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Inside the mad world of Canada’s hair-freezing competition

Minus-20C temperatures usually call for a beanie to avoid a frozen barnet – but not in Canada. Damien Gabet travelled into the wilderness to wet his tresses and let the frost style an up-do worthy of the Yukon’s International Hair Freezing Contest

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“Yukoners Are Pissed”: The Outcry over Telecom Failures

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How We Treat Bears in Cities Is Trash

Too many of them are becoming casualties in the battle of the bins

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Canada’s Emergency Shelters Are Failing

Four deaths at a Whitehorse facility underscore the need for housing reform

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After 124 Years, One of Canada’s Oldest Independent Newspapers Dies

The Whitehorse Daily Star ’s closure will deepen the country’s local news crisis

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Of Films and Phonetics: The Digitization of Yukon History

Season 2/Episode 5 – English Transcript

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The North Runs on Facebook

At twenty, the social media giant might seem old school. For many of us up here, it’s still the place to be

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Where are the best places to see the Aurora Borealis?

Our guide to the most spectacular places to see the ethereally beautiful Aurora Borealis, from North America to Scandinavia

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How poetry can help address the climate crisis

I want to leap up at the three-nation parley In Whitehorse, Yukon, to warn them the radionuclides absorbed from the lichen they live on may kill them if they don’t drown in droves in crossings flooded out by hydroelectric stations, or slowly starve to death behind oil pipelines that posit…

The Conversation

Best things to see and do in Yukon from gold-panning in Dawson City to sour-toe cocktails

Aiming to prove he's no flash in the pan Andy Gilpin tries to find his fortune in Yukon territory renowned for one of the greatest gold rushes the world has ever seen

Daily Mirror

Independent report critical of Yukon's handling of school sex crime investigation

WHITEHORSE — Yukon Premier Sandy Silver apologized Tuesday for a "break down in the system" over the handling of a sexual interference allegation at a school in Whitehorse.

The Canadian Press

Yukon to create First Nations school board after parents vote for change

WHITEHORSE — The decision by parents at eight Yukon schools to create a First Nations school board is a "monumental change" in Indigenous relations in the territory and could lead to advancements in other areas, a health and education consultant says.

The Canadian Press

Spike in deaths causes Yukon to declare overdose emergency

WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government has declared a substance-use health emergency after toxic drugs pushed overdose deaths to new peaks.

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