What do you think? Vote in our poll below. NO, says Richard Morland, a mining engineer with 33 years’ experience in the resource industry in Australia and Canada. The former BHP Billiton vice president of operations, president and COO of Ekati Diamond Mine, Richard has lived in Yellowknife for nearly 10 years. When governments and
The City’s Heritage Committee is holding secret meetings and contemplating a split from City Hall after months of communication breakdowns and repeated no-shows from committee chair Coun. Phil Moon Son and members of City administration. In June, former committee chair Mike Vaydik, who has remained de facto chair in light of Moon Son’s absence from the
Trimp became the public face of a controversial P3 project at Alberta Health Services | Screengrab courtesy Saskatchewan Regional Health The territorial government is considering the appointment of Rick Trimp, a former Alberta Health Services executive, to a senior post with either Stanton Territorial Hospital or the new NWT Health and Social Services Board, sources
Heading down to the very tip of Ndilo, on Tililo Tili, you’ll notice a striking, cathedral-esque log house. We wondered about the provenance of this home, and approached owners/builders Jeannette Erasmus and Marc Lafond to see if they would let us take a look inside and tell us how it came to be. They were kind
If you’re thinking of donning your public service hat and taking a run at civic politics on October 19, the candidate nominations open in just over a month. Today in their Capital Update, the City released several important dates for would-be councillors to keep in mind: September 4 – Nominations Open September 21 at 3:00
Candidate offers secret recipe of 11 spices and $1 billion in highway construction funding. SATIRE | Flamin’ Raven It’s no secret that the Conservative Party of Canada has long wanted to take out NDP MP Dennis Bevington, so they can claim all three Northern seats. There might not be a lot of people up here,
The Great Morel Rush of 2015 was a titillating prospect indeed, when the fires that raged through the territory last summer promised a bumper crop of gourmet mushrooms the following spring. People were going to make small fortunes from the projected $10-million harvest, and communities were meant to kickstart a whole new in-territory, sustainable industry. The season
There were more asks than answers when the Canada Winter Games Committee met at City Hall this Tuesday, most of them aimed at the money question: how much will they cost, and who will pay – now and in the future. The committee will meet again on August 20, and once more before the municipal
The first candidate greenlit by the Liberals, Testart has thrown his support to Michael McLeod This afternoon, NWT Liberal Party hopeful Kieron Testart withdrew from the race to become his party’s candidate in the forthcoming federal election, throwing his support instead behind former MLA Michael McLeod. “Though we have accomplished so much, with less than 100
Take us back to that night. When did you first realize your houseboat was in trouble? I was asleep at 5 a.m. I think I may have heard a sound, then I woke up to the sound of PFFFTTT. It sounded like a jet engine, and I felt this kind of glow. I’m sleeping in my
You can officially add UFC Pay-per-View to the long list of reasons to visit Coyote’s lounge. Already one of YK’s favourite neighbourhood spots with great specials every night of the week, owner Ed But’s putting UFC on the lounge’s big screen all fall and winter long. As a sponsor of the recent Red Tape Rumble,
Presenting your teen angst to the world: surprisingly fun! And cathartic | Photos courtesy GRTTWAK The hilarious, sometimes gut-wrenchingly poignant live show Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids, is coming to Yellowknife on August 15th. Producer Dan Misener is inviting 15 to 20 adults to read from journals, letters and diaries they wrote before adult-sized problems
Before its bankruptcy in May 2013, Dowland Construction was Inuvik’s home-grown success story. Its failure was felt across the North, from Iqaluit where it was rebuilding igloo-shaped St. Jude’s for the Arctic Diocese to hospital projects in Whitehorse and, to a lesser extent, even by subcontractors in Yellowknife. Dowland had liabilities of $135 million against
During Monday’s announcement that $72-million in pre-election federal cash was being pumped into NWT highway repairs, transport minister Tom Beaulieu made several passing references to three highway mega-projects. Details were sparse, but he told reporters that a 300-page business case for the $700 million Mackenzie Valley Highway from Wrigley to Norman Wells is now being
At the beginning of a lot of things: Yellowknife in 1948 It was a cold evening in February 1948, when Patrick Bourke stepped out of a taxi on Franklin Avenue and onto a forgotten page in Yellowknife’s history. 1948 was a watershed year for the northern boom town. The war was just over and miners