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BORN TO SHOP: The questionable business of banning a bulb

Hurray for Nunavut for being the first in Canada to ban the incandescent light bulb. Ontario, good for you too, but you could do more. Nova Scotia, hang in there, it’ll happen.

full story   by Juliann Fraser

City could crack down on drug-house landlords

Whitehorse may soon be holding drug-house landlords financially responsible for damage to city infrastructure caused by their tenants. Tuesday, city officials discussed a proposed property bylaw that would allow bylaw...

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LEGISLATURE NOTEBOOK: Embarrassment provokes pumping

On Tuesday, Mike Stack awoke to the sound of water pumps. Stack had expressed outrage to the News just a day earlier concerning a 120-metre long, half-metre deep “lake” on the old Annie Lake road that he...

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Man accused of dragging dog pleads not guilty

A man accused of driving down Hamilton Boulevard with his dog tethered to the vehicle’s bumper pleaded not guilty in Yukon court on Tuesday. Twenty-eight-year-old Stanley Gostel is facing three charges under...

full story   by Leighann Chalykoff

Mayo-Dawson line dispute will land in court

Yukon Energy Corporation has won its day in court. In what Justice Leigh Gower deemed a “close and difficult case,” Yukon Energy Corp. and Chant Construction Company Ltd.

full story   by Leighann Chalykoff

ONE NATIVE LIFE: Remembering Shane Rivers

There’s a romance to the feel of cold floorboards on bare feet. Just as there’s a romance to the snap, crackle and flame of the morning fire in the woodstove. The first tendrils of warmth poking outward are...

full story   by Richard Wagamese

RAMBLING

On leadership: “The biggest challenge will be how you treat your own people.” Chief Clarence Louie. Straight Talk… I found out, on the weekend, why Canadians in the East are often...

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Sooner or later the city must look up, civic leaders say

This week council nixed the possibility of highrises in downtown Whitehorse. Monday, politicians voted to retain a citywide restriction on the height of buildings. Shelving plans to allow eight-storey...

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Yukon College sweeps Table Tennis Challenge

Both the Yukon College men’s team No. 1 (Jerry Wald and Jim Gilpin) and women’s team (Julie Hawkins and Christina Nie) paddled all comers at the Community Challenge Table Tennis Tournament on Sunday at Whitehorse...

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The coveted Worsfold Award When I was about 10 years old, I was absolutely shocked to hear this rude, crude, crass lady cussing on the radio station. I wanted to call and complain to the radio station.

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THE NUMBERS

The Numbers Yukon operation and maintenance spending in 2005: $583,038. Operation and maintenance spending in 2001: $434,963. Change in cost of government 2001- 2005, as a...

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Banishing limbo

Last week, the Catholic Church banished limbo, a vast parking lot of souls that lay between the torment of hell and the peace of heaven. It’s the place where newborn babies and deserving people born before...

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