Tthebatthı Dënésułıné celebrates name change from Smith's Landing First Nation | Police charge driver involved in collision that killed Yukon deputy minister last year | 'I work for the people,' says Mandy Gull-Masty, Canada's new Indigenous Services minister
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Tthebatthı Dënésułıné celebrates name change from Smith's Landing First Nation; Community members came together for food, dancing and a talent show to celebrate Tthebatthı Dënésułıné's new name\. 

Tthebatthı Dënésułıné celebrates name change from Smith's Landing First Nation

May 16 , 2025 at 09:09:49 a.m. CDT • :

Tthebatthı is a combination of the Dënésułıné words for rapids and head, together meaning head of the rapids.

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Police charge driver involved in collision that killed Yukon deputy minister last year; Yukon RCMP have charged a man with several driving offences in connection with a collision last August on the Alaska Highway that killed a Yukon civil servant and hospitalized the territory's environment minister\.

Police charge driver involved in collision that killed Yukon deputy minister last year

May 15 , 2025 at 05:03:48 p.m. CDT • :

Yukon RCMP have charged a man with several driving offences in connection with a collision last August on the Alaska Highway that killed a Yukon civil servant and hospitalized the territory's environment minister.

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'I work for the people,' says Mandy Gull-Masty, Canada's new Indigenous Services minister; MP Mandy Gull-Masty this week became the first Indigenous cabinet minister responsible for Indigenous Services Canada, which provides services to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis\. She is Cree from Waswanipi Cree Nation and is the former grand chief of Eeyou Istchee\.

'I work for the people,' says Mandy Gull-Masty, Canada's new Indigenous Services minister

May 15 , 2025 at 04:27:39 p.m. CDT • :

Mandy Gull-Masty, former grand chief of Eeyou Istchee, was appointed Canada's Indigenous Services minister this week. She is the first Indigenous cabinet minister to hold the portfolio responsible for providing services for First Nations, Inuit and Métis.

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Yukon Energy applies for 34% power rate hike over next 3 years; Residential customers in Yukon could see their monthly bills go up by about \$25 to \$30 on average, by 2027 if the plan goes ahead\. Rates would also go up for industrial customers\.

Yukon Energy applies for 34% power rate hike over next 3 years

May 15 , 2025 at 04:09:57 p.m. CDT • :

Yukon Energy is proposing to spend more than $350 million on "system-wide investments" over the next three years, meaning ratepayers would see their bills go up.

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Sicknesses spread as Puvirnituq, Que., struggles to restore water flow through frozen pipe; Puvirnituq Mayor Lucy Qalingo believes a wire that warms the decades-old pipe, and keeps water flowing, was damaged during the storm\. That's blocking the flow of water from the pumping station to the treatment plant\.

Sicknesses spread as Puvirnituq, Que., struggles to restore water flow through frozen pipe

May 15 , 2025 at 01:30:03 p.m. CDT • :

The village's pipeline, which connects the water pumping station to the treatment plant, has been frozen since at least March. That has forced the village to drive further out of town to truck in water and have it manually chlorinated, slowing delivery to the community of roughly 2,100 people.

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Iqaluit blizzard shuts services, closes schools; A frosty window shows a blizzard in Iqaluit on May 15, 2025\. Road-clearing crews have been pulled from the roads and emergency services are only responding to critical calls when it's safe to do so\. Schools are closed and government offices are shut\.  

May 15 , 2025 at 08:52:28 a.m. CDT • :

Iqaluit blizzard shuts services, closes schools

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Backup plan for N.W.T. barge season underway, says gov't; The MV Kelly Ovayuak barge is shown in this 2019 handout photo\. This year, the N\.W\.T\. government and Marine Transportation Services is coming up with some alternative plans in case of low water levels\.  

May 15 , 2025 at 03:00:00 a.m. CDT • :

Backup plan for N.W.T. barge season underway, says gov't

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Housing N.W.T. rent hikes higher than suggested, some tenants say; Tulita, N\.W\.T\., in 2021\. Housing N\.W\.T\. this spring raised the rent on its market-rate units across the territory, which are typically used by nurses, teachers, RCMP, other critical workers and community members\.  

May 15 , 2025 at 03:00:00 a.m. CDT • :

Housing N.W.T. rent hikes higher than suggested, some tenants say

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N.W.T. gov't had a plan for 2023 wildfires but staff didn't know about it; Residents of Yellowknife wait to register for evacuation in August 2023 as wildfires threaten the Northwest Territories capital\.  

May 14 , 2025 at 03:30:00 p.m. CDT • :

N.W.T. gov't had a plan for 2023 wildfires but staff didn't know about it

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Calgary Police to investigate death of man in Pond Inlet, Nunavut; The RCMP detachment in Pond Inlet, Nunavut\.  

May 14 , 2025 at 11:58:37 a.m. CDT • :

Calgary Police to investigate death of man in Pond Inlet, Nunavut

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May 15 , 2025 at 09:41:45 a.m. CDT • :

Land for housing, more First Nation involvement among Yukoners' priorities for new Public Lands Act

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May 14 , 2025 at 02:07:32 p.m. CDT • :

ATCO chief executive sees 'astounding' opportunities in northern defence

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May 14 , 2025 at 04:15:10 p.m. CDT • :

Gold ulu heads to Hockey Hall of Fame to mark Nunavut's historic Arctic Winter Games win

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May 14 , 2025 at 06:41:47 p.m. CDT • :

Gwich'in councils in N.W.T. settle part of dispute over grand chief

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May 13 , 2025 at 09:22:57 p.m. CDT • :

Lodge owner decries killing of caribou on property, but others caution against rush to judgment

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