Whitehorse Daily Star

March 27, 2024

• Dog Powered Sports Association ends winter season Photo Spread
• Traffic lanes being moved The city is proactively shifting Robert Service Way traffic lanes away from the base of the escarpment.
• Health lodge ‘watered down’ to hotels: Cathers The construction of a new health lodge for Whitehorse doesn’t appear to be on the immediate horizon for the territory.
• AYC had invited McPhee to appear at several events The Association of Yukon Communities (AYC) tried unsuccessfully to get Health and Social Services Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee to visit their member communities.

March 26, 2024

• Annual IODE pool remains on firm ice In spite of the unusual open water in front of Dawson City this year, the IODE Dawson has decided that the annual ice pool will still be held.
• Good Energy clean transportation incentives The Yukon government is expanding the clean transportation rebates to include commercial medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles.
• City plans schedule changes over Easter weekend There will be a number of changes to city services and facility hours over the coming Easter long weekend.
• Officers investigated report of weapon At approximately 3:20 p.m. Monday, Whitehorse RCMP received a call about someone possibly carrying a weapon near Fourth Avenue and Alexander Street.
• Trip sees another Yukoner added to Russia’s sanctioned list The third Yukon-to-Ukraine mission undertaken by the Ukrainian Canadian Association of Yukon (UCAY) has not escaped the notice of the Kremlin in Moscow.
• Yukon Party calls out McPhee on Scotland ‘junket’ The Yukon Party is calling out Health and Social Services Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee on what it calls a junket that took her to Edinburgh, Scotland.

March 25, 2024

• Yukon Native Hockey Tourney features amazing opening ceremony The 44th Kilrich Building Centres Yukon Native Hockey Tournament is in the books.
• YG welcomed players, visitors Deputy Premier Jeanie McLean and Community Services Richard Mostyn hailed the 44th Yukon Native Hockey Tournament before the first puck dropped on Friday.
• First Nations tournament hits the ice .
• Fallen, Injured Journalists Honoured A vigil for journalists killed in recent months was held last Wednesday evening at Baked Café.
• Dawson failed to communicate, citizens charge With 27 people crowded into council chambers and another 25 listening on Zoom last Tuesday, there has seldom been a council meeting so well-attended.
• New Book Unveiled Jenffer A. Jay released a book Friday at Inclusion Yukon.
• Deadline extended to support homeowners with affordability The deadline for Yukoners to apply for the Canada-Yukon Housing Homeowner Benefit has been extended to March 31.
• YP seeks pause in FN procurement policy The Yukon Party is concerned that one year has passed since the Yukon courts found that the Yukon First Nation Procurement Policy was “flawed and opaque and was not fair,” and nothing has changed.
• Road’s ‘sorry state’ raised in House The “sorry state” of the north Alaska Highway might change soon, if U.S. funding comes through.
• ‘Map’ to no-carbon buses on the agenda With its diesel-powered buses soon to be out of production, the City of Whitehorse plans to quickly scope out how it will manage to maintain service while moving toward transit with zero emissions.