Whitehorse Daily Star

February 26, 2020

• Minimum wage plan nears ‘danger zone,’ chamber believes The territory’s new minimum wage of $13.71 per hour brings pay close to the “danger zone identified in a YG-commissioned economic impact study released in January.”
• Partners sew up deal for textile baler A new textile baler at the Raven Recycling Centre is helping divert used clothing from the Yukon’s landfills.
• 1989 apprentice carpenter champ sought There is a national champion from Whitehorse in the United Brotherhood of Carpenters Canadian Carpentry Apprenticeship Contest.
• Music and munchies prove profitable The All-City Band Society raised more than $3,000 at its dessert and dance event held Feb. 8. The proceeds will help send the bands to the Nationals in Calgary in May.
• Wholesale trade figures released The preliminary estimate (seasonally unadjusted) of wholesale sales in the Yukon for December 2019 was $8.5 million, Statistics Canada reported Monday.
• Rendezvous assessed as big success The 56th annual Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous Festival was a smashing success, according to the event’s executive director.
• Local man charged with trafficking cocaine A Whitehorse man has been charged with trafficking cocaine after members of the Yukon RCMP Crime Reduction Unit arrested him last Friday afternoon.
• Roddick calls for better communication Coun. Steve Roddick says the city should explore what it could do to communicate more of city council’s business to the public.
• Another Second Avenue incident .
• Northern B.C.’s Silvertip Mine halts its operations While Coeur Mining has suspended operations at its Silvertip Mine just south of the Yukon border, it is promising significant investment to improve the mine’s life.
• Mammoth mine proponent pushes back plans The Casino Mining Corp. has postponed for two years its response to the assessment board regarding its proposal to build the largest mine in the Yukon’s history.
• Drugs and ammunition seized in Mayo A 34-year-old man faces drugs and weapons charges after Mayo RCMP searched a local residence last Saturday.
• Yukoner is CMA president elect Dr. Katharine Smart, the president of the Yukon Medical Association, was declared president-elect of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) late last week.
• Selected care model to see midwives as employees of YG A midwifery model of care has been selected for the Yukon, and is being called “a big win” by a local advocate.

February 25, 2020

• Yukon Carpenters seeking 1989 apprentice champ There is a national champion from Whitehorse in the United Brotherhood of Carpenters Canadian Carpentry Apprenticeship Contest.
• College wants new name for access road On the eve of Yukon College morphing into Canada’s only university north of the 60th parallel, the college is seeking a name change for its main access road.

February 24, 2020

• About those holes in the streets.... DAWSON CITY – Dawsonites have noticed that there are a lot of interruptions to street navigation these days.
• Project co-ordination committee struck for Brewery Creek Mine This is a joint news release with Golden Predator Mining Corp.
• Report sets out obstacles to virtual care potential Last November, the Yukon Medical Association agreed that implementing virtual care is a priority for the territory, but a new report suggests that multiple roadblocks currently stand in the way of progress.
• Combined purposes About 25 people are seen at noon Friday at the Elijah Smith Building.
• Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous 2020 Another Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous has finished.