Whitehorse Daily Star

November 27, 2023

• Pillai in Europe Premier Ranj Pillai attended the Deutsche Goldmesse Conference in Germany on Saturday,
• Craft fairs take over the holiday season Photo Spread
• Sharing An Important Message A fire burned at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre fire pit on Saturday
• Housing fund launches latest intake The Yukon government is now accepting applications for the seventh intake of the Housing Initiatives Fund.
• Rallying For Safer Cabs A taxi safety rally was held in front of city hall at noon Friday.
• Sketch of suspect released The RCMP have released a sketch of a man wanted in connection with an attempted abduction last Aug. 25 at the Andrea Hotel in Watson Lake.
• Nisutlin bridge cost raised in legislature The cost of the Nisutlin Bay Bridge replacement project was once again a contentious topic Nov. 9 in the Yukon legislature.
• Hospital plans to curtail its surgeries Whitehorse General Hospital will be seeing significant surgical cutbacks in December.
• ‘New staff are very nervous,’ manager was warned The alarm bells were ringing well before two detainees broke out of the Whitehorse Young Offenders Facility over the summer.

November 24, 2023

• Yukoners gained insights from Anchorage visit A delegation of Yukoners visited the Southcentral Foundation in Anchorage last week to learn about successful ways to work together to transform health care.
• Mayor replaced as chair of council meetings The final portion of Tuesday’s meeting of Dawson council ended with Coun. Alexander Somerville replacing Mayor Bill Kendrick as the meeting’s chair.
• Bates Crescent partially closed The portion of Bates Crescent from house numbers 15 to 19 was closed Wednesday.
• Grizzly bear hunt ‘well within sustainable levels’ The Yukon government has responded to a petition calling on it to ban all trophy hunting of grizzly bears in the territory, and to ban roadside hunting of grizzly bears throughout the territory.
• Challenges from forecast growth must be tackled, councillor says City councillor Ted Laking says he’s trying to take a pro-active approach to the city’s future as he studies the auguries.
• At Jenni House Filmmaker Sarah Genge is this month’s Jenni House artist-in-residence.
• Astronaut once lived in Yukon Joshua Kutryk, the Canadian astronaut who has been assigned to a six-month mission to the International Space Station, has a Yukon pedigree.
• AYC is dissatisfied with Economic Statement The Association of Yukon Communities’ (AYC’s) president isn’t satisfied with the Fall Economic  Statement the federal government delivered Tuesday.
• Project consumed many dollars, left a few scents Some residents in the Takhini subdivision have had enough of dealing with, shall we say, a malodorus situation in recent weeks.
• Yukon mining overview presented at forum Mineral production in placer and hard rock mining is down this year in the Yukon, but placer claims and hard rock exploration expenditures are up, according to seasonal roundup presentations given at the Yukon Geoscience Forum.
• Liberals ‘out of touch and out of gas’: Dixon Yukon Party Leader Currie Dixon summed up the state of the Yukon at the end of the fall legislative term by saying he is “deeply concerned” about the direction of the territory.
• Sitting had its days of frustrations for the NDP NDP Leader Kate White’s frustrations were evident at the end of the legislature’s fall sitting.
• I’m proud of our team’s work, Pillai says Looking back at the fall legislative term Thursday afternoon, Premier Ranj Pillai said he believes his party has made the hard decisions to move the territory forward in a variety of ways — even if those decisions weren’t always popular.

November 23, 2023

• Yukon Nominee Program allocations rise The territory has received an increase of 150 workers to its 2023 allocations under the Yukon Nominee Program, for a total allocation of 580.
• Yukon Period Pantry expands its services The Yukon Period Pantry has opened its second site at Queer Yukon, located at the door on Baxter St., 4230 Fourth Ave. #10 in Whitehorse.
• Exploring The Possibilities A Trades and Apprenticeship Expo was held Tuesday afternoon for Grades 11 and 12 students at Porter Creek Secondary School.
• Society plans book launch for Monday The Hidden Histories Society Yukon (HHSY) will host a public launch of its photo-history book, Venturing North, Snapshots of life for Black and Asian Yukoners, 1896-1975 on Monday.
• Pillai sees positives, negatives in Fall Economic Statement Premier Ranj Pillai has hailed elements of federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s update on Canada’s finances and economy in her 2023 Fall Economic Statement.
• Territory’s surplus proves greater than forecast The territory’s Public Accounts report that the non-consolidated surplus for the 2022-23 fiscal year was $105 million.
• Hospital foundation launches Northwestel Festival of Trees The 2023 Northwestel Festival of Trees will begin at 5:30 p.m. today with the Newmont BAH humbug cocktail party at the Jim Smith Building and the opening of the online silent auction.