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Why The City is Advocating For a Yellowknife-Based University
A university will have big implications for the city’s future
Category Opinion
Loren McGinnis’s Big Snip
COLUMN: the CBC radio host explains a recent decision, groin-wise
Category Opinion
Short-Term Rentals Key to YK’s Future Growth
Airbnbs and traditional B&Bs need less regulation, not more, for Yellowknife to meet its hype as a tourist and conference destination. The first of a new Northern Economics series by SAM GAMBLE
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Category Culture
YK Books: An Excerpt from Northern Wildflower, a Dene Memoir
Northern Wildflower is CATHERINE LAFFERTY’s courageous story about growing up in Yellowknife, struggling with discrimination, poverty, addiction, love and loss. Determined to build a better life for her and her children, Lafferty’s illumination of the real issues facing Indigenous women is raw, honest and inspiring
Category Culture
PHOTO ESSAY: Camped Out
Squeezing every last bit of fun from a wet squib of a summer. Photos by ANGELA GZOWSKI
Category Culture
Danger! Danger!
Frans Barnard helps find peaceful solutions to death threats, riots and unrest in some of the world’s most imperiled places. He’s experienced some harrowing events, but still believes life isn’t as dangerous as people may think. Laurie Sarkadi sat down with him earlier this year for a conversation about what we’re so afraid of. Story by LAURIE SARKADI | Photo by ANGELA GZOWSKI
Category Culture
A Perilous Paddle into Hidden Lake
Two parents, a toddler, pre-teen, husky and gear galore venture off together in a laiden canoe for their first backcountry trip together. What could possibly go wrong, asks MICHELLE SWALLOW
Category Culture
Dear Family: The Jill Kidder Letters
Correspondence from the mother of the late Margot Kidder – the YK-born actress famous for her role as Lois Lane in the Superman movies – shows Yellowknife at its dawn: a raw, rough place, with some surprising similarities to today’s city
Category Culture
The Toll of Pounding the Pavement
YK’s volunteer foot-washing program brings respite to the tired and tender toes of the homeless, finds SARAH SWAN. Photo by ANGELA GZWOSKI
Category Culture
Market Forces
Where you buy groceries in this city says a lot about you. MATTHEW MALLON mean-spiritedly reinforces some YK stereotypes
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Five Reasons to Hit the EDGE YK Solstice Slam on Saturday, June 23
(And not even one is the free bus running all night)
Category Culture
The Birth of a Throat Singer
The soundtrack to TANYA SNOW’s angsty teen years included Sum 41, Linkin Park and Evanescence, played loudly. Then a much older, more intimate musical form quietly took hold of her, she writes
Category Profile
Eat, Move, Learn, Heal
Jennie Vandermeer started the Everrrr Sexy online health and wellness program to motivate her own recovery from alcohol addiction. Now, MICHELLE SWALLOW writes, she’s helping other women become the best they can be
Category Analysis
Reefer Gladness?
There are still many unanswered questions around the impacts of cannabis, but Tim Edwards rolls out what we know so far about buying and selling weed in YK – legally.
Category Culture
Mel Leonard VS the legendary Giant Egg Roll
A gluttonous challenge gives credence to the old maxim “Never eat anything bigger than your head” Story by MEL LEONARD. Photos by BRET BOTHAM