A construction company the Yukon government has accused of leaving the Carmacks arena partially finished before abandoning the project is counter-suing for more than $7.5 million.
Yukon Liberals sworn in as former health minister launches legal challenge
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Voters and poll workers are shown at a Whitehorse polling station during the Yukon election on Monday April 12, 2021. Divisions are forming in Yukon s legislative assembly as the opposition Yukon Party called on the Liberals to either attempt to govern or stand aside after no clear winner in last week s election. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Kelly
WHITEHORSE – Members of the Yukon Liberals were sworn in Friday as the party’s former health minister launched a legal challenge after losing her seat.
The election finished with the incumbent Liberals and the Yukon Party tied at eight seats, and the New Democrats winning three, leaving all the parties short of the 10 seats needed for a majority.
Winning candidates from the New Democrats and Yukon Party have already been sworn in.
Meanwhile, the Liberal party s former health minister filed a petition in Yukon Supreme Court on Thursday to declare the results in the riding of Vuntut Gwitchin as invalid.
Pauline Frost finished in a tie with her NDP opponent Annie Blake in the riding before Blake was chosen as the winner after the drawing of lots.
The petition alleges that two voters in the riding were ineligible to cast ballots.
Chief electoral officer Max Harvey did not immediately return requests for comment.
Liberal party president Emily Farrell said the challenge is to protect the integrity of Yukon s elections.
Posted: Jan 27, 2021 11:56 AM CT | Last Updated: January 27
The Yukon court building in Whitehorse.(Claudiane Samson/Radio-Canada)
A Whitehorse woman has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2017 slaying of Greg Dawson.
Connie Peggy Thorn, 52, entered her plea in Yukon Supreme Court Wednesday morning.
Dawson, a 45-year-old citizen of Ta an Kwäch än Council, was found beaten to death in a Riverdale apartment on April 6, 2017. Loud banging sound, and later, sobbing
According to admissions of fact Crown attorney Noel Sinclair read to the court, Thorn and Dawson were in a relationship and living together in a basement apartment on Alsek Road.