Whitehorse Daily Star

November 18, 2011

• Are beaver cuttings good, bad or educational for passersby? Recently, I received a call with regards to the beaver cutting down trees along the Yukon River within the limits of the City of Whitehorse.
• Play sends a message about addiction and awareness Wake and Bake played Dawson on Nov. 7, near the end of its five-week Yukon tour.
• Dazzling Performance Dancers with the Extremely Moving Youth Society of Whitehorse
• 2011 Gala de la francophonie produced assortment of winners The 17th Gala de la francophonie, which took place last Friday, has been pronounced an unqualified success which far exceeded organizers' expectations.
• A vampire novelist finds out her ultimate faith is in God When it comes to matters of faith, Anne Rice is a bit difficult to pin down.
• What the cancer industry is hiding from you This is one of the most important messages I have seen for a very long time.
• Boston Marriage: A delight to the linguistic palate ( Review ) It is with raucous laughter that this writer finds herself sitting in the audience at the Guild Hall watching Boston Marriage on Wednesday evening.
• Lawyer urges prudence in hearing expert's evidence The law courts must be very careful when deciding whether to hear evidence from experts during a trial, says the lawyer representing the Ross River Dena Council.
• Denouncing Discrimination And Bullying MAD (Music Art and Drama) students,
• Six-month MP is setting a frenetic pace Six months after being elected MP for the Yukon, Ryan Leef has settled into the frenetic pace of his new life in Ottawa.
• Spent munitions are not perilous, probe concludes The truckload of munitions dropped off at the Whitehorse landfill Tuesday do not pose any safety concerns, explosive experts have determined.
• Yukoners to help ailing Alaskan musician An Alaskan songwriter who has touched the lives of many Yukoners will be honoured at a Whitehorse fund-raising concert tonight.
• Glittering new library to open next week The new Whitehorse Public Library will open its doors to the public on Nov. 23, with a grand opening event planned for Dec. 3.
• Leaders agree on house Speaker David Laxton has been nominated to be the Speaker of the Yukon Legislative Assembly.
• Sex assault charges dropped Charges have been dismissed against a former Yukoner accused of sexually assaulting a boy she looked after more than 25 years ago.
• Faro fire won't disrupt flights A small fire at the Faro airport this week will not affect aircraft landing in the community, officials say.
• Frigid weather worsens miseries of the homeless As night time temperatures begin to fall below minus 30 C, local homeless people and those working to support them are once again beginning to feel the burden of the territory's housing crisis.
• Campers ordered to leave Campers outside the Yukon government's main administrative building have been given 48 hours to leave.
• ‘I am saddened; I'm horrified': victim's friend This week's death of an employee at a Whitehorse auto centre has loved ones questioning the effectiveness of the territory's safety practices.

November 17, 2011

• Judge ponders whether to permit testimony Justice Leigh Gower of the Supreme Court of Yukon is considering whether to permit testimony from an expert witness in the case between the Ross River Dena Council and the federal government.
• Dawson City couple named Yukon's top farmers Lucy and Jack Vogt of Dawson City have been named 2011 Farmers of the Year.
• Unofficial Duties Commissioner Doug Phillips
• Canoe finds permanent home at college Halin de Repentigny has found a permanent home for the birch-bark canoe he built two summers ago in Dawson City.
• Liquor corporation pulls vodka cooler off shelves It's a sad day in the Yukon for the squeamish and recently of age.
• Going Nowhere This canoe has clearly over-stayed its welcome on the shores of Teslin Lake
• Jobless situation stayed consistent The latest unemployment statistics show the territory is running "business as usual,” says Gary Brown, the senior information officer for the Yukon Bureau of Statistics.
• MLAs to convene on city byelection day The Yukon Legislative Assembly will sit for nine days starting Dec. 1, Premier Darrell Pasloski announced today.
• Winter settles in with a vengeance It's not a record-breaking year for November snowfall, but it's close, and we're only half way through the month.
• ‘Astonished' government to appeal decision The judge in the long-running court case over francophone education in Whitehorse has ordered the government to pay the francophone school board nearly $1.5 million in court costs and damages for "acts of bad faith.”

November 16, 2011

• Combining a beef dish with a Pinot Noir from Burgundy May I present beef tenderloin in a filo paste and stuffed mushrooms with parsley butter and grated cheese with Pinot Noir from Burgundy?
• Heart, humour and harmony fill Dawson's Oddfellows Hall ( Review ) Heart, humour and harmony fill Dawson's Oddfellows Hall
• Parlour comedy to mount the Guild Hall stage Glance at a poster for Boston Marriage and you'd think it's a play about saucy women flitting around stage in corsets,
• Remembrance Day Ceremonies Photos clockwise from top:
• Dawson's recreation centre will be some time coming The pre-territorial election groundbreaking ceremony at the site chosen for the new recreation complex turns out to have been premature after all.
• Exhibit Debuts Whitehorse artist Nicole Bauberger opened Get There From Here,
• Law library robbed RCMP were called to the Andrew A. Philipsen Law Centre early this morning after $100 in cash was stolen from the law library.
• A Bad Start To The Day No one was taken to Whitehorse General Hospital after this collision
• Man charged with assaulting an officer, resisting arrest A 27-year-old Whitehorse man has been charged with two counts of assaulting a police officer and one count of resisting arrest after a confrontation with police last weekend at a downtown bar.
• Unlicensed Traffic These sure-footed caribou were spotted climbing a hill Monday
• Marsh Lake-area staking attracts society's scrutiny Of all the hard rock mineral claims staked in the Yukon so far this year, a handful have caught the eye of the Yukon Conservation Society's mining co-ordinator.
• Territory taking part in Pulmonary Disease Day If you can't catch your breath, you're not necessarily out of shape.
• Auto centre worker's death investigated The Yukon Workers' Compensation Health and Safety Board is investigating after an employee at a Whitehorse auto centre was hit by a custumer's car and died Tuesday afternoon.
• Parking revenue pierces $1-million mark Revenue from Whitehorse's parking services topped $1.1 million in 2010, city officials reported Tuesday.
• Potential danger of ordnance is unknown A truck-load of military ordnance dropped off at the Whitehorse landfill Tuesday has unleashed an investigation.