Whitehorse Daily Star

December 14, 2005

• Search called intimidating, unnecessary The federal and Yukon wildlife departments are being accused of conducting a heavy-handed and unnecessary search and seizure when a simple phone call would have sufficed.
• City squares up third roundabout plan The city will be installing another roundabout, this time at the intersection of Lewes Boulevard and Hospital Road.
• Insurance broker back in court A Whitehorse insurance broker charged with issuing fraudulent insurance policies appeared in court last week without having found a lawyer.
• New Democrats still first in horse-race' According to recently released poll results, the NDP continues pull in the highest percentage of the Yukon's popular vote for the next general election.
• Theft, vandalism toll climbs to $25,000 After a rash of thefts in downtown Whitehorse, store owners have lost thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise.
• College president will depart for personal reasons, she says The reason for the planned resignation of Yukon College president Sally Webber are personal in the words of Webber herself.
• Conservative set to contest January election Marsh Lake resident Sue Greetham will be acclaimed Saturday as the Conservative party's candidate for the 2006 federal election, says party president Tony Fekete.
• YTG cancels meeting with city over land While Yukon College officials have met with the Education minister, the city still has no word on the future of the Porter Creek greenbelt, says Whitehorse Mayor Ernie Bourassa.
• No conflict evident, Phelps insists 'Everything (the NDP and Liberals) have said is totally misleading,' says Willard Phelps, chair of the Yukon Development Corp. and the project champion for Carmacks Copper.
• Ice bridge in for the season DAWSON CITY West Dawson residents can drive home again. The ice bridge across the Yukon River is in for the season.
• Jenkins joins push for smoking law Klondike MLA Peter Jenkins has tabled legislation calling for the Yukon to become smoke-free.
• Incoming teachers assigned mentors Many of the new teachers coming to the Yukon will now have a mentor to make their transition smoother.

December 13, 2005

• He has what it takes': Fentie on Cathers Premier Dennis Fentie says he has complete confidence in Lake Laberge MLA Brad Cathers' promotion to cabinet. However, the NDP is not quite as convinced.
• Sounds Like Canada emanating from city Shelagh Rogers, the host of CBC radio's Sounds Like Canada, is no stranger to the Yukon, having first travelled to the territory to hike the Chilkoot Trail in 1987.
• Budget includes $6 M in waterfront work In what promises to be a year of ambitious capital projects, city council proposes to spend $48,449,000 next year, city budget figures show.
• Chief hails city's planned new firehall The Whitehorse Fire Department will finally get a new fire station, city budget figures show.
• Education open house planned Education Minister John Edzerza and Chief Joe Linklater, chair of the Council of Yukon First Nations' (CYFN's) Chiefs Committee of Education, invite the public to an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday.
• Dawson residents discuss election options DAWSON CITY Ray Hayes, Dawson's government-appointed trustee, is looking for new members for his advisory committee.
• College president to quit this spring The board of governors for Yukon College has received notification from president Sally Webber that she will be leaving the college in the spring of 2006.

December 12, 2005

• Cabinet shuffle scary', Hardy says Premier Dennis Fentie has shuffled his cabinet in the wake of the departure of former cabinet minister Peter Jenkins two weeks ago.
• Accused will go to trial A sexual assault charge against the former deputy chief of the Champagne-Aishihik First Nation will go to trial, according to a Yukon territorial court decision.
• Labour group seeks minimum wage hike Raising the territory's minimum wage to $8.25 an hour would still see some Yukoners who work full-time living below the poverty line.
• Report sets out land disposition woes within YTG '(The Department of Community Services and the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources are) acting defensively, like two separate governments' with little attempt to integrate their land disposition roles, in an environment where corporate knowledge is not shared, where there is a poor understanding of authority levels and where personal agendas' are predominant in some areas of both departments.'
• Union wonders of fate of consultation promise A promise to consult unions before putting forward computer use guidelines seems to have gone down the memory hole.
• Fentie's stance on climate change remains as it is Premier Dennis Fentie had the opportunity to play an active role at the United Nations 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties on the Kyoto Protocol (COP 11) in Montreal last week, but the government's stance on climate change hasn't changed.
• Offsales store robbed Whitehorse RCMP are looking for a skinny man who robbed the Roadhouse offsales business on Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
• Government asked to fund expanded power The Yukon government is being asked for $33 million to extend electrical transmission lines from Carmacks to Stewart Crossing.
• The reindeer will be keeping their distance Well, boys and girls, December is moving along quickly, and we all know what that means.