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November 5, 2021

  • NDP leader seeks details on vaccine mandate The Yukon government’s vaccine mandate for public service employees and non-essential businesses came under some sharp criticism on Wednesday afternoon from the NDP.
  • Dream On Sierra Noble is seen at the sound check for the Blue Feather Music Festival
  • New councillors receive portfolios In addition to being sworn into office at Monday’s city council meeting, the councillors were officially handed their portfolios.
  • Cold Weather Stories And Northern Innovations In Severe Weather Conditions
  • Paddlewheel is being repainted Last month, Parks Canada began stripping and repainting the SS Klondike’s paddlewheel and associated components to remove remnants of lead-based paint on the structures.
  • A Dinner Party delivers a deliciously good time Christopher Duthie’s A Dinner Party, a delightful and strange romantic comedy, takes bizzare turns throughout the performance.
  • New federal cabinet shuts out the North, Dixon says Yukon Party Leader Currie Dixon has criticized the absence of the North in Prime Minister Trudeau’s cabinet for the 44th Parliament.
  • Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in youth centre celebrated The new Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in youth centre, called K’äjìt-in Zho (Young People House), had its official opening on Oct. 27, in a COVID-19 friendly gathering with dozens of masked citizens in attendance.
  • Exhibit Launched Arts Underground’s November exhibition features artists as part of the Chu Niikwän Artist Residency: Elemental Transformations exhibit.
  • Staff shortage affecting water delivery in Old Crow The situation in Old Crow when it comes to water is a dry subject.
  • Laking to leave job Ted Laking, the Yukon Party’s chief of staff, will leave his position at the end of 2021 after having been elected to Whitehorse city council on Oct. 21.
  • Fighting Climate Change A youth group from Paul-Émile Mercier Secondary School Community Centre and the Yukon Montessori School are executing and publicizing a plan for taking climate action and getting youth in all communities involved.
  • Thirty people applied for five KDFN lots There were 30 applicants for five residential lots in Porter Creek in Monday’s lottery held by the Kwanlin Dun First Nation.
  • Legion presents poppies to mark remembrance Master Cpl. John Mitchell presented poppies to both Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and City of Dawson councils on Tuesday to mark the beginning of the Dawson Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 1’s period of remembrance.
  • Dawson City’s new council is sworn in Dawson’s council chambers returned to the standard format for the room on Tuesday, with the new council sitting at the front of the room facing the well-spaced gallery.
  • YG not contemplating managed alcohol program Fresh off their success in persuading the Yukon government to introduce a supervised consumption site in downtown Whitehorse, the NDP is training its sights on the territory’s alcohol problem.
  • Communities’ Internet service improves Northwestel Inc. launched full Fibre Internet service to more than 1,000 homes in three Yukon communities on Monday: Dawson City, Watson Lake and nearby Upper Liard.
  • Popular bakery has served its last patron The Claim is gone, but possibly not for good.
  • Problems are true, parent confirms A parent at Jack Hulland Elementary School says much of the criticism being hurled at the Yukon government by the opposition parties is correct.
  • School problems spur terse words between parties Education Minister Jeanie McLean and Opposition Leader Currie Dixon sparked an angry exchange with each other over the state of affairs at Jack Hulland School on Thursday afternoon as question period ended in the legislature.
  • Housing prices continue upward trajectory The price of housing in Whitehorse continues to rise, according to the third-quarter real estate report issued by the Yukon Bureau of Statistics.

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