It didn't get a pass on that in part one and it's not going to in parts four or five either.

Maybe. I've only ever lived in the Northwest Territories so I don't know a whole lot about southern Canada's needs versus ours.

Man. When I moved here I got a little mailbox down the end of the street. That was an upgrade on the last place, where all the mail went to the grocery store for pickup.

Yeah, maybe you're right. Oddly, though, the same broadcaster needed a reference for someone else last year and for that one, the regular human being who'd be hiring them (who I didn't know) just phoned me up. I guess things changed.

(In both cases, the people I was being asked about are amazing human beings. These references were not hard and I hope they get hired. But the process seemed designed to be minimally useful to the actual person who'll be managing them.)

1. I can't imagine being an employer and not actually being on the call to hear from people about someone you're thinking of hiring.

2. They don't even tell me what position these people are applying for! Isn't that... quite crucial to knowing if they'll be a good fit for it?

Unless you're sleeping at William Mac school, no need to worry. It's not a YK-wide issue (the city's water is tested all the time).

Put another way: If they're prepared to try it for a heckin' mushroom story, what else are they prepared to try to have edited – or working frightfully hard to phrase carefully – that might be less ridiculously benign?

Not impressed. Leave your poor employee alone, too.

I debated whether to share this, I'm sure everyone's only following orders etc. However, it troubles me that Parks Canada saw a good chance of successfully getting a newsroom to stealth-remove the word "heck" in a story about fungi.

There are boundaries. Big ol' boundaries. For very good reasons.

If the quote had been "I'm gonna get me some mother-f**kin' mushrooms," we might have paused pre-publication. Maybe. (Maybe not.)

In 2025, some poor Parks Canada employee trying to promote a mushroom-spotting event is presumably now dealing with a menacing phone call over the phrase "heck, yeah."

Importantly, Aurora College's board (not the GNWT) decided to close the community learning centres. The GNWT appears to have been as surprised as anyone and has since been working out how to fill that gap.

Think I found the tipping point.

Can confirm. We're receiving some money from this but aren't on the list, presumably because we only just had confirmation a day or two ago.

Come talk to Cabin Radio about this if you have the time!

The Yukon *might* actually have some polling data. The Yukon Party commissioned a Leger poll in Feb. The results I've seen were focused on territorial politics but I suppose it's possible that there was a federal question tucked in there.

Ironically, the reality of these maps is: nobody in the Northwest Territories knows what’s up. There’s no polling here. The only reason the NWT is red is because that’s what happened in 2021.

(Source: I run a newsroom here and have spent the past few weeks talking with polling firms about this.)