A heart-warming husky story

What can you do when one of your working huskies goes blind? Certainly she can’t continue to pull tourists across the tundra around Churchill, Manitoba. Or can she?? When husky cross Isobel went blind 3 years ago, some of Jenafor Ollander’s friends said that she might as well shoot...
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Northern housing – no recession here!

The housing situation in the Yukon seldom makes it into the national spotlight, but perhaps it should. While we’re now in the slow season due to the simple fact that few people want to either build or move in the winter, it’s still a hot market, with contractors, sellers...
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Canada needs the death penalty

Many of you saw this scene on your television screen last night – the funeral of another murdered Mountie. We are far past the time when Canadians have to stand up and say in a concrete way that this cannot happen again. Bringing back the death penalty is that...
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The simple pleasures and home-based business

Working from home isn’t without its challenges – from uneven cash flow to the occasional difficulty of staying focused. But on days like today when I can add kitten-sittin’ to my Web site duties, “there’s no place like home”. Molly spent much of the afternoon curled up beside my...
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Changing priorities and travel

An interesting and positive contrast to my post about changes in technology and attitudes hurting some music companies is an email from insurance company AIG Travel Guard yesterday. The insurance business is extremely competitive, forcing companies to be quick in reacting to economic and lifestyle trends, but the extent...
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Truths in Alaska? Read Craig Medred

Every place needs a writer or 2 or 6 who thinks about what’s going on and what’s being said by others – I mean really thinks – and then writes about his assessments. My favourite Alaskan writer in that vein is Craig Medred, whose columns appear in the Anchorage...
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Politically correct? Not at Yukon Confidential

Many of you know what I think of the Yukon Government as a corporate entity. From the former heroin trafficker Premier to the nationally-famous hiring practices, I have nothing good to say about it. That’s why I’m very pleased to see a new blog devoted to airing the dirty...
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Music – the challenge of technological advances

I heard on CBC Radio yesterday that Caribou Records in Whitehorse is in deep trouble due to the popularity of downloading music. There’s no silver lining to the story – I’m sorry to see a valuable part of the vibrant Yukon music scene hurting, perhaps in a terminal way....
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Whitehorse visited on a flight around the world

I had just started down the Alaska Highway to Carcross yesterday afternoon when I got thoroughly distracted by an unsual bird. Descending out of the ragged clouds was a large aircraft with a paint scheme I’d never seen before. I pulled around and headed back to the airport at...
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The significance of domain names

Did any of you watch Dragon’s Den last night? If so, you saw just how significant a domain name can be when you’re promoting a Web site. The developers of UniversityParty.ca got turned down for financing largely because they don’t own UniversityParty.com (a company in New York owns it)....
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