SMITHERS, B.C., Canada – Life ain’t fair. Driving through Canada listening to the CBC, that nation’s public radio network, you get an ear full of just how unfair. The stories of those […]
The downtrodden
Arctic fish boom
Apparently fueled by a warming Bering Sea, the 2019 salmon boom in Northwest Alaska stretched far to the east along the Arctic Coast. Canadian officials are reporting they saw unprecedented numbers of salmon […]
Future beer
Twenty-seven years ago this March, the New York Times declared the Alaska Delta barley project, the dream of the late and revered Gov. Jay Hammond and policy sidekick Bob Palmer, a giant […]
Fantasy news
A stray dog named Nanook is today the most famous animal in Alaska since Stubbs the cat, the alleged mayor of an Alaska town with no mayor. What a difference […]
Sled Dogs = Blackfish
Sea World Entertainment, the mother company for the popular marine parks of the same name across the southern tier of the United State, this week announced the layoff of more than 320 […]
More “Sled Dogs”
“Sled Dogs,” the Canadian movie that has angered Alaska dog mushers and sent a ripple through the world of Iditarod, has not one but two new trailers out to promote its scheduled […]
Reality news
Is it real, or is it “reality” news? You know, reality news as in “reality TV,” as in “it could be real, you know,” even if it probably isn’t. Can you say […]
