The new Arkell development could become Whitehorse’s first efficient, low-energy housing neighbourhood.
Narrower streets, preservation of existing tree cover, orienting home windows to take advantage of...
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by Tristin Hopper
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia:
For several minutes, the entrance of the chic Lime Tree restaurant becomes a colourful spectacle the Ethiopian bar kittens caressing cellphones and the finger-snap attentive waiters milling about...
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by Tim Querengesser
Rural Yukon ambulance attendants want to establish permanent paramedic training at Yukon College in Whitehorse.
And they’re willing to use money from last fall’s labour negotiations to do it.
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by Tristin Hopper
FORTYMILE
The townsite sits serenely at the junction of the Fortymile and the Yukon rivers.
The original inhabitants called this spot Cheda Dek and today the area is quiet with little sign of the busy community...
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by Mark Prins
It is always nice to kick off spring with appreciation and awareness of the Yukon’s fauna and flora.
From bird watching to sheep spotting, the spring events in this territory are more than enough to keep any...
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by Lewis Rifkind
One hundred and twenty five years ago, no more than a dozen prospectors spent a long cold winter in the Yukon River basin.
For 10 years, there had been a mere handful of them in the country, but for the first time,...
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by Michael Gates
Main Street businesses come and go, but Arts Underground is forever.
Alright, maybe not forever. But it’ll be around for the next 10 years — guaranteed.
A $1-million in-kind donation from Rolf...
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by Jeremy Warren
A new palliative care program will help people die with dignity in their own community surrounded by family and friends.
The four-year, $1-million Yukon Palliative Care Program assists people — family, friends or...
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Sunday, May 11 — Pentecost Sunday commemorates the “descent” of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles. This Christian feast originally was a Jewish harvest festival also celebrating the end of Passover time or...
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by Michael Dougherty
This week’s power outages wreaked havoc on Yukon businesses, but the failures were unavoidable, say energy officials.
Tuesday morning’s outage affected 5,000 homes and businesses in the Whitehorse area.
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MLAs spent 90 minutes debating a $25,000 donation to devastated Burma, a country wracked by death and human suffering made worse by the ruling military junta’s refusal of international aid.
Nice sentiment? Indeed.
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by Jeremy Warren
Mount Lorne Recycling Centre supporters hoped Community Services Minister Glenn Hart would bring his chequebook to a barbecue fundraiser.
Instead he brought water and sausages.
Nonetheless, the Mount Lorne...
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by Jeremy Warren
The 11-kilogram chunk of granite that crashed through the Carpenter’s ceiling left a hole the size of a soccer ball.
The rock landed less than a metre from where Russ Carpenter was sitting watching TV.
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by Chris Oke
together from Victor-Verster Prison in Paarl, South Africa, some 70 kilometers from Capetown at 4 p.m. on February 11, 1990.
After 27 years in prison Nelson Mandela was free.
His then-wife, Winnie, accompanied...
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by Michael Dougherty
According to Statistics Canada figures released this month, almost 3.5 million Canadians live below the poverty line.
Young children are among the most likely to be poor, with 14.5 per cent of children under five...
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by Al Pope
