Whitehorse Daily Star

November 17, 2009

• Yukon case is in high court The case of a Yukon lawyer who was ordered to keep representing a client even though he couldn't pay her is being heard in Canada's highest court today.
• Yukoner had 90 seconds' face time with Charles It's not every day a Whitehorse contractor is invited to Vancouver to meet a prince.
• Ministers still on hot seat over angry call It was the Opposition Liberals' scalpel for dissecting Hansard and quoting e-mails between high-level bureaucrats,
• Remembering Four Decades Of Radio Rolf Hougen, the longtime owner of CKRW; retired newsman Ron McFadyen and current announcer Keith Ellert
• Council receives new climate change motion A week after deferring a decision about whether to tell the federal government to take action on climate change, a rewritten motion has come forward to city council.
• ‘It's as close to home living as we can do' The new women's facility at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre (WCC) is set to open this week, giving female inmates an introduction to 21st-century corrections.
• Health care reform must include social factors, MD says Health reform in Canada needs to include an examination of the social influences which continuously drag down the aboriginal population, says a Whitehorse doctor.

November 16, 2009

• Museum auction raised $14,000-plus The Dawson City Museum raised $14,140 at its annual auction, the museum's major fund raising event of the year.
• Yukoner joins other college delegates on Parliament Hill Yukon College is represented on Parliament Hill this week helping promote the value of community colleges as a central part of Canada's economic and social development.
• Author visits for children's book week Author Hugh Brewster's work has taken children from the world of dinosaurs to the battlefields of the Second World War and many places in between,
• Rotarians help children in Russia The Whitehorse Rendezvous Rotary Club's contribution to a children's hospital in Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, on Sahalinsk Island in Russia's Far East, is saving children's lives in Russia.
• Alaska man charged with drug offences An Alaska man who tried to slip across the Canada-U.S.border at Beaver Creek has been charged with bringing drugs into the country.
• Olympic edition cancellation stamps here Whitehorse residents anxious to catch the 2010 Olympic spirit during community celebrations will have something else to cheer about.
• Lane closure bid passes first reading Two properties on Wood Street are closer to expansion after council, at its meeting last Monday night,
• Teddy Bear Twins are back in liquor stores The Yukon Liquor Corp. has kicked off its 17th annual Twin Bear program.
• Premier defends shifting hospitals' management Shifting the management of new hospitals planned for Watson Lake and Dawson City to the Yukon Hospital Corp.
• Fentie amenable to committee studying ATCO affair As questions swirl over how deep Premier Dennis Fentie was involved in talks with ATCO that four ex-energy corporation directors and one ex-cabinet minister insist were negotiations to sell or privatize the public utility,
• Teen's killer still being pursued The search for Angel Carlick's killer remains a priority for the Whitehorse RCMP, a spokesman for the detachment says, and they continue to ask for information from the public.
• Finding Trevor a home proving to be difficult Finding a suitable home for Trevor the dog is proving to be a difficult task for the people at the Humane Society Yukon,
• Minister lauds handling of vaccination program Health Minister Glenn Hart heaped praise on the Yukon's medical community Friday afternoon for its commitment to the H1N1 vacination program.
• Hospital patients transferred to Watson Lake With the Whitehorse General Hospital bursting at the seams, the need to find more long-term health facilities is even more pressing, says local physician Wayne MacNicol.

November 13, 2009

• Youth Art Enrichment expands in ninth Year Forty-five students from Pelly Crossing, Faro, Carmacks, Haines Junction, Whitehorse, Watson Lake and Dawson gathered in Dawson last week
• Wild meat dishes: it's all in the cooking! Many people tell me they would not eat wild meat as they don't like it.
• The many flavours of the Butcher papers ( Bookends ) When an author becomes well-established for writing a particular type of book in a particular style,
• Twisters finally gaining due recognition The Twisters have been nominated for five Maple Blues Awards and sit atop the world blues and Canadian roots music charts, but the band's front man,
• Competition included three long distance writers Seventeen writers participated in Nakai Theatre's annual 24 Hour Playwriting Competition held last Saturday and Sunday, including three who competed long distance.
• Author's book continues a family saga Dawson City supports its writers.
• Guild Theatre prepares to depart from the norm Whitehorse's Guild Theatre is taking a step out of traditional territory this month with the presentation of local playwright Patti Flather's new play
• Remembering the dead of many wars in a heartbeat Students, staff and some parents gathered in the Robert Service School gymnasium to commemorate the next day's Remembrance Day events.
• Smoking bylaw close to being repealed The city is moving closer to repealing its smoking bylaw, but that doesn't mean Whitehorse residents can start lighting up inside again, councillors insist.
• Federal officials poring over landmark ruling Ottawa is reviewing last week's court decision giving the Ross River Kaska full access to three federal cabinet documents from 1973.
• Musician To Release Solo CD Veteran Yukoner balladeer Kevin Barr,
• Second phase of power line project underway Phase two of the transmission line extension from Carmacks to Stewart Crossing is underway at an estimated cost of $40 million.
• First nations to celebrate Yukon Hall's demolition First nations from across the Yukon and northern B.C. will attend a Nov.17-19 event in Whitehorse to honour survivors of Yukon Hall and other residential schools, and their family members.
• Tryouts for AWG basketball are set for tomorrow Basketball Yukon is looking for players to form the 2010 Arctic Winter Games basketball under 19 team on Saturday.
• Resident dead-set against uranium mining John Bunker freely admits he's no expert in the field of nuclear science.
• Protest targets case going to high court The Yukon government's decision to use the courts to settle a disagreement with the Little Salmon-Carmacks First Nation is disrespectful and racist, says a former employee of the first nation.
• New hospital will stay put, Dawson told Dawson citizens hoping to hear the Yukon Hospital Corp. could be persuaded to build Dawson's new hospital somewhere other than on the playground beside Minto Park
• Showing restraint: Dawson council spurns raises One of the first actions of Dawson's newly elected council for 2009-2012 was to turn down a raise in the mayor's and councillors' indemnity recommended by an arm's-length committee the previous council recruited to prepare a report.
• City council approves host of fall grants Close to $40,000 will be doled out to 12 community groups after city council approved the fall recreation grants Monday evening.
• Man charged with assaulting bylaw officer A 44-year-old Whitehorse man has been charged with assaulting a bylaw officer last June, the RCMP said today.
• Smokers gain more support to quit Yukoners who need help to become smoke-free will have access to a new enhanced smoking cessation program and nicotine replacement therapy.
• First nation may help run addiction treatment centre The Kwanlin Dun First Nation could be operating the territory's first land-based addiction treatment centre in conjunction with the Yukon government, says Premier Dennis Fentie.
• CMA's president visiting territory As the president of the Canadian Medical Association, Dr. Anne Doig is hoping to learn as much about the state of health care in the territory as she can this weekend.
• Radio CKRW turns the big 4-0 On Nov. 17, 1969, Whitehorse residents turned on their radios and heard the first sounds of CKRW.
• More than half of RCMP's calls involved alcohol Statistics released this week by the Whitehorse RCMP show that police officers in the capital are busier this year than they were in 2008.
• ‘I hurt because she's no longer with me' Tears were shed in the Whitehorse courthouse Thursday as a Yukon Supreme Court judge read out some of the victim impact statements written by the family members of murdered Carmacks woman Evangeline Billy.