Tim Querengesser

Feds find interim funds for First Nations, pending deals

Ottawa is giving the first seven Yukon First Nations that signed land claim agreements a $9.2-million lifeline over the next two years.

Fentie issues another warrant

In what’s becoming a regular practice, Finance Minister Dennis Fentie is spending public money this spring without speaking to the legislature…

Hype outdoes economic reality of the Games

The numbers were $70- to-$100-million. The question that prompted them: how much profit — in the stark dollar and cent numbers that anchor…

Rental vehicles keep government rolling

Apparently, civil servants prefer a snazzy rental ride to a fleet-vehicle beater. Rental car and truck mileage has ballooned to 1.

Clock ticking on YEC’s proposed grid extension project

A $20-million grid extension Yukon Energy Corporation wants to build between Carmacks and Pelly Crossing must now undergo several reviews.

Reviews may zap Carmacks to Pelly line

The $20-million grid extension Yukon Energy Corporation wants to build between Carmacks and Pelly Crossing as part of a deal to provide electricity…

Early signers promised bigger money — Prentice

On Saturday, Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Jim Prentice and seven Yukon chiefs inked a deal with Ottawa for interim money for early-adopters…

Gold medal bouts offer all that makes boxing special

British Columbia boxing coach David Habib felt his fighter was robbed. In the fourth and final round of Friday night’s gold-medal bout between…

Women should be allowed to box at the Games: Holleman

A fight quietly raged at the boxing ring on Friday night that few men could see. Every time the bell rung to break a round between Quebec fighter…

Despite key loss, Yukon curlers are still giant killers

Thomas Scoffin doesn’t have much time for people who mistake his age and small stature for a handicap on the curling rink.

Reti takes boxing disappointment in stride

Harvey Reti has the gentle heart of a fighter who has thrown all the punches he can at life. Fate and circumstance have sure thrown a few jabs at…

The varying shades of green at the Games

One bag of garbage. That’s all breakfast, lunch and supper — about 6,000 sloppy paper plates in all — generated at the Canada…

Alleged drug runner international felon

A Whitehorse man awaiting trial for drug running has an international rap sheet. Kwong Li was arrested last month in the largest cocaine seizure in…

Athletes’ village goes to seniors

Two years and more than $34 million in federal, territorial and municipal money later, the post-Canada-Winter-Games future of the athletes’…

McPhee touted to replace Moorlag

Tracy-Anne McPhee is being recommended by an all-party committee to replace outgoing Yukon ombudsman and privacy commissioner Hank Moorlag.

Men’s squash players are upbeat despite early losses

One by one, team Yukon players entered the glass ricochet chamber. And as if the squash court were an abattoir, Shaun Stinson, Logan Small, Robert…

As Ontario takes gold in hockey Yukon relishes first ever win

It was hockey night in Whitehorse and a group of young guys had just changed the record books. On Friday afternoon, the Yukon men’s hockey…

Climate change the new battlefield

An army larger than the Canadian Forces is now researching climate change. On Thursday, a mobilization of more than 70,000 scientists from 63…

Northern filmmakers entertain audience of their dreams

Northern film has never had an opportunity to expose its celluloid to an Outside audience quite like that of the Canada Winter Games.

Third period wobble costs Yukon hockey team its first win

Yukon hockey player Alex McDougall wanted to ice his 17th birthday cake with a win. So, too, did the hockey captain’s parents, who were in the…