The ExploreNorth BlogThe ExploreNorth BlogThe writer is a resident of Canada's Yukon Territory with a passion for Exploring the North. This blog is one of the vehicles used to share that passion through words and images. 
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Changing Priorities and Travel
2007-11-12 19:48:00 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 to which that’s now going surprised me. Many people today put their careers and businesses above all else, and even those who temper that dedication sometimes encounter situations that demand their full and immediate attention, even if it means flying home from a family vacation. With AIG, a policy add-on simply called “Cancel for Work Reasons” is now available. As well as covering trip cancellation, this option includes such business services as emergency dictation and business correspondence assistance, wireless accessory replacement assistance and more. Even if business cancellations aren’t a worry for you, “Cancel for Any Reason&rdqu... More About: Changing
Truths in Alaska? Read Craig Medred
2007-11-12 18:11:00 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 Alaska n writer in that vein is Craig Medred, whose columns appear in the Anchorage Daily News. While not always controversial, I thoroughly enjoy reading his articles that are. In today’s edition, he talks about California having too many beavers and Alaska having too many wolves, and the obvious solution tp both problems. Last week, his assessment of the very popular book and movie about Chris McCandless began with “‘Into the Wild’ is a misrepresentation, a sham, a fraud”. Be sure to read some of the responses to his articles as well - they’re often just as interesting as the piece that prompted them. More About: Read , Ruth
Politically Correct? Not at Yukon Confidential
2007-11-10 14:32:00 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 laundry that originates there. The first ... More About: Politics , Politic , Politically Correct , Rect
Whitehorse Journalist / Editor Job Available
2007-11-09 18:51:00 I just got an email from Aaron Spitzer, editor of Up Here, that may be of interest to several of you: —————— ;—————̵ 2;—————R 11; Hi Up Here contributors and fellow journalists, Up Here Publishing Ltd. is creating a full-time Whitehorse-based associate editor position — someone who would basically be in charge of our Yukon writing-and-editing beat. If you know of ... More About: Commerce , Editor , Journalist
Music - the Challenge of Technological Advances
2007-11-07 05:10:00 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. But I admit to being part ... More About: Music , Commerce , Challenge , Logi , Halle
Whitehorse Visited on a Flight Around the World
2007-11-06 20:43:00 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 top speed, getting there just as ... More About: Travel , World , Aviation , Around the world , Commerce
The Significance of Domain Names
2007-11-06 18:56:00 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). Not only did they blow the ... More About: Domain , Domain Names , Commerce , Names , Significance
Please don?t grow up to be a Yukoner
2007-11-04 15:33:00 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 near Duncan on Vancouver Island, has ... More About: Education , Grow , Yukon , Kone
Lunch with a View - and Jets!
2007-11-04 01:24:00 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 common place that Cathy and ... More About: Travel , Photos , Lunch , Aviation , Jets
Freelancing Capital of the World?
2007-11-03 20:19:00 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 income on the side, as writer, ... More About: World , Freelancing , Commerce , The World , Capital
It May Have Been Hallowe?en, BUT?.
2007-11-03 18:55:00 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 print a half-page photo of it in ... More About: History , Allo
There Are No Elephants in Alaska
2007-11-02 17:25:00 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 California (that’s the same type of ... More About: Nature , Travel , Aviation
Weighty Decisions, Guy Style: Garage Planning
2007-11-02 06:05:00 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 - my garage is too small #3 - I’m not ... More About: Garage , Planning , Style , Decisions , Weigh
Bargain Bald Eagles Next Week!!
2007-11-02 02:29:00 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. It’s been a few years since I took Vancouver-area photographer friend Roy Luckow down, and I’m long ... More About: Nature , Travel , Eagles , Bargain , Week
Getting Noticed Online
2007-10-31 20:25:00 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 it’s possible to leverage someone else’s ... More About: Online , Commerce
Justice & the Law - not the same thing at all
2007-10-30 19:13:00 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 Court of Appeals cut the punitive ... More About: Politics , Nature , Justice , Fishing , Thing
Executive Home with Rental Suite For Sale
2007-10-27 17:34:00 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 Whitehorse 4 kilometers. 15 years old huge fully-fenced lot with lots of trees behind ... More About: For Sale , Rental , Home , Sale , Executive
?I am very embarrassed to live in the Yukon?
2007-10-26 22:56:00 So says Terry Cumming in his rant against popular Yukon News columnist Doug Bell at http://animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsro om.pl/read/17286 . Don’t let the door hit you on the way Outside (where you obviously belong), Terry. More About: Live , Embarrassed
Sled Dog Advocacy?
2007-10-17 19:30:00 Oct. 31 Edit: I’ve now opened SledDogWatch.com to further counter the nonsense described below. This site is “Dedicated to Honouring the Tradition and the Sport of Mushing.” Those of you in Whitehorse may have seen the posters put up by Terry Cumming opposing the Yukon Quest in particular and mushing in general due to what ... More About: Advocacy , Arctic
Historic Mine Buildings Washed Away
2007-10-15 15:14:00 This morning, I again awoke to fairly heavy snow falling. That makes yesterday’s sunshine even more special - it prompted another trip to Skagway, and it turned out to be a superb day. The light was spectacular, and there were enough clouds to provide a lot of drama through the White Pass in particular. ... More About: Travel , History , Photos , Buildings , Historic
?We Want Speed, Not Character!?
2007-10-14 18:37:00 Last Saturday (the 6th), Cathy and I loaded the dogs into the Outback and headed out to “D-Bay” for lunch (it’s offically Destruction Bay, but nobody around here uses that name). The weather wasn’t particular nice and it might seem a little odd to drive 170 miles to have lunch at a roadside “greasy spoon”, ... More About: Travel , Photos , Character , Speed , Char
Easy to Amuse Day
More articles from this author:2007-10-13 22:32:00 Like most of you, I see a LOT of ads over the course of the average week. Some are creative (the Dove aging series), some are cute (”Mommy, what does ’spoiled’ mean?”), some are stupid (the guy acting like a cat) and some are memorable for other reasons. There’s only a month to go ... More About: Travel , Easy 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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