The North

Is there a way to bring Yellowknife's only movie theatre back from the dead? Join us at the theatre's last night, then hear from a documentary producer who's studying the broader phenomenon of small theatres closing – and the society that rescued a theatre in Whitehorse.

Google flew influencers to Yellowknife this month to promote its Pixel phones and Gemini AI. The result – AI videos that manipulate the city's snow sculptures – have the sculptors raising some questions. Yellowknife snow sculptor Cat McGurk talks through some of the implications as the rapid rise of AI meets a niche northern art form. Plus NWT Tourism's Donna Lee Demarcke looks at the Goog...

Cabin Radio's Claire McFarlane walks us through some of the reaction to last week's big NWT announcements from the prime minister. What's set to change and how are different people looking at this?

Tell your knuckles and fingers to cover their ears: this is our 2026 Arctic Winter Games recap podcast, and it's a hard one on your hands. Avery Groenewegen describes the winter camping trip gone horribly wrong that nearly stopped her competing in ski biathlon. Chris Stipdonk talks us through his knuckle hop world record. And Governor General Mary Simon tells us which sport she most wants to c...

Emily Blake checks out two new attractions in the NWT capital: the newly unveiled Islamic Centre of Yellowknife and the inaugural edition of a set of dog races on a local lake designed for amateurs and their pups. Plus Niki Mckenzie on snow carving at a Finnish festival and Paul Gruner on the Tłı̨chǫ Investment Corporation's decision to invest in housing firm Arcan.

Philippe Deslandes, in his third year building the Snowcastle that appears on Yellowknife Bay each March, talks us through what changes when it's a February as bleakly cold as this one. Also on the show: Brett Hansen and Mallory Chipman tell Jasmine Nasogaluak about their NACC show Confluence, and former journalist Amanda Lindhout – held captive in Somalia for more than a year – talks to Emily...

Marie-Soleil Lacoursiére sets out her vision for leading NWT tour operator Aurora Village as she takes over its day-to-day running, plus Andrew Gilmour explains why the NWT School Sports Association believes a basketball tournament this weekend needs heightened security. Also on the show: the link between a Canadian Press photo of a young Prince Andrew in Yellowknife in the early 1980s, and the Re...

Claire McFarlane asks Indigenous services minister Mandy Gull-Masty what we can expect from coming changes to Jordan's Principle. Also in this episode: young skiers from Little Red River Cree Nation come to Yellowknife, and the authors of Talk Treaty To Me preview the launch of their book.

Remarks at a major conference on the Arctic appear to suggest the Arctic Corridor from Yellowknife to Nunavut's coast is on the way to getting a green light. Plus meet the Hay River author of an anthology about military life who's receiving national attention.

Christopher McMillan is the publisher of a new zine focused on Yellowknife music. He explores the concept with Cabin Radio's Miriam Bosiljevac.

The Arctic360 conference is under way in Toronto. What's the northern conversation like right now between governments, diplomats and businesses? Plus Jully Black talks to Aastha Sethi about playing Yellowknife's Black History Month gala.

Let's do an economy episode. Caroline Wawzonek sets out the GNWT's financial approach to the next year, ministers explain what they're doing to ramp up critical minerals in the North, and we spend time at a bioenergy summit in Yellowknife.

A power outage threw Yellowknife's Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre into darkness just as kids aged seven to 13 from Mildred Hall School were unveiling a special week-long exhibit about the Ice Age and Earth's history. Join Cabin Radio's Jasmine Nasogaluak and Aastha Sethi as they learn more about the students' exhibit and why it earned a place in "the big leagues&quot...

Jacob Charpentier, Jesse Wheeler and Julian Morse explain why Yellowknife's only movie theatre closing would be so damaging to the community in their eyes. Plus Emily Blake checks out a snowboarding clinic at a former gravel pit that's billed as an inclusive way into the sport.

Yellowknife resident Cat McGurk entered a snow sculpting contest in Minnesota – only to find a state tormented by ICE's killings on the streets, and a sculpture destroyed at the organizers' behest. Also in this episode: how Becca Denley wants to turn parking spaces into green spaces in the NWT capital this summer.

The Capitol Theatre, Yellowknife's only movie theatre, will close on March 31. It had been losing money for years. Theatre general manager Chris Wood joined Ollie to talk about why it's going away.

Billions of dollars in spending appears headed for Yellowknife and Inuvik to ramp up the Canadian Armed Forces' presence and enforce Arctic sovereignty. To what extent is this the North's next big economic driver? The two communities' mayors took our questions.

Norman Wells is losing its wells. Does that mean it's losing everything? Imperial Oil announced on Friday it will end operations at its Norman Wells facility, which is more than a century old, later this year. Norman Wells exists because of the oil field, so our reporters asked residents and leaders what this means for the community.

Harley Minakis and his family were travelling home from a trip to Costa Rica for a wedding. Their return involved a short layover in Houston, Texas before catching a flight to Toronto. That's when Minakis, who is Gwich'in, says he was detained at the airport by US border agents. Here's the story. Plus: how two NWT jerseys ended up being worn by Connor McDavid, and why the Northern Jour...

Sydney Galusha and Brynn Chorostkowski are 16. Ella Skauge is 17. They are three fifths of the NWT's Team Kaufman at Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the women's curling national championship that starts on Friday. Meet the team here.

What can Yellowknife and the NWT learn from the Nordic countries about defence and emergencies? Ambassadors from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland and Finland were in the territorial capital this week. Plus AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse condemns Trump over Greenland as she opens the Dene National Assembly in Fort Good Hope, and we'll hear some of Prime Minister Mark Carney's World Econ...

The NWT's MP joins Ollie to preview 2026, walk us through her priorities and discuss how Canada should be responding to US threats toward Greenland. Plus Janet Dean explains why her Territorial Agri-food Association has decided Yellowknife needs a new coffee festival. And if you hadn't previously heard of civet coffee... well, you might be surprised.

Kenny Ruptash has had about eight months as chair of Aurora College's board of governors. What does he want the college to achieve this year? Should it move its Yellowknife campus to a downtown mall? What about its Inuvik and Fort Smith campuses? And will it ever become a polytechnic university as planned? He joined us to talk about those topics. Plus Yellowknife's mayor and city manager take ques...

A compilation album being released this month promises to unite 30 bands from the past 30 years of NWT music history. Tyler WhiteKeyes tells us more. Plus: If someone sent you a voice note in Finnish, how would you dance to that? A Yellowknifer and a Thai-Norwegian are at the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre, figuring out the answer.

Air Tindi president Chris Reynolds walks us through how the airline responded to a crash that investigators say highlighted a problematic safety culture. The investigation report came out this week . Reynolds said big changes have been made since the accident. And Dian Papineau-Magill looks back at CKHR, the Hay River community radio station, which is no more. After years off the air, the CRTC has...