Mush Rush 2016
25 mushers from around the world are attempting the 32nd Yukon Quest 1,000 Mile Sled Dog Race, the toughest sled dog race on the planet.
Ready… Set… Snow Race!
The fastest snow machine race on earth, the 47th Alcan 200 International Snow Machine Road Rally, will roar to a start on Jan. 16 near
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Gone Fishing
Many Yukoners live here because they enjoy the active lifestyle, interaction with wilderness, and distance from ties and pencil skirts. A visiting author from the
Over the Rainbow
The Northern Lights School of Dance (NLSD) is bringing the story of The Wizard of Oz to Yukon Arts Centre stage in full colour this
An Art of Their Own
On December 15, the Yukon School of Visual Art Dawson City campus will open its doors to the public for its annual Christmas open house
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Tuning In
I think I like violins because they cry. Or perhaps it’s the way resined horsehair pushed and pulled over wire strings makes my spine quiver.
Dreaming of Mice and Dolls
Twelve tiny dancers twirl across the hardwood floor waving pieces of fluorescent blue, pink and yellow gauzy fabric. They leap, twist and flail their limbs,
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Tasting Dawson’s High Society
Sunday, October 16. I arrived at the Scotch Club late. The meeting started at 4 p.m. and I had missed the formal introductions. Two friends
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Visitors Countdown
Sawdust, grass and gravel are flying, there is painting to be done, tidying and dusting—the rural museums around the territory are gearing for the tourist
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Never Say Die
Silence. Except for the wind whooshing through the open windows, the tires treads padding on the pavement, and the hum of acceleration, like a bicycle
Conifer Central
About 20 kilometres southeast of Dawson City, two canoe rides from the Klondike Highway into the bush, there is a farm where thousands of strange
Tracing Figure Eights
A small gang of eager, young skaters hangs off the side of the players’ bench. Outfitted in snowsuits, oversized mittens and colourful toques tucked under
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Transparency Theory
The Yukon School of Visual Arts (SOVA) in Dawson City is going on the road. Students and faculty will arrive in Whitehorse next week to
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Finding the Fountain Trail
Karen MacKay is a different kind of grandmother. MacKay has a house back in Ottawa, where she was born, seven grandchildren and two sons. But
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Out on Screen
The territory’s first queer film festival, OUT North, is coming to Whitehorse March 24 to 25. The festival features two days of award-winning films, and
Process of Imagination
One thing his early journalism career taught author Lawrence Hill was to pursue the adventure of his stories. Alongside working on final drafts of his
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Short Sightings, Wide Views
On the day before the 13th Annual Dawson City International Short Film Festival (DCISFF) schedule was released, I joined festival producer, Dan Sokolowski, in his
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Art Is in the House
In an effort to improve the Yukon Artists @ Work (YA@W) community gallery, creative hands from across the territory have been invited by the co-op
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She’s Got the Tools
The Yukon is often suited to those with a hands-on lifestyle. The territory is brimming with active, independent, multi-skilled residents. And women in the professional
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Jigging In
By taking her fiddle class online, one fiddle instructor is changing the music education community the in the north. Zavallennahh Huscroft (formorly known as Zav
Adventure starts here
It was novelist Lawrence Hill who told me while we sipped tea in the Downtown Hotel dining room in Dawson in March that his early
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Art Talk Radio
Over the course of the Yukon Riverside Arts Festival, August 18 and 19, CFYT 106.9 in Dawson City broadcast its first remote live radio programming.
Return of the Wool Legwarmers
August has snuck up on us and now here we are, gazing at September, watching the coming winter roll up like a wave to crash
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Keeping it Real
Yesterday was Jimmy D. Lane’s 47th birthday. At home in White Rock, British Columbia, the blues musician comments that aging is an opportunity to “observe”
Mush Rush 101
The mossy floor of old growth forest is soft and damp. I breathe the air; warm and thick. My exhalation of carbon dioxide draws mosquitoes