Whitehorse Daily Star

March 2, 2015

• Yukoners on Asia tourism trade mission Twelve Yukon tourism industry delegates and Tourism and Culture Minister Elaine Taylor will finish a nine-day tourism mission to Asia on Wednesday.
• City’s plan for vote count system moves on to Dixon The city’s proposal to move to an electronic system for October’s municipal election is now in the hands of Community Development Minister Currie Dixon.
• Yukon Film Society may be Shipyards Park’s latest tenant The Yukon Film Society (YFS)
• Fun Under The Sun Chris Gishler sets up the zip line
• YESAB recommends winter road approval Approval of a winter road into the site of the proposed Casino mine is being recommended by the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board.
• Success of medication reduction project celebrated Six months into an innovative project funded through the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement (CFHI), Copper Ridge Place residents and staff in Whitehorse are experiencing positive results.
• Authorities framed me, accused insists to court After Mark McDiarmid requested additional time to prepare for his closing argument, Friday’s Yukon Supreme Court portion of his trial was postponed to 2 p.m.
• Public may comment on building consolidation plans The city’s plan to consolidate its operations is now before the Yukon Environmental Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) and in the public comment period until March 19.
• Man jailed for sexual assault of female friend A Whitehorse man will spend 22 months behind bars for raping his female friend a year and a half ago.
• Roundtable included many emotional moments Kwanlin Dun Chief Doris Bill said she was “disappointed”

February 27, 2015

• Slow down, you driving dolts! Re. Rendezvous parade traffic.
• Let’s avoid emergencies, Dawson official urges There was another emergency at Dawson’s wastewater treatment plant late last month.
• Speaker worked on Ice Age giant creature Dr. Greg McDonald,
• Decision reserved in case of black bear soaking The appeal of a Haines Junction woodcutter convicted of pouring water on a black bear while it slept in its den was heard earlier this month in Yukon Supreme Court.
• Public hearing is set on Whistle Bend zoning plan Residents will get to have their say on plans for the Whistle Bend neighbourhood at city council’s March 9 meeting.
• Yukoners at murdered, missing indigenous women roundtable Premier Darrell Pasloski, Kwanlin Dün First Nation Chief Doris Bill,
• Accused’s memory challenged in cross-examination Mark McDiarmid concluded his personal testimony Wednesday in Yukon Supreme Court.
• Former Yukoner remembers days from decades ago The Hidden Histories Society Yukon’s initiatives for Black History Month has one former Yukoner pondering a return to the territory.
• Truck fire shuts down Alaska Highway A fire in the undercarriage of a transport truck was extinguished Thursday evening near Robert Service Way on the Alaska Highway.
• Paramedic determined to educate others on PTSD Michael Swainson has been there as a paramedic.
• Johnny Cash Tribute Goes This Evening Brandon Isaak,
• Violent collision prompts bridge assessment The Department of Highways and Public Works is conducting an assessment of the Takhini River Bridge following a serious collison there a week ago.
• Preparing Space Tanner Harreson works Thursday on preparing the new Yukon Artists @ Work gallery in downtown Whitehorse.
• Farming is at a crossroads: association head Negative comments following a recent Star article about a hay farmer concerned with property damage by wild elk bothered the president of the Yukon Agricultural Association.
• Correction Two photo captions
• ‘It still feels surreal,’ says $1-million winner “I’m putting in a new countertop, because I hated our old one.”
• Yukoners mourn a beloved community fixture To many, she was Mrs. Jamieson, a kind storekeeper and fixture in the Whitehorse community who had access to the best treats in town.
• Board opposed to banning roadside grizzly hunting Proposed legislation banning the roadside hunting of grizzly bears should not go forward, says the Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board.

February 26, 2015

• Heritage fair receives $2,000 from the city The city will put $2,000 into teaching youngsters from across the territory about their heritage.
• Premier names his new chief of staff After the abrupt, publicly unexplained departure of his former chief of staff,
• New York Came North The MAD (Music, Art and Drama) 10/11/12 class presented MAD2NYC ,
• I was targeted two years before shooting: accused Mark McDiarmid is on trial in Yukon Supreme Court here facing seven charges relating to events on Oct. 19 and 20, 2011.
• Celebrating The Scouting Movement Whitehorse Scouts gathered Tuesday evening for awards at Christ Church Cathedral.
• Correction The Star incorrectly reported Tuesday
• Suspicious briefcase sees major buildings emptied RCMP officers removed hundreds of public employees and office workers from several downtown buildings Wednesday afternoon after a “suspicious package” — a briefcase — was reported at the Elijah Smith Building.
• Suspects charged with robbery, conspiracy to commit offences Eight suspects in total have been arrested and charged in connection with an armed robbery Tuesday night at a business on Elliott Street.
• Altered letter ‘a betrayal,’ MP says Members of the Rojas Martinez family,