Signs summer is here for a Yellowknifer: the concept of nightime no longer exists, power outages have started, and garage sale season is in full swing. This week’s list features several neighbourly street-wide sales, including most of the Niven area. There are a lot of households getting ready for moves at the end of this month,

Michael Miltenberger is leading a second European tour in as many years to sell space and time on the fibre optic cable now working its way down the Mackenzie Valley and promotion of Inuvik’s satellite station facility as a cool place to locate a dish. “As the MVFL moves towards scheduled completion in mid-2016, the

Local Smoke, Greyson Gritt’s song and new video, speaks volumes about the artist behind the blues licks and the finger-flipping lyrics. “If you listen to the song, she’s this, she’s that, she’s doing this, and she’s doing that, and it’s like f*** off already, she’s burning this town down and there’s nothing you can do

Dennis Bevington might be a leisurely, sometimes halting speaker – someone who writes words on sticky notes and underlines them with a certain oomph as he talks; but when the Northwest Territories’ man in Ottawa has somewhere to be, he’s a speedy walker. Coming through the front doors of the chateauesque Confederation Building next to

Vanthuyne says he’s “not as far up the environmental ladder as Bob Bromley,” but is “supportive of responsible environmental stewardship.” Weledeh MLA Bob Bromley’s decision to retire from territorial politics has so far generated more rumours than declared candidates. Cory Vanthuyne is the first out of the gate, and everything has aligned perfectly for the two-term

Ingredients: Pre-baked flatbread or naan – 4 slices 2 oz smoked Char 7 pencil-sized asparagus – can be blanched 1.5 oz to 2 oz goat cheese Slivered red onion Fresh dill Directions: I make fresh flatbread and prebake them; however, I have adapted this recipe for use with naan. Start by spreading the goat cheese over the

A 19th century map of the NWT Historian Ryan Silke has brought us stories of Yellowknife’s first rocks and first inhabitants. In this third installment of his series, he explores the first European to travel across the mainland Arctic – or at least the first to write about it. The experiences of the Dene, who discovered and explored

Only the brave or foolish, depending on your point of view, go outdoors during a Yellowknife winter. I’m content to stay indoors and let others enjoy the winter that’s all around me. But it hasn’t always been this way. Life is, I believe, a story written in the present, changeable and unpredictable, and this is mine. The lure of adventure,

Introducing yourself as a Yellowknifer to Canadians living south of the 60th parallel elicits a fairly standard response. It goes something like this: “I’m from Yellowknife.” “Yellowstone?” “No, Yellow-Knife.” “Wow, I’ve always wanted to visit the Yukon.” I’m not sure how the Northwest Territories became so supplanted by the Yukon that it does not even register as a place

Camp Antler, Prelude Lake near Yellowknife, NWT, August 1969 | N-1995-002-4185_REF by Catherine Dook Before iPods, before the Commissioner’s Ball, even before television that lasted longer than four hours, the social event of the year was the Territorial Young Campers’ Association Walkathon. Twenty miles long, the route snaked out toward Giant Mine. The walkers were expected to take all day. You collected pledges