'If it's explorer season, why can't we shoot them?'

Welcome to Resolute, where, every winter, flocks of obsessive and frostbite-scarred North Pole trekkers launch their conquests of the Arctic – while weary townsfolk roll their eyes. By Margo Pfeiff

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At the gates of a strange kind of heaven

It's the first thing you'll come to when you cross into the North: a tidy building in a clearing in the forest. Congratulations, you've reached the 60th Parallel Visitor Centre. Welcome to the madness. By Katherine Laidlaw.

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Drew Hasselback

Northern gateway

Somewhere between Vancouver International Airport's boarding gate and its broad main hallway, the North begins.
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His stories were his life

When Paul Andrew retired from the CBC last spring, he had reported on all the major events of his lifetime in the NWT. As it happens, he'd also covered much of the history that shaped him.
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"The New Warrior": nuanced or native-sploitation?

A lot of time and thinking goes into each of our covers, but this month there was perhaps a little more to debate than usual. One of the aspects of this issue we discussed extensively was the choice of "the New Warrior" as Behn's cover line.
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Catching up with Caleb Behn: behind the June cover

When the plane touched down, the editors began their frantic search for a generator and three different photo shoot locations. Their cover man, on the other hand, was napping.
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Photo Essay

Freeze frame

Check out the winners of our 10th annual readers' photo contest! Stay tuned for more info on the 2011 contest.

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