Grinding for gold
In Randy Clarkson's garage, behind the Mini Cooper and a bunch of plastic Tupperware bins, sits a small metal machine. It's a portable cement mixer with the bowl ripped off. Welded in its place is a thick tube of eight-inch steel pipe.
Yukon bird observatories are now ‘full fledged’
Early this month, the US National Audubon Society released the Birds and Climate Change Report: 314 Species on the Brink.
Kwanlin Dun is helping its citizens fight addictions
I am writing in response to the political cartoon published by the Yukon News in the Wednesday, Sept. 3 edition which included a cartoon of my likeness as chief of Kwanlin Dun First Nation.
America is leading the way to liberal pot laws
One is best advised not to count chickens which have not yet hatched, but those who have long called for changes to this country's marijuana laws are understandably beginning to take an inventory of eggs on the farm.
Local experts monitor the pulse of Old Crow’s ‘fuel fishery’
Salmon have been ferrying energy and nutrients to the landlocked ecosystem near Old Crow, and to the Gwich’in people there, since well before the contact period of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Addressing global warming is an economic necessity
Those who don't outright deny the existence of human-caused global warming often argue we can't or shouldn't do anything about it because it would be too costly.
14 years in, Fireweed market hits full blossom
Pavlina Sudrich Thursday afternoon a crowd descends onto Shipyards Park for Whitehorse's weekly Fireweed Community Market. From a distance it's a collection of small tents shifting in a breeze that smells like fresh sweet kettle corn.
The Yukon’s ice man confronts a slow melt
Calmels is a disaster man - a permafrost pundit for hire, making a living off melting ice.
Yukon Gold shines a light on Dawson’s placer miners
Gold miners are a tight-lipped bunch. Neighbours don't talk about their gold, or how much money they make.
Why is the U.S. helping to re arm al Qaida?
Sarah Davison Syria now hosts 130,000 jihadis from all corners of the globe, a number so large it signals the regeneration of al-Qaida. The United States is to blame, according to local commentators.
Senate committee urges stronger actions to address harassment in the RCMP
Daniel Lang and Romeo Dallaire The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, with its iconic red serge and Stetson hat, has recently been the focus of a number of internal and external reviews regarding harassment.
Clan based politics is democracy, too
Duane Aucoin Our Teslin Tlingit clan government is based upon Haa Koosteeyi, our Tlingit way. This organizational structure was around long before there was a Yukon and Canada. It guided our people and helped us to flourish to this day.
How the Peel commission did its consultation
Premier Darrell Pasloski and Resources Minister Brad Cathers have complained that few Yukoners participated in the Peel planning commission's consultation processes.