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Yukon-News
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Indian Brand Corporation, a solid investment
Joseph Tisiga’s Indian Brand Corporation exhibition is like looking into a red, plastic viewfinder.  Like those 3-D cartoon characters, it leaps out at you as soon as you walk into the Yukon Arts Centre gallery.

Get Out!
All the pretty horses Sled dogs remain a viable source of animal transport, but you still can’t don period clothing and ride them in a circle.  The Classic Open Horse Show returns to Watson Lake.

Firefighters want cancer comp
Dozens of firefighters across the country are dying of work-related cancer that isn’t covered by workers’ compensation. It’s a statistic that leaves many families distraught, said Alex Forrest, of the International Association of Firefighters.

Skaters converge for Canada Day competition
While many Whitehorse residents enjoyed free music at Shipyards Park on Canada Day, local skateboarders strapped on their helmets, hopped on their boards and competed in the 10th annual Canada Day Skate Competition.

Territory drops $20k medevac bill
Sheldon Miller is no longer $20,000 in the hole. In an abrupt about-turn, the Yukon Hospital Corporation has agreed to pay the cost of a medical evacuation that Miller received shortly after moving to the territory four years ago.

Local pictures, global changes
Photos of closed factories, unemployment lines and other recession-refugees remain a fixture of magazines and newspapers across the country. For the men and women behind the camera, times are becoming equally tough.

Peel Watershed reveals prehistoric secrets
Dinosaur-era fossils discovered in the Yukon’s Peel Watershed last week have scaled up debate over the fate of the wilderness area. “(Fossil sites) give another little bit of a reason to go slow and carefully in developing these areas until we know exactly what we have,”...

Impact Well Drilling strikes gold
It was the Cinderella story of the Whitehorse Minor Soccer season. After finishing last in the regular season, Impact Well Drilling went on to win eight in a row, moving up from worst to first.

Na-Cho Nyak Dun ‘not happy’ with Fentie’s ATCO talks
Premier Dennis Fentie’s secret negotiations to merge the Yukon Energy Corporation with Calgary-based ATCO are straining relations with the First Nation of Na-cho Nyak Dun.

Dawsonites help rebuild Eagle
The biggest springtime flood on record nearly destroyed Eagle, Alaska. Dawson City residents are finishing the job. There’s work to be done before the town can be rebuilt, after all.

‘Major’ search still underway for missing Californians
More than 80 people continue to search for a California couple missing for nine days. The effort has now been deemed a “major” search—the first in Western Canada in almost two years.

It’s time to guarantee space for the rest of us, and our dreams
There isn’t much of our small and crowded planet that isn’t trodden by the heavy footprint of development. But there are some places, including the Peel River Watershed, that remain more-or-less intact.

Hunger strikes at Whitehorse jail
Karen Nicloux hasn’t eaten for two weeks. To avoid smelling the hot meals delivered to her dorm three times a day, the Whitehorse Correctional Centre inmate rubs Vicks VapoRub under her nose.

Mining, risk, and the ecology of perception
When we started mining we became human. This according to a geologist friend of mine. I don’t know whether it’s true or not, but it reveals that who we are and what we do changes the way we view the world.

Dogs pay the ultimate price for irresponsible owners
Dogs pay the ultimate price for irresponsible owners Re Dead Dogs, published Wednesday: I’m sad for the dogs in this story, because they are the ultimate losers in this. As an animal owner, and a former raiser of chickens, I can really identify with both


CBC North News
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Palin to step down as Alaska governor
Sarah Palin announced Friday she is stepping down as governor of Alaska at the end of the month, fuelling speculation she could make a run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

Baffinland Iron Mines may have to revise shipping from Nunavut
Baffinland Iron Mines may have to consider other routes to ship ore from its proposed Mary River mine site in Nunavut, due to public concerns presented to environmental assessors earlier this year.

Yukon firefighters battle blazes near Carmacks, Dawson
Yukon firefighters and air tankers went out Thursday night to a 240-hectare wildfire that came close to cabins along Little Salmon Lake, near Carmacks.

Air being tested for heavy metals in Iqaluit neighbourhood
Researchers are testing the air in Iqaluit's Lower Base neighbourhood to find out if heavy metals and hydrocarbons are in the dust.

Whitehorse keen to sell properties as reserve fund dwindles
Concern is growing over the City of Whitehorse's shrinking reserve fund, with officials warning budget cuts may come if they cannot sell some prime property sites.

N.W.T. lacks resources to help sex offenders: officials
The case of a man charged with assaulting a child at the Yellowknife library has highlighted concerns about a lack of resources to monitor and rehabilitate convicted sex offenders in the North.

Iqaluit men's shelter stays open with government help
The Oqota men's shelter in Iqaluit will stay open, thanks to an agreement that will see the Nunavut government take over the homeless shelter from the Salvation Army next year.

Yukon road officials warn Hamilton Blvd. extension not usable yet
Work on extending Hamilton Boulevard in Whitehorse is ahead of schedule, but Yukon government officials want people to keep off the roadwork until it's officially finished.

Armed standoff ends peacefully in Tulita
An armed man surrendered to police this week in Tulita, N.W.T., after leading them on a day-long search followed by a two-hour standoff.

More search for missing Yukon-bound plane
More military and volunteer personnel joined the search in the Yukon Thursday for an American couple whose small plane went missing almost two weeks ago.

Overdue tankers push through heavy ice to reach Iqaluit
Two commercial tankers reached Iqaluit early Thursday morning, days after thick sea ice on Frobisher Bay had delayed their arrival.

Latest EnCana pipeline explosion was deliberate: RCMP
Someone deliberately set the explosion that damaged another EnCana gas pipeline in northeastern B.C. early Wednesday morning, say investigators with the RCMP.

21 Nunavut women graduate with UPEI education degrees
Three years of study paid off for 21 Inuit women on Wednesday, when they became the first to receive masters of education degrees under a unique Nunavut-based program set up by the University of Prince Edward Island.

Funeral set for drowned N.W.T. boater
A family in Fort Liard, N.W.T., is preparing to hold a funeral this week for a man who disappeared on the Liard River last year.

Clues to origin of life revealed in Tagish Lake meteorite
New research into a meteorite that crashed into northern British Columbia nine years ago is revealing startling clues that could help unravel the origins of life on Earth.


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WLWriter This page demonstrates some various DotNetNuke modules. This module is a simple Text/HTML module which can be edited either online, through a web browser, or using Microsoft Windows Live Writer. (a nifty free tool from Microsoft). The Text/HTML Module is included with the core install of DNN.

The weather module on the left is a simple free module integrated into the skin to pull weather information from Yahoo.com on your chosen location, in this case Whitehorse.

The module above is an RSS feed reader which pulls current news stories from the CBC North RSS feed.

The module on the right is a component of the Simple Gallery Module, it displays random images from all of the galleries on the Gallery page.

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