yukon

It has selectable 4x4, gets amazing mileage on the highway (>35mpg) and has lived through many Yukon winters.

I tried this in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory on a cold winter day -- it doesn't freeze, it vaporizes.

Up here in the Yukon everyone has their batteries inside, else they'd freeze.

In Dawson City, Yukon they're driving across the Yukon River right now - it's part of the highway and the only access to town for the hundred or so people that live on the other side.

It's looking more likely that the Yukon Government will run their own fiber from Whitehorse->Skagway to tap into the fiber backbone there, cutting out Northwestel.

I live in the Yukon - it's -37C today and it's absolutely beautiful outside.

Not quite the same, given Yukon has a population density (2011) 0.07 /km2 (0.18 /sq mi), which is actually fairly hard to make a profit on.

People chiming in from the Yukon and Alaska.

I just bought a new (to me) 2007 Jeep, which is why I was driving from BC to the Yukon - vehicles are much cheaper in the south.

> Located well within the Arctic Circle, the bleak, almost unpopulated region around Kiruna That sentence makes me think of some of the s__t-hole mining cities and towns in and around the Arctic around here in Alaska / Yukon and NWT.

(like paying with gold dust in the Yukon or what have you) Beyond that I can see it being a result of extreme cultural stratification, as the article touches on - that it would be seen as demeaning for a higher-class person to put money directly into the lower-class person's hand.

Also, the territory formerly known as "Yukon Territory" officially changed its name to just "Yukon" on April 1st, 2003.

Most of Gold Rush is filmed in Canada, specifically anything involving "The Klondike", which is in the Yukon, Canada.

I live in the Yukon, and more than once this "winter" Yukon has been the hottest place in Canada, so we're all talking more and more about climate change and how nothing is what it used to be.

It took out everything in the Yukon, and tons of stuff in NWT, Nunavut and Northern BC and Alberta.

Exactly this happened to the monopoly ISP/telco up here in the Yukon, Canada.

I live in Alberta (south of Yukon) and it's the law here that all new vehicles be sold with a block heater.