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Former LCP Health clinic expands, reorienting to sports physiotherapy. The Covid-19 pandemic knocked the Yellowknife Physiotherapy (YKPT) Sport and Rehab Clinic off balance for a few months, before it regained its footing. Formerly known as LCP Health, the clinic changed its name in February to reflect its expansion. Last month, it hired Grecia Delgadillo, a …

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Delivery service launches after popular reception at YK Farmer’s Market food booth. Yellowknifers used to go to the Bengali chefs for their food, now the chefs go to Yellowknifers. Following their successful run at the Yellowknife Farmer’s Market in the summer, K M Safat Rashif and his wife Shamima Fahmida launched the Bengali Chef food …

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Welder Pete Rose takes slowdown in stride, appreciates better work-life balance. Oil rigs have kept pumping throughout the pandemic in Norman Wells, but many of Pete Rose’s industrial projects dried up. His one-man operation Pete Rose Welding saw about half of its business decline overall since the Covid-19 pandemic arrived last March. “It hurt a …

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Jackie Hall never imagined she’d turn her hobby into a business – now she can’t keep ahead of Yellowknifers’ penchant for products. Former government director turned Yellowknife entrepreneur Jackie Hall has been helping Yellowknifers stay squeaky clean for almost two years through Prosperous Lake Soap Co.  Now retired, Hall launched her company in May 2019 …

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Working fewer hours but seeing more patients remotely, says physiotherapist Kaeleigh Brown The Covid-19 pandemic gave Wildrose Physiotherapy an opportunity to lock in a virtual approach to health care. When coronavirus first arrived in the NWT last March, Wildrose owner Kaeleigh Brown halted in-person appointments. Search for virtual platform She remained closed for about six …

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Borders are closed and would-be visitors unable to travel, local residents can still send a piece of Yellowknife to friends and family outside the NWT through the creative products featured at one local business.  Yellowknife Cards has only been in operation for one year, but its cards have quickly become a staple at markets and …

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Love blossoms despite Covid-19, but fewer people are going forward to tie the knot with wedding service companies. Sarah Kalnay-Watson is all too familiar with that reality as the owner of Let Me Knot. The “massive reduction” in weddings in Yellowknife due to limitations on gatherings has cut her wedding and event planning income by 90 …

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After Yellowknifers were ordered to stay home last March, remote capabilities became essential as homes transitioned to offices and social gatherings went virtual. That meant technology moved to the top of priority lists, and for Talbot Technologies, business picked up. Trey Talbot started Talbot Technologies In April 2018 after earning his computer information technology diploma …

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