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
For more than a decade, the City erected a giant Christmas tree in the centre of its busiest intersection, much to the delight, and consternation, of residents and motorists. | NWT Archives/Terry Foster fonds/N-2009-006: 0037 If you’re of a certain vintage of Yellowknifer, you’ll recall a giant Christmas tree used to appear smack dab in the
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
If the City’s budget passes as proposed, the average Yellowknife homeowner will be paying roughly $56 in additional municipal taxes next year. That number is based on a $312,000 single-family home, the Yellowknife average, said Carl Bird, the City’s Director of Corporate Services. For each additional $100,000 in value, residential property owners can expect to
On EDGE: Opinion Look, I get it. Gas is expensive. It’s been stuck at $1.39 a litre in Yellowknife for what seems like an eternity. And yes, you look around the country and see pump prices dropping everywhere. A litre of gas in much of Alberta is now under a dollar. Even here in Dawson
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
After years as antagonists, the NWT Floatplane Society and Latham Island Neighbourhood Association found common ground on Monday over waterfront development in Old Town. Lisa Scott and Hal Logsdon, Presidents of LINA and the Floatplane society, agreed the dilapidated dock and gravel lot on Wiley Road, just down from the Wildcat, should become a park
photos Angela Gzowski Each spring, Yellowknife Scouts slosh through the mushy ravine behind the Ski Club in search of dead bodies. Not the recently deceased kind; they’re on the hunt for femurs, vertebrae – and maybe skulls – of Yellowknife’s earliest pioneers. It sounds gruesome, but it’s not unusual for the Back Bay Cemetery to
The City’s Municipal Services Committee will come head-to-head next week with a time-honoured practice that’s guided development in Yellowknife since its earliest days, when miners burned the camps of absent Dene and claimed ownership of the land. Politely described as the appropriation of public land for private use, it’s more commonly known as squatting. Evidence
The current Yellowknife electoral boundaries map | produced for Elections NWT by the NWT Centre for Geomatics City council looks set to take the GNWT to court over Yellowknife’s under-representation in the legislative assembly. The four councillors present at Monday’s municipal services committee expressed interest in a legal challenge, though it won’t be discussed officially
The old caution that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it found confirmation in the latest report on Yellowknife’s Municipal Enforcement Division. “We were told 20 years ago to do many of the same things we’re being told to do today,” Councillor Adrian Bell wrote in an email to EDGEYK.com. Bell noted the
Heritage Committee Chair and NWT Mining Heritage Society Vice-President Mike Vaydik hopes Yellowknifers will donate to a campaign to save the headframe. photos Angela Gzowski A new plan to save the Robertson Headframe, through a mix of private donations and City funding, got its first airing at Wednesday’s heritage committee meeting. The idea is to have
photos Angela Gzowski The tax debacle that’s been pissing off Kam Lake residents since their property taxes skyrocketed in July is little closer to resolution following Monday’s municipal services committee meeting. Back in August, city administration was tasked with figuring out how to ease the Kam Lake Tax burden. The neighborhood saw an average tax increase