Bells for Bert and Ernie?
Recently, there’s been talk in the media concerning an online petition asking the Sesame Street producers to let Ernie and Bert marry each other. Apparently […]
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Fox Poo 2
Ever since the fox pooped my coffee cup, a new world has opened before me. Now when I contemplate my life it’s in two phases:
A Condition of Kings
When it’s your turn to step up and spin the wheel of old man diseases, “gout” ain’t that bad a spot for it to land
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What Your Favourite Candy Says About You
Uncover what your favorite candy says about you. Discover personality traits linked to Halloween candy choices.
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From Winter Sports to Poetry
I’m inclined to blame the Germans. It seems that every year for the last half dozen or so out of the 12 years that the
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Food (in)Security
I’m worried. No, scared. No, terrified. At first it didn’t seem all that frightening. When the washouts cut us off from civilization a few weeks
Tract-Laden Talkers at the Door
Unlike most folks, I have no problem with people trying to convert me. Maybe those intrepid door-knockers are constantly catching me when I’m in a
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Back in the Saddle. Thanks for Keeping It Warm
I’m sitting in a DJ booth, bopping my head along to Modern English. It’s hard not to think about how easy it is to slot
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Staking Your Coffee Claim
I like coffee. I might, dare I say, even love it. “How sweet coffee tastes! Lovlier than a thousand kisses, sweeter than Muscatel wine!”~ Johann
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The Bad Influence Of Cracker Jack
When was the last time you walked into the store to grab some beer, stopped and looked around, then picked up the package with the
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Finding Lil’s Place
I tell everyone I know how good the milkshakes are at Lil’s Place. In one day, they can go through four buckets of chocolate ice
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Reading Glasses and My New ‘Tude
Those of you who have squinted along with me in sympathetic union will be glad to hear that I have finally made the decision: The
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Sports Nuts Aplenty
Yukoners are fit. Recently a doctor from Victoria who was visiting the territory was heard to say: “I can’t believe how fit Yukoners are.” Well
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Restoring the Honourable ‘Elite’
Some time today, somewhere in the territory, one child hurled the worst insult imaginable at another. Perhaps that child butted in line in front of
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Old Thinking on Young Drinkers
Time Magazine recently did a story called, Should You Drink With Your Kids?. While the data contained in the story is generally U.S. based, we
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We Are Driving Each Other Crazy
As a father, I am always looking for “learning situations” … much to the delight of my children I am sure. One such lesson came
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Immigrants remind us of Canadian values
I’m reading the newspapers and the magazines and I see that many Canadians have only qualified support for immigrants. I ignore the bigots, pretty much
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This Bud is For the Highest Bidder
The great, gobbling beer merger beast is, here in the summer of 2008, most definitely alive and very well. Some of the mergers that we
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Beer Can Be Eaten
For the most part, this column is used to keep folks abreast of contemporary beer issues and educate Yukoners in craft brewing culture. Often times,
Q: What’s Worse Than Dog Poop? A: Old Dog Poop
Every spring, we all have certain things we fervently look forward to. It could be the continued sublimation of those stubborn piles of snow, the
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Hey, Hi, Hello … I’m a Yukoner
“Hello, my name is George … and I nod my head.” I thought I should confess that right away and get it out in the
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The Best of Both Worlds is Best for Our World
As most people know, the use of glass beer bottles is extremely environmentally friendly. Something like 98 per cent of those brown bottles we know
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Open Letter To the Mayor and City Council
This is a request, nay, a plea, to seriously consider this amazing opportunity to better the City of Whitehorse. I call for the substitution of
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Life-Changing News
I feel like a fool. And what’s worse, I’ve been lying not just to myself for so long, but also to you readers. I look
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Something Odd is Happening
This is the most difficult penned missive I have typed on this thing that computes. And it is not why you think. You see, I
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Words Aren’t What They Used To Be
Do you find that words somehow start cropping up all over the place? Words that you never really ever heard before … at least not in
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