Whitehorse Daily Star

October 10, 2018

• Gwaandak Theatre launches its season with a world premiere Gwaandak Theatre will launch its 19th season this evening in Teslin with Bystander, a new play by Wren Brian, an award-winning, Yukon-born-and-raised playwright.
• Monument installation finishing up Construction along the Riverfront Trail was scheduled to end this afternoon.
• Local group celebrates Waste Reduction Week Zero Waste Yukon will host several special events for Waste Reduction Week in Canada, which takes place Oct. 15-21 in support of waste reduction initiatives.
• Peace Is Best Fred Horrocks was promoting world peace on Tuesday,
• Board finds cause of deadly chopper crash in Skagway region A deadly helicopter crash in southeast Alaska was caused by the pilot’s choice to fly in poor weather and “self-induced pressure to complete the flight,” according to a federal investigative report.
• Review ATIPP Act, MLAs urged The Yukon’s Information and Privacy Commissioner has some concerns about Bill 24, the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (ATIPP Act) tabled in the legislature last week.
• Ice bridge tender on verge of being issued In the event the Yukon River fails to freeze in front of Dawson again this year,
• Buses will be rebuilt, council decides In an effort to extend the life of two city buses, the city will sole-source a contract worth $280,000.
• Developers to benefit from policy alterations Local developers can now benefit from changes to two city policies.
• Hikes in premier’s pay, MLAs’ expenses set out Legislation introduced Tuesday proposes pay hikes for Premier Sandy Silver – and increases across the board for MLAs’ expense accounts.
• ‘We need to make it work’: Hanson on shelter Concerns over services or lack of services being delivered at the new Salvation Army centre on Fourth Avenue were raised in the legislature Tuesday.

October 9, 2018

• Congratulations From A Monarch Part of Olive Patton’s 100th birthday celebrations
• Ice bridge being planned The Yukon government and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC)
• Democracy For The Taking Eligible Whitehorse residents can advance vote at the special ballot poll at the back of city hall until Oct. 18,
• Festival, special events funding to be voted on A total of $50,000 in city funds, along with in-kind services worth nearly $40,000, could go to a dozen events around the city throughout 2019.
• A Taste Of Winter Whitehorse residents awoke to snow Monday morning.
• Tourism season was strong, roundup proclaims The 2017 tourism season may well have been boosted by the hype surrounding the Canada 150 celebrations.
• Exhibit On For Viewing Heather Von Steinhagen, the new executive director of Arts Underground,
• Dawson ferry repaired, running again The George Black ferry was back in the water by last Friday afternoon,
• New book to salute Yukoners who fell in First World War The Whitehorse branch of the Royal Canadian Legion has published a new book for the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
• MLAs set to pore over legislation Highways and Public Works Minister Richard Mostyn has tabled the first major overhaul in 23 years to the Yukon’s Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
• Offender sees sentencing put off two months The sentencing hearing for a 47-year-old Carcross man has been adjourned to a later date, but he has been taken into custody.

October 5, 2018

• Modernized Coroners Act tabled Justice Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee has tabled the first significant revision of the territory’s Coroners Act in 60 years.
• KDO starts building second eight-plex in Dawson City Just about two years after the ground-breaking ceremony for the first of the Klondike Development Organization’s (KDO’s) housing project, the construction of a second unit with a different façade has begun.
• Equality of Spouses Act tabled The Yukon government is continuing to make laws non-discriminatory and inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, Two-Spirit plus (LGBTQ2S+) Yukoners.
• Tumble Damages Caddy This Cadillac left the Alaska Highway near Teslin on Tuesday night,
• Honouring the missing women The Aboriginal Women’s Council’s annual Sisters in Spirit vigil and walk took place Thursday
• Yukoner commits performer’s story to a book “There’s something about his music.”
• Timeframe extended for mine feedback The period to comment on Goldcorp’s proposed Coffee Gold Mine has been extended by two weeks at the request of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).
• Changes proposed to city policies Local developers could soon benefit from changes to two city policies.
• Ferry Drama Resolved By the middle of Thursday afternoon, the George Black ferry looked ready to be removed from the Yukon River in Dawson City.
• Man charged after break-ins Whitehorse RCMP have arrested a suspect in relation to break and enter incidents
• Yukoner Appreciation Day may continue to have city’s support It’s become the event that kicks off the local holiday shopping season: Yukoner Appreciation Day.
• Cabbie fails to show up, but is convicted, fined A local taxi driver did not attend his trial this week – and was convicted of unlawfully passing a vehicle on the right and causing an accident.
• Pelly resident sentenced for manslaughter A 32-year-old Pelly Crossing man has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison,
• Frost had no answers on controversy: YFGA The Yukon Fish and Game Association was hoping for answers in the legislature 
Thursday afternoon but they didn’t come, says association president Charles Schewen.
• Candidates espouse ideas on housing, traffic The city’s housing crisis continued to take centre stage at the Gold Rush Inn on Thursday evening as residents gathered for the second Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce all-candidates’ forum.