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❄️💦 When it comes to “wild swimming” in the Yukon, the only thing truly wild might be the water temperature!

Story by Amy Kenny
Photo by Rhiannon Russell

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Making waves this week in Cold Snaps: paddlers training, the Navy testing waters in Whitehorse, and Iqaluit diving into major upgrades—basically, it’s water, water everywhere. 💧

Photo courtesy of Somba K’e Paddling Club

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This week’s Tear Sheet takes us back to June 2014, where the conversation on cultural appropriation in the North was already making waves.

'Inappropriation'
Story by Samia Madwar

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✏ Long-hidden Inuit drawings are finally getting their spotlight. Turns out these archives were keeping the best art secret in the North!

'Sights Unseen'
Text by Cooper Langford
Photos courtesy of Kinngait Studio archive

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🚿 Iqaluit cars are sparkling again, Yukon veggies are sprouting, and NWT youth just turned funding into a game. Fall in the North is anything but boring!

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Ever wondered what your pup is really thinking? 🐕 A psychic spills the secrets straight from the dog’s mind in this wild read.

'I’ll Be Doggone'
Story/Photo by Amy Kenny

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From music funding in the Yukon to new homes in Nunavut—and a heartfelt goodbye in the NWT—this week’s Cold Snaps brings stories of loss, hope, and resilience from across the North. 🌍❄️

Our hearts go out to the family and friends of Sam Gargan.

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🔦 When the long northern night falls, the land whispers tales of phantom gunshots, playful ghosts, and shape-shifting spirits—stories that demand to be shared.

'Stories For A Long, Dark Winter'
Story by Daniel Campbell, Laura Busch

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Big plays, big crowds, big memories! Up Here was proud to sponsor the Sport Yukon WHL Showcase in Whitehorse this past weekend. Thanks to everyone who came out to cheer, celebrate, and show what northern hockey spirit is all about. 🏒❄️

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🎥 Northern filmmakers are flipping the script—turning folklore, horror, and tradition into bold, homegrown cinema.

'Show and Tell'
Story by Genesee Keevil

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✨ Double the issues, double the fun!
Our September/October edition of Up Here AND Up Here Business Issue #3 are hot off the press! Two covers, one North, endless stories.

Subscribers keep your eyes peeled, you’ll have your new issue soon!

Not your typical beach day 🥶🐚 In Wakeham Bay, the tide waits for some it seems, especially when there are mussels to be had beneath the ice! Check out this weeks Tear Sheet story from 2002!

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Up Here was proud to be a sponsor of the Klondike Road Relay Volunteer appreciation night and we want to recognize all the amazing work the volunteers put in to making it happen. 👏💛

Congratulations to Lauren Muir, winner of the Air North round-trip ticket donated by Up Here! ✈️🎉

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☁ Baffin Island’s become an unlikely mecca for some of the most extreme thrill-seekers and BASE jumpers on the planet.

'Base Instincts'
Story by Cody Punter
Published in Up Here Oct/Nov 2014

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From whale tales to cool schools, the North is buzzing with fresh stories this week! Dive into all the action with ColdSnaps.

📚 School is cool in NWT
📄 New First Nations program in the Yukon
🎣 Nunavut fisheries hires new CEO

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In 1955, Arthur Moffatt set out for northern paradise—then promptly ran out of food, luck, and, eventually, canoes. The Dubawnt River trip became less ‘wilderness dream’ and more ‘how not to die in the Arctic.’

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🦆 Late summer in the North isn’t just about dodging mosquitoes (finally). Sit still long enough by a pond or river and you’ll catch ducks dancing, moose diving, and dragonflies having… complicated love lives. Patience pays off.

'Just Wait and See'
Story/Photo by Page Burt
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The North is on the move—catch all the stories in this week’s ColdSnaps!

🌊 A swimmer takes on the mighty Mackenzie.
🥾 A Nunavut woman plans a 200 km trek.
🚨 The Yukon calls for backup for first responders.

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🐻 Lost a tent, lost a paddle, almost lost a limb to a bear — here’s what NOT to do in the wilderness.

“Safe or Sorry: Up to You”
Story by Dwayne Wohlgemuth

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❄ This week up North: the Yukon powers up, Nunavut gets fewer cruise ships, and the NWT… well, it’s flown the coop. Catch up with what's happening Up Here with Cold Snaps!

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He turned a pew into a plush sofa, rigged curtains from burlap, and nearly turned his bride right back to Scotland—meet the MacGyver of Fort Wrigley, a story from 2011!

'A Hudson's Bay Boy Shacks Up'
Story by Randy Freeman

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🐻 Once terrified of bears, now she just shouts at them for fun. Yukon life changes you.

'Big, Bad Bruins?'
Story by Rhiannon Russell

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❄ From northern novels to next level recycling and a gaming boom, here's what's buzzing up North this week!

✍ NWT seeks book writers
♻ The Yukon upgrades its recycling
🏐 Nunavut gets its game on

Photo courtesy of Naster

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🛩️ Lost bush planes, missing pilots, and a diamond rush—sounds like the North’s version of Indiana Jones.

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🍻 Nothing beats a northern beer! Check out this week's article about hopping around the north.

"That was a Northern beer"
Story by Cooper Langford
Illustration by Monika Melnychuk

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❄ We have the catch up on all the northern stories you've missed this week, don't forget to signup for weekly updated every Friday!

🐦 Nunavut has gone to the birds
📻 NWT's Cabin Radio hits the airwaves
🎶 The Yukon makes sweet music

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🏠 This week we're looking back at some house-sitting lessons learned back in 2014!

'Last Word: She comes with baggage'
Story by Angela Gzowski

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🦊 Quorum at our Monday morning Up Here meetings must include at least one fox. Pictured here, a couple members of the fox family that den near the Whitehorse home of business editor, Amy Kenny. They taunt her dogs daily.

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🎇 Let's go crazy! In this weeks story, we look at some of the best northern activities to take part in this summer.

'Let's go crazy'
Stories from various writers
Photo by Mark Kelly

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