Whitehorse Daily Star

December 18, 2023

• Spacing out with aliens Photo Spread
• Music to help observe the winter solstice The Longest Night Society will present Early Music, featuring the Problematic Orchestra, on Wednesday and Thursday evenings of this week.
• MP endorses a Gaza cease-fire Yukon MP Brendan Hanley is joining the prime minister’s call for a cease-fire in Gaza.
• Mammoth to return to Dawson after proper preservation It’s now quite clear why the territorial government did not want to have Dr. Grant Zazula giving any solo interviews regarding the Baby Mammoth Mummy (Nun Cho Ga) during the first week of December.
• Parties offer their takes on new clinic The Yukon Party is skeptical about today’s opening of a new walk-in clinic, but hopes – for patients’ sake – that it will be a success.
• Watson Lakers want to discuss seniors’ needs: YG Watson Lake Mayor Chris Irvin and town council say they’re “disheartened to learn that promised long-term care beds are no longer a certainty,” according to their understanding of statements made last month by Health Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee.

December 15, 2023

• Yukoners gather to remember those who are gone The 33rd annual Hospice Yukon Lights of Life ceremony took place Thursday at the Elijah Smith Building.
• Northwestel is now serving Atlin Telephone calls made to friends, family and loved ones in Atlin, B.C. will now travel over Northwestel Inc.’s northern network and systems.
• For the Hands of Hope, the synergy continues It was dark. It was cold.
• When times get bumpy, I’ll cherish this story Bruce and I lived in Whitehorse from ’79 to ’83, where Bruce was a family physician with the Whitehorse Medical Clinic and I was a guidance counsellor at the old F.H. Collins Secondary School.
• YP sets out expectations for Silver The Yukon Party and the governing Liberals continued to be at odds today over financial issues in the territory.
• Justice Sworn In The swearing-in of new Chief Justice Leonard Marchand
• NDP not optimistic about strategy “I’m not impressed by the Yukon Liberals’ latest strategy to fix their crumbling health care system.”
• YG unfolds road map to more health care practitioners The Yukon government has unveiled a plan to help recruit and retain medical professionals.
• Biting The Dust .
• Dawson rec centre cost soars past $100 million A Yukon cabinet minister says Dawson City officials will have to adjust their expectations when it comes to the promise of a new recreation centre.
• Sugar shortage souring some baking plans Christmas hasn’t exactly been the sweetest time of year for many people in the Yukon and western Canada as a whole this holiday season.
• Psychiatrist ‘cautiously optimistic’ he can stay The Whitehorse psychiatrist threatening to leave the territory unless the Yukon government pays him in what he considers a more “equitable” way is giving the government a deadline extension before he closes his practice.
• Walk-in clinic will open Monday In a surprise move, the Yukon government will open its new walk-in clinic on Monday.

December 14, 2023

• Streicker explains ‘pausing’ of microgeneration program The Yukon’s microgeneration program was a victim of its own success.
• Boutique Brought To Buyers The Spruce Bog Boutique vendors and the Yukon Craft Society held a pop-up event at the Normandy Living residence Tuesday,
• Physician joins Centre de Santé Constellation Health Centre A Yukon-based physician has been recruited to the Centre de Santé Constellation Health Centre, the territorial government announced Wednesday.
• Yukoner celebrates $1-million lottery win Yukoner Johnathan Kolot had what Western Canada Lottery Corp. officials call a completely acceptable reaction to winning $1 million in the Dec. 10, 2022 LOTTO 6/49 draw.
• Housing prices continue to decline The Yukon real estate market continued to be volatile in the third quarter of 2023.
• YFNCT welcomes new executive director The Yukon First Nations Culture and Tourism Association (YFNCT) has a new executive director.