Whitehorse Daily Star

October 10, 2012

• Housing, transit service are candidate's priorities Affordable housing and evening transit service are among Mike Tribes' key concerns as he runs for city council.
• Sun transit may disrupt communications It's sun transit time again.
• Did you know? On the trail of local history! Ed. note: these historic items, submitted by the Whitehorse History Book Society, are published every second Wednesday.
• Former MLA dies Don Taylor, who served as Watson Lake's MLA from 1961 to 1985, died from lung cancer last Sunday at the age of 79.
• Advanced poll on The City of Whitehorse will hold an advanced poll Thursday for people who are unable to vote in the Oct. 18 municipal election.
• Special Guest This Super Puma helicopter
• Fire billowed considerable smoke into the air Firefighters were called out to a large blaze in the MacRae subdivision this morning and needed to call in extra hands to help put it out.
• ‘I love this city and its people,' candidate says Jocelyn Curteanu keeps herself very busy.
• Corner Crack-Up Whitehorse RCMP and city firefighters were summoned to the scene of this two-vehicle collision at about 5:30 Tuesday afternoon.
• Help found for chemotherapy patients Some relief has been found for the stress facing the chemotherapy unit at the Whitehorse General Hospital, unit manager Penny Rawlings explained this morning.
• Dawson election forum draws a large crowd Last night's election forum turnout of between 75 and 80 citizens
• Government inherits tank farm file The future of the former tank farm site is now in the hands of the Yukon government.
• Group will still press for outright fracking ban The use of hydraulic fracturing has been removed from the environmental assessment of two more exploration wells near Eagle Plains.

October 9, 2012

• Justice ministers discussed various issues of the North Justice Minister Mike Nixon hosted his territorial counterparts, Glen Abernethy of the Northwest Territories, and Daniel Shewchuk of Nunavut, in Whitehorse recently to discuss northern justice and public safety issues.
• Candidate spent 28 years working for city It seems Helen Geisler just can't get enough of the City of Whitehorse.
• Their Memories Live On Drummers sing a song at the Yukon government main administration building last week for the Yukon Sisters in Spirit,
• It's a dozen years and counting for councillor Ed. note: today, the Star begins a series of profiles of the 22 people running for a Whitehorse city council position on Oct. 18. They will be published randomly.
• Former mayor wants the job back After six years away from municipal politics, John Farynowski wants to be the mayor of Haines Junction again.
• Mining, lands map viewers modernized The territorial government's new Yukon Mining and Lands Viewers are now available online, Energy, Mines and Resources Minister Brad Cathers said recently.
• Pole Fire An electrical short on a pole in the alley between Black and Alexander Streets
• Award-winning artist to take the stage tomorrow Five-time award-winning artist Don Amero is going on tour, and is coming to Whitehorse.
• Power outage lasted an hour and a half More than 10,000 Yukon Electrical Co. Ltd. customers in Whitehorse lost power early Sunday morning when line interference tripped a breaker.
• Killer will have to wait 15 years to apply for release Convicted killer Christina Asp will have to spend at least 15 years behind bars before she is eligible to apply for parole, a Yukon Supreme Court Justice has ruled.
• Local chemotherapy treatments in limbo Whitehorse General Hospital may have to stop providing chemotherapy treatments for cancer because of a staffing issue, says hospital spokeswoman Val Pike.
• People were consuming alcohol in dwelling where boy was shot A 10-year-old boy is in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries to his left arm and abdomen and has undergone emergency surgery in a B.C. hospital after being shot south of Whitehorse.

October 5, 2012

• NDP shuffles its shadow cabinet Though her MLAs have been in office just short of a year, Yukon NDP Leader Liz Hanson announced changes to the official Opposition critic and caucus roles Thursday afternoon.
• BYTE launches ‘Whitehorse Youth Want...' initiative In the lead-up to the Oct. 18 municipal election, the non-profit group Bringing Youth Towards Equality (BYTE) is asking: What do Whitehorse youth want?
• City could soon dole out festival cash Groups may have sought close to $80,000 for their upcoming events, but it appears the city will be doling out only $65,060, including in-kind services.
• A Watery Pursuit A raven chases a merganser on the Yukon River
• Housing should top council's agenda: candidate Municipal election candidate John Streicker wants to put housing at the top of the next city council's agenda.
• Remembering The Departed and The Disappeared A large group of walkers proceeded from the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre to the Yukon government main administration building early Thursday afternoon, remembering missing and murdered aboriginal women.
• School Food Drive Exceeds Previous Ones The annual Catholic Schools Food Drive has changed this year to multiple schools.
• Depression anxiety education, screening days held Depression anxiety education, screening days held
• Kwanlin Dun looks for zoning change to develop housing A piece of Kwanlin Dun First Nation settlement land could be the next on the list to be rezoned for housing, with first reading of the rezoning to come forward at Tuesday evening's council meeting.
• Co-ordinator set for affordable apartments The Affordable Family Housing apartment buildings in Riverdale will have a new co-ordinator by the new year now that the pilot project has been adopted for the next five years.
• Snuffing It Out The Whitehorse Fire Department was called to 22 Waterfront Place
• Speaker sees city role in paring homelessness They can't solve homelessness alone, but municipalities have a key leadership role to play, the president of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness said Wednesday evening in Whitehorse.
• Child care workers' march lured 100-plus people More than 100 people gathered in Shipyards Park at 8:00 this morning to support better funding for childcare in the Yukon.
• Concerns mount about horse group's move The Yukon Horse and Rider Association could soon have the city's go-ahead to use the 13-hectare former KMA Speedway site, but the group would likely be doing much more than using it for storage.
• Fowl Play A giant chicken was walking downtown streets
• RCMP on lookout for bad driving Once again this long weekend, the Yukon's RCMP will be taking part in the annual Operation Impact, a national effort to make the roads safer.
• Certainty urged for mining regulatory regime Certainty is needed in the Yukon's regulatory regime, particularly as the mining industry is heating up, says the Yukon Conservation Society's mining co-ordinator.
• Voters' list up 1,032 people over 2009 election The number of voters for the Whitehorse municipal election has risen by 10 per cent in the last three years, according to the revised list of eligible voters.
• ‘Monumental' child welfare agreement signed The Kwanlin Dun First Nation and the Yukon government have signed a new child welfare partnership agreement.