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Jack Cable, a former commissioner, MLA and well-known lawyer, passed away Wednesday.
His daughter, Sue Edelman, spoke eloquently about him Thursday afternoon during an interview with the Star. She didn’t hesitate for an instant when asked to provide one word that described her father.
“Curious,” she said. “He was always curious, always interested in things.”
Cable, she added, liked to experiment as well.
At one point, he was trying to grow wheat in the front yard of their Riverdale home.
That experiment was a failure, she recalled wryly, but it made the family home an instant attraction.
At that time, she said, most of Whitehorse’s tourism was based on tour buses. Many of the tourists came from the Canadian and U.S. prairies, Edelman said.
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Generations ago, Kóogháa Nélíní was a gathering place. The Tagish Kwan of what’s now the southern Yukon would travel here from up and down the river, paddling canoes or poling rafts to where the current narrowed through high basalt cliffs and turned frothy as it cascaded over the rocky floor.
Under bright summer skies, the Tagish Kwan would spear salmon close to shore in the shallow sections of the rapids and hang their catch to dry on the banks. The smell of campfire smoke hung in the air as moose and bears wandered through the forest lining the cliffs.
Whitehorse taxes stifle green energy, say three companies
Three companies who deal in renewable energy say the City of Whitehorse should cut them a break on taxes. Yukon Energy estimates that city taxes on a new battery storage project could reach $297,000 a year.
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Yukon Energy CEO describes punitive taxes, says bill for one project could reach $279,000 a year
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Posted: Jan 29, 2021 8:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 29
Yukon Energy uses diesel and liquefied natural gas in addition to hydroelectric power. It s developing a $30 million battery storage project and takes issue with the level of taxation for the project in Whitehorse.(Mike Rudyk/CBC)