One of Whitehorse’s most notorious drug dens is for sale.
But with chipboard nailed over the doors and windows, needles strewn about and the backyard piled high with junk, 810 Wheeler isn’t the prettiest...
The Yukon was right to reject a carbon tax proposed by federal Liberals, say opposition parties.
Northerners would be unfairly penalized under the Liberals’ carbon tax plan, the three northern premiers told a...
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A proposed Carmacks copper mine will have a serious environmental impact, according to the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation.
Most of us celebrated our status as Canadians yesterday — and why not? Canada continues to rank among one of the best places in the world to live.
But who are we as Canadians? I decided to spend my Canada Day...
A church proposal is resurrecting spiritual controversy in Carmacks.
The problem is its location.
The Carmacks Christian Fellowship will build their new church on the edge of town, in an area that many Little...
A proposed Carmacks copper mine will have a serious environmental impact, according to the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation.
The Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board must make its decision on the...
Here in the mountains time becomes a lesser commodity.
We live a half-hour drive from the nearest stop light and there is no commerce anywhere nearby.
The houses are spread an acre apart and we see our...
A universal gesture . . .
I present my current three favourite tales as the best examples of what is surely one of the world’s favourite gestures — thumbing our nose at fuddle-duddle-ocracy; weird-ocracy,...
There are five chickens in our oven.
We are not expecting company, nor suffering from an intense craving for chicken roast.
These are newly hatched baby chicks that have unexpectedly turned me and our propane...
Penniless prizefight promoter, King of the Klondike, war hero and international spy — the story of Joseph Whiteside Boyle truly is stranger than fiction.
Boyle was born in Toronto in 1867, to a father who bred...
Indian and Northern Affairs Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act co-ordinator has been cited for mutilating halibut and overfishing king salmon in Alaska.
Ron Chambers “knew what the limit...
I’m from Toronto, so I know the enthusiasm of its sports fans is wishy-washy at the best of times.
The average Toronto fan is like a flimsy sprout of seaweed, being washed back-and-forth by the currents.
Not all rubber ducks are created equal.
Some have a natural instinct to ride currents and an unfaltering desire to float their little hearts out.
Others lose their sense of direction the moment they hit the...
She came. She saw. She swooned. She painted.
The beauty of the North long ago captured the attention of Ontario-born artist Wendy Whitemore.
Even before she became a resident of the Yukon, she had been...
Drug dealers prey on First Nations
What happened to this world that used to be peaceful?
People are scared of standing up to drug dealers. I think all the First Nation communities should stand together and...
