Whitehorse Daily Star

April 16, 2007

• Retain four-storey height limits, planners urge The city should consider keeping four-storey building height limits, permitting hotels to continue to operate on the highway and housing complexes in older downtown residential areas, council has heard.
• Local RCMP visit trafficking hotspot', arrest five people Five people, including two youth, are each facing a charge of possession of drugs for trafficking after Whitehorse RCMP searched what they're calling a 'drug trafficking hotspot' last Saturday night.
• Government releases frenzy of budgetary announcements With just two days left until the Yukon Party government tables the first budget of its second mandate, many of the good news line items have already been announced.
• Canadian astronaut to visit territory this week Watson Lake is getting its flag back.
• Lawsuit filed against Takhini Hot Springs A lease over land at the Takhini Hot Springs has landed in Yukon Supreme Court.
• Trades training funding boosted The Yukon government has announced funding aimed at bolstering the ranks of the labour force involved in trades.
• Yukon Yamaha can use tent City council has approved Yukon Yamaha's 16-metre-high Alaska Highway tent plan.
• Never surrender, says roaming cancer survivor Randolph Westphal has clocked 155,521 kilometres on his bicycle in his continuing effort to raise awareness for cancer.

April 15, 2007

• Condolences pour in for hotel's owners DAWSON CITY By Sunday afternoon, the actual cause of last Thursday's fire at the Eldorado Hotel had been determined, an initial value placed on the damages, and work was proceeding on the cleanup.
• Food bank need is urgent: researcher The territory needs to double its monthly food donation capacity from 10,000 to 20,000 pounds of food.
• Yukoners celebrate Education Week Across the territory, Yukoners will be celebrating Education Week, which began today and will end Friday.
• Social assistance rates inadequate: advocates Holding social assistance rates at 1992 levels continues to leave the territory's disadvantaged in poverty and often scrambling to feed themselves, advocates say.
• Fentie has new description of rail study After dumping $3 million US into a study on an Alaska-Canada rail link, Premier Dennis Fentie is saying the unreleased findings of the report are actually just a pre-feasibility examination.
• Premier pays tribute to veterans Premier Dennis Fentie was one of about 150 people who attended the commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge held in Whitehorse on Saturday.
• Phillips steps down from electoral commission Doug Phillips has resigned from his seat on the electoral boundaries commission following his appointment as administrator of the Yukon.

April 12, 2007

• Folk rock icons team up for power duo Two Canadian folk rock heroes, Harry Manx and Kevin Breit, have come together for the second time to create an astonishing compilation.
• Personal experience is valid, says author Gail Bowen DAWSON CITY When one thinks of Gail Bowen, what first comes to mind is the series of mysteries she has written about Joanne Kilbourn, the political science professor who keeps finding bodies.
• The Divine Comedy holds all the clues in book by Matilde Asensi There are so many DaVinci Code clones out there since the success of Dan Brown's blockbuster that 'another one' has to be the first thought on the mind of any book buyer faced with yet another religious mystery from deep in the ancient history of the Roman Catholic Church.
• A brief study of Canadian politics and jackasses Sorry, folks, but I have had it up to you know where with present politics.
• Jenkins takes devastating fire in stride DAWSON CITY By 7:45 p.m. Thursday, Peter and Karen Jenkins were busy organizing the removal of the liquor stock from their damaged Eldorado Hotel.
• Seniors looking for better busing near new residence Seniors moving into the 48-unit Canada Winter Games athletes' village building would like bus service to their front door.
• Man sentenced for his part in fights at Dust Ball dance The final man to be sentenced for the fighting that broke out at the dance following last year's Dust Ball slo-pitch tournament will serve a year's probation term.
• Hurt musher faces $20,000 hospital bill A Mount Lorne dog sled accident has left a Skagway man facing a $20,000 hospital bill and the community of Mount Lorne moving forward to help him out.
• National marketing plan paying off: Fentie Almost two months after its launch, the national marketing campaign of Canada's three northern territories is being called a success by Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie.
• Yukoner to help review Ontario judge's conduct Yukon Supreme Court Justice Ron Veale has been selected to be part of a judicial inquiry into the conduct of Justice Ted Matlow of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
• Couple pats the earth on 40 years of beautifying Landscaping in Whitehorse has changed a lot over 40 years.
• Council's budgetary weeding stunts city's hanging flowers City council is looking for alternatives after learning 48 hanging flower baskets won't be lining Main Street this summer.
• Dad motorbikes for autism Dan Powaschuk has been on many motorcycle trips in his life, at one point travelling to the most eastern point in Newfoundland and Labrador. Other journeys have taken him through the United States and into South America.
• Midwifery advocates blazing a new trail' When she moved to the Yukon from British Columbia, Asheya Hennessy was pregnant and had been considering using the services of a mid-wife.
• Money will improve mammography service Yukoners will soon be able to be screened for breast cancer faster than ever before in the territory.
• Line builder goes to court The company that built the controversial Mayo-Dawson City electrical transmission line has filed a flurry of lawsuits with the Yukon Supreme Court.