Whitehorse Daily Star

January 26, 2021

• Yukoners furious at wealthy couple’s alleged deceptions The repercussions of the Beaver Creek vaccination incident are still rippling around the Yukon – and far beyond.
• Cider product recalled The Yukon Berry Farms is recalling Solstice Haskap Cider sold in six-pack, 355ML cans and four-pack, mixed 355ML cans, between Dec. 17, 2020, and the past Monday.
• Proposed mining project sent back to assessment board The federal government has referred BMC Minerals’ proposed mining project back to the assessment board for further review.
• Yukon Party opens nomination processes The Yukon Party has opened the nomination process to select a candidate in the Lake Laberge riding for the coming territorial election.
• Vaccination clinic rules change again The Whitehorse COVID-19 vaccination clinic is now open to Yukon residents aged 60 years and more.
• Minister happy with moratorium on ANWR leases Environment Minister Pauline Frost has praised last week’s U.S. moratorium on oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

January 25, 2021

• Pro-campground petition lures 250 signatures While several local businesses have been hosting a petition to support the Goldrush Campground RV Park’s continued survival, the results were finally presented to council last Wednesday.
• Resiliency is like a muscle’: ex- Olympian The second Yukon First Nations Education Conference wrapped up last Thursday with a renewed resolve to overhaul the territory’s educational system with something that will work better for Indigenous peoples.
• Whitehorse COVID-19 screening drive-thru closes The drive-thru COVID-19 screening service in Whitehorse closed Friday afternoon.
• Tinted windows are illegal: RCMP Yukon RCMP are seeing an increase in vehicles with tinted front door passenger windows – and have sent out a friendly reminder that this is illegal and potentially dangerous.
• Yukoners drawing EI rose sharply The number of Yukoners receiving employment insurance benefits more than doubled when comparing November 2019 to November 2020, according to Statistics Canada.
• Clinic modifies its admission criteria After coming under fire on Friday, the Whitehorse COVID-19 vaccination clinic is opening its doors to residents aged 65 to 69.
• Pair showed ‘blatant disregard’ for rules: WRFN In a somewhat unbelievable turn of events resembling a Keystone Kops script,

January 22, 2021

• ‘Seat selection’ takes on a whole new meaning (Editorial) At 9 p.m. Thursday – the 21st hour of the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century – two realities stood clear in two of the potentially three looming elections.
• Yukon Party opens Mountainview nomination period Yukon Party opens Mountainview nomination period
• T.C. Richards The Inn
• Plan will amplify patients’, practitioners’ voices The federal and Yukon governments are teaming up to create a project which purports to give patients and health care workers a louder voice in health care.
• Making New Of The Old Leslie Leong is seen Thursday morning at the Yukon Artists at Work window.
• First Nations-led mobile therapeutic unit unveiled This week, the Yukon First Nation Education Directorate made an historic announcement as it launched a mobile therapeutic unit (MTU),
• Whistle Bend school construction to start this fall Construction of the new Whistle Bend elementary school is scheduled to begin this fall with site preparations, according to project documents submitted for review by the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board.
• A Happier Time Julie Payette (left) is seen as Canada’s governor general on Nov. 29, 2018 during her visit to the Yukon.
• COVID affected building activity It appears the peculiar year that was 2020 took a bite out of building activity in the Yukon.
• Some Yukoners perplexed by self-isolation rules It looks as if the Yukon government and public health officials may have work to do to clarify some of their COVID-19 policies with the public.
• Ten of 11 Liberals plan to seek re-election in 2021, Silver confirms They’re back.
• ‘It looks like it’s going to be a slow day’ There are strong rumblings that not all is well with the Yukon government’s rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.