After three years of construction, City water is finally flowing through pipes under the streets of Northlands, and the trailer park’s residents will once again be able to apply for mortgages. Things are looking much better than the near-catastrophic state of affairs a few years ago. “Of course, standard criteria apply and individuals are assessed on the
Bibimbap at Korea House Korea House: bring on the kimchi The old Le Stockpot location has been bustling over the last couple of weeks, as a new Korean restaurant has drawn crowds of curious Yellowknifers to 51st and 49th. Korea House is still very much in soft-launch mode, reports general manager Anna Chung. The menu, which currently
Halfway through filming the Chris Gamble-scripted babysitter-horror film Berkshire County, the crew discovered that their main location, a 12,000 square-foot mansion, filled with a pack of stray cats, was being foreclosed on. “There’s a scene in the basement,” says Gamble, “and when we first scouted the location it had this big bar in it, so
After nearly 23 years in the North, Chef Pierre LePage is migrating south. His decision comes in the wake of the mid-October shuttering of popular fine-dining destination The Lodge at Aurora Village — his latest employer — for the foreseeable future. But it’s a decision that hasn’t come easily. EDGE caught up with the chef
The weekend before last, Yellowknives Dene political scientist Glen Sean Coulthard was in Yellowknife for the hometown launch of his book ‘’. Originally published in 2014, the book, the title of which is a play on Afro-Caribbean Marxist philosopher Frantz Fanon’s seminal work ‘Black Skin, White Masks,’ deals with the shifting forms of Canadian colonialism and
Folk on the Rocks lost tens of thousands of dollars for the second year in a row, according to numbers presented at the society’s AGM last night. This year’s net loss came to $54,402 – down from the mammoth $114,788 loss in 2014, but significant enough to provoke “a very conservative budget” for the coming
FRESH FACES: There’ll be a lot of new faces around the table when the legislative assembly meets to pick a government in the December. In 2011, there were 14 holdovers from the previous assembly; this time there will be eight. Only one incumbent was defeated in 2011, while eight went down on Monday night. As with the last assembly, there’s an
When Filipinos say party, they mean party, laughs Conrad Esteban. He doesn’t mean to look down on the rest of us, he adds, but: “We don’t serve vegetables and dip, we don’t serve cut-up sandwiches, we serve real food with real meat with real sauce and they’re made with love. Everything just tastes terrific. That’s
Worried about threatened boreal woodland caribou, NWT wildlife advocates are urging the territorial government to take a more “precautionary” approach to developing a local forestry industry that includes better safeguards for habitat. The GNWT recently signed its first-ever forest management agreements (FMAs) with two First Nation-owned companies to begin harvesting timber for biomass and lumber.
EDGE has been profiling each new candidate for the 2015 NWT territorial elections, in Yellowknife electoral districts. You’ll find links to those profiles below(with the exception of YK North’s Sean Erasmus, who has not responded to our request for an interview) Frame Lake Roy Erasmus Jan Fullerton Kevin O’Reilly David Wasylciw Great Slave Glen Abernethy
Monday’s Municipal Services committee meeting ended on a surprisingly tense note after Mayor Mark Heyck cut coun. Niels Konge short during a discussion about whistleblower policies. “There are certainly people who work in the City of Yellowknife who don’t feel like they can bring their complaints forward without basically putting a target on their back,”
There are people in this town who seem destined to want to go faster, higher, stronger. Sheena Tremblay, the highest trained active female ski coach in the territories, is one of them. Don’t let her quiet, humble demeanor fool you. Behind that shy smile is one highly competitive person. “I pretty much just wanted to
Feedback on the print edition of EDGE YK magazine is almost always positive. But in the winter of 2013, after two issues without a piece by Old Town Versifier Anthony Foliot, a number of readers were upset. “As soon as I pick up the magazine, it’s the first thing I read, so please bring him
Pinned to the lapel of Dr. Marie Wilson’s jacket as she spoke to a large audience in the great hall of the Legislative Assembly was a poppy. But instead of the plain black circle usually at the flower’s centre, hers had a gold pin, etched with a circle of flames – the symbol of the
A model of the 50/50 plaza plan, with a library down the street for good measure | Photos by Mark Rendell Although the City began seeking public input on two new plans for the 50/50 lot today, administration has already begun budgeting for the original and somewhat controversial plaza revitalization project in the heart of downtown. In the 2016 draft