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Op-Ed: Why giving YK more MLAs would be the opposite of fair

by Aaron Spitzer As a longtime Yellowknife resident, I’m saddened that my City is suing (Mayor makes case for City’s legal challenge over too few MLAs) for even greater control of the Northwest Territories legislative assembly. I’m even more disturbed that it’s being done under the guise of “rights” and “equality.” The proponents – the

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Missing tourist presumed dead

“Arrived in Yellowknife with a plan to go into the wilderness alone and become a missing person”: RCMP

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Angela Gzowski Photography’s pics from our Halloween party

  Thanks to everyone who came out to EDGEYK.com and DJ T-Woo’s first-ever Halloween party at the Elks. If you were there, you’ll probably remember Angela Gzowski‘s photo booth and may have even posed for a pic. These are some of her faves, but you can see the whole collection here.

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NWT enters lucrative convention race without crucial hotel tax funding

Tourism is the Northwest Territories biggest sustainable industry, as the Industry, Tourism and Investment Minister is fond of saying. And business travelers provide an especially good return on investment. In the 2012/13 season, 76,400 people visited the territory, among them 24,100 business travelers who spent $48.1 million – almost half the $105.8 million all visitors

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Mayor makes case for City’s legal challenge over too few YK MLAs

After months of deliberation, Council is taking the territorial government to court over what the mayor calls Yellowknife’s ¨systemic and chronic¨ underrepresentation in the legislative assembly. Though Yellowknife has 48 per cent of the territory’s population, it has only 36 per cent of the seats in the legislative assembly – seven of 19. Even so,

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Does YK need a proper public gallery space?

The opening night of Jen Walden’s exhibition of landscape paintings drawn from  her visit to the Mackenzie Mountains. | photos Jack Danylchuk After a summer of exhibitions by Jenn Walden, Alison McCreesh, and now Terry Pamplin, it might be tempting to conclude the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre has added ‘art gallery’ to its mandate.

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NWT Tourism getting ahead of missing tourist’s possible effect on aurora numbers

It’s premature to speculate on the effect Atsumi Yoshikubo’s disappearance will have on Yellowknife’s tourism industry, but with Japanese media abuzz with the news, Northwest Territories Tourism is taking steps to manage potential fallout. The organization, which markets the Northwest Territories as a tourist destination, is highlighting the uniqueness of the incident to Japanese media,

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YK Past Blast: Raven Mad Daze

For over 30 years, this festival of music, food, good shopping deals and shaving cream took place every June on the closest Friday evening to Solstice. Franklin Avenue was closed off and everyone came out to wander around in a huge crowd and celebrate the longest day. The event disappeared about 5 years ago due to lack

Face Off: Revealing the winners of YK’s coolest photo contest

Sponsored by Pat Kane Photo About a month ago, local photographers and artists were tasked with a challenge: create a Halloween-inspired portrait and anonymously submit it to a contest that was held at The Gallery on 47th Street on October 29th and 30th. We received 14 photographs and invited the general public to view the

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Assembly Briefs: Oct. 30 – Junior Kindergarten put on pause

After tussling for months over the divisive issue of junior kindergarten, the Government of the Northwest Territories has backed down – the program will not be coming to Yellowknife next fall. Premier Bob McLeod announced Thursday the roll out in Yellowknife and the larger communities would be paused until a comprehensive review of the existing

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Assembly Briefs: Oct. 28 – Final tally for forest fires? $60 million

The total cost of fighting forest fires this past summer came in at a whopping $60 million, according to Finance Minister Michael Miltenberger. That’s $5 million more than the $55-million price tag previously reported and nearly nine times the $7 million budgeted at the beginning of the season. Miltenberger gave a detailed account of fire-fighting

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Council Briefs: Oct. 27 – New City program to help build YK business

Small business in Yellowknife is getting a boost after council voted in a business incubation and incentive program last night. The plan has six parts: Establishing an entrepreneurship mentorship program to connect business owners in Yellowknife with local and national mentors in the same industries. Increasing networking opportunities by partnering with the Yellowknife Chamber of

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Park and floatplane dock on Wiley Road looking likely

After years as antagonists, the NWT Floatplane Society and Latham Island Neighbourhood Association found common ground on Monday over waterfront development in Old Town. Lisa Scott and Hal Logsdon, Presidents of LINA and the Floatplane society, agreed the dilapidated dock and gravel lot on Wiley Road, just down from the Wildcat, should become a park

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