Read some of CBC North's longform storytelling from 2024
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CBC North reporters are always busy delivering daily and breaking news to our radio, TV and online platforms. And sometimes, they're able to take a deeper dive into a story and produce some compelling longform journalism.
Here are some of CBC North's best longform features of this past year, in case you missed them.
When the war in Ukraine started nearly three years ago, a group of Yukoners knew they had to do something. The Ukrainian Canadian Association of Yukon has been organizing regular missions to the country to deliver medicine, medical supplies and equipment — all purchased with donations from Yukoners.
Read Kate Kyle's March feature here.
A year after a wildfire destroyed most of Enterprise, N.W.T., in August 2023, the future of the tiny hamlet was still unknown as residents wrestled with how to return — and whether they even wanted to.
Read Natalie Pressman's August feature here.
For years, the number of chinook salmon returning to spawn in Yukon's Michie Creek has been in steady decline. But things seemed different this year, according to people who closely monitor the creek.
Read Julien Greene's September feature here.
It's been talked about for decades — and yet Nunavut is still the only jurisdiction in Canada without its own heritage centre to house the territory's vast collection of cultural artifacts. To some, there's a growing sense of urgency.
Read Juanita Taylor's October feature here.
In 2023, tens of thousands of hectares of trees burned around Behchokǫ̀, N.W.T. Now, the Tłı̨chǫ government has a plan to reforest those lands, with the hope of regrowing caribou habitat in the process.
Read Liny Lamberink's October feature here.
For 65 years, the West Baffin Cooperative has put Kinngait, Nunavut, on the world map through art. It's looking to continue reaching new audiences — and to change the narrative around Inuit art.
Read Samuel Wat's November feature here.
Const. Trevor Mitchell gets into a police car outside the new police detachment at Brokenhead Ojibway Nation and begins his daily routine.
Ever since the devastating spring floods of 2020 in Fort McMurray, the northeastern Alberta community has been shoring up its defences against rising rivers.
Local Vancouver artist and 2SLGBTQ+ advocate Joe Average died on Christmas Eve at the age of 67.
A 150-year-old farmhouse in Marshfield, P.E.I., burned to the ground Friday, leaving the family that has lived there for generations shocked.
After seeing people sleeping outside in the cold year-after-year, a Toronto man is building tiny mobile homes attached to bicycles to give temporary relief to those who are unhoused.
CBC North reporters are always busy delivering daily and breaking news to our radio, TV and online platforms. And sometimes, they're able to take a deeper dive into a story and produce some compelling longform journalism.
The Yukon Water Board has approved an emergency licence amendment for Victoria Gold's Eagle Gold mine that will temporarily allow water with higher concentrations of contaminants to be released into the environment.
The Conservatives have shared their latest plan to bring down the Liberal government next month.
A motorcyclist has died after colliding with a vehicle in Whitchurch-Stouffville early Saturday morning, police say.
Selected rocky roads across Newfoundland and Labrador could be getting some construction work but the transportation minister says politics doesn't play any role in which districts — red, blue or orange — get tackled first.
The Ontario Provincial Police North East Region has named Insp. Nathalie Rifou as the new commander of the Nipissing West OPP Detachment, which includes Sudbury.