Whitehorse Daily Star

November 6, 2014

• Northwestel raises allotments for its Internet service Northwestel Inc. has increased the usage allotments on most of its Internet packages with no changes to the existing rates.
• Poster honours Yukon’s women with disabilities In celebration of Women’s History Month, Elaine Taylor, the minster responsible for the Yukon Women’s Directorate,
• Show To Open Today Masamichi Nakatsuka
• Range Road neighbourhood could soon have new name Residents of the Takhini and Northlands mobile home parks, Mountain View Place, Mountain Air Estates, Stone Ridge and in the Crow Street area could soon be living in the neighbourhood of Range Point.
• It's Slippery Out There The north Klondike Highway between Dawson City and Whitehorse isn’t at all bad for the season.
• ‘What was his crime? He was born Jewish’ Robbie Waisman celebrates April 11 like it’s his birthday.
• Atmosphere growing testy early in MLAs’ sitting With tensions running higher than in any question period so far this sitting,
• School employing too few locals: MLA Construction of the new F.H. Collins Secondary School employs far too few Yukoners, according to Liberal Leader Sandy Silver.
• First Nations escalate challenge of legislation Yukon First Nations are asking all Yukoners to join them in the fight against a handful of proposed amendments to the territory’s environmental assessment process.
• Deceased’s mother sues Yukon government The mother of Cynthia Blackjack,

November 5, 2014

• Industry, college join for careers program Selwyn Chihong Mining Ltd., the Yukon Mine Training Association (YMTA), Ross River Dena Council and Yukon College’s Ross River campus have teamed up to deliver an eight-week life and career coaching program.
• New Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in chief and council sworn in The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in (TH) held a community dinner last Wednesday evening to celebrate the swearing-in of the First Nation’s newly elected chief and council.
• Haven-Helping Barbara McInery, left, with Betty’s Haven,
• DM defends official’s academic credentials After weeks of silence, the number two person in the Education department has responded to concerns that a top-level administrator obtained his PhD from a “diploma mill.”
• Twenty per cent of Yukoners signed petitions Carrying signs and singing songs,
• Man charged with impaired driving A complaint about a theft from a business in downtown Whitehorse late Monday night led to an impaired-driving arrest.
• ‘Nightmare on Elm’ drew ‘insane’ hordes of kids Four hundred and thirty seven trick or treaters – that’s 437.
• Belligerent drunk assaulted nurse at hospital A man who turned up at Whitehorse General Hospital drunk,
• Woman who committed fraud gets conditional term A woman who defrauded her Whitehorse employer out of $9,000 and then fled the territory has been sentenced to 180 days served in the community.
• Offender endured a difficult upbringing For his role in the violent robbery of a Haines Junction store, high-speed chase down the Alaska Highway, and shooting of an RCMP truck, Christopher Cornell has been sentenced to 11 1/2 years in prison.

November 4, 2014

• Guide to home oil tanks available A new publication on the correct installation and maintenance of home fuel oil tanks is now available to inform homeowners how to avoid the potential dangers and costs of leaking tanks.
• Whistleblower bill spurs some concerns from ombudsman The Yukon ombudsman has sketched out several objections to a newly proposed whistleblower bill, but says the basic foundation is sound.
• Vital Fund-Raiser Kick Off Janelle Hagar, left, and Vanessa Just, in the Practical Nursing Program, participate in the kick-off for the Movember Yukon College fund-raiser at noon Monday in the Pit.
• Education official’s credentials raised in house The NDP has turned up the heat on the issue of a top territorial administrator with questionable credentials,
• Firefighters summoned to LNG generating plant What was apparently a false alarm had the Whitehorse Fire Department responding last night to a call from the construction site of the new LNG generating plant.
• Bears become a family as they bond, get ready to hibernate The orphaned Whitehorse bear cubs sent to the Calgary Zoo last summer have been introduced to the facility’s other black bear, Manuka.
• Man is sentenced for identity fraud; judge wishes him the best After he was released on parole to a Quebec halfway house in 2004, convicted of sexually abusing his daughter, the man disappeared.
• ‘This really is an urgent, urgent issue’ Residents who pay city utility bills may want to budget at least an extra $15 a month for the city coffers come spring as the municipality moves forward curbside recycling collection.