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Yukon athletes at the 2007 Canada Winter Games in Whitehorse. (Yukon News file)

Yukonomist: The Rorschach Games

Yukon athletes at the 2007 Canada Winter Games in Whitehorse. (Yukon News file)
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WYATT’S WORLD

Wyatt’s World for Nov. 25, 2022.

  • Nov 25, 2022
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nov 23 2022

WYATT’S WORLD

Wyatt’s World for Nov. 23, 2022.

  • Nov 23, 2022
nov 23 2022
George Black was an important presence in the legal profession in the Yukon for more than 50 years. He developed a reputation of getting acquittals for his clients when conviction seemed a sure thing. (Courtesy/Library and Archives Canada C-039892)

History Hunter: George Black had a storied affair with the law

Michael Gates & Kathy Jones-Gates George Black was a lawyer, a soldier,…

George Black was an important presence in the legal profession in the Yukon for more than 50 years. He developed a reputation of getting acquittals for his clients when conviction seemed a sure thing. (Courtesy/Library and Archives Canada C-039892)
An aerial view of the airport and downtown Whitehorse are seen in 2011. One could make an argument for moving the airport and creating a neighbourhood close to downtown. (Yukon News file)

Yukonomist: How would you like to live at YXY?

I don’t mean living in the airport terminal, like Karimi Nasseri who…

An aerial view of the airport and downtown Whitehorse are seen in 2011. One could make an argument for moving the airport and creating a neighbourhood close to downtown. (Yukon News file)
nov 18 2022

WYATT’S WORLD

Wyatt’s World for Nov. 18, 2022.

  • Nov 18, 2022
nov 18 2022
nov 16 2022

WYATT’S WORLD

Wyatt’s World for Nov. 16, 2022.

  • Nov 16, 2022
nov 16 2022
Yukon letters

This week’s mailbox: Stewart River hunters, please leave your fire crackers at home

Stewart River hunters, please leave your fire crackers at home There was…

  • Nov 13, 2022
Yukon letters
A little robot calculates the fuel levels in home oil tanks. (Keith Halliday/Yukon News)

Yukonomist: The robots have arrived, and they are not as scary as I thought

On a recent Friday afternoon, in the fading Yukon light, a shadow…

A little robot calculates the fuel levels in home oil tanks. (Keith Halliday/Yukon News)
nov 11 2022

WYATT’S WORLD

Wyatt’s World for Nov. 11, 2022.

  • Nov 11, 2022
nov 11 2022
nov 9 2022

WYATT’S WORLD

Wyatt’s World for Nov. 9, 2022.

  • Nov 9, 2022
nov 9 2022
Seventeen Whitehorse men, who enlisted together in the fall of 1915 served in the 67th Pioneer Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I. Shown here are: Top Row, left to right: Joseph Bingham, William “Red” Brown, Norman Ryder, James Salvatore. Middle Row, l to r: Laurence R. Wilson, George Ryder, Jimmy Porter, William Hughes, Vido Zic, and John Luich. Front row, l to r: John Hyde, Alfred Cronin, Fred Young, James M. Smith, William W. Burden, Alex Pover, and Robert Holburn. Cronin was killed in action at Bourlon Wood, September 27, 1918.

History Hunter: Whitehorse men served their country in WWI

The Whitehorse Star of Oct. 22, 1915, reported that the first all-Whitehorse…

Seventeen Whitehorse men, who enlisted together in the fall of 1915 served in the 67th Pioneer Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I. Shown here are: Top Row, left to right: Joseph Bingham, William “Red” Brown, Norman Ryder, James Salvatore. Middle Row, l to r: Laurence R. Wilson, George Ryder, Jimmy Porter, William Hughes, Vido Zic, and John Luich. Front row, l to r: John Hyde, Alfred Cronin, Fred Young, James M. Smith, William W. Burden, Alex Pover, and Robert Holburn. Cronin was killed in action at Bourlon Wood, September 27, 1918.
keith

Yukonomist: It’s time for an awkward conversation about rationing

Pour a few PBRs into a certain type of Alaskan libertarian around…

keith
nov 4 2022

WYATT’S WORLD

Wyatt’s World for Nov. 4, 2022.

  • Nov 4, 2022
nov 4 2022
nov 2 2022

WYATT’S WORLD

Wyatt’s World for Nov. 2, 2022.

  • Nov 2, 2022
nov 2 2022
Yukonomist Keith Halliday

Yukonomist: Putting a price tag on slow government

Governments around the world have recently been forced to hand out energy…

Yukonomist Keith Halliday
Yukon letters

This week’s mailbox: Yukon’s water and John Streicker’s car

Walking the talk on retrofitting I recently read the article in the…

  • Oct 28, 2022
Yukon letters
oct 28 2022

WYATT’S WORLD

Wyatt’s World for Oct. 28, 2022.

  • Oct 28, 2022
oct 28 2022
oct 26 2022

WYATT’S WORLD

Wyatt’s World for Oct. 26, 2022.

  • Oct 26, 2022
oct 26 2022
Yukonomist Keith Halliday

Yukonomist: Making globalization work for you

A lot of newspaper columns have been written bemoaning the impact of…

Yukonomist Keith Halliday