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FATTENING UP FOR FALL – A grizzly bear eats soapberries along the Haines Road recently. Photo by JANNIK SCHOU
August 18, 2019
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CELEBRATING THE SALMON – Appreciation Night was held Monday evening at the Whitehorse Fish Ladder. Here, youth take in the show. The event was held a week earlier than usual, and there were three chinook salmon in the tank. Hundreds of people turned out to the event.
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FRIENDLY COMPETITION – The Burwash Landing Bandits are seen at last weekend’s 31st annual Hand Games Tournament held at the Jackson Lake Healing Camp.
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POLITICIAN MEETS PIE – Inclusion Yukon held a carnival outside their offices in downtown Whitehorse last Sunday. A variety of games and activities were on the agenda. Here, Mayor Dan Curtis gets a pie in the face from Laura Peers.
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PLAYING THE BALL – Kendra Peters, on the Yukon White beach volleyball team, digs a ball during her Saturday match during the Western Canada Summer Games at Riverside Park in Swift Current, Sask. Photo by TEAM YUKON/SARAH LEWIS
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A BOUNTIFUL HARVEST – Bart Bounds, with Elemental Farm, is seen Thursday at the Fireweed Community Market. The market now has a beer garden sponsored by Nakai Theatre.
‘This is the lowest point I’ve ever seen the shelter’
Whitehorse poverty advocates are working in tandem with the Department of Health and Social Services to champion for more addiction services and safety measures at the increasingly volatile Whitehorse Emergency Shelter.
Doggone it! Canines lose daytime digs
In just a few weeks, Deb Gatien will no longer act as alpha to hundreds of community dogs – she’s closing the doors of the sole in-city doggy daycare, Camp K9, in September.
Curriculum changes loom on eve of school year
Yukon students entering Grades 11 and 12 this year will be taught with more flexibility and more localized content under the territory’s new curriculum.
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- ‘This is the lowest point I’ve ever seen the shelter’
- Doggone it! Canines lose daytime digs
- Curriculum changes loom on eve of school year
- Provision needs sharper intent, commission concludes
- Preserve set to receive record donation
- MP, challenger assess latest SNC-Lavalin twist
- Jury dismissed after judge declares a mistrial
- ‘This beautiful garden is planted in unity’
- Vuntut Gwitchin opt to rejoin central body
- Man is entitled to review in territory: court
- Activities heat up at Brewery Creek minesite
- YG’s quest for mine receiver can continue, court rules
Sports
- Barrault earns silver, bronze at WCSG
- Girouard wracks up two bronze in kayak
- Roldan wins Yukon’s first cycling medal
- B-ball team gains valuable experience
- Harescramble has riders test endurance
- Players gather for lacrosse tourney
- Phase 1 of WCSG comes to an end
- Youth tennis players gain game experience
- What's happening at the WCSG? Daily round-up
- Yukon tennis champions are decided
- Checking in on team Yukon in Swift Current
- WCSG athletes get pep rally send-off