Yellowknife

Workers construct a snow castle on Great Slave Lake’s Yellowknife Bay, in Yellowknife, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Emily Blake

‘Better than Santa’: Snow castle almost ready to host annual Yellowknife festival

Annual tradition has been wowing viewers for 28 years

 

An inmate at the North Slave Correctional Complex in Yellowknife skins a squirrel as he and others take part in a class that teaches inmates trapping and outdoor survival skills on Thursday, Feb.16, 2023.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Angela Gzowski

‘Helped me rejuvenate my soul:’ Inmates in Yellowknife learn trapping, outdoor skills

Program intended to empower inmates and reconnect them with their culture

 

Small boats make their way through the Frobisher Bay inlet in Iqaluit on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

‘No one is really taking care of us’: Little progress made on improving Inuit housing

Thousands living with housing issues in Inuit Nunangat

 

Miranda Currie, seen in an undated handout photo, is a writer, musician, filmmaker and educator who lives in Yellowknife, and is Mushkegowuk and a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Miranda Currie

Yellowknife musician wants to ‘change that Indigenous narrative in Canada’

Miranda Currie wants Indigenous kids to feel represented and valued in music, films and books

Miranda Currie, seen in an undated handout photo, is a writer, musician, filmmaker and educator who lives in Yellowknife, and is Mushkegowuk and a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Miranda Currie