Issue: 2016-08-25
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Issue: 2016-08-25
Issue: 2016-08-25, PHOTO: Dan Davidson
Seeds of Change Lead to Reconciliation
Seeds of Change invites locals and visitors to consider the implications of the concept of reconciliation. It’s the summer exhibit in the Gathering Room in the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre in Dawson City. It displays information about the history... more
Issue: 2016-08-25, PHOTO: courtesy of Harlan Pruden
Questioning the World
Harlan Pruden and Marney Paradis are PhD program at UBC. Pruden gave a talk to a group of peers – including Marney – after class once. As Pruden describe it, upon hearing the presentation, Paradis’s mind was blown. Two-Spirit People, Then and Now... more
Issue: 2016-08-25, PHOTO: Darrell Hookey
A New Place to Knit
Jackie Yaklin is a true knitter. If you see her at the dentist office, she likely has knitting needles in her hands conjuring up something warm for someone. “It is like an obsession and I seem to be really obsessed with starting projects,” she... more
Issue: 2016-08-25, PHOTO: by Maria Gruninger
Back to school? Not for Me
I’ve done both: public school and homeschooling. The first six years of my education I attended public school. At the ends of summers I had the classic back-to-school change of routine. It meant getting out of bed earlier, breakfast, get ready and... more
Issue: 2016-08-25, PHOTO: Jason Westover
Summer Lessons in Hippo Munching
What a happy day it was when my four-year-old daughter Emily opened a gift from my wife and I revealing a classic game from our youth. Hungry Hungry Hippos was one of our “go to” games in the mid-80s. I remember battling it out with friends and... more
Issue: 2016-08-25, PHOTO: Rian Lougheed-Smith
That Wasn’t the Plan
I always forget the way this works, how fast things change here. In the hot, hot days of summer, I think it will last forever and then suddenly, one rainy July day, there it is. The chill, maybe a wool sweater, the thought of lighting a fire... more
Issue: 2016-08-25, PHOTO: by Christian Kuntz
The Legacy of the Follies
The Frantic Follies Vaudeville Revue is the longest running independent theatre company in North America. Or, at least, that's Grant Simpson's speculation. He's also got an application in to the Guiness World Book of Records to affirm that the... more
Issue: 2016-08-25, Photo: Kim Melton
Eat Your Art Out
'Tis the season where giant vegetables are being harvested from gardens and potentially prize-winning jams are being churned out for display in the hopes of gaining a ribbon. This was the case at Dawson City's horticultural exhibition as part of... more
Issue: 2016-08-25, PHOTO: Meagan Deuling
Train Your Brain to Hate Junk Food
Craving cookies, chips, ice cream, pizza, or some other delicious-tasting, high calorie food? You know these foods are not good for you, but it can take what feels like an unfathomable amount of willpower to stay away from them. If it seems that... more
Issue: 2016-08-25, PHOTO: Alexander Weber
In the ‘Cirque of the Unclimbables’ -- Part 4
This is part four of a four part series, chronicling Alex and Mandy’s attempted ascents at the Cirque of the Unclimbables. We left the pair as they were half-way up an intimidating spire-like peak called Lotus Flower Tower. They had just reached... more
Issue: 2016-08-25, PHOTO: by Amelia Merhar
Introducing the Intricacies of Tinder in the Yukon
Amelia, 31. University of Alaska Fairbanks. Yukon College. Grad student, artist and musician. Happy to be back up North after a year at school! Small truck and a big dog. That, my friends, is my Tinder profile. Tinder is one of of numerous... more
Issue: 2016-08-25, PHOTO: Florian Lemphers
Yukon’s Best Friend: DOG CULTURE, Florian Lemphers
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! more
Issue: 2016-08-25, PHOTO: George Maratos
Sampling the Challenge
This is the second year that Northern Vision Development has challenged Whitehorse restaurants to make the best burger. This year six restaurants took the bait -- The Gold Pan Saloon, the High Country Inn, The Cut Off, Earls, the Steele Street... more