Whitehorse Daily Star

April 27, 2011

• The River: making the most of a dubious script ( Review ) Our city, as seen from The River, is not a pleasant place to live. It is mean and dangerous and utterly devoid of joy or hope.
• Stoking a generation of self-assured women Being a 14-year-old girl in the Yukon can mean many things.
• Housing woes seen as ‘dire straits' for Dawson When it comes to housing and accommodation options for people arriving in Dawson this summer,
• Northern premiers meeting in Yellowknife Territorial premiers are discussing common issues affecting their jurisdictions at their ninth annual Northern Premiers' Forum in Yellowknife today and tomorrow.
• Driver may have posed risk to public: RCMP A suspected cocaine dealer who was arrested last Thursday may have endangered a number of pedestrians
• First loyalty would be to constituents, Leef says Conservative election candidate Ryan Leef is sticking by his pledge to always vote with the Yukon if elected to Parliament, even if it means going against the party line.
• Egg-Citement at Swan Haven Youth head out on an Easter egg hunt last Sunday
• Council proves flexible on infill controversy Porter Creek resident Cam Koss says he's OK with city council's final version of the bylaw required to bring forward 21 infill lots in Porter Creek and Crestview.
• Labour federation slams timing of events Alex Furlong, the president of the Yukon Federation of Labour,
• Dennis Fentie: remembering the early years Dennis Fentie jumped into territorial politics in 1996 as a New Democrat and as a Watson Lake businessman working in a logging industry floundering under the troubled forest management regime of the federal government.
• No more speculation: Fentie out After months of speculation, Premier Dennis Fentie settled any doubts about his political future today and announced he is stepping down as leader of the Yukon Party.

April 26, 2011

• Food bank bags to be distributed With 6,500 empty bags to distribute this week, organizers of the annual spring food drive done by local churches are hopeful condo and apartment residents will get in on the action too.
• Author happy to be visiting the Yukon again This is part of the Star's annual series of visiting author profiles which began last week.
• Parking management plan will emerge soon A plan that could mean more downtown parking meters, an eventual park-and-ride system and other changes aimed at dealing with the parking situation downtown will be come to council in May.
• Roaming rodent cut power to Riverdale residents A squirrel climbing around inside a substation knocked out the power to Riverdale Monday morning for up to 46 minutes for some customers.
• Spring Digging Excavation for the planned Yukon River wharf
• College recruits new president from within Dr. Karen Barnes will become president of Yukon College effective July 1, the college announced today.
• Mitigation plans proposed for quarry An assessment board is proposing five recommendations for the Kwanlin Dun First Nation's operation of a gravel pit in the McLean Lake quarry area.
• Lack of open water sees swans lingering here Signs of a late spring are most conspicous by their absence.
• Third hopeful emerges for Fentie's job Premier Dennis Fentie's iron grip on his cabinet is becoming a central theme of the Yukon Party's leadership race, which drew a third contender this morning.
• Survey has Greens leading New Democrats The Yukon is still Larry Bagnell-country, says a DataPath Systems poll released today.

April 25, 2011

• Boulevard parking may be banned The days of parking on most city boulevards could soon be gone, replaced with pruning and weeding.
• Writing provides a learning curve: author The Star is publishing its annual series of visiting author profiles.
• Minister tells of behind-the-scenes YEC drama Cabinet ministers should be given more freedom to operate than they have under Premier Dennis Fentie, says Economic Development Minister Jim Kenyon.
• Ladies Auxiliary plans Easter dinner The newly formed Ladies Auxiliary will provide an Easter dinner for the people served by the "Van with no fixed address” on April 30.
• Yukon Women in Trades to unveil new strategy Yukon Women in Trades and Technology is transforming itself.
• Advocate committed Edith Josie to film On Jan. 1, 1995, Cathleen Smith looked out at the cold, dark aspect of Whitehorse from the window of her hotel room at the Gold Rush Inn and asked her husband, Jaime: "What are we going to do in this place anyway?”
• Fun and Games Youth have fun at Swan Haven,
• Neighbour speaks out against subdivision A Porter Creek resident has asked the city to turn down a neighbour's proposal to subdivide a property in order to build a duplex.
• Major 9/11 questions still unanswered, film shows When Max Fraser started collecting footage and stories about how Sept. 11, 2001 played out in the Yukon's capital,
• Major mining project granted water licence The Yukon Water Board has issued a water licence for the Selwyn Project.
• Many urged him to run for leadership, candidate says Rod Taylor, the outgoing chair of the territory's tourism industry association, will challenge for the leadership of the Yukon Party, the Star learned today.