Bees are receiving a lot of global attention these days. Bees are in crisis. When many of us think of bees, we think of honey or bee stings. But bees are more than stings or honey. Bees make the difference between having food on our grocery shelves or not. They are crucial to our food
Late last year, a group of students at École St. Patrick High School sent a survey around the school. ‘Is your life affected by LGBTQ issues?’ it asked. ‘Perhaps you yourself are queer or questioning, or perhaps you have a friend or a family member who is?’ Eighty-seven students and teachers, out of around 200
On EDGE | ANALYSIS Leafing through the submissions from the three territorial governments to the CRTC’s latest round of consultations on broadband availability, there’s a concept that keeps jumping out of the text: market failure. If you’re reading this on an internet connection in any one of the three territories, you know this: your internet
A sneak peek from the upcoming April/May issue of EDGEYK: In the year 1935, men arrived on Yellowknife Bay to start a mine at Burwash Point. It was a short-lived prospect: the gold didn’t last, and no bricks of the precious metal were poured. However, the gold-bugged employees continued the search. And to offer some
On EDGE | ANALYSIS Last Thursday, I visited one of the downtown malls to chat with a security guard – we’ll call him John – about the visible increase in security personnel throughout the city of late. John was happy to share his observations on the condition of anonymity, though he said he might have
If traveling whatever way the wind blows is your style, there’s no better way of touring the outdoors than kite skiing, says seasoned expeditionist Eric McNair-Landry. “You can leave your door and, depending on the wind direction, just choose different destinations,” he says. McNair-Landry and his friend John Blyth from Fort Smith spent the weekend
How should a community live with, and alongside, an environmental disaster that has no endpoint, no possibility of resolution? This was the melancholy question at the heart of France Benoit’s Giant Mine documentary Guardians of Eternity, released last fall. Do we remediate the mine as best we can and let Yellowknife creep over top of
For the latest installment in our Leonard Willing historical photo series, Leonard’s nephew Glen Willing recently gave EDGE several photos offering a glimpse into Yellowknife’s early aviation history. The photo above shows Leonard himself, an assayer at Con and Negus Mines between 1938 and 1951, standing next to a Junkers W 34. These all-metal German
Here’s another sneak peek from the upcoming spring edition of EDGEYK magazine: We are gearing up for spring. Gumboots and garden implements are scrubbed, and this year, faintly smelling of swimming pool. Bleach is now among the precautionary steps we’re taking for garden season, after narrowly avoiding spudmageddon with last year’s potato crop. Our
Etienne Croteau has a hunch there are plenty of tired people in YK scratching their heads over what to do for dinner tonight, wishing there was something delicious they could eat at home without having to cook it. That’s the basis for a new frozen dinner takeaway shop he’ll be opening downtown this summer. The
Ladies, listen up. Sushi North has a toilet that operates like an automated car wash for your private parts, right down to the warm-air dry. No joke. The Washlet, the latest in Japanese high-tech toilets, allows you to do your business and leave fully cleansed without ever having to lift or close the lid, swipe
The prospect of $150 million being slashed from the territorial budget is sending jitters across Yellowknife, government town that it is. No layoffs have been announced yet – numbers won’t become clear until the budget is tabled in June – but austerity rumours are flying fast and the Union of Northern Workers is digging in
Years ago, John Sandlos and Arn Keeling report, arsenic killed a Ndilo toddler and poisoned many others, but it was business as usual at the gold mine
In honour of Germaine Arnaktauyok’s gorgeous and captivating biography/career retrospective, My Name Is Arnaktauyok, winning the first Yellowknife Reads competition, we present our profile of the Yellowknife based artist, first published in March, 2015: A long time ago, when everything had spirits, you didn’t need a dog team to cross the frozen tundra of Nunavut’s
Can you pass me that towel? That blue one right there. Great, thanks… This is my inner dialogue when I pass my favourite mural in town. Those two gentle hands, and two wilted wrists, with one arm slowly reaching over to deliver some kind of blue garment. How thoughtful a gesture it seems, but what