FEATURES:
A dummy's guide to the Northwest Passage
Sovereignty. Pollution. Melting ice. Think you know the dangers facing the North's iconic waterway? Think again.
By Michael Byers

The searchers
Sir John Franklin went missing 176 years ago - yet the race to find his bones (and his boats) is heating up. Meet the men who may well solve the Arctic's greatest mystery.
By Katherine Laidlaw

"Oh, for just one time I would kite-ski the Northwest Passage"
What do you get when you take two siblings, two kites on a 3,000-kilometre-long dream? One heck of a trek.
By Margo Pfeiff

The bigger they come
Just one in 1,000 Canadians is a Yukoner - yet they're huge on the national ski squad. How did such a tiny territory come to kick so much cross-country butt?
By Eva Holland

Gone mad
This time of year - the ninth month of winter - Northerners often go shack-wacky. Sometimes you can tell by the look in their eye. Sometimes you can tell by the gun.
By Nathan Vanderklippe

ARCTIC DISPATCHES:
Amped up with the Northernmost bar-band; reaping what you sew in Fort Simpson; Foxe Basin whale tales

OUR PEOPLE:
Saint of dangerous waters
When the going gets nasty on the Northwest Passage and sailors need help or hope, they all know: there's just one man to call: Peter Semiotuk.
By Nathan Vanderklippe

She's what everyone is wearing
Sarah Erasmus' t-shirt designs give Yellowknife a new style.

LOOKING BACK:
In a most dreadful sort of paradise
When Arthur Moffatt set off for the Barrenlands, he envisioned a land of plenty. He was plenty wrong.
By Jennifer Kingsley

LAST WORD:
Now we spread our wings
In springtime, birds by the millions flock back to the Yukon - and a pair of restless bird-watchers, grounded for months by the cold and dark - flap after.
By Anna Tupakka