Lunchtime News
687 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCabin Radio's daily news summary: reports and interviews from across the Northwest Territories, Canada, and the world.
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December 4, 2018: Youth in Care
December 04, 2018 19:51 - 17 minutes - 23.9 MBSandra Noel is the NWT representative for an organisation that represents children in foster care. In this interview she speaks about YIC Canada, her experiences in foster care, and her plans to advocate at the national level.
December 3, 2018: Pool Politics
December 03, 2018 21:35 - 19 minutes - 26.5 MBThe future of a new swimming pool in Yellowknife is set to go to a public vote. Mayor Rebecca Alty explains what's happening.
November 30, 2018: Party Politics in the NWT
November 30, 2018 20:35 - 42 minutes - 58.3 MBOllie interviews MLA Kieron Testart about the merits of switching from consensus by independent politicans to a party system that would lead to more accountability in the territorial government. NWT elections are next year.
November 29, 2018: High School Hockey Championship
November 29, 2018 19:55 - 9 minutes - 13.3 MBHockey Night in Yellowknife: Sir John vs St. Pat's. Cabin Radio attended the annual championship; post-game interviews for both the girl's and boy's teams are at hand. 3:43 - Girl's Hockey 5:41 - Boy's Hockey
November 28, 2018: Skinning Knife for a Microphone
November 28, 2018 19:59 - 10 minutes - 13.8 MB03:42 - Former CBC broadcaster Patti Kay has published a book outlining her transition "from the trapline to the deadline of radio" and her 30 years of experience as a northern journalist following 10 years of hunting and fishing.
November 27, 2018: YWCA explains handling of donations
November 28, 2018 19:33 - 17 minutes - 23.5 MB03:42 - The YWCA is accused of not doing enough to help victims of the recent residential fire but the head of the charity explains how it operates and what it is doing to help. 14:37 - The Executive Producer for Folk on the Rocks describes the selection process for the summer music festival.
November 26, 2018: Jamboree Jeopardy
November 26, 2018 18:07 - 9 minutes - 13.1 MBThe Long John Jamboree attempts to recover from a $20,000 loss caused by wild weather at its 2018 festival, and a Yellowknife daycare closes amid a range of complaints, angering parents.
November 23, 2018: Masters of Disasters
November 26, 2018 18:03 - 9 minutes - 13.3 MBA father and son appear in court over the murder of a Yellowknife cab driver, and teams take part in a battle of wits where they play the role of administrators organizing an NWT community in the face of increasing peril.
November 22, 2018: Toronto Flights
November 26, 2018 18:02 - 13 minutes - 18.5 MBAn airline is considering direct flights from Yellowknife to Toronto, and the NWT Power Corporation says ratepayers must still help foot a repair bill despite new government funding,
November 21, 2018: A teen charged with murder
November 23, 2018 00:13 - 10 minutes - 14 MBAn 18-year-old is accused of murdering a Yellowknife cab driver, while the territory says caribou numbers have plunged to a fresh low.
November 20, 2018: Three Feathers
November 21, 2018 18:08 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBBrent Kaulback, Richard Van Camp, and Eileen Beaver take us inside South Slave-produced movie Three Feathers, which was made in four separate languages and launched on the weekend.
November 19, 2018: Jamie Koe
November 21, 2018 18:07 - 15 minutes - 21.2 MBJamie Koe gives his version of why his rink was kicked out of a World Curling Tour event, plus how a house cat survived six weeks on the Yellowknife streets.
November 16, 2018: YK's economy
November 21, 2018 18:06 - 21 minutes - 30.1 MBMayor Rebecca Alty on pushing for more federal money and how a strike might affect the City, plus Casey Koyczan debuts a new track,
November 15, 2018: Wally Schumann on the NWT's economy
November 18, 2018 01:08 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBWally Schumann, the NWT's industry, tourism, investment, and infrastructure minister, joins Ollie for an in-depth look at the territory's economic prospects.
November 14, 2018: Watching your business fail
November 18, 2018 01:08 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBAn emotional interview with Stacie Smith as she predicts the failure of her Yellowknife business Flowers North, plus the NWT's flu season begins, pressure to make an abortion pill free to all, and Carmen Braden begins work on a new album.
November 13, 2018: Front line of NWT child protection
November 18, 2018 00:57 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBOllie heads to Behchoko to meet two social workers who help the community's children and families, following recent criticism of Child and Family Services.
November 9, 2018: Yellowknife's draft budget
November 18, 2018 00:50 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MBThe new Mayor of Yellowknife, Rebecca Alty, talks Cabin Radio through her first week in office and the city's draft budget.
November 8, 2018: Angela Gzowski's Netflix shoot
November 18, 2018 00:35 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MBYellowknife photographer Angela Gzowski goes behind the scenes on a Netflix hit, and Movember pits two NWT airlines against each other.
November 7, 2018: Air North's Ottawa route
November 18, 2018 00:29 - 14 minutes - 20.1 MBThe Democrats seize the House of Representatives, plus Air North boss Joe Sparling explains the future of his airline's Yellowknife-Ottawa flights.
October 9, 2018
October 09, 2018 17:05 - 45 minutes - 61.9 MBDr Kami Kandola discusses her role as the NWT's new chief public health officer, Chris Gillander makes his pitch for your vote in Yellowknife, and we remember Gaby Barbier.
September 5, 2018
September 05, 2018 19:17 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBYellowknife mayoral candidate Jerald Sibbeston is interviewed, plus director Jen Walden on NWT feature Elijah and the Rock Creature.
September 4, 2018
September 04, 2018 18:33 - 15 minutes - 20.8 MBOllie joins teens jumping from the Yellowknife River bridge, and a woman helping the city's homeless finds her own home is now full – to bursting – of donated items.
August 31, 2018
August 31, 2018 16:45 - 19 minutes - 26.9 MBAdrian Bell resigns as Yellowknife's deputy mayor, and a Cabin Radio host plans a run for election with a platform based on Walt Humphries paintings.
August 30, 2018
August 30, 2018 16:39 - 20 minutes - 28.5 MBTrans Mountain expansion approvals are halted by a federal court, Yellowknife's bike park plans get a boost, and how an airline reunited a Yellowknifer with her lost book.
August 29, 2018
August 30, 2018 16:39 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MBThe findings are published of an inquiry into how harassment allegations at Yellowknife's City Hall were handled, and former Giant Mine boss Margaret Kent speaks.
August 28, 2018
August 28, 2018 16:47 - 14 minutes - 19.7 MBHow Yellowknife is losing millions in cold-weather testing revenue, a quiet wildfire season, and the lights on the city's water treatment plant are too bright for some.
August 27, 2018
August 27, 2018 16:02 - 16 minutes - 22.4 MBThe Conservatives say the territories should keep 100 percent of resource royalties, and Fort Smith names an observatory for Canada's first female astronaut.
August 24, 2018
August 24, 2018 18:38 - 13 minutes - 18.2 MBYellowknife's Copperhouse restaurant fires its head chef, Music Exchange triumphs in 2018's Win Your Space contest, and a reward is posted for a renegade turtle.
August 23, 2018
August 23, 2018 18:31 - 24 minutes - 34.2 MBNorman Yakeleya is the new Dene National Chief, RCMP review their treatment of a Yellowknife sexual assault victim, and Sahtu students take flight with NASA.
August 22, 2018
August 22, 2018 18:19 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MBPilots' union discusses First Air and Canadian North merger, the siding falls off Yellowknife's Bellanca building, and a trip to the new pop-up pantry.
August 21, 2018
August 21, 2018 23:35 - 19 minutes - 26.1 MBBob McLeod stands down the 'red alert', Dominic LeBlanc's first NWT news conference as northern affairs minister, and Yellowknife's fearless, young fundraiser.
Lunchtime News - August 20, 2018
August 20, 2018 18:23 - 18 minutes - 25 MBTributes to late Deninu School principal Kate Powell, Yellowknife's mud run is hit by an apparent theft, and a close encounter with a fugitive turtle.
Lunchtime News - August 17, 2018
August 17, 2018 18:37 - 17 minutes - 24.5 MBThree people die in a plane crash in the Dehcho, the Tundra Mine is declared fully cleaned up by the federal government, and we preview NWT Pride.
Lunchtime News - August 16, 2018
August 17, 2018 05:04 - 20 minutes - 27.6 MBNatan Obed re-elected ITK leader, woman charged over Sushi Café smash, and what caribou poop says about mining.
Lunchtime News - August 15, 2018
August 17, 2018 05:04 - 14 minutes - 19.5 MBYellowknife's Instagram status, needle and syringe concerns in Fort Smith, and the World Wildlife Fund's northern projects.
Lunchtime News - August 14, 2018
August 17, 2018 05:04 - 20 minutes - 28 MBA Northwest Passage special, plus the risks behind a viral kayaking video over an NWT waterfall.
Lunchtime News - August 13, 2018
August 17, 2018 05:04 - 14 minutes - 20.3 MBThe Dene sacred tree falls, the NWT smokes more cannabis than most of Canada, and a wonderful Queerlesque wedding.