The weekend before last, Yellowknives Dene political scientist Glen Sean Coulthard was in Yellowknife for the hometown launch of his book ‘’. Originally published in 2014, the book, the title of which is a play on Afro-Caribbean Marxist philosopher Frantz Fanon’s seminal work ‘Black Skin, White Masks,’ deals with the shifting forms of Canadian colonialism and

Folk on the Rocks lost tens of thousands of dollars for the second year in a row, according to numbers presented at the society’s AGM last night. This year’s net loss came to $54,402 – down from the mammoth $114,788 loss in 2014, but significant enough to provoke “a very conservative budget” for the coming

FRESH FACES: There’ll be a lot of new faces around the table when the legislative assembly meets to pick a government in the December. In 2011, there were 14 holdovers from the previous assembly; this time there will be eight. Only one incumbent was defeated in 2011, while eight went down on Monday night. As with the last assembly, there’s an

When Filipinos say party, they mean party, laughs Conrad Esteban. He doesn’t mean to look down on the rest of us, he adds, but: “We don’t serve vegetables and dip, we don’t serve cut-up sandwiches, we serve real food with real meat with real sauce and they’re made with love. Everything just tastes terrific. That’s

Worried about threatened boreal woodland caribou, NWT wildlife advocates are urging the territorial government to take a more “precautionary” approach to developing a local forestry industry that includes better safeguards for habitat. The GNWT recently signed its first-ever forest management agreements (FMAs) with two First Nation-owned companies to begin harvesting timber for biomass and lumber.