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Business Briefs
Guy Quenneville
Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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Survey says ...

Kyle Harrington, formerly a survey party chief for Sub-Arctic Surveys Ltd, is now equipped to act as a professional land surveyor for the company.

Harrington, who has worked at Sub-Arctic for five years, recently completed the education necessary to become a Canada Lands Surveyor, the equivalent of becoming credited as a professional engineer.

According to Kevin Burrill, a project supervisor at Sub-Arctic, Harrington's new position will allow him to do much the same field work as before, but now he will be able to carry out legal surveys, as well as sign and certify survey plans himself.

Job bank for younger workers

Yellowknife's teenagers and university students have a resource to help them look for summer jobs.

A Yellowknife Service Canada Centre for Youth opened last week on the first floor of the Greenstone building on Franklin Avenue.

Staff there update an online job bank with Yellowknife positions available in retail, clerical and outdoor labour areas, among other categories.

According to staffer Tanis Baile, the sector in most need of help is the retail industry.

So far there are 20 jobs for the picking, but Baile expects that number to grow now that the centre has completed a mailing campaign to Yellowknife businesses.

Mothers at the Nest

Robin's Nest Restaurant, which opened last summer, will be having its first ever Mother's Day brunch buffet this Sunday.

Ten to 15 reservations have already been made over the three scheduled sittings, according to owner Robin Lam.

"We'll have a number of things we don't normally serve during the buffet, like mussels, scallops and Asian barbecue chicken," said Lam.

NWT family income increases

According to recently-released results from Statistics Canada, families in the Northwest Territories had the highest median total income in Canada in 2005, at $90,865.

Between 2000 and 2005, total family income increased by 10.4 per cent in the Northwest Territories, the second highest increase in Canada after Nunavut's 19 per cent.

As far as single incomes go, median earnings of people in Northwest Territories employed on a full-time basis for a full year increased by 19.4 per cent during the past quarter century, from $50,353 in 1980 to $60,119 in 2005.