Still Fabulous After Three-quarters Of A Century
That’s the word used to summarize the famous and funky log “skyscrapers” of downtown Whitehorse. In 1999, a heritage building report…
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The Kings Are Back In Town
The feature film Kings of the North is slated to run at the Yukon Arts Centre (YAC) on Nov. 10, 2023, and one of the film’s co-creators…
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Yukon See It Here: Happy 100th Birthday, Olive Patton!
Hello Everybody, We invite you to share your photos of Yukon life. Email your high-resolution images with a description of what’s going on to [email protected].
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Living with Wildlife – By Steve Wilson
I had no idea that there were hummingbirds in the Yukon!
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The Yukon’s Lost Centenarian
I was astonished to learn that the Yukon Territory currently is without a card-carrying centenarian, male or female, according to the most recent age data on record which is the 2016 census.
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Yukon See It Here: Paul Derry
Ever wondered what happens to old issues of What’s Up Yukon?
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Paint your friends red, green or blue
The preparation for the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous Colour Wars can get pretty messy, but the end result has turned into one of the most anticipated
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Stonecliff brings together a remarkable team of artists (Part 2 of 2)
The new musical drama Stonecliff tells the story of Michael J. Heney, the son of poor Irish immigrants in the Ottawa Valley who went on to build one of the world’s most spectacular railways – the White Pass and Yukon Route – to serve the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898.
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What’s your digital footprint?
The editor at What’s Up Yukon doesn’t often receive handwritten letters, but there were two on file when I arrived. We’ve sent Mrs. Schorn a
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Taking the reins at What’s Up
Fall has arrived and Yukoners have all started to settle into our winter routines. This busy time of year seems like the perfect time to
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International Women’s Day Poster Contest Winners
Our identities are multifaceted and complex, in order to address gender-based inequality and violence we need to find ways to hear each other in order
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The only personality test that works
There are people out there who think they know everything they need to know about me just because: I’m a Scorpio. I’m a white male
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High on Life
Between the years of 1991 and 2011 my husband and I used to pack up our son and drive to a mountain summit a few
Writing toward inclusion
Practically unheard of – the top 10 books reviewed last year were evenly split between male and female authors. And never before: the number of
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What is it About Newspapers?
My first experience working for a newspaper was immediately out of high school. I was hired to be the receptionist at an office in Portage
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Long Live Print! Long Live What’s Up Yukon!
Ever since the advent of the internet, pundits of all description have been predicting the demise of print journalism. Traditional newspapers and magazines, once so
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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
A (Very Rare) Letter From The Editor
On Monday mornings, I get up and check my email. If I have worked over the weekend, I usually only have 30 or 40 unread
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The Anti-anti-Resolution
In this day and age, are we really still making new year’s resolutions? I’d have thought that resolutions fell out of fashion around the same
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Poetry in Action
Poetry, spoken, plays and short stories at Brave New Words. An evening of music poetry and cocktails. The brave can get up, it’s an open mic.
Laughter Is The Same In All Languages
Temperatures were in the mid-30s while we were in Munich. Many of the people spoke English, but many others did not. Neither Joanne nor I
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Rolling out that raggedy old chair
There’s a reason people like me should never play the stock market. Some time ago, when I heard that a new arts and entertainment magazine
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Hanging Up the Red Pen
I joined the What’s Up Yukon editorial team in late September 2012 and the first edition with my name on the masthead was issue #300,
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Workers are Staying Home
My office and my bed are 10 feet apart, which means that my morning commute takes between 15 seconds and one minute, depending on whether
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Captain Neely leaves the ship
Tamara Neely, the stalwart editor of What’s Up Yukon since October 2012, is having a kid. As assistant editor, I’ve watched her grow rounder month-by-month
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What’s Up Yukon can kill you
(The views of this columnist do not necessarily reflect …) OK Yukon – I’m going to say it only once. What’s up? Or, as the
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First Issue “I’m just saying”
Dennis Fentie is the premier of the Yukon and watches over an annual budget of $550 million … but I don’t care about that. I
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What’s new for you
Soooo, notice anything different about today’s paper? We have found a new printer: Webco Leduc. It is a company that has come highly recommended and
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Lunar satellite collision
The month of May is over, and so is observing deep-sky objects such as nebulas and galaxies. The only stellar objects in the sky that
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From the publisher’s desk
Time flies when you’re having fun! Our goal at What’s Up Yukon has always been to be a true reflection of Yukon’s living culture. Before
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This is your paper
I shall, from time to time, give to the readers of What’s Up Yukon information about the state of this arts and recreation paper. This lead
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In praise of the community paper
With the departure of What’s Up Yukon founding editor Darrell Hookey, last week (may he live out his retirement never again checking for typos), it
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The Joy of Gardening
I have discovered that gardening is more than a past-time; it’s a way of life. For me, gardening is both therapeutic and inspirational. There is
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My ideal editor is …
As you are reading this, there is a different editor preparing the next issue of What’s Up Yukon, as I have stepped aside to allow
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We would like to share this award with all of you
It is with your support these past years that our community entertainment magazine has grown to what it is today. We didn’t create the events,
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Who could possibly say no?
Some offers a person simply can’t refuse. When the email inviting me to be part of the What’s Up Yukon team landed, the cadence of
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Young man of many parts
It’s not always easy for a 19-year-old to decide what to do next; especially a 19-year-old like Graham Rudge. Should an award-winning year at art
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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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From Archery to Zumba: Up Off the Couch!
Is it possible to write a sports column that covers kayak polo, fighting kites, ice climbing, skinny dipping, and broomball? And if it is, would
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Another Word (or Two) About What’s Up Yukon
This is the second and final part of a cyber-chat between What’s Up Yukon editors Meg Walker in Dawson City and Ken Bolton in Whitehorse.
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