Whitehorse Daily Star

February 1, 2012

• Society set to reel off 10th annual film festival fare Ten years ago, the Yukon Film Society held its inaugural Available Light Film Festival. Now the festival is the largest cinematic event North of 60.
• Watershed moment signals the arrival of growing season The first of my planted tomato seeds has sprouted.
• Boiler Blunder Members of the Whitehorse Fire Department respond to a call to the Elijah Smith Building just after 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
• Did you know? On the trail of local history! Ed. note: these historic items, submitted by the Whitehorse History Book Society, are published every second Wednesday.
• Checkup Spike
• Liberals begin a leadership experiment The Liberal party is trying something new.
• Landmark aboriginal rights decision handed down Canada's promise to look after the interests of Yukon First Nations 142 years ago is not enforceable in law,Yukon Supreme Court Justice Leigh Gower ruled Tuesday.
• Family loved the territory, relative says Last summer, Gabriel Rusk was over the moon.
• Locate detectors with care, fire chief urges Stores around the city quickly sold out of carbon monoxide detectors following last week's deaths of five people in Porter Creek.

January 31, 2012

• Dawson's wastewater plant taking shape In spite of temperatures in the minus 30s C, work continues on Dawson's new wastewater treatment plant.
• Mushers battled severe cold to reach vet check It wasn't the mushers, or even the dogs, who had objections to almost 50 below F temperatures.
• Council flashes green light at housing projects City council unanimously approved two multi-residential developments for the downtown area Monday night, but not without reservations.
• MP onside with planned pension reforms Ryan Leef is backing Prime Minister Stephen Harper's plans to overhaul Canada's pension system.
• WestJet's move could cost Yukon jobs WestJet's plans to enter the Yukon market could be harmful to local airline service and result in significant job loss, says Joe Sparling, president of Air North.
• ‘We are confident that this is a tragic accident' A relatively inexpensive carbon monoxide detector could have saved the lives of five people in Whitehorse last week.

January 30, 2012

• Mining industry onside with working with First Nations The mining industry realizes the value in working with First Nations, interim Liberal Leader Darius Elias said Friday.
• New Kid On Campus Freddy, F.H. Collins Secondary School's new mascot,
• Minister, critic differ on impacts of crime bill Mike Nixon reconfirmed his support for Bill C-10 after attending the justice ministers' meeting in Charlottetown last week.
• Snow Job Former Whitehorse resident Terry Gunderson of Team Canada Yukon
• TIA Yukon chair speaks to importance of tourism Tourism Industry Yukon (TIA) Yukon chair Neil Hartling appeared before Leona Aglukkaq, the Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and Minister of Health, as part of a pre-budget roundtable discussion late last week in Whitehorse.
• The Perils Of Winter Driving A loader clears snow from around a transport truck around 10:00 Sunday morning near km 1273 of the Alaska Highway near the Teslin Cottage Lots Road,
• City's new website up and running The City of Whitehorse has launched a new website, Mayor Bev Buckway announced today.
• Premier to visit governor in Juneau Premier Darrell Pasloski will head to Juneau tomorrow to discuss issues of mutual interest with Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell.
• Treat crime statistics cautiously, RCMP urge Recent reports by Statistics Canada indicate crime rates in the Yukon remain much higher in several areas, when compared with the national average.
• WestJet offering $99 introductory fare The price war has already started, following WestJet's announcement this morning that it will be offering a new Whitehorse-Vancouver route beginning in May.
• Five deaths ‘a great tragedy', mayor says Five people, including a family of four with two school-aged children, were found dead Sunday in a home in Porter Creek.