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Meet some of the NWT models at Edmonton Indigenous Fashion Week
18+ hour, 40+ min ago (845+ words) That is how Aklavik's Kennedi Greenland described being part of last week's Edmonton Indigenous Fashion Week " her second time on any runway. Greenland, who moved to Alberta after graduating high school, said modelling has long been a dream and the…...
Greenhouse upgrades will support food sovereignty in Tsiigehtchic
11+ hour, 49+ min ago (396+ words) Mavis Clark, president of the Gwichya Gwich'in Council, said the community's greenhouse is currently only able to operate during the summer months. With the addition of heating and insulation, it is set to be operational for 11 months of the year....
Ptarmigan Ptheatrics’ Crazy For You to take the NACC stage
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (173+ words) The romantic comedy musical features songs by Ira and George Gershwin and follows banker Bobby Child, who falls for Polly Baker while they try to save a theatre. "With mistaken identity, love triangles and some show-stopping tap routines, there's something…...
Great Meltdown concludes ice-cold Snowcastle season
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (773+ words) The performance that concludes each year's festival inside Yellowknife's giant castle of snow and ice is called the Great Meltdown. This year, the weather has been so cold that until this weekend, there was zero chance of anything melting. Philippe…...
YK swimmers celebrate best Alberta provincials showing in years
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (375+ words) Louisa Henry won bronze medals in the 50m and 100m breaststroke as she qualified for next month's Best of the West Fest, a championship meet in Winnipeg that will feature western Canada's fastest swimmers. Yellowknife Polar Bear Swim Club coach Sam Barkwell…...
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6+ day, 18+ hour ago (11+ words) Watch: Go inside a smash hit NWT sled dog race'Cabin Radio...
Polish students reimagine Yellowknife’s cycling infrastructure
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (402+ words) That is a question posed by four architectural engineering students at the "d" University of Technology in Poland in a theoretical study of Yellowknife's cycling infrastructure. On Thursday, students Mateusz Bajer, Kamila Berbe, Adam D'bny and Tomasz Pietrzak presented their…...
Watch: A final underground trip at Diavik
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (56+ words) Watch: A final underground trip at Diavik'Cabin Radio Watch: A final underground trip at Diavik Tuesday, March 24 marked the final day of active mining for the NWT's Diavik diamond mine. We spent it underground. Cabin Radio joined the last underground…...
Turn old YK pool into performing arts centre, group says
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (350+ words) A working group is proposing a $26-million conversion of the Ruth Inch Memorial Pool building " now superseded by the neighbouring aquatic centre. The vision includes relocating the city's library into an expanded version of the Ruth Inch building that would…...
IRC pauses home repair program due to request backlog
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (209+ words) Demand for support continues to exceed our current resources, and the shortage of skilled labour has made it difficult to address the diverse needs of our communities in a timely manner," the IRC stated in a Tuesday press release. Funding…...