Whitehorse Daily Star

October 8, 2015

• Volunteers urge people to ‘chew on’ food insecurity Almost 900,000 people in Canada use a food bank in a given month.
• Doing Their Part Students participating in the Spirit of Caring Food Drive work Wednesday evening
• United Way event was huge success The 2015 United Way breakfast generated $20,000, the agency reports.
• Candidate making a second run for council Garth Brown believes the city has a role to play when it comes to establishing programs to help those with addictions.
• Audience has intimate exchanges with candidates “When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?”
• Not responsible for death, mayor says Mayor Dan Curtis says the 2014 death of a man who died after being struck by a vehicle while crossing Fourth Avenue at a crosswalk was very tragic, but that he and the city are not to blame.

October 7, 2015

• Yukon Cares is working to bring in Syrian family Local advocacy group Yukon Cares has applied to bring a Syrian family of 10 to the Yukon, and the first fundraising event has been planned for later this month.
• Tour will take musicians throughout the North The Canadian Troubadour Trilogy is set to kick off Friday at the Yukon Transportation Museum with three musicians from three parts of the country.
• Yukon Energy launches review of long-range strategy Yukon Energy is embarking on another five-year review of its 20-year resource plan designed to identify energy options to meet future demand.
• Simple annual steps could literally save a life Over 500 people in B.C. are currently on the waitlist for a life-saving organ transplant, and almost 400 of those are waiting for a kidney.
• Setting Their Sights On Eye Health People set out last Saturday in the CNIB Night Steps fundraiser get ready to walk in Rotary Peace Park.
• Tories would strengthen fight against fraud Ryan Leef, the Yukon’s Conservative federal election candidate, says a re-elected Conservative government would enrich resources to fight fraud and introduce tougher minimum sentences on fraudsters.
• Municipal voting is already underway At least a few of the more than 18,675 voters on the city’s list of electors will not be able to vote in the Oct. 15 municipal election.
• Candidate in court on careless driving, stunting charges Mayoral candidate Mandeep Sidhu was in territorial court Tuesday on charges of careless driving and stunting.
• Tories rapped for ‘destroying data, muzzling scientists’ If the territory’s federal election candidates are experiencing any form of forum fatigue, they are perfecting their abilities to mask it.

October 6, 2015

• Games Centre celebrated The city will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Canada Games Centre on Saturday with free admission and events scheduled throughout the day.
• Ethnohistorian testifies in court case In a case involving a First Nations man who shot and killed two wolves in the Mount Sima subdivision in 2013, territorial court heard from ethnohistorian Adrian Clark last week.
• Delegates need more time to talk, council told Five minutes aren’t always enough time for someone making a presentation to city council to get his or her point across, says Michael Janssen-Breidahl.
• Fire damages home in Kopper King area A fire at a Kopper King home on Monday afternoon left some damage to the interior.
• RCMP investigating single vehicle collision near city Whitehorse RCMP are investigating a single-vehicle collision on the North Klondike Highway that happened Monday night near Whitehorse.
• ‘This Next Generation Hydro is a major concern’ Big hydro causes big problems, say critics of major hydro projects who attended last week’s public forum sponsored by the Yukon Conservation Society.
• Slower speed wouldn’t have averted crash: judge Yukon territorial court dismissed a dangerous driving charge against a Yukon man last Friday.