Last July, without any fanfare or public communication, the City submitted a lease application to the GNWT for the land the Woodyard neighbourhood is built on. The coveted lot runs from Hamilton Drive to Lundquist Road, along the back of the houses on Ragged Ass Road, and out to the water. It contains the entire
“It’s really hard to get good brains in this town,” says Damon Desparte, shown here on his way to his job at the Department of Transportation, Vehicle Registration Division SATIRE | Flamin’ Raven The Despartes are your typical undead family of five, complete with 1.5 pets, a mortgage and concerns about how the cost of not living
Billy Balsillie prepares to take off on Great Slave Lake for a spring snow machine trip. 1985.
The Northwest Territories led Canada in 2014 with a GDP growth rate of 6.8 percent – due largely to increased diamond production and work on the Gahcho Kue diamond mine, according to Statistics Canada. The total value of goods and service produced in the NWT reached $3.8 billion last year, up from $3.6 billion in
Seems vehicles sinking into the ice have been a longstanding part of Yellowknife’s history. Here are two photos from 1939, when Darcy Arden’s bulldozer went through the ice in front of Con Camp. They built this rig to recover the dozer from the icy waters.
The drinking classes of the Northwest Territories, closely followed by their club-mates in the Yukon, led Canada in per-capita spending on booze last year, according to Statistics Canada. Drinkers in the NWT each spent $1,344.70 to slake their thirsts, closely followed by Yukon tipplers who laid out $1,144.70. Some of that is surely due to
Don’t press play: screenshot shows the phishing scam in action A friendly PSA from the EDGE team: If you get an email saying you have new messages from WhatsApp, you might want to think twice about clicking the big green “play” button, even if the email comes from a known address. The emails seem to be
It’s not yet time to man the Old Town barricades, but surveyors are back in the Woodyard, and the City’s sights seem once again set on this semi-lawless patch of land. Last Friday morning, Woodyard resident Batiste Foisy was on his way to work when he saw two workers beside his shack, banging what appeared
In light of the recent resignation of Shirley Desjardins as the GNWT’s deputy minister of Human Resources, here’s Jack Danylchuk’s take on the highly controversial firing of her predecessor last summer: There are lots of ways to get fired, but doing your job isn’t usually one of them, unless you work for the Government of the
Whitehorse’s music scene is legendary. For decades, musicians from Yellowknife would salivate at the very thought of the varied and cultured live venues, recording studios, record labels, and opportunities to rub shoulders with touring musicians that the Yukon capital offered up. I was surprised then, on my sophomore visit to Whitehorse after many years, to
In the great morel stampede about to roll across the burn scars from last year’s record forest fire season, the roar of commerce has shouted down science and common sense. The upcoming harvest of the rare and highly-valued fungus is expected to bring in millions of dollars, and the GNWT is taking no chances with
In the early ’90s, Darwin Rudkevitch and his childhood friend Tom Vornbrock were engaged in an epic battle over who had the nicest lawn on Trail’s End. Properly manicured lawns were a rare thing in Yellowknife at the time, and soon Darwin’s buddies started taking notice of his botanical talents and asking him to snazzy
As the last, stubborn snowdrifts wane under the May sun, it’s time for Yellowknifers to go all Mediterranean and start drinking and eating al-relatively-fresco. And this summer promises plenty of options for those inclined to consume outdoors. Aside from the fleet of food trucks hitting the streets, there are plenty of patios for you to
Archie Buckley unloads equipment in front of his fish plant on Yellowknife Bay in 2004. For many years, Archie and his wife Nancy were Yellowknife’s main source of fresh Great Slave Lake fish.
SATIRE | Flamin’ Raven The Department of Justice announced today that they plan on coming to the aid of the city and its growing crime problem with 2.5 million dollars in funding, which they want to put towards a “vigilante fund.” Details about the fund, which will be augmented by another million dollars from the City, are