Like most Yellowknifers, I become a tour guide any time a friend or family member comes to town. I’ve actually become quite good at it, too: “This is the Wildcat Café, YK’s oldest restaurant. Up there is Pilot’s Monument. Yes, Buffalo Airways still use these airplanes. Those are the houseboats the Ice Lake Rebels live
On EDGE: Opinion Like most Yellowknifers, I was caught up in the disappearance of Atsumi Yoshikubo last month. As the days became weeks, I couldn’t stop wondering what might have happened to the 45-year-old psychiatrist, and I spent some time trudging – in the footsteps of all the other searchers – around city trails, hoping/dreading
Yellowknife’s sweeping history
Last week, the Government of the Northwest Territories hosted an Energy Charrette to brainstorm ways to tackle high electricity costs and promote renewable energy options. The second charrette followed a first session in fall 2012. It also came on the heels of the recently announced GNWT $20-million subsidy to the NWT Power Corp. to shield
At first glance, the Northwest Territories appears to be outpacing the country with an employment rate of 67.3 per cent in October, slightly more than five per cent ahead of the rest of Canada. But the devil is in the details. Last month, 21,400 persons were working in the Northwest Territories – 600 fewer than
Nancy Buckley was a well-known fisherlady on Great Slave lake, first based in Hay River and then in Yellowknife. She and her husband Archie ran the fish barge on Joliffe Island and supplied most of the fresh fish in Yellowknife. She died in 2007 at the age of 46.
by Jorge Barrera No one met me at the airport when I landed on a flight from Victoria for my first career reporting gig with Northern News Services. After a phone call, the editor arrived for the pick-up, eventually dropping me off at the company-owned townhouse that would be my temporary lodging. It was May
After more than 20 years of deliberation, the Northwest Territories is finally establishing an ombudsman’s office to investigate citizen’s grievances against government. “An ombudsman assists people, free of charge, who feel they have been treated unfairly by government and helps people understand their rights when it comes to government administration,” explained Deh Cho MLA Michael
On EDGE: Opinion I was having dinner recently with a colleague in Whitehorse who shared something interesting about Yukoners and how they view themselves in relation to Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. “We don’t think about ourselves as part of the North the same way,” he said. “We’ve got more in common with Alaska.” He’s
With a massive HD projection screen, a VIP area equipped with leather recliners and a large flat screen TV, amazing specials on food and drinks, and Yellowknife’s best service, Coyote’s is quickly becoming the place to watch the game in YK. Every Sunday from now until the Super Bowl, Ed’s opening the lounge all day
Nicole Garbutt, local make-up artist extraordinaire, came over around 6 p.m. A glass of wine was poured, and we got down to business. I had already dyed my hair to a dirty ginger and shaved a receding hairline deep into the top of my head. Then off came my facial hair. My wife, Erika Nyyssonen,
David Suzuki was in Yellowknife this week as part of a cross-country tour aimed at building grassroots support for a constitutional right to a healthy environment. The Blue Dot Tour, run by a former Obama campaign strategist, is built on a bottom-up philosophy – environmentalists should be pressing their municipal leaders, says Suzuki, who then
The call for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women received official backing from the NWT legislature on Tuesday. A motion calling for the inquiry, as well as a national roundtable to “identify concrete outcomes that will prevent further violence against Aboriginal women and girls” received unanimous support from MLAs, with the exception
Jordan Crosby, NDS Regulators | photos Angela Gzowski Yellowknife is seemingly the adult recreational sports capital of North America, and late October marks the start of the fall/winter rec-sport season. A large percentage of YK’s adults, most of whom are well past their prime, lace up their sneakers, cleats or skates every year to compete
by Alison McCreesh In 2008, I spent a season in Dawson City. I was living in my tent and scooping ice cream between my last two years of art school. That summer, the ODD Gallery, as well as the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture were the centre of my social and cultural life. I