Just about every Canadian is aware of seasonal affective disorder, or SAD. According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, SAD mildly affects over 15 percent of Canadians, and two to three percent severely. We Northerners in particular are more susceptible to this condition, or so we’ve been told, because of the extreme nature of our
At some point in every internet user’s life, a stray click on a Google search result will have inevitably led them into the weird wild world of Yahoo Answers, a Q&A site known both for the often boneheaded and linguistically mangled questions posed there — most famously, perhaps, the much-memed “How is babby formed? How
“We suffered by not having an accountant, probably.” There is nervous laughter. Maybe this is cathartic for Reigh-Leigh Foster, who has suffered the dread fear of anyone suckered into sitting on a board in the Northwest Territories. What happens when you volunteer to run something — and it goes wrong? Foster is the president of
There are two big developments at Yellowknife’s ballpark this year. The first, you probably know about. The second, you probably don’t. The obvious change is the introduction of grass — grass! — to the downtown ball diamond’s outfield. This is the first time fastball players in the city have had the luxury of a grass
Just short of 60 GNWT employees were given notice today that their jobs would affected by the long-anticipated austerity budget that will be tabled in the Legislative Assembly next week. “While the approximately 58 affected employees have been notified, no decisions have been made at this time,” according to a GNWT backgrounder made available to
In a bombshell vote last night, City Council refused to allow the development of a large temporary camp in Kam Lake meant to house workers building the new Stanton Hospital. The plan, officially presented to council only hours before by the hospital’s general contractors, had been to build temporary dwellings for between 150 and 250
Herb Norwegian remembers the first time he saw the entire territory of the Dehcho mapped out to include over 40,000 historical, cultural, spiritual and traditional land-use sites spread across the massive region. “It was like a dreamcatcher,” says the Grand Chief of the Dehcho First Nations, who spent over seven years in the ‘90s interviewing
It was about an hour-and-a-half hike out after I stepped down from a rock on the way out from Big Hill lake and snapped my right ankle to the point of – as an x-ray later showed – the ligament tearing off a piece of the bone. I like to think I have strong ligaments.
As May winds to an end, it’s time for Yellowknifers to go all Mediterranean and start drinking and eating al-relatively-fresco. And this summer promises plenty of options for those inclined to consume outdoors. Though this year’s food truck fleet seems like it will be a diminished one, with Wise Guys sticking to their bricks-and-mortar location
This evening at the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre, Yellowknife musician Natasha Duchene launches her second album, Kindred. Recorded in Yellowknife over the past three months with violinist Andrea Bettger and cellist Anne-Marie Guedon, the eight-track release collects music Duchene has been working on over the past decade. “I think the concept [for the album]
Earlier this week, EDGE cursed an entire sport by suggesting City officials and Yellowknife’s paintballers were “working on permitting” for paintball games at the Sandpits. Fast forward three days and that apparent partnership has exploded in a cloud of neon yellow. As things stand, there will now be no more paintball at the sandpits –
In the wake of the Fort McMurray fire, calls for a renewed emphasis on fire suppression have helped kick off the start of western Canada’s 2016 fire season. Once the default approach to fire management in Canada’s northwest, fire suppression meant initial attack crews hitting the small fires usually caused by lightning as soon as
Sponsored by the Stanton Territorial Hospital Foundation Helicopter Golf Ball Drop Raffle This year we are very excited to announce the Helicopter Golf Ball Drop! A Summit Air helicopter will be lifting off and dropping golf balls over a putting green. There will be six markers on this putting green, and each marker will match
“Just because you don’t see something on a regular basis doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist,” says Lucy Tulugarjuk. The Fort Smith-based actor, artist and mother has had a lifetime of close encounters with the unusual beings famous in Inuit folklore, from miniature people to shape shifters and even (possibly) a mermaid. “When I was young,
