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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 10h

Updated Yukon Territorial Election list of candidates as of Oct 8th! Now with debates and forums, and there’s quite a few being proposed so let me know if you hear of one that isn’t on the list!

Any additions/corrections welcome.

#Yukon #ytpoli #ytelection2025

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 13h

The Numbers Are Clear—New Survey by CPAWS Yukon Shows Yukoners Want Better Protections for the Environment cpawsyukon.org/polling2025/ via @cpawsyukon.org

#Yukon

The Numbers Are Clear—New Survey by CPAWS Yukon Shows Yukoners Want Better Protections for the Environment - CPAWS Yukon

A recent poll commissioned by CPAWS Yukon found Yukoners overwhelmingly care about the environment and want to see it better protected. [Learn more]

cpawsyukon.org

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 1d

Snowing! But not sticking

#Whitehorse #Yukon

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 1d

Updated Yukon Territorial Election list of candidates as of Oct 6th! Now with debates and forums, and there’s quite a few being proposed so let me know if you hear of one that isn’t on the list!

Any additions/corrections welcome.

#Yukon #ytpoli #ytelection2025

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 2d

Updated Yukon Territorial Election list of candidates as of Oct 5th! Now with debates and forums! And speaking of such, the Environment Forum is tonight!

Any additions/corrections welcome.

#Yukon #ytpoli #ytelection2025

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 3d

“You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

#shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon

Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 4d

Bright lights, big city

#Whitehorse #Yukon

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 4d

The Millennium Trail by Robert Service Campground has been paved, although still not open to the public. Here’s hoping the barriers come down soon

#Whitehorse #Yukon

Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 4d

“I’m calling about your car’s extended warranty…”

#Whitehorse #Yukon

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 4d

Spotted yesterday

#Whitehorse #Yukon #swans

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 5d

YESAB recommends Canalask proceed but with conditions. Report at yesabregistry.ca/projects/7af...

#Yukon #mining

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 5d

These are good. Very good indeed. Available at The Independent

#chips #crisps

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 5d

And so it begins…

#yukon #ytelection2025 #ytpoli

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 6d

Updated list as of Oct 2nd! Now with debates and forums! Any additions/corrections welcome.

#Yukon #ytpoli #ytelection2025

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 7d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 6d

Who needs northern lights…

#sunrise #Whitehorse #Yukon

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 7d

Third night in a row! My sleep schedule is in tatters!

#aurora #Whitehorse #Yukon

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 7d

Updated list as of Oct 1st! Any additions/corrections welcome.

#Yukon #ytpoli #ytelection2025

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 8d

Here we go again

#aurora #Whitehorse #Yukon

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 8d

Shout out to Yukon Highways and Public Works for quite possibly the best multi-use diversion path I have ever seen! It’s to accommodate bike and foot traffic while the airport trail around the north end of the runway is paved

#YXY #Whitehorse #Yukon #activetransportation

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 8d

Don’t know how your day is going but mine is awesome

#biblioholic

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 8d

“Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.” - Andy Warhol

#shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon pic by anon

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 9d

Visible from Downtown!

#Whitehorse #Yukon #aurora

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 9d

“I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.” - Slavoj Žižek

#shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon

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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 10d

What a time to be alive! Available at the Independent

#Whitehorse #Yukon #chips

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