an arena or a street or even a breakfast sandwich named after them, but Clarence "Shorty" Brown could.

· Niven Lake is Yellowknife's most exclusive residential area and it seems some of the people who live there think the trail around the lake belongs to them, too.

· For some, slamming the Northern education system has become a full-time obsession.

· Mining and exploration companies are a driving force in the NWT's booming economy.

· Marvin Lizotte was a teacher at Deh Gah school in Fort Providence when he secretly courted three teenaged girls for sex. He considered one of the teens as a "semi-girlfriend," having intercourse with her 100 times over a period of years.

·YELLOWKNIFE - Western Arctic MP Dennis Bevington, and NDP Energy Critic, wants the government to establish an energy security policy for Canada following similar advice the Alberta-based Parkland Institute provided the Commons Standing Committee on International Trade May 10.

·BAKER LAKE - The Kaminak Gold Corp. has announced its technical team has generated two new uranium projects in Nunavut.

· In 2004, the president of the NWT Housing Corporation talked tough about collecting $3.9 million in mortgage arrears.

·Snowdrift (Jan 22/07) - For 13-year-old Michael Vanleeuwen the prospect of uranium exploration in the Thelon watershed boils down to one simple fact.

·Fort Franklin (Jan 08/07) - A $6.8 million contract for remediation work at the former Port Radium mine has been awarded to a Northern company.

·Baker Lake (Oct 30/06) - One new office may never get noticed in somewhere like Toronto or Vancouver, but it certainly stands out in Baker Lake - especially when it's tied to uranium.

·Norman Wells (Sep 04/06) - With classes beginning again in earnest at learning centres around the Sahtu, it's going to be a busy fall for many in the region.

·Yellowknife (Jun 14/06) - Mining has been the heart of Yellowknife since the 1930s and this past week residents joined with industry representatives to fete the city's biggest economic engine.

·Inuvik (Feb 17/06) - Lawyer Shawn Denstedt, representing pipeline proponents Shell and ConocoPhillips, perhaps summed up the feeling of many in attendance at Tuesday's opening of the Joint Review Panel (JRP) hearings on the Mackenzie Gas Project.

·It's as simple as this: if your house is on fire or you're having a heart attack, how are firefighters going to help you if they don't know where you live?

·When Premier Handley scolds MLAs who question the resolve of his government to deal firmly with oil companies, we wonder if angry words equal results.

·There's only one chance to get it right. From that perspective, Fort Good Hope residents have done what's best for themselves, voting against an access and benefits deal reached with Imperial Oil.

·Yellowknife (Jan 30/06) - A uranium rush in the Thelon Basin, which straddles the frontier between NWT and Nunavut, continues to heat up.

·Yellowknife (Nov 09/05) - The 33rd annual geoscience forum in Yellowknife next week will be the largest ever - by far.

·Iqaluit (Oct 10/05) - Nunavut is charging ahead in resource exploration.

·Yellowknife (Oct 12/05) - A tarnished set of bowling pins, probably dating back a half-century, sit inside a cold, dark warehouse on the Ingraham Trail near Giant Mine.

·Fort Franklin (Sep 12/05) - The final report from the Canada-Deline Uranium Table was released and presented to the community last week.

·Baker Lake (Aug 31/05) - International mining giant Cameco Corporation has struck a deal with De Beers Canada to search for uranium on the diamond company's Aberdeen Lake property, 150 kilometres west of Baker Lake.

·Fort Franklin (Aug 15/05) - A Deline community official says residents are angry about a media report aired last week claiming no link between community cancer rates and the nearby Port Radium Mine.

·Yellowknife (July 20/05) - Building on the work of previous companies, Pathfinder Resources started its summer exploration program this week.

·Yellowknife (May 23/05) - Uranium exploration in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut is heating up, with close to a dozen companies spending $14 million in the field, hoping to find the next massive uranium ore body.

·Yellowknife (Apr 22/05) - Internal problems at the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board threaten to derail mineral exploration in the Northwest Territories, warns the president of a Vancouver-based mining company.

·Inuvik (Apr 29/05) - The Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board is meeting Thursday, April 28 in Inuvik to discuss a potential conflict of interest involving chair Todd Burlingame.

·Snowdrift (Jan 10/05) - Uravan Minerals is looking for uranium 200 km southeast of the NWT's Thelon Basin, a world famous wildlife sanctuary.

·Yellowknife (Oct 08/04) - The NWT director of highways says the road out of Yellowknife is safe to drive.

·Yellowknife (Oct 29/03) - A spokesman for the world's largest producer of uranium came to Yellowknife, Oct. 27, to speak on the positive aspects of nuclear power.

·Yellowknife (Sep 12/03) - Death is not a light going out; Rather it is a candle being extinguished because the dawn has come.

·Yellowknife (Apr 14/03) - A pick, a shovel and five dollars will get you started but there's one other thing you'll need if you choose to become a prospector -- a lot of patience.

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·Hay River (Nov 11/02) - The Hay River community paid their respects last week to Wally (Walter) Ring who died at the age of 75.

·Fort Smith (Aug 05/02) - A new highway is being proposed to connect the NWT and Saskatchewan.

· Preach what you practise Once again, Southern animal rights activists have proven their ignorance. The Humane Society of Canada is wearing the dunce cap this time around.

·Fort Norman (Feb 18/02) - This Satuh community wants the federal government to clean up uranium it says remains from Tulita's days as a pit-stop for barges hauling the ore up the Great Bear River.

·Fort Smith (Feb 18/02) - When BHP wooed power engineer Ian Kelly and his family North a year ago, he did plenty of research before picking a community.

·Yellowknife (Feb 18/02) - It takes some coaxing to get Lew and Margaret Delaney to remember details of the courtship that led to their 1949 marriage.

·Hay River (Oct 22/01) - Built from the toughest steel, they stand defiant against constant wind while resting stripped bare, facing a giant lake that was sometimes their foe, but which was also their reason for being.

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