UNW schedules second ‘practice picket’
UNW Locals 9 and 11 are expected to take to the pop-up practice picket line on January 9 outside of the North Slave Correctional Complex’s young offender unit.
Want more female NWT MLAs? Here is what’s being discussed
A special committee is touring the territory to discuss barriers women face to running in territorial elections. We went to the Fort Smith session.
Yellowknife residents rally in anti-pipeline solidarity
Yellowknife residents joined protesters across Canada in rallying to support anti-pipeline checkpoints established by members of the Wet’suwet’en Nation.
Liberals nominate MP McLeod to defend NWT seat
At an event on Friday, NWT MP Michael McLeod will celebrate nomination by the Liberal Party to defend his seat at this year’s federal election.
Grounded: Fort Smith Chief is banned from Tim Hortons
A sign posted on Fort Smith’s joint Petro-Canada and Tim Hortons building bars Chief Frieda Martselos and her sister Judy Laviolette from the premises.
Warning of the consequences, MLAs urge more union-GNWT talks
Five territorial MLAs have urged the GNWT and UNW to “actively resume the mediation process” as collective bargaining enters a fourth year.
