26: A Year With NWT Snakes
The Northwest Territories has one type of snake – the red-sided garter snake – and it lives around Fort Smith, an area pummelled by wildfires last year. How are the snakes coping with that? Are they i...
2 Des 202429min
25: Dying for Gold
Lee Selleck was a journalist in Yellowknife when, after a bitter and months-long strike, nine people were killed in an explosion at Giant Mine in 1992. He and Francis Thompson wrote a book about Giant...
23 Nov 202419min
24: So You Want to Be a Viking Woman
Viking men have spent a millennium getting all the credit. What were the women doing? We take a break from our usual northern news diet to meet Canadian author Heather Pringle, whose new book – The No...
31 Aug 202417min
23: What's In the NWT Wildfire Review?
A review of how the NWT managed its firefighters and fought 2023's fires – the worst season on record – has landed. Ollie gives you a guide to what the review says and asks the environment minister an...
28 Aug 202432min
22: Sascha Grabow
When Shirley Coumont picked up a hitch-hiker in Enterprise, it turned out to be a German adventurer (and tennis coach) who's seen more of the Earth than virtually anyone else. Now he's seen the inside...
25 Aug 202422min
21: Saving Drivers from the Flames
When a wildfire hit a lonely highway, Dylan Jones and Scott Yuill were two of the only people who could help. They told Ollie how they spent one night this month driving through burning debris, smashi...
21 Aug 202418min
20: Rebecca Alty and Yellowknife's Evacuation
A year after her city was evacuated because of oncoming wildfires, Mayor of Yellowknife Rebecca Alty joins Ollie to look back at those three weeks. How did she see her job at the time? How did she cop...
15 Aug 202430min
19: The View from ABoVE
A Nasa jet that just landed in Yellowknife is near the end of a decade-long mission to understand the changing northern landscape. The project has the cute acronym ABoVE – which we'll explain – and Ch...
14 Aug 202418min
