Please don’t grow up to be a Yukoner
This is another easy-to-amuse morning for me. I see that recruiters from Queen Margaret’s School, an “all girls’ university preparatory school” for Grades 7-12 are going to be in Whitehorse on Tuesday. Their half-page ad doesn’t say anything about their academic programme, but does say that the school, located...
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Lunch with a view – and jets! – in Whitehorse
Restaurants come and go regularly in Whitehorse, sometimes due to changes in the quality of the service and/or food (which means that Ricky’s will be the next to go), sometimes seemingly due merely to the fickle nature of public opinion. For the past 3 years or so, the most...
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Freelancing capital of the world?
I wonder where the freelancing capital of the world is. If Whitehorse isn’t it, it must be right up there. It seems like an enormous percentage of the population here is like me – they either freelance as their main gig, or at least has some sort of freelance...
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It may have been Hallowe’en, BUT…
The King of Poor Taste this year was certainly Whitehorse artist Lance Burton with his 5.4 meter (19 foot) replica of the World Trade Center with a couple of jetliners sticking out of it. That is in appallingly poor taste, and I’m equally appalled that the Yukon News would...
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There are no elephants in Alaska
At least as of last night there are no elephants in Alaska. Maggie, a 2-ton, 25-year-old African elephant, has spent most of her life at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage, but last night was flown in a C-17 military cargo plane to the Performing Animal Welfare Society facility in...
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Bargain bald eagles next week!!
Eagles dive-bombing each other along the Chilkat Rver at at Haines, Alaska No, you can’t buy bald eagles cheaply next week, but with the US dollar going for 97.3 Canadian cents at banks today, getting to Haines, Alaska, to see the incredible Alaska Bald Eagle Festival is a bargain....
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Weighty decisions, guy style: garage planning
In 5 weeks I’m moving to a house that has double the useable square footage, and the same-size double garage without the huge mezzanine storage I have now. Looking around my garage tonight, one of 3 conditions must be true: #1 – I have too much stuff #2 –...
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Getting noticed online
Many of you have blogs or Web sites for commercial or personal reasons. All of you in that part of the online world know that the biggest challenge in having an online presence is getting noticed so that it’s worth your time and/or money to keep it “live.” Sometimes...
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Justice & the Law – not the same thing at all
I expect that almost all of you remember when, on March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Alaska’s spectacular Prince William Sound. Many of you probably don’t know that the court case against Exxon is still going on. Last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit...
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Executive home with rental suite For Sale
Executive home for sale in Whitehorse, Yukon This home is located in the upscale neighbourhood of Granger, high on the hill above Whitehorse. During the short drive downtown, you are faced with wonderful views of the Big Salmon Mountain Range. A large grocery store is 6 blocks away, downtown...
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