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On EDGE: Opinion I was having dinner recently with a colleague in Whitehorse who shared something interesting about Yukoners and how they view themselves in relation to Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. “We don’t think about ourselves as part of the North the same way,” he said. “We’ve got more in common with Alaska.” He’s

Nicole Garbutt, local make-up artist extraordinaire, came over around 6 p.m. A glass of wine was poured, and we got down to business. I had already dyed my hair to a dirty ginger and shaved a receding hairline deep into the top of my head. Then off came my facial hair. My wife, Erika Nyyssonen,

David Suzuki was in Yellowknife this week as part of a cross-country tour aimed at building grassroots support for a constitutional right to a healthy environment. The Blue Dot Tour, run by a former Obama campaign strategist, is built on a bottom-up philosophy – environmentalists should be pressing their municipal leaders, says Suzuki, who then

The call for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women received official backing from the NWT legislature on Tuesday. A motion calling for the inquiry, as well as a national roundtable to “identify concrete outcomes that will prevent further violence against Aboriginal women and girls” received unanimous support from MLAs, with the exception

Jordan Crosby, NDS Regulators | photos Angela Gzowski Yellowknife is seemingly the adult recreational sports capital of North America, and late October marks the start of the fall/winter rec-sport season. A large percentage of YK’s adults, most of whom are well past their prime, lace up their sneakers, cleats or skates every year to compete

by Alison McCreesh In 2008, I spent a season in Dawson City. I was living in my tent and scooping ice cream between my last two years of art school. That summer, the ODD Gallery, as well as the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture were the centre of my social and cultural life. I

by Aaron Spitzer As a longtime Yellowknife resident, I’m saddened that my City is suing (Mayor makes case for City’s legal challenge over too few MLAs) for even greater control of the Northwest Territories legislative assembly. I’m even more disturbed that it’s being done under the guise of “rights” and “equality.” The proponents – the

  Thanks to everyone who came out to EDGEYK.com and DJ T-Woo’s first-ever Halloween party at the Elks. If you were there, you’ll probably remember Angela Gzowski‘s photo booth and may have even posed for a pic. These are some of her faves, but you can see the whole collection here.

After months of deliberation, Council is taking the territorial government to court over what the mayor calls Yellowknife’s ¨systemic and chronic¨ underrepresentation in the legislative assembly. Though Yellowknife has 48 per cent of the territory’s population, it has only 36 per cent of the seats in the legislative assembly – seven of 19. Even so,

The opening night of Jen Walden’s exhibition of landscape paintings drawn from  her visit to the Mackenzie Mountains. | photos Jack Danylchuk After a summer of exhibitions by Jenn Walden, Alison McCreesh, and now Terry Pamplin, it might be tempting to conclude the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre has added ‘art gallery’ to its mandate.

It’s premature to speculate on the effect Atsumi Yoshikubo’s disappearance will have on Yellowknife’s tourism industry, but with Japanese media abuzz with the news, Northwest Territories Tourism is taking steps to manage potential fallout. The organization, which markets the Northwest Territories as a tourist destination, is highlighting the uniqueness of the incident to Japanese media,