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Business lender and occasional radio host Thom Jarvis running for council

Thom Jarvis, a business lender and sometime weekend radio host on MooseFM, is running on a purse-tightening, back-to-the basics platform with certain hints of past controversy about homelessness. “I’m very fiscally cautious,” says the 53-year-old who’s lived in Yellowknife for around 20 years in total (in the 1980s and again since 2005) and currently works

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Today’s the day

Maybe you’ve been too busy to pay attention during what’s been a long, double-header federal and municipal campaign. Or maybe you just need a reminder of who’s running, for what party and where to vote. Either way, here’s the EDGE list with links to candidate websites, Facebook pages, and our coverage, as well as links

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The Edge Slate: Our Choices For Monday

As promised, here’s the EDGE slate for Monday’s double elections. The editorial team arrived at these choices through a process of deliberation and observation. After watching debates, writing about the candidates and the issues and reading and listening to other media, we each came in with our favourite picks. Then, the horse-trading began. For mayor

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Zero Tax Pledges: Irresponsible Populism

Did someone say increased property taxes? On EDGE | Political Opinion Last December, I sat through night after night of achingly dull City Hall budget debates. As I struggled to keep my eyes open, council went line by line through dozens of densely annotated pages, discussing the merits of this or that expenditure and the

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Council Candidates on Taxes vs. Services

With only a week and a half left until the municipal election, EDGE decided, as an experiment, to send some “fake” motions to each council candidate in an attempt to delve deeper into their beliefs. The motions were pretty blunt and weren’t meant to be 100 percent realistic (in reality, councillors would have far more

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