Sport North - Arctic Winter Games

Arctic Winter Games

The Arctic Winter Games is a biennial sporting event held every other year. The next Arctic Winter Games will be held in Grande Prairie, Alberta from March 6-13, 2010. Team selection for NWT athletes for these Games has not been determined yet.

The Government of the Northwest Territories conducted a review of all multi-sport games (November 2008) to determine a basis for assessing the appropriate level of investment and quantify what results can be achieved as a result of the investment level; basically asking the questions “Do these Games cost too much? and “What are we getting out of it?”. This review focused on the Arctic Winter Games, Canada Games, Western Canada Games and the North American Indigenous Games.

Sport North received the final report along with a list of recommendations in April 2009 and the Sport & Recreation Council has confirmed that Sport North will administer the 2010 Arctic Winter Games. Since that time, Sport North has been in consultation with the Territorial Sport Organizations to determine how athletes will be selected for these Games. As it stands now, the athlete selection process will not begin until the fall 2009. The details of how each sport will select their athletes are still being worked out.