Candidates in the N.W.T. election were asked to reflect on Canada's settler colonial history and how they'd maintain good relationships with Indigenous peoples during an all-candidates debate in Yellowknife on Monday.
On Nov. 14, N.W.T. voters will head to polls to elect the next Legislative Assembly. The issues facing the territory are significant the election comes after a summer of wildfires, and in the midst the impending closure of major diamond mines, a declining population and a housing crisis.
Rocky Simpson and Wally Schumann are once again battling it out for the Hay River South seat. Both previously occupied it. Vince McKay is new to territorial but spent more than a decade on town council.
"I've always done it for the passion of the community,” says a long-time volunteer firefighter in Hay River, N.W.T. But after weeks of working alongside well-paid wildland firefighters this summer, some are questioning the compensation offered to volunteers.
A coast guard vessel that was stuck in a sandbar in the Hay River, N.W.T. harbour over the weekend, highlighting the communities long running request for the federal government to dredge the waterway.