The procurement policy issue continues to bedevil the business community.
Terry Sherman, who was the president of the Yukon Contractors Association (YCA), resigned his position over the procurement policy
controversy earlier this week.
“It was a hard decision to walk a way from YCA,” he told the Star.
“There is a certain number of members that do not want nor like the FNPP (First Nations Procurement Policy) and would rather be the problem than the solution.
“The Yukon government has tried to work with YCA to build the technical requirements along with First Nation governments to make sure this FNPP will work for all Yukon citizens and achieving the goals set out in the policy,” Sherman said.
Posted: Feb 08, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 8
The bar at the Woodcutter s Blanket, a brewpub in Whitehorse, pictured on June 19, 2020.(Steve Silva/CBC) comments
Liquor sales by Yukon s main liquor retailer and sole wholesaler barely changed last year.
In 2020, the year the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, the Yukon Liquor Corporation (YLC) made $47.7 million in gross sales, which amounts to a 0.14 per cent increase from the year before.
In 2019, sales went up by $1.4 million, a three per cent increase from 2018 a normal trajectory for the growing territory, according to John Streicker, the territorial government s minister responsible for the YLC.
The last three years sales numbers, procured by the CBC through a public records request, follow a relatively similar monthly pattern except for, mainly, the summer of 2020.
Posted: Jan 30, 2021 7:25 PM CT | Last Updated: January 31
Rod and Ekaterina Baker are accused of flouting COVID-19 restrictions in Yukon in order to get the vaccine. The community s COVID-19 inter-agency team lead said a lawyer for the couple called the community Saturday morning with their negative COVID-19 test results. (Ekaterina Baker/Facebook )
A Vancouver couple who allegedly violated Yukon s public health rules and got vaccinated in the small community of Beaver Creek have tested negative for COVID-19, says the community s COVID-19 inter-agency team lead.
Janet Vander Meer said a lawyer for Rodney and Ekaterina Baker called the community Saturday morning with the couple s negative test results.
Jan 30, 2021
A Canadian couple accused of posing as workers in an Indigenous community to get vaccinated has been fined for the deception, authorities say.
Millionaires Rodney and Ekaterina Baker have been fined $900 each after authorities discovered they d flown to the Yukon Territory and pretended to be essential workers so they could be vaccinated along with the Indigenous community of 125 others. The territory s self-isolation requirements are in place to protect the health and safety of all Yukoners, says Community Services Minister John Streicker. Anyone who violates the self-isolation requirements puts all Yukoners at risk, and we take those actions very seriously.
Jan 30, 2021
A Canadian couple accused of posing as workers in an Indigenous community to get vaccinated has been fined for the deception, authorities say.
Millionaires Rodney and Ekaterina Baker have been fined $900 each after authorities discovered they d flown to the Yukon Territory and pretended to be essential workers so they could be vaccinated along with the Indigenous community of 125 others. The territory s self-isolation requirements are in place to protect the health and safety of all Yukoners, says Community Services Minister John Streicker. Anyone who violates the self-isolation requirements puts all Yukoners at risk, and we take those actions very seriously.