A New Day
with Sandi Coleman

Long Ago People's place is an important link to traditional First Nation building practises, nearly lost to history. It used to be open six days a week. It offered tours and served tea and bannock to travellers on the Alaska Highway.

Then a decade ago the highway was re-routed past Champagne. Today it gets fewer visitors, but it's still there thanks to the passion of the man who opened it....

Max Leighton visited Long Ago People's place...

More than 15-hundred Yukoners don't have a family doctor in the territory. But new doctors are moving here. Some are taking over existing practices and others will be taking patients in the new year.

Dr. Rao Tadepalli is president of the Yukon Medical Association. He's dropped by to tell us more about the changing scene in the Yukon...

There is now some closure for a Whitehorse family after a month long search.

The body of David Boyle was found on Friday along the Alaska Highway. His truck had rolled down a steep embankment.

Family members are now planning a celebration of life...

His sister Sharon Miller joined us by telephone this morning...

International Day of Older Persons is a day of celebration.

But it's also a time to focus on education and prevention around issues facing seniors. Issues like finding the right people to care for the older people and protect them from abuse.

And that is the focus of drop-in sessions taking place today in Whitehorse at the Old Fire Hall from 11until 3:30. It's part of a larger effort under the banner of the Seniors Legal Education Project.

Kelly Cooper is the Manager of Senior Services and Adult Protection. Lillian Nakamura Maguire is with the Yukon Public Legal Education Association...

A Yukon woman received a unique honour in Toronto over the weekend.

Daniela Martinson was named the Canadian National Volunteer of the year by Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

She is back home in Whitehorse and we spoke to her this morning....

Over the last few years, Yukon College has opened a number of research centres.

Under the Yukon Research Centre umbrella there are programs looking at climate change, technological innovation, and cold climate innovation, for example. Applied research is not only a priority here, it's in fact a goal for many colleges across the country. But it's a goal that's under-funded compared to the dollars being spent at the country's universities.

Denise Amyot is president of the Association of the Canadian Community Colleges....She's on a cross-country tour to talk about the association and the drive for more federal dollars to meet future aspirations...

Yukon's economy, to many, does not look as robust as it did a few years ago. The mineral exploration sector, in particular, cooled considerably compared to the boom years of 2011 and 2012

Still, the Yukon Government is predicting a 10th consecutive year of growth. The Yukon Economic Outlook just came out this week.

Currie Dixon is the Minister of Economic Development....