Whitehorse Daily Star

September 1, 2021

• Innovation commission to support entrepreneurs A new Innovation Commission has been formed to provide technical and professional input on the development of a five-year innovation strategy to expand opportunities for local entrepreneurs, diversify our economy and create jobs.
• Coroners Act, regulations are now in full effect The territory’s new Coroners Act came into force Aug. 19.
• Van Bibbers take a multi-generational cruise Four generations of the Van Bibber family arrived in Dawson around noon on Aug. 21, having departed from the family’s cabin near Minto Landing the day before.
• Picture-Perfect Skating Evening The new $3.5-million skateboard park, near the Riverdale side of the Robert Campbell Bridge.
• Advocating for safety The Blood Ties Four Directions Centre recognized International Overdose Awareness Day with the annual event in LePage Park on Tuesday.
• Federal fund provide for continuing air services The federal government is providing $1 million to the Yukon government to continue the support of essential air services for remote communities in the territory.
• Advocate, YG still at odds over review It appears the territorial government and the Child and Youth Advocate are still at loggerheads.
• Council endorses supportive housing plan The bid by the Safe At Home Society to transform the Coast High Country Inn into a housing project leapt another hurdle Monday evening.
• Site will open at month’s end The Yukon government’s safe consumption house will not open until the end of September.

August 31, 2021

• Vangorda plateau site subject of purchase plan The planned sale of mining claims and leases on the Vangorda plateau portion of the Faro mine site and neighbouring lands to the east of the plateau was announced Monday afternoon.
• Monument to be publicly unveiled Sept. 17 The Yukon Local Project Advisory Committee of the Finding Peace Commemoration Project for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-spirit plus (MMIWG) Commemoration Project: Finding Peace has planned two important events.
• Opioids epidemic has cost 14 Yukon lives in 2021 The Yukon opioid epidemic has claimed 14 lives so far this year.
• COVID-19 case surfaces in long-term care facility The territory has witnessed its first COVID-19 case reported in a long-term care facility.
• Indigenous educator honoured for outstanding work A Yukon teacher has been honoured with an award from the Canadian Teacher’s Federation.

August 30, 2021

• NDP makes housing pledge Lisa Vollans-Leduc, the NDP’s candidate for Yukon, said Friday she is committed to helping Yukon families find an affordable place to live.
• Storyteller Extraordinaire Ivan Coyote was the final act in this year’s Guild Hall ’Round Back Series on Friday.
• Safety rules changes soon Last September, the Yukon government approved changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations that will come into force this Saturday, two days before Labour Day.
• One new COVID case is reported Dr. Catherine Elliott
• Vechicles Collide .
• Hanley disappointed by YP’s ‘personal attack’ Brendan Hanley is firing back at the criticism directed at him by Yukon Party Leader Currie Dixon.
• Safe consumption site will not open Tuesday One of the signature projects of the agreement between the Yukon Liberal Party and the Yukon NDP has hit a speed bump.
• School feted for innovative learning Former federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair was on hand Friday morning as the Yukon government and the Commission scolaire francophone du Yukon (CSFY) gathered to celebrate the new French First Language Secondary School Community Centre, Centre scolaire secondaire communautaire Paul-Émile Mercier (CSSC Mercier).
• Inn may become supportive housing The Coast High Country Inn (HCI) could be changing hands if an ambitious proposal for the Safe at Home Society to take it over succeeds.