photos Laurie Sarkadi A few years ago I drove to Fort Providence with my neighbour to learn how to make a traditional Dene drum. I’ve been on the hunt for bear grease ever since. Last night, after a bear was shot and killed at the same neighbour’s house on Ingraham Trail, I got my wish.
Deepak H. Kumar has been tweeting up a storm since June 17 when he revealed to the world that his company, Deepak International Ltd., had finally closed the deal to purchase two former diamond factories from the Government of Northwest Territories. The purchase price was $1.795 million, not the $1.9 million list price Dave Ramsay,
Wiseguy Robin Wasicuna is riding to the rescue of Old Town’s Dancing Moose Café. He’s taking over the 35-seat diner Thursday, Friday and Saturday for the next few months and last night offered up a sample of starters to showcase his skill and dedication to the art and craft of cooking. For the three
There are lots of ways to get fired, but doing your job isn’t usually one of them, unless you work for the Government of the Northwest Territories. That’s what Sheila Bassi-Kellett discovered after she was fired as deputy minister responsible for Human Resources on August 1. According to an EDGE YK source, it happened after
Minister Michael Miltenberger was quick to blame public anxiety over wildfires on uninformed social medial commentators, but his own words and statements on the Department of Environment and Natural Resource’s website have done as much to fan the flames. In an interview with CBC radio last week, the minister marveled at how quickly one fire
Forest fire season didn’t get my attention until mid-July, the time in a normal year when rain quenches fires sparked by early summer electrical storms and wind carries away the smoke that can leach the heat from the warmest day. This year has been anything but normal. Instead of rain, dry electrical storms swept across
KATIE WEAVER: What’s it like to do standup comedy for a Yellowknife audience? ALEX SPARLING: It’s a blast. It’s a little different, I definitely have a bit of a home-ice advantage and all of my friends are here. I only come home every six months to do a show. This one’s especially different though, because all the
My face stuck on the window in the small propeller plane I boarded in Calgary, I saw the roads getting longer, straighter, sparser, then just disappear as I drew nearer to my new town. I could really grasp its remoteness. The Bristol Freighter plane near the “Welcome To Yellowknife” sign, the planes flying low over
Some people can have a few drinks and then stop. I’m often one of them – but admittedly, I’m often not. Yellowknife is known as a hard-drinking town and social options regularly revolve around drinking and socializing. In fact, we’re some of the hardest drinkers in the country. The 2009 NWT Addictions Report, conducted by
A loud rapping at the front door interrupted our quiet Friday evening. Fran and I had stayed behind to check out charts we’d picked up of the Nahanni River after everyone left our Willow Flats shack for the party on Latham Island. Planning a summer canoe trip on a cold night was our remedy for
Cows grazing in a field at Bevan’s Farm in Yellowknife | NWT Archives/Henry Busse fonds/N-1979-052: 4665 I am told that some 59 years ago I was delivered by Dr. Stanton in the old Red Cross Hospital. Dr. Stanton delivered a lot of my Yellowknife friends; I was one among many. At the time Dad was
Earlier this year, the Department of Education, Culture and Employment announced a new junior kindergarten initiative to provide free school-based programming for four year olds across the NWT. There has been a great deal of concern from school boards and parents about the money required to implement this new program, and in June, MLAs passed
“Yaaa Homos!” exclaims Iman Kassam from behind her drum kit at last year’s Folk on the Rocks Music Festival. Kassam, who came to Yellowknife from Africa by way of Toronto, holds her drumsticks in the air, flashing the audience a glimpse of her tattooed arms and rows of colorful braided bracelets. She’s just finished telling
The bullshit flew in the coffee shop as Scotty told us again, about the time some pilots messed up and it happened way back when. Back in the spring of seventy-eight Finger, Linger, and Ben, three young lads, all working late at Gateway Aviation. Yes Finger and Linger, buddies with Ben knew each other since
Excepting ursine silhouettes riding truck bumpers, a polar bear sighting on Franklin Avenue is in the realm of fantasy, or hallucination – unless you wander through the retail wasteland of Centre Square Mall to Arctic Jewellers. Since 2009, when the last cutting and polishing factory on Diamond Row closed, the store owned by April and