ISA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™m going to piggy-back on what our co-ordinating editor, Craig Gilbert, had to say in WednesdaySA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s Yellowknifer about all the wonderful things happening this coming weekend.

To the editor,

Back in April, the federal government announced $30 billion over five years to help offset the cost of early learning and child care services in Canada. Of course, thereSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s always a catch SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½“ provinces and territories would need to contribute their own funds before households would see a significant reduction in childcare costs.

By any standard SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½“ except the Northern standard SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½“ Hay River is a small town.

In November 1989 and March 1990, Inuit MLA Peter Irniq stood in the NWT legislative assembly to speak of the damage residential schools and their all-powerful staff, good and bad, had inflicted on the Inuit, Dene, Metis and Inuvialuit for many decades.

Friends, one of the things you get to do as a writer is the interviews, for print, TV or radio.

Dear Premier Cochrane,

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven, has a little bit of everything. It has sadness, romance, and even education about mental illness. This book was published in 2015 by Knopf Publishing Group and is a New York Times bestselling Young Adult book. It may be the perfect book for you. It isnSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™t part of a series but it was released as a movie on February 28, 2020. The book is 378 pages long and itSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s written from both main charactersSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™ point of view in the first person.

Yellowknife, like many municipalities across the country, has a NIMBY problem.

From the Roots Up by Tasha Spillett is the second in a series of graphic novels that delves into the lives of Indigenous women and two-spirit people living in Winnipeg. Following Surviving the City, From the Roots Up revisits Dez and MiikwanSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s lives after the death of DezSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s kokum (grandmother) leaves Dez struggling to recoup in a foster home and the introduction of a transfer student leaves Miikwan with some predictable butterflies in her stomach.