Check out the lineup at NWT Arts-sponsored table at the YK Farmer’s Market this summer. Look for blue NWT Arts table cloth! (table #2 beside the Fireweed Studio Log Cabin)
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Minister Wawzonek addressed the 31st Annual PNWER Summit this morning.
PNWER (which stands for the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region) is a recognized non-partisan policy forum for regionally-based collaboration between public, private, academic, and non-profit stakeholders in pursuit of economic goals.
Northern leaders, working together as the Intergovernmental Council (IGC), are now working to identify and develop the regulations that will be needed to bring the MRA into force.
The Government of the Northwest Territories is working with a variety of partners to revitalize the Great Slave Lake Commercial Fishing sector and to restore its contributions to the NWT economy. Key to revitalizing the fishery, is fostering skill development locally.
The NWT Arts Program has a new display at the Chateau Nova Hotel in Yellowknife, showcasing work from contemporary and traditional visual artists from across the Northwest Territories (NWT).
The Northwest Territories now has an formal chapter of Women in Mining, Canada’s leading organization for the promotion and empowerment of women in in mining and affiliated industries.
The Mining Incentive Program (MIP) has announced recipients for the latest round of funding for exploration projects in the NWT. Sixteen project applications were successful and have been awarded funding for the 2022-2023 fiscal year.
The NWT Arts Program (administered by the Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment), in partnership with the Adäka Cultural Festival, supported a cohort of 13 Indigenous visual artists from the NWT to attend the 2022 Festival in Whitehorse, June 29 to July 5.
Markets are an important part of building resilient local economies and are great starting-off point for a new business.
Check out “Rivers of Change” a new StoryMap* that will help people visualize NWT’s changing permafrost landscape. The StoryMap was produced through collaboration between the Northwest Territories Geological Survey (NTGS) and Carleton University Northern Studies MSc student Sarah Simpkin.