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Family owned business needs resource to grow

Family owned business needs resource to grow

CANYON CREEKIt’s Wednesday afternoon and Daniel Clunies-Ross is stationed behind a table full of levers ready to bring the gears and saws at…
The $100 million question: Is Whitehorse ready for the Games?

The $100 million question: Is Whitehorse ready for the Games?

Will we be ready?If one thing haunts Piers McDonald the question of readiness for the 2007 Canada Winter Games is it.
Air North wins kudos from Whitehorse chamber

Air North wins kudos from Whitehorse chamber

The Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce received four nominations from its membership for its 2005-2006 award for business or businessperson of the year.
Yukon farm forced to close — for now

Yukon farm forced to close — for now

Garret Gillespie and Heidi Marion knew they might be planting more seeds than they could hope to grow.
Selkirk will cash in on copper

Selkirk will cash in on copper

The 20-metre high open pit at the Minto copper mine near Pelly Crossing is sliced out of a hillside like a mammoth loaf of bread.
Rock has a new address

Rock has a new address

If moving house makes you wince, imagine the headache that faced Unitech music store staff last week when they hauled 53 hefty speaker cabinets, four…

Mining boom trips on driller shortage

There aren’t enough drillers in the Yukon.The nebulous notion of a ‘skilled labour shortage’ across Canada has taken firm root in…

New social ill or boon? First Nations push for casinos

A group of Yukon First Nations is betting a fair share of the Yukon’s gambling revenues and the right to run casinos could help them defeat…
Strip clubs, barbecue salmon and Jesus

Strip clubs, barbecue salmon and Jesus

Show Chuck Kremer a club filled with naked ladies and he wouldn’t bat an eye.But if the 68-year-old tourism king catches a glimpse of Teslin…
B ball star calls the shots at the Gold Rush

B ball star calls the shots at the Gold Rush

Dikran Zabunyan is known as Mr. Z.But not in Whitehorse.Not yet anyway.“It’s not appropriate in this town,” said the newly…