Whitehorse Daily Star

March 22, 2021

• Health lodge among Liberals’ planned improvements The April 12 election campaign promises kept rolling in Friday as the Yukon Liberals served up more announcements.
• I&E supports youth in entrepreneurship Yukon University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) has created a summer entrepreneurship program for youth.
• NDP would bring back ‘the’ Yukon If she’s elected the next premier on April 12, NDP Leader Kate White would put “the” back in “the Yukon” in all government communication, signage, and style guides.
• COVID tests can be booked online Yukoners can now book COVID-19 tests online through an online booking tool.
• Dixon promises to create green jobs Nowhere is the connection between the environment and the economy more apparent than when it comes to climate change, the Yukon Party said Friday.
• YP offers educator tax credit As part of the Yukon Party’s Action for a Change plan for education, the party is pledging to give educators more of a break at tax time.
• Office provides campaigning guidance Elections Yukon has issued a series of recommendations to political parties and candidates as to how they should campaign in the time of COVID-19.
• Lands withdrawn from mineral staking The Yukon government has withdrawn from mineral staking certain lands with high conservation value in the Dawson City planning region.
• Liberals vow to create 1,000 new lots in half-decade The Yukon Liberals are reaching deep into their election grab bag today with ambitious new promises on housing.
• NDP cultivates help for local farmers NDP Leader Kate White unveiled a campaign commitment this morning focused on using rebates to encourage local food retailers to buy their products from Yukon farmers.
• YP childcare plan superior to Liberals’: Dixon The Yukon Party (YP) has announced a $28-million universal childcare benefit as it attempts to out-do the governing Liberal party.

March 19, 2021

• Shows During Covid Times Aiden Tentrees (left) and Paris Pick are seen at the sound check last Sunday at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre.
• LSCFN, firm pursue geothermal technology The Little Salmon-Carmacks First Nation entered into a partnership last year with a Calgary company to advance the use of geothermal technology in the Yukon.
• Eyes are on Atlin-Yukon power plan Atlin could be supplying the Yukon electrical grid with renewable energy as early as late 2023 if federal funding required for the project is approved, says Yukon Energy president Andrew Hall.
• Accomplishment Celebrated Graduates from the inaugural Yukon First Nations Family Support Worker Training Program
• Subdivisions of two lots spur court action The Carcross-Tagish First Nation (C/TFN) is asking the Yukon Supreme Court for a judicial review of the territorial government’s decision to approve the subdivisions of two lots in its traditional territory.
• Former Liberal candidate goes to bat for YP The Yukon Party has snared a candidate who ran as a Liberal in the 2016 election.
• Yukon Journalist The Colourful Five Per Cent Illustrated
• Liberals vow prescription contraception subsidies The Yukon Liberal Party unveiled another plank in its election platform Wednesday, one designed to appeal to female voters.
• Party’s former interim leader stays in the game Stacey Hassard, the Yukon Party MLA for Pelly-Nisutlin, confirmed Thursday afternoon he is seeking a third term in the riding he grew up in and raised his three children.
• Alert issued after bogus calls to Dawson residents The Dawson City RCMP have received multiple complaints from citizens reporting receiving suspicious phone calls.
• Schwatka Lake parking will expand The city is moving forward with plans to build two gravel parking lots along the Schwatka Lake Road this year.
• Frozen lines cause spill at mine Another spill of a toxic substance occurred at the Victoria Gold’s Eagle Gold Mine north of Mayo,
• NDP envisions walk-in mental health services The Yukon NDP would build a walk-in clinic to provide mental health services if elected April 12, party leader Kate White said in a campaign announcement Wednesday morning.
• Gender-affirming health care touted The territorial government is moving to make what it calls “significant” changes to improve “gender-affirming health care”, including surgery, for Yukoners.
• Governing party announces two more hopefuls The unveilings of two new candidates was part of the Yukon Liberal Party’s activities on St. Patrick’s Day.
• Liberals add four people to election slate Mary Lake resident Sheila Robertson will represent the Yukon Liberal Party in the riding of Copperbelt South in the April 12 territorial election.
• YP models its post-COVID education reforms The Yukon Party (YP) is promising to begin fixing what ails the territorial education system... particularly for Indigenous students.
• Parties organize for battle With the election campaign a week old, let’s take a peek behind the scenes at what some of the parties are up to.
• Housing project vote looms City council is scheduled to vote at its meeting Monday on a proposed zoning amendment to allow for a multi-unit housing development at 410 Cook St.

March 18, 2021

• YP out to assist territory’s contractors The Yukon Party (YP) is making overtures to the construction industry as the territorial election campaign ramps up.
• We would ensure safer communities: Liberals The Yukon Liberal Party reached out to the rural communities around the territory this morning with announcements on community safety initiatives.
• An NDP government would introduce rent controls NDP Leader Kate White says her party would tackle head-on the lack of affordable housing available for Yukoners if it’s elected to govern on April 12.
• City is owed $65,417 in back taxes COVID-19 may have had a strange hand in reducing the number of residential and commercial properties that are in tax arrears with the city.
• Biological anthropologist to lecture Saturday Long Ago Yukon’s 2020-2021 Speaker Series will welcome its fifth speaker – Dr. Marina Elliott – at 1 p.m. Saturday via a live link on the Long Ago Yukon’s Facebook page.
• Fire claimed the life of a teenager Limited information is being released on Wednesday morning’s fire on Falcon Drive that took the life of a teenager.