Premier says budget will reflect NDP priorities that stem from the recently struck confidence agreement.
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Posted: May 11, 2021 12:20 PM CT | Last Updated: May 11
Yukon Premier Sandy Silver and NDP Leader Kate White said a top priority of the sitting is passing the budget.(CBC)
The last legislative assembly ended on a cliffhanger: the budget, while tabled, hadn t been passed, let alone subject to fulsome debate.
The territory has been without a budget since that truncated session. But that s due to change and fast, Premier Sandy Silver told CBC News.
Crude-texting MLAs will receive anti-bullying training, says Yukon Party leader
Two Yukon Party MLAs who engaged in a vulgar text chat about some of their political opponents will receive anti-bullying and anti-harassment training, according to their party leader.
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Posted: May 06, 2021 7:13 PM CT | Last Updated: May 7
Yukon Party MLAs Stacey Hassard and Wade Istchenko, who engaged in a vulgar text exchange that became public over the weekend, will attend anti-bullying and anti-harassment training, their party leader says.(CBC/Yukon Party)
Deeply concerned : CYFN, AFN call for crackdown on Yukon MLAs after crude text exchange
The Council of Yukon First Nations and the Assembly of First Nations are calling on Yukon Party leader Currie Dixon to come down harder on some MLAs who engaged in a deplorable, abhorrent and unacceptable text message chat over the weekend.
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Posted: May 06, 2021 7:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 6
Peter Johnston, grand chief of the Council of Yukon First Nations, and Kluane Adamek, Yukon regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations, seen here in 2019. They say the leader of the Yukon Party must do more to punish MLAs who engaged in an abhorrent text exchange over the weekend.(Steve Silva/CBC)
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