Opinion

Everywhere you look on the internet, there are quizzes to find out your attachment style.

Another tragic death of a firefighter working to keep communities safe has occurred by Fort Liard on Sunday. I join all NWT residents with their sincere condolences to family, friends and the community at large for this loss. This comes shortly after the death of a young firefighter from B.C. losing her life engaged in fighting fires that endanger people, their homes and communities.

In my teens and twenties, I didn’t think much about how important it was to like the people I worked with. At the time, I was working as a waiter at a Toronto diner and being friends with my colleagues was part of the experience.

The Dene Wellness Warriors are working on starting a trauma healing lodge for the NWT. Woohoo, yahoo, sign me up as a client too.

In 2016 Fort McMurray, one of Canada’s wealthiest industrial centres, was faced with a wall of fire so powerful that it created its own climate. This environmental emergency led to the fastest, most extensive single-day evacuation in North American written history.

The Bank of Canada has just hiked its interest rate by another 25 points to five per cent — the second quarter-point hike since June’s interest rate increase to 4.75 per cent. The central bank has been steadily increasing interest rates over the past three years in an effort to tame inflation.

It hit 30 C or higher in many parts of the North last week. On Monday, temperatures in both Norman Wells and Fort Good Hope exceeded 37 C. We’ve seen these extreme temperatures increasing in frequency in the last few years. But this year, they started earlier and hit record highs faster.

If you want to learn to play the fiddle, the Aurora Fiddle Society may be a good place to start.

What does reconciliation mean? I have asked this question many times. I get many different answers. Reconciliation seems to mean different things to different people. I looked up this topic on the Canadian government website. As with most government documents there was a lot of jargon. It wasn’t easy to follow.

Have you noticed that a lot of parking meters in Yellowknife seem to have a distinct lean to them? I am sure some people will blame climate change and melting permafrost for this because people blame everything on something, and climate change is all the rage.