Whitehorse News

Finance Minister Graham Steele says he would like to see a national approach on a supplemental pension plan because Nova Scotia isn't big enough to go it alone.

Saskatchewan Finance Minister Rod Gantefoer says Canada's finance ministers will talk about ways to ensure people have enough money when they retire.

Canada's retirement-income system may not be the disaster some politicians and interest groups make it out to be, says the author of a new report that will play a central role in pension-reform negotiations this week.

Federal and provincial governments are trying to hash out a way to encourage Canadians to save more for retirement.

Here's a prediction. The party that wins the next federal election will be the one that does the best job of responding to Canadians' pension concerns.

Canadaa s federal government wona t force the provinces to make changes to the countrya s pension system though it will urge them to consider ways to boost retirement savings, an aide to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said.

SEASONAL FAVOURITE TAKES THE STAGE a ' Grayson Vanderbyl and Calvin Laveck will perform in the annual Northern Lights School of Dance presentation of a Nutcrackera TM at the Yukon Arts Centre.

InterOil Corp. , a Canadian natural- gas explorer and oil refiner, rose the most in six weeks after receiving Papua New Guinea government approval for a $7 billion liquefied-natural-gas project.

The Canadian Press Michael Ignatieff unveiled proposals Tuesday aimed at providing urgent help to people left in 'catastrophic' financial straits due to Canada's pension 'crisis.' But if the situation is so urgent, critics questioned why Ignatieff waited until just before Parliament's six-week Christmas break to echo proposals made by NDP Leader ...

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Dr. Saul Arbess of Victoria, who is Co-Chair of the Canadian Department of Peace Initiative , encouraged his audience at the Oak St.

T hink of the crisis in the Nortel pension meltdown as the tip of the retirement income iceberg.

OTTAWA a ' British Columbia is rolling out the welcome mat for other provinces to join a western-led effort to help fatten the retirement income of many Canadians.

Link: UpHere.ca Whitehorse, Yukon, may be the world's "Mecca for mutts," resident Katharine Sandiford writes.

Whitehorse high school students took to the city's streets Monday afternoon, urging the Canadian government to take serious action at upcoming climate change talks in Copenhagen.

The Yukon has seen a big increase in the number of doctors practising in the territory in recent years, according to a national health report released Thursday.

A team of marine archeologists has discovered a "perfectly preserved" 19th-century sternwheeler that went down in a storm more than a century ago in the Klondike setting made famous by the Robert Service poem The Cremation of Sam McGee.

The federal government should boost Old Age Security benefits to help offset shrinking to non-existent retirement income many Canadians stand to get from private sources, says a study says.

Two members of Iqaluit's arts scene are teaming up to help create Nunavut's first performing arts centre.

Lead Dog Ale Yukon Brewing, Whitehorse, Yukon $13.99 for A six pack Winter is coming.