Eastward Ho, at Last
They’re on the road again.Bruce Barrett and Judy Forrest, the Whitehorse couple whose van was torched by an arsonist in British Columbia last month, are rebounding from the major setback in their retirement travel...
Read MoreIssue: 2016-08-04
Promoting the Klondike Experience
Not quite a year ago, Jesse Cooke was in Ottawa to receive the Parks Canada Youth Tourism Entrepreneur Award. He was being recognized for his business, Husky Bus, which he launched in the summer of 2012.Even then, as he...
Read MorePetting Cheetahs in Namibia
The cheetah appeared suddently, and instantly I was overcome with fear. I saw it walking slowly on the porch of the farm house. I froze and my heart was racing.“It must have come in from the wild,” I thought, “and now it will...
Read MoreAvoiding Calamity with Bears
Yes, bear stories, undoubtedly a favourite topic in the Yukon and one that gets people talking. As I write here, there is a black bear poking around on our property.I have never had a true calamity involving a bear in my 30...
Read MoreFrom the Ashes of A River Fail: Two Cocktails
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about heading off on a trip down the Wind River. I was concerned that our group, with all our goods and chattels for the 17-day journey, was going to be overweight for the flight to the put-in at...
Read MoreHe built a better greenhouse
There are two kinds of gardeners in the Yukon: those who can grow tomatoes and those who can’t.With Yukoner Bob Sharp’s Solar Growing Greenhouse Kit – a stable-temperature greenhouse that extends the growing season...
Read MoreHow Foster Care Shapes Lives
Amelia Merhar knows what it’s like to be a foster child, to go from home to home, and to bewithout a home at all.She wonders how that movement affects young people today, so she’s asking them to tell us, through art.Merhar, also...
Read MoreStoking the Fire
Today, Sid and I are on the hunt for an unusual piece in his collection. As we sift through antiques after antiques, we come across a bellows.A bellows pumps air, and they are commonly known to be hand-held devices used to stoke...
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