Whitehorse Daily Star

October 28, 2008

• Hospital fire surfaces in legislature As more details of last Saturday morning's fire at Whitehorse General Hospital have become public, NDP MLA John Edzerza used the incident Monday to press Health and Social Services Minister Glenn Hart on the lack of proper facilities there.
• Olympic weightlifter's mother to visit college Yukon College has invited Moira Lassen to speak from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Pit.
• Grits eye fundraising, recruitment Ranj Pallai was acclaimed as president of the Yukon Liberal Party on Saturday during the party's annual general meeting and policy think-tank.
• Safety-Conscious Youngsters Grade 4 students from Holy Family Elementary School.
• Season Finale Dave Johnson, front, and Jonathan Lucas.
• Royalties plan short-changes taxpayers: YCS Proposed changes to how much mining companies pay in royalties for mineral resources still favours industry at the expense of taxpayers, says the Yukon Conservation Society.
• City solves developer's 'biggest hurdle' The Vuntut Limited Partnership (VLP) has jumped one of its first major hurdles in developing two waterfront properties.
• Ex-Dawson mayor faces financial scrutiny by Crown A former Dawson City mayor accused of stealing from the town's coffers is now asking that his legal expenses be paid from the state's pocket.

October 27, 2008

• B.Y.T.E. gets set for big annual conference Youth across the North will be "uniting and igniting " next month as Bringing Youth Towards Equality hosts its annual conference Nov. 21-23 at Yukon College.
• Union's president is re-elected Laurie Butterworth was re-elected president of the Yukon Employees' Union (YEU) on Sunday at the union's triennial convention in Whitehorse.
• Local Venues Showcased The First Peoples Performance
• Doctor announces 2008 flu clinics Dr. Brendan Hanley, Yukon medical officer of health, is encouraging Yukoners to get their free flu shot to reduce the chances of getting sick this year.
• Winning Performance Joshua Kelly competes in the 200-metre breaststroke
• Skills Canada Yukon officials, Yukon Energy promote careers Yukon Energy has joined with Skills Canada Yukon in promoting trades and technology careers among Yukon youth and apprentices.
• Wharf design contract awarded It will likely be 2010 before any physical work begins on the proposed riverfront wharf in the city.
• Surveyor has date with disciplinary hearing A local surveyor facing a lawsuit pressed by the Yukon government is scheduled to appear before a disciplinary hearing involving a panel of fellow surveyors.
• Four hundred people blacked out after tree damages power line A tree blown onto a power line by Friday afternoon's powerful winds knocked out electricity to about 400 customers.
• Symposium focusing on Yukon labour needs A labour market symposium at the Westmark Whitehorse today was set to start the development of five strategies coming out of the territory's labour market framework.
• Sprinkler system doused fire A mattress fire at Whitehorse General Hospital on Saturday morning briefly uprooted nine patients and caused more than $8,000 damage.
• Ryan Downing Memorial Race Some scenes from the annual race.

October 24, 2008

• Chronic Waste Disease a major woe in the U.S. The Yukon Party's Environment minister, Elaine Taylor, continues to push hundreds of thousands of wasted dollars out on the elk program introduced in the Yukon.
• Please call authorities if you have seen this trio The public's assistance is requested in locating three Yukoners wanted as of noon Tuesday.
• Aboriginal Yukoners deserve an apology, NDP leader says Yukon NDP Leader Todd Hardy wants the legislative assembly to offer an apology to the territory's residential school survivors, similar to the one offered by members of the House of Commons in June.
• Mine operations proceeding as usual It's business as usual - for the most part - for two local mines employing scores of Yukoners, despite the economic crisis engulfing the world.
• Mine operations proceeding as usual It's business as usual - for the most part - for two local mines employing scores of Yukoners, despite the economic crisis engulfing the world.
• Seasonal businesses improve their shuttered look DAWSON CITY - It's a fact of Dawson City's seasonal life that many of its hotels and some of its businesses go into hibernation by the end of September, if not earlier.
• College instructor receives award Patricia McClelland, a Yukon College instructor, has been named by the Canadian Nursing Association (CNA) as a Centennial Award winner.
• Waterfront land zoning changes come forward Ask and you just might receive.
• Lots being consolidated An 846-square-metre piece of land off Sunset Drive North in Hillcrest could be going for $12,000.
• Length of council members' terms won't change As the saying goes, you can't always get what you want.
• Cats quarantined at shelter Locals planning to adopt a cat from the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter will have to wait until at least after Monday to bring their new feline friend home.
• 100 Range Rd. property up for city's rezoning With a portion of the Official Community Plan (OCP) changed to make way for the proposed Chilkahit Holdings Inc. building at the end of Range Road, company officials have moved on to the project's zoning phase.
• New RCMP commander is relishing return to North Dressed in plainclothes - a blue shirt and navy pants - the Whitehorse RCMP detachment's new commander does not bother to hide his pleasure at being posted to the Yukon's capital.
• Shipping costs prompt demise of Liquidation World outlet Fewer than two years after opening its doors at the Qwanlin Mall, Liquidation World will close down the local shop by Nov. 29.
• Ambulance stolen from EMS station Officers immediately began a ground search of the Whitehorse area.
• Anger reigns as MLAs resume their seats Members of Mr. Bell's enriched Grade 10 class, who had gallery seats for the legislative assembly's fall season opener Thursday, got more pomp than circumstance from the Yukon's elected representatives.
• Committee seeks remedy to declining moose What's to be done about the depressed moose population west of Whitehorse should be a lot clearer six months from now, says the new chair of the committee examining the issue.
• City officials may absorb some council duties City council could be opting to turn some of its duties over to city staff next year.