Whitehorse Daily Star

February 4, 2015

• Premier, minister in Toronto Premier Darrell Pasloski and Energy, Mines and Resources Minister Scott Kent, along with several members of the Yukon’s mining and exploration industry met today with key Canadian economists
• French Immersion Week celebrated Members of the local chapter of Canadian Parents for French (CPF) are helping mark French Immersion Celebration Week
• Northwestel pares Internet overage fees Northwestel Inc. has lowered the charges for customers who exceed their monthly internet usage allowances.
• Watson Lake principal named one of Canada’s best Jean Maclean, principal of the Watson Lake Secondary School, has been named one of Canada’s Outstanding Principals™ of 2015
• Group darned determined to help community Each hand-knit item bore a small tag: “I am not lost. If you need me to keep warm, please take me with you, and have a nice day.”
• Kaska Nation can’t assert own resource laws: gov’t. The Yukon government does not believe the Kaska Nation has authority to assert its own laws over the development of resources on Yukon Crown land.
• Hotel’s ownership checks out in favour of N.S. firm The Ramada Inn will become the Days Inn after it was purchased last Friday by a Canadian company familiar with operating hotels in the North.
• HELPING FOIL CANCER Yukon entertainer Hank Karr and former commissioner Geraldine Van Bibber are seen at last Saturday evening’s Yukoners’ Cancer Care Fund fund-raiser.
• MIXING MUSIC AND MEDICINE Gary Lachance (left) and Hank Karr perform at the Yukoners’ Cancer Care Fund fund-raiser
• Police arrest two men off flight from Vancouver Two Yukon men were arrested and charged with possession of property obtained by crime
• ‘You charged me with attempted murder’ Mark McDiarmid concluded his cross-examination of RCMP Sgt. Dave Wallace on Tuesday
• ‘I thought he was going to hit me with that axe’ RCMP Cpl. David Marentette, now promoted from constable and stationed in High River, Alta. following his three years in Dawson
• People coming ‘out of the woodwork’: winner Dave Harper may be a millionaire, but that doesn’t mean he’s about to quit his job driving a front-load garbage packer for General Waste Management.
• BOOSTING CARIBOU NUMBERS The small herd of caribou found ranging in the Yukon’s Smart and Morley River valleys can rest easy tonight

February 3, 2015

• Yukon Days were celebrated at big Ottawa festival Yukoners provided Ottawa with a taste of the territory at Yukon Days.
• Correction The headline on a story in Monday’s edition about the Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) unit was incorrect.
• Wolves strike yet again near Marsh Lake, take another family dog Another dog has been killed by wolves in the Judas Creek subdivision.
• Cold temps lead to valve break, water surge The local Walmart store remained closed for about three hours after it was scheduled to open
• Premier joined colleagues in Ottawa Premier Darrell Pasloski looked to shore up territorial priorities at the winter meeting of Canada’s premiers in Ottawa last week
• MUSIC FOR A VITAL CAUSE Ray Park, Hank Karr, Red Lewis and Ed Isaak (left to right) perform Saturday evening at the Yukoners’ Cancer Care Fund fund-raiser
• SHARING HIS MUSICAL EXPERIENCES Music Yukon has brought Dan Mangan to Whitehorse
• Accused discusses the night he was shot As his trial resumed Monday, Mark McDiarmid picked up where he’d left off in his cross-examination of RCMP Sgt. David Wallace
• Zoning changes proposed for Whistle Bend The third phase of the city’s newest neighbourhood may not look exactly as it was originally envisioned.
• RAISING RUGBY AWARENESS The Yukon Rugby Federation held a fun match Saturday in Shipyards Park

February 2, 2015

• FAMILY TRADITION Holly Lutkehaus, right, and Mallory Pigage paint a Yukon Sourdough Rendezous scene
• Update to procedures bylaw passes readings City council members were quick to admit last Monday evening the city’s procedural bylaw is not the most exciting piece of business to deal with
• It’s official: no Frostbite in 2015 Yukoners will be without Frostbite – at least of the musical variety – once again in 2015.
• Comment period open on north-end quarry plan Yukoners have until Feb. 18 to let the Yukon Environmental Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) know their thoughts
• Dave and Morley to head north CBC radio’s The Vinyl Café will be touring B.C. and Alberta in 2015
• Public cautioned about moose near Two Mile Hill Drivers, walkers and cyclists who use Two Mile Hill are being advised to slow down and be aware of a moose cow and two calves in the area.
• FESTIVAL AMBASSADORS SEE SENATOR Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous can-canners visited Yukon Senator Dan Lang
• SCAN unit issued nine warnings, eviction notices in 2014 In Crestview last year, a resident reported some suspicious activity at a home
• Millions to view new ad touting the territory “And the skies of night were alive with light, with a throbbing, thrilling flame; Amber and rose and violet, opal and gold it came.”
• Society is best served if rehabilitation occurs: court The Yukon Court of Appeal has upheld a sentence for robbery given to a man with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and a lengthy criminal record.