Yukon town stops to protest federal rules
Gary Park, PNA Canadian correspondent
Dawson City, whose population has declined to 2,000 from 40,000 in the Klondike gold rush of 1898, was shut down by a general strike March 12 to protest new federal rules that the town says will devastate its gold mining industry.
The Canadian government unveiled plans in December forcing miners to....
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