The North

A new fund might offer some hope for affordable housing in the NWT, plus why the territory is moving to permanent DST. In our 15-minute newscast, The North Tonight: KFN's chief resigns, a school lockdown in Behchokǫ̀, a $100K lotto winner somewhere in the NWT and an alpaca farm makes its return in Fort Smith.

Meet Yellowknife's answer to Iron Man plus our Ottawa reporter breaks down a busy return to Parliament through an NWT lens. Includes The North Tonight, our NWT and world news roundup, for September 22, 2026. Today: RCMP have a wish list for the GNWT, Inuvik holds a public meeting on safety, the GNWT and City of Yellowknife say no to the Canada Winter Games, and the Bank of Canada's governo...

The North Tonight is our new 15-minute evening newscast. Here's the first episode, plus legal aid outreach lawyer Gillian Bourke joins Ollie.

Lyle Fabian wants to build a data centre in the NWT. He says it's nothing like the huge AI data centres generating so much opposition in the south. Hear some perspectives on data centres and the North. Also in this episode: meet the man attempting to recreate a century-old ascent of a Yukon mountain.

Travel author Paul Theroux has a new book out – True North: On the Road in Canada. He tells Ollie Williams about the Canada he saw on that trip, and how he thinks what's happening in the United States is making a big difference to Canadian identity.

Chief Melody Lepine of Mikisew Cree First Nation explains why she hopes United Nations inspectors who just visited Wood Buffalo National Park will conclude the area is endangered. Also, Conservative northern and Arctic affairs spokesperson Bob Zimmer sets out how his party is approaching the politics of the North after a big Liberal shift in how much attention – and how many funding promises – the...

Ollie reports on the Fort Smith shooting, its aftermath and its impact on the town's annual Fireweed Festival. Beyond the weekend's tragic events, there's a chance to meet the "vintage widows" who saw the festival's car rally as a chance to remember their late husbands, and you can hear from Fort Smith Métis musician Tom Hudson as he releases his first album in nearly 30...

Our tribute to Pi Kennedy, the NWT trapper and musher whose extraordinary life touched on everything from bush radio to the Boston Red Sox. Pi has passed away, aged 99. You can see photos from his life and read our obituary for him on our website .

Martin Emslander just reached 25 years as the technical brain behind dozens, if not hundreds of productions at Yellowknife's Northern Arts and Cultural Centre. Miriam Bosiljevac hosts a celebration of his work.

Miriam Bosiljevac speaks with Dana Bowen about her debut novel Girls with Fake Names, NWT artist Erin Suliak has a new exhibition at the Ukrainian Museum of Canada in Saskatoon, and Calem Watson sets out to canoe from the Arctic to the tropics.

Miriam Bosiljevac, in for Ollie, hears from Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami about a poverty reduction strategy and Inuit-led framework to replace Nutrition North. Plus we spend time with Diamond Dramatics, a northern theatre program for kids.

Miriam Bosiljevac, in for Ollie, speaks to UNBC research associate Annie King about how Dene and Métis people who live near the Norman Wells oil field are (and aren't) listened to by those in charge. Meanwhile, Cabin Radio intern Kai Wilson spends time at a hide tanning camp.

Miriam Bosiljevac, in for Ollie, speaks with photojournalist Jesse Winter about his experiences covering Canada’s wildfires and the release of his new book – which features the NWT's 2023 fire season. First, Cabin Radio’s Claire McFarlane walks Miriam through a three-part series examining an incident that occurred in Fort Simpson and its lasting ramifications for education in the village – and...

Heather Exner-Pirot studies northern, Arctic and Indigenous economic development for a living. Here's how she evaluates what's happening to the NWT economy right now. Her key question: "What sticks?"

How should Yellowknife residents expect the city's approach to encampments, homelessness and public safety to evolve? We asked the mayor. Plus the federal secretary of state for rural development has advice for small northern communities who worry about their economies

Longtime Gwich'in leader James Ross on the tribute he built online to his late brother, Carmen Braden on composing before decomposing, and university basketball heads north.

Meet Andrew, who describes himself as a Theravāda Buddhist monk from the US. He's living in the forest on the edge of Yellowknife, which is where Cabin Radio's Alice Twa tracked him down. Meanwhile, Claire McFarlane speaks with some of the teenagers who took over the NWT legislature as youth MLAs late last month.

Dene multidisciplinary artist Melaw Nakehk'o joins Sarah Erasmus to talk about her Sobey Art Award longlist nomination and the work that got her there – her path through art school and back home to the Dehcho, her role in the urban moose hide tanning revival, and her contribution to a new exhibition heading to the National Gallery of Canada this June.

Ollie spends time backstage as a group of Yellowknifers prepares a Gershwin musical for the NWT stage, and hears from Kathryn Patel about the online second-hand bookstore she's opening on May 1.

The military held a public meeting in Yellowknife to talk about billions of dollars in coming investment. These are the best questions residents asked.

Ollie is joined by a teachers' association leader and the NWT's education minister to look at what we're expecting when Jordan's Principle cuts fully bite this fall – and what solutions exist, if any. Plus former MLA Rylund Johnson takes a moment to celebrate the scrapping of seasonal time changes, announced this week.

Yellowknife's draft community plan is out. It calls for 2,000 new homes in the next 25 years, including 1,000 in a new neighbourhood built on green space north of Frame Lake. City planning director Charlsey White explains what City Hall is trying to do with this plan, Mayor Ben Hendriksen gives us his first take as council starts scrutinizing it, and Becca Denley examines the draft through the...

Canada says it's spending $35 billion on Arctic defence. Yellowknife and Inuvik expect billions in investment over the next decade. We know that. But why? P Whitney Lackenbauer, one of Canada's leading experts in northern defence policy, thinks we're sometimes quite vague about the actual threats underpinning that spending. Here's how he thinks about it.

Emily Blake explores a Yellowknife choir concert that features an original song about the last person imprisoned in Canada for homosexuality, while Ollie Williams hears about a new Northwestel initiative that uses the same satellite internet technology Starlink has popularized – but with a twist.

The spring carnival in Behchokǫ̀ is being postponed because the community's water supply has been in chaos for weeks through so many frozen pipes. That's just the tip of the iceberg, Chief Bertha Rabesca Zoe says. She's at the Liberal Party's convention in Montreal to bug the prime minister for money to fix the issue. Also on the show: Premier RJ Simpson just said sorry for the hur...