It’s 11:00 p.m. and I’m pressed flat on my back in the cockpit of a giant toothpick skimming across Yellowknife Bay at 70 km/hr. It’s pitch black, and the only sounds are the rattle of the iceboat’s skates and the electric ping of the lake freezing. An hour earlier, I’d read about the Whitehorse man who
Since its inception, the YKAFL has been a top-heavy league. In this vein, this year’s regular season standings are very reminiscent of years past – with the top three teams clearly in a class of their own, a log jam in the middle, and two winless squads desperately trying to climb out of the basement.
EDGEitorial The first question that crossed the EDGEYK.com desk after the job loss report was posted last week was simple and direct: 700 jobs? The writer was incredulous, but the 700 missing jobs are just a corner of a larger, more puzzling picture. According to NWT Bureau of Statistics, the territory shed 1,600 public sector
Flamin’ Raven | Special to EDGEYK.com Driving can be difficult. Especially in Yellowknife where everyone but you sucks at vehicular operation. Let’s face facts: YOU are the only competent driver on the road. George Carlin once joked that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
If the City’s budget passes as proposed, the average Yellowknife homeowner will be paying roughly $56 in additional municipal taxes next year. That number is based on a $312,000 single-family home, the Yellowknife average, said Carl Bird, the City’s Director of Corporate Services. For each additional $100,000 in value, residential property owners can expect to
Sponsored by CDETNO Dress to Impress When you’ve been unemployed for a while, it’s hard to invest in business and professional clothing. Especially if you won’t wear it every day. We hear this from a lot of people who are looking for work, or hoping to make a career change. In addition, when you land
Yellowknife is inching closer to hosting its biggest sporting event to date, but even with a City Council vote next Monday, it’s still unclear how much the Canada Winter Games will cost. The games would see thousands of athletes, coaches and volunteers descend on Yellowknife for 18 different sports played over a two-week period in
The ritual was the same every morning; pull the ears of my muskrat hat down and tie them beneath my chin, flip up my parka hood, then lower the peak of my hat until the guard hairs brushed the bridge my nose. Armored thus, I stepped into the witching hour. It was a recurring fantasy,
Last autumn, a bundle of boxes arrived at the house of Tanya Kappo, a Cree lawyer living in Edmonton. They contained sagebrush, two staffs covered in eagle feathers and 1,300 vamps, the beaded tops of moccasins. It was the first stop for Walking With Our Sisters, an exhibit honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women, and
On EDGE: Opinion Look, I get it. Gas is expensive. It’s been stuck at $1.39 a litre in Yellowknife for what seems like an eternity. And yes, you look around the country and see pump prices dropping everywhere. A litre of gas in much of Alberta is now under a dollar. Even here in Dawson
This week, dozens of Indigenous women leaders are gathering in Yellowknife for an event organized by Dene Nahjo, a group of young northern activists intent on translating the philosophy of Idle No More into action. The group started in the winter of 2012 as the Idle No More protests, in support of indigenous sovereignty and
The 150-mile Canadian Championship Dog Derby has been a Yellowknife institution for 60 years. Over this time, many different starting places and routes have been tried. In the 1990s, the race took off from Back Bay in Old Town. Grant and Richard Beck led the way out of the chutes.
When Northwest Territories Tourism launches a new website aimed at drawing conventions and meetings early next year, Yellowknife will share centre stage with Fort Smith, Hay River, Inuvik, and Norman Wells. Although the capital is the travel hub for the territory, with the most hotel rooms and convention facilities, “our mandate is to grow traffic
Chief Edward Sangris of Dettah says the Government of the Northwest Territories is “putting the cart ahead of the horse” by bringing in new land management policies while Akaitcho treaty negotiations are still underway. The Akaitcho Territory Government, which represents the communities of N’Dilo, Dettah, Deninu Kue (Fort Resolution) and Lutsel K’e, still hasn’t signed
The City’s longstanding stalemate with lakeside squatters saw slight movement on Monday when council voted to research licensing options for unregistered floatplane docks on Latham Island. The area in question is a stretch of City-leased land between Watt and Otto Drives that has played host to unlicensed floatplane docks for over a decade. Two weeks