Whitehorse Daily Star

November 15, 2021

• Dawson on verge of a recycling crisis In just under a month, Dawson will lose the convenience – as well as the necessity – of its downtown non-profit recycling centre.
• Global event comes North The Yukon Theatre for Young People joined Musical Theatre International’s (MTI’s) Global Event Celebrating Local Theatre on Saturday, performing well-known Broadway musicals.
• Government proposes energy-refit program The Yukon government is hoping to introduce an energy-refit program.
• Man arrested after suspicious activity Whitehorse RCMP arrested a 41-year-old man of no fixed address on Friday, stemming from a series of investigations beginning in Dawson City.
• Man charged following stabbing A man was arrested in Whitehorse last Wednesday afternoon after another man was stabbed in a residential neighbourhood, police said today.
• Facility users must be vaccinated Patrons of the Canada Games Centre and Takhini Arena must present a paper or digital copy of their Proof of Vaccination Credential, along with Yukon government-issued identification.
• Days dwindling for first long-term care home The end has come for Macaulay Lodge, once the only long-term care home in Whitehorse.
• Eleventh death, 41 new COVID cases reported The Yukon’s COVID-19 outbreak continues to worsen, with the announcement of another fatality.

November 12, 2021

• Remembering those who have fallen “This day means a hell of a lot to me. I was born in Holland, I lived in an orphanage in World War Two; I know what it’s like to suffer and I just want to thank Canada. Thank you.”
• The Yukon Sun The Colourful Five Per Cent Illustrated
• Hidden Valley petition has 530-plus names The Yukon Party is critical of what it calls Deputy Premier Tracy-Anne McPhee’s continued silence on how sexual criminality at Hidden Valley Elementary School was handled.
• Compost Pilot Work Proceeds A compost test pilot project is going on at the Mount Lorne Transfer Station south of Whitehorse.
• Chilly Remembrance Day observed in Dawson About two dozen Dawsonites, not counting the Rangers, Junior Rangers, Legion members and four RCMP members in Red Serge, gathered around the cenotaph in Victory Gardens to celebrate Remembrance Day.
• Dawson celebrated Indigenous Veterans Day About 35 residents gathered around Victor Henry’s carefully-stoked fire about half an hour past a pale sunrise Monday for an 11 a.m. gathering at the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre.
• Naloxone nasal spray motion OKed The Yukon NDP is celebrating Wednesday’s unanimous support for a motion asking the government to make naloxone nasal spray publicly available and free of charge at front-line agencies, government facilities and pharmacies.
• Policy raises serious concerns for YTA “It looks as if the government is doing an end-run” around the opposition to its vaccine mandate by invoking the state of emergency to handle the latest COVID-19 outbreak.
• Many Choices Jasmin Marie, Yucanprint, displays her wares
• Council ponders possible assistance to Faro Coun. Jocelyn Curteanu says she’s interested in seeing additional assistance provided to the Town of Faro in light of the Oct. 26 shootings that left two people dead and one seriously injured.
• Council members reflect on city’s rising crime, solutions There was general agreement at city council’s meeting Monday that the rate of property crime in the city is rising.
• YEU’s options are limited, president says The president of the Yukon Employees’ Union (YEU) is not happy with the state of affairs regarding the territorial government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public employees.
• Silver offers scathing criticism of petition, YP Wednesday saw Premier Sandy Silver in an uncharacteristically aggressive mood in the Yukon legislature.

November 10, 2021

• Carmacks bypass project will cost almost $30 M Whitehorse-based Pelly Construction Ltd. has been awarded the contract for the Carmacks Bypass Project – a $29.6-million investment to construct a new road and bridge near Carmacks.
• Referenda set on First Nations school board Five school boards across the Yukon are likely to hold referenda on whether they wish to join a proposed First Nations School Board.
• Upper Liard collision kills man A 32-year-old male driver died Monday afternoon in a collision near Upper Liard in southeast Yukon.
• Scrutiny of teen’s death continues The RCMP have again reminded Yukoners they’re looking for the public’s assistance in an historical investigation.
• Make top doctor’s advice public: opposition The renewed declaration of a state of emergency over the swiftly-rising COVID-19 breakout in the Yukon dominated the legislature Tuesday.
• ‘COVID is not finished with us’: premier There wasn’t a lot new on tap during this morning’s weekly COVID-19 briefing that Yukoners hadn’t already learned.