This coming Monday, a third of the names on the municipal ballot will be familiar from the last council: Rebecca Alty, Adrian Bell, Linda Bussey, Niels Konge and Phil Moon Son. Unlike the newcomers, who are running on campaign promises alone, council incumbents have a record. During their three years in office, they’ve voted on
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
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,
With wings: the City’s schematic of the Wiley Road Park floatplane option To floatplane or not to floatplane? That is the question the City is asking about a new waterfront park across from the Wildcat Café that is hoped will “ improve public access to the City’s waterfront.” This Monday, the City released a survey asking
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
On Monday, Kam Lake continued its steady march from industrial area to a diverse mash-up of residential and business, with a slew of new zoning amendments that will alter the face of the neighborhood. The changes, which had almost unanimous support from councillors at Monday’s Municipal Services Committee Meeting, are the result of a year’s
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
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 is inching closer to hosting its biggest sporting event to date, but even with a City Council vote next Monday, it’s still unclear how much the Canada Winter Games will cost. The games would see thousands of athletes, coaches and volunteers descend on Yellowknife for 18 different sports played over a two-week period in
The City’s longstanding stalemate with lakeside squatters saw slight movement on Monday when council voted to research licensing options for unregistered floatplane docks on Latham Island. The area in question is a stretch of City-leased land between Watt and Otto Drives that has played host to unlicensed floatplane docks for over a decade. Two weeks
The latest skirmish in a marathon rezoning battle that’s been raging for 13 years between Range Lake residents and developer TC Enterprises came to an impasse on Monday. City council agreed to send TC’s proposal to build a second three-storey apparent building in Bartesko Court back to administration after incensed neighbours packed the municipal services