Whitehorse Daily Star

January 16, 2013

• Day care owners make good on money for shelter The owners of a Riverdale daycare have followed through on their promise to donate $10,000 to the Humane Society Yukon and the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter.
• Yukon nurse has earned Diamond Jubilee Medal Heather Johnson, a Yukon RN, will be awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal at a ceremony in Ottawa in March.
• Changes may be made to Official Community Plan The city's guiding document for planning could be in for some changes this year after council passed first reading of the bylaw to make amendments.
• Stockdale takes citizens' seat to address council City council members found themselves listening to one of their own Monday night.
• Bylaw officers address winter cyclists' safety Winter cyclists around the city are being reminded to wear their helmets and make sure they're visible as they make their way around town.
• MP working to soften Parks Canada cuts Yukoners were given the chance Tuesday afternoon to speak to their MP about concerns over the upcoming 2013 federal budget.
• Horses' demise called ‘very sad' accident Two horses were hit by a truck and killed on the Tahkini Hot Springs Road Tuesday morning, Whitehorse RCMP Sgt. Don Rogers confirmed today.
• ‘All you can hear is crying,' commission told Imagine every single village across the North, every single one, from the Arctic southward – weeping.

January 15, 2013

• MPs to help out local food bank Yukon MP Ryan Leef will host a chili cook-off on at the Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre from 1-4p.m. Saturday.
• Late chief praised as a strong leader Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Councillor Steve Taylor, who died surrounded by family and friends Sunday at Whitehorse General Hospital, is being remembered as a true leader.
• Chief reflects on residential schools' sad irony The Truth and Reconciliation Commission began the final year of its mandate Monday gathering testimony from Yukon residential school survivors.
• Showing How It Was Larry Bill speaks Monday to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada hearings
• ‘We need to heal now as a whole people' No amount of money can heal the wounds received at mission school, Edwin Scurvey told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Monday morning at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre.
• Flu shots still available Dr. Brendan Hanley, the Yukon's chief medical officer of Health, says Yukoners still have time to protect themselves against this year's flu virus.
• Quarry plan should be scaled back: board The Yukon Conservation Society is praising the nearly 50 recommendations proposed by the Yukon Environmental Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) for the controversial Stevens Quarry to go ahead.
• Condo association files lawsuit against developer The condo association currently battling a developer over the construction of an apartment complex in its community is now suing the developer for nearly $2 million.
• Irwin disappointed area won't become park There will be no paving of paradise nor putting up parking lots in Middle McIntyre Creek in the immediate future.

January 14, 2013

• Idle No More beat the Dawson chill at 30 below Dawson's second Idle No More protest gathering held Friday afternoon was a good deal chillier than the one on New Year's Day, but drew a few more people.
• Cancer claims former chief A former Tr'ondek Hwech'in chief and long-time defender of aboriginal rights in the Yukon has passed away at 60.
• Yukon Unite in Support of Idle No More Photo page
• Watson Lake pipe repairs performed Watson Lake Mayor Richard Durocher is expressing his gratitude to City of Whitehorse crews for their work in helping workers from his community repair a broken sewage pipe that saw Johnson Elementary School closed Friday.
• ‘Aggressive' driver's actions shock marchers Protesters at Friday afternoon's Idle No More march in Whitehorse were left in shock after they say a truck driver sped up and intentionally came within inches of the crowd in an effort to intimidate them.
• Judge sanctions company $20,000 A former Yukon petroleum company has been given a bit of a break after pleading guilty to five charges under the federal Environmental Protection Act.
• Capital expected to melt weather record No. Spring has not arrived early.
• Meeting ‘a step in the right direction': minister Prime Minister Stephen Harper has agreed to a follow-up meeting in coming weeks regarding First Nations treaty relationships, after meeting with chiefs in Ottawa Friday afternoon.
• Idle No More: ‘No one is going to stop us' As the long-awaited meeting among chiefs, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and federal government officials began Friday afternoon in Ottawa, Idle No More rallies took place across the country.