Category: Communities – Yukon

Today may well have been the last warmish day for a very long time, and it was a great day to get into the high country above Whitehorse again. Mount McIntyre was today’s destination – with a side trip down to Fish Lake afterward, the whole adventure only took...

The deck was finished on Thursday, the final cleanup was done yesterday and the crews will be heading south in a couple of days – Carcross has a beautiful new footbridge across the Nares River! You can see a large photo album of the history and progress of the...

On Friday, the Association of Yukon Communities held their quarterly directors’ meeting in Mayo, way up in the central Yukon. Now you might think “how boring!” but it’s actually not – there is a lot going on and a lot of work being done to make life in the...

We went on a bit of a flood tour yesterday. We don’t have to go far, as the water level at Carcross has flooded several historic cabins and done a great deal of damage to the beach and the White Pass & Yukon Route rail line, but we drove...

Yukon ambulances are run by volunteers in most communities, and they’re being overworked. Attendants in Dawson City and Watson Lake have now quit, and attendants in other communities may follow. A few days ago our Minister of Health Brad Cathers said on CBC Radio that he doesn’t really want...

It’s now been about 7 weeks since the equipment for our new footbridge started arriving in Carcross, and I’m spending a lot of time (too much time perhaps) watching/photographing the progress of the job. We’ve posted an annotated album with 48 photos here....

The photo below shows the way things looked in Carcross 2 hours ago, with the train to Skagway leaving and the new footbridge being built behind. Carcross is changing rapidly – the psychological changes have already occurred, and the physical ones will take place over this summer and the...

I spent about 3 hours at the YUWIN Job Fair in Whitehorse yesterday, as a resource person at the Destination Carcross booths (seen in the photo below). It probably wasn’t productive, but it was interesting. There seems to be a pervasive feeling by job-seekers today that they’re doing employers...

You probably think that the title of this post is a tongue-in-cheek comment – politicians, after all, are about as loved as used-car salesmen. I’ve just spent a weekend at a Mayors and Councillors training workshop at Haines Junction, though, and have now seen municipal politicians, their support staff...