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Over the past three years, the YK Artist Run Community Centre has hosted art and other community group workshops, such as this YWCA GirlSpace workshop by Alison McCreesh. | Photos courtesy YKARCC Board members of Yellowknife’s Artist Run Community Centre are once again scouring the town for a new home after learning their collective is

After a week of wavering on the issue, City Council decided Monday to grant construction company RTL Robinson Ltd. a lease to a large gravel lot off Old Airport Road that the company’s been encroaching on over number of years. The 32,000 square metre lot, which backs onto a small, unnamed body of water between

The CBC’s reporting the City is set to sue the territorial government this week for more assembly seats in Yellowknife. For a bit of context, check out Mayor Mark Heyck’s case in writer Mark Rendell’s story from November, shortly after the City decided to pursue legal action: Yellowknifers need to understand the impact of too few

Long before she was guiding tours through the streets of Yellowknife, Yvonne Quick had a more elevated view of the city, and the entire region. In the 1960s she was regularly criss-crossing the territory in bush planes, hauling them off to various places to be worked on. She became a permanent resident of Yellowknife in

Just after noon on Wednesday, April 15, Yellowknife Centre Member of the Legislative Assembly Robert Hawkins arrived unexpectedly at EDGE’s office carrying a sizable pile of plastic envelopes, filled with signed Liberal Party membership forms with cash stapled to most of them. He asked me to join him in our boardroom. Over the past two

SATIRE | Flamin’ Raven Flamin’ Raven has learned that a Yellowknife church plans on combating declining attendance with a scheme to offer a wider menu during Holy Communion. Pastor Franc Cabernet of the Yellowknife Holy Spirits Church says that wine has always been served during Eucharist — “an impudent little charmer with big, fruity notes and a touch of licorice,” is

It’s our free week! Due to an avalanche of new subscribers, we’ve had to take down our paywall for some tinkering, and thought we’d turn necessary maintenance into a pleasant experience for everyone. In that spirit, we’d like to suggest some recent work that you should be sure to investigate, if you’re a new reader,

Check yourself, corrupt mining CEOs! A new latex-clad ball-buster is in town, with deadly knife-throwing skills and a kitschy name to prove it. Cue Yellow Knife, the toughest superhero from the NWT since Wolverine took his Harley south and everyone forgot he was from the territory. “He’s kind of a vigilante Robin Hood-like character, kind

Encroaching on the lake The principal topic of discussion for Municipal Services Committee this week was a motion to offer a lease to construction company RTL-Robinson Ltd. for their “currently unauthorized,” usage of land next to properties they are leasing on Old Airport Road. The city recommended a 10-year lease be offered to RTL for

“Where are you?” “Fourth floor. Room 4**. Stick to the side when you come through the lobby to the elevator. They can be nosey.” “Ok, see you in a minute.” I rifle through my stack of $20s for the fourth time in half an hour – 15 bills, $300, check – and rehearse my lines:

The fans are spinning loudly in a cavernous Kugluktuk or Gjoa Haven gymnasium, where a temporary court has been set up and Sarah Arngna’naaq has just called someone to the stand. “I’m trying to get a witness [to tell] their stories – whether they’ve been assaulted or sexually assaulted, or somebody has broken into their

The latest job numbers from Statistics Canada make it clear why communities outside Yellowknife are anxious to get a larger slice of the government job pie: it’s becoming the only game in the territory. From March last year to March 2015, the number of government jobs in the NWT increased by 900, to 9,500. Every