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Cool Arctic apps

The iPhone apparently has an app for everything. Since it's now in some parts of the North, we found a few Arctic-themed apps to put that to the test.

The 100 Mile Yukon Diet

Or, how a Whitehorse man tried to eat totally local, and wound up going totally loco. By Mitch Miyagawa

25 Big Ideas

25 big ideas that could change the North. Brainstorming with David Suzuki, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Ione Christensen, Ken Coates, Zen Coates, Zebedee Nungak and more...

The Ringmaster

The Arctic’s only circus doesn’t have a big top, tigers, or a human cannonball. But it does have Up Here's 2008 Northerner of the Year, Guillaume Saladin. By Jasmine Budak

New Northern Tunes

A look at this year’s top releases with links to the artist's website.

For eight years, Whitehorse comedy duo Sharon Shorty and Duane Ghastant Aucoin have been cracking up Yukoners by playing “Gramma Susie” and “Cash Creek Charlie,” a pair of feisty First Nations elders.

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As long as the sun rises and the river flows

Those words were the beginning of a commitment by Chief Monfwi that the Tlicho (Dogrib) people would honour their commitment to the land, and to Treaty 11. That was in 1921. August 2005 marked a momentous occasion for the Tlicho. In a ground-breaking move, they gained the power to govern themselves.

SUMMER FESTS

Open Sky Festival
The Deh Cho’s homecoming party
Late June in Fort Simpson, NWT
www.openskyfestival.ca

Atlin Arts and Music Festival
The Southern Lakes’ best little fest
Early July in Atlin, B.C.
www.atlinfestival.ca

Dawson City Music Festival
The Yukon’s go-with-the-flow rock show
Mid-July in Dawson City, Yukon
www.dcmf.com

Great Northern Arts Festival
The Arctic’s artistic showcase
Mid-July in Inuvik, NWT
www.gnaf.org

Aqpik Jam Music Festival

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