The Joy Of Pooping At Home …
Unfamiliar toilets are for emergencies only; the best toilet is still waiting at home. Some science behind the colon’s power as a second brain.
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Hunting For Chameleons In Namibia
One of the reasons why I like Namibia is the Namib Desert. I like deserts. I like the stillness there; it feels like entering a cathedral.
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Teach them to Fish
As the saying goes: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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A woman Must Save Herself
British author Beth Lewis has done what few novelists who wrote about the Klondike Gold Rush have attempted: written a historical…
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the Power of Voice
“Voice is one of the most powerful tools we have for connection, healing and self-expression,” says Yukoner Lianne Cranfield…
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Two Choirs, One Vision
The Vancouver Chamber Choir joins forces with the Whitehorse Chamber Choir for an amazing performance at the Whitehorse United Church
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Steel Toes And Success Stories
Yukon Women in Trades and Technology is celebrating it’s25th anniversary by inviting the community to a barbecue, with lawn games and more
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Yukon In Zurich
The Honouring Our Future exhibition will be shown at NONAM until Sept. 28 and will then return to North America for further consideration
Small Dog, Big Lesson
I have always been a dog person so when a friend asked us to dog-sit her corgi, Jayja, I said yes without hesitation
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Magic, Music and More!
Three days of dance, parties, crafts, music and more will be taking place from Aug. 8 – 10 at Augusto! Children’s Festival in Haines Junction
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Rooted & Ready To Bloom
The Yukon’s first Plant Festival is organized by the newly-formed Yukon Plant Guild and will take root on July 19 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Creating A ‘Space Of Connection’
I love diving into folk music—la musique du peuple!—to learn its codes and understand its roots. That naturally influences my songwriting.
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From Trauma To Triumph
Dena Zagi offers a diverse range of healing songs, strong sounds of drumming and songs in the Kaska language
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From Vegas To Mayo
Magician Scotty Swan traded the glittering lights of Las Vegas for the Northern Lights in the Yukon Territory.
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Celebrating Yukon literature at Frankfurt Book Fair
Jessica Simon’s literary legacy and bringing Yukon stories to an international audience. A heartfelt tribute to a remarkable writer.
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Northern Voices At World’s Biggest Book Fair
Three women writers are set to represent the Yukon in this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, continuing a vision that began in 2016 to bring the
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Yukoner Aims For Top Of The Pile
According to their website, Colossal is a nationally registered professional fundraiser and through online competitions like America’s…
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Augusto! Children’s Festival is Back
Bored during the summer? Look no further: Augusto! Children’s Festival will kick off on August 9th. The fifth annual Augusto! Children’s Festival…
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Dealing With Dying Newspapers
The paper that you are holding in your hands is about to die. I don’t mean this paper. It’s the newspaper industry that is dying.
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Love Gone Wrong In The Yukon
Pity, that is the first feeling I get while reading Nadine Sander-Greens coming-of-age novel, Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit…
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Turning Shit Into ‘Gold’
Today I did my small part for a sustainable environment—a small step, and it wasn’t even smelly: I left my poop in a compost toilet…
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We Are All Remarkable
All women are remarkable. Some inspire me more than others—especially Yukon women. The women I know in the Yukon choose a life…
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It’s Time To (s)hiver!
Get out and enjoy the arts and performances at the upcoming (s)hiver Winter Arts Festival. The annual event is unique to Dawson City…
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A Trip To Ovamboland
You will never forget the smell of rain in Namibia,” a friend told me when I disembarked for Namibia for the first time.
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Gingerbread: A Christmas Classic!
Imagine the smell of a roast coming straight out of the oven, with potato dumplings
and red cabbage to complete the dinner.
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Old Log Church
Built by Reverend Bowen in 1900, the Old Log Church has been a constant presence in Whitehorse. The building has been in continuous…
Hockey Fever!
“You look a little pale,” I tell Heinz, our sports writer, after I greet him.
“But I am feeling better, for sure,” he yells.
From Cabbage To Oktoberfest
Fall is here! One can feel it in the change of light as the days are getting shorter. A few weeks ago, Germans were sweating…
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‘Love At First Sight’ (or Why Germans Love The Yukon)
Nancy Ohm recently went to Germany, with her partner, to visit family and friends. After 11 years in the Yukon, the German…
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The Quilt Project: One Stitch For A Better Planet
On June 7, Janet Patterson took the quilt that she had inherited from her grandmother, to Raven Recycling. Not to throw it away…
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Victoria Day Musings and Meanderings
For some, it’s drinking beer and camping; for others, it’s cleaning the yard and gardening: Victoria Day is just around the corner…
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Through A Different Lens
I don’t use Google Lens often. It’s an app that is scanning almost everything and showing users the results on Google.
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Making A Fashion Statement
On a narrow street in Milan, motor scooters are parked on the side of the road and people are rushing by. A woman is wearing a black dress…
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Sam McGee Connects The Yukon to B.C.
“Memorizing poetry is my daily training and therapy,” B.C. storyteller Andre Sutherland Begin said, adding he will be coming to the Yukon…
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2023 Yukon Rendezvous
After two years of the pandemic, Rendezvous will be back to form and celebrating its 59th festival this February.
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Yukon Soaps
It has been a big year for Joella Hogan. Hogan has owned The Yukon Soaps Company, in Mayo (the heart of the Yukon)…
Christmas and Potato Salad
Having spent Christmas in three countries, there is one thing which will never change for me: eating potato salad and sausages on Christmas.
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A Dispatch From Namibia Part 2
Once is the name of my taxi driver in Namibia (like once in a lifetime). People have strange names here: Darling, Given, Gift, or Mistake.
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River Meets Wolf
Yukon authors Kay Deborah Linley and Kathryn Couture wrote books about a kayaking tour, as well as a fantasy series about wolves.
A Celebration Of Words: Writer’s Festival
Writing is a lonely task: sitting at home and putting words on paper is the main part of an author’s life.
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Artists Creating A Zine
Yukon Conversation Society (not to be confused with the Yukon Conservation Society) is a group of artists, a creative collective.
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A Long-Awaited Return To Namibia, Part 1
How to prepare for my trip to Namibia?, I am asking myself a few days before boarding the plane to Africa.
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Running For The Cure
George Maratos is excited to organize the annual Terry Fox Run and hopes to see an increase in participants this year.
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Unleashed! Joey O’Neil On Tour
Joey O’Neil is on tour with her dog, Oblio, playing songs from her album Ever Ahead, in dog parks across Canada.
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Coming Back To The Yukon (Part 2)
“I cannot cross the river,” I told my friends as they were about to move on. (The truth was I didn’t want to cross the river.) We were a group of seven people hiking … two of us were staying behind on the beautiful sandy beach at Kusawa Lake, as the others went farther. I felt like sitting back and relaxing. My other friend was feeling the same. We are queens, we said. We don’t like to cross rivers.
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Celebrating Yukon’s Unique Holiday
Celebrating Discovery Days in the Yukon goes back over 100 years. After the Klondike Gold Rush, the Yukon Order of Pioneers convinced the Yukon Territorial Council to celebrate Discovery Day, as a public holiday, in 1911.
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Augusto! Children’s Festival: A Fun-filled Family Weekend
Augusto! Children’s Festival will offer three days of dance, parties, crafts, music and more from August 12–14 in Haines Junction.
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Coming Back: A German In The Yukon
The call of the Yukon or the call of the wild that so many have heard and have followed, like my friends … they came here and stayed.
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Celebrating Indigenous Culture, All Over The Territory
After two years, the organizers are busy getting back into the swing of preparing for National Indigenous Peoples Day in Whitehorse.
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The Music Festival on the Top of the World
Chickenstock Music Festival will take place in Chicken, Alaska. The bad news—it’s already sold out. The good news—there’s a waiting list.
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Searching for the Yukon at the Frankfurt Book Fair
This year some Canadian writers finally made it to Frankfurt, but where is the Yukon? No Yukon writers made it to the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Three days of family fun
Are you keen on learning about drama, circus, dance or crafting? The Augusto Children’s Festival features a diverse group of workshops, with a roster that
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Four days full of food and family fun
Eating, cooking and learning about homegrown products The Yukon Culinary Festival will show that the territory has a lot to offer when it comes to
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Ongoing fascination for haiku
“What fascinates me about writing haiku is that I have found it to be the perfect vehicle for the kind of art that I want
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An author’s dream …
Yukon-based writer Joanna Lilley has published her first novel, Worry Stones, after 17 years of working on it. “I wasn´t working on it every day,
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Magic under the mountains
Haines Junction is gearing up for the second-annual Augusto Children`s Festival. It’s the Yukon’s only arts and music festival for children.
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Magic on the Trail
Visual artist Hilary Lorenz will take hand-crafted cards along her art adventure on the Chilkoot Trail in July.
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Atlin Lit Up! lights up the Yukon writing scene
The Atlin writers’ festival not only offers music but also offers literature, readings and workshops.
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Inspired by Place
Kristin Link is a visual artist based in McCarthy, Alaska, who works in natural history and science art. She creates interpretive signs and educational material about nature.
It’s a cultured Canada Day in Mayo
The Mayo Arts Festival and Canada Day celebrations are highlights. Everybody is looking forward to the celebrations. 2018
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From the California gold rush to the history of the Yukon
Josh Winkler combines traditional media with print media and sculpture. Reaching for the Sun is the title of his recent project. It references natural growth, but also the growth of humanity, the accumulation of products, and the fragility of the planet.
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Investigating lost bull semen
Marcelle Dubé has written the fifth novel of her Mendenhall Mystery Series titled The Forsaken Men. Her Mendenhall isn’t a subdivision of Whitehorse, but rather a fictive place in Manitoba.
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Black forest cake in Namibia
In Swakopmund, Germany and Namibia come together like the Namib Desert and the ocean just outside the town. If you didn’t know that this is an African country, you would think that it’s a town somewhere in Germany.
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Yukon writers gear-up for Frankfurt Book Fair
With over 280,000 visitors and 1,000 authors, the Frankfurt Book Fair is the largest book fair in the world and an important event for international trade deals, with over 7 000 exhibitors from 100 nations, according to the fair website.
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Poetry and Visual Art Create a Dialogue
Just like poetry inspires music, it also can inspire visual art. That is what artist Heidi Hehn says about the Circumpolar Duet project, which is
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Fresh poetic summer reads
Whitehorse author Clea Roberts newest book, Auguries, is published by Brick Books. The title “Auguries” refers to an ancient practice of The Romans: reading the
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From the East to the Beautiful South
Keen on history? The Castle Wartburg in Wittenberg in Eastern Germany offers an opportunity to learn about the 500th Anniversary of Martin Luther’s Reformation. The
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Celebrating Sausages
The Germans are known by the nickname “The Krauts,” which comes from sauerkraut, a famous German dish comprised of fermented cabbage. Maybe Germans should be
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Experiencing Theatre in Namibia
It’s 15 minutes before our performance starts and one of my actors has a meltdown. “No, I am not gonna play,” he says avoiding eye
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All Her Roads Lead to Poetry
Yukon based writer Joanna Lilley has just published her second collection of poetry If there Were Roads by Turnstone Press; she says that there are
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Experiencing creative writing in Namibia
I am sitting in the Lemon Tree Restaurant in Windhoek, Namibia, waiting for my fellow writers to show up. It is raining, and everybody is
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This is Home
Former Yukoner Jerome Stueart and Yukon author Marcelle Dubé will read together form their books. It will be an evening about fantasy novels.
Learning About Ubuntu in Namibia
My African friends think that Yukoners are cannibals. When I told them the story about the Sourtoe Cocktail I expected the usual reaction: laughter and
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Book Fair Fever in Frankfurt
British artist David Hockney displayed his latest piece here: a complete collection of his artwork in a huge book. The book costs about 2,500 Euro
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Lonely Nights in an Old House
If you live all by yourself downtown Whitehorse, the last thing you want is somebody knocking at your door in the middle of the night
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A Good Read for Halloween Night
Do ghosts exist? For some they do. The main character in Marcelle Dubé´s novel, Shelter, moves into a haunted house in a small town in
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Just Write
I have been writing for this paper for three years, now. I remember the day my first piece was published. It was my first publication
Rooted in the Yukon
Toronto-based poet Claire Caldwell’s role as writer-in-residence at the Berton House in Dawson City ends this month. Caldwell is no stranger to the Yukon. She
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Strange things make a great story
Inspired by the Yukon winter and the road closures that lead to a feeling of isolation, Elle Wild wrote her first crime novel and set
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Petting 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
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Searching for Inner Truth on the Chilkoot Trail
Whitehorse resident Maureen McCulloch wrote her debut novel to bring a message into the world. She wrote the book under the pseudonym, Maureen Senecal. “I
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Sharing Words
In 2015 Victoria-based poet Yvonne Blomer paid a visit to Whitehorse and did a reading of her poetry book, As If a Raven. In her
More than Just Coffee
I catch Heike Graf between the lunch rush hour at the Caribou Crossing Coffee and picking up her five year old daughter from school. “It
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Fresh Words and Deep Roots
Writing poetry since she was a child, Nova Scotia based author Shauntay Grant says she has always loved creative writing. “The oldest poem I’ve kept
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The Joy of Haiku
On May 20 to 22 haiku lovers from across Canada will descend upon the Gold Rush Inn for three days of all-things haiku. The Haiku
Newspaper-Making in Namibia
Murder, betrayal or New Year celebrations – these are the topics on the list. It is December 30 and we have to decide which story
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The Story of Eagles Paradise
Every November up to 3,600 eagles gather in one place: the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve in Haines, Alaska. It is the largest gathering of eagles
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Books for Armchair Mushers
Mushing season has begun. While waiting for the Yukon Quest or the Iditarod, here are some suggestions for armchair mushers. Racing Toward Recovery by Mike
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Say it with Snail Mail
When I was a teenager I had a lot of pen pals. I kept all the letters I received, bundled together with a ribbon. Some
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A dispatch from the Frankfurt Book Fair
The Frankfurt Book Fair is the biggest book fair in the literary world. Publishers, agents, authors and readers from all over the world come to
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Another Christmas without my family
Living far away from your family means that sometimes your strength and persistence will be tested. It’s Christmas 2014 and I am in Montreal. A
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The Cozy Feeling of Being Absorbed in a Book
As a kid and a teenager I read a lot. I remember taking home five to seven books every week from the library of the
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This place is in my blood
It’s a dark and rainy night, when Kate Williams finds an injured stranger on the Highway. She pulls over to help him, not knowing that
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A scientistʼs letters to the future trace a journey to find optimism
What kind of world will be handed down to my daughter’s generation? That question led conservation ecologist Alejandro Frid to write A World for My
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Squawking with a Swan
One day in 2011, Todd Pilgrim was returning from a hike when he saw something grey and silverish by the road. As he went closer,
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Joanna Lilley Shows Her Love for the North in The Birthday Books
Joanna Lilley’s craft extends beyond poetry. With the publication of her new book, The Birthday Books (Hagios Press), the author shows she can write prose
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The Sound of Home
I dream of my hometown. Walking through these streets again, listening to music floating from open windows like light. Harmonica, accordion. Walking these streets where
Intimidating but Great
“Writing poetry makes me happy,” Joanna Lilley says. “I am somewhere else when I write poetry. I am an intuitive writer.” The Whitehorse based poet
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Mind Stretching Poetry
What does knitting have in common with writing poetry? Both must be done carefully. One mistake can ruin the whole image. Jamie Sharpe knitted a
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Blind Date with a Clown
Having a blind date can be very stressful — from thinking about what to wear and say, to awkward silences and thoughts of escape. Now
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