On EDGE | Opinion Even by the stilted, hidebound standards of budget speeches, Finance Minister Michael Miltenberger’s offering yesterday was pretty dull. The most oratory verve was found near the beginning, where, in an attempt at invoking an epic timeframe, Miltenberger measured the time since this government has taken office in days—1,197 to be exact.
by Fran Hurcomb Yellowknife was sandwiched between two gold mines for decades. In this photo, the Giant headframe is in the foreground and the Con headframe in the background.
Reneltta Arluk is a creative migrant. The Inuvialiut-Gw’ichin-Chipewyan Cree actor/playwright/impresario was born in Fort Smith, and has since spent her career appearing in film, television and onstage, across Canada and internationally. She currently lives in Vancouver, but estimates she spent maybe a month and a half there last year. It’s this restless career that has
Flamin’ Raven | SATIRE Snow-covered city streets are a fact of life in Yellowknife. So too, it seems, are the inevitable complaints, criticism and arguments that break out every winter about how the City handles snow removal. Whether it’s the frequency with which the streets are cleared, or the hours at which this happens (or
The construction start date on one of the biggest infrastructural projects in NWT history is less than one year away. While critics attack the GNWT’s choice to fund it via the controversial private-public partnership (P3) method, the government tells EDGEYK.com that this decision will give NWT taxpayers 5 to 15 percent better bang for their buck.
The women have arrived, the ice walls climb higher, the tractor is busted again
BID bid gains little support in the biz community Revitalizing the downtown via a Business Improvement District (BID) has been a hot topic at city hall ever since two councillors returned from a BID conference last spring. But the idea, which would see local businesses pay into a fund for collective projects, doesn’t seem to have any
Believe you can be healed and be your own biggest advocate. That’s the advice husband, father, and cancer survivor Patrick Scott offers after his recent battle with prostate cancer. While Patrick encourages others to listen to their bodies and pay attention to potential warning signs, he also knows the road to recovery is more than
Heyck on power | Image via McGill Reporter In advance of his upcoming appearance at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada’s The Cities We Need (Les villes qu’il nous faut) conference this February 19/20, mayor Mark Heyck gives the McGill Reporter a preview of what he’ll be discussing (“The opportunity to discuss whether or not municipalities have the
EDGEYK | Opinion The GNWT has spent $1.2 million over the past two years, throwing week-long parties in Ottawa. They’re important, NWT Tourism spin doctors say, a prime chance for political and business leaders to sell others in the same line of work on our territory’s many splendours and investment opportunities. Our chance to shine
After posting a significant net loss in 2014, one of Yellowknife’s largest companies, Det’on Cho Corporation, is restructuring and the future of the company’s senior management is uncertain. On Jan. 5, the company, which is wholly owned by the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, brought in consultant Bob Murphy as co-president of restructuring. His role, he
EDGEYK | Opinion The other night in Ottawa, Premier Bob McLeod announced the GNWT would study “the idea of an energy, communications and transportation corridor along the Mackenzie Valley to the Arctic Ocean.” This is the latest tack in the premier’s quest to turn the NWT into a shipping hub for Alberta oil and, the
You’ve probably seen Shawn Buckley crossing Yellowknife Bay in his odd-looking Bombardier. The beast weighs close to one ton and can hold all the gear he needs. Shawn prefers using his Bombardiers over a snowmobile. “There’s a bigger holding area and I can repair them myself,” he says. “They’re sustainable, they were made for the North; they have 3- to 4-feet skis
Mr. Peters, or Landon Peters, is the Saskatoon-born drama teacher at Sir John Franklin High School—and he’s got a reputation. Students know not to mess with him: no swearing, no mumbling and absolutely no tardiness.Yet, it is often the case where the students coming out of the drama program are the most courteous, hardworking, responsible and fulfilled with their high school experience.
How’s everybody doing? It’s a good time to check in with one another, make sure winter hasn’t put too much of a chill on things. Are you still feeling the magic of a midnight solar storm? Or are you too busy shining a flashlight beneath the hood of your car, making sure the jumper cables aren’t mixed up