Opinion

More than 600 people signed a petition opposing the construction of a new post-secondary institution on Tin Can Hill the first week after Yellowknife’s city council announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Aurora College — read GNWT — to do just that.

Are we more divided than ever as a country?

Last week, Jean and I travelled to the true land of the Midnight Sun, to Inuvik by plane, then to Fort McPherson by van.

Ah the joys of summer.

The Great Grapefruit Kerfuffle, although you could spell it carfuffle or curfuffle.

The first Yellowknife Farmers Market was almost a total success.

June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day, and it is a civic holiday in the NWT and in Yukon. Hooray for the NWT and Yukon governments.

The Tin Can Hill Polytechnical University, or TCH-PU for short, might look good on a T-shirt and has certain homey charm to it.

Frustration with party politics leads to surprising movement in Canada’s largest province

Last weekend, 15 students graduated from the Northern Indigenous Counselling (NIC) program. Now they’re ready to start helping northern people to deal with past traumas and with everyday living. Woohoo.