Whitehorse Daily Star

April 13, 2021

• Election Undecided pending recount This could only be called an inconclusive result to an odd campaign.
• Another active COVID-19 case reported The Yukon has added one more active COVID-19 case.
• White sees ‘conversations’ in her near future “I wish tonight we could all be in a big room because I’m really into hugs and high fives and there are so many hugs and high fives that I’d like to give tonight,” NDP Leader Kate White said late Monday evening.
• Election sees Liberals held to a minority government Liberal Premier Sandy Silver was re-elected Monday to his third term as MLA for the Klondike riding and second as premier.
• ‘It’s a very interesting decision by Yukoners’: Dixon This could only be called an inconclusive result to an odd campaign.

April 12, 2021

• Yukon dignitaries praise Prince Philip Commissioner Angélique Bernard and Premier Sandy Silver issued statements Friday afternoon on that morning’s passing of Prince Philip, just weeks short of his 100th birthday.
• Royal couple rode train in city In the photo above, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip are shown standing at the back of the ‘Queen’s Coach’, the ‘Lake Laberge’, while at the White Pass & Yukon Route railway depot in Whitehorse on Saturday, July 18, 1959.
• Job figures remain solid: data The numbers for the Yukon’s labour market continue to look relatively good ... particularly in comparison to Canada as a whole.
• Cold temperatures broke records Several temperature records were broken across the territory over the weekend, says Environment Canada meteorologist Lisa Erven.
• Notifications are issued for potential virus exposures Dr. Brendan Hanley, the Yukon’s chief medical officer of health, has issued two separate notifications regarding potential exposures for COVID-19 over the weekend.
• COVID restrictions spark protest rally Against the wishes of Liberal Leader Sandy Silver and NDP Leader Kate White,
• Polls will remain open until 8 p.m. Voting day for the territorial election got off to a good start this morning as all polls opened on time across the Yukon.

April 9, 2021

• YP would help forestry sector With lumber prices surging across the country because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Yukon Party sees an opportunity for the territory to benefit economically.
• NDP redirects corporate donations At the start of the territorial election,
• Liberals, Yukon Party can’t deliver: White NDP Leader Kate White summed up the party’s platform commitments
• Chiefs reaffirm support for restrictions The Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council are firmly in the corner of the Yukon chief medical officer of health’s mandate to keep the Yukon’s border restrictions and self-isolation rules actively in place.
• Chicago Charley .
• Party would expand safety program The Yukon Party has unveiled several pledges to help ensure communities are safe.
• Morning Mishap There was a single-vehicle rollover on the Robert Service Way this morning.
• Councillor ‘disappointed’ Senior city staff were on the hot seat at Tuesday’s city council meeting over the report they prepared regarding the public input received into the proposal to rezone 107 Range Rd.
• Spring Snow Another large snowfall in southern Yukon has residents digging out yet again.
• YP vows to tackle violence issues The Yukon Party would implement several proactive measures to address community violence throughout the territory should it win office on Monday.
• Farmers frustrated by inaction over elk Farmers are looking for a government that will help solve the issue of damage to their farms by wild elk introduced by the government in the late 1980s, says the former president of the Yukon Agriculture Association.
• YP prepared to bolster skilled trades: leader A Yukon Party government elected April 12 would help address the need for skilled trades within the territory’s economy.
• Royalty In Whitehorse Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Philip) ride in Whitehorse in a 1959 Ford Fairlane borrowed by the RCMP at the last minute from Whitehorse Motors.
• Dixon sums up reasons to endorse YP In one of its final announcements of the election campaign, Yukon Party Leader Currie Dixon said Thursday a YP government would deliver on 23 platform commitments in its first 100 days.
• Silver sees rally as threat to public health At one of the Yukon Liberal Party’s last news conferences before Monday’s election, leader Sandy Silver gave some rather crisp answers to the party’s COVID-19 strategy.
• Dixon: ‘We have put together a great team’ Ed. note: this is an analysis of the Yukon Party’s leader and campaign.
• White: ‘I want to work for people’ Ed. note: this is an analysis of the New Democrats’ leader and campaign.
• Silver: ‘This has been the honour of my life’ Ed. note: on this and the next two pages, reporter Tim Giilck analyzes the efforts of the leaders of the three parties contesting Monday’s territorial election.