Analysis

There are still many unanswered questions around the impacts of cannabis, but Tim Edwards rolls out what we know so far about buying and selling weed in YK – legally.

Highlights from Statscan’s latest report on population trends show concerning trends

Our high-end new visitors like us, but have expectations we aren’t necessarily meeting.

On the surface, it was a squabble over a few thousand dollars, but raging beneath was an intense battle over who controls millions in territorial sports funding. 

Before we demand that women report sexual assault, we need to make sure there’s a possibility for justice

The “sharing economy” is coming to the city, for better or worse, as the controversial service starts to boom locally.

The City now has a set of data about its troubled core neighbourhood. Can we learn anything from it?

A monthly leap from $2500/month to $3600/month is causing buzz. Is this for real? Or legal? Why don’t we have rent control?

A new generation of ambitious eateries is raising the city’s culinary bar. But can Yellowknife really support this boom? 

How did two people escape from the North Slave Young Offenders Facility last week? They walked through an unlocked front door. Why was that door unlocked? EDGE explains

It’s not clear yet whether today’s territories-wide phone and internet outage was thanks to a misdirected backhoe or a prisoner tunnelling out of an Edmonton jail and straight through a fibre line (more likely, right?). What we do know is that for nearly three hours this morning it seemed like a nuclear war had taken

Former premier Nick Sibbeston might not have been Mr. Perfect per say, but he’s certainly Mr. Average – for an NWT premier, at least. A typical NWT premier, according to our data dive is male, of Indigenous background (only two — George Braden and Dennis Patterson — have been non-Indigenous), represents a region from South Great

Dene National Chief Bill Erasmus is calling for a full review of the 2014 legislation behind NWT devolution, but on what grounds? Erasmus kicked off the annual assembly of Dene chiefs this week with another of his regular speeches targeting Canada and the territorial government over treaties, title and duty to consult, this time calling

With a lake swarming with fish a literal stone’s throw away, it’s little wonder that news that Yellowknife’s most iconic cafe was serving imported fish and calling it Great Slave Pickerel, should cause a mighty brouhaha. Yet according to a local restaurateur, most of the time you’re eating “pickerel” in Yellowknife restaurants, you’re actually chowing