#yellowknife — Public Fediverse posts
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A nice piece about #Yellowknife in spite of some factual errors. https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/beyond-the-aurora-yellowknifes-experiences-worth-showing-up-for/?brid=YWdncwHZdvorZMhV8m0hGGTEnleA
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A nice piece about #Yellowknife in spite of some factual errors. https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/beyond-the-aurora-yellowknifes-experiences-worth-showing-up-for/?brid=YWdncwHZdvorZMhV8m0hGGTEnleA
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A nice piece about #Yellowknife in spite of some factual errors. https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/beyond-the-aurora-yellowknifes-experiences-worth-showing-up-for/?brid=YWdncwHZdvorZMhV8m0hGGTEnleA
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A nice piece about #Yellowknife in spite of some factual errors. https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/beyond-the-aurora-yellowknifes-experiences-worth-showing-up-for/?brid=YWdncwHZdvorZMhV8m0hGGTEnleA
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A nice piece about #Yellowknife in spite of some factual errors. https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/beyond-the-aurora-yellowknifes-experiences-worth-showing-up-for/?brid=YWdncwHZdvorZMhV8m0hGGTEnleA
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At the #Yellowknife spring trade show #democracy champion @Jeremy pitching #proportionalRepresentation to people of all ages and from several different angles.
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It is a day to honour the murdered and missing. #Yellowknife showed up! https://cklbradio.com/2026/05/05/hundreds-turn-out-in-yellowknife-to-march-against-violence-on-red-dress-day/
#RedDressDay #MMIWG #LivesCutShort #Violence #GenderViolence
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"Spring has arrived....This, then, is a time for new beginnings and renewal — a time when we can use our voices and our actions to call out for change to save the very thing that gives life to all of us, #MotherEarth." https://yellowknifer.com/2026/04/23/yellowknives-leaders-warn-of-changing-environment-as-earth-week-kicks-off/
#ClimateBreakdown #WaterisLife #Yellowknife #NWT #IndigenousPeoples
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Air Canada scraps Yellowknife-Toronto direct flights as jet fuel costs spike
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/edmonton-5aq1688az/-/a-TqkWRiCUQtCH_wItM7Czrw%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0
"The #Yellowknife to #Toronto route is suspended effective Aug. 30."
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Good to see #NWT #Yellowknife #socialJustice coalition, Alternatives North signed onto this. Now will the #NWT government step up the pressure on the CarneyCons? https://www.friendsofmedicare.org/50_orgs_canada_health_act?
#healthcare #Canada #cdnpoli #nwtpoli#CorporateControl
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Thank you @Jeremy for leading the charge to correct #Canada's #electoral system through #proportionalRepresentation. I am proud to be a #Yellowknife resident too @fairvote @fairvote.ca https://cabinradio.ca/286842/news/politics/yellowknife-calls-on-ottawa-to-introduce-proportional-representation/
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I support the voice(s) in the Canadian wilderness... near to Carney's birthplace!
#ProportionalRepresentation #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Yellowknife #NWT
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#Yellowknife's Aurora Chorealis #choir is always amazing and always ahead of the curve. https://cabinradio.ca/285996/news/yellowknife/in-song-a-story-of-national-importance-in-terms-of-human-rights/
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SHIFT NWT will start accepting bookings for the 2026 bike lending season on April 5th! The first 2-week bike share session will begin on May 1st!
Our fleet currently includes four dutch style bikes (two of which are electric), two electric cargo bikes, and two electric trikes. When you book your bike, it’s yours for a full two weeks, free of charge. We want users to have time to embed the bike into their daily travel habits and see how well it fits into their lifestyles.
Some Facts about SHIFT NWT:SHIFT NWT has officially become a not-for-profit society registered in the Northwest Territories. We promote active mobility (i.e. walking, biking, transit, etc), and urban social wellbeing. We believe in making change through positive collaboration and direct outreach.
Originally, SHIFT NWT was a bike share program formed in 2024 under the umbrella of the NWT Recreation & Parks Association and with the support of the GNWT Healthy Choices Fund.
SHIFT NWT’s Bike Share Program promotes active mobility by providing the residents of Yellowknife with a free, medium term bike lending program that allows people to experience the benefits of a less car-dependent lifestyle. 2026 will be our 3rd season of helping Yellowknifers try out bike-commuting in their everyday life.
SHIFT NWT is completely volunteer run and provides other programming such as group rides, an Autumn bike commuting challenge, outreach at the Baby Expo and Spring Trade Show, installation and care of the YK Healthy Urban Policy Team Parklet, a winter biking educational seminar, introduction to winter biking events, speaking events, collaboration with other groups and consultants, and advocacy at the municipal, territorial, and federal levels.
We are grateful for the continued collaborations with so many individuals and groups that are eager to use changes to our transportation habits to help make #Yellowknife a safer, healthier, more sustainable, and happier city. We believe that when you engage in active mobility, your commute is not just the time lost between your home and destination but a rich and rewarding part of your day in its own right. We also believe that if it’s possible to be less reliant on a car, you can free up financial, mental, and personal resources that can be put to better use.
Thank you and happy trails!
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#DisasterCapitalism in action. After a robust community engagement process that the Chamber of Commerce was all over, these profiteers say they weren't heard https://cabinradio.ca/283919/news/politics/business-group-criticizes-direction-of-yellowknifes-community-plan/ Then the #CarneyCons plan for the #militarization of the #NWT is put out as another way to roll over the interests of #Yellowknife residents and having a sustainable, livable community. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/what-upcoming-defence-investments-mean-for-yellowknife-s-housing-planning-9.7139447 Lessons from the past and forecasts are being ignored
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Fun to be part of a #taichi flash mob at the #Yellowknife Snow Castle yesterday.
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Community builders with Shift Bike Share YK built a portable parklet and organized a human #library outside the #Yellowknife #Snow Castle on Saturday. These initiatives sustain us and will sustain us.
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Aviation weather for Yellowknife airport (Canada) is “CYZF 142000Z 26006KT 15SM BKN240 M19/M26 A3018 RMK CI5 SLP253” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/cyzf/en #yellowknifeairport #airport #yellowknife #canada #cyzf #yzf #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl
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Carney was in Yellowknife talking about his defence spending for the north. After he's planning to go to Norway.
A reporter asked him a question about why the focus is on defence rather than on housing, schooling, and education for people in the north. She said he'd see how much better things were for people in Norway than here when he goes.
Carney responds by saying that things will improve with the "spillover benefit" from his defence spending.
#cdnpoli #MarkCarney #canpoli #Carney #Arctic #NWT #Yellowknife #Indigenous
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Prime Minister @[email protected] makes an announcement in #Yellowknife, #N.W.T. The prime minister's office says he is announcing a new plan to 'defend and transform #Canada's northern and #Arctic region.' 🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli #Cdnmilitary #Cdnsecurity www.youtube.com/live/t2np-WV...
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#Yellowknife's recent 4 hour power outage at -25C was initially blamed on #ravens (as power outages tend to be in the #subArctic). But this time it wasn't the fault of this smart #corvid.
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“Is it safe to eat vegetables from gardens in Yellowknife?” : My North Now https://www.allforgardening.com/1592762/is-it-safe-to-eat-vegetables-from-gardens-in-yellowknife-my-north-now/ #Arsenic #garden #soil #Yellowknife
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High demand leads Indigenous healing camp in Yellowknife to pause counselling services
A one-of-a-kind land-based Indigenous healing camp in Somba K’e, Yellowknife, has stopped offering some services.
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High demand leads Indigenous healing camp in Yellowknife to pause counselling services
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High demand leads Indigenous healing camp in Yellowknife to pause counselling services
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High demand leads Indigenous healing camp in Yellowknife to pause counselling services
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High demand leads Indigenous healing camp in Yellowknife to pause counselling services
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In #Yellowknife #NWT #Canada, people, animals, land and water have to live with the toxic Giant Mine and perpetually care for 230,000 tonnes of toxic arsenic trioxide. This project asks for people to join us in witnessing this monster's life.
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Why is the Counsul General of the Peoples' Republic of China inserting these notices in a #Yellowknife newspaper? Why is this Black Press not identifying the notices as sponsored content, advertisement, or whatever these advocacy pieces are? Who is the Counsul General in Calgary? Are these notices appearing elsewhere in #Canada? @cabinradio
#Journalism #democracy #foreign
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The northern #BorealForest is burning after yet another summer of #drought. The #NWT in the #subArctic has had two community evacuation orders in as many days. Fort Providence on the shores of the mighty Mackenzie River in recent years sheltered so many #climaterefugees especially from #Yellowknife now are climate refugees themselves. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/fort-prov-evac-1.7622251
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#Yellowknife is a multi-cultural community in #Canada's #SubArctic and has a growing South Asian community. These irresponsible guys just blew a huge hole in community relationships in their celebration of #guns and #gunculture in a part of the world where guns are used for subsistence hunting only. https://cabinradio.ca/253088/news/yellowknife/filmmaker-says-gun-heavy-yk-productions-are-just-music-videos/
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The #municipalgovernment in #Yellowknife in the #subArctic has no vision and no willingness to use policy and taxation tools to require owners of vacant lots to construct affordable #housing. Instead it wants to gobble up green space and make the city unlivable. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yellowknife-housing-green-spaces-1.7587394
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The smoke from #Canada’s #wildfires may be even more #toxic than usual
A legacy of #mining means that #ToxicMetals could be carried along plumes of smoke.
by Matt Simon, June 5, 2025
"More than 200 wildfires are blazing across central and western Canada, half of which are out of control because they’re so hard for crews to access, forcing 27,000 people to evacuate. Even those nowhere near the wildfires are suffering as smoke swirls around Canada and wafts south, creating hazardous air quality all over the midwestern and eastern parts of the United States. The smoke is even reaching Europe.
"As the climate changes, the far north is drying and warming, which means wildfires are getting bigger and more intense. The area burned in Canada is now the second largest on record for this time of year, trailing behind the brutal wildfire season of 2023. That year, the amount of #carbon blazed into the atmosphere was about three times the country’s #FossilFuel emissions. And the more carbon that’s emitted from wildfires — in Canada and elsewhere — the faster the #PlanetaryWarming, and the worse the fires.
" 'There’s obviously the #ClimateFeedback concern,' said Mike Waddington, an environmental scientist at McMaster University in Ontario who studies Canada’s forests. 'But increasingly we’re also concerned about the smoke.'
"That’s because there’s much more to wildfire smoke than charred sticks and leaves, especially where these blazes are burning in Canada. The country’s #forests have long been #mined, operations that loaded #soils and #waterways with #ToxicMetals like #lead and #mercury, especially before clean-air standards kicked in 50 years ago. Now everyone downwind of these wildfires may have to contend with that legacy and those pollutants, in addition to all the other nasties inherent in #WildfireSmoke, which are known to exacerbate respiratory and cardiac problems.
" 'You have there the burning of these organic soils resulting in a lot of carbon and a lot of #ParticulateMatter,' said Waddington. 'Now you have this triple whammy, where you have the metals #remobilized in addition to that.'
"What exactly is lurking in the smoke from Canadian wildfires will require further testing by scientists. But an area of particular concern is around the mining city of #FlinFlon, in #ManitobaCanada, which is known to have elevated levels of toxic metals in the landscape, said Colin McCarter, an environmental scientist who studies pollutants at Ontario’s #NipissingUniversity. Flin Flon’s 5,000 residents have been evacuated as a wildfire approaches, though so far no structures have been destroyed.
"But a fire doesn’t need to directly burn mining operations to mobilize toxicants. For example, in #Yellowknife, in Canada’s #NorthwestTerritories, #GoldMining operations between 1934 and 2004 spread #arsenic as far as 18 miles away, adding to a landscape with an already high concentration of naturally occurring arsenic. In a paper published last year, Waddington and McCarter estimated that between 1972 and 2023, wildfires around Yellowknife fired up to 840,000 pounds of arsenic into the atmosphere. Arsenic is a known carcinogen associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and developmental problems, according to the World Health Organization. (After the 2023 #LahainaFire in Maui, officials reported elevated levels of arsenic, lead, and other toxic substances in ash samples. California officials also found lots of lead in smoke from 2018’s #CampFire.)"
Source:
https://grist.org/climate/canada-wildfire-smoke-toxic-arsenic/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us#WaterIsLife #SoilIsLife #AirIsLife #Mining #ToxicLegacy #FirstNations #Canada #Pollution #Worldwide #AQI #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #AirQualityIndex
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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Mar 26th, 2025
#xenoliths #volatiles #subduction #models #spike #glycans #receptor #low-mutation ##Yellowknife #linear #dodecane #SAM #lipids #Mesoscale #signature #transport #photolysis #replenishment #size #thickness
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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Mar 26th, 2025
#xenoliths #volatiles #subduction #models #spike #glycans #receptor #low-mutation ##Yellowknife #linear #dodecane #SAM #lipids #Mesoscale #signature #transport #photolysis #replenishment #size #thickness
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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Mar 26th, 2025
#xenoliths #volatiles #subduction #models #spike #glycans #receptor #low-mutation ##Yellowknife #linear #dodecane #SAM #lipids #Mesoscale #signature #transport #photolysis #replenishment #size #thickness
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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Mar 26th, 2025
#xenoliths #volatiles #subduction #models #spike #glycans #receptor #low-mutation ##Yellowknife #linear #dodecane #SAM #lipids #Mesoscale #signature #transport #photolysis #replenishment #size #thickness
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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Feb 11, 2025
- - -#Hezingen #diobolgeldæ #Wodan #Stapol #core #deep-Earth #Yellowknife #deformation #SWATH #sailboat #autonomous #self-sufficient #LIGO #multi-messenger #KAGRA #IceCube #Torque-Clustering #learning #Unsupervised #parameter-free
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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Feb 11, 2025
- - -#Hezingen #diobolgeldæ #Wodan #Stapol #core #deep-Earth #Yellowknife #deformation #SWATH #sailboat #autonomous #self-sufficient #LIGO #multi-messenger #KAGRA #IceCube #Torque-Clustering #learning #Unsupervised #parameter-free
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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Feb 11, 2025
#Hezingen #diobolgeldæ #Wodan #Stapol #core #deep-Earth #Yellowknife #deformation #SWATH #sailboat #autonomous #self-sufficient #LIGO #multi-messenger #KAGRA #IceCube #Torque-Clustering #learning #Unsupervised #parameter-free
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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Feb 11, 2025
#Hezingen #diobolgeldæ #Wodan #Stapol #core #deep-Earth #Yellowknife #deformation #SWATH #sailboat #autonomous #self-sufficient #LIGO #multi-messenger #KAGRA #IceCube #Torque-Clustering #learning #Unsupervised #parameter-free
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This is an interview my wife & I did on the Active Towns podcast with John Simmerman. In it, we discuss the kinds of things we've been doing in #Yellowknife #NWT to encourage people to be less dependent on their cars. Yellowknife is only about 8 km in diameter, so we could easily be the biking capital of the North, but most people over here consider cycling as recreation, not transportation. Give it a watch or listen. #activetransport #activemobility #cycling
https://www.activetowns.org/2025/01/17/bike-shift-northwest-territories/
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A great story from Cabin Radio on our new Senate study examining the impact of climate change on critical infrastructure. This story focuses on the challenges facing the North. (And to my delight is literally illustrated with the Spider-Man finger pointing meme.) https://cabinradio.ca/213968/news/politics/senate-report-a-wake-up-call-to-the-norths-infrastructure-needs/ #SenateofCanada #TRCM #Canada #cdnpoli #Arctic #NWT #Yellowknife @cabinradio
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For years, #Indigenous people in the #NWT have been working to #decolonize names. That's included calls to scrap the word #slave from #GreatSlaveLake and #Slavey, changing them to something meaningful to Indigenous people.
The request the territory received back in 2022 suggested the lake's name reflect four #IndigenousLanguages: Dene Zhatıé, Dëne Sųłıné Yatıé, Tłıchǫ Yatıı̨̀ and Wıı̀lıı̀deh Yatıı̨̀. It was supported by the North Slave Métis Alliance and the former MLA for #Yellowknife North, according to information from Cleveland's department.
Georgina Fabian, an elder from Fort Providence, said the name 'Slavey' is a #colonial term that was imposed on her people.
"It shouldn't take this long ... but the problem with Great Slave Lake itself is that there are many #IndigenousCommunities that border the lake, so it is now a matter of which name you should choose ... so there is a lot of politics with that," Nokleby said.
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If you could live in any ideal solarpunk living arrangement, what would it be?
In this episode, @arielkroon talks to Hermina Joldersma, professor emerita at University of Calgary, about alternative housing arrangements, focusing on co-housing. They discuss not only Hermina’s experiences living in different types of housing, but the mindset necessary to co-housing and communal life, and the way that community often has to be intentionally created. Tune in now!
#CoHousing #CoHousingCommunity #Community #AlternativeHousing #Housing #HousingCrisis #CommunalLife #IntentionalLiving #IntentionalCommunity #Alberta #Edmonton #Calgary #Yellowknife #CommunalHousing #solarpunk #UofC #UniversityOfCalgary #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #SolarpunkPresents#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #SolarpunkPresents
https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/season-four/solarpunk-considers-cohousing-with-hermina-joldersma
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If you could live in any ideal solarpunk living arrangement, what would it be?
In this episode, @arielkroon talks to Hermina Joldersma, professor emerita at University of Calgary, about alternative housing arrangements, focusing on co-housing. They discuss not only Hermina’s experiences living in different types of housing, but the mindset necessary to co-housing and communal life, and the way that community often has to be intentionally created. Tune in now!
#CoHousing #CoHousingCommunity #Community #AlternativeHousing #Housing #HousingCrisis #CommunalLife #IntentionalLiving #IntentionalCommunity #Alberta #Edmonton #Calgary #Yellowknife #CommunalHousing #solarpunk #UofC #UniversityOfCalgary #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #SolarpunkPresents#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #SolarpunkPresents
https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/season-four/solarpunk-considers-cohousing-with-hermina-joldersma
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If you could live in any ideal solarpunk living arrangement, what would it be?
In this episode, @arielkroon talks to Hermina Joldersma, professor emerita at University of Calgary, about alternative housing arrangements, focusing on co-housing. They discuss not only Hermina’s experiences living in different types of housing, but the mindset necessary to co-housing and communal life, and the way that community often has to be intentionally created. Tune in now!
#CoHousing #CoHousingCommunity #Community #AlternativeHousing #Housing #HousingCrisis #CommunalLife #IntentionalLiving #IntentionalCommunity #Alberta #Edmonton #Calgary #Yellowknife #CommunalHousing #solarpunk #UofC #UniversityOfCalgary #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #SolarpunkPresents#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #SolarpunkPresents
https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/season-four/solarpunk-considers-cohousing-with-hermina-joldersma