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Council seems keen to increase protection for employees lodging complaints against the City or City staff, though whether or not these whistleblowers will have anonymity remains to be seen. The idea was proposed by Coun. Adrian Bell back in November, “not in response to specific situations, just a general need for a confidential complaints/feedback mechanism,”

Yesterday morning, Jessie Teed was shopping at Glen’s Independent Grocer downtown, when something odd caught her eye in the wraps section. “The original price of the wraps I was looking at was $4.49 but they were on a sale for 49¢ off. The ‘sale’ price for the other wraps was $4.49. So I thought it

Despite efforts from the various parties attempting to house Yellowknife’s homeless population, a chasm has emerged between the GNWT and the City that could derail the much-anticipated Housing First initiative. On one side, the City-backed Community Advisory Board on Homelessness (CAB) is pushing forward with its plan to house people in private apartments around the

RCMP report that two stabbings and an assault took place in downtown Yellowknife, early on Tuesday evening. They have not released the names of anyone involved yet, and are still looking for the perpetrators. “At approximately 6:19 pm on March 22, 2016,” the police press release says, “RCMP responded after receiving information that Emergency Medical Services were

RCMP made two “significant” drug seizures last week in Yellowknife and on the road near Fort Providence. Six people have been charged, including a 77-year-old. On Friday afternoon, RCMP found 177 grams of crack cocaine, 907 grams of marijuana and in excess of $6,000 cash, while searching a residence on Hamilton Drive. Six adults and

A move to reduce ambulance fees in Yellowknife was proposed on Monday by Coun. Adrian Bell. “For me, this is a compassionate city and we need to lessen the burden for people going through traumatic events in their lives,” Bell said during yesterday’s Municipal Services Committee meeting. He indicated that he would be bringing forward

NWT senator Nick Sibbeston will have to pay back just under $27,000 to the Senate, following binding arbitration results released today. In 2015 the auditor general determined that Sibbeston owed roughly $50,000 for improper expense claims, ranging from travel to hospitality. Along with 13 other senators accused of playing fast and loose with Senate expense

A large truck with a snowplow on its front fell through the ice on Sunday afternoon while plowing a road along the backside of Joliffe Island. When EDGE arrived on the scene around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, the truck, which appears to belong to Aurora Telecom Services Ltd., was half-submerged, with its front wheels still

You’ve probably seen them in your community: empty sea-cans, brought in at some point by truck, barge or rail, sitting there, possibly rusting or caught in a tangle of overgrown vegetation. But what if they could serve another purpose? Bioresource engineer Mark Lefsrud believes they can. The head of McGill University’s Biomass Production Laboratory was

Deep beneath the mountains in the southwest corner of the NWT lies a natural gas motherlode. According to a new, widely reported geological assessment released yesterday, the Liard Basin, which lies across the NWT, Yukon and B.C. border, has some 219 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of recoverable natural gas; to put that into perspective, the

Thirteen communities in the NWT will be moving ahead with a wide range of municipal infrastructure projects following the allocation of $16 million in federal funding towards the initiatives. “Construction on some of these projects will start as early as this summer and be complete as early as this fall,” said GNWT minister of Municipal

No floatplanes at the new park Despite being named after a Yellowknife aviation pioneer, the new waterfront park near the Wildcat Cafe will be floatplane-free. On Monday night, City Council voted to allow only non-motorized vessels to dock at the tiny Hank Koenen Park on Wiley Rd., which is currently under construction. This decision came

A large parcel of empty land at the southern end of Range Lake Rd. with the Middle Earth-sounding name of Hordal Bagon is set to be developed into 26 single family lots, though the possibility of a tiny home community in the area has been postponed for the time being. There had been discussion of

A GNWT education policy that has long infuriated the territory’s Francophone community, leading to lengthy court battles, is to be reviewed in the coming months. The policy, which restricts eligibility for the territory’s two “French First” schools, stems from a directive issued by former Education, Culture and Employment minister Jackson Lafferty (now Speaker of the