The YUKON Magazine
A companion to the award-winning The Yukon Magazine, this podcast shares the same mission: to explore and celebrate life in the Yukon. Some episodes expand on stories from the magazine. Others are original, audacious, audio-rich stories you won’t hear, or read, anywhere else. Each series coincides with a new quarterly issue of the magazine, creating space for deeper conversations and place-based storytelling. Inspiring, real, and shaped by Canada's North.
Podcasting since 2021 • 93 episodes
The YUKON Magazine
Latest Episodes
River Breakup Season, Between Freeze and Flood
Each spring, northern rivers go from solid ice to flowing water. In the best-case scenario this process goes smoothly but if ice jams form, there can be trouble. We first ran this conversation with Holly Goulding, senior hydrologist with the Go...
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Season 13
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Episode 6
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33:34
Time is Tissue: Racing the Clock Against Frostbite
First it hurts. Then it stops. That’s when the clock starts ticking.With frostbite, time matters. It can mean the difference between recovery and loss. From Whitehorse, Yukon, surgeon Alex Poole and clinical pharmacist Josianne Gauthier ...
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Season 13
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Episode 5
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32:16
The Yukon Questionnaire w/ "rolling stone" Karen McColl
If anyone should fly through our Yukon Questionnaire, it ought to be Karen McColl. As a former editor of The YUKON Magazine and producer of this podcast, Karen has put the questionnaire to many fellow Yukoners. But, apparently, that’s not enoug...
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Season 13
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Episode 4
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21:13
The 22nd Sport
There are 20 sports at this year's Arctic Winter Games in Whitehorse. Pin trading has long been considered an unofficial sport at the AWG, so that makes 21.... And now, podcast producer Mark Koepke suggest...
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Season 13
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Episode 3
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39:07
((Music)) by The Lucky Ones: playing tribute to the 98 Hotel
"It was supposed to be a two-week workin' vacation," says musician Ryan West of his first trip to the Yukon." That was 2009. It's 2026 now, so it's been a long two weeks." One of the reasons Ryan stayed was the community—musical and...
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Season 13
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Episode 2
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22:56
