On EDGE | OPINION A few years ago, I had one of my crazier shower thoughts, for which I scrubbed myself on the back proudly until I realised that half the people I know had already thought of it. You might have too. The idea goes like this: if the GNWT gets a transfer credit
The city’s boom-and-bust sport has always suffered short booms and long busts. This summer, it’s back — again. Rewind a decade and local paintball was a thriving scene. A sport’s health in the Northwest Territories is almost always directly linked to the puns in its tournament names (soccer’s Merry Kickmas, fastpitch’s O-Down). Paintball, with the
Yellowknife’s most famous neighbourhood is actually a collection of many wildly varied areas, from the DIY shacks of the Woodyard to Latham Island super-mansions
There’s no direct translation for DNA or genetics in any of the Dene dialects of the Sahtu region, where words like “cousins” or “blood” are more accurate ways of describing the familial relationships shared by people throughout the Central Mackenzie. But language barriers didn’t stop a group of Elders and traditional knowledge holders from collaborating
The territorial government says its decision, announced this week, to replace the Northwest Territories Power Corporation’s board with deputy ministers will save $1 million per year. Meanwhile, the power corporation is proposing a new series of annual rate increases — to follow a set of four annual hikes that concluded last year. In the coming year,
Published in the April May issue of EDGEYK magazine: Every year Spring surprised us. Spring ripped through the winter weather like old Dr. O’Donahugh’s surgical knife; confident, gleaming and ultimately healing. All winter we sank our scarved chins into our parka chests and plodded through the snow. We were as cranky as the staring ravens
A high-level shakeup in the Northwest Territories Power Corporation yesterday saw the entire board of directors dismissed and replaced by GNWT deputy ministers. The move is expected to save NTPC around $1 million in annual expenses, due to a reduction in honorariums, travel budgets and support services for board members. But the decision effectively ends
The moment I woke up and realized I was living in a shoebox surrounded by the detritus of my nearly-40-some years on this planet was my window into enlightenment. Yes, I am that person: the packrat, the collector, the scavenger, the clutter-bug. If there’s a surface, I’m covering it with stuff. I’ll stop short of
Yellowknife, where the stars sell reasonably priced cars. On a Wednesday afternoon with a few, rare, drops of rain in the air, Godson leaves his desk and steps out onto the lot. This patch of pavement is now his stage. Aaron Hernandez has been Yellowknife’s Godson for two decades, issuing around a dozen rap albums,
From the April/May edition of EDGEYK: Our twins were born May 7th, 2015. Aaron and James were happy and healthy boys, despite being three weeks early, which is typical of twins. There were some great moments, at the beginning. The moment our three-year-old daughter, Emma, rushed into the hospital room to meet them for the first
Trying to find parking outside of the Brewpub on a Friday night is a bit like pulling up to a hopping house party — cars arrayed along the sides of the road in lieu of parking, people crossing the crosswalk-less road willy-nilly. It gives that stretch of Franklin Ave an unfamiliar-in-YK feeling of bustle and
On EDGE: ANALYSIS “We are fully adopting this and working to implement it within the laws of Canada.” Federal Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett attempted to set the record straight about Canada’s promised implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) this week at the United Nations headquarters in
Kids balance on barrels, fish from the wharf, toss bocce balls; an old fishing boat rests on wooden planks; above the action, kites and planes and imaginary air balloons soar. Here’s government dock in the 1980s, vivid, alive and painted in an earthy style a little like a Northern Bruegel. To be sure, photos buried
On EDGE | OPINION From the April/May edition of EDGEYK magazine: I’m white. I’ve been thinking about what unearned privileges I have because of that, and the blind spots they give me as I live in this world. I care about truth and about reconciliation, both in general and in relation to Canada’s Indian Residential
Sponsored by Hub International Insurance Brokers and Breakfast for Learning HUB International Insurance Brokers understand what it means to be good corporate citizens. For the past six years, Larry Jacquard has been putting this philosophy into action each June by hosting an annual charity golf tournament in Yellowknife. Since 2011, the HUB International Insurance Broker’s