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March 6, 2024
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Music helps warm a cold winter weekend .... Photo Spread
- Premier, officials promoted mining Premier Ranj Pillai has been in Toronto in recent days attending the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s annual conference.
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Birds As Works Of Art Kathy Piwowar opened Feathers and Wings, Beaks and Bills last Friday in the Focus Gallery at Arts Underground.
- Legislature to reconvene tomorrow The territory’s MLAs will return to the legislature Thursday afternoon to, among other things, witness the tabling of the 2024-25 fiscal year territorial budget by Finance Minister Sandy Silver.
- Wildfire preparedness questioned With summer around the corner, some council members are wondering how Whitehorse is preparing for wildfire season.
- City to update housing incentives The city plans to update its tool kit for encouraging the development of affordable housing through proposed changes to the Housing Development Incentives Policy, the City Grant-Making Policy and the Fees and Charges Bylaw.
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City weighs fast vs. slow development There is far from unanimous support at city council for a private developer’s plans to create a 16-lot country residential subdivision next to the Lobird trailer park.
March 5, 2024
- Long Ago Yukon schedules speaker Next Saturday’s fifth Long Ago Yukon speaker for the 2023-24 series will be Christian Thomas.
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Talking Post A raven speaks out
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Gathering on housing called a useful exercise Last week’s 2024 Housing Summit in Whitehorse produced some fruitful ideas for moving forward, say the premier and the mayor.
- Premier praises Mulroney’s achievements With the passing of former prime minister of Brian Mulroney, “Canada has lost a great leader who helped make our nation what it is today,” Premier Ranj Pillai said last Friday afternoon.
- Government leaders salute Special Olympics participants Premier Ranj Pillai and Community Services Minister Richard Mostyn congratulated Special Olympics Team Yukon athletes today.
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NDP to YP: state stance on universal pharmacare The New Democrats are calling on Yukon Party Leader Currie Dixon to tell Yukoners whether his caucus supports the universal public pharmacare plan announced by the federal New Democrats and Liberals last month.
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YG launches new campsite reservation service Environment Minister Nils Clarke has announced the opening of the new campground reservation service for some of the Yukon’s most popular road-accessible front and backcountry campgrounds.
March 4, 2024
- Pillai says he recognizes sore need for housing Premier Ranj Pillai kicked off the territory’s annual housing summit last Thursday morning in Whitehorse.
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Ostara Project returns and delivers The Ostara Project made a return to Jazz on the Wing on Sunday...
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Students Explore Careers F.H. Collins Secondary School grads presented their Career Life Connections Capstone Fair projects last Wednesday at the school.
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This year’s Percy race will be a fun run There won’t be a Percy DeWolfe Memorial Mail Race this year.
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Health care crisis’ is continuing, YP says The Yukon Party says it remains concerned about the state of the territory’s health care system and the financial situation with Yukon Hospitals – which the party says is triggering “a health care crisis.”
- Hospital workers have tentative agreement A tentative agreement has been achieved between the 350-plus members of the Yukon Employees’ Union (YEU)/Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Yukon Hospital Corp., it was announced Friday.
- Project has become a costly ‘boondoggle’: YP The Hearth project has grown into an expensive, long-delayed “boondoggle for Yukon taxpayers,” says the Yukon Party.
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Ex-inn will host 67 supportive housing units The Yukon government is investing $12.9 million into The Hearth, a 67-unit permanent supportive housing project.