On EDGE | Opinion As Premier Bob McLeod is so fond of saying, the NWT has the resources the world wants. Put aside the question of whether the world is willing to buy those resources at a price that makes extracting them economically sensible. Instead, focus on the fact that the NWT’s new regulatory responsibilities,
On EDGE | Opinion A recent, controversial opinion piece we published argued that a local event gave too much credence to “unscientific” medical practices. In response, a conventionally trained Yellowknife doctor suggests that no one has a monopoly on healing. Medical practitioners of all stripes — complementary or conventional — must grapple with the same fundamental
Concept art for an ambitious plan to turn the headframe into a greenhouse | Illustration courtesy Dave Stone On EDGE | Opinion Yellowknife has a new day to add to its heritage celebrations next year, but what to call it — Robertson Day, perhaps, or Shaft Day — and when to mark it — the date
On EDGE | Opinion Finance minister Michael Miltenberger has a pretty simple fiscal strategy for the next four or five years: people equal money. Perhaps that’s a tad glib. But with the NWT staring down the barrel of limited fiscal options over the next few years, the finance minister is eyeing Territorial Formula Financing, the
Cutting-edge medical technology is coming to town | Illustration courtesy John Leech (1817 – 1864) On EDGE | Opinion Among the list of presenters and exhibitors at the NWT Wellness Conference are energy healers, acupuncturists, homeopaths and “cold laser” therapists. If any of these sound familiar, it’s because they were in the news recently in connection with
On EDGE | Opinion Even by the stilted, hidebound standards of budget speeches, Finance Minister Michael Miltenberger’s offering yesterday was pretty dull. The most oratory verve was found near the beginning, where, in an attempt at invoking an epic timeframe, Miltenberger measured the time since this government has taken office in days—1,197 to be exact.
On EDGE: Opinion Some time this year, there will be a federal election. Exactly when the writ will drop remains a matter of some conjecture, with the governing Conservatives insisting they’re holding to the scheduled October date, and some speculation that the Tories will pull the trigger this spring, after the federal budget and before
When I moved to Paris in the summer of 2007, I knew a little bit about the state of modern France. Nicolas Sarkozy had recently carved out an ugly victory by pinging not-so-subtle racist themes to the electorate in an effort to outflank the Islamophobic right wing. I’d read a couple of Michel Houellebecq novels
On EDGE: Opinion Nunavut’s food crisis has finally graduated to clickbait. Clickbait gets a bad editorial rap, and mostly I understand why: it is a dumpster of human thought on the whole. But now that it’s entered the orbit of Buzzfeed as a story, Nunavut’s epidemic of food insecurity is part of global mainstream thought.
On EDGE: Opinion We fear debt. If you’ve ever signed on for a credit card or a student loan, you know what it’s like to watch all that money fly out the door every month. The Bible, which still weighs heavily on our collective thought, has all kinds of things to say about debt, little
“Here they come, the boys in the bright white sports cars, waving their arms in the air. Who do they think they are?” – Trooper It is a rite of this season. Like the lake breaking up, the days getting longer and the snow’s retreat to reveal the carnage of roll up-the-rim and eight months
by Tim Querengesser One recent Sunday saw me strike up a conversation with a burly-bearded Yellowknife retiree, who I’ll call Bill. We discussed that hardest of Yellowknife topics: What could make you leave? “Well there’s too many rednecks,” Bill said, comparing Yellowknife to living in Whitehorse and Iqaluit. Having lived in Whitehorse, I agreed. “And