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November 8, 2022
- Trustees elected to school boards Monday’s school board elections saw voting held in 10 polling places across the Yukon and online.
- Indigenous Veteran’s Day proclaimed Today is National Indigenous Veteran’s Day.
- Council to vote on environmental grants City council is being asked to approve $24,000 in environmental grants to three applicants.
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Whitehorse North Trail Plan adopted City council adopted the Whitehorse North Trail Plan at a council meeting late last month.
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NDP questions COVID-19 public health measures The territory’s New Democrats have detected impediments to the COVID-19 vaccination system that they want removed.
- RCMP on lookout for drivers using cell phones Yukon RCMP are conducting a traffic enforcement blitz across the territory today looking for people using hand-held cell phones while driving.
November 7, 2022
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Available To Assist Car 867 is part of the Mobile Crisis Unit team,
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Blue Feather Music Festival delivers again Photo Spread
- Highway collision claimed man’s life Watson Lake RCMP responded to a fatal Alaska Highway collision near Rancheria on Oct. 29, police said over the weekend.
- Silver, Hanley laud economic statement The Yukon’s premier and MP have given a thumbs-up to federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s 2022 Fall Economic Statement.
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City gains a bilingual health clinic A new bilingual health clinic offering primary care to Yukoners in both French and English opened at its temporary location in Whitehorse today, though its two physician positions remain vacant.
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Health system not immune to nationwide ailments Burnout, recruitment and government collaboration: those three issues are the most pressing for the territory’s doctors, if the Yukon Medical Association’s (YMA’s) annual general meeting was any indication.
November 4, 2022
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Careers, jobs and education at annual expo Photo Spread
- Median income was $100,000 In 2020, the median income for all Yukon households was $100,000 annually, the territory’s Bureau of Statistics reported last month.
- Ambitious new guitarist to perform in Whitehorse Seventeen-year-old Sierra Levesque of Ontario says she’s excited to bring her modern twist on rock ’n roll to the Yukon Arts Centre stage on Saturday as she performs during the Blue Feather Music Festival.
- Former minister is running to be chief Four candidates have signed up to run for chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in the Nov. 21 election.
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Help pare home heating costs, YP urges Liberals The Yukon Party pushed this week for the territory to ask Ottawa to exempt home heating fuel from carbon pricing as costs rise, but that might be a fool’s errand, says one policy expert.
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Dawson student wins MusiCounts scholarship Riley Elliot has been announced as one of 11 students across Canada to receive the $3,500 MusiCounts Amplify Scholarship, awarded by Canada’s leading music education charity, MusiCounts.
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Discussing Events In China The Yukon branch of the Canadian International Council hosted Jonathan Manthorpe for a presentation of his book Claws of the Panda,
- Fourteen COVID cases reported over six days New COVID-19 cases were reported in six Yukon communities this week.
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Back Room Rehearsal The IMF’S – Stevie Salas, Brian Tichy, Carmine Rojas and Bernard Fowler, left-right,
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Bed bug plague leaves women frustrated A Whitehorse woman whose mother has been out of her apartment at Closeleigh Manor since bed bugs were discovered there in September is asking why the 86-year-old has had to wait so long to return – and why it’s costing so much.
- Electricity heats 4,000-plus homes across Yukon: data The number of Yukon homes using electric heating last year was pegged at 4,038, according to numbers released earlier this year by the territory’s Bureau of Statistics.
- Loss of school worries MLA Emily Tredger, the NDP MLA for Whitehorse Centre, said she is “very concerned” about the prospects of her riding losing École Whitehorse Elementary School.
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‘A community without a school is a dying community’ More than 200 people have signed a petition urging the Yukon government to maintain a school in downtown Whitehorse.