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November 4, 2022
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Careers, jobs and education at annual expo Photo Spread
- Median income was $100,000 In 2020, the median income for all Yukon households was $100,000 annually, the territory’s Bureau of Statistics reported last month.
- Ambitious new guitarist to perform in Whitehorse Seventeen-year-old Sierra Levesque of Ontario says she’s excited to bring her modern twist on rock ’n roll to the Yukon Arts Centre stage on Saturday as she performs during the Blue Feather Music Festival.
- Former minister is running to be chief Four candidates have signed up to run for chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in the Nov. 21 election.
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Help pare home heating costs, YP urges Liberals The Yukon Party pushed this week for the territory to ask Ottawa to exempt home heating fuel from carbon pricing as costs rise, but that might be a fool’s errand, says one policy expert.
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Dawson student wins MusiCounts scholarship Riley Elliot has been announced as one of 11 students across Canada to receive the $3,500 MusiCounts Amplify Scholarship, awarded by Canada’s leading music education charity, MusiCounts.
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Discussing Events In China The Yukon branch of the Canadian International Council hosted Jonathan Manthorpe for a presentation of his book Claws of the Panda,
- Fourteen COVID cases reported over six days New COVID-19 cases were reported in six Yukon communities this week.
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Back Room Rehearsal The IMF’S – Stevie Salas, Brian Tichy, Carmine Rojas and Bernard Fowler, left-right,
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Bed bug plague leaves women frustrated A Whitehorse woman whose mother has been out of her apartment at Closeleigh Manor since bed bugs were discovered there in September is asking why the 86-year-old has had to wait so long to return – and why it’s costing so much.
- Electricity heats 4,000-plus homes across Yukon: data The number of Yukon homes using electric heating last year was pegged at 4,038, according to numbers released earlier this year by the territory’s Bureau of Statistics.
- Loss of school worries MLA Emily Tredger, the NDP MLA for Whitehorse Centre, said she is “very concerned” about the prospects of her riding losing École Whitehorse Elementary School.
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‘A community without a school is a dying community’ More than 200 people have signed a petition urging the Yukon government to maintain a school in downtown Whitehorse.
November 3, 2022
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Special Week Begins .
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Clearing The Way .
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Child Development Centre building to be demolished Whitehorse’s Child Development Centre (CDC) building has been closed since mould was found there in the spring of 2021; now, it will be demolished.
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Hydropower project cost has risen sharply A hydropower expansion project that would replace four diesel generators in the Yukon with renewable hydroelectricity is rising in cost – and a $60-million funding gap could put it behind schedule.
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2021 annual reports tabled in House Jason Pedlar, the Yukon’s Ombudsman, Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC), and Public Interest Disclosure Commissioner (PIDC), has issued the 2021 annual reports for his three offices.
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Old Crow ushers in new era for First Nation education The community of Old Crow came together Wednesday for a ceremony to mark a new era of education for their school under the First Nation School Board.
November 2, 2022
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Gala raised $90,000 for students’ benefit Victoria Gold Corp. hosted its annual charity gala on Oct. 22 and raised $90,000 for Every Student, Every Day, a charitable initiative of the Victoria Gold Yukon Student Encouragement Society.
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Poppies of remembrance distributed Photo Spread
- Thirteen COVID-19 cases reported The Yukon government reported 13 active COVID-19 cases in the territory Tuesday, two of which are new.
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More consultation urged on animal protection laws As the bill for Yukon’s Animal Protection and Control Act is tabled for a vote this month, businesses that rely on working animals say they haven’t been properly consulted.
- Most single-use paper bags face ban Starting Jan.1, 2023, most single-use paper bags will be banned in the Yukon, the territorial government announced Tuesday.
- Residents critique the state of local transportation The city could do more to improve its transportation network, including promoting active transportation, says the public engagement report on the Transportation Master Plan.
- New Mobile Crisis Response Team launched The RCMP and the Yukon government have launched a new Mobile Crisis Response Team in Whitehorse.
- RCMP ask witnesses to come forward Whitehorse RCMP said Tuesday their General Investigation Section (GIS) continues to investigate allegations related to the use of holds and isolation spaces at Jack Hulland Elementary School.