Whitehorse Daily Star

January 9, 2023

• Company envisions new gravel pit A local company has filed a proposal for a new gravel pit southwest of the McLean Lake pits with the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board.
• Whitehorse Concerts classical gallery recitals Photo Spread
• CYFN helps out hospitals with $154 k contribution Funding granted by the Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) to the Yukon Hospital Corp. (YHC) will support a range of initiatives to enhance cultural safety at Yukon hospitals.
• Opportunity opens to join new school board Education Minister Jeanie McLean is accepting resolutions from school councils and petitions from school communities requesting their school join the First Nation School Board.
• Teen centre’s day-care gets second lease on life The day-care at Whitehorse’s Teen Parent Centre (TPC) was in jeopardy of closing this year after the society running it fell into trouble, but a new society has formed to keep the day-care running.
• Community wildfire protection plans inked The territory’s first community wildfire protection plans have been finalized by the Yukon Wildland Fire Management branch and community-level working groups in Haines Junction and Teslin.
• Pillai to become Yukon’s 10th premier The graduating classes of Dr. John Gillis High School in Antigonish, Nova Scotia should start voting on the classmate most likely to become the Yukon’s premier.

January 6, 2023

• Reminiscing with photos from 2022 Photo Spread
• Centre to move into new, permanent space The Child Development Centre (CDC) will be moving to a permanent location in downtown Whitehorse during the coming summer.
• Opening This Afternoon Natasha Henderson will open Connections: Moments at the Arts Underground Focus Gallery at 5:00 this afternoon.
• Children’s centre has high hopes for 2023 The Child Development Centre (CDC) and the parents and children who use it are hoping for two things in the New Year: a permanent home and shorter wait list for young children who need the Centre’s therapeutic supports.
• Store's Proceeds To Help Charities .
• Reality bites new dental program: Yukon Party There are “outstanding questions” from businesses and employees to chew on about the new Yukon Dental Program that went into effect Wednesday.
• Liberals met the challenges, MP insists MP Brendan Hanley is calling 2022 a year of challenges – rising inflation, health care strains and housing shortages, to name a few – but says he and his government rose to the occasion on behalf of Yukoners and all Canadians.
• Departing fire chief sums up events in 2022 The Whitehorse Fire Department saw a slight increase in calls in 2022, for everything from structural fires to false alarms, according to a summary posted by the department.
• Race set to become a coronation in 24 hours After six uneventful weeks, the race to replace Sandy Silver, the Yukon’s premier and Liberal party leader, appears primed to become a coronation.

January 5, 2023

• New exhibit is a romp through outer space Celestial Bodies,
• Book Highlights Iconic Animals Yukon illustrator Tedd Tucker has launched his second book.
• Retail trade rose in October The preliminary estimate (seasonally unadjusted) of retail sales in the Yukon for October 2022 was $89.4 million, an increase of $4.3 million, or five per cent, compared to $85.2 million for October 2021.
• Salvation Army came close to fund-raising goal A last-minute fund-raising push before Christmas, led by an influx of volunteers, helped the Salvation Army’s annual Christmas Kettle Campaign come within a few thousand dollars of its $60,000 goal this season.
• Housing Initiatives Fund deadline is imminent The deadline for the sixth intake of the Housing Initiatives Fund looms on Jan. 13.
• Sudden death under investigation The Yukon RCMP’s Major Crime Unit is investigating a sudden death in Whitehorse.