Opinion

Along the Frame Lake Trail there are some pretty spectacular areas of fireweed, and some of the plants are taller than most people.

Summer is in full swing, and while many Northerners are enjoying the warm weather and hopefully some vacation time, the Union of Northern Workers is hard at work and as busy as ever.

A wonderful Dene reunion was held July 18 to 21 at the Wiliideh Site at the Yellowknife River.

I was a little sad, because the transistor weather radio I had owned for decades stopped working.

Lately I’ve been digging into the past, trying to find out if women ever played the drum in our Dene communities prior to colonial contact.

One hot summer day at the salvage area of the dump, a dust devil suddenly appeared.

“Oh boy, I get to pull some nails today.”

In her opening address at the Adaka Cultural Festival in Whitehorse last week, Governor General Mary Simon said the importance of arts in our society cannot be underestimated.

My family and I will be taking part in the national story du jour this week as hundreds of thousands of Canadians take to the skies for summer vacation.

This so-called Canada day got me thinking of the need to break free of over prescribed colonial cultural norms that society has been conditioned to conform to.