We’re now a week into the spring session. After Chris Windeyer’s budget analysis and a look at the government’s controversial rationale for the Stanton P3 project, here’s a breakdown of some of the notable debates YK MLAs have been bringing to the house so far: Stop penalizing people for good planning, says Bisaro On the first
Lesley Muyres lives in a little yellow house on a lane between 50th and 51st streets, just down by the RCMP building. Today her modest family home, built in 1952, sits by itself in the shadow of the Scotia Centre, surrounded by largely empty parking lots. “I’m like a little oasis in uptown,” she says.
On EDGE | Opinion The City is inviting corporate and business volunteers to join the working committee on the 2023 Canada Winter Games – a body already loaded with politicians and bureaucrats eager to bring the event to Yellowknife. The committee’s task is due diligence, mostly: to determine “the feasibility and advisability of hosting the
Words by Matthew Mallon | Photos by Angela Gzowski There’s just the littlest breeze coming up off the shore today, barely noticeable, but it’s killing. Stand somewhere long enough staring at people doing cold, cold things, and it starts to drill right into your bones. But the crew are on the move constantly right now,
by Fran Hurcomb The Government dock in October with all the commercial fishing boats pulled up for the winter.
Tracing the supply chain that keeps the street community alive: Part 2 of EDGEYK.com’s Life Outside series
Cutting-edge medical technology is coming to town | Illustration courtesy John Leech (1817 – 1864) On EDGE | Opinion Among the list of presenters and exhibitors at the NWT Wellness Conference are energy healers, acupuncturists, homeopaths and “cold laser” therapists. If any of these sound familiar, it’s because they were in the news recently in connection with
Down at the bottom of the Old Town hill, just inside the Arnica Inn, Dorothy and Joselito De Leon are quietly building a fan base that extends beyond the Filipino community. “Dennis Bevington was here,” Dorothy says. “A few of the MLAs were here. And the fire chief is always here. He loves our Epic
Happy together: Morin, Aglukkaq and Ramsay | Photo via Sandy Lee On EDGE | Opinion Almost lost in the excitement over the latest chapter in the Robertson Headframe saga was the re-announcement of federal spending on tourism promotion in the Northwest Territories. Sandy Lee tweeted and Facebook-posted a picture of her boss Leona Aglukkaq, flanked by Minister of
You may remember Stephen Harper from such hits as “With a Little Help from my Friends,” as performed at the National Arts centre with Yo-Yo Ma in 2009, or his Axl Rose-shaming “Sweet Child O’ Mine” from the 2014 Conservative Christmas Party. The well-known crooner, who daylights as the country’s Prime Minister, is coming to
At three years old, Shiri MacPherson was diagnosed with Wilms tumour – a rare form of kidney cancer that most commonly affects young children. Now a healthy and happy fourteen-year-old high school student at Sir John Franklin in Yellowknife, Shiri and her mother take time to reflect on their long, confusing battle with the disease,
The campaign to save one of Yellowknife’s most iconic monuments imploded yesterday, when City Administration announced the municipality couldn’t legally acquire the Robertson Headframe. For the past several months, administration has been in discussion with Newmont Mining Corp, the company that owns the Con Mine property, over transferring the headframe. Newmont said it is willing
by Angela Gzowski Whether you’ve grown up in Yellowknife, or just moved North, or lived here a number of years ago, you’ll probably recognize many of the images in this series. The city is a visually interesting place, partly because it’s small yet packed with great diversity, from downtown office buildings to rusting Kam Lake trucks to
Wade Carpenter caught the northern bug while bobbing around off the coast of B.C. The recent biology and teaching graduate was working as a fisheries observer on the coastal trawlers – “Similar to that show on Discover channel, … like working on fair ride, 24/7.” On one of the boats he found James A. Michener’s
In early fall 2013, Greyson Gritt put a $9500 down payment on a studio suite in Niven Lake’s CAVO development, then being touted as Yellowknife’s most exciting new condo project. Summit Development Corporation was the well-appointed, market-canny force behind the project. Things were already a year behind schedule. Gritt, a first-time real estate buyer investing a large