By Anthony Foliot I think it was probably a year, or so, after the birth of my Daughter. That I packed my things, and quit the shore, and moved out on the water. In a homemade house, on a bunch of drums, I floated on the West shore. Then I built a house, for the
Joanna and Leonard Grant with their one-month-old son MacGreger By Joanna Grant | photo by Miranda Tschirhat I’m certain most women share the same worries I had before their labour commenced: strangers seeing my private parts, pooping on the bed and floor, the baby not wanting to come out or coming out the wrong
Feasting on YK’s offerings, Inuit style, by Juanita Taylor-Towtongie
In June, we brought a box of random building materials—from carpet scraps to blocks to chess pieces—to Yellowknife and asked groups of local youth to construct models for warning systems at Giant Mine. We held these “speculative design” workshops with youth in Dettah (at the Chief Drygeese Centre and Kaw Tay Whee Elementary) and with
Aurous gold mine on Wilson Island, 1922. | Photo: N-1979-073: 0696 The prospector was a new breed of wilderness adventurer in the 19th century and before them sat a treasure house of minerals across the continent. No metal had more lure than gold. With a feverish, insatiable desire to possess it, these opportunists gambled everything
Brewing equipment built by Portland Kettleworks operates in more than 100 locations across the United States, Canada, Japan, Costa Rica and Norway – but only in the Northwest Territories has the company run into problems with regulators. “We’ve never had any issues,” company spokesman Thad Fisco told EDGE – until it sold equipment to Yellowknife’s
The territory’s vital signs are not looking good The latest population numbers were announced just as the 17th Legislature began its final sitting this Tuesday and regular MLAs launched their attack on the cabinet’s plan to boost the electrical rate subsidy to a total of $50 million. Applied for the first time last year to
Are you ready for some football? | Sponsored by Coyote’s Steakhouse & Lounge When customers ask Coyote’s owner Ed But for something, he listens. That’s a big part of why he sponsors so many teams and events in the community. It’s also why he’s added four big-screen TVs to the giant HD projection screen already in
Kevin O’Reilly, executive director of the Independent Environmental Monitory Agency, is running in Frame Lake, the riding left vacant by Wendy Bisaro in the upcoming territorial election. A past research director for the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, he has lived in Yellowknife since 1985, raised a family and served three terms on city council. EDGE:
Being vegetarian in Yellowknife can be challenging. This is an unabashedly meat-loving city, and eating outside the confines of your home can be especially uninspiring, with options usually limited to indifferent salads or pasta afterthoughts, leaving you unsatisfied, protein-less and palate-deprived. But don’t give up just yet. Here are some veggie-friendly options to keep in
As an expert on risk-benefit analysis, Dane Mason is baffled by the protests that have greeted IserveU’s proposal for increased public involvement in governing Yellowknife. “The potential is so great,” said Mason in an interview with EDGE Online. A manager of policy and strategic planning for Industry Tourism and Investment, he was IserveU’s communications director
Mark Bogan, best known for his theatrical, often bizarre fathers’ rights protests, says his civil disobedience days are behind him and he’s running to make Yellowknife a better place for families. “Plywood Man has kept the peace and been of good behavior since the Jack Layton protest, and he’s buried, sir, he’s gone,” says the
In answer to an accusation from his sole political opponent that he ‘isn’t even trying anymore,” Mayor Mark Heyck smiles wryly and says“I’ll leave it to voters to judge how hard I’ve been trying these past three years and the nine years I was on council previous to that.” Until recently, the 39-year-old incumbent with three council terms and
Sponsored by Ahlstrom Wright Oliver & Cooper LLP A car accident can happen to anyone. When it does, few people know what to do! Often people get out of their vehicles, have a brief exchange, even yell at each other and drive away. Sometimes they don’t realize that valuable witnesses to the accident may be
A few weeks ago, Faith Embleton received a phone call from a German man who, along with a friend, had stayed at her bed and breakfast on 52 Street and was returning. She recounts: “He said, ‘Hi, this is Jorgan. I just wanted to tell you we won’t be there as planned. I want to