Whitehorse Daily Star

March 20, 2009

• Simulator is a valuable teaching tool Thank you for including the Yukon Mine Training Association ( YMTA)-sponsored heavy equipment operation simulator training in the Whitehorse Star's March 16 edition.
• Global warming, and what's next for our world? Global warming? So what's next for this four-billion-year-old planet?
• The baggage this play totes is all good What would you rather do for money: have sex on the Internet or steal a statue off the top of a church?
• Touring Artist Fund sends Yukoners across Canada The Touring Artist Fund is contributing $46,340 to enable seven projects featuring music, visual artists and dancers to tour Canada.
• Everyday events go awry in kids' books Munsch and Martchenko are back with another family-based disaster story.
• Government puts price tags on jail plans The Yukon government is committing $21.6 million for a new treatment and correctional centre,
• Federal Court sitting hears land status arguments Land set aside for use by the Ross River Dena Council should be given the same distinction as land officially designated as an Indian reserve, Federal Court of Canada Justice James Hugessen heard Tuesday in Whitehorse.
• Mid-Day Pause A woman takes her lunch break
• Enumerators may have more questions Whitehorse residents could be asked for more details about themselves if enumerators come around before the Oct. 15 municipal election.
• New sled drop event proved a popular one DAWSON CITY - The Dawson Sled Dawgs are very happy with the public's reception of their new Trek Over the Top event:, the sled drop.
• Councillors will likely travel to Whistler, B.C. With most city councillors planning to head out to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' annual conference in Whistler, B.C. in June, the city is expecting to change the schedule for its meetings that month.
• McClellan remembered for recording first nation stories To her students, co-workers and many others she was a professor and anthropologist who recorded the history of first nations.
• Groups' funding isn't being cut, Hart says What look like big cuts to some of the Yukon's long-standing non-governmental social safety nets will be made up over the coming year, promises Health and Social Services Minister Glenn Hart.
• Funding proposed for composting project Tenants at 600 College Dr. could be getting some help from the city to get their composting project underway.
• Apres-Ski Fun Lukas, Raius, Micah, and Ensio (left to right), students with the Yukon Home Education Society,
• City looks at rebudgeting project money The city will likely spend close to another $8 million on capital projects this year in addition to all of its other plans outlined in the 2009 budget.
• Best is yet to come for youthful artist At 29, Emma Barr is quite young for an artist who is already making a mark.
• Rouble slept through Fraser's wake-up call, says Liberal MLA The failing grade Auditor General Sheila Fraser awarded the Yukon's Education department in January dogged its minister during the first question period of 2009.
• City floating closer to a lock on a dock It's not always a question of if you build it will they come, but in the city's case, if you build it, can the city afford to operate it?
• Heading Toward The Hot Seat Yukon artist Emma Barr spent part of this morning applying the finishing touches to the effigy for the Burning Away the Winter Blues event.
• First private developer remembered for his kindness He was the first private land developer in the Yukon, but ask most anyone who knew Brad Taylor and it's his big laugh and kindness they remember.
• Celebrating Francophones Glenn Hart, the minister responsible for the Yukon Francophonie,
• Territory depends too much on federal largesse, opposition says It didn't take the opposition parties long to figuratively wipe the sheen from the Yukon's record billion-dollar budget,

March 19, 2009

• Firms' joint venture plans praised The territorial Department of Economic Development is congratulating Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. and Prize Mining Corp. on the recent signing of a letter of intent to form a joint venture.
• Health and social programs boosted Health and Social Services Minister Glenn Hart has announced a $20-million increase to health and social programs budgets, subject to legislative approval.
• Council ponders buying pre-owned street sweeper What's the difference between a new street sweeper and used one?
• Investors must know territory is accessible, Kenyon believes DAWSON CITY - Economic Development Minister Jim Kenyon found that one of the hurdles to overcome at a recent major trade show in Toronto was convincing prospective investors that the territory is accessible.
• Trekkers rate Canadian trail as fabulous DAWSON CITY - The 16th annual Trek Over the Top finished last weekend with the final number of trekkers for the three weekends topping off at the 340 anticipated earlier in February
• Air Canada Jazz flight passed over snow sweeper on runway An Austrian aviation monitor reported last week that an Air Canada Jazz plane landed at the Whitehorse airport without permission on Mar. 6, passing right over top a snow sweeping truck.
• Back For A Visit Reid Parent, left, and Charles Hegstead perform as Proverbial
• New x-ray technology will speed up medical diagnoses A teleradiology project, budgeted at $3.5 million, will provide more timely medical diagnosis for Yukoners in rural communities,
• Good Music, Good Times Ryan McNally's Folk duo with Kyle Cashen
• Edmonton police take over Watson Lake case The Edmonton City police are taking over full responsibility for the investigation into two Watson Lake RCMP officers charged with sexually assaulting a woman earlier this month.
• Budget spares Yukoners from tax hikes The Yukon finally joined its sister territories, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut,
• Details of record capital spending emerge For weeks now, the Yukon government has been touting a record capital budget of $240 million for the 2009-10 fiscal year.
• Fentie gives diners early look-see at territorial budget As the Whitehorse business community took a long lunch over lasagna and caesar salad at the High Country Inn on Wednesday,

March 18, 2009

• Community projects receive $150,280 in grants The territorial Arts Fund is contributing $150,280 to 13 recipients with a mix of well- known and new projects,
• Student Advisory Council created A Student Advisory Council has been established by Education Minister Patrick Rouble.
• Emergency personnel want houses numbered Dawson's fire department and ambulance service are eager to get all the homes in their service area numbered so they can find them more easily in the event of an emergency.
• Territory starting to feel the sting of the downturn While jobs in the Yukon's goods-producing sector have fallen, service sector employment is up.
• Winter Carnival Fun Street hockey was one of the favourite activities of last Friday's French themed Carnaval d'Hiver in Dawson City.
• Slims River Bridge due for replacement An award is pending for the contract to replace the Slims River Bridge, the last of the major bridge replacements on the north section of the Alaska Highway.
• Council urged to colour the city blue Local members of the Council of Canadians are urging city officials to make Whitehorse a "blue community".
• Liberals, NDP will have critical eye on budget The territory's MLAs will return to the legislature tomorrow but the rhetoric often associated with question period is already heating up.
• Former dog owner ordered to pay fine, restitution A local man cannot own a pet for two years and has been ordered to pay close to $1,000 in a fine and restitution.
• Yukon women will be asked to take part in medical study The most common-place sexually-transmitted infection will become the subject of investigation in the Yukon, the territory's chief medical officer announced Tuesday.
• 'There will be less tolerance of violation' A Whitehorse construction and mining company that failed to properly license two of its employees was slapped with a $15,000 fine Tuesday.