Caitrin Pilkington

Two groups may be interested in taking over the running of Inuvik’s warming shelter from Housing NWT. But GNWT budget details raise questions about funding.

People released from NWT jails can end up with the Salvation Army as their court-ordered home address, an instruction that sometimes has complex consequences.

The K’asho Got’ine Housing Society, recognized for its innovative approach in Fort Good Hope, set out goals that include social programs and trades training.

Guardians from the NWT, Nunavut and Yukon met to share experiences and discuss the future of Indigenous stewardship as efforts to connect programs grow.

Housing NWT is introducing a new, limited application window for some programs and a single form to cover them. The agency said it was streamlining the process.

Great Slave MLA Katrina Nokleby is bringing forward a motion calling for a limit to the rent increase any NWT tenant can face in a year.

MLAs passed a motion requesting that the GNWT institute a rent cap, though it isn’t binding. “I wanted to get the dialogue started,” Katrina Nokleby said.

The NWT has far more doctors registered to work here than was the case a decade or two ago – but that doesn’t equate to a shift in level of service.

A research institute is working to improve data collection on homelessness across Canada. They shared their findings at a forum in Yellowknife.

More and more beavers are heading north, and work to understand the consequences now involves an extraordinary range of people.