Yellowknife — June 29, 2021
Caroline Wawzonek, Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment (ITI) today announced new engagements with stakeholders and partners to help advance a Northwest Territories (NWT) Knowledge Economy (KE).
NWT groups and residents have the opportunity to explore and contribute to the discussion around the KE through a number of engagements, an online survey and an ideas platform.
ITI Minister Caroline Wawzonek announced this week that the GNWT is beginning work with a broad range of partners to create a Knowledge Economy Action Plan for the Northwest Territories.
Two NWT films will be showing on the big screen at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto in March 2022. They were the NWT winners of the 2021 National 48 Hour Short Film Challenge hosted by Western Arctic Moving Pictures (WAMP).
Tourism funding announced by the federal government May 28, 2021 is already at work in Hay River.
Supported by $57,500 received from the GNWT through ITI’s Community Tourism Coordinator Program ($50,000) and Tourism Product Diversification and Marketing Program ($7,500), the combined government investment is helping the town re-imagine its tourism offerings to attract a greater variety and number of travelers to the ‘Hub of the North’.
The NWT Film Commission hosted a webinar June 10th for members of the NWT film industry interested in learning more about the GNWT’s new Producer Incentive Pilot Program. The new program was introduced on June 1st, 2021. (You can view the full webinar here.)
New Film Strategy Launches for Next Five Years with Producer Incentive Pilot
After spending close to a year in the Northwest Territories because of travel restrictions, Alexandrea Malakoe and her family decided, last January, that it was time to take a staycation.
The Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment is seeking to appoint qualified individuals to the Agricultural Products Marketing Council.
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.
