Inuvik operating room closed until June 30
The Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority says patients planning to give birth by C-section will be transferred to Yellowknife, along with high-risk pregnancies.
#hospital #health #travel #Inuvik #Yellowknife #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/inuvik-n-w-t-operating-room-closed-june-23-30-1.7569405?cmp=rss
#yellowknife
How National Indigenous Peoples Day was celebrated in Yellowknife and Whitehorse
Food, music, clothing and community have been integral to how people across the North celebrated National Indigenous Peoples Day.
#holiday #culture #food #music #Yellowknife #Whitehorse
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yellowknife-whitehorse-indigenous-1.7567896?cmp=rss
Last week I participated in the Velo City conference in #Gdansk , Poland. It was a beautiful city and a fantastic event. It was so energising to see all the different research, advocacy, and technology at work around the world focused on #urbancycling .
Our dependence on cars makes us more sick, depressed, isolated, & poor. Building & maintaining car infrastructure is a terribly inefficient use of city land, personnel, & finances. And it's dreadful for the environment. There's a surfeit of research that explores all of this.
Travelling by bike is the most efficient and accessible mode of intra-city transport, and with equipment like electric tricycles, cargo-bikes, folding bikes, or the classic "omafeits", almost anyone should be able to bike. Unfortunately, the car-focused design of our cities often makes it difficult.
I'll be heading back to #Yellowknife with lots of fresh ideas on how my city can become an active mobility capitol! Check out https://shiftnwt.org/ to see the work we're doing!
City of Yellowknife looks to rezone popular Willow Flats green space for housing
The city is asking for public feedback on a plan to rezone the Willow Flats area to allow for possible housing development, but some area residents don't like the idea.
#housing #city #development #environment #Yellowknife #WillowFlats
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/city-of-yellowknife-looks-to-rezone-popular-willow-flats-green-space-for-housing-1.7564867?cmp=rss
That weird smell in Yellowknife is totally normal, city says
A sewage-like smell settled over parts of the city Wednesday. It's likely due to "natural lake overturning" at Fiddler's Lake Lagoon that happens every spring.
#environment #city #Yellowknife #FiddlersLakeLagoon #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/that-weird-smell-in-yellowknife-is-totally-normal-city-says-1.7564936?cmp=rss
Love this story from Sara Verheul at @cabinradio
“The Beer Barge fundraiser honours the first resupply barge of the summer, which would bring beer and other supplies to Yellowknife after the lake thawed in the city’s earlier, pre-highway days. ‘By that time, alcohol reserves were either completely gone or down to dangerously low levels, so when the barge arrived, it was a very big deal – and a good excuse for a party,’ Choban told Cabin Radio.”
https://cabinradio.ca/243845/news/yellowknife/beer-barge-will-be-bargeless-but-beerful-in-2025/
Yellowknife encampment residents say they feel more supported this summer after moving to new spot
A downtown Yellowknife tent encampment has moved about a kilometre northwest, near the territory's museum, and people staying there say the transition went smoothly.
#housing #community #support #Yellowknife #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yellowknife-encampment-residents-say-they-feel-more-supported-this-summer-after-moving-to-new-spot-1.7562781?cmp=rss
Yellowknife's 2025 food truck lottery will be held on Thursday, June 26, at 10:30 AM inside city council chambers. This annual draw determines downtown summer locations for validly licensed food trucks. #Yellowknife #FoodTrucks https://cabinradio.ca/243325/news/yellowknife/yellowknifes-2025-food-truck-lottery-to-be-held-on-june-26/
Yellowknife recruiting lifeguards as new pool sees thousands of users within first month
The City of Yellowknife is recruiting more lifeguards to work at the newly opened aquatic centre to accommodate the high level of attendance.
#recruiting #sports #aquatics #Yellowknife #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yellowknife-recruiting-lifeguards-pool-thousands-users-within-first-month-1.7561261?cmp=rss
#Yellowknife comes out on this global day of action to #MarchtoGaza. https://cabinradio.ca/243405/news/politics/yellowknifers-rally-in-solidarity-with-march-for-gaza/
#FreePalestine #StoptheGenocide #ArmsEmbargo #CeasefireNow #cdnpoli
Additional lead testing happening at Yellowknife schools this week
École William McDonald Middle School was having its drinking water tested Thursday and Range Lake North School will be tested Friday. Last month, Yellowknife Education District No. 1 notified parents and staff about high levels of lead in the water at the two...
#water #lead #school #safety #Yellowknife #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/additional-lead-testing-happening-at-yellowknife-schools-this-week-1.7560019?cmp=rss
3 charged with manslaughter over 2022 homicide in Yellowknife
The N.W.T. RCMP has charged three people with manslaughter related to the 2022 death of Feysal Farah in Yellowknife.
#crime #death #law #Yellowknife #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/3-charged-2022-homicide-in-yellowknife-1.7558683?cmp=rss
Fediverse Support Line #2 - Migrating
City councillors recommend more services and enforcement at Yellowknife encampment
A resolution recommends that the territory ensure there is access to basic needs, such as porta-potties, potable water and other necessities. It commits to providing solid waste and sewage collection, but it said that would have to be at the request of t...
#services #government #city #waste #Yellowknife #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yellowknife-council-motion-on-downtown-encampment-1.7556563?cmp=rss
3 things I tried for the first time as an Inuk teen visiting the South
Thomas Kimiksana is an Inuk teen from Ulukhaktok, N.W.T. As part of a school project, he and five other students travelled to museums in Yellowknife, Edmonton and Ottawa to learn more about Inuit culture. Along the way, he got to try some things that aren’t as easily accessible back home.
#travel #culture #food #school #Ulukhaktok #Yellowknife
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6785194?cmp=rss
2 birds in Yellowknife test positive for avian flu
Two birds in Yellowknife, a raven and ring-billed gull, have tested positive for bird flu and the N.W.T. government is warning residents on how best to take precautions.
#bird #flu #wildlife #government #Yellowknife #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/two-yellowknife-birds-test-positive-for-bird-flu-1.7554605?cmp=rss
Researchers look at how N.W.T.'s Giant Mine closure plan can consider climate change
Yellowknife residents had a chance this week to learn more about a research project that's looking at how a changing climate could affect the management and remediation of legacy mine projects, like Giant Mine.
#research #climate #mine #environment #NWT #Yellowknife
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/a-research-initiative-asks-how-giant-mine-closure-plans-can-account-for-climate-change-1.7553828?cmp=rss
The smoke from #Canada’s #wildfires may be even more #toxic than usual
A legacy of #mining means that #ToxicMetals could be carried along plumes of smoke.
by Matt Simon, June 5, 2025
"More than 200 wildfires are blazing across central and western Canada, half of which are out of control because they’re so hard for crews to access, forcing 27,000 people to evacuate. Even those nowhere near the wildfires are suffering as smoke swirls around Canada and wafts south, creating hazardous air quality all over the midwestern and eastern parts of the United States. The smoke is even reaching Europe.
"As the climate changes, the far north is drying and warming, which means wildfires are getting bigger and more intense. The area burned in Canada is now the second largest on record for this time of year, trailing behind the brutal wildfire season of 2023. That year, the amount of #carbon blazed into the atmosphere was about three times the country’s #FossilFuel emissions. And the more carbon that’s emitted from wildfires — in Canada and elsewhere — the faster the #PlanetaryWarming, and the worse the fires.
" 'There’s obviously the #ClimateFeedback concern,' said Mike Waddington, an environmental scientist at McMaster University in Ontario who studies Canada’s forests. 'But increasingly we’re also concerned about the smoke.'
"That’s because there’s much more to wildfire smoke than charred sticks and leaves, especially where these blazes are burning in Canada. The country’s #forests have long been #mined, operations that loaded #soils and #waterways with #ToxicMetals like #lead and #mercury, especially before clean-air standards kicked in 50 years ago. Now everyone downwind of these wildfires may have to contend with that legacy and those pollutants, in addition to all the other nasties inherent in #WildfireSmoke, which are known to exacerbate respiratory and cardiac problems.
" 'You have there the burning of these organic soils resulting in a lot of carbon and a lot of #ParticulateMatter,' said Waddington. 'Now you have this triple whammy, where you have the metals #remobilized in addition to that.'
"What exactly is lurking in the smoke from Canadian wildfires will require further testing by scientists. But an area of particular concern is around the mining city of #FlinFlon, in #ManitobaCanada, which is known to have elevated levels of toxic metals in the landscape, said Colin McCarter, an environmental scientist who studies pollutants at Ontario’s #NipissingUniversity. Flin Flon’s 5,000 residents have been evacuated as a wildfire approaches, though so far no structures have been destroyed.
"But a fire doesn’t need to directly burn mining operations to mobilize toxicants. For example, in #Yellowknife, in Canada’s #NorthwestTerritories, #GoldMining operations between 1934 and 2004 spread #arsenic as far as 18 miles away, adding to a landscape with an already high concentration of naturally occurring arsenic. In a paper published last year, Waddington and McCarter estimated that between 1972 and 2023, wildfires around Yellowknife fired up to 840,000 pounds of arsenic into the atmosphere. Arsenic is a known carcinogen associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and developmental problems, according to the World Health Organization. (After the 2023 #LahainaFire in Maui, officials reported elevated levels of arsenic, lead, and other toxic substances in ash samples. California officials also found lots of lead in smoke from 2018’s #CampFire.)"
Source:
https://grist.org/climate/canada-wildfire-smoke-toxic-arsenic/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#WaterIsLife #SoilIsLife #AirIsLife #Mining #ToxicLegacy #FirstNations #Canada #Pollution #Worldwide #AQI #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #AirQualityIndex
Fire at Yellowknife apartment that displaced public housing tenants caused by smoking
The cause of a fire that displaced tenants of public housing from Yellowknife's Sunridge Place apartment complex in March was determined to be accidental.
#fire #housing #accident #Yellowknife #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/fire-that-displaced-public-housing-tenants-from-yellowknife-apartment-caused-by-smoking-1.7553684?cmp=rss
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