Whitehorse Daily Star

November 30, 2022

• Guffaws At The Guild The Guild Hall Comedy Night Saturday featured Shirley Gnome from Vancouver.
• Monkeypox vaccine now available The Monkeypox (MPOX) vaccine, Imvamune®, is now available for eligible Yukoners at the Whitehorse, Dawson City and Watson Lake Health Centres. The local centre is located on Quartz Road.
• Musicians bring a high note to Canada Music Week Photo Spread
• Whitehorse Community Choir gets seasonal The Whitehorse Community Choir is back to its full strength and will be offering two live Christmas concerts Friday and Saturday evenings with the main choir, the Persephone Singers and the Chamber Choir.
• Silver reflects on final Forum as premier Leaders from the territorial and First Nations governments finished talking joint priorities
• Plan envisions up to 350 mobile or modular homes The owners of the Lobird Mobile Home Park want to provide a residential development on 70 acres of their own land, but they need assurances from the city.
• Quarry isn’t a compatible use, council told Almost all those who addressed city council Monday regarding the Official Community Plan (OCP) and the future of the Steven’s quarry site were opposed to having a gravel pit there.

November 29, 2022

• Zoning amendment approved City council has a approved a zoning amendment for 12 Sybil Circle in Whistle Bend that also reaffirms the city’s height restrictions for garden suites and accessory buildings.
• A Festival Of Words-Related Events Winners of the Borealis Prize: The Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution read from their works last Saturday at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre during the inaugural Yukon Words Festival.
• Resource released for Yukoners living with post COVID-19 condition The Post COVID-19 Working Group has released an online resource for Yukoners, calling it an important and necessary step forward in understanding the condition and supporting Yukoners along the way.
• Laking raises paving work delays City councillor Ted Laking has called attention to the problems caused by the work on Two Mile Hill during the summer.
• Join accessibility campaign, council members urged Members of city council have been invited to participate in a campaign to promote accessibility in Whitehorse.
• YG, Chu Níikwän partner to open 150-plus lots for homes The Yukon government has signed a $2.5-million loan agreement with the Kwanlin Dün First Nation’s (KDFN’s) arm’s-length development corporation Chu Níikwän Limited Partnership (CNLP), for a new residential land development project in Copper Ridge West.
• Former Yukon MLA Al Falle dies Al Falle, who was elected as a member of the former Yukon Territorial Progressive Conservative Party with the arrival of party politics in 1978, died Saturday at the age of 79.

November 28, 2022

• City seeks input on major initiatives City council is looking for public feedback on two major initiatives it’s considering.
• Festive festival raises money for health care Photo Spread
• Budget matters return to council tonight City administration has submitted variance reports for the city’s annual capital expenditure budget and the operations and maintenance budget.
• Innovation Week Event Respectful travel guidelines were discussed at the Yukonstruct talk ‘Perspectives of People and Place’, part of the just-completed Yukon Innovation Week.
• Ottawa to train 100 Indigenous firefighters As Canada adapts to a changing climate, the federal government will fund training for more than 100 Indigenous firefighters to help handle harsher wildfire seasons in the Yukon.
• Fines program returns If you receive a parking ticket before Dec. 10, you can pay it by donating food of equal or greater value to that ticket.
• Liberals set date for leadership vote as Pillai lures support The governing Yukon Liberal Party will hold its leadership convention in Whitehorse exactly two months from today – Saturday, Jan. 28.
• Altercation ensued after gunman entered premises The man shot and killed last Thursday by police outside the Air North property had entered the Air North cargo building with a rifle, the RCMP’s Yukon commander told reporters this morning.