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08/23/2023

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08/08/2023

Good neighbors always look out for each other.

Community leaders in Dawson City, Carmacks, and Whitehorse, have stepped up to offer support to residents of Mayo, Yukon, after that community was put under an evacuation order on Sunday afternoon because of a nearby wildfire.

08/06/2023

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/mayo-evacuation-wildfire-1.6929564

An evacuation order was issued at 1 p.m. Sunday. Residents and visitors must immediately leave Mayo and all properties along the Silver Trail between kilometres 35 and 66.

The community, and surrounding area, has been under evacuation alert since Friday. Yukon Protective Services says the Talbot Creek fire is now burning within seven kilometres of Mayo.

08/06/2023

BREAKING: Yukon Protective Services is ordering the Village of Mayo to evacuate IMMEDIATELY due to the threat of a nearby wildfire.

Residents are urged to report to Mayo Community Hall or the Na-Cho Nyak Dun government office for assistance and to register with Emergency Social Services at 867-332-4597. More instructions are available at https://yukon.ca/emergencies?fbclid=IwAR3e_HCVg-0N8ZMFOFeuCFYsDn6Po6TCVyqxmqvk9y5k9FpJlA1G8qbptUc

Get Yukon emergency updates including wildfires, floods, earthquakes and road closures. Learn about COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, corona virus.

08/04/2023

In First Nation communities, a name is more than a name.
Since March, the Taku River Tlingit First Nation, based in Atlin, B.C., has reclaimed 13 traditional names of places of significance within their traditional territory.

The Taku River Tlingit First Nation, based in Atlin, B.C., has reclaimed 13 traditional names of places of significance within their traditional territory.

08/03/2023

Marquee, a calendar of arts and cultural events in the Yukon:
It's music festival time again.
Both the Paradise Music Festival and the Keno City Music Festival are set for this weekend.
Paradise is the annual electronic music festival.
It's a 19 plus event at Kettley's Canyon, south of Whitehorse.
Plus there'll be workshops too.
It looks like tickets are sold out but check paradisemusicfestival.ca.

And this year's Keno City Music Festival is set for tomorrow and Saturday.
It begins tomorrow at noon.
It's a free festival with The Whiskeyjacks on the bill, along with Sophie Noel, Duke and Peacemakers and many others.
Check out the full lineup and details about what to bring at kenocitymusicfestival.com or the festival's page.

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William Prince is coming back up to the Yukon.
He's playing Dawson City at the Palace Grand Theatre on Saturday night.
Get tickets at eventbrite.
He's playing Haines Junction next week, but that show is sold out.

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Q***r Yukon is hosting the 10th annual Pride Festival.
As part of that, Mo Kenney is coming back up to the territory.
Kenney will be playing the arts centre on Tuesday night, for a cabaret style concert on the stage.
Get tickets at yukontickets dot com for Tuesday's show.
Mo Kenney will be in Dawson City on August 10th at KIAC Dënäkär Zho.
The pride festival is set for Whitehorse, August 5-13.
​ For more details, go to queeryukon.com.

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MacBride Museum and Velvet Antler Productions present: Roundhouse Cabaret on Wednesdays and Thursdays until September 14.
It's a sultry 1940's variety cabaret that's taking place the rest of the summer at the historical Roundhouse on the Whitehorse Waterfront across the MacBride Museum.
Expect an evening of live music and dancing.
This show is intended for adult audiences ages 16 and up.
Doors open at 6:30pm. The show starts at 7pm.
Tickets are available at: brushfire.com/macbridemuseum/roundhousecabaret

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Kluane Park artist in residence Teagyn Aatagwéix'i Vallevand's next workshop is coming up this weekend.
Participants will make a beaded mountain cuff this Saturday at the Thechàl Dhâl' Visitor Centre, at Sheep Mountain.
You must register for this free workshop.
For more information and to register, call 867-634-5235.

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There's live music at the Village Bakery this weekend in Haines Junction .
Crooked Folk is playing the Friday night show...
... and Gemini Fire is the Saturday night act.
Get tickets on the village bakery's website.

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In Carcross, there' music on the deck of the historic Caribou Hotel this summer.
Performances take place on Saturday afternoons from 4:00 - 6:00 pm.
Kevin Barr will play this Saturday.
Everyone 19 and older is welcome to attend.

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The next Cafe des Voix event is coming up this weekend in Atlin.
Singers Telek Rogan, Caroline Watt, Jean Langlois, Dave Haddock and Corinne Montpetit will be on stage at the Globe Theatre along with MC/vocalist Elaine Schiman, pianist Annie Avery and bassist Anne Turner.
That's this Saturday at 8pm.
You can get tickets at eventbrite or at the door.
For more info, email [email protected].

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In Whitehorse, there's live music Friday afternoons at the Town Square on Main Street.
This week, it's The Compassion Pills, at 4pm.
There are also Market Days on Saturdays and Tuesdays, featuring local artisans, food and more.
Go to whitehorse.ca/townsquare.

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To visual art...
There's an opening reception tomorrow night at Arts Underground.
You can see the new exhibitions, 'Drawings from the Boreal Forest' by Ava P Christl.
That's in the Focus Gallery.
And Shadunjen van Kampen's show 'Worldview' is in the Edge Gallery.
The reception is on from 4 to 7pm tomorrow night.
That's in the Arts Underground on Main Street.

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Join artist Neil Graham for a tour of his solo exhibit, The Nahanni.
That's next week... Wednesday, August 9th at 7pm.
That's in the Yukon Arts Centre Gallery.
While you're there, you can see Suzanne Paleczny's show The Forgetting.
And the Chilkoot Connections exhibit is showing in the centre's Community Gallery.
It features traditional and contemporary art inspired by the Chilkoot Trail.
It's a collaboration between the Arts Centre, Parks Canada, Yukon and the Carcross/Tagish First Nation.

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This week at Yukon Artists at Work:
Nicole Bauberger will be demonstrating the art of creating hand made books.
She'll be working in the window today from 11am-2pm.

Leslie Leong will reach back into her personal art history to undertake a series of detailed illustration-style drawings.
She'll be working in the windown on Saturday from 2 to 4pm.

For more information on YA@W's upcoming workshop program, go to yaaw.com/events/summer-2023-workshops/

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Yukon Artists at Work presented its trashion fashion show last weekend.
Twelve artists created more than 20 outfits that were modelled during a runway-style show at Shipyards Park.
All of the outfits were created using discarded or recycled materials.
If you missed the show, or if you just want to see the art pieces close up, you have a chance to do that.
Many of the outfits will be on display throughout August at FREE SPACE in the Northern Front Studio on 2nd Ave.
There'll be an opening reception tomorrow evening from 5-7 pm.

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This week at Yukon Theatre:
The highly anticipated Oppenheimer opens today Friday.
During World War II, Physicist J Robert Oppenheimer and a team of scientists joined the top-secret Manhattan Project.
Their work led to the development of the atomic bomb.
It's playing daily with Saturday and Sunday matinees.

And if you've been holding out for the Barbenheimer double feature, the Yukon Theatre has you covered...
Barbie continues to play daily at the Wood St. cinema with weekend matinees.
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place... unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.

For showtimes and tickets, visit: Yukontheatre.com.
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That's your Marquee.
Let us know about your arts and cultural events by calling 867-668-8460 or emailing [email protected].

08/03/2023

Across B.C. and the Yukon, July saw 21 days with thunderstorm warnings and just 10 without.

'When thunder roars, go indoors!' has been a near-daily reminder from Environment Canada for people living in northern B.C., as tinder-dry conditions in the province increase the risk of wildfires.

08/03/2023

A new approach to teaching Indigenous languages is catching on in Old Crow.

In Old Crow, Yukon, Sophia Flather is excited and hopeful about an upcoming language course she’s organizing — a teacher training program that will have up to 20 students, including some who will fly in.

08/03/2023

'It's right on top of us. It has been for days,' says Stan McNevin at the Eagle Plains Hotel.

Stan McNevin, who runs the only hotel on the remote Dempster Highway, has seen wildfire threaten his business in years past — but never quite as seriously as this year.

08/03/2023

Did you see the August Sturgeon super moon this week?
Simon Blakesley did and shared this photo: "I just happened to be out with my camera at 0500 and caught the moon setting up the Fish Lake Road."

08/02/2023

Carcross/Tagish First Nation organized a three-day-long hide fleshing demonstration at the Carcross Commons this week.

Video by: Rafsan Faruque Jugol

08/02/2023

Good timing...
Jodi Giesbrecht shared this photo, "My daughter Lukiah, was filming herself jumping at the thunderstorm and caught a lightening flash at the perfect moment!"

08/02/2023

A woman is dead after a vehicle incident early Monday morning in Whitehorse's Whistle Bend neighbourhood, and a man has been charged in connection with her death.

Joanne Felix, 42, was pronounced dead after police responded to a report of an injured woman in a parking lot in Whitehorse's Whistle Bend neighbourhood. A Whitehorse man has been charged with dangerous driving causing death in connection with the incident.

08/02/2023

'Everybody's looked at it and deemed it safe to have our employees return to work,' says Victoria Gold CEO.

Hundreds of workers are heading back to Victoria Gold's Eagle mine in central Yukon, days after the mine site was evacuated because of a nearby wildfire.

08/02/2023

Some Air North passengers were relieved to arrive in Whitehorse on Tuesday morning — though they were likely feeling a little worse for wear, and at least one of them is accusing the company of putting "profits over people."

Some Air North passengers were relieved to arrive in Whitehorse on Tuesday morning — though they were likely feeling a little worse for wear after waiting 15 hours in Edmonton for take-off.

08/02/2023

It's been a hot summer.

"We saw temperatures in the Yukon that were two to three-and-a-half degrees warmer than normal" in July, said David Phillips of Environment Canada.

08/01/2023

Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has been signalling the move was coming after the government passed its Online News Act, Bill C-18, in June.

The law requires big tech giants like Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms.

Social media giant Meta says it has officially begun ending news availability on its platforms in Canada starting Tuesday.