The Yukon Magazine Podcast

When a bear starts running towards you, that's never a good thing. So began an uncomfortable standoff between three women on a backpacking trip and a grizzly bear. Karen debriefs this encounter with …

Recent years have seen devastating fires in Albert and B.C. The Whitehorse South Fuel Break is part of a plan to prevent a similar disaster in Whitehorse. It won't stop a fire in its tracks but it wi…

Cows Go Moo might sound like child's play, but when they hit the stage it's anything but. While other Yukoners struggled to let off steam during the pandemic, six pre-teen musicians cranked their amp…

Cathy Brais lives at Eagle Plains, kilometre 370 of the Dempster Highway, just shy of the Arctic Circle. Her job as a highway foreperson often takes her into an infamous stretch of road known as "hur…

Whitehorse journalist Haley Ritchie was curious why so many romance books are set in the North. What is it about the cold and dark that get the heart beating quicker? She unpacks three novels set in …

What does it take to make a good sandwich and a good video about making a good sandwiches? We ask Yukon-bred (pun intended) TikToker Jonathan Ostrander, AKA Sandwich Dad, and take a deep dive into th…

Each spring, northern rivers go from solid ice to flowing water. In the best-case scenario this process goes smoothly, but if ice jams form there could be trouble. That's why Holly Goulding keeps a c…

The homecoming of a beautifully woven 19th-century Chilkat robe is cause for celebration and consideration for the Taku River Tlingit First Nation in Atlin, B.C. Why did they have to spend thousands …

Spending 12 days alone in the wilderness in the depths of winter might seem crazy, but Jessie Gladish keeps going back for more. In previous years, she skied and walked the 430-mile (688-km) Montane …

Cold therapy is all the rage right now. Karen meets up with Valerie, who "dips" regularly in a pool chopped out of lake ice, to get the lowdown on how it works and why she and many others do this. Th…

Melanie Bennett grew up at Engineer Creek, 200 km up the Dempster Highway, when the road was being built. There were few neighbours of the human variety but the surrounding wilderness was her playgro…

When Manu Keggenhoff moved from Germany to a tiny cabin outside Atlin, B.C., 15 years ago, she didn’t have running water or any of the fancy stuff.  Manu, also the art director of YNoO magazine, shar…

For drag performer Andy Pee, there's no better high than sharing their true expression of gender on stage and having it celebrated by a room full of cheering people. Andy, AKA Andyboy, tells us how t…

Anyone with even a remote interest in Yukon history or travel will, at some point, come across the work of Murray Lundberg and his 4,000-plus page ExploreNorth website. Although a health condition is…

As an ice-core scientist, Alison Criscitiello studies ancient ice for clues about our climate, at the Canadian Ice Core Lab at the University of Alberta. As a high-altitude mountaineer, she climbs mo…

Yukoners Ashley Cummings and Christian Wright reflect on a mind-blowing 30-day cruise through the Northwest Passage. Both worked as educators on a 400-passenger vessel traversing the Arctic from Nome…

There are only a handful of electric trucks in the Yukon and Greg Karais is the proud owner of one (a Ford-150 Lightning Lariat). It’s objectively nifty but comes with a big price tag. Greg takes Kar…

Yukoners drive a lot so it's no wonder there's a big push to ditch the gas guzzlers and get on the electric vehicle bandwagon. Shane Andre of Yukon’s Energy Solutions Centre answers key questions abo…

If anyone in the North sees a sasquatch, they know who to call: Red Grossinger. The Canadian Armed Forces veteran has spent his retirement years collecting reports and doing investigations. He walks …

Wayne Potoroka, associate editor of Yukon, North of Ordinary magazine, doesn't have strong feelings about sasquatch one way or another, but he is interested in the people who are interested in sasqua…