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Marin mixes country folk with Zappa punk

Marin mixes country folk with Zappa punk

Roger Marin was still sleeping when Gordie Tentrees banged on the door.It was quarter past 12 on Friday, and the crowd at Arts in the Park was…
Conservation and economy can co exist, says new CPAWS director

Conservation and economy can co exist, says new CPAWS director

Most Yukoners support nature conservation, but that doesn’t make Mike Dehn’s job any easier.
Pharmacist buys into the big box revolution

Pharmacist buys into the big box revolution

Size matters to Darrell Pasloski.In the new Shoppers Drug Mart in what remains of the Qwanlin Mall, you’ll see it too: a prominent pharmacy,…

Putting marijuana on the map

Matthew Wooller is an Alaskan-based biochemistry professor with a controversial side-project.He’s mapping marijuana grow-ops.
Hardware store maintains the old fashioned service touch

Hardware store maintains the old fashioned service touch

Walking into Builders Supplyland and asking, which guy is Gordie Ryder is like walking into Tim Hortons and asking if they sell coffee.

All you can dial for $50 a month

RuralCom Corp. will bring cheap smorgasbord-style cellphone service to most of the Alaska Highway in May 2008 — if Industry Canada and…

Gas interests put ahead of caribou?

t’s business-as-usual for oil and gas in North Yukon despite protests from advocates for the Porcupine caribou.
Underground joint offers tasteful alternative

Underground joint offers tasteful alternative

It started on the sly — a little piece of Toronto’s Queen Street West snuck into Whitehorse and nestled into the basement of a…
Tlingit Tours takes tourists back to the land

Tlingit Tours takes tourists back to the land

CARCROSS‘WoooooOOOOOO!”Ten mostly francophone civil servants from Ottawa come roaring across the desert on ATVs, while the dozen…

The land of behemoths

It is easier to be gigantic than to be beautiful. (Nietzche, 1844-1900)Brobdingnagian…Prime Minister Stephen Harper laid the…