Chris Windeyer

Chris Windeyer is a reporter with CBC Yukon. He is the former editor of the Yukon News and a past Southam Journalism Fellow at Massey College.

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Candidates talk downtown crime, housing at Whitehorse election forum

Thursday's election forum was hosted by the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce. Candidates were given pre-selected questions to answer and did not debate one another directly.

Here who's running for Whitehorse city council

Eighteen candidates are running for six city council seats in Whitehorse as part of the 2024 Yukon Municipal Election.
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4 things to watch as the Yukon Legislative Assembly resumes

Ever since Yukon voters delivered the Liberals and the Yukon Party a tie on election night back in 2021, there's been a weird vibe in the territorial legislature.

Dawson City, Yukon, ends 4-decade experiment with publicly owned TV

Dawson City TV is unique in the Yukon as a cable television service owned by the municipal government. But in the end, it fell victim to the same market forces roiling conventional broadcasters everywhere. The town plans to shut down the service by year's end, citing rising operating costs and a dwindling subscriber base.

'Singing Chief' Bob Charlie remembered in Yukon as a leader, journalist, musician

Bob Charlie, a former chief of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations in the Yukon, died Sept. 14 after struggling with Parkinson's disease and cancer.

Telecommunications restored across the N.W.T., Yukon, and Nunavut

Internet, cell phone and landline calling have been restored across the Yukon, and Nunavut, and Northern B.C., and Northwest Territories according to telecommunications provider Northwestel.

Yukon government posts $119M surplus

Revenue, spending and net debt are all up as the Yukon government posted a $119-million budget surplus Thursday.

Yukon gov't went ahead with landlord subsidy despite warnings from staff

Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai is defending a controversial subsidy program for landlords after CBC News revealed some civil servants warned the government against the idea.

Emissions rise as Yukon gov't adds more items to climate change to-do list

Yukon's emissions rose in the first year of Our Clean Future, the territorial government's climate change plan, but officials say the plan is nevertheless starting to work.

Patients, colleagues push Yukon gov't to relent in contract dispute with psychiatrist

Patients and colleagues of a Whitehorse psychiatrist say they're concerned people will die if he leaves the territory amid a dispute over pay with the government.