An intensive eight-month Commercial Fishermen Training Program will begin next week in Hay River. The program, which will combine classroom learning with hands-on work on Great Slave Lake, is a partnered initiative involving the NWT Fishermen’s Federation, the Department of ITI and the Soaring Eagle Friendship Centre.
GNWT political and government representatives demonstrated the territory’s broad-based commitment to mining and exploration this week at Canada’s premier industry conference for mining.
While many visitors have called the Northwest Territories one of the best kept secrets in tourism – it may not stay a secret for long! NWT Tourism (NWTT) has launched a new promotional campaign called Secrets. In honour of Canada’s 150th anniversary, NWTT will be revealing 150 secrets about the NWT.
Two regions; two new stories for NWT kimberlite.
It will be hard to miss the Northwest Territories (NWT) at the trade show of this year’s Mineral Exploration Roundup Conference January 23-26 in Vancouver.
From food preservation and gardening workshops to the introduction of barnyard animals at the agriculture fair, the Dehcho Region saw impressive growth in their agriculture sector in 2016. Through its regional offices, the Department of Industry, Tourism, and Investment works jointly with the federal government to administer and deliver the Growing Forward 2 Program to enhance local food production.
The Edmonton International Airport (EIA) receives approximately 7.5 million passengers throughout the year and now those patrons can view Northwest Territories (NWT) artwork between connections.
Core samples are important assets for mineral explorers and curious scientists. They hold millions of years in geological information and are ground zero for identifying mineral deposits. The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) is developing a space in the NWT capital where more than 100 kilometres of drill core collected over decades will be stored for public use.
The GNWT’s use of data and analytics to build the Northwest Territories’ (NWT) tourism industry is world-class – a fact confirmed in November at a world-renowned market research conference.
On the heels of a particularly successful year for the Northwest Territories (NWT) film industry, 2017 begins with news of another made-in-the-NWT project to be filmed entirely in the NWT. Writer-Director, Jen Walden and Producer Jeremy Emerson have clinched one of the highly-coveted top three spots in the Indiecan20K for their proposed film, Dark Sky.
