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1 day ago |
cabinradio.ca | Ollie Williams
Read our full report here. On this page, you can get a summary that’ll only take you a minute and a half to read. The big news? The reviewers think the NWT needs its own year-round emergency management agency and Indigenous governments need to be full partners in that. There needs to be more training for elected officials and key staff in the Incident Command System, or ICS, which is a nationwide standard for communicating internally and making decisions during emergencies. Advertisement.
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1 day ago |
cabinradio.ca | Ollie Williams
The review, by contractor Transitional Solutions Inc (TSI), took a year to complete and was released on Wednesday afternoon. More: Get a 90-second summary of the review’s findings“Communities were resilient,” the review stated, “but lacked the systemic support from the GNWT to maintain it.”Advertisement. Advertisement. While the review celebrates some successes, by far the majority of its 164 pages are dedicated to what went wrong and what could be improved.
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2 days ago |
cabinradio.ca | Ollie Williams
The week-long initiative began on Tuesday and stretches through the Victoria Day weekend. “As part of a targeted effort to improve safety on our roadways this week, Northwest Territories RCMP officers will be ramping up traffic enforcement for the duration of the initiative,” police stated in a Wednesday news release. “Police will be focusing on impaired driving of all types, distracted driving, aggressive driving behaviours and seatbelt violations in particular.”Advertisement. Advertisement.
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2 days ago |
cabinradio.ca | Ollie Williams
The firms announced the deal on Wednesday. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. Calian is a conglomerate with more than 4,500 staff across divisions like health, manufacturing, defence and technology.
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2 days ago |
cabinradio.ca | Ollie Williams
In an email to Cabin Radio on Tuesday, the Office of the Chief Public Health Officer said there had been no further confirmed cases. Exposure advisories listing a range of locations were published earlier this month when an initial case of measles was identified in Yellowknife. Two schools were briefly closed and a large soccer tournament was called off. Measles is extremely infectious.
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This speech will be about two apocalypses, one of which we got through. I will have some things to say about wildfires and a lot to say about news.
Don't miss out on hearing @CabinRadio editor @OllieW's keynote at the CAJ 2024 conference. Williams will shed light on his team's experience with evacuation journalism in the face of wildfires in Yellowknife. Get your #CAJ24 tickets at: https://t.co/gTsq1aP8Uo https://t.co/LCuJHE8K6U
There's a ton of original journalism in the hopper tonight. Our Thursday front page (radio stations don't have front pages but we do) will carry real heft on the financial crises unfolding for some evacuees and the people who think this is the end of the line for them in the NWT.
Seen the NWT Strong logo online? Meet the man who designed it and is now selling products to raise money for United Way NWT. https://t.co/P3UyBHLfm8