The North

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.

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 in trouble or are things OK?

Johanna Stewart is a master's student in environment science whose job is to spend two years out there among the snakes, tracking them and learning what's actually going on.

We interviewed Johanna three times over the course of this year to figure out how that research works, what Johanna is looking for, and what we know so far. Plus you'll meet Big Bertha, a snake with a past.

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, Dying for Gold, five years later. Now, the pair are releasing an updated version. Lee tells us what the updated book covers, how it felt to be a part of the recent CBC podcast series about Giant, and whether he and the city have ever really moved on from what happened on September 18, 32 years ago.