#“Sixty-three per cent of N.W.T’s population have been evacuated”

Admin3 years ago011 mins

Alty says at least 6,500 residents have left since the evacuation order was given on Wednesday, with more departing today Vehicles line-up for fuel on Thursday at Fort Providence, on the only road south from Yellowknife. (Photograph by Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press.) Rebecca Alty has already lived through one wildfire scare. Before she was mayor of…

#“It’s like going off to war”: This man is helping evacuate fire-plagued Yellowknife

Admin3 years ago015 mins

Heavy smoke from nearby wildfires fills the sky in Yellowknife on Tuesday, August 15, 2023. (Photograph by Angela Gzowski/The Canadian Press.) The north is burning. Since early spring, forest fires have raged across the Northwest Territories. But in the last week, the flames reached the territory’s biggest population centres. On Wednesday, Yellowknife residents were ordered…

#The flap over Yellowknife’s flag-raising practices

Admin5 years ago010 mins

“#The flap over Yellowknife’s flag-raising practices” At the request of Turkish Yellowknifers, the city proclaimed Oct. 29 as ‘Turkish Republic Day’ and raised the iconic flag outside city hall. Then complaints started rolling in. Three years ago, Yellowknife resident Reyhan Sarikaya didn’t know her city had a municipal flagpole. At least, she’d never noticed it….