Whitehorse Daily Star

October 10, 2014

• Yukon supporting work at national health table Health and Social Services Minister Doug Graham says the Yukon is aware of the significant and growing impact dementia will have on the territory’s support systems and is moving toward solutions.
• A Scholastic Soaking Teachers at Golden Horn Elementary School
• Departing officer given key to the City of Dawson A sad fact about the reality of rural Yukon is that RCMP personnel come and go.
• Thanks For The Decades Val Pike is presented with a gift Thursday from Craig Tuton (right),
• New health clinics offer more options Patients can now visit one of two new clinics
• Proceeds from concert to be devoted to a global cause The second annual Because I am a Girl concert
• Yukon Energy Steps Up Stephen Dunbar-Edge (centre),
• ‘Be a Hero’ in your home for Fire Prevention Week The launch of a new public awareness campaign,
• Allure of the wild As the recent dumping of snow reminds us,
• It's Toast Mike Hodgson of the Teslin Volunteer Fire Department
• City hears path to better trail committee process Changes to how the Whitehorse Trail and Greenways Committee operates should include quicker reports to the public on meetings of the committee, says Keith Lay.
• 'Tis The Season An Alpine Aviation plane
• Board to study workers’ quest for retroactive pay A group of government employees’ attempt to have their profession reclassified,
• Pivotal court decision could return offender to cells A Yukon Court of Appeal decision could send at least one offender back to jail more than a year after his release.
• Don’t bank on parking at the airport this weekend The cost of a cab to the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport this weekend
• Be bold, exploit your strengths, historian urges Ken Coates did not pull his punches at a gathering of business leaders this week.
• City could take over compost operation The fate of the city’s compost could soon be back directly in the city’s hands.
• Woman suffers ‘devastating’ theft of her cabin The dream of home ownership takes many forms.

October 9, 2014

• ‘They’re all so excited to take part’ Hundreds of students,
• Book Formally Launched Victoria author Alicia Priest (left), who grew up in Elsa, launched her book A Rock Fell on the Moon Wednesday evening at Baked Café.
• Smoke alarms preserve life, residents reminded This is National Fire Protection Week, and the Whitehorse Fire Department reminds residents that working smoke alarms save lives.
• A Busy Night Stu Mackie directs traffic Wednesday evening
• Co-operation called key to economic development Governments that work together with business are key to economic development in the North.
• MLAs to troop into legislature on Oct. 23 The people’s elected representatives will once again come together to sit, debate and declaim under a common roof this autumn.
• The Yukon as the world’s digital warehouse? The Yukon could be the next home to Google and Facebook data centres. In theory.
• LNG’s potential hears ringing endorsements Seems LNG is on everybody’s mind these days.

October 8, 2014

• Economic developers seek to build connections DAWSON CITY – The Council of Northern Economic Developers (CNED) was formed in 2011 as an affiliate of the Economic Developers Association of Canada (EDAC).
• Effort Recognized Mayor Dan Curtis presented Brad Firth, Caribou Legs, with a Whitehorse history book Monday evening.
• Firm recommended for city contract Waste separation will soon become the standard in all city buildings.
• Artist's Talk Planned For Next Week Lawrie Crawfordʼs new exhibition, Measuring Space, runs at the Northern Front Studio Gallery in the Waterfront Plaza until Oct. 27.
• Chamber chair touts strong resource sector Perrin Beatty, the president and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce,
• Getting There The Healthy Way Today is International Walk to School Day.
• Approve restaurant, council is advised With no opposition expressed to a proposed restaurant in MacRae, city administration is recommending council approve the conditional use application that would enable the business to open.
• Family Fun Mairi Macrae,
• Regulatory, permitting system needs fixing: executives The Yukon’s regulatory and permitting system was given a rough ride Tuesday morning by mining executives attending this week’s Opportunities North conference.
• Hunter fined for dousing slumbering bruin A Haines Junction woodcutter who poured water over a black bear while it was sleeping in its den last spring was fined $2,000 in territorial court Tuesday.
• Appeal court cites judge’s ‘faulty starting premise’ The Yukon Court of Appeal has upheld a key plank of Ottawa’s tough-on-crime agenda, with potentially nationwide implications.