Whitehorse Daily Star

April 27, 2010

• Getting lost in the world of spinning stories Lisa Moore compares writing to the work she used to have to do with chicken wire when she attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
• Injunction sought against Slinky Mine activity Dawson council took just over four minutes at noon Monday to decide it should have its lawyers seek a legal injunction to have work stopped at the Slinky Mine just off the Dome Road.
• Market could have two-year lease The Fireweed Community Market could soon officially be at home in the city's Frank Slim Building in Shipyards Park.
• Hospital plan is before board The Yukon Hospital Corp. filed its proposal with the Yukon Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Board (YESAB) to build a $25-million hospital in Dawson City at the beginning of April.
• Corner Mishap This two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Fourth and Second Avenues
• Girl Guide cookies to be sold Sunday The Girl Guide Cookie Blitz is over but there's still time to support Whitehorse Sparks,
• Minor Blaze The airport fire crew knocked down a brush fire Monday afternoon at the top of the bluffs above Main Street
• Minister spurns calls for a public inquiry Opposition Leader Arthur Mitchell wants a public inquiry into the December 2008 death of Raymond Silverfox in police cells,
• Specialists asked to help mine fatality probe Assistance from independent specialists is being sought in the investigation into Sunday's death of a mechanic working underground at the Wolverine Mine in southeast Yukon.
• Icy Waters project will boast asphalt road Homeowners who buy property in the proposed Eagle's Eye subdivision off Fish Lake Road will,
• ‘We have failed you; we have failed ourselves' The head of the Yukon's Mounties offered a public apology today for the RCMP's treatment of Raymond Silverfox, the Carmacks man who died in police custody in December 2008 in Whitehorse.

April 26, 2010

• Students help local groups Three local non-profit organizations have benefited from the work of six full-time Yukon College students.
• Minto Mine ceases its operations The spring melt has again halted mining operations at the Minto Mine, says Stephen Quin, president of Capstone Mining, the mine's parent company.
• Policies have changed; attitudes haven't The RCMP have tightened up some of their policies and increased oversight since the death of Raymond Silverfox,
• No Damage Whitehorse firefighters were called to Jack Hulland Elementary School at 7:48 p.m. Sunday where a grassfire had started near the transformer at the school.
• ‘He was the most amazing dad I could ask for' After seven days of often heart- and gut-wrenching testimony about the death of Raymond Silverfox,
• Vice-president research hired by Yukon College Dr. Chris Hawkins has accepted the position of vice-president research at Yukon College. He will begin officially in June.
• ‘Entire community' proud of top volunteer Thirty years ago, there were no services for people in the territory who had learning disabilities.
• Departing commissioner presided over trendsetting laws After 17 years as the Yukon's Public Service Commissioner, Patricia Daws is stepping down and retiring from three decades of government service in the territory.
• Fatal cave-in called ‘a very sad day' A second fatality in six months at the Wolverine Mine has shut down underground operations,
• ‘In the family's opinion, it was homicide' The family of Raymond Silverfox is not satisfied with the results of a coroner's inquest into the 43-year-old man's death.

April 23, 2010

• It's time to take bear spray into the bush On April 9, I saw my first flying insect of the year, so it's time to start carrying bear spray when walking bush trails.
• Volunteers expect to raise a flock of bucks for ducks More than 150 people are expected at the annual Ducks Unlimited Canada Whitehorse Committee banquet tomorrow evening at the Westmark Whitehorse Hotel.
• Embracing The Earth Members of the Kindergarten class of Takhini Elementary School
• J is for jihad and K is for Kalashnikov ( Bookends ) If Kathy Gannon is correct in her reporting of events,
• Writing: an apprenticeship that never ends "I wanted to be a writer from the time I was 10 years old,” Linda Holeman writes.
• Yukoners selected for Dragon's Den Elvis has left the building and is on his way to the Dragon's Den.
• Operations halted at Slinky Mine The owners of the Slinky Mine have been issued a stop-work order by the City of Dawson.
• Territory extends HPV study to June A study focused on the human papilloma virus (HPV) has been extended by three months in the territory.
• Lang takes bite of Big Apple Yukon Senator Dan Lang was the keynote speaker Thursday at the Yukon Forum in New York City.
• Job Fair Well Attended Denelle Dickson, of the Liard First Nation
• Acquittal clears way for ex-Yukoner's trial A U.S. federal jury Thursday found a man not guilty of murder in a 34-year-old killing on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation,
• Book sparked students' science award It was a little-known fact in the book Michael Kishchuk received from his great aunt at Christmas that provided the spark for this week's national science award presented to Kishchuk and classmate Lief Blake.
• Governments must work together, AYC told Instead of wrestling over which level of government is responsible for handling certain issues,
• Catching Some Rays Mountain goats relax at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve last Sunday.
• Phelps ‘not deflated' by poor meeting turnout Willard Phelps' community tour to flog his United Citizens Party
• Cadets to compete for national placing Royal Canadian Air and Army Cadets from the three territories will compete in Whitehorse this weekend
• Arts centre echoes students' love of music The love of music is evident inside the Yukon Arts Centre this week.
• Political stalemate seizes Lake Laberge riding Brad Cathers, the estranged Yukon Party member and former cabinet minister now sitting as the independent MLA for Lake Laberge,
• Four caribou cows shot, left to rot Four abandoned Porcupine caribou cows shot just east of the Dempster Highway have prompted investigators to call for public assistance.
• Hospitalization may have saved man, inquest told Raymond Silverfox died of a fast-acting infection most likely caused by inhaling his own vomit and could have been saved had he been seen by a doctor.