No lockdown at Whitehorse long-term care facility during illness outbreak - CBC

| CBC News | Posted: October 19, 2026 6:19 PM | Last Updated: 1 hour agoCOVID-19, flu cases identified within Whistle Bend Place care homeImage | Whistle Bend PlaceCaption: Whistle Bend Place, a continuing care facility in Whitehorse, in a file photo. Yukon's Health and Social Services department says a respiratory illness outbreak has been declared in the long-term care facility. Visitors are allowed, but with limits. A lockdown has not been put in place. (Claudiane Samson/Radio-Canada)Two respiratory illnesses have led officials at Whitehorse’s Whistle Bend Place long-term care facility to enact heightened infection prevention protocols, although they have not gone as far as locking down the facility. Nigel Allen, communications director for Yukon’s Department of Health and Social Services, confirmed in an email to CBC on Friday that a COVID-19 outbreak in one area of the Whistle Bend Place facility was declared on Sept. 29, and an outbreak of Type A influenza was identified in another area later on. A facility-wide respiratory illness outbreak was declared on Oct. 9 as a precaution.

NorthYukon Supreme Court Chief Justice Suzanne Duncan said in a written decision issued last month that the owners of Annie Lake Trucking have shown "repeated and unrepentant acts of contempt" by failing to vacate a city-owned property near Ear Lake after the company's lease there expired more than four years ago. Annie Lake Trucking again found in contempt of court for not vacating city-owned property at Ear LakePaul Tukker · CBC News · Posted: Sep 23, 2026 3:23 PM EDT | Last Updated: September 23Listen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A Yukon Supreme Court judge found that the owners of Annie Lake Trucking have largely ignored previous court orders and demonstrated 'a sense of entitlement' to stay on a city-owned property near Ear Lake and keep operating a gravel excavation business there without a lease. (Paul Tukker/CBC)The owners of a family-owned Whitehorse gravel business were given five-day jail sentences, and again ordered to vacate a site near Ear Lake, after being found in contempt of court.

NorthThe $1-million eligibility threshold is too high for many small-and medium-sized businesses in the Yukon’s capital to apply for Canada’s tariff relief program, according to the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce. Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce says federal rules sideline smaller enterprisesDana Hatherly · CBC News · Posted: Sep 15, 2026 8:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: September 15Listen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Andrei Samson, executive directive of the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce, stands outside the chamber's office in the city's downtown on Sept. 14. She said the eligibility requirements are too high for small and medium businesses in the territory to apply for the federal tariff relief program. (Dana Hatherly/CBC)A Whitehorse business lobby group is concerned the federal tariff response initiative is out of reach for many Yukon-based businesses that are feeling the impacts of the tariffs and countertariffs.

A local business has said they may be forced to close next year after being informed they may not be allowed to participate in the Fireweed Community Market. Sunshine and Wild Co. is a sustainable clothing company based in Whitehorse that has been participating in the market for the past three years. Now co-owners Annika Phillips and Emillie Denis say that despite their years-long involvement in the market, this may be the last year they are allowed to participate.