Year: 2008
Like most of us, Angela Burke and Chantal Rivest already have plans for the New Year. The two have been invited to play a tournament with a rec… tom Patrick / December 25, 2008
Graham Nishikawa has a full set just in time for Christmas.
After winning a silver and a bronze over the last couple weeks at NorAm meets in BC, the… tom Patrick / December 25, 2008
Little Paws retraction
Re open letter to Glenn Hart (the News, December 22):
Significant errors in this letter have come to light; we recant the… Yukon News / December 25, 2008
Ryan Hennessey is a climate-change researcher, but chances are he’s not going to tell you to buy a hybrid, or even to curb your air travel. Tristin Hopper / December 25, 2008
‘Help!”
The cry was weak, plaintive and urgent.
It was coming from downstairs. It was coming from my wife, Shona. Richard Mostyn / December 25, 2008
Sweat streamed from my pores even though I wasn’t moving.
The hot, humid air stuck heavily to my skin. Lisa Hasselbring / December 25, 2008
It’s the first white Christmas in nearly 40 years. When I heard that on the late night news it made me smile. Richard Wagamese / December 25, 2008
It’s one small step for Senate reform, and one giant leap for partisanship.
One hundred years after it was first suggested, Canadian senators… James Munson / December 25, 2008
In the week leading up to New Year’s Eve, Whitehorse residents may begin to notice a bizarre transformation seemingly taking place within the… Tristin Hopper / December 25, 2008
It’s easy to make Antoinette Oliphant happy.
“This makes me smile so big,” said Whitehorse’s newest restaurateur, lifting… Genesee Keevil / December 25, 2008
A public inquiry into charges of systemic prejudice relating to four in-custody deaths of First Nations people over the past nine years is needed to… Tristin Hopper / December 25, 2008
While Nova Scotia’s Workers’ Compensation Board releases the names of employers with the most workplace injuries, the Yukon’s board… James Munson / December 25, 2008
If it weren’t for plastic dinosaurs, distributor caps, shells and bits of wood, Peter Garsyde wouldn’t last at Copper Ridge Place. Genesee Keevil / December 25, 2008
More than a week ago, Yukon Energy pulled the plug on its secondary sales customers.
Since then, Whitehorse General Hospital, the Canada Games… Genesee Keevil / December 25, 2008
It was minus 33, and Dale was just wearing a T-shirt and three jackets.
With a bare neck and no mitts, the middle-aged man was standing outside the… Genesee Keevil / December 25, 2008
One December 13, Air North’s Boeing 737 was speeding down the Whitehorse runway at 200 kilometres an hour when there was a loud bang and the… Genesee Keevil / December 25, 2008
Within five years, many scientists speculate all summer Arctic sea ice will disappear, clearing the Northwest passage, stranding the polar bears and… Tristin Hopper / December 25, 2008
Wyatt Tremblay / December 24, 2008
Some people warn that you should never meet your heroes. Well, Mathew Blindheim is going to ignore that piece of cynical advice. tom Patrick / December 23, 2008
Dear Uma:
After more than a year of talking about it, I went to a yoga class.
I was in Superstore in Whitehorse, doing the monthly grocery… Heather Bennett / December 23, 2008