Construction detour

This past year, with virtually no fresh posts, blogrush continued to rack up the hits. BoldRush’s blog stayed number one on Google images for “snow load” snapping to the photo attached to our post “Energy wanes under snow load“. Searchers also came to the blogrush site via assorted combinations of snow, cabin, lake, [...]

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Border crossing violation

It’s enough to pull our slumbering BoldRush bear out of hibernation! The U.S. government has disregarded the border and is appropriating northern cranberries as their own!
Now most people know that northern cranberries, officially referred to as vaccinium oxycoccus, are the magical ingredient in BoldRush power drinks, injecting strength and endurance into its loyal following. The [...]

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Energy wanes under snow load

Boy! What a month! James and I were stranded in a cabin by a lake. We’d sold out of BoldRush over the Canada Games and depleted our personal stash. With our energy so low, it took awhile to dig ourselves out.

But we made it!

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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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Slippery slope

As a recovering government bureaucrat, much like a former cult member, I am constantly faced with disturbing flashbacks and reminders of my former life. My latest bits of flagrant recall are triggered by my voluntary involvement in the 2006 Proposed Amendments to the Yukon Beverage Container Regulations.

Government consultations are usually carefully structured and managed so [...]

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Tracks in the snow

Okay–does everybody know just how much is revealed on bloggers stats pages? Bloggers know, but how much do you innocent searchers know? I had no idea until I started blogging. All your curious searches are tracked, and the pages you find, know where you came from.
I know that someone’s innocent search for “lollygagger logo” ended [...]

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