Whitehorse Daily Star

December 9, 2010

• Eggcellent Research Taylor Hugo, left, and Skye Hanson looked at floating eggs
• Getting Prepared Lonnie Ariss hangs the annual Yukon Art Society members' Christmas exhibition and gift show today.
• YEU Human Rights Day fete will help food bank The Yukon Employees' Union will again host the Whitehorse public at its Human Rights Day Celebration set for 2-7 p.m. Friday.
• Omnipresent Reflection A reflection in a pool of ‘warm' water
• Meetings attempt to chart towns' futures Members of the Municipal Fiscal Framework Review Committee met with town and First Nation councils and the public Nov. 30
• Helping The Needy Vanier Catholic Secondary School teacher Mark Connell and school staff member Anilee Ault were cooking up breakfast at the Riverdale school's annual fund-raiser
• Car seat safety program winners unveiled The winners of the 2010 Car Seat Safety Program draw were announced last Friday by Highways and Public Works Minister Archie Lang.
• New Hunter Effort Survey is planned Environment Yukon is sending out a Hunter Effort Survey to licensed resident moose and caribou hunters to find how hunting practices may have changed since 2000,
• Western Copper appeal enters third day The Yukon Water Board was right to dig as deep as it did into the Carmacks Copper Project, says the lawyer representing two Yukon First Nations in this week's appeal hearing.
• Mining venture pursues second open pit The Minto Mine wants to go underground in its next phase of operations beginning next year.
• Pressure to oust chief gaining momentum Chief Eddie Skookum's leadership review should have been done by consensus, not a vote by the elders, says a growing faction of the Little Salmon-Carmacks First Nation (LSCFN).

December 8, 2010

• Sombre Gathering The Persephone Singers
• Association salutes members' lengthy service The Association of Yukon School Councils,
• Budding scientists took over cafeteria Yukon College's cafeteria was full of young scientists from six schools last weekend
• Teddy bear twins available at territorial liquor stores The popular Twin Bear program has returned to the Yukon's liquor stores, the Yukon Liquor Corp. said Monday.
• CFYT sets sights on expanding work space CFYT 106.9-FM is functioning well, has a strong list of DJs and is in good financial shape.
• Dawsonites dispute new trash rules Protests over changes to the local garbage collection regime have left town council members and CAO Jeff Renaud puzzled as to exactly what was happening and why at the last council meeting.
• Regulatory agency harmony needed, court told The Yukon needs and is supposed to have harmony among its regulatory agencies, Yukon Supreme Court Justice Ron Veale heard Tuesday.
• Local fund-raiser set for fire-stricken family Family and friends of retired RCMP officer Russell Blackjack are planning a fund-raiser to help the family, who lost everything in a house fire last Thursday in Carmacks.
• Hospice Yukon plans annual Lights of Life Amidst all the gift-giving and Christmas "joy”, the holidays can be a difficult time for anyone grieving the loss of someone close.
• Byelection campaign enters the home stretch With less than a week until the Whitehorse Centre byelection,
• Board was entitled to deny licence, judge told When the Yukon Water Board denied a water licence for the Carmacks Copper Project,
• Centre opens for users of wellness court The Yukon's chief judge is lauding the opening of a "one-stop” centre for people going through the Community Wellness Court.
• Draft bylaw drops $3 M insurance stipulation After months of consultation, city staff have come up with a new draft of its Vehicle For Hire Bylaw.

December 7, 2010

• Supreme Court ruling on land dispute provides certainty: chamber The Yukon Chamber of Commerce says it's pleased with the certainty the recent ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada provides on the land dispute between the territorial government and the Little Salmon-Carmacks First Nation.
• Minister, youth at climate change meet Environment Minister John Edzerza has joined the rest of the Yukon delegation in Cancun, Mexico for the COP16 international conference on climate change.
• ‘Violence against women is still prevalent' It has been 21 years since the massacre at École Polytechnique in Montreal, where Marc Lepine gunned down dozens of women, killing 14, simply because they were women.
• Santa Parade Winterval
• Yukon Supreme Court hearing into independence of water board begins A hearing to determine the extent of the Yukon Water Board's independence began today in Yukon Supreme Court.
• Education Options Galore Yukon College hosted the Western Canada Education Fair
• Sima to reopen on Thursday Mount Sima will reopen Thursday, though the chair lift won't be operating.
• Council's support for river park remains fluid Local paddlers will have to wait another week to learn whether city council is on-board for a study that could see the city's first white water park developed in the Yukon River.
• Recipients saw survey as ‘threat' A government survey that threatened to cut health care benefits for those failing to complete it is illegal, says Yukon ombudsman Tracy-Anne McPhee.