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09/30/2026

Today, we remember the children who never came home from residential schools and honour the Survivors, their families and communities.

Here in the Yukon, these stories are part of the place we call home. They live in our communities, our families, our languages, and our land.

Listening, learning, and remembering are things we should carry with us every day.
Reconciliation is ongoing, not something that begins and ends on September 30.

We stand with Yukon First Nations and Indigenous communities as we remember those who were lost, honour those who survived, and listen to the stories that continue to shape this territory.

🧡

09/21/2026

We won some pretty rad awards at the International Regional Magazine Awards in Calgary last Friday: GOLD — General Feature, Northern Cousins by Keith Halliday Keith Halliday

SILVER — Podcast, (YEAH, Mark, Karen and Tammo!)

BRONZE — Best New Magazine Writer, Marissa Meilleur Marissa 🧸

BRONZE — Best Cover, Raven: Look Who’s Talking, Photo/Art Dirction Manu Keggenhoff Photography

MERIT — Nature & Environmental Feature, Unbridled by Trina Moyles Trina Moyles

MERIT — Arts & Culture, Traditional Tattoos by Genesee Keevil Genesee Keevil

09/16/2026

After some delay, The Yukon Magazine Podcast is almost ready to introduce a new feature that will be part of every series.

It’s called “Made in the Yukon.”

Four times a year, John Glynn-Morris will dive into the real stories of Yukon makers and how they navigate challenges, doubt and the quest for success. From flourishing businesses to renowned events, iconic brands to works of art, innovative ideas to essential infrastructure—if it’s made in the Yukon, John wants to share the story behind it.

Before we release the first episode—the incredible journey of the Yukon Brewing Company’s founders—we want to reveal more about John’s background, interests and perspectives on life in the Yukon. All of this comes out in a wide-ranging conversation between John and The Yukon Magazine’s co-publisher, Tammo Walter.

We hope you’ll be hearing a lot more from John as a trusted guide to the wonderful world of “Made in the Yukon.”

CREDITS
Hosted by Tammo Walter
Produced by Mark Koepke & Tammo Walter
Intro/outro music and stings by 🎉Major Funk🎉

09/14/2026

The Fall colours are in full swing…. the best time for a little backcountry ride.

09/10/2026

The Yukon has a lot going for it: big mountains, wild rivers, beautiful lakes… and some truly questionable decisions when it came to naming them.

Some names have perfectly good stories behind them. Others seem to have been named by someone who was having a particularly good day. Or a particularly bad one.

What wonderfully weird Yukon place name did we miss? Maybe you know a creek, lake, mountain, townsite or abandoned settlement that deserves a place on the next list. And if you know the story behind any of these names, please share it in the comments.

We’re listening. The Yukon map clearly has more stories to tell.

09/04/2026

THE NORTH IS CALLING. WE’RE HIRING.

Nordwind Media Studio [publisher of The Yukon Magazine] is growing and we’re looking for a few additions to our team.

Editor
Graphic Designer
Account/Marketing Manager

You know the North. You know your stuff. You like good stories, good people and getting things done.

We’ve got some new exciting projects in the works.

Interested? DM us for details.
Know someone? Tag them.

09/02/2026

Do you live for epic paddling trips with no shortage of whitewater or opportunities for hiking and wildlife viewing? If the answer is “Hell, yeah!” but you’ve never heard of the Yukon’s Firth River… well, there’s a hole on your bucket list.

In this repeat episode from July 2023, former host Karen McColl talks with writer Chris Carli about his life-altering experience paddling through a remote northern landscape with a huge population—of migratory caribou.

Hear how one remarkable encounter turned an avowed hiking-hater into a guy who will at least concede that a little hoofin’ it can offer spectacular rewards.

CREDITS
Produced by Karen McColl and Mark Koepke
Intro/outro music and stings by Major Funk
Rafting photo by Chris Carli

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1874938/episodes/19733365

08/31/2026

“I wouldn’t change my way of life for all the gold in the Klondike.”
Meet Dave Dickson, a lifelong Yukoner, outfitter, guide and trapper who has spent 65 years between Whitehorse and the Donjek and White River valleys, where his idea of home comes with horses, long stretches of highway, fat moose ribs cooked over a fire—and the occasional grizzly bear chase.

His stories are wild, but one piece of advice is wonderfully simple: slow down and spend time with your Elders. Their stories are part of what makes the Yukon what it is, and once they’re gone, those stories can go with them.

Read Dave’s full Yukon Questionnaire in The Yukon Magazine and tell us: what’s one piece of Yukon wisdom you’ve learned from an Elder?

Photo: Alistair Maitland Alistair Maitland

08/29/2026

What if losing a caribou migration meant losing far more than the caribou?
For Christine Creyke, working with hides is a way of staying connected—to family, culture, the land and vadzaih, the caribou that have shaped Vuntut Gwitchin life for generations.

But that relationship is being tested as the Arctic changes, and as decisions made far beyond Old Crow continue to affect the places the herd depends on.

This is a story about caribou, yes. But it’s also about cultural continuity, Indigenous knowledge and what happens when a landscape changes faster than the traditions rooted in it can.

What do you think is at stake when an ancient relationship with the land begins to change?

Tell us in the comments, then read the full story by Trina Moyles in The Yukon Magazine. Available on newsstands, in the seat pocket of your Air North, Yukon's Airline, or subscribe :)

Photos by Mike Code and Jeff Kerby

08/27/2026

They quit their desk jobs and went looking for trouble.
Well, technically, they went looking for Alaska.

In 1936, New York City bookkeepers Sheldon Taylor, 24, and Geoffrey Pope, 22, set out in a battered canvas canoe with a few hundred dollars and an 11,530-km route drawn across an atlas.

Sixteen months later, they paddled into Nome.

Their journey turns 90 this year, and the route they travelled through the Yukon and Alaska remains remarkably wild—and rarely attempted.
In 2013, a modern expedition followed part of their path. They lost paddles, ran short on food, dealt with illness and spent 13 days fighting the Rat River. They made it, too.

There’s something about these journeys that’s hard to explain from a desk.
Maybe it’s the places you can only reach the hard way.

Read the full story by Michael Engelhard in The Yukon Magazine. Available on newsstands, in the backseat of your Air North, Yukon's Airline flight, or subscribe!

And be honest: Would you take on an 11,530-km canoe journey—or does that sound like a terrible vacation? 😂

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