Whitehorse Daily Star

December 8, 2009

• Aboriginal staffers get their Awards of Honour Two Yukon government employees have received the Aboriginal Employees Award of Honour.
• Land use planning will continue: Fentie Premier Dennis Fentie won't say whether or when he'll entertain a suggestion to halt mineral staking in the Peel watershed until a land use plan can be finalized for the region.
• Toasting The Treats Youngsters warm
• Goods For Shelter's Clients Totes are loaded today in Whitehorse for mailing to the Help and Hope women's shelter in Watson Lake and Dawson City Women's Shelter.
• City nears decision on dog kennel bid A proposed boarding kennel for Squatters Road could have city council's approval as early as next week.
• Fiddling For Funds The Tahltan fiddler Gerald Edzerza, Rob Bergman, Ed Anderson and Steve Hare
• Roadside compassion saves lynx's life Two Yukoners made a once-in-a-lifetime rescue recently, which left local wildlife experts shaking their heads in disbelief.
• Thomson Centre to get more renovations to house more long-term care patients The Yukon government will renovate the Thomson Centre beside Whitehorse General Hospital to meet the territory's growing continuing care needs,
• Premier hears urgings to save youth club The territory's opposition MLAs want the Yukon government to save the Boys and Girls Club of Whitehorse,

December 7, 2009

• Yukon supports convention on the rights of people with disabilities The Yukon government supports Canada's intention to ratifiy the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Justice Minister Marian Horne said Friday.
• ‘We should never remain silent about violence' More than 100 Yukoners gathered at the Elijah Smith Building on Friday afternoon in solemn recognition of those women who have lost their lives to violence.
• CPAWS praises Peel blueprint The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Yukon chapter (CPAWS-Yukon) is congratulating the Peel Watershed Planning Commission for recommending large-scale protection for the Peel watershed.
• Here Comes St. Nick Stilt Walkers, drummers, a dragon and members of the public paraded down Main Street on Saturday for the Winterval Parade.
• Car veers off street into house A vehicle smashed into a house in Copper Ridge on Saturday, doing significant damage to the home but not the people inside,
• Roadside hunting triggers debate Debate over implementing hunting restrictions along the Yukon's highway corridors ended prematurely last week in the legislature,
• Territory to send 12 people to Denmark ( Analysis ) Territory to send 12 people to DenmarkTerritory to send 12 people to Denmark
• Club's demise called ‘a tremendous loss' It could be a cold winter for locals who use the services of the Whitehorse Boys and Girls Club. All of the club's operations will cease as of next Monday.

December 4, 2009

• Christmas turkey has a long history As I sit down and turn out this Voice Of The Outdoors column, it will celebrate the 39th year I have been writing under that title.
• Unusual encounters and stories from the margins DAWSON CITY – Linda Goyette is fascinated by five kinds of stories, she explained to her audience of a dozen at the Dawson Community Library on Nov. 23.
• A sweet trip down Memory Lane – and more ( Sound Advice ) As the chart-topping, cowboy-hatted musical band wagon,
• Fifth-wave feminism is on the RISE ( Preview ) Ask Sierra McIsaac and Josie O'Brien about feminism,
• The engrossing anatomy of a dating scam ( Bookends ) Tess, the central character of T.G. Diamond's book, is a woman desperate for romance and stability.
• Celebrating The Season Peter Menzies, Simon Crelli, Karen Dubois, David Curtis, Kerry Barber and Maria Nyland (left to right) perform seasonal carols
• Caribou Claim Called 'A Deliberate Hoax' Ed. note: this is the final part of a three-part series on caribou in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut published in the Star's North section over the last several weeks.
• Journal features Yukon, Alaska writers A special fall literary issue of the Northern Review, Yukon College's multidisciplinary journal of the arts and social sciences of the North,
• Government rewards safe driving habits The Child Car Seat Safety program will contribute $2,000 toward registered education savings plans (RESPs) for four lucky children at a public event to recognize National Safe Driving Week.
• A Chair With History? Last summer, long-time Whitehorse resident Pat Ellis picked up this damaged old captain's chair on Lewes Boulevard across from F.H. Collins Secondary School.
• ATCO head's visit featured food and chit-chat: Fentie Sandwiches and pleasantries are all that were exchanged when Premier Dennis Fentie and ATCO president Nancy Southern met in Whitehorse last Friday.
• Evictions from committees called moot point Brad Cathers was voted off three legislative committees Tuesday, but the independent MLA says it's an empty gesture when some of the decision-making bodies have not met for years.
• ‘Take up the cry of the tartan,' MLA urges The territory's most distinctive fabric could be making a fashion comeback on the streets of Whitehorse if politicians vote in favour of making 2010 the year of the Yukon tartan.
• Driver arrested after pedestrian is struck Whitehorse RCMP believe speed and alcohol were factors in a hit-and-run incident on Second Avenue this morning.
• Sharing The Spotlight With An Icon Former Yukon MP Audrey McLaughlin
• Ex-MP forged political history 20 years ago Twenty years ago this week, Audrey McLaughlin made history by becoming the first woman to command a federal political party following her victory at the New Democratic Party's leadership convention on Dec. 2, 1989.
• Zoo turns to Yukon for sheep insemination Ewes at the Calgary Zoo have been artificially inseminated with Yukon sperm in hopes of adding a Dall lamb to the Canadian Wilds Exhibit.
• Plan could cost Yukon taxpayers dearly There are huge financial and legal implications arising out of the recommended land use plan for the Peel watershed, the president of the Yukon Chamber of Mines believes.
• Groups digest Peel watershed decision The recommended Peel plan is a victory for the wilderness – not totally – but quite soundly, says the vice-president of the Wilderness Tourism Association.
• Local man dies after truck rolls in B.C. A Whitehorse man died Wednesday after losing control of the transport truck he was driving on the highway between Fort Nelson, B.C. and Watson Lake.
• Plan sets out the city of the future The Whitehorse of the future could be a city with buildings of up to six or seven stories,