Whitehorse Daily Star

December 11, 2013

• Liberal leader goes to bat for students in legislature The F.H. Collins Secondary School's Grade 11 social studies class put three youth issues on the record last Thursday in the Yukon legislature.
• Number of jobless Yukon residents dropped by 100 The number of unemployed Yukoners fell by 100 between October and November.
• The Science of Snakes Willow Oakley participated in last Saturdayʼs Yukon/Stikine Regional Science Fair held at Yukon College.
• Commentator produces a political satire A Yukon artist and political commentator has written and illustrated a short political satire based on the recent Senate expenses scandal.
• Premier In South Africa Members of the Canadian delegation in South Africa talk today as they wait for a government announcement to begin in Pretoria.
• Suicide prevention and mental health debated in legislature Suicide is the sixth most common cause of death in the Yukon, Kevin Barr told members of the legislature Monday.
• New visual arts, craft strategy outlines growth prospects The territorial government and the visual arts and craft sector have teamed up to develop a strategy to grow and expand the industry to benefit Yukon's economy and way of life.
• Court orders assessment to determine man's fate The Yukon Supreme Court has ordered an assessment of Chris Cornell, convicted of attempting to murder a police officer and deputy conservation officer.
• ‘The future of the padlock is here' Gord Duncan has a first, and he's about to see who's willing to invest.
• Illicit gun manufacturing operation sees man jailed Thanks to a tip from a 10-year-old girl, a Whitehorse man has been sentenced to 16 months in jail after the RCMP discovered an illicit gun manufacturing operation in his mobile home last summer.
• Cause of death will never be definitively known The results of an external patient safety review regarding the death of nurse Teresa Scheunert at the Watson Lake Hospital last summer suggest the 47-year-old did not die of mixed-drug toxicity.

December 10, 2013

• Tardy parkers can pay with foodstuffs The City of Whitehorse is getting behind the annual Food for Fines program for the seventh year in a row.
• Honouring Honest Al A celebration of life for ʻHonest Al,ʼ
• ‘It's a 100-per-cent write-off' A fire engulfed an RV parked at a Ninth Avenue property early Monday afternoon, destroying the vehicle as its batteries were charging.
• Filling A Vital Need Territorial government employees package goods this morning as part of the YG Employees Bare Essentials Christmas Campaign, now in the 13th year.
• Peer review reinforces initial bridge report A peer review has supported initial engineering findings that the Ross River Suspension Bridge will need to be demolished.
• Council adopts city's $12.9-million capital budget The city's 2014 $12.9-million budget has been adopted without any last-minute changes.
• Young people created a menu of scientific successes The Yukon College cafeteria was full of young scientists last Saturday as 76 students vied for cash prizes, scholarships and other special awards at the 2013 Yukon/Stikine Regional Science Fair.
• Council OKs firm's bid for caretaker suite A large caretaker suite in an industrial area has received the go-ahead from city council.
• Woman says she's sorry for injuries to officer, custodian The Yukon Supreme Court heard clashing views Monday as to the threat posed and punishment deserved of a 23-year-old woman involved in the attempted murder of an RCMP officer during a high-speed chase that followed an armed robbery in 2011.

December 9, 2013

• Yukoners gather to remember Montreal atrocity Sandra Orban was an engineering student at the University of New Brunswick in 1989 when news broke that Marc Lepine had killed 14 female engineering students at École Polytechnique in Montreal.
• Mighty Muffin Sale Helps Others Holy Family Elementary Schoolsʼ Grade 4 class began an enthusiastic rendition of Do You Know the Muffin Man?
• Tanker truck rolls A hazardous material team is at the Alaska Highway in northeastern B.C. after a tanker truck carrying over 60,000 litres of gasoline rolled into a ditch, closing the highway.
• Woman's sentencing hearing begins A sentencing hearing began this morning for the 23-year-old woman involved in the attempted murder of an RCMP officer during a high-speed chase following an armed robbery.
• Partnership to ponder southeast hydroelectric project A partnership has been formed to pursue the possibility of a hydroelectric project in the Watson Lake district.
• Premier stoutly defends Dawson's new hospital The project has been beset with problems from its inception four years ago to its completion over the last week.
• Pasloski is in South Africa for Mandela memorial Premier Darrell Pasloski is part of the delegation representing Canada at the memorial for former South African president Nelson Mandela.