Whitehorse Daily Star

November 23, 2021

• YG eyes children’s vaccine appointments for early next month In what’s likely to become a flashpoint for resistance from anti-vaccination types, the Yukon government is getting set to introduce COVID-19 vaccine shots for children aged five to 11.
• Craft Fair Endures The Global Village Craft Fair has been around for 30 years.
• Teacher recruitment progressing, minister says The Yukon government says it’s starting to make some headway on its shortage of teachers for the territory.
• Mayor formally proclaims Orange Days Mayor Laura Cabott has proclaimed the 16 days of Orange Days will run from Nov. 25 to Dec. 10.
• YG supports Yukon Theatre’s resurrection The momentum is rolling on the Yukon Film Society’s efforts to resurrect the Yukon Theatre.
• Blaze badly damages rail car An investigation is underway to determine the cause of an early-morning fire that has heavily damaged a railway car along the Whitehorse waterfront.

November 22, 2021

• Housing a ‘major concern’ councillor plans to focus on Coun. Ted Laking, like many of his colleagues on city council, sees housing as the pre-eminent issue facing Whitehorse.
• Library, CYFN team up for reading project The Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) and Yukon Imagination Library have announced a new collaboration that will see a Yukon First Nation book sent to all children registered with the library program.
• Inaugural Yukon Prize is awarded The 2021 Yukon Prize for Visual Arts has been won by Yukoner Joseph Tisiga, it was announced Saturdayat the gala at the Yukon Arts Centre. The prize is worth $20,000.
• RCMP help stranded trapper after snowmobile fails Mayo RCMP rescued a stranded trapper last week after his snowmobile broke down.
• Vunut Gwitchin hail move to safeguard coastal plain The Vuntut Gwitchin are celebrating an American decision which restores protections to Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit (The Sacred Place Where Life Begins), commonly known as the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
• COVID data out Yukon public health officials have released the latest figures on the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak from the weekend.
• Yukon Theatre to come back to life What’s old is about to become new again ... sort of.
• Man has been missing since 2016: RCMP It has been five years since James Kunuk was reported missing to the Yukon RCMP.
• YP is out to topple minority government The Yukon Party is making a bid to topple the governing Liberals in the legislature.

November 19, 2021

• YP questions project’s schedule, higher cost It’s disappointing to see another major infrastructure project late and over-budget, says Stacey Hassard, the Yukon Party’s Highways and Public Works critic.
• Curtain falls on A Dinner Party With “a very heavy heart,” the Guild has cancelled its presentations of A Dinner Party.
• Winter At The Gallery The city’s first significant snowfall of the autumn-winter season began late Wednesday evening and carried into Thursday morning.
• Forward Together during the pandemic The Forward Together Music Series was a free, four-concert, live-streamed event from the MusicYukon Facebook page.
• Driver's Antifreeze Was 18 Bottles Of Whiskey The Colourful Five Per Cent Illustrated
• Portables project has ballooned to $6.4 million: YP The government and the opposition parties squabbled Tuesday over the issue of portable classrooms at the Robert Service School in Dawson City.
• YG under fire for long MD waiting lists The Yukon government is still resisting calls to open a public walk-in medical clinic to reduce the strain on the emergency department at Whitehorse General Hospital.
• Vehicles Tangle This is one of two vehicles
• ‘Heartbreak’ of Mayo deaths spurs petition NDP Leader Kate White has presented a petition to the legislature calling for more resources to be devoted to Mayo after what residents are calling a rash of incidents of substance abuse and social upheaval.
• Twelfth Yukoner dies from COVID Dr. André Corriveau, the acting chief medical officer of health, reported another death of a Yukon citizen from COVID-19.
• NDP goes to bat for wildland firefighters NDP Leader Kate White and wildland firefighters are calling on the Yukon government to include wildland firefighters in presumptive cancer coverage.
• River rescuer to receive bravery award Five Yukoners – including one who saved a man’s life – are in line for Commissioner’s Awards.