Words by Matthew Mallon | Photos by Angela Gzowski There’s just the littlest breeze coming up off the shore today, barely noticeable, but it’s killing. Stand somewhere long enough staring at people doing cold, cold things, and it starts to drill right into your bones. But the crew are on the move constantly right now,
by Fran Hurcomb The Government dock in October with all the commercial fishing boats pulled up for the winter.
Tracing the supply chain that keeps the street community alive: Part 2 of EDGEYK.com’s Life Outside series
Down at the bottom of the Old Town hill, just inside the Arnica Inn, Dorothy and Joselito De Leon are quietly building a fan base that extends beyond the Filipino community. “Dennis Bevington was here,” Dorothy says. “A few of the MLAs were here. And the fire chief is always here. He loves our Epic
Happy together: Morin, Aglukkaq and Ramsay | Photo via Sandy Lee On EDGE | Opinion Almost lost in the excitement over the latest chapter in the Robertson Headframe saga was the re-announcement of federal spending on tourism promotion in the Northwest Territories. Sandy Lee tweeted and Facebook-posted a picture of her boss Leona Aglukkaq, flanked by Minister of
You may remember Stephen Harper from such hits as “With a Little Help from my Friends,” as performed at the National Arts centre with Yo-Yo Ma in 2009, or his Axl Rose-shaming “Sweet Child O’ Mine” from the 2014 Conservative Christmas Party. The well-known crooner, who daylights as the country’s Prime Minister, is coming to
The campaign to save one of Yellowknife’s most iconic monuments imploded yesterday, when City Administration announced the municipality couldn’t legally acquire the Robertson Headframe. For the past several months, administration has been in discussion with Newmont Mining Corp, the company that owns the Con Mine property, over transferring the headframe. Newmont said it is willing
by Angela Gzowski Whether you’ve grown up in Yellowknife, or just moved North, or lived here a number of years ago, you’ll probably recognize many of the images in this series. The city is a visually interesting place, partly because it’s small yet packed with great diversity, from downtown office buildings to rusting Kam Lake trucks to
Wade Carpenter caught the northern bug while bobbing around off the coast of B.C. The recent biology and teaching graduate was working as a fisheries observer on the coastal trawlers – “Similar to that show on Discover channel, … like working on fair ride, 24/7.” On one of the boats he found James A. Michener’s
In early fall 2013, Greyson Gritt put a $9500 down payment on a studio suite in Niven Lake’s CAVO development, then being touted as Yellowknife’s most exciting new condo project. Summit Development Corporation was the well-appointed, market-canny force behind the project. Things were already a year behind schedule. Gritt, a first-time real estate buyer investing a large
by Fran Hurcomb Yellowknife was sandwiched between two gold mines for decades. In this photo, the Giant headframe is in the foreground and the Con headframe in the background.
Reneltta Arluk is a creative migrant. The Inuvialiut-Gw’ichin-Chipewyan Cree actor/playwright/impresario was born in Fort Smith, and has since spent her career appearing in film, television and onstage, across Canada and internationally. She currently lives in Vancouver, but estimates she spent maybe a month and a half there last year. It’s this restless career that has
Flamin’ Raven | SATIRE Snow-covered city streets are a fact of life in Yellowknife. So too, it seems, are the inevitable complaints, criticism and arguments that break out every winter about how the City handles snow removal. Whether it’s the frequency with which the streets are cleared, or the hours at which this happens (or
The construction start date on one of the biggest infrastructural projects in NWT history is less than one year away. While critics attack the GNWT’s choice to fund it via the controversial private-public partnership (P3) method, the government tells EDGEYK.com that this decision will give NWT taxpayers 5 to 15 percent better bang for their buck.
BID bid gains little support in the biz community Revitalizing the downtown via a Business Improvement District (BID) has been a hot topic at city hall ever since two councillors returned from a BID conference last spring. But the idea, which would see local businesses pay into a fund for collective projects, doesn’t seem to have any