Sponsored by GNWT Department of Finance What advice would you give to the Legislative Assembly? The 2014 Budget Dialogue is an opportunity for NWT residents to share their views on spending priorities and their ideas for making the GNWT more efficient with the Finance Minister as the 17th Legislative Assembly enters its last budget cycle.
story and photos by Pat Kane I spent a few days this summer at Ykea, or more formally, The Yellowknife Solid Waste Facility. After chatting with salvagers and getting a sense of why this place is so important to Yellowknifers, I decided to take a few portraits of these dedicated rummagers. The dump is a
photos Angela Gzowski Each spring, Yellowknife Scouts slosh through the mushy ravine behind the Ski Club in search of dead bodies. Not the recently deceased kind; they’re on the hunt for femurs, vertebrae – and maybe skulls – of Yellowknife’s earliest pioneers. It sounds gruesome, but it’s not unusual for the Back Bay Cemetery to
Creating masterpieces out of mannequins, glue and fur, are the Robertsons the last of their kind?
New legislation to improve workplace safety has been gathering dust on Minister Jackson Lafferty’s desk for two years, says Frame Lake MLA Wendy Bisaro, and workers may be less safe as a result. On Thursday, she demanded to know why the Minister Responsible for the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission hadn’t signed new occupational health
Flamin’ Raven | Special to EDGEYK.com and free for all In a surprising anomalous display of statistical improbability, the entire planet experienced a 24-hour period of peace, tranquility and a complete lack of fear in what scientists are calling “the perfect day.” Humans around the world awoke to perfect weather conditions for their respective locations,
The decision by Canadian North and First Air to abandon merger talks could end in reduced service to remote communities and underscores the need for government support for northern airlines, says industry analyst Rick Erickson. “Governments – Ottawa and the territories – need to step up,” said Erickson. Without the profits from the lucrative Yellowknife
After two decades of breathless announcements followed by minimal action, it might be hard to get excited about government conducting research into the NWT’s elusive 911 service. The City’s been at it since 1991, with little more than feasibility reports to show for it – the most recent, from 2009, came with a price tag
There’s a reason information dissemination needs to be centralized when a soldier and a gunman are shot in Ottawa, and there’s a collective, Canadian breath-holding going on. I woke up this morning to CBC radio’s live reports and heard a national reporter say all Canadian Forces bases across the country were in lockdown mode and
On EDGE: Opinion About the only thing that’s certain about the territorial government’s latest pipedream is the few who take the idea of exporting Alberta bitumen from a port on the Arctic coast seriously are happy a proposed pilot demonstration wasn’t tried this year. Not that next year promises to be better. Low water and
Bumps caused by permafrost thaw and subsidence beneath a former section of the Ingraham Trail near Yellowknife | photos Julian Murton by Julian Murton and Stephen Wolfe With climate warming, changing vegetation, and recurrent forest fires, permafrost in many arctic regions has been warming or thawing, and these trends are likely to continue. The question
The current Yellowknife electoral boundaries map | produced for Elections NWT by the NWT Centre for Geomatics City council looks set to take the GNWT to court over Yellowknife’s under-representation in the legislative assembly. The four councillors present at Monday’s municipal services committee expressed interest in a legal challenge, though it won’t be discussed officially
Flamin Ravin’ | Special to EDGEYK.com After months of clamouring for sweeping changes to how the City provides services to residents, Yellowknife denizens experienced shock, fear and anger at the unveiling of a new waste-collection program. Last week, new black garbage bins – designed to streamline waste pick up and lower the cost of the
The City’s Municipal Services Committee will come head-to-head next week with a time-honoured practice that’s guided development in Yellowknife since its earliest days, when miners burned the camps of absent Dene and claimed ownership of the land. Politely described as the appropriation of public land for private use, it’s more commonly known as squatting. Evidence
The old caution that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it found confirmation in the latest report on Yellowknife’s Municipal Enforcement Division. “We were told 20 years ago to do many of the same things we’re being told to do today,” Councillor Adrian Bell wrote in an email to EDGEYK.com. Bell noted the