A 16-year-old girl in Behchokǫ̀, N.W.T., describes her arrest by RCMP earlier this month, captured on video, as aggressive and unnecessary. Police say the girl had punched an officer.
The stage has been set for a conservation boom in the Northwest Territories with a signed framework agreement between the territorial and Indigenous governments and private philanthropies.
Despite still being in a state of recovery, the community is nonetheless welcoming evacuees from Yellowknife, Dettah, Ndilǫ, and other regions as wildfires have forced two-thirds of the territory's residents to evacuate their homes.
Ninety-five per cent of the Yellowknife area was evacuated last week, while people living in Hay River, Fort Smith and Enterprise have now been out of their homes for two
The Tłı̨chǫ government is working to track down citizens who were sent all over western Canada when Yellowknife was evacuated due to a wildfire last week.