Whitehorse Daily Star

September 16, 2013

• Author seeks the true story of Kate Carmack Deb Vanasse was in Dawson during the last week of August to speak about her work in progress, Wealth Woman: Kate Carmack and the Last Great Race for Gold, a project she has been working on for about three years.
• Author to lecture on fracking Tuesday The Yukon Conservation Society is bringing Nikiforuk to the territory to help the public to better understand the implications of taking the Yukon on a potential new path of fossil fuel production.
• Program's Anniversary Marked The local chapter of Canadian Parents for French has celebrated the 40th anniversary Odyssey program.
• Politicians differ over EI premiums freeze Premier Darrell Pasloski is supportive of the federal government's decision to freeze Employment Insurance premiums for the next three years.
• Event planners/business owners visiting territory The Yukon Convention Bureau (YCB) is hosting four professional event planners/ business owners on a familiarization tour in the Yukon.
• A Welcome Contribution Kim Solonick of Yukon Women in Trades and Technol- ogy (YWTT) delivers nest boxes recently to veteran ornithologist Dave Mossop for the Biodiversity Monitoring program at the Yukon Research Centre.
• Fire victim's identity still not officially confirmed The territory's coroner's office is not yet releasing the identity of the person whose body was found in a West Dawson home destroyed by fire earlier this month.
• First Nation returns income program to federal government The Liard First Nation (LFN) has returned responsibility for its income assistance program to the regional Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada office (AANDC.).
• Ministers had ‘productive discussions': Bernier The Yukon hosted the first meeting of federal, provincial, and territorial tourism ministers North of 60 last week at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre.
• Officer heard nothing about any bullets, he testifies during trial RCMP Const. Jean-Michel Sauve has no recollection of any bullets in the backpack seized when 22-year-old Jessica Johnson was arrested two years ago.

September 13, 2013

• Walmart issues parking reminder The local Walmart store is cracking down on long-term campers in its parking lot.
• MP confirms re-election bid, Russian assignment Yukon MP Ryan Leef will spend his extended summer break from Parliament between Russia and the territory's communities.
• Premier, Minister Visit Dawson Well, not quite. Premier Darrell Pasloski (left) and Tourism and Culture Minister Mike Nixon are actually seen visiting the Hannover Zoo's Yukon Bay exhibit during the nine-day tourism mission they recently led to Germany and the United Kingdom.
• Historic forest still luring signs of the times The Sign Post Forest here grows like a living thing.
• Two-day conference is focusing on school nourishment programs School food program co-ordinators, school council representatives and volunteers from across the Yukon are participating in the first Eat Right Stay Bright Conference.
• Chinese festival goes Saturday The Mid-Autumn Festival is the 15th day in the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, and is considered the second most important holiday next to the Chinese Spring Festival.
• A Determined Critter This chipmunk's desire for a meal of sunflower seeds
• Terry Fox Run set for Sunday Runners will reunite Sunday for the world's largest single-day fund-raiser for the fight against cancer.
• MLAs set out properties, holdings, interests Premier Darrell Pasloski discloses his co-ownership of two companies in his statements of disclosure for 2012.
• Learning During The Finale Kyle Taylor presents a workshop Thursday afternoon
• Silverfox inquest was fair: court of appeal The Yukon Court of Appeal has upheld as fair a ruling from the coroner's inquest into the 2008 death of Raymond Silverfox.
• Odyssey program anniversary feted The local chapter of Canadian Parents for French will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Odyssey program this evening at L'Association franco-yukonnaise's weekly Café Rencontre.
• Explaining The Show James Nizam talks about his show Trace Heavens Thursday evening at the Yukon Arts Centre.
• First Nation severs funding to women's society The Liard First Nation (LFN) has withdrawn its support for the Liard Aboriginal Women's Society (LAWS).
• Possible bear attack investigated Environment Yukon officials have not been able to confirm whether there was a bear attack in Riverdale recently.
• Motorist didn't know passengers' eventual fate Colin Asseltine did not know he was giving a ride to two strangers who would eventually be charged with shooting at an RCMP crew cab during a high-speed chase.
• Dramatic events had stressed out witness, jury hears A key witness in an attempted murder case was at his wits' end by the time he returned to Madley's General Store in Haines Junction, driving a damaged RCMP crew cab.
• Inheritor of village's two roles has gone hunting Haines Junction is without a mayor and chief administrative officer (CAO) following their sudden resignations within a week.

September 12, 2013

• Global Village volunteers join local Habitat builders Eleven volunteers from the Ottawa area are taking a week out of their busy lives to come to the Yukon and help build the new Habitat for Humanity duplex in the Whistle Bend subdivision.
• ‘Let this memorial honour those we have lost' The Yukon Federation of Labour (YFL) and the Yukon Workers' Compensation Health and Safety Board broke ground on their workers' memorial statue Wednesday afternoon.
• Song promoting rape culture shouldn't be aired: listener Ed. note: some readers may be offended by some of the song lyrics quoted in this story.
• Company files lawsuit against city Whitehorse's acting city manager says a lawsuit filed against the city could decide whether it's the Quartz Mining Act or the Municipal Act that takes precedence over the other.
• Jury hears of assault, tumultuous police pursuit A Yukon Supreme Court jury heard testimony Wednesday of a bloody 2011 assault on the custodian at Madley's General Store in Haines Junction two years ago.