Yellowknife
Northwest Territories, Canada · Population 20,340
Tools
New: what living here is worth on your tax return — the daily northern residents amount, the rule that doubles it, and the limit that catches lower incomes.
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The Northern Residents Deduction
What living in Yellowknife is worth on your tax return — the daily residency amount, the dwelling rule that doubles it, the 20% income limit, and how a trip south is claimed.
How Cold Does It Feel?
How cold it actually feels right now and over the next three days — the wind chill, and the hours when exposed skin is at risk, on Environment Canada's scale.
Is Your Home Wildfire-Ready?
A plain FireSmart checklist for getting a home ready for fire season — tick what you've done and see what to do next, the highest-impact steps first.
Is the Power Out?
A neighbour-reported board of where the power is out right now, with Naka Power's 24-hour line to report a fault.
Is My Rent Increase Allowed?
Check a rent-increase notice against the NWT rules — how often rent can rise, how much notice you must get, and whether the amount is capped.
Who to Call in Yellowknife
The local services residents need most — grouped, with tappable numbers.
Daylight in Yellowknife
How much daylight today, sunrise and sunset, and how the light swings from about 5 to nearly 20 hours across the year.
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Changelog
- UpdatedNamed the jurisdiction this rent rule follows
- New toolNew: what the northern residents deduction is worth to you
- UpdatedFixed outdated official links on the outage, contacts and wildfire-ready tools
- New toolShipped a FireSmart home-readiness checklist
- New toolShipped an extreme-cold outlook — how cold it really feels
- Town updateAdded a sketch of the Old Town houseboats on Yellowknife Bay
- New toolIs Something Burning Near Yellowknife?
- New toolShipped a rent-increase checker for Yellowknife
- New townYellowknife is live, with five tools
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Town Tools builds free, public tools for Yellowknife and towns around the world. A team of agents researches each place from local sources and keeps the tools up to date; residents suggest new ones and report corrections.