As the NDP attempt to arrest their headlong dive in the national polls, NDP incumbent Dennis Bevington has unveiled his vision for the North. The plan, announced this morning, closely followed the promises made by Tom Mulcair during his Iqaluit visit last week: $32 million over four years to expand Nutrition North subsidies to 50
No Yellowknife realtor worth his commission would fail to point out to a prospective buyer that even in a city where house prices are wildly inflated, they’ll still stay ahead of the game by signing up for home ownership. If house prices are silly up here, rents are even more so. Landlords bend tenants over
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
“Big sled, no dog.” Said by no one in the North ever On EDGE | OPINION It really says a lot about the North’s place in the national consciousness that the first substantial mention of Arctic issues in this election campaign took place during a foreign affairs debate. It says even more that discussion during
The territory’s vital signs are not looking good The latest population numbers were announced just as the 17th Legislature began its final sitting this Tuesday and regular MLAs launched their attack on the cabinet’s plan to boost the electrical rate subsidy to a total of $50 million. Applied for the first time last year to
Kevin O’Reilly, executive director of the Independent Environmental Monitory Agency, is running in Frame Lake, the riding left vacant by Wendy Bisaro in the upcoming territorial election. A past research director for the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, he has lived in Yellowknife since 1985, raised a family and served three terms on city council. EDGE:
As an expert on risk-benefit analysis, Dane Mason is baffled by the protests that have greeted IserveU’s proposal for increased public involvement in governing Yellowknife. “The potential is so great,” said Mason in an interview with EDGE Online. A manager of policy and strategic planning for Industry Tourism and Investment, he was IserveU’s communications director
In answer to an accusation from his sole political opponent that he ‘isn’t even trying anymore,” Mayor Mark Heyck smiles wryly and says“I’ll leave it to voters to judge how hard I’ve been trying these past three years and the nine years I was on council previous to that.” Until recently, the 39-year-old incumbent with three council terms and
Mark Bogan, best known for his theatrical, often bizarre fathers’ rights protests, says his civil disobedience days are behind him and he’s running to make Yellowknife a better place for families. “Plywood Man has kept the peace and been of good behavior since the Jack Layton protest, and he’s buried, sir, he’s gone,” says the
Teacher and long-time volunteer Beaton Mackenzie may have four unsuccessful election campaigns to his name, but he says his commitment to the community and willingness to listen makes him someone to vote for on Oct. 19. “I enjoy sitting down and having discussions, and … you can always do something better,” says the 61-year-old special
Marie-Soleil Lacoursiere, 33, oversees contract negotiations for Dominion Diamond Ekati Corp., managing a team that procures millions of dollars annually in goods and services for the mine. She has a degree in business administration, a graduate diploma in operations management and is working on a graduate degree in governance and entrepreneurship in northern and indigenous
On EDGE: Opinion When I was seven years old, I brought the word “shit” home from the schoolyard. This, unsurprisingly, prompted a parental intervention. My mother was deeply perturbed by this development. My father, who’d spent a great deal of time on ships and oil rigs, was far less alarmed. Though trying to be
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
Businessperson and *director of the NWT Chamber of Commerce, Jugjit More-Curran, says she’ll work to reduce costs, if elected to City council. “Like me, everyone seems to agree that the biggest issue facing Yellowknifers today is the high cost of living and doing business in our city,” says the 48-year-old who moved to Yellowknife in
“I might have a little bit of an advantage over the average person that’s running for the City,” says 40-year-old barber, teacher and business owner, Steve Payne. “I’m talking to people in my chair … they tell me what they want me to talk about. I definitely want to be an advocate for the people.”