Whitehorse Daily Star

March 28, 2024

• Voices Influencing Change to launch booklet Voices Influencing Change and the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition will release Voices Influencing Change: Our Story at 4 p.m. April 3 at Hellaby Hall.
• Open House Going Today Nora Paton, this month’s Jenni House artist-in-residence, is working on a very interesting project.
• Automatic enrolment underway for new school Whistle Bend Elementary School – the first new elementary school to be built in Whitehorse in 20-plus years – will welcome students in August for the 2024-25 academic year.
• Young scientists take to the stage Photo Spread
• City’s transit ‘road map’ will go ahead City council has approved going ahead with a study to quickly scope out how it will manage to maintain transit service while moving toward zero emissions buses.
• Work on health authority will not be paused The Yukon Party has lost its bid for a hiatus in the plans to bring sweeping reforms to the territory’s health care system.
• School construction now slated for 2026 Documents from the Department of Highways and Public Works suggest construction of the new École Whitehorse Elementary School in Takhini isn’t planned to begin until 2026.
• Supreme Court upholds VGFN election condition The Supreme Court of Canada is upholding a rule that requires members of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation (VGFN) to live in its community should they want to serve on its council.
• Liberals ‘fumbled the ball’ on budget: YP When it comes to the supplementary budget, the Liberal government has “fumbled the ball,” the Yukon Party said Wednesday.
• Premier salutes anniversary Premier Ranj Pillai has extend best wishes to all Nunavummiut as they celebrate their territory’s 25th anniversary.
• Sportier version of Valleyview South plan headed to public Whitehorse residents have four weeks to mull over the plans for the Valleyview South neighbourhood, with a public input session set for April 22.
• No Star Friday Since the Star will not be published on Good Friday, today’s edition contains Friday’s usual features. We’ll be back Monday.
• Copper Ridge plan sent back for more clarity Instead of approving the Copper Ridge Development Area Master Plan, city councillors have decided to refer it back to administration for a bit more work.
• Winning ticket was bought in Yukon A Saskatoon woman has won $1 million on a Lotto 6/49 ticket purchased in Watson Lake.
• Denser development rules stir noise, traffic, greenery worries The deadline for public comment on the city’s plans to allow denser development in single-family residential areas has passed, with a majority of submissions voicing concern or opposition.

March 27, 2024

• Dog Powered Sports Association ends winter season Photo Spread
• Traffic lanes being moved The city is proactively shifting Robert Service Way traffic lanes away from the base of the escarpment.
• Health lodge ‘watered down’ to hotels: Cathers The construction of a new health lodge for Whitehorse doesn’t appear to be on the immediate horizon for the territory.
• AYC had invited McPhee to appear at several events The Association of Yukon Communities (AYC) tried unsuccessfully to get Health and Social Services Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee to visit their member communities.

March 26, 2024

• Annual IODE pool remains on firm ice In spite of the unusual open water in front of Dawson City this year, the IODE Dawson has decided that the annual ice pool will still be held.
• Good Energy clean transportation incentives The Yukon government is expanding the clean transportation rebates to include commercial medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles.
• City plans schedule changes over Easter weekend There will be a number of changes to city services and facility hours over the coming Easter long weekend.
• Officers investigated report of weapon At approximately 3:20 p.m. Monday, Whitehorse RCMP received a call about someone possibly carrying a weapon near Fourth Avenue and Alexander Street.
• Trip sees another Yukoner added to Russia’s sanctioned list The third Yukon-to-Ukraine mission undertaken by the Ukrainian Canadian Association of Yukon (UCAY) has not escaped the notice of the Kremlin in Moscow.
• Yukon Party calls out McPhee on Scotland ‘junket’ The Yukon Party is calling out Health and Social Services Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee on what it calls a junket that took her to Edinburgh, Scotland.