The online view from Up Here

Up Here magazine, published out of Yellowknife, has launched a new website that the magazine's editors hope will make it the portal for all things northern. Jessa Sinclair, the associate editor, calls the new site "snazzy" and we're inclined to agree.

Along with a 20-year archive and other features, including contests and polls, the new site is carrying daily dispatches from staffer Michael Ganley aboard the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis St. Laurent as it moves through the Northwest Passage:

On an earlier trip today the chopper flew 30 kilometres into Cambridge Bay to pick up supper for tomorrow night, the last night for most of the scientists onboard: 20 arctic char each in the 10-12 pound range, sixty muskox burgers and a box of char fillets.

“It was the strangest shopping trip I’ve ever been on,” says CP photographer Johnny Hayward, who wrangled his way aboard. “Drop into a little mud town by chopper, go directly to the fish plant, load up with $1,600 worth of fish and muskox, and fly directly back to the mother ship.”