A Q+A with the Northwest Territories' Mining Recorder on a digital shift in minerals administration.
ITI News
What's in it — and what's next?
As the NWT’s new government prepares to welcome - then join - delegates at Yellowknife’s premier geoscience and natural resources event, the latest edition of Unlocking our Potential has hit the trade-show floor.
Photo credit: Mine Training Society/billbradenphoto
The first Beaufort Delta Business Trade Show as part of Small Business Week brought entrepreneurs from all realms together, including a clothing boutique, a bed and breakfast, and services for everything from taxes to photography.
One would have been hard- pressed not to find a new favourite film or become moved by the visions that flashed across the screen at the 13th Annual Yellowknife International Film Festival.
For an aspiring artist in high school, Take A Kid To Work day created a new opportunity to learn about the NWT’s impressive art industry. Kaitlyn Stewart, in grade nine at St. Patrick High School, spent her time shadowing ITI’s NWT Arts staff Johanna Tiemessen and Kayla Cooper.
The world’s largest wooden teepee, the Cirque of the Unclimbables, the thundering Virginia Falls, a nine-hole golf course and the Papal Site - where Pope John Paul II held mass in 1987 – are just a few of the draws for travelers considering a visit to Fort Simpson. Community members are eager to build on this list and on October 29, the minds behind Fort Simpson’s tourism industry came together to discuss the future of tourism for their community.
Before coming to Yellowknife two years ago, Jonel visited several countries, including Brazil and the United States. However, here is where he really feels at home. He also met his wife here. They married in February 2019.
In the Northwest Territories, the worlds of tourism and film often intersect, and yesterday was no exception.On the final day of the NWT Tourism Conference, delegates were treated to a special showing of the film Aurora Love.
Carmen Braden trudges onto Yellowknife’s Back Bay pulling a sled laden with her shovel, ice auger and a piece of muskox fur picked up at a local garage sale.The temperature has plummeted, but a cold day works best for recording. When she nears Mosher Island she augers a hole, but rather than a fishing line, she lowers her microphone down the icy column...









