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Thomson Centre re-design tendered
Whitehorse-based Kobayashi and Zedda Architects and Dorward Engineering have won the contract to design renovations to the Yukon Hospital Corporation’s problem-plagued Thomson Centre. The two firms have partnered with Vancouver-based Stantec Architects and Engineering to do the work. Craig Tuton, chair of the hospital corporation, called Stantec “experts in this field” in a media release.

Soccer teams blowout Nunavut to start Games
Team Yukon knocked the opposition off the soccer field Sunday during the first competition of the 2010 Arctic Winter Games in Grande Prairie, Alberta.

Alberta North gives juveniles rough start
The juvenile females were the only Yukon soccer team that did not start the Arctic Winter Games playing against Nunavut…

Teachers protest new computer system
Yukon’s teachers are refusing to learn how to use a new computer system unless the training occurs during class time – or they’re paid more money.

Wish you were here
Leziel Johnstone really needed her mom this week. The young Filippino woman gave birth to her first child - a healthy baby boy - and she wanted her mom, who’s also a midwife, to be with her through the birthing and aftercare.

Grande Mothers unfit for Canada
The Grande Mothers won’t be bringing the stinging satiric sounds of Frank Zappa’s music to the Yukon Arts Centre tonight.  Two of the band members were turned away at the Canadian border on Wednesday.

Backlash begins against new Riverdale lots
Gerard Bluteau, 72, has one great pleasure in life: strolling through the forest trails near his Riverdale Manor home, taking a seat at a bench he has built and feeding crushed walnut bits to chickadees, nuthatches and woodpeckers.

Get Out!
Frank Zappa’s band the Grande Mothers Re:Invented were denied access at the border and Friday’s show at the Yukon Arts Centre has been cancelled! 

Down the Yukon rabbit hole
If you think Tim Burton is weird, you haven’t seen Jan Svankmajer. And if you haven’t seen Svankmajer’s films, you have the perfect opportunity on March 11.

City chases limousine driver to court
The city’s bylaw department is being too heavy-handed with limousine drivers, says Robert Michel Tetrault.

Yukoners hit the mark at biathlon nationals
Whitehorse’s Erin Oliver-Beebe finds it a bit strange that lately she’s hitting more targets while standing than in the prone position. But the 15-year-old is not complaining.

Stereotype scandal rocks human rights board
An adjudicator with the Yukon Human Rights Board is accused by her colleagues of holding negative stereotypes towards natives. That’s unacceptable, says Melissa Atkinson.

Zappa’s aging Grande Mothers still rock
Bands today that rap about “bitches” and “hoes” have Frank Zappa to thank for their musical freedom of speech. Not that the late Zappa would have approved of their lyrical choices.

Check your phone bill
Re Confronting unfair and unequal treatment of internet users in the Yukon: Why is it that we Yukoners (and other Northwestel and Northwestel cable-serviced northern residents), pay extra for internet usage?  Do you download from t

Quest slighted
Quest slighted   I am writing to express great dissatisfaction with the Yukon News for the complete lack of any news regarding the Yukon Quest. In recent issues there was not a mention of the great race that symbolizes so much of what the Yukon is all abo


CBC North News
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Nunavut jury rests in RCMP murder trial
Jurors in Iqaluit have ended a second day of deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of Pingoatuk Kolola, who is accused of shooting an RCMP officer in Kimmirut, Nunavut.

Alaska leads Arctic Games medal count
Young athletes from Alaska have taken an early lead in the number of medals won in the first two days of competition at the Arctic Winter Games in Grande Prairie, Alta.

Canada to map central Arctic seabed
Federal scientists are set to map the ocean seabed in the central Arctic this month, as Canada continues to gather data to help claim more Arctic territory under an international treaty.

BLOG: Arctic Winter Games: Mush On!
Canine expletives were tossed around like an old tennis ball at the Arctic Winter Games' dog mushing competition in Grande Prairie, Alta., on Tuesday.

Inuit art promoter Ryan honoured
Terry Ryan, who managed the Cape Dorset artists' co-op in Nunavut and is now director of Dorset Fine Arts in Toronto, has been honoured for his 50 years of work in promoting Inuit art.

Yukon outreach agency could close
A Yukon outreach agency that provided counselling to hundreds of former Indian residential school students may have to shut down this month because its federal funding has been cut.

Deh Cho Bridge focus of N.W.T. emergency session
The Northwest Territories' MLAs are being called back to the legislature, six weeks ahead of schedule, for an emergency session to discuss the controversial Deh Cho Bridge project's finances.

Yukon RCMP sex-assault trial hears from husband
The husband of a woman who claims two off-duty RCMP officers sexually assaulted her has told a Yukon Supreme Court judge that he regrets not accompanying his wife to the party where she met the Mounties.

Syncrude duck pictures not seen by Stelmach
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach said Monday he has not seen pictures of oil-soaked ducks dying and struggling on a lake that have been shown at the trial into environmental charges against Syncrude.

Nunavut unveils 'prudent' $1.3B budget
Nunavut Finance Minister Keith Peterson has tabled a budget that aims to balance the territory's books.

Natuashish needs booze ban: Innu Nation
The head of Labrador's Innu Nation says the northern reserve of Natuashish should keep a controversial ban on alcohol, despite a vow by its newly elected chief to repeal it.

N.W.T. training program seeks new funding sources
A program that trains community wellness workers in the Northwest Territories is trying to find ways to keep going, now that a major source of funding has been axed.

Arctic Winter Games open in Alberta
Young athletes from circumpolar nations are in Grande Prairie, Alta., to compete in the 21st Arctic Winter Games, which officially began Sunday with the opening ceremony.

National museum builds Inuit art collection
The Canadian Museum of Civilization has expanded its collection of Inuit prints with acquisition of 554 original, limited-edition works of art created over the last 15 years.

Former N.W.T. uranium mine not fully cleaned up
Federal monitors are taking a closer look at an abandoned Northwest Territories uranium mine that was supposed to be cleaned up 13 years ago, but still has some debris and radioactive waste on site.


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