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.
Latest from Chris Windeyer
Yukon agencies ask court to order finance department to butt out of budget requests
Yukon's ombudsman and its child and youth advocate are taking the territorial government to court in a bid to get finance department officials out of the budgeting process for independent offices of the Legislative Assembly.
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Yukon ombudsman threatens Yukon gov't with legal action over budget dispute
Yukon's ombudsman, Jason Pedlar, says he's planning legal action over the territorial government's "unprecedented insertion" of civil servants into the budgeting process for independent offices of the Legislative Assembly.
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In Depth
Brace for impact: Northern leaders get ready to deal with Trump's threatened tariffs
Canada does $1.3 trillion worth of two-way trade every year with the United States. That's why business and political leaders alike in this country are scrambling to try to talk the Trump administration, which takes office Monday, into backing off.
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Family, colleagues remember Dave Stockdale, longtime Whitehorse city councillor and sports advocate
Dave Stockdale, the longtime Whitehorse city councillor and a major booster of sports in the territory, leaves behind a huge legacy in both athletics and politics, say colleagues and family members.
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Whitehorse city council scraps hand-delivered notices amid ongoing postal strike
Whitehorse city council held a rare Thursday meeting to look at alternative ways to deliver mandatory public notices as the Canada Post strike drags on.
Canada -North |
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.
Canada -North |
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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Analysis
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.
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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.
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'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.
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