Whitehorse Daily Star

August 22, 2012

• Services offer up for City Chase The Chase is on ....
• Talking Polio Eradication Ramesh Ferris, a Whitehorse anti-polio activist, chats with Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Monday in Carcross.
• Local cadet has had a busy summer A Whitehorse cadet is experiencing a summer of adventure and challenge at the Cold Lake Cadet Summer Training Centre.
• Chief receives promise to resolve funding dispute Prime Minister Stephen Harper acknowledges the Carcross/Tagish First Nation's (CTFN's) funding issues, Chief Danny Cresswell said Tuesday.
• Pallets Burn Whitehorse firefighters were called to this small blaze near the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre
• PM moves from Yukon mine to N.W.T. park Prime Minister Stephen Harper turned his eyes Tuesday from the mineral riches of the North to its recreational riches.
• What's For Dinner, Mom? Barn swallows like to build their nests on open structures such as houses, shops and barns, as their exposed roof ridges make ideal places to perch.
• Public hearing to be held on townhouses Public hearing to be held on townhouses
• Correction A story in Tuesday's edition referred to Michael Kokiw as the president of the Yukon Chamber of Mines.
• Police seize weapon, body armour A restricted firearm, a rifle and body armour were seized by Whitehorse RCMP during a long weekend traffic stop.
• First Nations have heeded call for conservation Answering a call for conservation, estimates indicate First Nations have cut this year's harvest of Yukon River chinook salmon to their lowest in 36 years.
• PM hails new resource revenue-sharing deal The federal and Yukon governments signed a new resource revenue-sharing agreement Tuesday, on the second day of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's annual northern tour.
• City manager onside with reorganization plan A new structure at the city would see an extra two top-level directors added to the staff list and 14 positions changed in some way over the next three years.
• Subject of harassment happy with decision Local businessman and basketball coach Mark Hureau did sexually harass former staffer and basketball player Devon Hanson, the Yukon Human Rights Board of Adjudication has concluded.

August 21, 2012

• Woman sues supermarket's owner after fall A Whitehorse women is suing Loblaws Inc., the owners of the local Real Canadian Superstore
• Morning Collision Firefighters clean up the scene
• Holiday weekend yielded new fires Five new fires were discovered
• Mines chamber official announces bid for council Michael Kokiw, the president of the Yukon Chamber of Mines, has become the latest candidate
• PMO never responded to luncheon invitation Hours before Prime Minister Stephen Harper was scheduled to arrive in the Yukon on Monday
• We deserve respect,' First Nation tells PM Members of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation renewed their call for a fair Financial Transfer Agreement
• Nation's future is in the North, PM says Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived in Whitehorse on Monday

August 17, 2012

• Convoy will reach the city next week Seventy of the original 77 vehicles engaged in the Military Vehicle Preservation Association's 2012 Alaska Highway Convoy began to arrive here early Monday
• Few details available about PM's trip to the territory Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be in Whitehorse on the holilday Monday for the start of his seventh annual northern tour.
• Accused man's fire-stricken house fenced off A padlocked metal fence now stands in front of the Porter Creek home which was the target of Safe Communities and Neighbourhood (SCAN) investigators earlier this year.
• Van Bibber memoir filled with stories of life in the Yukon It doesn't take long to figure out what kind of fibre the late John James Van Bibber was made with when you begin reading I was born under a spruce tree.
• ATV bylaw implementation gets underway City bylaw officers will soon be educating the public on the new ATV rules.
• Way cleared for mechanical shop Mike and Elayne House have come closer to officially being able to operate the mechanical shop they've been running for more than a decade out of the shop at their home at 9 Gibbons Place.
• A treat in the Heat Johnny Wright and Shailyn Moore were selling lemonade
• Hunt intensifies for Mayo-area firesetters Eleven intentionally-set fires in the Mayo region have fire officials and the RCMP on the lookout for the culprit or culprits putting village residents at risk.
• ‘The last trip home will be a tough one' Firecat pilot Murray McLean is going to miss the rugged reliability of the old warhorse when CONAIR's last two vintage retardant bombers are retired this week.
• Excavator's blade begins new housing development "It's kind of the end of an era.”
• Auction set for injured helicopter passenger The family of a man severely injured in a helicopter crash near Carcross earlier this year have planned a silent auction to help pay for his care and support.
• ‘I don't know what the future holds,' Elias says The MLA for Vuntut Gwitchin has left the Yukon Liberal Party in favour of sitting as an independent.