Clients at Yellowknife’s day centre for street people are claiming mistreatment at the hands of Yellowknife police after RCMP knocked an Inuit man unconscious while attempting to arrest him last week. On Dec. 8, RCMP were called to Safe Harbour Day Centre to deal with a disturbance just before it was set to close at
Last night, shortly after councillors congratulated one another for wrestling a proposed municipal tax increase down to zero, Mayor Mark Heyck gave a sobering critique of his colleagues’ work over the past week. “I’m fully supportive of the close scrutiny that council gives of the budget and I think it’s important that we all take
Yellowknife’s Eugene Boulanger will soon be bringing his love of the land and storytelling to the podcast universe as the new host of Stories From The Land. The podcast, created by Anishinaabe comedian Ryan McMahon for his Indian and Cowboy media network, offers “a collection of Indigenous community sourced stories that connect Indigenous Peoples to
Trail’s End’s horseshoe of colourful, picturesque modulars is one of Yellowknife’s hotbeds of quirk. Its citizenry are a lively mix of every imaginable sub-section of the city’s social fabric. From environmentalists and writers, to capitalists and miners, the neighborhood is a vibrant ecosystem where pretty much anyone is accommodated. But is it true that at
Coun. Julian Morse on slashing the splash park: “I had a hard time falling asleep last night. It wasn’t an easy decision.” After two days of intense budget cutting, city council has turned the previously proposed tax increase into a slight tax decrease. Property taxes were slated to go up by 2.87 percent according to the
Lawyers for the enigmatic Deepak International Limited (DIL), owner of two still-defunct diamond cutting and polishing plants by the airport, will soon be in the NWT Supreme Court trying to prevent information about the company’s operations from becoming public. The company was in the news as recently as October, when creditors moved in to secure a $2.6
Migratory birds, such as this Stilt Sandpiper, are being particularly hard hit Yesterday, the NWT made national news when one of our lakes, near Fort McPherson, broke through the melting earthen levee holding it in and gushed out over a cliff into the valley below. The lake has been teetering on the brink for quite some time, as
On your left, representing change, and on your right, representing change On EDGE | Opinion When Bob McLeod stood up in the assembly to announce his second run at the NWT’s premiership yesterday afternoon, he could well have taken a page out of the Stephen Harper playbook: economic times are tough, the outlook for the
The frigid morning wind bites your skin as you trudge along the snowy city sidewalks. Any trace of moisture on your clothing quickly becomes frost on your short walk to work. It’s the depth of winter. And somewhere in this city, there are human beings in makeshift shelters sleeping rough. Perhaps a brazen shoplifting excursion through Shoppers
This Ford F-150 fell through while parked and — after 10 people spent the day working to haul it out — is now back on top of the ice. On Monday afternoon, a parked truck fell through the ice near Joliffe Island, across from government dock. No one was inside, and the ice-encrusted Ford-150 was safely
Story by Pat Braden | Illustration by Andrew Hall It was a warm, sunny day when the plane took off from Yellowknife to the Inuit community of Taloyoak on Nunavut’s Boothia Peninsula (Taloyoak means “large blind” in Inuktitut and refers to a stone caribou blind, or a screen, used for harvesting caribou). The community is located about 1,200
Story by Catherine Dook | NWT Archives / Henry Busse fonds / N-1979-052: 6256 Yellowknife in 1971 was possessed of two musical matriarchs who taught piano lessons. But musical genius is paid for in temperament, and the two ladies had both in plenty. They presented a veneer of professional respect to each other on most occasions, and
A still from Conibear, 2014 A pair of Yellowknife filmmakers are heading to France in the new year, intending to rock some NWT fur as they screen their horror flick Conibear at the world’s most prestigious short film festival. Jay Bulckaert and Pablo Saravanja of Artless Collective will both attend the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival
In a truly bizarre scene at City Hall yesterday, council spent six hours playing judge and jury for an eccentric case involving a fire, an alleged muck-up by City administration, and around $160,000 in damages claimed by a building company, owned in part by their colleague Coun. Niels Konge. The story began just over a
Just outside Marnie Morrison’s room, there’s a small, glass-encased nook filled with plastic flowers, floral-patterned china cups and little figurines; souvenirs to catch the fraying edges of her memory as she heads off to a lunch or returns from her weekly haircut. Each of the 28 rooms in the Aven Cottages, the dementia ward at