Whitehorse Daily Star

November 28, 2017

• Set To Take The Stage Susie Anne Bartsch performs in the Guild Hall play Good People, which will premiere at 8 p.m. Wednesday.
• Students help build more homes For the 11th consecutive year, Genworth Canada is asking students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 to consider what home means to them.
• Entertainment With Breakfast In partnership with the Whitehorse Rotary Club, the Skookum Asphalt Santa Breakfast was held Saturday
• Yukoner promotes self-help program to others in need A unique self-help program is supporting some Whitehorse residents in addiction recovery.
• It's That Time Of Year City of Whitehorse crews
• Money to be carried into 2018 It appears the city will carry over $52 million in funds to 2018 for projects that weren’t finished this year.
• Watershed moment in Peel saga looms Friday The Supreme Court of Canada announced Monday it will deliver its decision on the Peel land use case Friday morning.
• Budget lacking in certain area, resident says Mayor Dan Curtis says transit and environmental sustainability remain high priorities for the city.
• Parties offer different takes on sitting The fall sitting of the Yukon Liberal-majority legislature wrapped up Monday afternoon,

November 27, 2017

• Ross River Dena Council appeals The Ross River Dena Council is appealing the court decision finding the federal government has done what it could to settle a land claim with the First Nation.
• Afternoon Mishap Emergency responders
• Many events set for anti-violence campaign The 16 Days to End Gender-Based Violence campaign (formerly known as the 12 Days to End Violence Against Women) began Saturday,
• Judge to rule on forensic psychiatrist’s testimony Whether a forensic psychiatrist will be permitted to testify in a first-degree murder trial was up for debate Friday in Yukon Supreme Court.
• Golden Horn school closed for the day Flooding has forced Golden Horn Elementary School to be closed today.
• MADD has saved lives, premier tells launch It’s a message that has been delivered year after year – and will continue to be delivered as long as drivers need to hear it.
• Current system has its merits, premier says Democracy in the Yukon appears slated to go under an official microscope in the near future.

November 24, 2017

• Rotary honours three Yukon communitarians The Whitehorse and Rendezvous Rotary Clubs
• The Tracks Tell The Story Teslin had a late-season visit from a grizzly bear earlier this month,
• Yukon Comedy Festival slated for March 2018 The Yukon Comedy Festival will take place March 22-24, 2018.
• Yukon Prospectors of the Year honoured Hardy Hibbing and Tim Liverton of Watson Lake are the Yukon Prospectors of the Year for 2017.
• Mutual Curiosity Otters in the Teslin River
• Minister queried on not consulting commissioner The Yukon Party has spent three question periods pressing Justice Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee
• Mine work being performed by remote control Right now,
• Festiveness And Fundraising The Business After Hours Bah Humbug started the Northwestel Festival of Trees
• BYTE seeks donations for Giving Tuesday The Empowering Youth Society is seeking donations Tuesday as part of Giving Tuesday
• Hybrid airship era has arrived, delegates told When the Peel land use planning commission recommended no road nor rail access into the Peel watershed,
• Invisible disability plagues Yukon inmates The final report from a study into Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) prevalence in the Yukon’s correction population was released Thursday.
• WildWise to receive grant WildWise is set to receive $3,500 from the city for its efforts to reduce conflicts between wildlife.
• Court hears arguments about appeal of inquest Three B.C./Yukon Court of Appeal judges heard arguments Wednesday on the chief coroner’s appeal of a Yukon Supreme Court order.
• Pillai ‘discontinues’ considering oil, gas interests Energy, Mines and Resources Minister Ranj Pillai has cancelled any further consideration of interest expressed last fall about the potential for oil and gas leases in northern Yukon.
• Label initiative ‘informs people,’ minister says The Yukon is the first Canadian jurisdiction to introduce liquor labels warning of the association between alcohol use and cancer,