“Only the flexible survive” might someday be an aphorism coined to describe how small businesses can cope with a pandemic.
In the case of Fish on the Bay, its small size and mobility helped it adapt as its regular business channels dried up over the last six months.
A Yellowknife business owner has responded to the pandemic by opening not one, but two businesses.
Luna Liu is the owner of Destination NWT, a tourism operation that offers travel packages for English and Mandarin-speaking travellers.
As the NWT’s Commercial Fishers have headed out to work this summer on the Great Slave Kakisa Lake, and Tathlina Lakes, ITI’s newest fisher-support program has been getting important safety equipment where it is needed most - on their vessels.
This year, across Canada exhibitions, workshops and studio tours are happening online or in smaller groups.
In the NWT, Crafted NWT 2020 is taking place from September 20th until October 4th with a variety of activities across the NWT.
September 10, 2020
The NWT Film – supported feature-length documentary NAHANNI: River of Forgiveness debuted at the Yellowknife International Film Festival last year.
But over the Labour Day weekend, The NWT Film Commission (NWT Film) sponsored its “Red Carpet” screening in Tulita.
Safaa Nielsen admits that a pandemic wasn’t high on her list of eventualities for the business plan she prepared before she opened Anytime Fitness in January 2019.
Fort Smith artists registered with NWT Arts are getting the opportunity to showcase and promote their artwork locally - at the Fort Smith’s Desnedé Farmers’ Market.
Culinary historians might one day write about how Yellowknifers’ appetite for meat persisted even during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, and possibly beyond.
In Yellowknife, two unique agriculture-based businesses are leveraging their skills, specialities and strengths for a unique NWT-spin on frozen meals.
Business schools might someday use the experience of Sam Yang as a case study in general managers leading an enterprise in troubled times.
