Whitehorse Daily Star

June 5, 2012

• State, territory renew partnership Premier Darrell Pasloski and Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell renewed the Alaska-Yukon Intergovernmental Relations Accord at a meeting Monday in Vancouver.
• Couple Reaches Milestone Commissioner Doug Phillips presents a certificate to Perry and Marcy Savoie last Saturday at The Old Fire Hall for their 50th wedding anniversary.
• Bear banger's use had unexpected consequence They may have scared off a bear, but members of an exploration camp were left with a different kind of danger after they set off a bear banger near Brewery Creek.
• City out to pare energy consumption The City of Whitehorse will be conducting energy audits on 24 of its biggest facilities, says Mayor Bev Buckway.
• United In Education Johnny Elias (right) presented retiring Elijah Smith Elementary School principal John Wright
• Hearing into alleged harassment begins A nine-day human rights public hearing is underway at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre with a former Intersport employee accusing her ex-boss and workplace of sexual harassment.
• Little done to build on housing plan: coalition The state of long-term supportive housing in the Yukon is far from ideal, according to the latest progress report released by the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition.
• Groups blacked out their websites The Yukon Conservation Society and the local chapters of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) joined with hundreds of organizations across the country Monday to speak out against the federal omnibus budget bill.
• Convicted driver freed pending his appeal A man convicted of impaired driving after a crash which severely injured two friends has been released from jail pending his appeal.
• Executive attempts to alleviate public's concerns Eagle Industrial Metals wants to be reprocessing tailings at the former Whitehorse Copper Mine site by next spring, says the company's owner.

June 4, 2012

• ‘Your future is in your hands,' graduates told One hundred and seven graduates celebrated their hard-earned achievement Friday afternoon at the 37th annual First Nations graduation ceremony.
• Correction The captions for the photos in Friday's coverage of Porter Creek Secondary School's graduation
• Potoroka kick-starts campaign for mayor Wayne Potoroka has formally declared he'll seek the Dawson City mayor's chair in the Oct. 18 election.
• Oppose omnibus bill, protesters urge Leef Scores of Yukoners gathered outside Yukon MP Ryan Leef's office early Saturday afternoon to protest the omnibus budget bill, in spite of the drizzly weather.
• Haines Junction man has narrow scrape with a bear A Haines Junction man managed to get away from an aggressive black bear with just two minor wounds to his leg last week.
• Fire strikes home targeted by SCAN law The owner of a Centennial Street home may be out of his house longer than the 90-day eviction that's been brought forward under the Safer Communities and Neighbourhood (SCAN) Act.
• Planned development would be sprawling but green The city's largest private-sector subdivision proposal is back on the table, with all the parties seemingly pulling in the same direction.

June 1, 2012

• Rally planned for outside MP's office Yukoners and Canadians from across the country plan to gather at Conservative MPs' offices Saturday to protest the Omnibus Budget Bill, Bill C-38.
• MP defends bid to have challenge quashed The Yukon's Ryan Leef and six other MPs whose election results have been legally challenged by constituents have filed motions to have the cases dismissed.
• Leaping For Life Leaping Feats Creative Dance Works are presenting their year-end show at the Yukon Arts Centre.
• Mental health association branch resurrected The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) may soon return to the Yukon.
• Winged Visitor This Eurasian dove was spotted last weekend at the Timberpoint Campground on Teslin Lake.
• MP welcomes hunting and angling advisory body Yukon MP Ryan Leef is hailing Prime Minister Stephen Harper's announcement of a newly created Hunting and Angling Advisory Panel to help guide conservation efforts in Canada.
• GoMedia held North of 60 for the first time Having the Canadian Tourism Commission's (CTC's) annual GoMedia Marketplace for the first time North of 60 in Whitehorse means an economic boost to the territory in the form of packed restaurants and hotel rooms, says Jim Kemshead,
• Pasloski simply toeing PM's line, NDP charges The Yukon NDP Official Opposition is criticizing Premier Darrell Pasloski for his part in the recently concluded Western Premiers' Conference in Edmonton.
• Practising The Stories Grey Mountain Primary School students are seen at their dress rehearsal for their annual Story Telling Festival Thursday.
• Seniors make up 8.2 per cent of city's population Seniors make up 8.2 per cent of city's population
• Engagement Winding Down The burlesque production of Varietease continues at the Guild Hall at 9:00 this evening and Saturday evening.
• Take on life's risks, rewards, grads urged A lot has changed in 12 years, and the future is anything but predictable.
• Winning lottery ticket has now been claimed The Whitehorse lottery ticket worth $188,805.90 may have been claimed, but the Western Canada Lottery Corp. (WCLC) won't confirm anything until they meet with the potential winner.
• Court upholds former Yukoner's conviction in 1975 U.S. murder The South Dakota Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a former Whitehorse man's murder conviction and life sentence in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American Indian Movement activist, ruling that the state had jurisdiction to prosecute him.
• Power utilities praise city's conservation efforts The heads of both electrical utilities in the Yukon are commending the city for increasing energy efficiency in its proposed changes to construction guidelines.
• Mud flow fix to be served up at season's end It's expected to be the end of the season before the city starts work on the hillside next to the tennis courts at the Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre.
• Council agenda in hands of Canada and the U.S. Canada and the United States have a chance to set the Arctic agenda for the next four years — if they decide to take it, says a report from two prominent foreign affairs think-tanks.
• Crews standing on guard to foil fires It's likely to be a slow season for Yukon Wildland Fire Management, but crews will be prepared with a new group of aircraft on contract to the territory from Outside.
• A Preview Of College Life Tara Stehelen (right), a Yukon College first-year biology instructor, observes Takhini Elementary School students Brandon Fuentes (left) and Alex King as they work on dissecting a squid Thursday.
• Check-stop figures suggest bad driving remains a problem The territory's RCMP traffic division had a busy week last month.
• Yukon students did well at science fair Two of the three Yukon students attending last month's Canada-Wide Science Fair in P.E.I. came home with medals and almost $4,000 in cash and scholarship prizes.
• Safety First Mount Sima's Alpine Adventure Park includes this WildPlay Elements Park
• Airlines are negotiating a potential partnership WestJet and Air North are in discussions regarding a potential partnership, according to WestJet's executive vice-president of sales, marketing and guest experience.
• Premier, minister won't discuss power subsidy's fate Neither Premier Darrell Pasloski nor his energy minister will make themselves available to discuss the future of the Yukon's electrical subsidy, says the cabinet's spokeswoman.
• Feverish Porter Creek D development called unnecessary It's time for the city to take the pedal off the metal with the Porter Creek D subdivision proposal, says Coun. Ranj Pillai.
• Assault victim suffered ‘soccer kicks' to the head Judge John Faulkner has handed down a one-year conditional sentence to a Pelly Crossing man who pleaded guilty to assaulting his father-in-law Danny Van Bibber.
• Asp insists she never touched baseball bat Accused killer Christina Asp swears she had no hand in the death of Gordon Seybold, and only watched while her boyfriend attacked the Whitehorse man with a bat.