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Yukon public health officials have been informed of cases of COVID-19 transmitted at Coeur Mining’s Silvertip mine in northern B.C. All Yukon and Lower Post, B.C. workers who were at the mine are being individually notified either by the company, their employer or by Yukon Communicable Disease Control. “As a precaution, anyone working at the mine who has left the mine site within the previous two weeks (dating from last Saturday) should self-isolate until 14 days following their departure f...

LANGLEY, B.C. — A new COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at a glass manufacturing company in Langley, B.C.Fraser Health says 44 employees of the facility have tested positive for the virus at Vitrum. . .

Yukon govt warns of potential COVID-19 exposure at mine near B.C. border The Yukon government wants anyone who has been working at the Silvertip mine on the B.C.-Yukon border within the past two weeks to self-isolate. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Mar 13, 2021 3:31 PM CT | Last Updated: March 13 Silvertip mine, near the Yukon-B.C. border, is 90 kilometres southwest of Watson Lake, Yukon, and is owned by Chicago-based Coeur Mining.(Coeur Mining) The Yukon government wants anyone who has...

Coronavirus: Whats happening in Canada and around the world March 14 Canada has now administered more than three million COVID-19 vaccine doses as of Sunday, according to a CBC News tally. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Mar 14, 2021 8:45 AM ET | Last Updated: March 15 Pharmacist Abraam Rafael administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Maureen Doyle at his pharmacy in Toronto on Sunday.(Cole Burston/The Canadian Press)

The bitter taste of money Al Kulan struck it rich in the Yukon. Art Jellinek could have. Kulan lived to regret it. Jellinek died to escape it. This is their story December 1 1967 CATHERINE BRESLIN The bitter taste of money CATHERINE BRESLIN December 1 1967 The bitter taste of money Al Kulan struck it rich in the Yukon. Art Jellinek ...

The Yukon Pride Centre has launched the Yukon Gender Gear Program as part of a larger venture aimed to provide direct aid to LGBTQIA2S+ Yukoners in the midst of the pandemic. The program is a partnership project with GenderGear.ca, BYTE, and Northern Voices Rising. It aims to provide free access to essential gender-affirming “gear” to Trans, Two-Spirit, and Non-binary Yukoners. Ames Val, the program development manager with the Yukon Pride Centre, said Feb. 2 these items are essential, and ...

The Yukon government continues to improvise its vaccine rollout strategy in the face of an uncertain supply. At the government’s weekly COVID-19 briefing held Wednesday afternoon, Premier Sandy Silver and Dr. Brendan Hanley, the chief medical officer of health, said they were confident the territory could meet its goal of inoculating 75 per cent of the adult population willing to accept the vaccine by March or April. A certain amount of flexibility has to be incorporated into the process, bo...

Posted: Jan 12, 2021 5:52 PM CT | Last Updated: January 13 Dr. Brendan Hanley said during Wednesdays weekly COVID-19 update that uptake of the vaccine has been great so far and that he has heard of very few people holding back or hesitating.(Mark Kelly Photography/Government of Yukon)

Such decisions reveal the complexities of healing and memory. Let’s support choice. Ry Moran is the inaugural associate university librarian-reconciliation at the University of Victoria and is the former director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. SHARES Lower Post residential school has been a daily reminder of pain and suffering for residents of the community in BC’s far north. Photo via the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Cent...

The Yukon government is hastily revising its vaccine rollout plan after being unable to guarantee one mass shipment of enough COVID-19 doses to inoculate 75 per cent of the adult population of the territory. Despite promises by the government that it would not receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in “dribs and drabs,” it appears that is exactly what’s happening. During a COVID-19 briefing Thursday afternoon, Premier Sandy Silver and Health and Social Services Minister Pauline Frost said t...