Beach patrols will return to the Fed Henne Territorial Park beach beginning this Saturday, June 19, 2021. Beach attendants will be on duty seven days a week from 9:30 am – 8:30 pm until September.

The latest iteration of a conference and trade show event that began as the Inuvik Petroleum Show, features more than 75 speakers and presenters this year from across Canada and also from Alaska, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Russia, & Sweden.

It is a pleasure to address you today as part of this long running event.

It would of course be far more enjoyable for each of us to be under the midnight sun in person. Instead, I have turned my mind to next year and to the message I can deliver at what appears to be a turning point in this stage of response to global pandemic. If the trends continue, next year we will all be able to gather once again in Inuvik, in the Beaufort Delta – at the height of the summer solstice and speak and meet with you in person.

Seven corporate and eight prospector projects have been selected this year (2021-22) to receive over $1 million in funding from the GNWT’s Mining Incentive Program (MIP).

As a tribute to those that have shopped local, the NWT Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the second annual Territorial Shop Local Scan-2-Win campaign (#shopNWT) from June 14th to July 18th.

Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment Caroline Wawzonek introduced two new programs Monday to help the NWT’s tourism industry deal with the continuing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The GNWT’s newest Strategy: Rolling, Action! The Next 5 Years aims to cement the NWT’s film and media sector as a competitive and sustainable element of the NWT’s economy.

In announcing a pilot Producer Incentive Program this week, Minister Caroline Wawzonek highlighted that the NWT’s film and media sector is poised for growth.

New Film Strategy Launches for Next Five Years with Producer Incentive Pilot

When the COVID pandemic moved Northwest Territories Tourism (NWTT)’s AGM online last fall, the Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment (ITI) also had to adapt the delivery of its long-standing professional development day.

Highlights NWTT Conference - Minister addresses NWT’s tourism industry

Mr. Speaker, today’s mineral resource industry in the NWT is innovative, collaborative, environmentally conscious, and has the highest standards of safety. It collaborates with the GNWT and with Indigenous communities to enhance resources for capacity building and supports Indigenous participation in, and benefits received from, the mining industry.