Here’s another sneak peek from the upcoming spring edition of EDGEYK magazine: We are gearing up for spring. Gumboots and garden implements are scrubbed, and this year, faintly smelling of swimming pool. Bleach is now among the precautionary steps we’re taking for garden season, after narrowly avoiding spudmageddon with last year’s potato crop. Our
Ladies, listen up. Sushi North has a toilet that operates like an automated car wash for your private parts, right down to the warm-air dry. No joke. The Washlet, the latest in Japanese high-tech toilets, allows you to do your business and leave fully cleansed without ever having to lift or close the lid, swipe
Biologists carrying out their bison survey in Wood Buffalo National Park got a majestic surprise earlier this month when they spotted two roving herds of wild horses. The two groups of five feral horses were sighted along the park boundary east of Fox Lake in northern Alberta on March 2, the first day of the
Deadspin’s annual Name of the Year contest took off today, and no one was more surprised to hear that her name was in the running than the former Language Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, Snookie Catholique. It was her first time hearing about the competition, an annual event founded on an Ivy League campus in
With caribou in decline across the Northwest Territories, hunting bans in place and increased pressures on wildlife from harvesters, industry and climate change, food security advocates in the territory say we need a new system in place to fill the void. For Jackie Milne, head of the Northern Farm Training Institute (NFTI) in Hay River,
On EDGE | OPINION The mechanic rose from underneath my vehicle. He had that look, the one that says, this isn’t good… this is going to be costly. I braced myself. “Did you get this van in Newfoundland?” he asked. The question took me by surprise. “No, we bought it used at Kingland,” I said.
Epic goodbye Epic Grill fans only have a month left to enjoy their meaty si-log breakfasts, as the Filipino cafe is closing down at the end of March. The restaurant was open in the Legislative Assembly for less than a year, after moving from their popular location in Arnica Inn last April. Owner Joselito “June”
After more than a year of frustrating issues for our members, a few months ago we lifted our editorial membership paywall and started building our own. After plenty of hard work by our development team, over the next week we’re phasing it back in. This means our free editorial articles will soon revert to two
By mid-March, Fort Smith will be without a newspaper for the first time in nearly 40 years, when the Northern Journal either closes down or moves to Yellowknife. “I would say we have to make a business decision to shut down in the coming weeks,” says Don Jaque, owner and managing editor of the paper which
There are no words for conservation, or hunting ban, or even for the caribou termed by the territorial government as the Bluenose East herd in the Sahtúgot’ı̨nę Dene dialect of Délı̨nę. The language does not include the concept of wildlife management, and numbers were never used as a means of keeping track of animal population
The days are getting longer and the temperatures (theoretically) getting warmer from here on in, but for anyone experiencing cabin fever, there’s still more than a few weeks left to go before winter’s over. Why not channel some of that stir-crazy spring energy into doing some winter camping? March and April are the perfect time
In the late 1930s, a young lab technician and photography enthusiast named Leonard Willing arrived in boom-town Yellowknife. Over the next decade and a half, he took hundreds of photos, which together paint an intimate and enduring portrait of life and work during the town’s gold rush days. You can read more about Willing in
Imagine a hospital meal that includes caribou meat, a pharmacy dispensing medicines from the land, and traditional healing practitioners addressing not just your physical and mental health, but emotional and spiritual health as well. For the better part of a decade, that’s exactly what the NWT’s Elders Wellness Advisory Council has been advocating for; more
At 13, Ricky Robinson’s tendency toward generosity was already evident. A former classmate, Robert Collinson – whose mother taught Ricky – knows first hand. “My parents’ car was on the last stages of life – it was wintertime and they were having trouble starting it. [My mom] was complaining to another teacher about it, and
Northerners know better than anyone that traditional country foods like moose and fish rarely need more than a bit of salt to taste delicious. But as the tastes of more countries and cultures creep northward, experimental foodies are fusing the bold flavours of Asia and Latin America with staples like caribou and lake trout with