The OK Boomer Show
Kim Rogers and Bill Polonsky realized early on that nearly every time they spoke on air, they wound up reminiscing on all things baby boomer.
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Radio personality, ski athlete, star fiddle player: Ben Charlie
Ben Charlie has been spinning George Jones songs, along with a multitude of other old time country artists on CHON-FM for over 25 years
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25 Years of Radio Rob
It’s been 25 years since Rob Hopkins, often known as Radio Rob, started up his first radio station, CFET-FM, in his home of Tagish.
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Sometimes language smacks you in the microphone
I’ve already mentioned how easy it was to provoke calls on my radio open-line show in Charlottetown in the 1970s, by inviting listeners to share
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Advice to the unwise: I have the questions, if you have the answers
One of the more interesting jobs I’ve ever held was hosting an open-line show (we secretly called it “open-mouth”) on a private radio station in
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Edu-tainment for kids, Yukon-style
Look at My book, with Michael Brooks & Nicole Edwards, has retro-feel, and it focuses on the skills that children need to learn to read.
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Powering community media North of 60
A group of broadcasters and open-source technology enthusiasts are having get-together at the Days Inn in Whitehorse on March 23.The open-source North 60 conference brings
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Life 40-seconds at a time
Yukon storyteller Ivan Coyote and songwriter Sarah MacDougall are excited to premier their latest collaboration in Whitehorse.
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Kids and parents can play in the big sandbox
The 45th annual Geoscience Forum is organized by the Yukon Chamber of Mines as an opportunity for everyone to learn more about mining, aviation, the environmental sciences and other aspects of the mineral exploration industry.
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Leonard Linklater: Voicing the North
When Leonard Linklater was growing up in Inuvik, NWT, there was one radio station on the dial. The CBC. Through the airwaves, Indigenous voices carried
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CFYT Talent Night
Have you always wanted to get on stage and strut your stuff? If so, then CFYT Talent Night is for you. Taking place on September
Mentors now visiting Yukon entrepreneurs
It is possible to come up with a million-dollar idea. But, from that eureka moment to seeing your bank balance tip over into seven figures,
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Community Theatre at its Finest
Friends of the Palace Grand Theatre presenting A Klondike Cabin Companion, a live radio performance, bring community theatre to Dawson City.
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Sometimes Your Mind Kicks Up Things You Don’t Want to Believe
It took a king, a pope and a former prime minister to make me rethink my scepticism about extrasensory perception. Let me set the scene.
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Radio Rob
I’m almost at the Tagish Bridge when 106.7 CFET kicks in and the truck is flooded with Estonian pop music. I’m on my way to
Radio With Heart
Volunteer radio has a long history in Dawson City, with the current organization – CFYT-FM (106.9) – reaching back to 1984. At that time, the
Exploring Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Culture
The striking Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre was controversial when it was first being built in Dawson City — it’s not exactly a gold rush themed
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Support Your Local Scientist
I love science. From government-sponsored labs to guys in their basements trying to rig together a personal jet pack, I must send a shout out
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Music To Your Ears is in the Eye of the Beholder
Here’s a new game for the territory’s impending dinner party season. Next time you trudge over to the neighbours — gluten-free pasta salad in tow
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The ‘Crazy Uncle’ of CKRW
When Keith Ellert graduated from the Cinema, Television, Stage and Radio program at SAIT, in Calgary, he had dreams of being a “shock jock”.
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