A recent government order has made Air North shareholders ineligible for a 25 per cent territorial tax credit.
In February, under the Yukon Small Business Investment Tax Credit, the shares had been authorized for the...
Former Iraq hostage James Loney is visiting Whitehorse to discuss the links between “non-violence and human freedom.”
Loney’s 2005 abduction in Iraq along with three other colleagues set off a widely...
It’s hard not to smile while eating a Chiquita banana.
But we’re not kids anymore.
It’s time to put away any nostalgia associated with the world’s biggest banana producer and face the...
Even living in a modest-sized city, like Whitehorse, residents often give up the closeknit support found in small towns and villages.
But there might be a way to have the best of both worlds.
City council rejected a First Nations Arts Festival’s request for a closure of First Avenue on Monday night.
The 10-day period that the society organizing the event was asking for is too long, most councillors...
The Yukon government and the L’Association franco-yukonnaise will host a ceremony Thursday to mark the 20th anniversary of the Languages Act.
The Language Act allowed Yukoners to receive government services in...
I played organized hockey for the first time in 1965. I was 10.
My adopted family lived in Orangeville, Ontario, and I was registered for the minor hockey program. When word got out in my Grade 4 class that I was...
Top 40 under 40 … in 2007.
“What’s the right stuff to become one of the top 40 of Canada’s business leaders under 40 years old?”
The Globe and Mail chose 40 business leaders in...
A warning letter issued to a notorious downtown drug dealer under Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods legislation has not stopped addicts from trying to secure a fix.
Almost a year after the letter was issued to...
Speaker Ted Staffen is protecting the Yukon Party government from opposition scrutiny with illogical and biased decisions made to curtail debate, says NDP Leader Todd Hardy.
He attempted to extend the legislative...
The first Thursday night trail run took place May 8th under sunny skies.
There was a bit of a nippy breeze, but that didn’t deter 13 runners from coming out to the Magnusson trails on Grey Mountain.
When Jeane Lassen accepted a $50,000 cheque from Pelly Construction in early April, she knew what she wanted to do with it.
The Whitehorse weightlifter is determined to finish her training for the Beijing Olympics here...
Whimsical music, clown makeup, stilts, and a morality tale about the importance of embracing one’s emotions; it’s all part of this Thursday’s French-language performance of Pleurer Pour Rire at the Yukon Arts...
Trucking service in the Yukon isn’t as expensive as you might think, but it can be the difference between life and death.
Jim Mickey learned this at an early age, driving truck into Ross River, Faro and Dawson in...
Biting back
Re Change your diet, save your teeth (the News, May 9):
Mike Brine thinks that the simple alternative to enriching drinking water with enough fluoride to maintain healthy teeth in young people is to...
About a week ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the federal Access to Information Requests System was too expensive.
He cut its funding, eliminating a valuable tool Canadians had to access government...
