Lifestyle
Cold Hard Competition
Why do Yukon Arctic Ultra competitors risk injury and exhaustion every year? It’s not for the...
January 2015 Eva Holland
Rebuilt. Chauffeur. Mend. Police.
A century ago, the RCMP delivered mail and babies in the North, and kept people in line. But a dark...
December 2014 Genesee Keevil
Gained In Translation
Ever notice how a word starts losing its meaning when you say it too often? Now, try hitting it...
December 2014 Herb Mathisen
Arctic Dispatches: Tapper’s last stand
When life handed him illness, he made birch syrup—and kept a tradition alive
July 2014 Ashleigh Gaul
Arctic Dispatches: Camp Mary River
A mine worker talks steak, doughnuts, and the good life.
July 2014 Samia Madwar
Running a Northern Lodge
A peek behind the scenes of the business of running a Northern lodge: from blizzards, bear...
July 2014 Margo Pfeiff, Up Here
Last Word: She comes with baggage
Housesitting is usually a fun escape. But as one veteran discovers, it’s the tiny, but crucial,...
July 2014 Angela Gzowski
The State of the Hunt
Most years the porcupine caribou cross the Dempster. When they do, there's a harvest. Is this...
June 2014 Genesee Keevil
Hidden Among Us
The North has always been a refuge for misfits – a place of dark pasts and secret lives, a hideout...
December 2013 Eva Holland
How fasting made me furious
In the land where the sun doesn’t set, she planned to give up food from dawn to dusk. Could she...
October 2013 Samia Madwar