Sure, Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit all have great things going for them. One is their feisty spirit. So what could be more fun than pitting them head to head to head?

For more than a decade, Maritimers have sailed north to harvest millions of Nunavut turbot. Now, despite choppy seas, Inuit are casting nets into their own Arctic waters, hoping to haul in a fortune. By Brent Reaney

Mouldering in the Yukon’s idylic Pelly Mountains is the North’s most toxic minesite. By Michael Ganley

by Jason Unrau -- With his novel, The Lesser Blessed, poised to hit the silver screen, Richard Van Camp desperately wants it filmed in the NWT.

Up Here Business decided to run a little contest. We invited employees from across the North to write in and tell us what makes their company a great place to work. Is it the money, straight up? The perks?

By Jack Danylchuk -- Long ago, the Slave was the gateway to the North, and local boatmen knew its every bend. Now there’s an ambitious plan to re-open this corridor.

By Katharine Sandiford, Photographs by Natalie Fobes and Alaskastock -- Declining salmon stocks mean trouble for Yukon fishermen. The culprit, some say, is downstream.

By Michael Ganley -- The Pacific & Western Bank of Canada has lent hundreds of millions of dollars in the North since the mid-1990s.

By Michael Ganley -- Why, just 16 months after opening to general fanfare, is Tahera’s Jericho mine on the brink of collapse?

Up Here Business, covering issues big and small in Canada’s three territories, debuted in February and is on newsstands now.