Originally published in the Dec/Jan 2013 issue of EDGE YK magazine by Brad Heath Yellowknife has slid into the darkest and coldest months of the calendar – but ironically, the city’s multicultural celebrations transform winter into a season of warmth and light! Here’s a sampling of how people in Yellowknife celebrate during the festive season.
by Leila Beaudoin Taking a slow and grateful swig, he gracefully sat back in his chair. Pub noise humming around us, bellies stuffed, my date’s signature grin appeared. “That was a good pint,” he’d say. The finest gentleman, he never allowed me to pay. On the drive home, I made sure the radio was playing
When Yellowknife’s soccer community hears “Christmas,” do you know what we really hear? Kickmas. Ever since I started playing soccer, there has always been the Christmas tournament. But I never really understood why the tournament was at Christmas time until last year, when I headed out for my first year of university. A Yellowknifer feels
On a snowy Thursday evening, I drove to the N’Dilo Community Centre to try my hand at hand games. I’d heard about the weekly games months ago and was eager to learn. Upon arrival, I was handed a caribou skin drum and invited to kneel on a blue gym mat in line with four teammates.
This Friday’s report from the NWT Bureau of Statistics shows Yellowknife’s Consumer Price Index has kept pace with the rest of Canada, growing by 1.9 per cent over the past 12 months. But compared to Whitehorse, where the CPI went up by just .7 per cent, Yellowknife is a more expensive place to live. As
An RCMP robot outside Room 12 where the negotiation took place. | photos James MacKenzie Charges have been laid following the nine-hour standoff at the Northern Lites Motel on 50th Street on Thursday. Neither the police nor the man were injured, though RCMP say the man was “armed and barricaded.” David Norman Brownlee, 37, faces two
The RCMP are now treating an incident this past weekend that left one man dead and another seriously injured as a homicide. At a downtown apartment around 5:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, police found John Paul Wifladt, a 39-year-old diamond polisher and Colin Digness, a clerk at Videoland, unresponsive and “both suffering from serious injuries.”
The good news for the territorial government’s plan to grow the population by 2,000 people is that over the past year, the goal appeared to within sight. Alas, it was a chimera. According to the latest data from Statistics Canada released this week, 2,191 people moved to the territory between October 2013 and October 2014.
by Fran Hurcomb Mechanics at Raecom Air (located where Air Tindi is today) work on the motor of a Single Otter aircraft in 1986.
The GNWT announced a record-breaking capital expenditure today, surprising many economic analysts who predicted fiscal restraint from the government. It plans to spend almost $30 billion on a stairway to the metaphysical celestial plane commonly referred to as heaven. Robert Page, Chief Engineer for the GNWT, announced the massive project on behalf of the GNWT
The long, cold trek to the YK Food Bank – which moved to a warehouse in Kam Lake last June – is about to end. President Brad Carlson said a new downtown distribution centre could be operating as early as next month. Carlson won’t say where people will be able to pick up their food
On EDGE: Opinion As you’re doubtless aware, the internet is a wonderful repository of old films. YouTube’s awash in strange old black-and-white movies, particularly the newsreel, A/V variety. It’s a bit of a challenge to watch these films today with a straight eye. They’ve been parodied so often on television that you half expect to
After a ‘jackpot drought’ that diminished lottery sales across Western Canada last year, the NWT Sports and Recreation Council is on track to add 10 new outlets – five of them in Yellowknife – by March 2015. Payouts of $50 million for several consecutive weeks inflated lottery sales and revenue to record levels in 2012-13,
Three years after adopting a new review process, the NWT Sports and Recreation Council appears no closer to learning what sort of bang it’s getting for millions spent on improving fitness in the territory. The council is funded from territorial lottery proceeds and provides 90 per cent of the money spent by five partner organizations
John Wifladt loved music. | photo courtesy Tommy Wifladt At around 5:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, police found John Paul Wifladt, a 39-year-old diamond polisher and Colin Digness, a clerk at Videoland, unresponsive and “both suffering from serious injuries.” Two days on, Wifladt’s dead and Digness is in the hospital, but police remain tightlipped about