Five out of eight incumbents are seeking to retain their seats at City Hall The council meeting this past Monday evening was the last before people head to the polls on Oct. 19 to elect a new batch of councillors. There’s going to be a slew of new names on the ballot, but also a number
Chances we’ll ever see this in downtown Yellowknife seem highly unlikely Have you ever, in a moment of whimsy, purchased a velvet shirt, maybe with stripes, or perhaps some snazzy sequins, only to realize upon sober second thought that you’re never actually going to wear the thing and you’ve lost the receipt? In the end,
City-provided rendition of the project, featuring a hypothetical library The $6.5 million proposal to turn the empty lot on the corner of Franklin and 50th Street into a plaza was met with cautious approval from City Council during the first full discussion of the plan yesterday. Two councillors were in full support of the
Following a recent bylaw forbidding further kennel development in Kam Lake, the City is hoping to convince the Yellowknife Dog Trotters Association to relocate to the Engle Business District with a very generous package of benefits. Since 1978, the association has run a kennel in Kam Lake, next to the new Grace Lake subdivision, that
The Municipal Services Committee had about $4.5 million dollars worth of contracts on its plate yesterday, while city administration butted heads with council over a memorandum to measure changes in the downtown core. During its evening session, council approved purchase of a $2 million refrigeration system for the Community Arena, and got administration moving on
Bartesko Court down for the count A long-standing fight pitting developer’s rights against neighbourhood complaints was resolved, once again, in favour of the neighbourhood on Monday. At this week’s Municipal Services Committee meeting, council shot down TC Enterprises’ most recent plans for Bartesko Court, a large, half-empty lot in the Borden Drive area that the
BID bid gains little support in the biz community Revitalizing the downtown via a Business Improvement District (BID) has been a hot topic at city hall ever since two councillors returned from a BID conference last spring. But the idea, which would see local businesses pay into a fund for collective projects, doesn’t seem to have any
Bussey steps in Starting next week coun. Linda Bussey will be stepping into the deputy mayor’s chair for the remainder of this council’s term. “It’s an incredible opportunity for me to learn more about local government,” she told EdgeYK.com, adding that she hopes to use the position to advocate for sustainable development, the housing-first initiative
Just before Christmas, Marie Coderre, the Executive Director of the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre, received a letter from the City informing her $15,000 had been cut from the core funding NACC receives from the City. On Monday, she was at the City’s Municipal Services Committee Meeting to ask for it back. “I need to
When Yellowknife’s soccer community hears “Christmas,” do you know what we really hear? Kickmas. Ever since I started playing soccer, there has always been the Christmas tournament. But I never really understood why the tournament was at Christmas time until last year, when I headed out for my first year of university. A Yellowknifer feels
The average Yellowknife homeowner will get to bank nearly $60 more than expected next year after City Council passed the 2015 budget on Monday with no tax increase. Commercial property owners are looking at paying roughly $18 less than was budgeted for every $100,000 their property is worth. Monday’s vote to not increase taxes followed
The ring of silver dancers in Sombe K’e Park on the shores of Frame Lake will soon be changing colour – regularly. Some time next year, the United in Celebration sculpture is getting a new coat of paint that changes colour as the sun crosses the sky. While the sculpture, perhaps Yellowknife’s most notable piece
With sights set on a zero per cent tax increase next year, City Council took shears to the 2015 budget, slashing more than $2 million in the first two days of debate. Ahead of deliberations on the $71.6 million budget, the City was looking at a General Fund shortfall of around $770,000. This would have
After much debate and several rewrites, City Council passed a declaration of environmental rights on Monday that Coun. Dan Wong called “the gold standard for declarations for healthy environment that are being passed across the country.” The declaration outlines a number of rights Yellowknifers should enjoy, such as the right to breathe clean air and
Yellowknife bars may soon be allowed to keep the taps running all weekend, if council passes a bylaw permitting bars and pubs to operate on Sundays and holidays. As it stands, restaurants, clubs and temporary liquor providers operate seven days a week, but bars and pubs – Class A liquor licences – can’t serve on