Whitehorse Daily Star

August 8, 2022

• Dancing out the season The Tagish Nation Dancers shared their culture at Sunday’s final Guild Hall ’Round Back series.
• Honouring The Fallen Comrade John Nystad laid a wreath Sunday at the Cenotaph
• Runway work requires city rezoning The Yukon government has asked the city to rezone a section of the escarpment from environmental protection to airport land to allow for the lengthening of a secondary runway.
• First Nations Birth Worker Program developed The Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) is developing the first Yukon First Nations Birth Worker Program.
• Coroner’s report had called death ‘uneventful’ The family of Tootsie Jimmy-Charlie received an apology Friday from the Yukon RCMP regarding the handling of her death 55 years ago.

August 5, 2022

• Inquest set for two deaths Chief coroner Heather Jones has determined that an inquest should be held into the Jan. 19 deaths of two women at the Whitehorse Emergency Shelter.
• Feeling fine at the market Photo Spread
• The Colourful Five Per Cent Illustrated Snap Shots
• Yukoners head to the Niagara for Summer Games The first wave of Yukon athletes is travelling to the 2022 Niagara Canada Summer Games.
• Yukon’s COVID-19 death toll rises to 29 Wednesday saw two more COVID-19 deaths in the Yukon reported on the territorial government’s dashboard, following the fatality reported Tuesday.
• Community rallies to help theft victim What’s on the corner of Main Street and Second Avenue in downtown Whitehorse?
• Committee to advise on housing, land development A committee to advise the city on housing and land development has been approved by city council.
• The family who saved the Log Skyscrapers In 1972, the Log Skyscrapers in downtown Whitehorse were in danger of tipping.
• Council OKs money for water main City council has approved an additional $850,000 to address concerns raised about the cross-town water main and the Takhini sanitary trunk line.
• Traffic infrastructure is falling behind: councillor City councillor Ted Laking says many residents are telling him the city’s traffic infrastructure is simply not keeping pace with the steady population growth.
• Musicians rallied around terminally-ill colleague Matthew Lien, a Yukon musician and producer, and 18 Yukon and B.C. musicians came together for their late friend and colleague, Paul Stephens.
• Deaths trigger ‘ongoing grief and heartbreak’ Toxic illicit drugs have claimed the lives of 17 Yukoners since Jan. 1, the Yukon Coroner’s Service confirmed today.

August 4, 2022

• Council OKs equipment purchase City council has approved an additional $307,000 in this year’s capital budget for the purchase of three new pieces of equipment.
• A Fireside Chat Global Water Futures director Dr. John Pomeroy, right, speaks at the 30th anniversary celebration of the Wolf Creek Research Basin on Wednesday afternoon.
• Virus claims two more lives COVID-19 has killed two more people in the Yukon, the territorial government’s “dashboard” reported Wednesday.
• Officials recommend help for Yukon Cares City administration is recommending city council approve a $4,978 grant for Yukon Cares to support two new immigrant families scheduled to arrive here later this month or in September.
• Monkeypox risk factors, territory’s response reviewed Monkeypox is rarely fatal, Dr. Sudit Ranade, the territory’s new chief medical officer of health, reminded Yukoners today.
• Man accused of weapons, drug offences An early-morning traffic stop by Whitehorse RCMP last Friday led to the seizure of drugs and firearms, one being a loaded, prohibited handgun.