Teacher and long-time volunteer Beaton Mackenzie may have four unsuccessful election campaigns to his name, but he says his commitment to the community and willingness to listen makes him someone to vote for on Oct. 19. “I enjoy sitting down and having discussions, and … you can always do something better,” says the 61-year-old special

Marie-Soleil Lacoursiere, 33, oversees contract negotiations for Dominion Diamond Ekati Corp., managing a team that procures millions of dollars annually in goods and services for the mine. She has a degree in business administration, a graduate diploma in operations management and is working on a graduate degree in governance and entrepreneurship in northern and indigenous

  On EDGE: Opinion When I was seven years old, I brought the word “shit” home from the schoolyard. This, unsurprisingly, prompted a parental intervention. My mother was deeply perturbed by this development. My father, who’d spent a great deal of time on ships and oil rigs, was far less alarmed. Though trying to be

Thom Jarvis, a business lender and sometime weekend radio host on MooseFM, is running on a purse-tightening, back-to-the basics platform with certain hints of past controversy about homelessness. “I’m very fiscally cautious,” says the 53-year-old who’s lived in Yellowknife for around 20 years in total (in the 1980s and again since 2005) and currently works

Businessperson and *director of the NWT Chamber of Commerce, Jugjit More-Curran, says she’ll work to reduce costs, if elected to City council. “Like me, everyone seems to agree that the biggest issue facing Yellowknifers today is the high cost of living and doing business in our city,” says the 48-year-old who moved to Yellowknife in

“I might have a little bit of an advantage over the average person that’s running for the City,” says 40-year-old barber, teacher and business owner, Steve Payne. “I’m talking to people in my chair … they tell me what they want me to talk about. I definitely want to be an advocate for the people.”

On EDGE: Opinion The first sign Ethel Blondin Andrew was in danger of losing to Dennis Bevington in 2006 came not from any poll, but an unexpected phone call from Paul Martin, in the waning days of the campaign. Martin did not call to outline a new northern initiative, but to emphasize some point in

The local chartered accountant who on Friday announced his intention to run against Mark Heyck is pitching himself as the polar opposite of the mayor. If elected, John Himmelman, a 52-year-old accountant who’s been in Yellowknife for seven years, would sell the 50/50 lot, reassess the Canada Winter Games bid and drop the City’s lawsuit