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Author Archives: Bruce Valpy

Bruce Valpy is former Publisher/CEO of NNSL Media. He can be reached at 1-867-445-2040

David Poitras, chief of Salt River First Nation is correct when he says the Nats’ejee K’eh treatment centre failed after being successful due to a staff change opting for southern degrees and expertise over Northern knowledge and expertise, a “very common scenario in the GNWT,” writes former NNSL Media publisher Bruce Valpy. NNSL file photo

Opinion: Facebook poster Chief Poitras sets addictions record straight

by Bruce Valpy March 4, 2022March 4, 2022

When challenged on obvious failures, it’s sad to hear GNWT ministers sticking to poorly crafted scripts. I feel I have to say something and I think Dave Poitras, Chief of Salt River First Nation in Fort Smith, feels the same way.

Cancel culture nothing new to Dene, Metis, Inuvialuit people

by Bruce Valpy July 11, 2021July 11, 2021

From the publisher: Reconciliation is not about blame, it’s about acknowledging injustice

by Bruce Valpy June 15, 2021June 17, 2021

Door is open for Dene, Metis, Inuvialuit education revival

by Bruce Valpy May 2, 2021May 2, 2021

GNWT staffer answers column on affirmative action

by Bruce Valpy March 17, 2021

The urban myth of P1 job candidates taking jobs from southerners

by Bruce Valpy March 8, 2021

Education success in the NWT can only come with Indigenous control

by Bruce Valpy February 23, 2021

Dene, Metis, Inuvialuit, Inuit teachers are needed to build polytechnic

by Bruce Valpy February 17, 2021

New polytechnic college being built on a false foundation

by Bruce Valpy February 9, 2021

Yellowknifer February 3, 2021

by Bruce Valpy February 3, 2021

I want my tax dollars going into the deserted downtown mall

by Bruce Valpy December 10, 2020December 10, 2020

Yk war veteran Joseph Ouellette with stirring recitation of In Flanders Fields

by Bruce Valpy November 10, 2020November 10, 2020

Answer to a complaint from a civil servant in the GNWT

by Bruce Valpy September 9, 2020

The big reveal about the GNWT in the Katrina Nokleby affair

by Bruce Valpy August 27, 2020September 3, 2020

Do me a favor and change the name of Edmonton’s football team

by Bruce Valpy July 10, 2020

How the dark doctrine of ‘public interest’ delays, diminishes, derails Dene land claims

by Bruce Valpy June 24, 2020June 24, 2020

MLAs owe the people of the NWT and Nokleby a public apology

by Bruce Valpy June 1, 2020June 1, 2020

Subscription wall back up for NNSL newspapers June 1st

by Bruce Valpy May 31, 2020May 31, 2020

Why Bruce Valpy joined the Conservative Party of Canada

by Bruce Valpy May 18, 2020

Recent Northern Jobs for NWT & Nunavut

by Bruce Valpy May 8, 2020May 7, 2021

TIME IS NOW: Out with the old stodgy GNWT and in with the new responsive GNWT

by Bruce Valpy May 7, 2020May 7, 2020

Some Northern businesses will die is not an acceptable consequence of COVID-19

by Bruce Valpy April 30, 2020April 30, 2020

MVFL – The biggest worm in the Northern Internet can of fibre optic worms

by Bruce Valpy April 29, 2020September 28, 2020

Internet in the North: Opening up a can of fibre optic worms

by Bruce Valpy April 13, 2020April 14, 2020

It’s time for a WE revolution in Canada – WEB EQUALITY for Northerners

by Bruce Valpy April 6, 2020April 6, 2020

Setting the record straight on the ‘Pike’ Mike Covid predicament story

by Bruce Valpy April 3, 2020April 2, 2020

My extraordinary conversation with a covid bear

by Bruce Valpy April 2, 2020April 2, 2020

Northern artist Cynthia Russell first to sign on to NNSL Media music library

by Bruce Valpy March 30, 2020March 31, 2020

Most often missed areas of hand washing – clean up the red!

by Bruce Valpy March 26, 2020March 26, 2020

Newspapers for Food Banks, How does it work?

by Bruce Valpy March 25, 2020March 26, 2020

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