This Ford F-150 fell through while parked and — after 10 people spent the day working to haul it out — is now back on top of the ice. On Monday afternoon, a parked truck fell through the ice near Joliffe Island, across from government dock. No one was inside, and the ice-encrusted Ford-150 was safely
Story by Pat Braden | Illustration by Andrew Hall It was a warm, sunny day when the plane took off from Yellowknife to the Inuit community of Taloyoak on Nunavut’s Boothia Peninsula (Taloyoak means “large blind” in Inuktitut and refers to a stone caribou blind, or a screen, used for harvesting caribou). The community is located about 1,200
Story by Catherine Dook | NWT Archives / Henry Busse fonds / N-1979-052: 6256 Yellowknife in 1971 was possessed of two musical matriarchs who taught piano lessons. But musical genius is paid for in temperament, and the two ladies had both in plenty. They presented a veneer of professional respect to each other on most occasions, and
A still from Conibear, 2014 A pair of Yellowknife filmmakers are heading to France in the new year, intending to rock some NWT fur as they screen their horror flick Conibear at the world’s most prestigious short film festival. Jay Bulckaert and Pablo Saravanja of Artless Collective will both attend the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival
In a truly bizarre scene at City Hall yesterday, council spent six hours playing judge and jury for an eccentric case involving a fire, an alleged muck-up by City administration, and around $160,000 in damages claimed by a building company, owned in part by their colleague Coun. Niels Konge. The story began just over a
Just outside Marnie Morrison’s room, there’s a small, glass-encased nook filled with plastic flowers, floral-patterned china cups and little figurines; souvenirs to catch the fraying edges of her memory as she heads off to a lunch or returns from her weekly haircut. Each of the 28 rooms in the Aven Cottages, the dementia ward at
Pilot’s Monument #2, 16”x20” acrylic I painted this in March and I sold it at a show a few months later. I really enjoy the view from Pilot’s Monument — the vast expanse of Great Slave Lake and the colourful houseboats are all idiosyncratically Yellowknife and what I identify as being Northern. In this piece I wanted to capture the startling expanses of
by Anthony Foliot OH-MI-AGI means I got a baggie full of itty-bitty gifts for all my friends OH-SO- RASHI is a word that’s just as flashy and if you think it’s scary that depends ‘cause if you hear me say HAJI-MAY-MASH-TEY and you’re lookin’ kinda worried and you don’t know what to do… just click
David Jobin’s handiwork is on display at Sam and Renata Bullock’s home – the owners of Old Town’s iconic fish restaurant say the master carpenter was a good friend. “There was one year that all of our family went on holidays, Jobie had been doing work for us and we drove out and came back
Punch Dickins ’ Plane that was the first to land in the Yellowknife area , 1929. (Glenbow archives , PD-356-824) Weathered claim markers and flooded pits left behind by enthusiastic Klondikers near Yellowknife became monuments to their frustration. If minerals in the Northwest Territories were to be more than just a curiosity, they needed to be
Photos and text by F. Ian Gilchrist People who come from one place to another, often take with them a baggage of culture, religion and language. This sometimes leaves them blind too, to the fresh, and often better, things in their new place. For example, when I came to Yellowknife, like most everybody else “from
It’s Saturday night, and a fever is brewing at Le Frolic Bistro during the weekly music jam. The Lonely Counsel, a group of like-minded musicians rarely seen lonely, is running the show. The place is packed…everybody is cheering and laughing and chanting as they dance to the music. After two months of working here, I’m
Photos and Recipes by Amy Lam Want to give something that is truly local this holiday season? The North provides an abundance of wild foraging opportunities to make wonderful DIY gifts. After all, when gifting, it is said that it’s the thought that counts and it doesn’t get more thoughtful than when the gift is
“Win-win” is not typically a term you hear tossed around when it comes to land and resource negotiations between Indigenous governments and the Crown. The usual mandate-based talks, which see negotiators come to the table with strict limits on money, land quantum and other allowances, often result in years of deadlocks. See the many dormant
Casebeer thinks the city’s modern tendency toward blasting rocks and clearing trees in the name of development is troubling | Photo by Angela Gzowski Two days before Marino Casebeer and his then-wife were set to drive up from Calgary to Yellowknife in 1986, their car was totaled in an accident with a drunk driver. They