Looking for some ways to make your yard sale stand out among the rest this long weekend? If you are a frequent yard saler, you may have already picked up a few tricks along the way, but Apartment Therapy has some solid advice. Tips include: giving your sale a unique name; teaming up with your

The oil price crash that froze tar sands projects and put thousands out of work was expected by some to bring job-seekers to the Northwest Territories, but so far it has had the opposite effect. The Northwest Territories was the only jurisdiction outside the Maritimes to lose population, according to the latest numbers from Statistics

The image on the cover of Dana Sipos’ new album Roll up the Night Sky shows the singer standing beneath the vast semi-dome of a Port Hope, Ont. bandstand. She looks tiny, alone with her mandolin in front of a backdrop painted like a starry sky. Taken during a bicycle-propelled tour of Ontario, the photo

Monster one: at 39A Otto Drive, nine-foot walls, a 1600-bottle wine cellar, and a 360-degree view of Great Slave Yellowknifers curious about what a million-dollar house might look like don’t have to seek out a glossy magazine or a Vancouver neighbourhood. For those with a fat stack of cash looking to make a statement that comes with

Last July, two incinerators at De Beers’ Snap Lake Mine were belching out clouds of black smoke, one sending an average of 65 times the accepted national limit of cancer-causing toxins into the air. The hugely elevated levels of dioxins and furans — released when plastic is burned or garbage is not fully incinerated —

The Sun at Midnight, a Northwest Territories film project, is one of 15 finalists this year in the Telefilm Canada micro-budget production program. “It’s a big win,” said producer Amos Scott, producer of the acclaimed Dene A Journey series, and co­founder with writer-director Kirsten Carthew of Jill and Jackfish Productions. “It’s an important first step

How cute! Nobody tell them they’re cousins In Aziz Anzari’s Time article, “Everything You Thought You Knew About Love Is Wrong,” the comedian describes the difficulties of finding love in the modern world. He references professor Barry Schwartz, who divides us into two types of people: “satisficers” (those who satisfy and then suffice) and “maximizers,”

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Yellowknife’s largest landlord are reporting wildly different vacancy rates for apartments in the city. In a recent conference call with investment analysts, Todd Cook, president and CEO of Northern Property REIT, said the vacancy rate for 1,060 apartments it owns in Yellowknife was between 10 and 14 percent in

With Jane Groenewegen and Wendy Bisaro, the territory’s only female MLAs, due to retire this year, Yellowknife social activist Julie Green is hoping to fill the void. “We have the country’s lowest proportion of female MLAs,” Green said Monday as she announced her intention to challenge sitting MLA Robert Hawkins for Yellowknife Centre in the

The fire that ripped through the top floor of the Polaris Apartment building on Sunday is being treated as suspicious, say RCMP. “The cause of the fire is still under investigation,” Const. Elenore Sturko told EDGE, though the RCMP is looking at the possibility of arson. “It has to be ruled an arson and the

Two years ago, Jacey Firth-Hagen got a Facebook message from CKLB host Lawrence Nayally; he was developing a show about northern youth and looking for interesting people in the Beaufort Delta to feature. Happy to be of assistance, Jacey sent him the names of some youth in the region. Then came a second message: how

After a much publicized wrangle with the NWT Liquor Licensing Board and some colourful comments from Minister Michael Miltenberger, Yellowknife’s Warrior Strong Fight League is holding its first event tomorrow. Here’s a quick intro to the local guys who will be dishing out the northern hospitality to a batch of southerners being flown up for