Heyck on power | Image via McGill Reporter In advance of his upcoming appearance at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada’s The Cities We Need (Les villes qu’il nous faut) conference this February 19/20, mayor Mark Heyck gives the McGill Reporter a preview of what he’ll be discussing (“The opportunity to discuss whether or not municipalities have the
EDGEYK | Opinion The GNWT has spent $1.2 million over the past two years, throwing week-long parties in Ottawa. They’re important, NWT Tourism spin doctors say, a prime chance for political and business leaders to sell others in the same line of work on our territory’s many splendours and investment opportunities. Our chance to shine
After posting a significant net loss in 2014, one of Yellowknife’s largest companies, Det’on Cho Corporation, is restructuring and the future of the company’s senior management is uncertain. On Jan. 5, the company, which is wholly owned by the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, brought in consultant Bob Murphy as co-president of restructuring. His role, he
EDGEYK | Opinion The other night in Ottawa, Premier Bob McLeod announced the GNWT would study “the idea of an energy, communications and transportation corridor along the Mackenzie Valley to the Arctic Ocean.” This is the latest tack in the premier’s quest to turn the NWT into a shipping hub for Alberta oil and, the
Mr. Peters, or Landon Peters, is the Saskatoon-born drama teacher at Sir John Franklin High School—and he’s got a reputation. Students know not to mess with him: no swearing, no mumbling and absolutely no tardiness.Yet, it is often the case where the students coming out of the drama program are the most courteous, hardworking, responsible and fulfilled with their high school experience.
How’s everybody doing? It’s a good time to check in with one another, make sure winter hasn’t put too much of a chill on things. Are you still feeling the magic of a midnight solar storm? Or are you too busy shining a flashlight beneath the hood of your car, making sure the jumper cables aren’t mixed up
NWT Archives/Northwest Territories. Dept. of Information fonds/G-1979-023: 2143 We’re not sure if YK had parking meters in the old days, but if it did, this is where you would have gone to pay your ticket. This old city hall, located at the corner of 50th Street and 51st Avenue (home currently to the parkade entrance of the
Last winter I did something unusual. I put work aside and took on the role of stay-at-home dad. Without fail, men would ask quizzically, “How do I get a gig like that?” Women would sigh, “Awww, that’s sweet.” Moms often get saddled with this monumental task and they know what resolution it takes. It was my turn to be run off my
An array of country food, and an ulu to cut it. | NWT Archives/Dept. of Public Works and Services fonds/G-1995-001: 7264 Dook’s Look Back by Catherine Dook Some 55 years ago my mother married my pilot father and moved north. Because she was a southern girl accustomed to grocery stores and plumbing, she was forced to make some unexpected domestic adjustments. Oh, there was a grocery
If it was a beauty pageant, Lachlan McLean might have won the Old Town Pond Sailors Regatta there and then, hands-down, no contest, race over, trophy awarded. Beside his boat, the other entries looked as slow as the annual beer barge. A house-boater who made a “joke entry” in a previous regatta, McLean was challenged to build something more race-worthy by
He’s trained in hand-to-hand combat, met Elvis, shared a stage with The Beatles and piloted the skies to find the gold that started Fortune Minerals. At age 71, and with a resume like that, you’d think Yellowknife’s Carl Clouter would be a man without regrets. Yet through his bushy white moustache, he laments that he does have just one, and it
by Elizabeth McMillan On EDGE: Opinion Sometimes I get nostalgic for what Yellowknife used to be for me. It creeps up on days when I’m hoisting groceries across an icy parking lot. I’ll sit in my frigid car and curse the darkness. What was once a novelty is now a routine. I wonder, why do I live here?
http://edgenorth.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/AUDIO_Tony_Foliot-trim.mp3 by Anthony Foliot Old Town Versifier I ran into the boss in the coffee shop, “I’m glad I ran into you,” he said, “ I know you’re not connected and I have to tell you news.” “Whatta ya mean, I’m not connected?” I said, “I’m kinda in the scene.” He said “you haven’t even
This Saturday, West Coast DJ Andrea Graham, aka The Librarian, brings her bassy brand of EDM to the Top Knight. What’s that brand? “It’s a mash-up of Hip-hop, Jungle, Trap, Grime… I like to stay on the leading edge in all the genres,” she tells EDGEYK.com. She’ll be dropping her own tunes, as well as
