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The Innovators: Paved With Good Intentions

Who’s the inventor? If you’ve ever strapped on skates and picked up a hockey stick in this town, chances are you’ve sent a puck or two flying in Chris Hunt’s direction. The businessman and inventor from Pond Inlet is something like Yellowknife’s official goalie, playing around 200 games a year for every team in town.

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Dowland Construction: The Final Chapter

In a fitting footnote to a year of dismal financial news, the bankruptcy trustee for the once-proud Dowland construction group has quietly filed its seventh and likely final report on the company’s collapse. The report held no good news for secured creditors, who have been waiting since May 2013, when the Royal Bank forced Dowland

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Folk on the Rocks Severs Ties With Executive Director

Folk on the Rocks has severed ties with the festival’s executive director David Whitelock less than two years after he took the position. The circumstances surrounding Whitelock’s “departure” are unclear at this point. A press release posted on the FOTR website on Dec. 29 announced the split and thanked Whitelock “for his hard work and

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Best of EDGE: Strange Range Music: The Welder’s Daughter Story

EDGE is taking some holiday time, from December 20 to January 4. While we’re off we’ll be re-running some of our favourite stories from the year, and some hits from deep in our archives. Here’s a look at the rich backstory of some Yellowknife musical icons: “Because I’m all about that bass, ‘bout that bass

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Best of EDGE: Tales of Two Northern Cities: Whitehorse & YK, Pt V

We’ve both got cold, natural beauty, and colourful names that confuse southerners. It’s hard not to compare Yellowknife and Whitehorse. Here’s the fifth and final installment of our series exploring the two cities. Here are Parts One, Two, Three and Four. Introducing yourself as a Yellowknifer to Canadians south of 60 elicits a fairly standard

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From the Archives: Hanging up his whistle

EDGE is taking some holiday time, from December 20 to January 4. While we’re off we’ll be re-running some of our favourite stories from the year, and some hits from deep in our archives. Here’s a portrait of a much-loved city character from June 2013: Sir John’s beloved gym teacher and long-time YK hockey hero, Bill Burlington is retiring

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Best of EDGE: If You Can’t Have Fun Here Give Up – Harley’s

EDGE is taking some holiday time, from December 20 to January 4. While we’re off we’ll be re-running some of our favourite stories from the year, and some hits from deep in our archives. Here’s a look inside the North’s most (in)famous nightspot: Its wooden walls filled with mining-inspired artwork and memorabilia, Harley’s Hardrock Saloon

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From the Archives: The Great Hunt

Garry Whyte makes a moose call. See what it sounds like here. EDGE is taking some holiday time, from December 20 to January 4. While we’re off we’ll be re-running some of our favourite stories from the year, and some hits from deep in our archives. Here’s a unique moose-hunting tale from December 2012: A grizzled

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From the Archives: Pipe Dreams

EDGE is taking some holiday time, from December 20 to January 4. While we’re off we’ll be re-running some of our favourite stories from the year, and some hits from our archives. Here’s a look from inside Northlands, at the height of its troubles back in December 2011: by Marc Winkler Entering Northlands Trailer Park

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Best of EDGE: Scraping money from the forest floor

EDGE is taking some holiday time, from December 20 to January 4. While we’re off we’ll be re-running some of our favourite stories from the year. Here’s a first-person story from last summer’s morel mania to kick things off: Inhaling ash and sweating out yesterday’s piss-warm beer, I scan the burn for morel mushrooms. My

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Best of the Season: EDGE’s Holiday Plans

We’ll be taking some time off, from today, December 21, to January 4th, 2016. When we come back, we hope to have some exciting New Year surprises in store for you. In the meantime, we’ll be running some of our favourite work from the last year, from both print and online versions of the publication.

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In Memoriam: Getting to know Stuart Hodgson

Stuart Hodgson and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau at the first Arctic Winter Games in 1970. | NWT Archives/Stuart M. Hodgson fonds/N-2010-005: 0028 Rest in Peace, Stuart Hodgson, who has passed away at the age of 91. From the magazine’s archives, January, 2015: by Kate Guay Stuart Hodgson is kissing my hand and telling me that I’m lovely. It’s Friday,

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Yellowknifer: The Courier

The online shopping world is coming at her hard these days. Kim White is your friendly neighbourhood courier, delivering the goods you ordered with high hopes they’d arrive before Christmas. But you won’t find her succumbing to the temptation to add that item to her virtual shopping cart and hit send. “One thing I’m very

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Where the (Draft) Beers Are

Not pictured: ten pints of Keith’s It seemed like a good idea at the time. Prompted by a discussion of all the new establishments opening or set to open here, we started to wonder: where was the cheapest draft beer in town these days? Who had the best pour? Selection? Specials? We assembled a crack

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