Whitehorse Daily Star

October 12, 2005

• Crown says he will show evidence of murder The trial began this morning for a 36-year-old woman charged in the stabbing death of a man in his Marwell home over a year ago.
• City council votes down 32-unit residential proposal After a confusing round of voting by a somewhat bewildered council, city officials eventually quashed the proposed Takhini West development Monday night.
• First contracts awarded for railway link study The Department of Economic Development will be paying for over $1.1 million in contracts awarded to the initial work packages for the Alaska-Canada railway link feasibility study, said Peter Laight, special projects manager with the Department of Economic Development.
• Northern Town set to air, plans for second season approved The Yukon Film and Sound Commission held a gala screening of the television show Northern Town at the Yukon Arts Centre Friday night. Northern Town was created and written by Daniel Janke, a Whitehorse writer, musician and playwright.
• YTG to appoint climate change co-ordinator Climate change will be getting some more attention from the Yukon government in the foreseeable future.

October 11, 2005

• Harshness of crime demanded harsh penalty: Crown A man who shot another man in the pelvis and involved police in a chase down the Alaska Highway was sentenced to prison time in territorial court this morning.
• Unemployment down in September Unemployment has reached a new historic low in the territory. According to unadjusted employment statistics released last week by the Yukon Bureau of Statistics, September had an unemployment rate of 4.2 per cent or 700 people.
• Local broadcasters head back to work Employees of the Canadian Broadcasters Corporation (CBC) will be back on the Yukon airwaves Wednesday morning.
• Cow moose shot: authorities investigating Authorities are on the lookout for two men who took down a cow moose near Teslin last week.
• Kluane wardens receive national recognition Two park wardens from the Haines Junction area have received national recognition for their search and rescue efforts.
• Bids for cafeteria expansion received The bids for the cafeteria addition at Porter Creek Secondary School indicate the contract is worth at least $3.6 million.
• DCAS celebrates seven years of achievements 'DCAS legend has it,' DCAS executive director Gary Parker told a full house on Thursday, 'the idea of a Dawson City Arts Society was conceived circa 1998 up on 8th Ave in the vicinity of the social, cultural and economic synapses between the Steins and Hakonson residences I imagine. It may not be factual, but I believe it's true.'
• Dawson City hot spot for September September this year saw the Yukon recording warm temperatures and above normal rainfalls except from Whitehorse to the southeast where it was drier than normal.

October 7, 2005

• Lana Rae Lacroix's been looking at bums' When she's not managing a business or teaching kindergarten class at Selkirk Elementary, Lana Rae Lacroix is busy living the life of a rock star.
• Adventures Under the Moons of Mars I've just finished rereading a book I haven't read in probably 30 years, though I have read it several times previously, first when I was about 13.
• Faro wants all references to complaint destroyed The Town of Faro is calling a recent report released by the Yukon Human Rights Commission biased, and is taking the commission to court.
• Garbage dumping in city green spaces is on the rise With the summer season now at an end, the parks department has again spent $30,000 of its budget cleaning up after people who dump their garbage in Whitehorse greenbelts.
• YTG unveils funding to explore waterfront development options The Yukon Territorial Government (YTG) will invest $60,000 on an arts and heritage village development plan for the city's waterfront.
• Bike tax proposal irks local retailer The federal government can't add more surtaxes to bicycles and demand Canadians reduce their fossil fuels at the same time, says Patrick Palemel, owner of Icycle Sports.
• Addresses of drug houses now known The addresses of three Whitehorse grow operations that were recently shut down by police, are now known.
• Suddenly, there's no more Ottawa to run to As the proposal advances to open the territory's first producing hardrock mine in seven years, Yukon taxpayers move into a new era of accepting liability if things go wrong.
• Fentie faces criticism over pending byelection Another Friday and still no byelection.
• DCAS, college and Tr'ond'k Hw'ch'in for Arts School It is often said that to accomplish great things one must dream greatly.
• Marsh Lake man releases autobiography Where does it begin? The desire to capture your own life in words, to shine a bright light on the crucial events and movements that form the person you are.
• Lewis delivers stark message, but also hope With most people in the world living on less than a dollar a day, the gap between rich and poor widening in the so called first world and the environment suffering under the weight of human ambition, the world is suffering.
• Dan Davidson Some Thoughts About Being On and In the Air News of the impending settlement of labour problems at the CBC is music to these weary ears, plagued as they have been with morning weather forecasts that start in St. John's and barely touch the Yukon.