Chattering class: the Yukon has 59, Nunavut has 32, and we have a mere 27 After ignoring pleas for more consultation on devolution, the territorial government has marked a pile of surplus federal devolution cash for spending on a handful of communications flacks to tell the public what a great job it’s doing. Michael Miltenberger
This Tuesday, on one of the coolest afternoons of the season, with foreboding skies and a hint of fire smoke in the air, hundreds of Yellowknifers bravely said to heck with it and headed down to Somba K’e Park for the first of this year’s cornucopial spreads of homemade delights, to wander, nosh and run into one another.
“What do you picture when I say I live in Yellowknife?” “Big snow suits, igloos, polar bears, a lot of snow,” replies Brett Milne. We’re sitting on a bench in the polished halls of the Rideau Centre shopping mall in Ottawa. With its spluttering pop music and snappily dressed teenagers, it’s the least Yellowknife place
Pursued by calls to ‘talk to us,’ Dave Ramsay brushed past anti-fracking demonstrators Tuesday and into the refuge of the legislature, where a petition signed by 1.400 residents was later tabled by Weledeh MLA Bob Bromley. The petition is not the last word on fracking that the minister of Industry Trade and Investment will hear.
One of Yellowknife’s greatest assets is its abundance of water, which so many of us take for granted. Some never contemplate how fortunate we are that our city is situated on one of the greatest fresh-water lakes in the entire world, where you can still fill a cup almost anywhere to safely drink from its
Sometime in 2017, the first traffic will start rolling down the 120-kilometre highway between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk. While it is important to hedge against the significance-inflating grandiloquence of government press releases (they love to say the road will finally connect Canada “from coast to coast to coast”), the Inuvik-Tuk highway remains a project of major
Crack an egg, peel a steak from its blood-soaked tray, slide your new flat-screen out of its box: it’s hard to squeak out a day without throwing away Styrofoam. Kevin Wallington is on a mission to change that, with plans to eventually remove all Styrofoam — more formally known as polystyrene — products from the
Talking to local leaders about next steps in redressing the TRC findings
A proposed four-storey public-housing development in Niven Lake has residents of the area digging in their heels and planning appeals against the development permit. In early May of this year, a notice announcing the $4.6 million, 19-unit NWT Housing Corporation building was taped to a pole on Moyle Drive, across from the Niven Heights development,
In May 2010, Derrick La Saga moved to Yellowknife, leaving behind a relationship in Newfoundland that had left him feeling, as he puts it, like his “heart [was] being ripped out his ass.” He settled into a city where he knew no one. It was hard; upon his arrival he “went through really difficult feelings of
I moved to Yellowknife from Toronto on a whim. Completely unprepared, and ready to carve out a lifestyle for myself as different from the one I’d left as possible. This included new goals, a new career and, of course, a new home. In Yellowknife, as in most cities, housing can make or break an experience.
Commercial fisherman Jonas Johnson cleans his catch in Willow Flats. 1981
It’s time for bargains! Here comes the weekend, Garage Salers! With news of wildfires looming and highway closures just beginning, we need to do whatever we can to make the most of the clear skies and sunny weather we’ll be having during this last weekend of May. There are a lot of sales, especially downtown,
From Old Town to Kam Lake, YK has plenty of interesting houses. Over the next few months, we’ll take you on a tour of some of them in our regular EDGE Homes feature. This first installment is also the launch of Property North, our real estate page. Looking for a tenant or housesitter? It’s free
Diamonds are an ITI minister’s best friend: last year’s gem bash Bob McLeod and Dave Ramsay are off to Las Vegas this weekend to wave the territorial flag at the diamond industry’s largest North American trade show, and talk to manufacturers who might want to locate in Yellowknife. “We’ve had discussions with producers, and people