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Yukon Rendezvous slices 'Sourdough' from its name Organizers of Whitehorse's annual winter festival say the event is set to go ahead next month, with some pandemic precautions, and a new name. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Jan 26, 2021 6:57 PM CT | Last Updated: March 4 The office of the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous in Whitehorse, in February 2020. The annual winter festival has now dropped the 'Sourdough' from its name and devised a new logo.(Paul Tukker/CBC)

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In that class I was exposed to home-grown literature from the arcane to the sublime (Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman comes to mind), but sticking in my memory these days is Susanna Moodie. Atwood published a book of poetry based on Moodie’s books, The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Moodie’s books carry titles such as Roughing it in the Bush and Life in the Clearing. I was young and arrogant and I can remember thinking, “O, Susanna, what a whiner you are!” Moodie’s writing is hard slogging and the Atwood poems inspired by her efforts equally difficult. Moodie chronicles the hards...

Don't you know if john mccain were in your shoes here today he would be using some salty word he used in the navy while my mother jabbed him in embarrassment. he would keep grinning. she was the only one who could do that. on their first date when he still did not know what sort of woman she was, he recited a robert service poem to her called the cremation of sam mcgee about an alaskan prospector who welcomes his creation as the only way to get warm in the icy north. there are strange things done in the midnight son by the men who want gold. he had learned it in hanoi. a prisoner in the next c...