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August 20, 2007

  • Quarry proposal cannot proceed, Judge Veale rules Yukon Supreme Court Justice Ron Veale has ruled the proposed McLean Lake quarry can not proceed.
  • Alexco head blames YTG for poor process The Fentie government's continuing failure to recognize and consult self-governing first nations on land issues has resulted in a mining company losing $50 million on the open market, says a well-known mining executive.
  • College contract reached Yukon College and the Public Service Alliance of Canada, on behalf of the Yukon College Employees Union, reached a tentative collective agreement last week to replace their recently expired contract.
  • Search for missing man still continuing The RCMP plane along with the Search and Rescue boat are out again today to search for a Whitehorse man who disappeared in the Yukon River last week.
  • Employment rate down There were fewer people employed this July than one year earlier, according to the Yukon Bureau of Statistics (YBS).
  • Fourteen nations arrive for world gold panning event The viewer might be forgiven for thinking that all gold panners look a bit alike.
  • Discovery Days 2007 eclipses other years for busyness Things tend to slow down in Dawson City after the Musical Festival, and the events in August are often a bit of an anticlimax, but this years Discovery Day Weekend seems to have been intended to blow those perceptions away and leave every one exhausted.
  • Three new forest fires push season total to 100 Three new wildfires were reported in the territory over the Discovery Days holiday weekend, the office of Wildland Fire Management reported this morning.
  • Water level going down Officials hope the receding water levels in the Southern Lakes region is the start of a new trend which will provide property owners in the area with some much-needed relief.
  • Gwynne Dyer British will be retreating from Iraq The British have given up and they know they will be leaving Iraq soon," said Moqtada al-Sadr, head of the Mehdi army, the country's most powerful militia group, in an interview with the Independent."

August 16, 2007

  • Elk: Their history, and the pros and cons Elk, or if you are First Nations from Saskatchewan Wapiti was one of the very first animals to cross the land mass from Asia to the new world. The conditions were perfect for its population to explode across North America, a population that reached in numbers almost that of the Bison.
  • A modern Don Quixote takes the stage It takes a while before you realize that Norman Bray's entire life is a performance, staged mostly for an audience of one himself. Norman fancies himself a fine stage actor, but the only gig he's had in years is as the voice of the lead character in a cartoon called Timmy Taxi, and we meet him on the day that the producers of that show have decided to ease him out of that role. Norman is too proud, too full of himself, to take a demotion to another role, too wrapped up in his own excellence, to realize that his 56-year-old voice no longer hits the little boy tones needed for the show.
  • 'Father of the Yukon' celebrated with a plaque in Dawson City Leroy Napoleon 'Jack' McQuesten ((1836-1909) is memorialized in a number of ways in the Yukon, not the least of which is having a type of Canadian whiskey, Yukon Jack, named in his honour. There's also the McQuesten River and the McQuesten Mineral Belt.
  • Arts in the Park completes another fine season Last Friday, over the lunch hour in LePage Park, the 11th season of Arts in the Park held their wrap-up concert. This summer cultural event was founded by Dereen Hildebrand during the moneyed times of the Alaska Highway Centennial celebration. Hildebrand approached Steve Slade to produce the seasonal, community cultural celebration.
  • Search efforts continuing for man missing in river A search is continuing today for a 45-year-old Whitehorse man who disappeared into the Yukon River Thursday afternoon.
  • Norline sells highway division, owner ready to retire Morris Kostiuk, president and CEO of Kostiuk Holdings Ltd., announced on Thursday that his company had purchased the highway division of Norline Coaches.
  • Festival moves location Today marks the launch of the 20th Yukon International Storytelling Festival, which will be held for the first time ever at the Yukon Arts Centre.
  • Hospital questions continue Shrouding details surrounding the departure of CEO Michael Aeberhardt from the Whitehorse General Hospital in secrecy will only create curiousity and questions from the public, says NDP Health critic John Edzerza.
  • Sawyer takes on Canada Council during reading Robert J. Sawyer has a bone to pick with the Canada Council and the federal government in general.
  • High speed internet needs expansion The North needs high speed Internet in every community to give every citizen opportunities equal to their southern neighbours, a leading academic says.
  • Education reform needs to come quicker: Durrant Most students dread going back to school, or at least the end of their summer holidays, but for many first nations students, the return to school evokes much deeper frustrations.
  • Dog handler ready for school In the midst of a garage sale at his Edmonton home earlier this week, Doug Green said he's ready for the school year at Porter Creek Secondary School to begin.
  • Police search for sewage lagoon vandals The following information on unsolved crimes in the Yukon Territory has been supplied by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Crime Stoppers pays a cash reward up to $2,000.00 for information leading to the arrest and charge of person(s) responsible for acts of crime or the recovery of drugs and/or stolen property. Individuals providing information will have their identity protected and will remain anonymous.
  • Slow Rush Tours seeks a new driver DAWSON 'It's hard to think of this as work,' says Holger 'Holly' Haustein, as Rocky pulls the wagon down the street from Eighth Avenue on the way back to the Visitor information Centre on Front Street. It's not the warmest of days in Dawson, but it's not cold and Holly says he prefers it as it is.
  • Air travel is up road traffic is down The Yukon is seeing more travelers by air and fewer by land, according to tourism operators.
  • Extensive Whitefish survey undertaken Yukon Energy Corporation recently conducted an extensive fish monitoring program in the Aishihik area, in order to determine the health of both Canyon and Aishihik lakes and the species that live there.
  • McLennans leave the Yukon with decades of memories There's no doubt that when Don and Dorothy McLennan leave the territory for Kamloops, they will be missed.

August 15, 2007

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