True cost of 2023 Canada Winter Games unclear

Yellowknife is inching closer to hosting its biggest sporting event to date, but even with a City Council vote next Monday, it’s still unclear how much the Canada Winter Games will cost. The games would see thousands of athletes, coaches and volunteers descend on Yellowknife for 18 different sports played over a two-week period in

How the RCMP’s muskrat hat took on the fur protest, and won

The ritual was the same every morning; pull the ears of my muskrat hat down and tie them beneath my chin, flip up my parka hood, then lower the peak of my hat until the guard hairs brushed the bridge my nose. Armored thus, I stepped into the witching hour. It was a recurring fantasy,

Walking with Our Sisters: the art of ceremony and grieving

Last autumn, a bundle of boxes arrived at the house of Tanya Kappo, a Cree lawyer living in Edmonton. They contained sagebrush, two staffs covered in eagle feathers and 1,300 vamps, the beaded tops of moccasins. It was the first stop for Walking With Our Sisters, an exhibit honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women, and

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The price of YK gas might be more complicated than you think

On EDGE: Opinion Look, I get it. Gas is expensive. It’s been stuck at $1.39 a litre in Yellowknife for what seems like an eternity. And yes, you look around the country and see pump prices dropping everywhere. A litre of gas in much of Alberta is now under a dollar. Even here in Dawson

Dene Nahjo: After Idle No More

This week, dozens of Indigenous women leaders are gathering in Yellowknife for an event organized by Dene Nahjo, a group of young northern activists intent on translating the philosophy of Idle No More into action. The group started in the winter of 2012 as the Idle No More protests, in support of indigenous sovereignty and

YK Past Blast: Canadian Championship Dog Derby

The 150-mile Canadian Championship Dog Derby has been a Yellowknife institution for 60 years. Over this time, many different starting places and routes have been tried. In the 1990s, the race took off from Back Bay in Old Town. Grant and Richard Beck led the way out of the chutes.

Convention website, new slogan to promote the NWT as a destination

When Northwest Territories Tourism launches a new website aimed at drawing conventions and meetings early next year, Yellowknife will share centre stage with Fort Smith, Hay River, Inuvik, and Norman Wells. Although the capital is the travel hub for the territory, with the most hotel rooms and convention facilities, “our mandate is to grow traffic

Land claims before territorial land-use policies: Dettah chief

Chief Edward Sangris of Dettah says the Government of the Northwest Territories is “putting the cart ahead of the horse” by bringing in new land management policies while Akaitcho treaty negotiations are still underway. The Akaitcho Territory Government, which represents the communities of N’Dilo, Dettah, Deninu Kue (Fort Resolution) and Lutsel K’e, still hasn’t signed

Council Briefs: Nov. 10 – Licensing Latham Island floatplane docks

The City’s longstanding stalemate with lakeside squatters saw slight movement on Monday when council voted to research licensing options for unregistered floatplane docks on Latham Island. The area in question is a stretch of City-leased land between Watt and Otto Drives that has played host to unlicensed floatplane docks for over a decade. Two weeks

Yellowknife Yards

Like most Yellowknifers, I become a tour guide any time a friend or family member comes to town. I’ve actually become quite good at it, too: “This is the Wildcat Café, YK’s oldest restaurant. Up there is Pilot’s Monument. Yes, Buffalo Airways still use these airplanes. Those are the houseboats the Ice Lake Rebels live

Placing Atsumi Yoshikubo’s likely suicide in the context of an ongoing epidemic

On EDGE: Opinion Like most Yellowknifers, I was caught up in the disappearance of Atsumi Yoshikubo last month. As the days became weeks, I couldn’t stop wondering what might have happened to the 45-year-old psychiatrist, and I spent some time trudging – in the footsteps of all the other searchers – around city trails, hoping/dreading

Feature Q&A: Premier McLeod on the NWT’s quest for renewable energy

Last week, the Government of the Northwest Territories hosted an Energy Charrette to brainstorm ways to tackle high electricity costs and promote renewable energy options. The second charrette followed a first session in fall 2012. It also came on the heels of the recently announced GNWT $20-million subsidy to the NWT Power Corp. to shield

NWT lost 1,200 jobs over past year: Monthly Labour Report

At first glance, the Northwest Territories appears to be outpacing the country with an employment rate of 67.3 per cent in October, slightly more than five per cent ahead of the rest of Canada. But the devil is in the details. Last month, 21,400 persons were working in the Northwest Territories – 600 fewer than

YK Past Blast: Great Slave’s fisherlady

Nancy Buckley was a well-known fisherlady on Great Slave lake, first based in Hay River and then in Yellowknife. She and her husband Archie ran the fish barge on Joliffe Island and supplied most of the fresh fish in Yellowknife. She died in 2007 at the age of 46.

To Love and Die in YK

by Jorge Barrera No one met me at the airport when I landed on a flight from Victoria for my first career reporting gig with Northern News Services. After a phone call, the editor arrived for the pick-up, eventually dropping me off at the company-owned townhouse that would be my temporary lodging. It was May

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