The federal team overseeing the cleanup of Giant Mine has made an offer in an effort to smooth the troubled waters between it and Great Slave Lake boaters.

Chris Harvey is the man behind languagegeek.com, a site that provides keyboards and fonts in more than 100 Indigenous languages. He's made it his passion to provide Indigenous people with access to minority languages, calling it a human rights issue.

Grab a hot chocolate and your reading glasses — here are some of the best North long-reads to curl up with, from a rat-infested cruise ship mystery to the tale of a northern strip club.

Several youth from the most northern of the Quebec Cree communities have contributed to the Whapmagoostui Youth Album, which was just released on iTunes and Spotify. The songwriting and production project came together over the last year, funded by the Cree Nation Youth Council, as well as the local band.