Whitehorse Daily Star

August 3, 2016

• Exhibit showcases art created in nature A new exhibit in Whitehorse is showcasing artwork by five local artists inspired by nature.
• City planning major New Year’s Eve bash It’s looking like it’ll be one heck of a birthday party come this New Year’s Eve.
• Drum Talent Showcased The hand drum class performs
• Wounded grizzly bear shot, killed near Skagway A grizzly bear accidentally wounded during a hazing incident outside Skagway July 16 was located and killed last Saturday, says a press release issued by the U.S. national park service.
• City asked to partner with Arctic Inspiration Prize City council is being asked to come up with $10,000 to partner with the relatively new Arctic Inspiration Prize.
• Fun In The Sun Youth in the Yukon Canoe and Kayak Club CanoeKids camp
• Cathers acclaimed in Lake Laberge riding Veteran cabinet minister Brad Cathers has been acclaimed as the Yukon Party candidate for Lake Laberge in the coming territorial election.
• Local justice worker applauds announcement of inquiry The long hoped for inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls launched early this morning.
• Offender has assaulted his partner three times Vernon Capot-Blanc says it pains him every time he phones his kids and they have to listen to a voice telling them it’s a call from someone in jail.
• School’s demolition will be a major project The city is ready to receive several hundreds of truck loads of demolition waste from the old F.H. Collins Secondary School, city council heard Monday.
• Multiple charges laid after home invasion Four people have been arrested in connection with a home invasion that left one victim recovering from stab wounds.
• ‘It’s my opinion that counts,’ judge tells man A Dawson City man has been found guilty of setting fire to his home two years ago.

August 2, 2016

• Taxi bylaw creating hardships, council is told A local cab driver told city council Monday evening he’s being driven into hardship because of the city’s updated taxi bylaw passed last summer.
• Heralding An Important Cause Sarah Cloutier, the Blood Ties Four Directions Centre’s health education co-ordinator,
• ‘The boy who didn’t respect the salmon’ A traditional Tlingit story about respect, as told by Teslin Tlingit band council member Duane Aucoin:
• Planes fly in fish as Yukon chinook decline Salmon no longer collect in the nets along the Teslin River where the Tlingit people have harvested them for thousands of years.
• Season Winding Down Maya Cashaback performs
• Wildfire season reamaining quiet Despite the warm, sunny weather in southern Yukon,
• Guns Galore Cody Gubranson
• Candidate plans to remain on council Jocelyn Curteanu will continue serving as a city councillor as she pursues a seat in the territorial legislature for the Liberal party in the coming election.
• ‘Outages like this one disrupt our daily lives’ Premier Darrell Pasloski has reiterated the Yukon Party’s commitment to build the Dempster Highway fibre line in the wake of Monday’s failure of many of the territory’s telecommunications services.
• Man re-arrested after dismissal of charges The Whitehorse man whose child pornography case was dismissed Monday morning was re-arrested that afternoon.
• Reasons behind cable’s severing remain unclear Circumstances around how a road construction company severed Northwestel Inc.’s fibre optic line Monday morning are under investigation, says a Northwestel official.
• Gladish throws support to former challenger With just hours to go until the Yukon Liberals nominate their election candidate in Mountainview, the Star has learned, contestant Mike Gladish has dropped out of the race.

August 1, 2016

• BYTE looks ahead to another year A local youth organization is continuing to set its sights on offering programs to youth in all of the Yukon’s communities in the coming year.
• Sounds On A Saturday The band class performs
• Logistical woes form part of festival memories This year’s Dawson City Music Festival started out with a couple of major logistical problems well before the lineup was finalized.
• Food For Thought About Hep C The Blood Ties Four Directions Centre
• Youth wellness conference to begin Wednesday Our Voices and the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations (CAFN) are inviting youth to join them for the Shäna Dákeyi Käy – Youth on our Country Youth Wellness Conference – Wednesday through Sunday at Kathleen Lake, in Kluane National Park and Reserve.
• Lawsuit filed after fatal local collision Derrick Gibbons is suing multiple defendants in connection with a 2014 collision that left two people dead, and saw Gibbons medevaced to Vancouver General Hospital.
• Teslin Tlingit endorse limited chinook fishery The Teslin Tlingit Council announced last week it is supporting a limited fishery for Yukon River chinook salmon.
• Rights violation sees accused regain his freedom A Yukon man walked free today after a Yukon Supreme Court judge found a Charter rights violation excluded the evidence against him.
• Crews begin lengthy chore of repairing cut cable Northwestel Inc. dispatched crews this morning to repair a cut in the fibre optic line between Muncho Lake and the Liard Hot Springs in northern British Columbia, says a company official.