With an election coming, you don’t get any prizes for guessing that the Yukon government’s new budget would be a record breaker. Record cash from Ottawa, at $1.4 billion dollars. Record spending at $1.6 billion dollars, or almost $40,000 per Yukoner. Record territorial debt at $175 m...
The Yukon Party has questions for the federal and territorial governments regarding help for post-secondary students who lost their jobs and are planning to continue studies in the fall. Copperbelt South MLA Scott Kent of the Yukon Party wrote a letter to both levels of government outlining his ...
They called on the federal government to put more money toward the Territorial Health Investment Fund, which helps pay for medical travel and other costs of delivering health care in the North. Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said there was a breakthrough in negotiations with t...
93% in Favor of Ending DST In a survey conducted by the territorial government, 93% of Yukonerswanted the seasonal time change to end. Of those, 70% were in favor of permanentPacific Daylight Time(PDT). 4,800 of Yukon's 40,000 residents responded to thesurvey: “In total, we received...
Christine Mahar is a chartered public accountant who has spent all but eight years of her life in the territory. Mahar is wrapping up a 32-year career as a public servant with the government, most recently as assistant deputy minister of Finance. ...
Northern Ontario is divided into 11 territorial districts. The far northern parts of Ontario are not organized into any municipal units. 15 JUDICIAL SYSTEM The Canadian Constitution grants provincial jurisdiction over the administration of justice, and allows each province to organize its own court sy...
In this sense, the territorial government has one Department of Economic Development and 17 other Departments of Competing with the Private Sector. The risk is a spiral where ever-bigger government crowds a shrinking private sector, especially at a time when inflation is already at a 30-year hig...
public sector employees include those who work for a federal, territorial, municipal, First Nation or Indigenous level of government — not just the Yukon government. It also includes those working for a government service or agency, a Crown corporation or a government-funded establishment...
Rea Knight, an early childhood educator who wrote a letter in late March outlining concerns to the territorial government over daycares remaining open, said this new funding is just a shuffling of funds that were already budgeted. She still has questions as both a parent and early childhood edu...
maintain it. The intertie would also enable significant reductions in costly staff at Yukon Energy, Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board and the territorial energy department. In this sense, outsourcing power production jobs to B.C. would help solve our housing and labour ...