The average Yellowknife homeowner will get to bank nearly $60 more than expected next year after City Council passed the 2015 budget on Monday with no tax increase. Commercial property owners are looking at paying roughly $18 less than was budgeted for every $100,000 their property is worth. Monday’s vote to not increase taxes followed
Many thanks to our friends at aRTLeSS Collective for creating this video segment, as well as to Northwestel Community TV for funding the production and airing the full show on Channel 20. We’ll be releasing one EDGE TV segment a week until the new year, and you can watch it all on the EDGE TV
There’s an art piece in the Legislative Assembly that I like. The serpentine carving by Rankin Inlet’s Joanie Kaviq sits on a coffee table on the mezzanine that leads to the Visitors Gallery. It depicts two walruses ostensibly engaged in a sexual act. Whenever I take a few citizenly hours to check on our elected
by Fran Hurcomb Santa, aka George Cleary, takes a well-deserved break at the Gerry Murphy Christmas skate in 1999. George fulfilled this role for many years.
The ring of silver dancers in Sombe K’e Park on the shores of Frame Lake will soon be changing colour – regularly. Some time next year, the United in Celebration sculpture is getting a new coat of paint that changes colour as the sun crosses the sky. While the sculpture, perhaps Yellowknife’s most notable piece
On EDGE: Opinion Every now and again the universe lines up in a way that fills me with such optimism I think I will burst. Last night the universe said to me: ‘I know you’re discouraged by the report on CIA torture (an eye for an eye will make the world blind, as Gandhi said)
With sights set on a zero per cent tax increase next year, City Council took shears to the 2015 budget, slashing more than $2 million in the first two days of debate. Ahead of deliberations on the $71.6 million budget, the City was looking at a General Fund shortfall of around $770,000. This would have
On EDGE: Opinion The intersection where Franklin Avenue meets Taylor, Kam Lake and Old Airport roads is the busiest in the city. For a cyclist caught in the curb lane on Franklin looking for an opening in fast-moving traffic, it’s also potentially the most dangerous. The safest route from the city centre to Yellowknife’s southern
We knew YK liked to party, but had no idea what an awesome crowd would show up for our first-ever company Xmas and three-year anniversary party at the Elks Club. Thanks to everyone who helped make such an awesome scene, as well as Wake up Hazel and DJ T-Woo for keeping everyone dancing throughout the night. Dozens
After much debate and several rewrites, City Council passed a declaration of environmental rights on Monday that Coun. Dan Wong called “the gold standard for declarations for healthy environment that are being passed across the country.” The declaration outlines a number of rights Yellowknifers should enjoy, such as the right to breathe clean air and
Anyone who turned out for Finance Minister Michael Miltenberger’s travelling road show on the economy hoping for a bit of seasonal good cheer instead got a lump of coal. From Fort Smith to Norman Wells and Yellowknife, the minister’s message was bleak. The territorial economy is not sustainable, he told crowds small and large. The
When I was in kindergarten, a ruler and pack of crayons was about as technologically advanced as things got in the classroom. There were the thrilling trips to the computer lab to play Number Munchers or trek along a pixelated Oregon Trail on boxy Macintoshes with floppy disk drives. But that was a rarefied treat.
Every summer for several years, an Old Town group photo was organized in the Woodyard. Anyone who wanted to be in the photo was welcome. How many faces can you identify in this one?
For more than a decade, the City erected a giant Christmas tree in the centre of its busiest intersection, much to the delight, and consternation, of residents and motorists. | NWT Archives/Terry Foster fonds/N-2009-006: 0037 If you’re of a certain vintage of Yellowknifer, you’ll recall a giant Christmas tree used to appear smack dab in the
by Sarita Harbour | illustration by Andrew Hall Despite what my friends and family back in Ontario may think, Yellowknife is not the ends of the earth. As it turns out, Yellowknife is both home and headquarters for solopreneurs with a global market. I love it here. When I arrived last summer from Burlington, the sun was shining, the