Whitehorse Daily Star

November 6, 2007

• Government questioned on investments' fate It's unknown when the Yukon government will see $36.5 million in investments it made this past summer.
• Women to be consulted about how to improve housing The Yukon government will start work aimed at improving housing for women in the territory, it was announced Tuesday.
• RCMP respond to MLA's concern The responses to 911 calls in the territory are based on individual situations, priority and RCMP availability.
• City to weigh proposals for arena's removal The city has received three submissions for the removal of the decommissioned Stan McCowan Arena, city council was told Monday night.
• Plow maintenance is almost done: official Maintenance on the territory's shoulder plows is almost finished, say government officials, despite concerns coming forward from Liberal MLA Gary McRobb.
• First Avenue to revert back to its original name? First Avenue, Front Street?
• False alarm sent rural school's students to assigned safe houses Students from Golden Horn Elementary School were sent to neighbourhood safe houses Tuesday afternoon following a false fire alarm.
• College student awarded scholarship Yukon College student Kawina Robichaud has been awarded a $4,000 Millenium In-Course Excellence scholarship, renewable for one year.
• Company says it didn't install water valve A resident of the Mountainview Place trailer park who's seeking compensation for a $1,200-invoice to repair his water valve may be barking up the wrong tree, say Rick and Ron Bonnycastle of Castle Rock Entreprises.
• City asked to help support heritage festival City council is being asked to budget money to provide a full kitchen for the new Shipyards Park facility.

November 5, 2007

• Group home youth's lips were blue with cold, MLA says A formal complaint would have to be made before the Yukon government would investigate the matter of a 15-year-old boy who went missing from the Mary Lake group home, Health and Social Services Minister Brad Cathers said Monday.
• Global air tour takes off from Whitehorse Another tour around the world by a passenger jet kicked off Monday in Whitehorse, aboard a Boeing 757 owned by Icelandair.
• Strahl came bearing financial gifts Millions of dollars will be coming into the territory from Ottawa for projects ranging from mapping to log home construction.
• Hospice Yukon receives new funding Health and Social Services Minister Brad Cathers presented Hospice Yukon with a cheque for $40,000 today, bringing their total amount of government funding to $234,000.
• SCAN Act has no tracking system The Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) Act office doesn't have the right to track what residents do after they're evicted or voluntarily stop the activities happening in their home.
• First nation re-elects chief Liard McMillan was handily re-elected chief of Liard First Nation yesterday by a margin of 125 votes, according to the unofficial results.
• Justice official leaves job Sharon Hickey is no longer the Yukon government's director of community and correctional services.
• Three government levels ink protocol A new protocol was signed among the federal, territorial and Yukon first nations governments on Monday.
• Two people face drug charges RCMP officers in Mayo and Pelly Crossing seized 319 grams of marijuana and arrested two people for suspected drug trafficking last weekend.
• Council to vote on batch plant bid next week City council will vote next week on whether to permit a controversial concrete business in the McLean Lake area minus the request of a quarry that sunk the application in August.

November 4, 2007

• Man arrested after woman attacked Whitehorse RCMP have arrested and charged a Whitehorse man in relation to last week's sexual assault in the Ibex Valley area.
• Man sentenced after assaulting woman A 37-year-old man was given a nine-month conditional jail sentence Friday for assaulting a woman with a knife.
• First nation buys downtown building The Teslin Tlingit Council has purchased the Shoppers Plaza on Main Street and the Tutshi Building along Second Avenue, the first nation announced Friday afternoon.
• Quake struck region east of Eagle Plains If there's an earthquake in the woods and nobody feels it, is it still an earthquake?
• Unemployment rate was 5.6 per cent The territory's unemployment rate was up 1.2 per cent last month over October 2006.
• Publicize unsafe workplace owners, Cardiff ages Businesses with unsafe working conditions would be required to publicly display their safety records if a motion brought forward by NDP MLA Steve Cardiff goes ahead.
• MLA proposes changes to first nation adoptions Changes need to be made, as they have been in the two other territories, that would legalize custom adoptions for first nations in the Yukon, says NDP MLA John Edzerza.
• Liberal leader calls for laws for people with disabilities The territory needs specific legislation to assist people with disabilities, says Liberal Leader Arthur Mitchell.
• Children's receiving home should be razed, MLA says The children's receiving home in Whitehorse is overdue for a new building, says NDP MLA Steve Cardiff.
• NDP proposes emergency fund Add an emergency relief fund to the NDP's list of items the territory's nearly $100-million surplus should be spent on.