Whitehorse Daily Star

April 14, 2022

• Skills Canada Yukon competition begins Skills Canada Yukon has started the annual Territorial Skills Competition.
• The Colourful Five Per Cent Illustrated .
• Tourism group creates task force With concerns mounting from Yukon businesses about the challenges in attracting and retaining qualified workers,
• How Jesus was found on a power line This may be an appropriate story for Easter, as it is one of resurrection.
• Students praised for ‘courage’ in dress code issue School dress codes provoked a lively exchange Monday in the legislature.
• Skymaster Down: the saga continues Skymaster Down,
• Ice bridge is in its final days, residents warned The Department of Highways and Public Works is serving notice that the days of the local Yukon River ice bridge are numbered.
• NDP to minister: where’s the sick leave program? An NDP MLA is accusing the government of dragging its feet on implementing a universal paid sick leave program.
• Streicker reminded of Pillai’s promise about quarry The Liberal government appears to be prepared to break a campaign promise on the Stevens Quarry development, the official Opposition says.
• No Star on Good Friday The Star will not be published on Good Friday,
• Clarification A story in Monday’s edition regarding Skagway’s plans to replace a dock for cruise ships said the ore haul from the Minto Mine would not be impeded.
• COVID-19 cases crest 4,000 mark The Yukon has hit a rather undesirable milestone.
• Federal minister has first-hand look at Marsh Lake Federal Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair was in town Wednesday to have a peek at the Yukon’s preparations for another flooding season.
• ‘Liberal mis-management’ is to blame for school’s cost: YP The Yukon Party is looking for answers for an apparent steep increase in the cost of the new Whistle Bend Elementary School, which hasn’t broken ground yet.

April 13, 2022

• Simapalooza makes waves again It was another wild and wacky Simapalooza at Mount Sima this year.
• Challenge rebrands itself as Opportunities Yukon The Challenge Disabilities Resource Group has rebranded as Opportunities Yukon,
• Propane tank explosion injures person One person was injured Monday afternoon after a propane tank exploded on Range Road.
• Parties register differing views on inn’s fate The saga of the Chilkoot Trail Inn provoked some very different responses from the territory’s three political parties on Tuesday.
• Yukon Party blamed for mine maintenance bills The Yukon government will spend $12 million looking after the abandoned Wolverine Mine site this year, says Energy, Mines and Resources (EMR) Minister John Streicker.

April 12, 2022

• Commissioner updates Literary Program Commissioner Angélique Bernard updated Yukoners about her Literary Program on Monday.
• Governments promote Atlin Hydro Expansion Project The Yukon government, along with federal officials, held a news conference Monday morning to talk up last week’s announcement that the Atlin Hydro Expansion Project is receiving $32.2 million in funding from the Canadian government.
• NDP leader raises Yukoner’s indictment of mental health services Health and Social Services Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee and NDP Leader Kate White clashed once again Monday over health services in the Yukon.
• COVID numbers remain stable Monday afternoon’s COVID-19 number from the Yukon government show cases are holding relatively steadily.
• CYFN donates COVID-19 test kits for communities’ use The Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) has made a donation of 3,912 rapid molecular COVID-19 tests to the Yukon government for use at community health centres.
• Violence against women in taxis becomes council’s priority After a lengthy debate at its meeting Monday, city council voted to make a priority of addressing violence against women in Whitehorse taxis.