Opinion

A growing trend we’ve seen in all sectors in the North and across Canada is the response that pops up whenever employers face scrutiny over shortfalls in program delivery, reduced access to services, and stressful workplace environments: staff shortage.

Infrastructure bills are great, aren’t they? Help to build roads and bridges and things like that to improve our lives. Of course we all know they’re nothing more than an avenue for some politicians to stick earmarks in to make the pork barrel even bigger.

Old Town’s signature summer festival made its live and in-person return July 30 to Aug. 1.

Dear editor,

I found a feather, just laying there on the ground. In folk lore this means I am going to have a lucky day or maybe just a good day. Folk lore can be a little iffy about these things sometimes. But I feel lucky.

While we may have forgotten the climate change crisis during the last several months, it has become clear that climate change has not forgotten us. The smoke we saw and smelled over the weekend was not just from the fires in British Columbia and the United States, it also came from some burning in our own backyard – near Whati and the Snare hydro plant.

I’m back for a short part of the summer and I couldn’t help but ask myself what it is I love about Yellowknife and what I can do without so here is a list of five things I like and dislike about my hometown.

In N. Scott’s House

Imagine being stranded on Great Slave Lake in a boat that no longer complies with your wishes.

Food insecurity is a global threat to communities around the world.