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Oct 24, 2024 | 
uphere.ca | Dana Bowen
THE NEW SIX ARTISTS PIONEERING VIEWS ON NORTHERN TRADITIONS! ALL THIS AND MORE.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
uphere.ca | Dana Bowen |Fran Hurcomb
The passengers were shaken awake as their flight finally made its turbulent landing in Edmonton. It was 2:30 a.m., and rain and hail were pelting against the windows of the Canadian Forces Hercules C-130 that had brought them here. For some of the passengers — 57 long-term-care residents of AVENS: A Community for Seniors and a baker’s dozen of support workers — it would have been another disorienting moment in a long, chaotic day, especially for those with dementia or other cognitive issues.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
uphere.ca | Dana Bowen |Fran Hurcomb
The passengers were shaken awake as their flight finally made its turbulent landing in Edmonton. It was 2:30 a.m., and rain and hail were pelting against the windows of the Canadian Forces Hercules C-130 that had brought them here. For some of the passengers — 57 long-term-care residents of AVENS: A Community for Seniors and a baker’s dozen of support workers — it would have been another disorienting moment in a long, chaotic day, especially for those with dementia or other cognitive issues.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
uphere.ca | Dana Bowen
Kiah Vail didn’t think Fort Smith could run out of firefighting equipment. “Our warehouses always seemed endless whenever I’ve been in them,” says Vail, a 22-year-old firefighter who spent this past summer on the frontlines of the Northwest Territories’ record-breaking wildfire season. Now, she feels differently. “There were points when I was on the line this summer, we had run out of gear.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
uphere.ca | Dana Bowen
While the smoke drew a grey blanket over the landscape, Northerners in Yellowknife and its surrounding communities shut their windows and doors tight, hiding from the air. It had already been a long and stressful summer across the NWT. By mid-August, more than two thirds of its residents had evacuated, some more than once. Before and after evacuations were called, residents opened their phones and turned on the TV desperate to know what was happening.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
uphere.ca | Dana Bowen
Wayne Korotash woke up around 7:30 a.m., made a cup of coffee, and turned on the TV for a bit of background noise. The house, a rental, was quiet. His wife, Melissa Hofmann, and their two teenaged kids had left Hay River three days earlier for their son’s hockey camp in Sylvan Lake, Alta. It was just Korotash and Pickles, the family’s Cavalier King Charles Spaniel poodle mix, at home on this clear-skied morning, Sunday, Aug. 13. Although it was windy, Korotash thought perhaps he’d go golfing.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
uphere.ca | Dana Bowen |Rhiannon Russell
The northern Canadian territories of Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon form a vast area of natural beauty and are chock full of unusual opportunities. For anyone looking for a change of lifestyle and environment, the territories offer alluring prospects in dozens of vibrant communities, a rich cultural heritage, and breathtaking landscapes. Here are five reasons to considermoving to Northern Canada. 1.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
uphere.ca | Dana Bowen |Rhiannon Russell
Rankin Inlet’s annual family fishing derby is usually a bigger deal. But this year the crowd is small and subdued, even though the trout and cod competitions are on the same weekend. There’s good money at stake—the longest of each species wins $5,000, with decreasing amounts for the runners-up—and it’s a brilliantly sunny and surprisingly warm day. But there’s no line-up at the trout-measuring table and while the cod table is busier, there’s not much excitement.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
uphere.ca | Dana Bowen
Ron Allen rummages through his deep freeze, pulling out rumpled plastic bags bulging with caribou hide and seal-skin clothing, many almost half a century old. He carefully sorts the custom-made Inuit parkas, western Arctic mittens and mukluks into neat piles. “You have to keep them frozen, otherwise they just dry out and disintegrate,” says Allen. His deepfreeze treasure chests share his home’s spic-and-span garage with a Harley Davidson motor bike and rows of neat tool racks.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
uphere.ca | Dana Bowen |Rhiannon Russell
Yukon autumns may be brief, but nothing beats sauntering across hillsides of golden poplars cloaked by the morning fog. The earthy scent of frost-nipped highbush cranberries floats on the wind. Red squirrels are scurrying about, drying mushrooms in the forks of tree limbs while beavers cache willows beside their lodge in preparation for winter. The night sky returns, filled with stars, and the Northern Lights resume their dance.
