By any standard SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½“ except the Northern standard SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½“ Hay River is a small town.

In November 1989 and March 1990, Inuit MLA Peter Irniq stood in the NWT legislative assembly to speak of the damage residential schools and their all-powerful staff, good and bad, had inflicted on the Inuit, Dene, Metis and Inuvialuit for many decades.

Friends, one of the things you get to do as a writer is the interviews, for print, TV or radio.

Dear Premier Cochrane,

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven, has a little bit of everything. It has sadness, romance, and even education about mental illness. This book was published in 2015 by Knopf Publishing Group and is a New York Times bestselling Young Adult book. It may be the perfect book for you. It isnSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™t part of a series but it was released as a movie on February 28, 2020. The book is 378 pages long and itSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s written from both main charactersSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™ point of view in the first person.

Yellowknife, like many municipalities across the country, has a NIMBY problem.

From the Roots Up by Tasha Spillett is the second in a series of graphic novels that delves into the lives of Indigenous women and two-spirit people living in Winnipeg. Following Surviving the City, From the Roots Up revisits Dez and MiikwanSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s lives after the death of DezSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s kokum (grandmother) leaves Dez struggling to recoup in a foster home and the introduction of a transfer student leaves Miikwan with some predictable butterflies in her stomach.

The SmokerSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s Corner.

Like many others, my family and I participated in the Yellowknife march to commemorate the 215 children found buried in unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. It must have been one of the largest public marches in the history of the NWT, easily approaching 1,000 people.

The very thought that Hay River may not have school buses as of the fall is, well, unthinkable.