Whitehorse Daily Star

August 27, 2021

• The Sounds Of Africa The African Music Festival took place last weekend in Whitehorse.
• Chiropractor Kay MacDonald By Liesel Briggs
• CGC to close early Sept. 1 The Canada Games Centre will close at 3 p.m. next Wednesday.
• Graduation regalia fetes First Nations students’ efforts “Honouring Our Future: Yukon First Nations Regalia” is the title of the latest exhibit at the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre in Dawson.
• Lining Up For History The city’s Martha Black May Day Tree seedling giveaway was extremely popular on Thursday afternoon.
• Statue attracts Mammoth degree of enthusiasm It’s just under 13 months ago that Dawsonites witnessed a mammoth progression up Front Street from the north end to a spot at the Waterfront Park near the Commissioner’s residence.
• Warming up for the ‘Kinda’ Klondike Road Relay The “Kinda” Klondike Road Relay will take place Sept. 11.
• Expand list of cancers, firefighters urge YG The Whitehorse Firefighters Association is negotiating vigorously for an expanded list of cancers to be added to territorial legislation.
• Mulcair speaks at ceremony Former federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair spoke in Whitehorse this morning at a celebration in honour of the CSSC Mercier Secondary School Community Centre.
• Principal writes of event’s ‘traumatizing impacts’ A letter from the principal of Hidden Valley Elementary School to the families of students promises to act on the concerns created by a former educational assistant’s conviction of sexual interference.
• COVID to see school open a week late Due to lingering concerns over an outbreak of COVID-19 in the village, the Ross River School is delaying its opening by a week.
• High demand sees real estate prices spiral Buying a home in Whitehorse and the Yukon has become substantially more difficult to do in the last year.

August 26, 2021

• Liberals would move forward with housing plan: Hanley Housing prices and rents shouldn’t be beyond the grasp of so many Yukoners, says Brendan Hanley, the Yukon’s Liberal Party candidate in the Sept. 20 federal election
• Boycott YG’s demonstration event, farmers urged There’s a modern version of a range war brewing between the Yukon Agricultural Association and the territorial government.
• Federal candidates’ forum organized The Canadian-Filipino Association of the Yukon (CFAY) is organizing a federal elections candidates’ forum.
• Business data have few surprises for chamber A new report from the Yukon Bureau of Statistics indicating businesses are taking a cautious approach to economic recovery contains few surprises.
• Yukon Arts Centre to expand theatre capacity The Yukon Arts Centre’s main theatre will increase its capacity to 179 seats, and the balcony will be reopened, the centre said Wednesday.

August 25, 2021

• Café des Voix ’Round Back The Guild Hall ’Round Back series wraps up this week.
• Jump in the cost of living is hurting Yukoners: YP Fuelled by spiralling gasoline prices, the cost of living just keeps going up in the Yukon.
• Updated Fort Selkirk Historic Site plan in place after ceremony The Yukon government and the Selkirk First Nation signed the updated Huchá Hudän Fort Selkirk Historic Site Management Plan at a ceremony held at the site last Friday.
• Homelessness remains ‘a persistent injustice’ The latest figures on homelessness in Whitehorse are out, and it’s not a particularly flattering portrait.
• Yukoners can anticipate vaccine certificates At the stroke of midnight, the Yukon government will end its long-running state of emergency (CEMA) directed at the COVID-19 virus as if it’s an unwanted pumpkin at Hallowe’en – as it pushes ahead with its relaxation of rules.