Whitehorse Daily Star

October 7, 2022

• Input collected on mining industry emissions The Yukon government is engaging with the mining industry,
• Restaurant Fortifies Special Olympics Whitehorse Tim Hortons presented a cheque for $8,042 to Special Olympics Yukon on Tuesday.
• Dawson land use plan called ‘important milestone’ The Dawson Regional Planning Commission’s Recommended Plan, covering about 10 per cent of the Yukon land mass, is now available to the public.
• Changes proposed for blueprint of city’s evolution During the Sept. 12 public hearing into proposed changes to the city’s Official Community Plan (OCP), the city received 114 written submissions, council was told Monday during a report on the public hearing.
• Fine Furs The Yukon Trappers Association
• COVID-19 maintains a presence There were four new COVID-19 cases officially reported in the Yukon between Wednesday and Thursday, and the official total of new cases from Monday to Thursday was 18.
• Bed bugs found at Closeleigh Manor The daughter of a senior who lives at Closeleigh Manor moved her mom out of the seniors’ apartment complex two weeks ago because of bed bugs.
• Colourful Characters Whitehorse artist Jim Robb took this photo of Pete Brady (left) an old Hunker Creek miner, and Archie Gillespie, a Whitehorse newspaper writer, in Dawson City.
• Supervised Consumption Site turns a year old Health and Social Services Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee marked the Sept. 29 one-year anniversary of the opening of the Yukon’s Supervised Consumption Site.
• Talent At The Fire Hall Tom Keenlyside, left, and Paul Lucas perform
• City mulls planned airport work City council is being asked to approve a bylaw that would facilitate the development a new runway end safety area at the airport.
• No Star Monday The Star will not be published Monday, Thanksgiving Day,
• YG, medical association reach agreement The territorial government and the Yukon Medical Association (YMA) have reached a new three-year agreement for services covering the period from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2025.
• Opposition parties critical of spending choices Yukon opposition leaders say the Liberal government’s $26.2-million supplementary budget falls well short of expectations.
• Fires necessitated flood of extra spending Fighting forest fires and staving off flood damage cost the Yukon government more money than was envisioned last spring.

October 6, 2022

• United Way Month proclaimed Mayor Laura Cabott has proclaimed October as United Way Month in Whitehorse.
• MLAs take their seats in the assembly The 2022 fall sitting of the Yukon Legislative Assembly began at 1 p.m. today.
• Housing Summit was useful exercise, YG says The input from Tuesday’s second Housing Summit will inform the Yukon government’s draft action plan to address concerns laid out by the Office of the Auditor General earlier this year, the government said Wednesday.
• National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on track to become statutory day The Yukon will mark Sept. 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, as a statutory day starting in 2023, Community Services Minister Richard Mostyn announced today.
• Klukshu River salmon return stirs optimism Unlike the past summer’s below-average return of Yukon River chinook and fall chum salmon, the return of sockeye salmon to the Klukshu River is well above what was projected.
• YG updates Safer Schools Action Plan The Yukon government has completed 13 of the 23 commitments in the Safer Schools Action Plan.
• RCMP investigating sudden death in McIntyre subdivision Whitehorse RCMP responded to a report of an unresponsive male at a residence in the McIntyre subdivision at about 3:30  p.m. Tuesday.

October 5, 2022

• Vote down cannabis shop bid: officials City administration is recommending council defeat the proposal to allow for a cannabis retail shop on Second Avenue across from Shipyards Park.
• Vigil for the missing and murdered First Nations women and girls Every Oct. 4, the Yukon Aboriginal Women’s Council leads the Sisters In Spirit vigil, honouring the victims and families of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
• Fourteen COVID cases reported There were 14 new COVID-19 cases officially recorded on the Yukon government’s dashboard from Monday to Tuesday and 12 active cases in the communities on Monday and 10 on Tuesday.
• Truth, Reconciliation vigil drew a large audience Shortly after noon last Friday, approximately 150 Dawsonites gathered around the Sacred Fire at the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre on Front Street for the annual National Day of Truth and Reconciliation Vigil.
• Affordability, housing high on White’s list Affordability, housing and the environment are high on Kate White’s list of issues to bring to the legislature after it reconvenes Thursday.
• Cost of living is top of mind, Dixon says Yukon Party Leader Currie Dixon says he’s concerned about the key issues facing Yukoners today.
• Work remains on the agenda, Silver says Work remains on the agenda, Silver says