Following a recent bylaw forbidding further kennel development in Kam Lake, the City is hoping to convince the Yellowknife Dog Trotters Association to relocate to the Engle Business District with a very generous package of benefits. Since 1978, the association has run a kennel in Kam Lake, next to the new Grace Lake subdivision, that
The ‘official’ announcement will be in the next edition of Bob McLeod’s Yellowknife South constituency newsletter, but the premier let it slip on the weekend that he isn’t retiring from political life. At the MLA barbeque during the Float Plane Fly-in on July 12, McLeod confirmed a rumour that first surfaced more than a month
This weekend, Conservative candidate for the upcoming federal election Floyd Roland made the first of many trips he will make to vote-rich Yellowknife between now and the federal election, to meet with his campaign team and develop strategies. Roland retired as premier in 2011 and has been mayor of his home town Inuvik since. What made
“Go straight north,” Seiji Suzuki’s client told him after boarding his helicopter in Yellowknife one day back in the early ’90s. “Where are you going?” Suzuki asked. “Straight. Go north. Make it 90 degrees and turn right,” was the man’s only response. So he took off, and they headed straight north. It felt so secret, back
“Oooh, going to the Racquet Club, eh? Hanging with the swingers?” Wink-wink, nudge-nudge, suggestive hand gesture. The rumour about the Racquet Club being ‘the’ club for ‘the lifestyle’ has been going on almost since it opened in 1981. Kelli Hinchey has been with the Racquet Club since 1986, taking over ownership in 1997, and “has
The Wool Bay fish plant, 15 km from Yellowknife, was a busy place for decades. It closed about 10 years ago. 1984.
If you’re not already busy running a half marathon on Saturday morning, there are plenty of yard sales happening to keep you running around town, especially in the Frame Lake area. Speaking of Frame Lake, make sure to get your rummaging done early so that you can volunteer some of your time as part of
I grew up on the shore of Frame Lake, in a two-storey house at the bottom of Matonabee Street. It was the late ’70s and people still used it. In the summers, McNiven Beach was a place you could get to from anywhere in town on your banana-seat bike. Older kids would sit on the
The Brew Pub early last month, when its main gear had arrived In our latest roundup: We’re staying patient at the Brew Pub, wondering what’s up with the Wildcat, checking in with the Kilt & Castle, trying something new at the Summer Café, still talking about patios, and planning our Folk on the Rocks meal plans.
With its hard-rocking soundtrack and semi-offensive wall decorations, Ragged Ass Barbers kind of feels like a recently divorced guy’s rec room at times. But even if you aren’t necessarily a fan of the work of Hank Williams III or Ozzy’s solo stuff, this place is serious about the art of cutting men’s hair. Ragged Ass’s colourful crew
Ekati’s Jay Pipe may extend the mine’s life past 2019. Aaaaand that’s the end of the good news The Conference Board of Canada has definitely dropped Tyhee and Fortune mine projects from its latest northern economic outlook, with Avalon Rare Metals’ Nechalacho project and North American Tungsten’s Mactung proposal also looking to be cut. EDGE previewed the
Growing up in Yellowknife, you see many businesses open their doors, only to close them a few years (or even months) later. It can be hard for entrepreneurs here to make a go of it for a variety of reasons, including the high costs of operating in the subarctic, difficulty keeping staff in a town where retail wages
As with most things Northern, it’s federal money that greases the wheels of the internet game up here; the gravy train from Ottawa makes or breaks businesses competing to provide internet to communities across the North. Today, Yellowknife-based company SSi Micro got a serious squirt of axle grease, beating rival bidders to $35 million of
According to the latest estimate from Statistics Canada, capital spending in the Northwest Territories will soar this year to $1.4 billion, posting an annual increase of 26 percent. That magnitude of growth hasn’t been seen since 2007, a year before the global recession gave the territorial economy a knock that is still being felt. “The
Post-shale on the river: Cooper Barge Services has cropped voyages These are times of austerity in Norman Wells, says Rick Muyres – so austere that aviation gas is being rationed and even the Mackenzie River is low on water. Like everyone else in the Wells, Muyres, an outfitter and contractor, was expecting to ride the Canol shale