by Laura Bain “Just a bunch of short trees and big rocks.” My exact words to Jocelyn, my first friend in Yellowknife, when she asked me what I thought about it up here. She said people either loved it or hated it. This was the summer of 2012. I had just moved into my aunt and uncle’s house and it was May and gross. I
It’s hard to know who to look at when you’re telling 200 people that your baseball coach caught you putting a gummy bear up your butt. (I was a kid, there’s a simple explanation, I don’t have room here to explain.) Do you look at your wife? No. She’s already said the gummy bear yarn is not one of
A couple sits on the porch of Riley Assaying, which was also home to the post office, near what is now known as Pilot’s Monument, circa 1938-1957.
Verse by Anthony Foliot you’re full blast with a four and you wish that you had more ‘cause a guy with a six just passed by going ten miles per hour because he’s got horse power flipping back his hair, he sure can fly (he had no comb) then coming down the straight is a
Sponsored by Century 21 Prospect Realty Although it may seem challenging to find similarities between Yellowknife and Toronto, a recent study by Toronto company Condos.ca provides a lot of useful information for Yellowknife condo buyers. The study, entitled Toronto Condo Maintenance Fees: Facts, Stats and Myths, is the result of a ten-year citywide analysis of condos sold
Bad neighbourhood: inside the Canadian Senate Two former premiers of the Northwest Territories, Nick Sibbeston and Dennis Patterson, both now Canadian senators, are among 30 members of that institution who have allegedly claimed nearly $1 million in inappropriate expenses. Based on information leaked ahead of the auditor general’s report on Senate spending, expected tomorrow, a CTV
For a lot of men in YK, winter weekends are spent sledding on the trails or laid out on the couch, beer in hand, watching football or hockey. Weeknights are even more “full.” Wednesdays on a bar stool at the Black Knight, Coyote’s, or Boston Pizza and various other nights tied up with recreational sports
It’s rare for a band to embrace a label, but Shred Kelly is more than comfortable hyping their brand of music as ‘Stoke Folk.’’ Then again why wouldn’t they be? They came up with the label themselves and fans and critics have been loving it ever since. So what can you expect from Shred Kelly’s
Shiny new gear outside the pub On Wednesday, the NWT Brewing Company inched closer to opening their eagerly anticipated brewpub in Old Town with the arrival of a truckload of shiny new brewing equipment. “We’ve had a smile on our face for the last 24 hours,” says brewpub owner Miranda Stevens. “You put your head down
View north from Pilot’s Monument in Old Town in 1975. The point is where Air Tindi is located today.
Ever wonder how to salvage a truck at the bottom of a lake? We at EDGE sure did, after a Yellowknife firefighter plunked his new Ford F-350 truck through the brittle ice of Pontoon Lake about a month ago, leaving a sad, truck-shaped hole. On Tuesday evening, the mystery was solved as the truck was
What kind of Yard Saler are you? The Early Bird, who needs to get first crack at the good stuff as soon as the first table is set up? Or, are you the Latecomer, who waits to grab what sellers are practically giving away at noon? Either way, it looks like you’ve got a busy
Chattering class: the Yukon has 59, Nunavut has 32, and we have a mere 27 After ignoring pleas for more consultation on devolution, the territorial government has marked a pile of surplus federal devolution cash for spending on a handful of communications flacks to tell the public what a great job it’s doing. Michael Miltenberger
This Tuesday, on one of the coolest afternoons of the season, with foreboding skies and a hint of fire smoke in the air, hundreds of Yellowknifers bravely said to heck with it and headed down to Somba K’e Park for the first of this year’s cornucopial spreads of homemade delights, to wander, nosh and run into one another.
“What do you picture when I say I live in Yellowknife?” “Big snow suits, igloos, polar bears, a lot of snow,” replies Brett Milne. We’re sitting on a bench in the polished halls of the Rideau Centre shopping mall in Ottawa. With its spluttering pop music and snappily dressed teenagers, it’s the least Yellowknife place