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Edward Eastaugh is taking what looks like a sophisticated metal detector to the Arctic in the hopes of uncovering buried archeological treasure left behind from the first explorers to discover the western entrance to the Northwest Passage.
Eastaugh, lab manager in the Department of Anthropology at The University of Western Ontario, is joining Parks Canada on an expedition to find remains of the 19th century British Royal Navy ship, the HMS Investigator. The team is leaving on July 19 and will be returning on Aug. 9.
As part of the group heading to Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Eastaugh will be on hand to help find remnants of the ship’s cache, items removed from the vessel and piled on the island when it became stranded by pack ice.
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For the past two months Yellowknife blogger George Lessard has been fighting a traffic ticket he received after he passed a protest in his truck back in March. - Miranda Scotland/NNSL photo [excerpt] SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE George Lessard was issued a traffic ticket while he was covering a demonstration about the robo-call scandal on March 11 for his blog. On that day Lessard was stopped by a municipal enforcement officer who, after an argument with Lessard, placed him in the back of his municipal enforcement vehicle. Meanwhile, another officer jumped in Lessard's truck and took it to city hall where Lessard was given a $75 fine for overtaking a vehicle improperly. The following day the officers amended the ticket to driving without due care and attention and then changed it again on May 15 to unsafe movement of a vehicle. Lessard is expected to dispute the latest version of the ticket in traffic court on June 12 in Yellowknife. It will be his fifth court date regarding this incident. "What I need to do with (the officers) in court is get them to make it clear to court why they changed their mind now (twice)," Lessard said. "Only one thing occurred, yet there are three different interpretations of what occurred here." [...] 
[excerpt] "..."I have to see it to believe it," was the reaction to my Russian colleague, Jon Burgwald, when he told me that every spring the rivers in Northern Russia turn black with oil saturated ice. He sent me the pictures last night from his visit to Usinsk which borders the Arctic and has the unenviable title of Russia's oil capital. Before oil was discovered here in the 1970's Usinsk was a pristine area, with rivers villagers could drink from, teeming with life. Now the winter thaw marks the annual running of the black ice. You have to see it to believe it [full slideshow [on the website]..." 
[excerpt] Guest contributor Julia Christensen on why housing should be a priority if Canada’s national mental health strategy is to be effective. The recent release of a national mental health strategy by the federal government was largely praised in the Canadian North, where mental health is highlighted by health care practitioners, front line workers, and NGOs alike as an urgent, and fundamental, area of concern that is inextricably tied to social cohesion and community wellbeing. In the Northwest Territories (NWT), we now wait with baited breath for the announcement of a territorial mental health strategy, something that GNWT Health Minister Tom Beaulieu has promised will be tabled in the next legislative sitting. Beaulieu has hinted that the new plan will address key gaps in services to small communities as well as the lack of a treatment facility geared specifically towards promoting mental health. These same gaps have been illustrated in several recent studies on northern health services, as well as in my own research on homelessness and northern housing insecurity. While Beaulieu has mentioned some important gaps that the strategy will aim to address, housing must also feature front and centre in his Department’s vision for promoting mental health in the territory. In 2007, I began a four-year doctoral research project on homelessness in two northern urban centres: Inuvik and Yellowknife. The project, and resulting thesis, is titled Homeless in a homeland: housing insecurity and homelessness in Inuvik and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. While the initial focus was to understand the factors contributing to visible homelessness in those two communities, this study also shed significant light upon what is taking place in other northern communities, the reason being that many (the majority, in fact) of homeless men and women in both locales call other, smaller northern communities ‘home’. Not only did this study illustrate the rural-urban geographies of northern homelessness, it also exposed a common relationship between collective and personal traumas and homelessness in individual experiences. Overwhelmingly, homeless men and women linked their experiences with homelessness to residential school and its intergenerational impacts, apprehension by the child welfare system, or domestic violence. 
[excerpt] The Northwest Territories is considering a budget that would give it time to rebuild cash reserves before starting a new round of public works.Finance Minister Michael Miltenberger has tabled a status-quo document that predicts a narrow $74-million surplus. The budget contains no new taxes or program cuts, and holds spending increases to under four per cent. It also caps infrastructure spending at $137 million — a drastic cutback from the $1.1 billion the territory has spent over the last three years. Call for Nominations: NWT Minister's Cultural Circle Youth Category Elder Category Individual Category Group or Organization Category Deadline for nominations is August 15, 2012. Published on May 17, 2012 by CarletonUvideos Poverty Amongst Plenty: Waiting for the Yukon Government to Adopt a Poverty Reduction Strategy Nick Falvo, a doctoral candidate at Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration, will deliver the report, Poverty Amongst Plenty: Waiting for the Yukon Government to Adopt a Poverty Reduction Strategy, in Whitehorse discussing how the Yukon government helps the poor and making recommendations for change. The study touches on important issues of health, strategy, food, shelter, child care, education and relations with the federal government. 
SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE [excerpt] "I won't reinvent the wheel here, there are a lot of good history books of Yellowknife out there. We'll call it a photo album," she said. "I will still have a brief summary of the history and give and overview of what life was like there." Hurcomb's book, which is under the working title of Yellowknife's Old Town and Evolution in Photos, will chronicle all the way back to the 1930s. It is during the swinging '60s that she says has caused some difficulty. "It is a bit of a question mark," she said. "People left the Old Town and all the businesses went up town, the only people left were the ones that business depended on the bush or the lake." Hurcomb said it has been challenging to find photos from that time and she is hopeful of finding more over the course of the summer. The book then travels through the decades up to present day. "The present is mostly photos, I don't have a lot to say about it yet." "If something has to get chopped for space, that is what will go," she said, of what will hopefully be an 80-some page book. "It is like a giant jigsaw puzzle." This will be Hurcomb's fifth published book, not including a series of photo books she did for Yk Education District No. 1 school board in English and Tlicho. [...]
NationalProStaff.com - Sportfishing is our game... [excerpt] I spent a few hours breaking ice and fishing for pike 3 mins from my apartment. Yellowknife has about 20 or so lakes all within city limits or within hiking distance that offer residents and visitors decent fishing. Northern Pike are a species I hunt most often. Im addicted to the action and potential size of fish up here in northern Canada. On occasion I enjoy downsizing the gear and targeting these smaller lakes. [...] VIDEO: SUAANGAN 1997 ICC AGM, Jose Kusugak; Shiela Watt Cloutier; New President Terry Fenge Published on May 11, 2012 by InuvialuitTelevision Law Enforcement Torch Run 
By Alina Konevski • May 18, 2012 • No Comments [excerpt] Canada, as anyone who’s attended grade school can attest, consists of ten provinces and three territories. At least one Prime Minister — Paul Martin, quoted in 2004 — has said we’ll “eventually” have thirteen of the former and none of the latter. However, the notion of territories becoming provinces is not one that much concerns the territories themselves — as Graham White of University of Toronto’s political science department says, this is a “classic Toronto question about the North.” What’s more important is the “devolution” of various governing powers currently held at the federal level, such as substantial ownership of land. And within the territories’ special set of economic conditions, provincehood — and the economic self-reliance that implies — may only become a goal in the distant future. In the nineteenth century, the original North-West Territories — which draped most of modern Canadian land, except for BC, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and half of Ontario and Quebec — was managed directly by the federal government. These centralized powers gradually gave way to local separatist movements, and provinces slowly carved themselves out: first Manitoba (1871), then Alberta and Saskatchewan (1905), and finally parts of Ontario (1869, 1874, 1889, 1912) and Quebec (1898, 1912). The Yukon broke off in 1898, following the Gold Rush, and Nunavut a century and a year later. Even so, Saskatchewan and Alberta didn’t own their land or resources until a quarter of a century after becoming provinces. [...] For territories to secure provincehood, the country would require a constitutional amendment, with seven out of ten provinces and 50 percent of the population acquiescing. This would be difficult to achieve, especially as it would threaten the provincial status quo. In a larger pool of provinces, individual ones would have less power at the federal level – potentially a frightening idea to some, such as Quebec, that depend on winning special treatment. What the territories want instead is devolution, a process of wrangling province-like powers away from the federal government. Yukon is the farthest along, possessing a devolution agreement that allows it much more control over land and resources than the others, while retaining significant federal support. In the NWT, much of the administration is done through federal departments, such as Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, and the National Energy Board. The territory is halfway toward securing a devolution agreement, hoping to conclude negotiations by 2014. Nunavut, the youngest of the three, has just begun raising the issue of devolution in Ottawa. In light of the Nunavut government and Inuit people’s meagre 20 percent control over their land, Premier Eva Aariak says that, “In the south of Canada, people take for granted that they, through their provincial governments, make the decisions about the land and resources within the province’s boundaries. In Nunavut, our lands and resources are still controlled by the federal government, with decisions being made far from those who are most impacted.” (Read Lisa Gregoire’s National Magazine Award–nominated profile of Aariak, from the January/February 2011 magazine.. ...) [...] 1998 ICS TAMAPTA Circumpolar Drum Dance Festival Nuuk Greenland Published on May 11, 2012 by Inuvialuit Television The Arctic Energy Alliance (AEA) is a not-for-profit society with a mandate “to help communities, consumers, producers, regulators and policymakers to work together to reduce the costs and environmental impacts of energy and utility services in the Northwest Territories." |
David Brock, the chief electoral officer of the N.W.T., said there were also four other allegations of irregularities during the voting for last fall's election. He said those were all thrown out due to a lack of evidence. (CBC) There were three violations of the elections act during last fall's N.W.T. election. All three happened in the Monfwi riding. [excerpt] There were three violations of the elections act during last fall's N.W.T election. The territory's Chief Electoral Officer said they occurred in the Monfwi riding. Two people from Whati, N.W.T., admitted they had someone else vote for them. Lori Ann Nitsiza and Jason Beaverho were both out of the community when their votes were cast last October. Whati's Deputy Returning Officer – Lisa Marie Zoe – allowed the illegal voting to happen. [...] 
Wendy Bisaro, MLA Frame Lake: There's an urgent need for a stand-alone Aurora College campus building in Yellowknife. We should be anticipating the actual start of construction in three or four years. A Northern Consensus on Completing (not Dismantling) the NWT Regulatory Regime
AANDC’s Action Plan to Improve Northern Regulatory Regimes have been so consistent. Aboriginal governments and local leaders, industry associations and developers, the GNWT Executive and MLAs, Board Chairs and staff, and northern NGOs have all voiced similar objections to this made-in-Ottawa process which does not respect Northern realities, priorities, or rights. Dennis Bevington, MP for the Western Arctic, aims to counter the federal government’s efforts at dismantling the NWT regulatory regime, by pulling together into a single document the mainpoints of agreement amongst Northerners, and amplifying those messages.Using statements from various leaders/representatives and quotes from reports issued over thepast four years, this document outlines points of agreement under the following categories:
Objections to the current process;
Objections to the Board amalgamation/elimination proposal;
Agreement about what is working;
Agreement about what is not working; and
Consensus around key components and guiding principles for a new process.A complete list of individuals/organizations quoted is included at the end of this document.From the Office of the MP for Western Arctic, Dennis Bevington 
Department of Linguistics at the University of Victoria. Tlicho posts.... Credits and Acknowledgements • Teaching and Learning Centre, Tłı̨̨chÇ« Community Services Agency All content © 2012 Teaching and Learning Centre, TłįchÇ« Community Services Agency, Rae-Edzo, NWT All programming © 2012 University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. FORT SMITH, NWT, May 23, 2012 /CNW/ - Fort Smith municipal workers voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action on May 10. The workers are members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada-Union of Northern Workers. They voted 98 per cent in favour of strike action after a deadlock in negotiations for a new collective agreement. Their previous contract expired in December 2011.They were able to negotiate several articles of the new collective agreement, but the municipality of Fort Smith refuses to guarantee that the public services currently delivered by PSAC members will not be contracted out to private enterprises. The workers want to prevent the contracting out of municipal services because it could endanger the quality of services and in some cases the well-being of the population. Previous experiments with privatization of services in Fort Smith had to be abandoned because of rising costs. Julie Docherty, the PSAC Regional Executive Vice-President for the North, is hoping that the conciliation process which will start on May 30 will bring positive results to this negotiation. "The workers' demands are very reasonable," Docherty said. "We can only hope that the municipality will recognize the need to better protect quality public services," she added. According to Todd Parsons, President of the Union of Northern Workers, the workers are proud of the services they deliver to their community and they want to maintain the quality of those services. "Public sector workers are better equipped to deliver public services at a lower cost than a private company which would only be seeking to increase its profit margin," Parsons said. In the past the town had turned over the maintenance of its local arena to a private company. In 2009 faced with constantly rising costs, the municipality of Fort Smith gave back the maintenance of the municipal arena to its employees. Since then, the work has been accomplished within schedule and within budget. Fort Smith municipal workers ensure that the community has access to safe drinking water. They also provide water to two communities in Alberta, Border Town and Fort Fitzgerald. The workers look after road maintenance, garbage pick-up, after-school programs, day camps and a recreation complex. The Union of Northern Workers/ Public Service Alliance of Canada supports strong public services and remains opposed to privatization of public infrastructure and public services. Julie Docherty at (867)-669-0991 or (Source: CNW ) #NWT's Commissioner’s Opening Address: Creating the Conditions for Success | Office of The Executive[excerpt] My speech today marks a departure from the Commissioner’s Address this Chamber has become used to. It is not the customary ceremonial welcome. Commencing today, it is much more. Similar to other Canadian jurisdictions, my address adopts the practice of laying out your government’s agenda for the coming months, while touching on recent accomplishments and looking ahead to future challenges. This change is one of many on the territory’s road to political maturity. We see it in the evolution of this Legislative Assembly, which saw its beginnings as an appointed Territorial Council advising an appointed Commissioner on how to administer government programs in the Northwest Territories. Over the years, that advisory Council has become a fully-elected body with the power to enact legislation on behalf of the people of the NWT, led by an elected Premier and Cabinet who are responsible to this House for their decisions and policies. This evolution tells only part of the story of our territory’s political advancement. Another chapter is written in the ongoing devolution of federal programs and responsibilities to the Government of the NWT. Education, local government, policing, health care, forestry, highways, airports: each was devolved in turn. Each advanced our level of political self-determination. One of the last remaining responsibilities still to be devolved is also one of the most critical. I am referring to the authority over public lands, water and resources. This is an authority of utmost importance and one which every province and territory except for ourselves and Nunavut enjoys. It includes the regulation of development, environmental protection, land use planning, the setting and enforcement of codes and standards, and, importantly, the levying of resource taxes or royalties. It will give Northerners the power to shape what happens in our own back yard, making us masters in our own home, masters of our own destiny. Much is at stake in the transfer of this final power. Multi-millions of dollars in government revenues depend on it. The health of our resource sector and our environment depend on it. Your government remains as committed to devolution as any before it. This afternoon I am pleased to inform you that the commitment to Devolution is paying off. I refer to the signing of the Devolution Agreement-in-Principle by representatives of the Sahtu Secretariat Incorporated yesterday. The Sahtu will now join with the Government of the Northwest Territories, the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation and the Northwest Territories Métis Nation in negotiating the transfer of authority over public lands, water and resources from Canada. This development is a reflection of the openness, the vision and the dedicated hard work of many people. I know you join me in congratulating the Sahtu. The Sahtu’s signing makes this a good day for Devolution in the Northwest Territories. However, there is still much work to do. We expect to conclude the Final Agreement before the end of the year. After that, it will take another 18 months to complete the planning required to implement devolution. I know our governments – the public, territorial government and Aboriginal governments – are up to the task and I look forward to a time when we as northerners, will have the authority to properly manage public lands, resources and water in a responsible, sustainable manner for the benefit of the current and future generations. [...] Tapping Birch trees for the sap to make birch syrup with. Published on May 23, 2012 by TheWildNorth from Hay River Northwest Territories, Canada 
A genetic analysis of tribal human groups show how Native Americans made their way from Russia. [...] The other paper expands this view of circumarctic peoples to closely consider the genetic histories of three groups that live in the Canadian Northwest Territories: The Inuvialuit, the Gwich'in and the Tlicho. The researchers analyzed mutations and short stretches of DNA, which unveiled several new branches of the family tree of circumarctic groups. One marker, found in the Inuvialuit but not the other two groups, suggests that this group arose from an Arctic migration event somewhere between 4,000 and 8,000 years ago. "If we're correct, [this lineage] was present across the entire Arctic and in Beringia," Schurr said. "This means it traces a separate expansion of Eskimo-Aleut-speaking peoples across this region." "Perhaps the most extraordinary finding to come out of these two studies is the way the traditional stories and the linguistic patterns correlate with the genetic data," Spencer Wells, a researcher from the National Geographic's Genographic Project, which participated in the projects. "Genetics complements our understanding of history but doesn't replace other components of group identity." 02 01 SUAANGAN Inuvik Community Corporation Jerry Lennie Gayle Gruben John Day Gerry Kisoun Published on May 16, 2012 by InuvialuitTelevision
VIDEO 2004 Great Northern Arts Festival An overview and a short history of the festival. 
Sunday, May 13, 2012 Stranded...in Yellowknife [excerpt] Blitz and I were up at 3:30am to catch our flight this morning from Edmonton, everything went smoothly but somewhere deep in my guts I felt this was not going to go as planned. Seen the First Air crew load Blitz and my luggage on the plane and soon we were off to Yellowknife then home sweet home. As I was entering the Yellowknife Airport there was an announcement over the PA system stating that the flight to Cambridge Bay was cancelled due to weather. Arrrrrg! So off I went to the First Air counter to change my flight until tomorrow morning. Collected my boy and luggage and figure out what to do next. After I received my new itinerary I called Craig to try to find me a hotel room for the night otherwise Blitz and I were going to have to share kennel space. He found us a room at the Explorer Hotel and for a cool $230.00 we had a place to sleep. I called the hotel to ask for a shuttle pickup and I was told that the shuttle should be there, I replied no I am sorry it is not. Then I was informed that I have to take a cab to the hotel as the shuttle was done until the next flight....really?! Because I have a large dog kennel I needed a van to pick us up and the taxi company said no problem but there is an additional charge for a van. So after a short trip from the airport to the hotel and $25.00 later we are settled in. Now the problem is that I have no food for Blitz and the hotel will not let me leave him in his kennel alone in the room while I go to the store for some dog food. I just ordered room service for Blitz and myself, tonight's menu is a cheeseburger for him and Whitefish for myself and a glass of wine. Dinner should be around $80.00, sorry no discount for the cheeseburger platter minus the fries. So if you are keeping track I am over the $300.00 mark for a stay in Yellowknife. Oh I should of told you that Cambridge Bay was experiencing clear blue skies this afternoon...cancelled due to weather? I always try to look at the bright side of things and here it is: I met a couple of people from CamBay that have been stuck in Yellowknife since last Thursday so I will be lucky if I am here for only one night. (crossing my fingers as I type this) Also I truly love the rugged landscape of Yellowknife and after Blitz and I napped we had a nice walk. Tonight after dinner we will relax, watch some TV, and just hang out with each other. Now I ask everyone to dance and pray to the Cambridge Bay Weather Gods as Blitz and I want to go home. Talk soon! 
Northwest Territories http://www.councilofthefederation.ca/pdfs/2012_Literacy_Awards_NWT.pdf Nunavut http://www.gov.nu.ca/files/Nomination%20form_Eng%202012.pdf Yukon http://www.education.gov.yk.ca/advanceded/labour/literacyprograms.html#cof Literacy skills are the essential building blocks for the development of a vibrant society and economy. These foundation skills are embedded in activities in the home, school, community and workplace. There is a continuum of development ranging from learning to read through to reading to learn a variety of other skills and perspectives on life. The end of this continuum is the complex set of skills necessary for daily life, employment, citizenship, and personal advancement and enjoyment in our modern and diverse society. Today, the broad definition of literacy includes a variety of skills: reading text, document use, writing, oral communications, numeracy, thinking skills, computer use, working with others and continuous learning. Canada’s provinces and territories are repositories of innovative principles, practices and programs that reflect the very highest ideals in literacy best practices, and serve the varying needs of many different types of learners. In order to bring recognition to achievements in literacy in every province and territory, Premiers created a Council of the Federation Literacy Award medallion. The award recognizes outstanding achievement, innovative practice and excellence in literacy. Thirteen Council of the Federation Literacy medallions are presented annually, one for each province and territory. The Council of the Federation Literacy Award covers the entire spectrum of the field, including family, Aboriginal, health, workplace and community literacy and is given to recognize the excellence of educators, volunteers, learners, and community organizations (including non-governmental organizations) and businesses in each province and territory. [...] |
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