NNSL Opinion Stories
During my lifetime, I was fortunate enough to know two of Canada’s most noteworthy independent newspaper publishers – Jack (Sig) Sigvaldason of Northern News Services Ltd. fame and Jim MacNeill of the infamous Eastern Graphic of Eastern Prince Edward Island.
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I would like to start this week’s column with a tribute to Jack “Sig” Sigvaldason. He started this newspaper in 1972 on his kitchen table, after he had been fired from the News of the North. Not only did Yellowknifer grow and succeed but in a few years he even bought out News of the North.
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Con. Giant. Discovery. Ptarmigan. Burwash. Tom. Negus.
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Once upon a time, someone told me that golf was a place where big-money deals were made.
Read MoreFrom: Nancy Vail
Yellowknife
Dear editor,
On the evening of Aug. 9, representatives from the Ekati Diamond Mine – with members of the NWT legislative assembly in attendance – organized a ‘celebration’ in Somba K’e plaza to mark the mine’s 20th year anniversary.
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Have no fear freshmen, high school is not as bad as it looks on television. Actually, it’s the complete opposite.
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by Bruce Valpy
Last Thursday night around 8:00 pm, Yellowknifer and Northern News Services lost its publisher, Jack Sigvaldason.
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In Northern classrooms some students thrive, others struggle.
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Hello from Cambridge Bay.
The summer is flying by very fast. Everyone is busy and the weather is different this year.
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Last week I went to another friend’s funeral. That’s quite a few in the last several years. This time it was Joey Desjarlais, who was born and raised here but moved to Vancouver as a young man.
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Friends, the matter of education is not only about finding out information, or things you need to know. The main – and most valuable part – is to learn to read in between the lines, to what a story is really saying.
Read MoreYou want even more good news from the cave rescue in Thailand? Sure.
Read MoreIt has become cliché to say the rules around legal pot are hazy but it is safe to contend that a cloud of smoke surrounds how governments are preparing to manage cannabis once recreational use of the drug is legalized Oct. 17, especially with regards to drug-impaired drivers.
Read MoreThe Perseid meteor shower will be peaking this Saturday and Sunday night. So, if you get the chance, look up at the night sky to see some shooting stars whizzing by. You might see 80 to 100 meteors per hour colliding with our atmosphere and burning up.
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Fishin’ technician
Kam Lake is like a beaten dog. It has lots of love to give but it’s hard to see that beyond the scars.
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For the past month in Yellowknife, I rose early in the morning, sat on the balcony of my condo in Northern Heights and inhaled the fresh air and spectacular view of the Great Slave Lake. I felt at peace watching the pink glow of sunrise, and the calm waters.
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This fall promises to be an enlightening experience for Yellowknifers, especially those of us who work at Yellowknifer.
(I get a kick out of putting those two words together in one sentence, as our style instructs us to italicize the title of recurring publications. So it looks a bit odd. I know, small things amuse …)
A critical element in reducing the NWT’s carbon footprint – and indeed, ensuring its very survival — is, and always has been, ensuring the territory can expand its hydro energy capacity.
Read MoreFriends, one of the ongoing things with PhD study is research, gathering information for future use.
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After expecting dismal results from my experimental witches potion plant fertilizer, I am so happy to report that all of a sudden my little garden in the wilderness has taken off with an explosion of growth unlike any I have had before.
Read MoreIn 2016, the city blithely believed infrastructure upgrades to a 380-metre residential roadway in Frame Lake South would simply “provide an opportune time to improve the road layout of Calder Crescent.”
Read MoreNice to see we have discourse such as this in our lives.
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Whether you like NorthMart’s new mural or not, the project is a great example of how Inuvik’s youth can be engaged and empowered through art.
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Guest comment by Sheila Bassi-Kellet, SAO of Yellowknife; Bruce Cooper, deputy minister of Health and Social Services; and Sue Cullen, CEO of the Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority
We are writing to provide additional information in response to your July 27 editorial, “Straight talk needed on sobering centre.”
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Anyone from the NWT who went on a southern road trip this summer may have been taken aback upon crossing the 60th Parallel on the way home.
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There is no doubt that when it comes to sports in Rankin Inlet, hockey is king. With enough players to make up several teams across several age groups the people playing another sport are a distinct minority. But what other sports lack in numbers they more than make up for in passion and dedication.
Read MoreLast spring I answered my alcohol dependent brother’s desperate plea to save him from the consequences of his addiction. His employment insurance had run out, he was about to be evicted from his downtown Vancouver condo, and thrown on the street.
Read MoreIt’s tough finding a hotel room in Yellowknife these days.
Read MoreFriends, the good weather brings out one and all to the goings on in the North.
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