Issue: 2016-04-07
"Spring Means Swans"
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Issue: 2016-04-07
Issue: 2016-04-07, PHOTO: Courtesy of ODD Gallery
Technology Meets Art
A new exhibition has opened at the ODD Gallery in Dawson City. Ommatida Muralis, which runs until April 16, is a new interactive installation by Winnipeg artists Chantal Dupas and Andrew John Milne. “It’s a rich experience to have a display of two... Read more
Issue: 2016-04-07, PHOTO: Government of Yukon
You Know It’s Spring When the Swans Arrive
“Last year was a big year,” says Scott Cameron, Environment Yukon’s Wildlife Viewing Technician. “We were up to 2,000 swans every day for a few days.” The height, he says, was April 9, when 2,200 were counted out on M’Clintock Bay. Typically that... Read more
Issue: 2016-04-07, PHOTO: Cathie Archbould
Sharing His Knowledge of Wolves
For 20 years, Robert (Bob) Hayes was the Yukon’s wolf biologist. During those years, he studied hundreds of radio-collared wolves and conducted several long-term wolf-prey studies. He is considered a world expert on moose and caribou predation by... Read more
Issue: 2016-04-07, PHOTO: kozzi.com
What We Eat When We Eat Alone
No, this is not a book of maps to the McDonald’s in your area. Or a guide to the best Chinese food takeout combinations (that’d be a short book – there are no bad combinations!). It also doesn’t contain coupons for chips, dip, and Oreos (note to... Read more
Issue: 2016-04-07, PHOTO: courtesy of Lemon Bucket
Dust Off Your Dancing Shoes
Hot on the heels of their appearance at the 2016 Juno Awards, Canada’s only “Balkan-klezmer-gypsy-party-punk-super-band” is coming to Whitehorse. “Super-band” is certainly an apt description of this kaleidoscopic collective of 16 musicians, who... Read more
Issue: 2016-04-07, PHOTO: courtesy of Mongrel Media
The New Girlfriend is French filmmaking at its best
The New Girlfriend (Une Nouvelle Amie), a French drama from acclaimed director and screenwriter François Ozon, had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014. It has received several international award nominations and... Read more
Issue: 2016-04-07, PHOTO: Jozien Keijzer
Kinnikinnick
Kinnikinnick’s Latin name, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, comes from arctos and ursi meaning bear and staphylos and uva meaning bunch of grapes. Amazing: the taste of those little grapes! I just tried something I had never tried before, but had read... Read more
Issue: 2016-04-07, PHOTO: Selene Vakharia
Win the battle against cold and flu season
You’ve probably heard the sniffles and hacking and seen the dark circles beneath tired eyes. You’ve probably heard the murmurings around you in the café at the meeting table, really anywhere there are people. There is something wicked working its... Read more
Issue: 2016-04-07, PHOTO: Gates collection
Flat Feet and Brave Hearts: The Yukon at War
Canada was part of the British Empire, so when war was declared by Great Britain on August 4, 1914, Canada, too, joined the the conflict. There was a tremendous upswing of patriotic fervour. The vast American influx during of the Klondike gold... Read more
Issue: 2016-04-07, PHOTO: Joan Norberg
Winter: A Season for Change
“The more things change the more they stay the same” and “The only constant in life is change” are both very cliche and very true. In some sense farming and gardening means things are staying the same. We usually use the same plot of land and... Read more
Issue: 2016-04-07, PHOTO: Courtesy of Speed Dating
Speed Dating in Namibia
“Don’t be shy,” my friends say. It’s so easy for them to say that, they are a happily married couple, I think and take a sip of my gin tonic. I am sitting at the Warehouse, a bar in Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia, and I am waiting for speed... Read more
Issue: 2016-04-07, PHOTO: Carol Foster
Yukon’s Best Friend: DOG CULTURE, Carol Foster
Meet our dogs, they live for us, we live for them, the Yukon would not be the Yukon without Dog Culture. Send us photos of Yukon dogs and their people! Read more