Didee & Didoo – Poem “Gwichin Princess”
There’s a peaceful little town on the banks of the river where the wolf an’ caribou roan That’s where she calls her home. In summer […]
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The Shape of all Sorts of Things
The Shape of Things, which runs every night at the Guild Hall in Porter Creek until October 11, continues playwright Neil Labute’s reputation for blunt
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Hunting for Wildlife: Ramona Toth
Annoyed and tired after three weekends in a row of hunting with no success, we ended the second-last day in our favorite hunting spot. Before
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Green Burial in the Yukon
What happens when a person dies? We don’t truly know the answer, but death does hold one certainty: a once animated body stills. We do
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A Family Affair
Peggy Duncan wasn’t the oldest member of Team Yukon in the recent Canada 55+ Games in Sherwood Park, Alberta. That distinction went to 90-year-old Irene
Paint Dances With Ideas
Because of the cerebral nature of her work, Lawrie Crawford describes herself as an “outlier” in the Yukon, where landscape painters predominate. Measuring Space, Lawrie
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Unexpected Encounters on the Farm
Working outside is a given when gardening. Planting, weeding, and harvesting all are labour-intensive jobs, which are done manually on our farm. Most of the
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Dancing’s his thing
struck his family, and Vig started drinking heavily to cope. Then he got a job with an oil company, and hightailed to Inuvik to work
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Life Long Learning
Some say that dogs of a certain age can’t learn new tricks. Sue Starr can’t speak for the dogs, but as a community organizer, adult
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Geezer’s Tea
One of the more frustrating aspects of getting older is the way time becomes distorted. A simple task like making the day’s first cup of
Boiling Water
Waking up to a layer of snow on the ground, Sid van der Meer ventures out to his museum. He is getting ready for winter