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Paddling the Yukon River on a whim, an out-of-shape Irishman was kept afloat by good luck and true grit
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The notwithstanding clause being used by Saskatchewan, explained
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe listens during a news conference, in Whistler, B.C., on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Moe says his government will use the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Constitution and pass legislation this fall to ensure the province's pronoun policy remains in place.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Government websites down in four provinces, territories; cyberattacks blamed in two
A woman uses a keyboard in North Vancouver, B.C., Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. Prince Edward Island says a cyberattack has crashed its provincial government website.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Only media report spurred Yukon to tell parents of sexual abuse in a school, report shows
Yukon's ombudsman says the territory's government failed in its duties to notify parents at a school where a child was sexually assaulted by delaying notification until almost two years later. The Yukon flag flies on a flagpole in Ottawa, Monday, July 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Dystopian Arctic film Polaris brings Whitehorse community together, aims to raise the ante for Northern filmmaking
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Virtual reality project immerses viewers in climate change on Yukon island
Richard Gordon tests out the virtual reality environment on Qikiqtaruk, Y.T., in an undated handout photo. The VR project Qikiqtaruk: Arctic at Risk is transporting people to Yukon's northernmost point without them ever having to leave home. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Isla Myers-Smith, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Evacuation alerts issued as wildfires burn in the Ibex Valley, Prince George Fire Centre
Flames from the Donnie Creek wildfire burn along a ridge top north of Fort St. John, British Columbia, Sunday, July 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Quebec only outlier on Ottawa health deal as Nunavut, Yukon and N.W.T. sign on
FILE PHOTO: A Canadian flag flies in front of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, March 22, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Wattie/File Photo
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Yukon ‘patiently waiting’ on federal support to build flood mitigation infrastructure
Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai pauses while speaking during a news conference after a meeting of western premiers, in Whistler, B.C., on Tuesday, June 27, 2023.The Yukon government says the territory is "patiently waiting" for federal support for building mitigation infrastructure after severe flooding in the Klondike Valley this spring. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Provinces with existing dental coverage got smaller share of federal kids’ benefit, data show
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Launch of search for graves at former Yukon residential school triggers raw emotions
The Yukon provincial flag flies on a flagpole in Ottawa, Monday July 6, 2020. A Yukon First Nations community has begun its search for unmarked graves at a former residential school site with a ceremony that triggered strong emotions. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Tactical evacuation in Yukon as some rivers rise, but flood conditions easing in B.C.
The Yukon provincial flag flies in Ottawa on Monday, July 6, 2020. The Yukon government has upgraded the Klondike River to a flood warning, the highest level of its flood advisories. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Yukon residential school site to be searched with ground-penetrating radar in summer
Adeline Webber, chair of the Yukon Residential Schools Missing Children Working Group, speaks during a press conference in Whitehorse on Friday March 24, 2023. Webber said that that ground penetrating radar searches are set to begin this summer at the site of the Choutla Residential School in Carcross, Yukon.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Carcross/Tagish First Nation-Max Leighton **MANDATORY CREDIT **
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Yukon First Nation declares state of emergency over opioids ‘terrorizing’ community
The Yukon provincial flag flies on a flagpole in Ottawa, Monday July 6, 2020. A Yukon First Nation has declared a state of emergency related to the opioid crisis, calling it an "emergency that is terrorizing the public." THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Police see no immediate danger after two men murdered in village of Mayo, Yukon
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No indication objects downed over Yukon, Lake Huron operated by foreign state: Anand
Minister of National Defence Anita Anand opens her notes as she prepares to appear as a witness at the Standing Committee on National Defence, regarding the surveillance balloon from the People's Republic of China, in Ottawa, on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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Yukon budget lays out $48.2-million surplus, funding for dental, inflation relief
Yukon Finance Minister Sandy Silver appears in Ottawa on Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Silver tabled the territory's budget in the legislature, predicting a surplus of $48.2 million. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Manitoba leans on veteran leadership of skip Jennifer Jones at Hearts
Manitoba skip Jennifer Jones delivers a rock while playing Team Wild Card 2 at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, in Kamloops, B.C., on Wednesday, February 22, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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RCMP discontinues search for foreign object downed over Yukon
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on Friday April 13, 2018. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police say it has decided to end its search for an aerial object show down over central Yukon last Saturday.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Chinese balloon flew through ‘radar gaps’ during journey over Canada, Norad says
In this photo provided by Chad Fish, the remnants of a large balloon drift above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it, Feb. 4, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Fish via AP
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Yukon premier meets federal ministers over health, calls northern funding ‘critical’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, shakes hands with Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai at the Yukonstruct building in Whitehorse, Yukon, on February 13, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mike Thomas.
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Ranj Pillai sworn in as Yukon’s 10th premier
Yukon Deputy Premier Ranj Pillai takes questions from the media as Alberta deputy premier Sarah Hoffman looks on at the Western Premiers' Conference in Yellowknife, N.T., Wednesday, May 23, 2018 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Pat Kane
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Former Yukon deputy premier Ranj Pillai acclaimed as territory’s new premier
The Yukon Liberal Party announced Sunday that Ranj Pillai has been acclaimed as leader by the party's executive, and is that territory's new premier. Pillai takes questions from the media in Yellowknife, N.T., Wednesday, May 23, 2018 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Pat Kane
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Yukon permanently expands power of pharmacists to issue prescriptions
A shelf of drugs at a pharmacy Thursday, March 8, 2012 in Quebec City. Yukon is permanently expanding the power of pharmacists to assess patients and prescribe mediations for common and minor ailments. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
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Yukon wind chill below -50 C, more snow for southern B.C., as frigid system hits
Vehicles make their way along the snow-covered highway in Victoria, B.C., Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Drivers warned as temperatures set to plummet from Vancouver to Yukon
Heavy snow blankets houses in Kitimat, B.C., on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015. Environment Canada says Yukon and parts of Northern British Columbia should be prepared for unseasonably cold temperature from now through next week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Robin Rowland
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Canada’s top five federal contaminated sites to cost taxpayers billions to clean up
The Giant Mine site is shown during a site surface tour of the Giant Mine Remediation Project near Yellowknife on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. With a newly approved cost estimate of $4.38 billion, remediation of Giant Mine, one of the most contaminated sites in Canada, is also expected to be the most expensive federal environmental cleanup. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Angela Gzowski
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Yukon legislature unanimously approves Truth and Reconciliation Day as stat holiday
The Canadian flag hangs at half-mast as a ceremonial flag is raised to honour victims of the Canadian Indian residential school system during the Xe xe Smun’ eem-Victoria Orange Shirt Day Every Child Matters ceremony at Centennial Square in Victoria, B.C., on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021. National Truth and Reconciliation Day is now a statutory holiday in the Yukon. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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Northern delegates bring Indigenous, youth perspective to COP27
Yukon delegates Jocelyn Joe-Strack, left, research chair in Indigenous Knowledge at Yukon University and co-lead of the Yukon First Nations Climate Action Fellowship, poses with Carissa Waugh, a fellow with the Yukon First Nations Climate Action Fellowship, for a picture at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, in a Nov. 11, 2022, handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-
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Yukon posts 8-0 upset over Quebec at Canadian mixed curling championship
A curling rock is releasedt at the Brier in Brandon, Man. Tuesday, March, 5, 2019. The head of Curling Canada is bullish about the organization's financial position. There's enough money to tend to the sport's grassroots as well as substantially enlarge the prize purse of the season's major events. And that's with a TV contract about to expire. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Globe Climate: Yukon River Chinook salmon decline is a cultural, spiritual loss
Rick Yen is silhouetted as he casts a rod while fishing for salmon near the mouth of the Capilano River off Ambleside Park at sunset in West Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday August 25, 2015. In April, Federal Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced a recreational catch-and-release fishery until mid-July to allow maximum numbers of chinook salmon to reach their spawning grounds, followed by catch retention limits of up to two chinook depending on the fishing area and time of year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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In Yukon, the dwindling Chinook salmon population threatens food security and livelihoods
A mountain biker rides a trail that follows the Yukon River near Whitehorse, Friday, July, 22, 2016. Higher than normal temperatures and smoke from wildfires has resulted in Environment Canada issuing a special weather statement for parts of Yukon. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Small Yukon First Nation bans sex offender using its COVID-19 emergency law
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The next gen set toasts the arts and a gala for Ronald McDonald house
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