Yukon News

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.

The Yukon's politicians have started working towards a ban on using cellphones while driving, but it will likely take a while before any legislation takes effect.

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

Underwater archaeologists have found a virtual time capsule of life during Canada's Klondike Gold Rush: a sunken Yukon River stern-wheeler so preserved that researchers can document the last minutes of the five-man crew as well as their life aboard the primitive cargo-hauler. The door of the steam boiler on the A.J. Goddard was open, and slightly ...

A discovery north of Skagway is giving archaeologists a flashback to a stormy Klondike winter day in 1901, when the steamship A.J. Goddard sank in Lake Laberge outside of Whitehorse, Yukon.

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.

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

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.

The steam-powered sternwheeler A.J. Goddard, loaded with men, supplies and firewood, heads toward the Klondike gold fields along the Yukon River in 1898.

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

The current 'jumble' of supplemental pension options must be revamped into a coherent system to allow Canadians to build better retirement nest eggs, says Keith Ambachtsheer, one of the country's leading authorities on pensions.

Lillian Mabel Taylor worked in Livingstone Creek and Whitehorse from 1902-1913 as a cook and laundress, and owned mining claims.

The Yukon's health minister startled members of the legislature on Tuesday when he said he hopes an opposition MLA "has an accident." Health and Social Services Minister Glenn Hart made the remark during question period, after NDP MLA Steve Cardiff asked him to address the problem of overcrowded conditions at Whitehorse General Hospital.

Whitehorse's first full-time food bank is helping more than 1,000 people each month, meaning as many as one in 20 Whitehorse residents are in need of regular food aid.