Barbara McLeod

Earth Hour gives McDonald’s ambience

McDonald’s has been accused of being the biggest purveyor of rain-forest-destroying, methane producing, hormone and antibiotic-laced beef on…

City to add channel surfing to wellness regime

Canada Games Centre fitness enthusiasts who find an hour on an exercise bike is too long away from the couch and TV, take heart.

Yukon network steps up harm reduction

While federal Tories threaten to force downtown Vancouver drug addicts out of a safe injection site and back onto the streets, three Whitehorse-based…

First Nations to take ‘one more stab’ at co operative education reform

A Yukon First Nation Grade 12 student thought she was graduating this year. It was only after a meeting in the principal’s office that she…

Does compensation beget compensation?

On the heels of a $2-billion compensation settlement to former residential school students, some of their children are wondering aloud whether the…

Yukon doctor shortage solution could be homegrown

In a territory where the value of doctors is appreciating faster than gold, Alisa Kelly is platinum. Mayo-born, the 30-year-old represents much more…

Booze Up and Riot incites and insights

Brian Salmi bills his e-book Booze Up and Riot as “a free-wheeling, fire-breathing manifesto of funarchy and filth.

The democratically disenfranchised find a champion in Satan

Some thought Brian Salmi was the son of former Vancouver mayor and Da Vinci’s Inquest inspiration Larry Campbell, a rumour started after…

Living with diabetes

Araica McPhee’s consultation with the diabetes specialist in Vancouver was a memorable one. “I felt like I was dying.