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The author, always an avid writer, found an instant readership when she began publishing in her 60s. Michelle Cyca is a writer, editor and book enthusiast living on unceded territories of the Musqueam Band, and the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She’s written for the Vancouver Sun, Chatelaine, SAD Mag and more. Find her on Twitter @michellecyca. SHARES Michelle Good is now working on a historical novel, based loosely on the life of her great-grandmother, who was born in 1856 and lived through the North-West Rebellion and the clearing of the Plains to allow...

May. 18, 2021 , 5:10 PM Sugar molecules bound to RNA may be playing a new—and as-yet-unknown—role in controlling immune reactions, The Scientist reports. The molecules, called glycans, were already known to bind to proteins and lipids, where they help control chemical signaling between cells (particularly immune signaling) when the sugar-tagged molecules migrate to the cell surface. But as Science reported in 2019, researchers found that glycans could also bind to strands of RNA, which normally translate genetic information into proteins and catalyze chemical reactions. The new finding,...

Leaving Skagway, Alaska, in June 1990, Chris Townsend followed the footsteps of the Klondike goldrushers over Chilkoot Pass to Whitehorse, then north across the Yukon's rugged mountains, wild rivers, and muskeg swamps. 83 days later he crossed the Arctic Circle, struggling to the end of his route through two feet of snow. A travel writer in the best 19th-century tradition, Townsend is little given to introspection. His focus is outward, on history, geology, and wildlife, all of which the Yukon offers in abundance. Everywhere he finds reminders of the gaunt men with gold in their eyes and fros...

How Germany’s ‘Deal With the Devil’ Backfired and Changed History On April 16 in the fateful year of 1917, the Russian communist Vladimir Lenin arrived in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) from exile in Switzerland. The Germans, with whom Russia had been at war since the summer of 1914, secretly arranged his return, granted him safe passage through Germany, and even gave him millions in gold. They hoped he would stir up enough trouble that Russia would withdraw from World War I. A vaccine is supposed to inoculate a person against a virus. Injecting Russia with Lenin was tantamount to admin...

Doug Bell, who served as Yukon's 34th commissioner, has died. He was 94. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Apr 19, 2021 3:11 PM CT | Last Updated: April 19 Doug Bell was commissioner of Yukon from 1980 to 1986. He died on Sunday at the age of 94.(Yukon Archives) comments Former Yukon administrator and commissioner Doug Bell has died. He was 94. Bell was the territory's 34th commissioner, holding the post from December 1980 until his retirement in March 1986.  "He's a super interesting guy and, you know, like a lot of Yukoners of his generation, a one-of-a-kind sort of individual," said ...