Eight kegs of boutique beer disappeared from a freezer truck outside the Northern Frontier Visitors Centre last Sunday night, and the heist seems to have been committed partially on foot. That’s the most likely explanation, at least, says Visitors Centre communications director Elijah Forget, after four of the kegs turned up along the Frame Lake
Just in case you needed another reason to strike up a conversation with your local cab driver, at least one of them is a celebrity’s father. We’ve been hearing the rumour that the Somali Canadian rapper/poet/singer/songwriter K’naan’s dad drives a cab here in Yellowknife for years, and it turns out that this particular YK Myth is definitely
As bidding on a RFP to run the City’s Housing First Program closed on Monday, the Yellowknife Women’s Society was the sole organization to submit a proposal. Details of the proposal aren’t public, and EDGE was unable to reach Bree Denning, executive director of the society (which also runs the Centre of Northern Families) by
“The first time we flew in, we lost a tire and had to push the plane off the runway,” says NWT Power Corporation engineer Gilles Ringuette, as we bump along Colville Lake’s former airport runway in a new Ford pickup. “You had to bounce off the hill just to take off,” adds Bernard Blancha, who
It was late, around midnight, and drummer Kevin Dunbar was alone in the jam space at the old Yellowknife dairy in Kam Lake when he saw a young Inuk boy looking at him from the doorway. “He kind of did a little bit of a jump in front of me — kind of like ‘grrr,’
Another attempt by land use planners in the Sahtu to make the South Nahanni watershed off-limits to development is seeing renewed government opposition. The Sahtu Land Use Planning Board (SLUPB) is proposing an amendment to the region’s land use plan that would see areas that were left out of the recently established Nááts’ihch’oh National Park
Fireweed to start. Matsutake mushrooms for the main, washed down with spruce tips beer. And hold the morels. The first sightings along Highway 3 in recent days mean morel mushroom mania is ramping up for another summer, Posh restaurants like these uncommon, sought-after mushrooms, which pop up -post forest fire, and little roadside economies sprout wherever the
Congrats! You made it through the seasonal doldrums, when parkas are a thing of the past but shorts and skirts are still a questionable legwear decision. June is here, and with it, the joys of summer eating. To accompany the summer patio guide we published last week, here’s an overview of your outdoor food options,
Who’s coming to visit this summer? And more importantly, where is the quietest place to camp? There are stats for that. As we steel ourselves for a five-week session of the legislature — and many urgent mentions of “economic diversification” — territorial officials are tracking who comes in, and where they go, to figure out
Thierry quit his job to go picking, but isn’t sure that was the best decision Last year, a much-hyped morel mushroom season opened up. We sent photographer Angela Gzowski down Highway 3 to see how things were proceeding. This article was first published June 11, 2015 Thierry Guenez and Marcelle Fressineau from France via the Yukon Is
“They were doing all these tests on me, but didn’t tell me I had colon cancer.” “For a cancer patient you really need someone to go with you for support. I woke up alone… It really hurts when you’re alone.” “I would like to hear from her why she wasn’t taking her medication.” “Cancer is
FOXY has just launched SMASH, its sexual health program for young men. Here’s our piece on their development of the program, first published in November of 2015: In its three years of programming and annual summer leader retreats, the award-winning research project known as FOXY has already reached 800 girls and young women across the
“No, it’s not an austerity measures budget.” So sayeth Finance Minister Robert C. McLeod about the 430-page, $1.66 billion budget he tabled in the Legislative Assembly today. And, for the all preceding hullabaloo, this seems to be mostly true. Certainly the fiscal pruning shears came out, cutting some $31 million from government programs and allowing
“It was almost like watching a big snake crawling underneath the ground as the wave went by.” Toni Heron still has nightmares about the day her neighbour’s house disappeared from the horizon, swallowed up by a sudden collapse of the same earth she had spent her childhood playing upon along the river near Fort Smith.
The brewpub had just been open a few months when brewer and co-owner Fletcher Stevens sent five unmarked bottles filled with beer down to Ontario, each with an elastic band and a slip of paper to identify it ahead of the blind taste tests. Stevens had won awards for his beer before, but only for