Whitehorse Daily Star

July 18, 2016

• New bike rack approved for Main Street Cyclists will soon be enjoying more parking on Main Street.
• Former MP to bolster NDP campaign The Yukon NDP’s pre-election organizers will get what they call “a major boost” this month: a visit by former MP Olivia Chow.
• Council OKs development incentives Da Daghay Development Corp. is well on its way to receiving a major development incentive from the city worth up to $500,000 over 10 years.
• Pets Blessed The annual Blessing of the Animals
• New servicing standards policy approved City council has voted to put the city’s servicing standards manual entirely in the hands of its staff.
• Canyon Creativity Steve Slade
• Trail paving contract approved Skookum Asphalt has been awarded a $114,800 contract that could make walking or cycling between Porter Creek and Takhini a little easier.
• Premier prepares to host historic meeting Premier prepares to host historic meeting
• City looking for new PDAC members Residents have until Sept. 9 to get their applications into the city to be part of the city’s Persons with Disabilities Advisory Committee.
• New beds confirmed for Thomson Centre The territorial government and Yukon Hospital Corp. confirmed this morning 10 continuing care beds will indeed be added to the Thomson Centre to reduce the pressures next door at the Whitehorse General Hospital.
• RCMP seek information about human remains at Watson Lake The recent discovery of human remains in Watson Lake is, at this point, “a bit of a mystery.”
• Workers’ pay ranges between $44,839 and $130,659 per year Members of the Yukon Employees Union have ratified a new three-year collective agreement that includes a five-per-cent wage increase over the life of the contract.

July 15, 2016

• Hospital foundation elects new board of directors The Yukon Hospital Foundation has a new board of directors for 2016-2017.
• Marking Two Decades Of Jammimg Mackenzie Brown and Rob Hunter perform
• Explaining the Jewish factor in Gold Rush history In between the Yukon Order oF Pioneers Cemetery and Dawson’s New Public Cemetery, just off Mary McLeod Road, is a wooded path that leads to the small Jewish Cemetery, or Bet Chaim (House of Life).
• Man challenges his arrest and sentence A Whitehorse man appealed a sentence Thursday on the grounds it was unfit, and his arrest was unlawful.
• Photography class needs environmental assessment, the regulations insist An environmental assessment for a three-hour photography class at Kathleen Lake?
• City land deal passes two council readings The city’s plans for a new operations building took another step forward Monday evening when council voted 6-1 in favour of first and second readings on a land exchange deal with Northwestel Inc.
• Woodblocking On The Wharf Kathy Piwowar
• ‘Yukon stands in solidarity with the people of France’ Premier Darrell Pasloski today issued the following statement on behalf of Yukoners, following Thursday’s terrorist attack in Nice, France:
• Four-decade-old volume to be re-released When Jim Robb came up with the concept for the book Their Own Yukon more than four decades ago,
• Bus contract will be sole-sourced The city will spend close to $100,000 on a sole-sourced contract.
• Court hears about alleged incident at cadet camp The complainant in a sexual assault case told a youth court on Tuesday that he’s just trying to be at peace with what he says happened to him at the Whitehorse cadet camp last summer.
• Yukon Hospitals tightlipped on plans for beds Yukon Hospitals has little to say about the possibility of hospital beds being added to the Thomson Centre.
• Former CYFN director acclaimed as Yukon Party candidate The former executive director of the Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) will represent the Yukon Party in Porter Creek Centre in the upcoming territorial election.
• Lightning ignites four new wildfires Lightning sparked four new wildfires in the territory Thursday, including one six kilometres west of Watson Lake near the Upper Liard Bridge.
• Second Syrian family to settle in the Yukon A second family of refugees from Syria may soon call Whitehorse home.
• Premier dragging his feet on health care: candidate Shaunagh Stikeman will challenge the premier for his seat in the legislature after winning the NDP nomination in Mountainview on Thursday night.
• Power was off for four hours in some regions Lightning caused both power outages in Porter Creek and beyond Thursday evening, officials have confirmed.

July 14, 2016

• Dancing With Vigour This was one of the performers
• Artists’ participation in Canada Scene supported The Yukon government is supporting the territory’s participation in Canada Scene, a national arts festival to be held in Ottawa in the summer of 2017.
• Swiftly Taking Shape The Centre of Hope, the new Salvation Army building,
• Home health monitoring project planned A new agreement between the Yukon government and TELUS Health will extend home health monitoring to support chronic conditions for Yukon patients.
• A Community Cleanup Divers prepare to Dive-Against-Debris on Wednesday evening at Chadburn Lake.
• KVA launches a writing competition The Klondike Visitors Association (KVA) has launched the 2016 Authors on Eighth Writing Contest with the theme of First World War Stories.
• First Nations corporations envision the future Technically, the territory is in a recession, but for many of the Yukon’s First Nations development corporations, it means grabbing onto opportunities.
• NDP receives blacked-out document as answer The Yukon government is not being transparent with its response to last year’s all-party committee report on fracking, says the NDP’s Environment critic.
• Events ‘a profound learning experience’: Laxton The former Speaker of the Yukon Legislative Assembly and the woman who alleged she was sexually harassed by him have come to a “mutually agreeable resolution” with the assistance of the Yukon Human Rights Commission (YHRC), it was announced Wednesday.