The Centre of Northern Families is purchasing a new home for its daycare and family programs and planning to renovate its current building to provide more accommodation for women. The announcement was made in a blog post on the centre’s website on Tuesday, and confirmed by Anusa Sivalingam, board chair of the Yellowknife Women’s Society,
Two years ago, I was one of five Yellowknifers who went to China to teach English. The one-week kids’ camp was held at an English language school set up by CloudWorks co-founder Paige Saunders. As a reward for their hard work, kids earned ‘camp money’ which they could spend on snacks and toys each evening
When it comes to housing demand, there’s more to consider than a city’s total population
On EDGE | ANALYSIS Canada’s 2016 census may as well have begun at the NWT legislature on Saturday. A pretty neat trick for counting a local population, it turns out, is to put the Stanley Cup in one corner of a large room and wait patiently. Hundreds of Yellowknifers flocked to the cup on Saturday
On EDGE | ANALYSIS Pity the three large men in suits who have to work the room in a cramped and sweltering art gallery. Even people in t-shirts are sweating. The three northern premiers have crashed the annual gallery opening showcasing the work of students at Dawson City’s tiny School of Visual Arts (SOVA). Despite
With around $450,000 spent by candidates during last fall’s territorial election, give or take a few unlisted expense reports, we’re still a few pennies shy of what it costs to run a U.S. Presidential election. But that’s not to say candidates didn’t do some serious pocket-digging — into their own as well as their friends’
Based on the City’s preliminary budget for 2017, people with $300,000 homes could be paying an extra $60 in municipal taxes next year. That’s based on a 3.44 percent tax increase proposed by City administration on Monday. If your house is worth $500,000, you’d be looking at paying $103 more than this year, and
How can house prices be rising when our population has been basically flat for a decade? Sam Gamble explains in this three-part analysis of the Yellowknife housing market.
On a damp September day in 1984, thousands of people from across the territory gathered in Liidlii Kue, or Fort Simpson, to catch a glimpse of the holiest of globe-trotting visitors. As the time of arrival approached, the fog thickened until a wing and a prayer was little match for the weather, and the plane
Stories and pictures go together like tea and bannock. At least, that’s the philosophy of the online collective of Indigenous women photographers who’ve banded together to share the words behind their artistry on the new website, Tea & Bannock. The network of seven core photographers was founded by Tenille Campbell of Sweetmoon Photography in Saskatoon,
The infamous brawls of the Pinecrest Hotel in Fort Smith would whirl their way through the muck and mud of the unpaved roads, occasionally rolling past Lorraine Tordiff’s white picket fence or into her yard. But for the most part, the commotion had kept itself off her veranda and outside her front door; that is,
Don’t swim or fish in Frame Lake. That sage bit of advice is already followed by most Yellowknifers, but any hope of opening up the once-popular Frame Lake beach after some serious lake cleanup was effectively put to bed today with a health advisory from the territory’s public health officer. Frame Lake, Jackfish Lake and
On EDGE | ANALYSIS What will the educational and employment reality of the NWT look like in 15 years? And what does it really look like today? These are questions tackled in a massive Conference Board of Canada report released last week. The answers? Well, they’re complicated. The Northwest Territories Labour Market Forecast and Needs
For Leah Mandeville, much of the happiness of her childhood growing up in Fort Resolution can be tied up into one symbol: her grandmother’s handkerchief. “It’s nostalgic. It brings me back to how things used to be, to the innocence of it all,” she says. “You know the feeling. It’s always a pleasure to see
Yellowknife is not an easy place to be sober. The North, in general, can be a place of easy temptation when it comes to alcohol, and Yellowknife, with its young transient population, cold weather, multitude of bars and streams of disposable income, can be particularly challenging for those on the wagon. When we started talking