Full Comment (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
OTTAWA -- There was no missing it from the air as we landed in Fort Simpson last summer, but Environment Minister Jim Prentice still made sure to point out the future footprint of Canada’s great, and perhaps late, northern pipedream. A clearcut slash ripped straight through the boreal forest and entered the Mackenzie River before emerging to disappear into the southern horizon — the prep-work...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
OTTAWA -- There was no missing it from the air as we landed in Fort Simpson last summer, but Environment Minister Jim Prentice still made sure to point out the future footprint of Canada’s great, and perhaps late, northern pipedream. A clearcut slash ripped straight through the boreal forest and entered the Mackenzie River before emerging to disappear into the southern horizon — the prep-work...
Global Equipment for Water Waster (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Canada - Sealed Tender for Bridge Construction, Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
A Fort Simpson, N.W.T., man who died of flu-like symptoms last week did not have swine flu as previously suspected, the territory's chief coroner confirmed Thursday.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
A Fort Simpson, N.W.T., man who died last week likely did not have swine flu, although health officials are being coy in revealing test results.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
A Fort Simpson, N.W.T., man who died earlier this week might have had swine flu, the N.W.T. Health Department confirmed Thursday.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
A judge in Yellowknife is expected to deliver a verdict Wednesday in the trial of RCMP COnst. Colin Allooloo, who is accused of pepper-spraying someone who was in custody in Fort Simpson, N.W.T., three years ago.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
The Northwest Territories Power Corp. wants to experiment with a new way to generate electricity in Fort Simpson, N.W.T.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
A Fort Simpson, N.W.T., man who threatened pilots and terrified some fellow passengers aboard a flight in November should get jail time, Crown prosecutors told the territorial court on Thursday.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
Jim Antoine won a landslide victory to be elected chief in Fort Simpson, N.W.T., on Friday, marking a return to band politics for the former Northwest Territories premier.
PRAIRIE LIBRARIAN (Free subscription) | 01/14/2009
Text taken directly from NationTalk January 13, 2009 The MLA for Nahendeh, Kevin Menicoche, would like to see the library in Fort Simpson remain open. The Deh Cho Hall, which is the current home of the John Tetso Memorial library, is scheduled to permanently close its doors next month. The Deh Cho Hall is an older building [...]
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Some members of the Liidlii Kue First Nation in Fort Simpson, N.W.T., are circulating a petition calling for its chief and council to resign, in a campaign the current chief calls a vendetta.
On Deadline (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Mounties charged a passenger with punching the pilot of a Summit Air Flight while he was preparing to land Thursday in Canada's Northwest Territories, according to CBC News. "The passenger was not intoxicated when he boarded the aircraft in Fort Simpson, but there was an empty liquor bottle at his seat when the aircraft landed. So the passenger, during the flight, was drinking," Yellowknife...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
A passenger who punched the pilot aboard a Summit Air flight from Fort Simpson, N.W.T., to Yellowknife Thursday was arrested shortly after the plane touched down.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
The company behind the controversial Prairie Creek zinc-lead-silver mining project near Nahanni National Park in the N.W.T. signed a co-operation deal with the Liidlii Kue First Nation on Tuesday.
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