Issue: 2016-05-05
"Rock On Roll On - Yukon Roller Girls"
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Issue: 2016-05-05
Yukon Roller Girls Photos By: Jean-Christoph Demers
Yukon Women Who Rock and Roll
The Yukon is home to many hidden gems. If you know where to look you can usually find what you are looking for. That includes a high-paced women’s contact sport on wheels: women's roller derby. Whitehorse is home to the rowdy Yukon Roller Girls. Read more
Picture from YHMA’s website taken by Bruce Barrett
See The Yukon’s History Through Kids’ Eyes
My great great grandparents, Alexander Fraser and Jane Hastings Fraser left Dumfrieshire, Scotland in 1795. They settled in the Ottawa Valley with many Scottish immigrants. I have visited the cemetery near Renfrew, Ontario where they rest. In 2010, Read more
Sheila Robertson
Yukon’s Best Friend: DOG CULTURE, Sheila Robertson
Hattie is always willing to ‘Dance’!! Read more
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Ready to work; ready to shine
The Yukon Association for Community Living is trying something they’ve never done before: they’re entering the film business. The organization has a mission is to advocate for, and support individuals with developmental disabilities.... Read more
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Consent is Sexy
May is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre in partnership with Les Essentielles want you to know that Consent Is Sexy. Read more
Jamie Nesbitt
Projectify It!
Step into the world of projection design and you’ll see anything is possible. Images can be displayed on screens behind the actors and these images can be constantly moving and changing. Read more
Alan Wilson
Nothing, Nothing, Nothing… Then Honks Galore!
Then the sky fills with hundreds of sandhill cranes, flying in huge Vs that morph and swoop as the birds soar to catch rising thermals. Everyone in Faro drops what they’re doing to look up. Read more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_brown_bat
A Fascinating Creature: The Bat
Of all creatures I have had the to opportunity to be involved with, the bat is the most interesting. The bat is also a creatures that, outside of the science world, the general public knows very little about. Read more
Selene Vakharia
Healthy Drinks
With some calling smoothies a health risk and others acting completely smoothie obsessed, you may be wondering whether you should fill your glass or not. Read more
Miche Genest
The Cocktail Family Tree
I have a Cocktail Confidante to whom I turn when I need inspiration or advice. He is an amateur beverage scientist who approaches his subject with the curiosity, passion and dedication of a Marie Curie or Frederick Banting. Read more
Yukon Archives Photo/Oxford Historical Society Collection #84/78#112
The Yukon and the First World War
In the view of Dr. Ken Coates, the North’s response to the challenge presented by World War I was to do the opposite of what people Outside might have expected. “They historically were seen as being very separate from the whole country,” he says, Read more
Tess Casher
The Dawn of Spring
Just like a child playing hide-and-go-seek, the transition from winter to spring happens if you are ready or not. You can be slightly in denial as you ski over bare rocks and tree roots, desperately hoping for one more tour across the cross-country Read more
Jennifer Taylor
Tattoo You: Jennifer Taylor
This is a tattoo so I never forget my father, who was killed on his bike or how much riding means to both of us. The elephant is to always remember both sides of everything in life. Read more
PHOTOS: Nellie Dale
The Beauty of Icelandic Socks
Blönduós is a small town situated at the mouth of River Blanda, in northwest Iceland. Iceland is largely an Arctic desert punctuated by mountains, glaciers, geysers, hot springs, volcanoes and waterfalls. Most of the vegetation and agricultural areas Read more
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Ready to work; ready to shine
The Yukon Association for Community Living is trying something they’ve never done before: they’re entering the film business. The organization has a mission is to advocate for, and support individuals with developmental disabilities.... Read more
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Catch A Cutthroat
This is an awkward time of year for fishing. Each day, as the amount of daylight lengthens, we grow impatient to be back outside, with fishing rod in hand. As the warmth of the sun returns, and the snow begins to disappear, a growing mistrust for Read more
Sheila Robertson
Yukon’s Best Friend: DOG CULTURE, Sheila Robertson
Hattie is always willing to ‘Dance’!! Read more
kozzi.com
Consent is Sexy
May is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre in partnership with Les Essentielles want you to know that Consent Is Sexy. Read more
PHOTO: Dan Davidson
Twenty Years of Pioneer Women Celebrated at the Hospital
Twenty years ago the late Madeleine Gould’s lengthy quest (1987-1996) to join the Yukon Order of Pioneers ended with a Supreme Court of Canada decision. Over the years a number of women in Dawson had supported this quest, notably with the humorous Read more
Kim Melton
On the Hot Seat
While my Japanese language lessons often begin with “Otearai wa doko desu ka?” on a first visit to a new country my vocabulary is seldom extensive enough to be able to ask all of the subsequent questions that arise surrounding both etiquette and Read more