Tim Querengesser

Critics fear waste will follow YEC haste

Another electric week in the Yukon has witnessed a litany of developments on the proposed electricity deal between Sherwood Copper and the Yukon…

Phillips needs to choose hats: opposition

Doug Phillips needs to choose whether he’s a partisan or he’s neutral, says NDP leader Todd Hardy.

Dawson Film Festival prompts question: Why haven’t we shot a feature here?

Despite a golden story that has inspired countless movies, cartoons, plays, books, poems and documentaries, a feature film has never been shot in…

Daycare workers remember commitments wrong, says Cathers

Health and Social Services Minister Brad Cathers says childcare workers have misquoted him. On Wednesday, the News published a story featuring…

Myriad electrical changes spark fears

These are shocking days for Yukoners. Just this week, more than $15 million of public money was committed to extend the territory’s electrical…

YEC skips ahead on Carmacks Stewart line

hough it faces two public reviews and has not yet been approved, Yukon Energy Corporation has awarded a $450,000 contract for the proposed…

‘Tis the season for appointments

Former Yukon government leader Willard Phelps and Yukon Party election campaign manager Craig Tuton have been handed cushy government appointments.

Faro’s lead spread far and wide

Lead from the Faro mine is present throughout the region’s food chain, from caribou to ptarmigan to lichen.

The Beaver whittles Yukon history

Brace yourselves history buffs, The Beaver has felled a Yukon fir tree. The April-May issue of The Beaver magazine has a six-page feature story on…

It’s much too easy for government to torch cabins, says lawyer

Bonnet Plume Outfitters is arguing the Yukon Lands Act gives outfitters too little protection from a territorial government intent on razing cabins…

Popular watering hole becomes history

Last call at Joe’s came with less than two hours warning. On Thursday night, Joe English — the storied Nova Scotian bartender who has…

Rate stabilization fund saved… for now

The Yukon government has handed the electrical rate-stabilization fund a stay of execution. For the next three months, that is.

Agriculture branch vetoes Shallow Bay decision

The Yukon government has approved Karla DesRosiers’ 63-hectare hay farm and a barn near Shallow Bay, ignoring the recommendation of an…

Family on the brink of deportation to Mexico

Miguel and Maribel Gonzales are trying to rally the community behind their fight to stay in Canada. But like so many Latino refugees who came to…

The fighter returns to hearth and fray

Todd Hardy is a fighter who shakes and disturbs you with the depth of his courage. Hardy embraces life and death equally.

Are special warrants warranted?

Finance Minister Dennis Fentie is using special warrants to spend $285 million of next year’s budget and to add $12 million to this…

Budget draws raves as well as rants

The Conservative government’s $233 billion budget is the largest in Canadian history. It offers about $10-billion in extra money for the…

Canadian Tire says, ‘Supersize me’

When you walk into the new Canadian Tire store in Whitehorse your mouth drops at its epic size. But a strange feeling quickly sets in.

Funding gap puts survivors at risk

As Ottawa’s residential-school settlement prepares to pay some 80,000 survivors billions in compensation dollars, the Committee on Abuse In…

McCormick to fill Michael’s shoes

Floyd McCormick is replacing Patrick Michael as clerk of the Yukon legislative assembly. An all-party committee recently selected McCormick to…