Just like your average holiday party, but WAY better! December’s our third anniversary and to celebrate we’re inviting YK to a giant party. Wake Up Hazel will get everyone dancing to kick off the night, and then DJ T-Woo will take things to the next level! There’ll also be another great photo booth by Angela
With Fire Prevention stumbling, this year’s Yellowknife Basketball Association standings are something of a surprise. Here’s the EDGEYK.com breakdown: 1. Ragged Ass Ballers This will be an interesting year for the league’s consecutive runners-up. Inside-out threat and big man Vince Belanger still does most of the scoring, though a number of pieces from last year’s
Over a dozen fastball players packed council chambers on Monday, many sporting jerseys and caps, to ask the City for help sodding the Tommy Forrest Ball Park. The dusty diamond has been rated the territories’ worst field by the Green Diamond Project association, said Yellowknife Fastball League treasurer Andrew Stewart, and it’s “certainly not a
Late Thursday evening, James MacKenzie was driving along Forrest Drive when his headlights picked out a scraggly husky shivering on the side of the road. It was minus 30. When he pulled over he could see ice forming on the old dog’s fur. She seemed skittish, said MacKenzie, tail between her legs. As he approached,
Commercial fisherman Johnny Nault lived with his family on Jolliffe Island for many years during the ’80s and ’90s. He is pictured here with the faithful “Esprit” in 1985.
Wind farms, machines that morph compost into propane, large-scale wood-pellet boilers fed by recycled cardboard – soaring energy costs are forcing the City to dream big as it updates its energy plan for the first time in a decade. Since the Community Energy Plan was introduced in 2004, the City has reduced its greenhouse gas
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http://edgenorth.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Marie-Adam-Clip.mp3 by Angela Gzowski Yellowknife style isn’t the high fashion of larger urban centres. Instead, it’s a unique mix of fashion and function that lets us brave the elements while showcasing our unique personalities during long, dark winters. I’m going out on a regular basis, looking for Yellowknifers rockin’ winter wear in their own way. This
With construction underway and a government decision on liquor regulation expected in the coming weeks, the NWT Brewing Company’s much-anticipated brewpub will be up and running before the snow melts, said owner Fletcher Stevens. And yes beer lovers, it’s settled, you’ll be able to buy beer in growlers straight from the brewpub. We’ve heard hints
On EDGE: Opinion With sex assault charges now laid, I hope the hand-wringing continues over what the CBC and many others knew about Jian Ghomeshi’s violent sex life before several women recently came forward to give credence to the creepy rumours. Even I’d heard them in Yellowknife after a friend toured the CBC Broadcast Centre
Yellowknife bars may soon be allowed to keep the taps running all weekend, if council passes a bylaw permitting bars and pubs to operate on Sundays and holidays. As it stands, restaurants, clubs and temporary liquor providers operate seven days a week, but bars and pubs – Class A liquor licences – can’t serve on
In a Toronto apartment, with Tom Thomson’s portrait reflecting off the glass table where they sat, Yellowknife artist Robbie Craig and a descendant of the iconic Canadian painter shared a moment, and a paintbrush, together last summer. Greg Thomson, the great-great nephew of the fabled Thomas John Thomson – who inspired the artists who eventually
NWT Tourism’s decision to dump Kellett Communications as its Agency of Record prompted the resignations of two directors of the Non-Governmental Organization that manages tourism promotion for the territorial government, but for very different reasons. Marion Lavigne, who joined the board a year earlier, quit in the middle of her two-year term so that her
On EDGE: Opinion Cities are funny things. Over time they develop their own characters, which should be impossible, since they are, at their core, merely agglomerations of land, concrete and glass, topped with multitudes of humans who value, believe and care about a vast array of different things. Even within the most homogenous of cities,
Slugger was a well-known character in Old Town. Porkchop was his pet pig for the summer of 1982 and ran loose with a pack of local dogs. He disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the autumn.