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Yukon trapper Robert Stitt reflects on a solitary life in the bush, and why he’s making a change

Seventy-five-year-old Robert Stitt’s youthful energy, clear eyes and hearty laugh might perhaps be chalked up to 55 years of trapping: long winter months working outside in the fresh air and sleeping in a remote cabin under the northern lights. Stitt’s been trapping on the Beaver River in southeast Yukon, about …

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Dick Cheney, powerful and polarizing U.S. vice-president to George W. Bush, dead at 84

Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice-presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84. Cheney died Monday night due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, according to a …

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