Photographers Pat Kane and Amber Bracken are two of Canada's finest. Pat invited Amber to Yellowknife as part of the city's Far North Photo Festival, and the two joined Cabin Radio's Jesse Wheeler and Scott Letkeman to talk about how they see their identity as photographers – and what it takes to just switch off when your job is about framing the world around you.

Sarah Erasmus describes the motivations driving her into "the next chapter" – which means closing her Erasmus Apparel storefront in Yellowknife after nearly 15 years.

Chief Supt Dyson Smith is in charge of RCMP in the Northwest Territories.

How are police trying to meet the demands of northern community leaders? How are RCMP trying to close a 25% vacancy rate? What's the threat of drugs to small communities, should bail be reformed, and why do a significant number of cases collapse when they end up in front of a judge? We asked him.

Kathleen Lippa was a reporter at Northern News Services in 2003 when she first heard the name Ed Horne.

More than two decades later – after many interviews, much research and a fight to unseal court records – she is publishing a book titled Arctic Predator.

Hot Frosty is a 2024 festive hit and Yellowknife's Dustin Milligan is the desirable ice sculpture-turned-man who stars in it.

Dustin joined Cabin Radio's Clams 'n' Moose to talk about the movie and more.

Multiple Northwest Territories MLAs say the new Indigenous employment policy being rolled out by the NWT government gets it wrong.

Richard Edjericon and Kieron Testart, two MLAs who oppose the policy, join Cabin Talks to discuss their concerns. Caroline Wawzonek, the minister responsible for the policy, tells us why she believes it's the right path forward.

Up Here, a magazine that covers Canada's North, is coming back to the NWT less than a year after it was sold to a Yukon-based company. Meet the new owners.

"We play this giant game of Tetris constantly." Kyle Thomas talks about growing Bush Order Provisions, a Yellowknife market garden, bakery and farm store, and the health of the city's urban agriculture economy.

Yellowknife composer and performer Carmen Braden's fourth studio album, A Hard Light, just came out. Join a listening party featuring Braden, producer Mark Adam and Cabin Radio's Ollie Williams. We'll go track by track through the album: hear the music with commentary from the people who made it.

This is excerpted from Afternoons at the Cabin, broadcast live on Cabin Radio on the afternoon of December 10, 2024. Listen live via the Cabin Radio website or get the app.

We tried a lighthearted Youth Parliament story. Not everyone loved it. So we talked to the NWT's Speaker of the House about how we get and nurture politicians.