Canada's North has a high cost of living, high unemployment, low high-school graduation rates and Third-World housing, a parliamentary standing committee on finance was told at a hearing in Yellowknife Wednesday.
The Yukon government said it is reopening an investigation into the territory's foreign worker nominee program after an investigative report by CBC News.
Drivers using snowmobiles, trucks and four-wheelers off-road within the boundaries of the city and Sylvia Grinnell park could face fines and seizure of the vehicle.
The N.W.T. Department of Municipal and Community Affairs estimates it will be another one to two weeks before Nahanni Butte residents can return to their homes following flooding earlier this month.
Several people from the Philippines working at Tags convenience store in Whitehorse under the nominee program say they're forced to give some of their paycheques back to their boss.
Some Canadians are waiting longer for medical treatments that federal and provincial governments agreed to provide more quickly, according to a new report.
The RCMP continues to search for a missing man in the Teslin, Yukon, area. Adelard Joseph Tremblay, from Thunder Bay, Ont., was last seen in a canoe 6 days ago.
Health Canada is not sure when it will get more BCG vaccine for tuberculosis. It is working with international manufacturers to meet Canada's short-term needs for the vaccine.
The Harper government should be looking into a made-in-Canada solution to its search-and-rescue woes, especially when it comes to buying new fixed-wing planes, a new report suggests.
