Whitehorse Daily Star

March 12, 2021

• Tender issued for new Whistle Bend school The Yukon government has issued a design-build tender for the first new elementary school in Whitehorse in more than 25 years.
• The Colourful, Five Per Cent Illustrated Stories and Photos By Jim Robb
• ‘How We Walk with the Land and Water’ Students in the Ghùch Tlâ Community School in Carcross participate in the “How We Walk with the Land and Water” initiative at the school on Wednesday, painting “what is important to them on the land and water.”
• Remembering Wye area-Drury Street history The Wye area was once part of the White Pass roundhouse property, an industrial area.
• Defection affected education vote For the first time in this term in office, the opposition parties were successful in blocking the Liberal party from using its majority to force a decision in its favour.
• Truck Totalled A pilot truck was destroyed by fire Thursday afternoon
• Minister challenged on information she gave to national radio program A presumed slip of the tongue has landed Pauline Frost, the minister of Health and Social Services, in hot water.
• Snowpack confirmed to be above average With record snowfalls this winter – beginning with the Nov. 2, 2020 dump – the snowpack across much of the Yukon is above average, according to the March 1 snow survey report.
• Don’t touch those clocks this weekend! While most of Canada will be adjusting its clocks this weekend, Yukoners don’t need to.
• Hutton grills ex-colleagues on issues Don Hutton, the MLA who bolted from the Liberal caucus to sit as an independent, continued to relentlessly prod his former colleagues over alcohol and drug issues.
• Sadness expressed over former minister’s death The Yukon has lost another giant personality and legend.
• Yukoners are going to the polls April 12 In a widely-anticipated move, Premier Sandy Silver has dissolved the legislature and called a general territorial election.

March 11, 2021

• Marking A Solemn Anniversary Municipal, territorial and federal flags are flying at half-mast today
• Territory gains $40 million more for housing The federal and Yukon governments have announced $40 million in new funding to increase available housing in the Yukon.
• Leader, Speaker praise late minister’s contributions Yukon Party Leader Currie Dixon and the Speaker of the legislature paid tribute today to former cabinet minister Archie Lang, who has died. He would have turned 73 next month.
• Government combines COVID economic initiatives The Yukon government is consolidating many of its economic initiatives, particularly for COVID-19 support, into one overarching plan.
• Government questioned on students’ return to classes The Yukon government’s sudden decision to send local high school students back to full-time classes in April was the source of some intense debate Wednesday in the legislature.

March 10, 2021

• Yukon Party chooses candidate The results are in from the first contested nomination for the Yukon Party.
• Family support worker training program to end with graduation The Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) marked the completion of the inaugural offering of the Yukon First Nations Family Support Worker Training Program and announced the graduating class on Tuesday.
• Whitehorse municipal election planning starts to solidify City council on Monday gave first and second readings to the procedures bylaw that will govern the Oct. 21 municipal election.
• NDP demands stronger response to opioid crisis The Yukon NDP is renewing its calls for the territorial government to take more action on the opioid crisis.
• MLA quizzes ex-colleagues on addictions issues It didn’t take long for newly-independent MLA Don Hutton to begin pressing Premier Sandy Silver and the government on his main issue of taking action against alcohol abuse.
• Minister sparking dissent, YP charges The controversy over the government’s First Nations Procurement Policy flared up again in the legislature last Thursday, during the opening day of the spring session.
• Hip replacements to be done here The Yukon government is out to prove it’s still “hip”.
• Students’ return carries logistical hurdles: YTA In a change of philosophy, the Yukon government and territorial health officials are moving to loosen the pandemic health restrictions that so many people have been chafing under.