Amy Kenny

1 week ago | yukon-news.com | Amy Kenny

The sum is greater than the parts — that’s the magic of EnviroSongsters. Just ask the Songsters. “We’re kindred spirits. When we get together and share and bounce ideas around, there’s a kind of synergy,” says Remy Rodden of himself and Peter Lenton, two solo children’s performers who started playing together years ago as EnviroSongsters, a family performance supergroup that also plays in school classrooms.

1 month ago | uphere.ca | Randy Freeman |Amy Kenny

Colin Fraser steps out of his office and heads down to check the water intake for the desalinization plant at B2Gold’s marine port at Bathurst Inlet. This long fjord extending inland south of Victoria Island is mostly ice covered, with deceptive bits of open water, in late November. The lights from this large camp reflect brightly off the snow. In the dusk, movement overhead catches his eye—six birds, circling, flashing wingbeats in the glow of the lights.

1 month ago | uphere.ca | Amy Kenny |Trina Moyles

Col. Harry Snyder lived by a philosophy that may seem strange in the modern world. He credited his extraordinary success in business to a belief that “big game hunting is the surest… way to gain strength for success in modern business and professional life.”Born in 1882 in Vinton County, Ohio, and growing up surrounded by woods with plenty of small game to hunt, the young Harry Snyder came to realize that all he wanted in life was to hunt big game.

Feb 3, 2025 | uphere.ca | Randy Freeman |Amy Kenny

Picture the scene. It’s around dawn on an August morning at Pellat Lake on the headwaters of Nunavut’s Back River. I’m sitting on my cabin porch to watch the sunrise when quick movements on the esker high above camp catch my eye. Foxes? I leave the porch and creep up the slope, staying low in the heather. In a moment, I’m treated to the sight of creatures making great aerial leaps. These aren’t foxes, but arctic hares—three of them—engaged in an energetic ballet.

Jan 27, 2025 | uphere.ca | Amy Kenny

Prior to the First World War, the Canadian government began installing radio telegraph stations in key locations in Northern Canada. These stations, administered by the Royal Canadian Corp of Signals (RCCS), were expensive, high powered and operated by specially trained radiomen. And although they were a military project, the services would be available for civilian use. The Hudson’s Bay Company was keenly interested.