‘Weed should have been decriminalized a billion years ago. The war on drugs is the biggest social policy failure of the past 100 years.”
These aren’t public statements you’d expect from a...
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by Jeremy Warren
SHASHAMANE, Ethiopia
Brother Zulu is … slowly … looking for a phone number.
The elder painstakingly leafs through pages in his black address book. Money and business cards fall on the floor.
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by Tim Querengesser
What is old will be new again.
Whitehorse has awarded a contract to restore three of the city’s heritage buildings in Shipyards Park.
These buildings will be returned, as closely as possible, to their...
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by Chris Oke
Imagine, for a moment, Kevin Costner drinking his own urine in the dystopian blockbuster Waterworld.
Now imagine a variation — heating your home with the stuff.
In the very near future, Whitehorse...
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by Chris Oke
Banning single use plastic shopping bags is a good idea.
This concept, currently being considered by Whitehorse, is a very progressive step.
While plastic bags might be a small percentage of the garbage stream...
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by Lewis Rifkind
I have been watching the news with interest lately.
The price of food is rising rapidly, and there is debate over the cause; some argue that the rising demand for oil is at the centre of the debate, while others argue...
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by Michael Gates
If Hillary Clinton wins this nomination, it will be a theft.
For her to win, she will have to convince her party and its superdelegates that despite losing the pledged delegate total and winning fewer states, she...
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by Michael Hale
Saturday, May 3 – World Press Freedom Day marks the United Nation’s celebration of the press. The UN calls on us to recognize “fundamental principles of press freedom; … to defend the media from...
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Live Words 2008, the Yukon Writers’ Festival, continues this week.
Guest writers from across Canada include: Kevin Chong (novelist), Ivan Coyote (storyteller & novelist), Elizabeth Hay (2007 Giller Prize...
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Isaac Taylor and William Drury came to the Yukon with plans to strike it rich on the Klondike gold fields during the rush of 1898, but the fates had other plans for the two men.
Although they did not make it to the...
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‘Oh, I had my own place in Whitehorse
but my old partner found me and
harassed me, so I was kicked out.”
Voices of Homeless Women
“When you start complaining about the houses,...
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About 10 years ago, a group of citizens petitioned Whitehorse to discontinue adding fluoride to the city water supply.
Since then, local dentists have seen a marked increase in tooth decay — especially in young...
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by Chris Oke
Applause is rising across North America for Yukon filmmakers as they continue to snatch up award and nominations.
The Chicago Film Festival awarded Out in the Cold, Arthur (Tookie) Mercredi’s project, a gold...
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by Jeremy Warren
Big Oil kicked off the latest round of the Alaska Pipeline Game earlier this month, complete with Powerpoint eye-candy, a flashy project website and a new name: “Denali: The Alaska Gas Pipeline™.
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by Keith Halliday
In 2002, a 15-year-old Canadian boy, Omar Khadr, committed the crime of being discovered alive in an Afghanistan building that had been attacked by American troops.
The compound was thought to be an al-Qaida base, and...
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by Brian Brett
Many small feet had pounded the dirt floor smooth and hard.
Benches allowed more kids to crowd in and find a seat than individual chairs would have. Long wooden planks served as common writing surfaces.
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by Michael Dougherty
When the Ontario voters threw Mike Harris’s Conservatives out of office in 2003, finance minister Jim Flaherty left the province with a hefty $5.6-billion deficit.
Today, Flaherty is in the process of doing the...
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by Al Pope
