July’s the one month in Yellowknife you can be sure the beach is hot, the campsites are packed and the lakes are teeming with more than just monster pike. It’s time to get outside, but enjoying the sounds of nature doesn’t have to mean leaving your tunes at home. That’s why I’ve put together a
With its hard-rocking soundtrack and semi-offensive wall decorations, Ragged Ass Barbers kind of feels like a recently divorced guy’s rec room at times. But even if you aren’t necessarily a fan of the work of Hank Williams III or Ozzy’s solo stuff, this place is serious about the art of cutting men’s hair. Ragged Ass’s colourful crew
Ekati’s Jay Pipe may extend the mine’s life past 2019. Aaaaand that’s the end of the good news The Conference Board of Canada has definitely dropped Tyhee and Fortune mine projects from its latest northern economic outlook, with Avalon Rare Metals’ Nechalacho project and North American Tungsten’s Mactung proposal also looking to be cut. EDGE previewed the
Growing up in Yellowknife, you see many businesses open their doors, only to close them a few years (or even months) later. It can be hard for entrepreneurs here to make a go of it for a variety of reasons, including the high costs of operating in the subarctic, difficulty keeping staff in a town where retail wages
An NPREIT joint: Fort Gary Apartments It’s a sweet deal that Northern Property REIT has negotiated with the territorial government. Under the agreement, the GNWT will pay $1.6 million this year to rent 75 apartments, most of them in Yellowknife, for families on the waiting list for public housing. The territory’s largest landlord, NPREIT complained
Over the past decade, jewellery artist Jamie Look has achieved plenty of public milestones. From exhibiting at the 2010 Winter Olympics to being named one of Canada’a “brightest style setters” by the Globe and Mail to Tanya Tagaq showcasing her work on her Polaris Prize-winning evening, Look has plenty to celebrate. The Globe feature even
As with most things Northern, it’s federal money that greases the wheels of the internet game up here; the gravy train from Ottawa makes or breaks businesses competing to provide internet to communities across the North. Today, Yellowknife-based company SSi Micro got a serious squirt of axle grease, beating rival bidders to $35 million of
According to the latest estimate from Statistics Canada, capital spending in the Northwest Territories will soar this year to $1.4 billion, posting an annual increase of 26 percent. That magnitude of growth hasn’t been seen since 2007, a year before the global recession gave the territorial economy a knock that is still being felt. “The
Post-shale on the river: Cooper Barge Services has cropped voyages These are times of austerity in Norman Wells, says Rick Muyres – so austere that aviation gas is being rationed and even the Mackenzie River is low on water. Like everyone else in the Wells, Muyres, an outfitter and contractor, was expecting to ride the Canol shale
Yellowknife can be a tough place to date. No sooner have you found a decent-looking potential suitor, you realize they dated your cousin back in the day, or half the local baseball team. This is a very real issue for Yellowknifers, and totally-reliable-though-completely fabricated statistics show 72 percent of the town’s population has made out
Last week, we asked you to tell us which Yellowknife mobile eatery was dishing up your favourite street nosh. It was a hard-fought battle for the number-one spot, with One of a Thai and Wiseguy Foods trading first place furiously for most of the week. In the end, with some 327 votes cast in total, Robin Wasicuna and
Critics say the outspoken developer is creating ecological atrocities, while others say he’s the builder the city deserves. We ask him about his latest controversial project, and find out what’s coming next.
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Have you ever been sitting in a Yellowknife pub on a beautiful day, surrounded by darkened or shuttered windows and wondered why you can’t soak up the sun? What’s with these gloomy curtains? Why are drinkers being hidden away like a bunch of vampires? Ask a server or a bartender and you’ll be told a few
Muriel Betsina of Ndilo sewing in her tent, 1987.