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The Challenges of Food Security in the Yukon

Small Change Fund | Posted 05.28.2013 | Canada Impact
Read More: Yukon, Local, Farmer, Food, North, Greenhouse, Pesticide, Alaska, Gmo, Whitehorse, Polar, Food Security, Arctic, Dawson, Canada Impact News
Small Change Fund

In Dawson City, one step away from the arctic circle, we are working to promote more local food production. Here, more than anywhere else, food matters. We are at the end of the road and conditions are quite crude. Food here is expensive, but mostly fresh, which is already a huge improvement compared to 100 years ago.

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Northern Lights In The Yukon: Is Canada Inadvertently Solving Japan's Population Decline Crisis?

Abi Paul | Posted 06.14.2013 | Canada Alberta
Read More: Japanese Tourists, Fertility, Aurora Borealis, Northern Lights, Yukon, Whitehorse, Travel Blogs, Canada Alberta News
Abi Paul

It was a chilly but clear evening (-35 degrees Celsius) when we got on the tour bus in Whitehorse, Yukon. The tour was for the viewing of the spectacular northern lights, an atmospheric phenomenon that is best viewed under certain environmental conditions during certain periods of the year at certain locations in the northern hemisphere.

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5-Year-Old Girl Killed On Soccer Field

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 09.04.2012 | Canada
Read More: Watson Lake Yukon Soccer Death, Kirsten MacDonald, Watson Lake Yukon, Girl Killed by Soccer Post, Richard Durocher, Watson Lake, Watson Lake Soccer, Goal Post Death, Whitehorse, Cp, Canada News

WATSON LAKE, - RCMP and the Yukon Coroners' Service are investigating the death of a five-year-old girl on a high school soccer field after the net ti...

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Whitehorse Couple Makes Stunning Discovery.. In Their Basement

CP | Max Leighton, The Whitehorse Star, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.01.2012 | Canada
Read More: Canada Ancient Bison, Ancient Bison Bones, Whitehorse Bison Bones, Cp, Whitehorse Ancient Bison, Ancient Bison, Bison Bones Whitehorse, Ancient Bison Canada, Whitehorse, Video, Canada News

WHITEHORSE - The remains of what is believed to be a prehistoric bison have been unearthed while a couple dug up their basement in suburban Whitehorse...

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Five Found Dead In Whitehorse Home

CP | Posted 03.31.2012 | Canada
Read More: Whitehorse Deaths Children, Whitehorse, Whitehorse Deaths Rcmp, Cp, Whitehorse Deaths, Canada News

WHITEHORSE - Five people, including two school-age children, were found dead at a home in a Whitehorse suburb Sunday, but the RCMP said they do not su...

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