Whitehorse Daily Star

November 12, 2014

• Firefighters deal close to being adopted More than four months after council voted to ratify a new collective agreement with its firefighters, it is faced with a bylaw to now adopt the deal.
• Project’s local hire ratio called disappointing Local tradesmen are expressing disappointment and frustration that more work has not come their way on the new F.H. Collins Secondary School construction.
• Remembrance Day 2014 - Lest We Forget Photo Spread
• Writers produce plays in 24 hours Santana Berryman spent 24 hours of her weekend holed up in a hotel room with her computer, fuelled by caffeine. Lots of caffeine.
• Mayor defends building consolidation plan Local residents will have a chance on Nov. 24 to let council know exactly what they think of the city’s 2015 capital spending plan.
• Man charged with drug, weapon possession A witness’ tip to police about an erratic driver
• Urgencies buried in ‘platitudes and bureaucracy’ Whitehorse General Hospital is turning surgery patients away at the door due to lack of bed space, according to a surgeon, who is calling for immediate action from the government.

November 10, 2014

• New fire truck proves an asset at house fire Dawson’s firefighters responded to a house fire at the Sollosy residence at 737 Seventh Ave. shortly after 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
• Council poised to decide on fall recreation grants Even if the city spends the nearly $44,000 nine groups in the city have asked for in the form of fall recreation grants,
• Remembering Their Sacrifices The Porter Creek Secondary School drama class presents
• Taylor has explaining to do over official’s degree: NDP The Opposition continues to slam the government
• Accused Dawson man to stay in custody until trial A Dawson City man charged with assault and attempted murder of police officers has been denied bail.
• Driver facing several charges after collision A 24-year-old man is facing several charges
• Plan would consume 70 per cent of capital budget A whopping 70 per cent of the city’s proposed $30-million-plus capital budget for 2015 would go to consolidating city operations into two buildings.

November 7, 2014

• Healthy Families program set to expand Expanding the Healthy Families Yukon program to Watson Lake, Pelly Crossing and Carmacks will help parents build nurturing relationships with their children and enrich their knowledge of child development.
• Holocaust survivor’s visit ‘a momentous opportunity’ Hosting Holocaust survivor Robbie Waisman in Whitehorse this week was an honour for Yukoners, Education Minister Elaine Taylor said Thursday.
• Summer workers resort to tents, van for shelter Eighty per cent of Dawson’s seasonal workers are between the ages of 20 and 29, and only 33 per cent of them are students.
• Paradise Revisited Brian Foulds, Cory Chouinard, Marc Paradis and Paul Stephens (left to right) perform Thursday evening at Jazz in the Hall.
• Remembrance Day ceremony: the whens and wheres The annual Remembrance Day ceremony will take place Tuesday at the Canada Games Centre.
• Three teams shortlisted for hospital expansion work Three qualified teams have been shortlisted to participate in the next stage of the competitive selection process to design and build an expansion to Whitehorse General Hospital (WGH).
• Rare cougar sighting ‘very cool,’ motorist says At first, Jeremie Matrishon thought it was a tan-coloured wolf that had come out of the ditch onto the Alaska Highway.
• From banana peels to heat Is it viable to turn food and yard waste into renewable energy for heating buildings and providing them with electricity?
• Bison still expanding faster than anticipated The Aishihik wood bison herd is continuing to grow beyond the threshold identified in the management plan, according to the most recent aerial census.
• Downtowners ask city for changes to their area Downtown residents are asking the city to consider some changes to their neighbourhood that could make things safer and see development.
• Northern climate change has global implications The Arctic ground squirrel doesn’t normally register as a barometer for measuring climate change.
• Kelly’s Corner honours beloved former lifeguard A colourful corner in the Whitehorse Lion’s Aquatic Centre now honours Kelly Patrick, a beloved lifeguard and swim instructor who died last March.
• Return To Business Participants in the Council of Yukon First Nations leadership meeting
• Yukon woman sent to Alberta for group-home stay Victoria Elias is feeling optimistic about her future.
• Performing Tonight Internationally renowned folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie,
• Keep motorized vehicles off the bridge, resident tells city The head of the Active Trails Whitehorse Association is calling on the city to keep the Rotary Centennial Bridge crossing the Yukon River as a non-motorized trail.
• Real estate figures reflect a downward trend It’s a buyer’s market, at least if the latest real estate figures in the territory are any indication.
• ‘Diploma mills’ are prolific, but also easy to spot: scholar The institution where a high-ranking Education department administrator got his PhD appears to be part of a broader trend of bogus degree production, says an Ontario scholar.
• No area performed more poorly than Yukon The Yukon had the worst economic performance of any province or territory in 2013, according to recent figures from Statistics Canada.