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With its recent submission of a $5 million business plan to the GNWT, Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning is now vying with Aurora College for access to a large chunk of the government’s education budget. “Unfortunately there’s no new money,” says Jimmy Billard, Dechinta’s finance expert. “And unfortunately if there’s not any money it

It’s June 4, 2014, around a quarter to four in the morning, and it’s cold and dark out on the hard-packed snow. Eric McNair-Landry and his expedition partner Dixie Sansercoer have been kite-skiing through the night. As they arrive at their extraction point, Greenspeed Ridge on the east coast of Greenland, they’ve just completed the first

Marcel Marin has participated in some of the largest, most famous dog-sledding competitions in the world. But he started the Underdog race — which kicks off at 7 a.m. at Prosperous Lake this Saturday, Apr. 4 — as a way to let “guys who want to race but couldn’t” get a crack at a competitive event. “The Iditarod costs at least $20,000, and can

Jeff Spring, a web developer in Dawson City, Yukon, catches a few zzzzz’s on the flight from Whitehorse to Yellowknife A man peels his fur-trimmed parka hood and dark sunglasses from his face as the plane comes to a complete stop, signalling naptime is over. With blurry eyes he surveys the passengers behind him, then

This past weekend, Air Tindi was offering cheap 20-minute scenic flights around town as part of the Long John Jamboree. I hopped on-board Sunday afternoon. After skidding along the ice runway on the plane’s three skis, we were off, soaring over the jamboree and the city. We banked right around the Robertson Headframe, then headed

The lot, bought recently by the City for $1.45 million, will be given to the Dene for $1 The City of Yellowknife is giving its prized downtown lot at 50th Avenue and 50th Street to the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, EDGEYK.com has learned. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a city councillor confirmed that an

You’d think remediating parts of the dump would be a relatively uncontroversial piece of municipal management. Yet the City’s plan has apparently placed them in conflict with the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board, according to strongly worded correspondence found on the MVLWB public registry. “To date we do not feel that there has been

Cathy Allooloo had only been in Yellowknife a few months when she sold her soul to the City. It was 1981, and the whitewater kayaker, who’d recently taken a lifeguard job in Yellowknife, had a good chance of making it to the world championships that summer. All she needed was help getting to Minden, Ont.

SATIRE | Flamin’ Raven A two-year-old Caribou by the name of Carl has stirred controversy over his comments regarding the upcoming seasonal hunt, which appear to have left him ostracized by the Bathurst herd. During a migratory rest stop earlier this week, Carl was overheard expressing his disdain for colonialist hunters. Migratory rest stops are a chance for the herd

Bass is the word this Saturday afternoon, with Felipe Gomez, aka the Eddie Van Halen of the bottom notes, bringing his low-end wizardry to the Snow Castle. If you’ve been hitting live music shows and open mics around town over the past several months you’ve probably seen Felipe; he’s the heavy-metal-haired Chilean dude making his

Spring in the air means summer is coming ‘round the corner, and that means the Yellowknife Farmers Market is gearing up for action, with online applications for vendors going active this Saturday, March 28. The market itself opens June 2nd, and runs every subsequent Tuesday for 16 weeks. This year, the food stands and artisanal

The issue of a territorial resource management superboard is back in play after the federal government appealed an NWT Supreme Court decision to put the amalgamation of the territory’s land and water boards on hold. The notice of appeal, submitted March 19th, claims that Justice Karan Shaner of the N.W.T. Supreme Court “erred in law