Hockey rocks

The Canada Winter Games have meant some of the finest hockey we’ve seen in Whitehorse for a long time.
After their hard fought win yesterday, an Ontario hockey team mother said I must be bringing their team luck. I don’t think it’s me — I think it’s the tip I gave them about our Yukon power [...]

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Before the BoldRush

So back to the question of Yukon icons…. I liked the oaths of Canada Games in gold pans at the opening ceremonies.  For those of you who missed it — the oath of the officials, the athletes and the coaches were presented in gold pans.  It was a nice touch, referencing the gold rush, but [...]

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Warming up to normal

BoldRush, Yukon PowerFoods are sponsors of the Canada Games, and as such we were invited to a lovely do at the High Country Inn last night. Right off I ended up in conversation with Premier Fentie, discussing the issue of territorial differentiation and the pan-northern campaign. He thought choosing Yukon would be a no-brainer. He [...]

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The existential challenge

The question of “what is Yukon culture” looms large with the northern montages created for the Canada Winter Games experience. The decision to go pan-northern was Piers McDonald’s. I’m not aware of the analysis, but I’m quite sure that the ability to leverage contributions from the other two territories and the federal government helped make [...]

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Opening up

After I filed my first article from Corner Brook after the opening of the 1999 Canada Winter Games, the curmudgeonly editor of the Yukon News told me to cut out the rah rah rah stuff. That was a tough gig, writing objective media stories while my insides were crying out to cheer on our Yukon [...]

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Find the magic

About 5 years ago I looked around the Yukon and realized that all the people who seemed happy and healthy in the wintertime had one thing in common — they cross country skied. Now I had been guilty of the downhillers’ snobbery towards the cross-country folk, but when I found myself diving for volleyballs with [...]

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Replay – Kluane Chilkoot Bike Relay

It’s easy to get behind. The immediate things get pushed ahead, and past things sometimes just settle in where they were left. Fortunately, my visit to Dawson last weekend had 13-year old Miriam Moore dust off the team photo of the girls we sponsored with BoldRush for the Kluane Chilkoot International Bike Relay [...]

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Run like the wind

Checkpoint four at Canadian customs was draped in a black drizzling fog as runners huddled in parkas or warmed themselves in vehicles waiting for their team number to be announced. Most of the runners found their teammates, but others, ahead of schedule had to keep running or search for their next in line amongst lines [...]

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No wall

The other day I needed to put together a quick list of quotes on what different people have said about BoldRush protein juice and bars.
I’d forgotten to ask Pauline Hanburg-Frost about her impressions. Pauline drank BoldRush steadily for her record shattering 49 hour marathon paddle from Whitehorse to Dawson this past June. She [...]

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So where has all the BoldRush gone?

Packed up bottles and bars this week for the Shipyard School Raid, a 7-day staged sailing /rowing race from Gabriola Island, B.C. to Port Townsend, Washington.
Sent a huge bag of BoldRush bars to bridge players in Calgary. Apparently bridge players eat these things all day. (The bars were kindly co-packaged for shipping with Yukon’s Beans [...]

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