Whitehorse Daily Star

December 24, 2014

• Another frenetic shopping season winds down Many shoppers are rushing home with their treasures today as the Christmas shopping season comes to a close.
• Average Yukoner earned $1,087 Preliminary seasonally adjusted estimates show there were 21,306 jobs in the Yukon in October, Statistics Canada reported Monday.
• Collision Investigated Whitehorse firefighters examine the engine of one of two vehicles that collided at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and Wheeler Street
• Ex-government leader closes another career chapter Piers McDonald will be leaving his position as chair of the board of directors for Yukon Energy on Dec. 31.
• Veteran Teacher Honoured Yukon MP ryan Leef (far left) presented Jud Deuling (second from left) with an Unsung Hero award last wednesday evening.
• Mud slope compromising safety, city engineer says An official with the Whitehorse engineering department says a section of the Benchmark Trailer Park where a mud slope is literally pressing up against mobile homes could pose a safety issue, but is out of the municipality’s hands.
• Bereaved mom transforms her pain into good For many, the holiday season is not the joyous occasion that so many advertisements and movies make it out to be.
• Charges follow collision with post A Whitehorse man is facing charges of impaired driving and failing to provide a breath sample after a truck hit a post early this morning.
• Territory’s crime rate is still third-highest, latest data indicate The Yukon’s crime rate last year was the third-highest in Canada, behind the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

December 23, 2014

• Call goes out for submissions to Yukon Permanent Art Collection The Department of Tourism and Culture, along with Friends of Yukon Permanent Art Collection,
• Food Bank Catalyst Honoured Yukon Mp ryan leef (right) presents Stu MacKay with an Unsung Hero award last Wednesday evening.
• Whole community was welcomed to Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in dinner The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in’s (TH’s) community dinner was held Saturday in the Robert Service School gymnasium, as the attendees have outgrown the space available at the TH Community Hall.
• Hockey Takes The Stage At Robert Service School’s Christmas concert last Thursday in Dawson City,
• Yukon students participated in We Day events Students from two Whitehorse schools made a three-day trip to Vancouver this month to participate in We Day.
• Air North completes 2014 share offering Air North has closed its 2014 offering of 80 Class C Shares at $10,000 per share, issued under the Yukon Small Business Investment Tax Credit (YSBITC) program.
• ATCO Yukon Electric clears frost off area power lines It’s a case of short term pain for long-term gain as ATCO Yukon Electric crews continue to clear frost off power lines south of Whitehorse.
• Yukon Excellence Award criteria undergo changes The Yukon Excellence Award program is being changed to broaden the variety of courses in which students are eligible for awards and to focus on final grades rather than final exams.
• Crash at downtown intersection ties up traffic At about 5:30 p.m., Whitehorse RCMP and the Whitehorse Fire Department were dispatched to the two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Quartz Road and Second Avenue.
• Sima’s woes began with series of power bumps A skier stranded on the Mount Sima chairlift for about an hour injured his leg Monday after trying to jump off, the hill’s general manager explained this morning.

December 22, 2014

• A Proud Moment Yukon MP Ryan Leef presents Cole Byers with an Unsung Hero Award last Wednesday evening.
• Bridge Banter City of Whitehorse staff were handing out treats Friday morning at the Robert Campbell Bridge,
• Nutrition North woes nothing new to MP, Liberal challenger Nutrition North woes nothing new to MP, Liberal challenger
• Junior Entrepreneur Hounoured Young entrepreneur Huxley Briggs
• Riding In Style City buses on Saturday’s annual Christmas lights tour
• Midnight Sons set to release first CD One only has to stand inside a local coffee shop with members of The Midnight Sons Band to know how popular their music has become.
• Man charged following hotel fire The River View Hotel was evacuated in the wee hours of Sunday morning after a fire was reported in one of the rooms.
• Condo owners group welcomes new legislation The president of the Yukon Condominium Homeowners Association says long-overdue condo legislation — now entering public consultation — will ease financial strain on unit owners and smooth out the wrinkles among condo boards, individual landlords and tenants.
• Gwich’in councils to discuss violence The president of the Gwich’in Tribal Council intends to discuss violence against aboriginal women at its next board meeting, in the wake of a Tetlit Gwich’in teen’s death in Whitehorse.