Cabin Talks

The History Channel's reality show Ice Road Truckers is back after an eight-year hiatus – and it has a new Yellowknife driver in the hot seat.

The legendary Alex Debogorski may no longer be a star, but Scott Yuill has stepped up to represent the NWT. He joined Ollie to talk about the new season, which debuts on October 1, 2025.

What if all the foliage we clear to protect northern communities from wildfires was turned into biomass? This researcher at the Canadian Forest Service says by "collecting less than one percent of the biomass identified at high risk of wildfire, most communities could completely replace their annual fossil fuel needs."

Now, he's looking for communities to take part in a pilot.

Jamie Fulford, deputy minister of the GNWT department responsible for lead testing in schools, is asked how the tests went from a well-intended pilot project to the centre of a government crisis over the past week – and what parents need to know.

Read more about the tests on the Cabin Radio website.

Smith's Landing First Nation is now Tthebatthıe Dënésułıné Nation. Chief Thaidene Paulette explains why the First Nation took that step and how the new name was chosen.

Ben Hendriksen is Yellowknife's mayor for 18 months after a process in which just five people could vote.

Listen to the Mornings at the Cabin team inspect his credentials, plus hear the speeches Hendriksen and his two rivals for the job gave to their fellow councillors, whose votes they needed.

NWT chief public health officer Dr Kami Kandola joins Ollie to discuss what you need to know about a confirmed measles case in Yellowknife.

Ollie hosts Cabin Radio's 2025 live election debate for candidates in the Northwest Territories. Here's the full show as broadcast from 8-9pm on April 10, 2025.

Listen to our full interviews with the NWT's candidates in the 2025 federal election: Rebecca Alty, Kimberly Fairman, Kelvin Kotchilea and Rainbow Eyes (Angela Davidson).

We'll have more next week, too, after our live election debate – which you can catch on Cabin Radio from 8pm MT on Thursday, April 10.

Fifteen minutes looking at Donald Trump's tariffs through the lens of Yellowknife's only bookstore. (And no, they don't carry any books on tariffs.)

Witnessing the death of two fellow firefighters in 2005 was the start of Seann May's long journey into post-traumatic stress disorder and treatment.

Now a deputy fire chief in Yellowknife, Sean joined Ollie to talk about what happened to him and the importance of giving first responders help to process the work they do.

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.