The Yukon government has announced the recipients of the 2021 Government of Yukon sport awards. These awards honour the accomplishments of athletes in our territory who have made exceptional achievements at the national and international level.

For 2021, the Government of Yukon is awarding the Premier’s Award of Sport Excellence to nine individuals across seven sports.

Due to COVID-19, recipients will be individually presented with their awards and are being recognized with a video message from the Minister of Community Services. 

TK Elevator will be upgrading the elevator at the 204 Lambert Street Financial Plaza in Whitehorse, beginning Monday February 21, 2022. The elevator will be out of service for approximately five weeks while the upgrades are completed. Clients of Insured Health Services will still be able to access the fourth floor by the stairs while the elevator is being upgraded.

The Government of Yukon now has a new COVID-19 dashboard to provide Yukoners with important data related to the pandemic. 

The new format displays data on vaccination rates, case counts, testing and hospitalizations, with the addition of interactive graphs, maps and detailed summaries of data over time. This dashboard is user-friendly and will help Yukoners stay informed on the current COVID-19 situation in the territory.

The Government of Yukon is moving forward on the recommendations of the Yukon’s acting Chief Medical Officer of Health to ease additional public health measures. 

Effective February 18, 2022, the following changes to the public health measures will take effect:

This is a joint release with the Government of Canada, the Government of Yukon, Yukon First Nations and the Council of Yukon First Nations.

In 2021, the Government of Yukon installed seven new electric vehicle fast chargers in communities across the Yukon, expanding the territory’s existing electric vehicle-charging network from five chargers to 12.

Electric vehicles can now be fast charged in Teslin, Whitehorse, Carmacks, Pelly Crossing, Mayo and Dawson City. The fast chargers in Stewart Crossing and Watson Lake will be available for public use in the coming weeks.

More than 550 participants from across the Yukon and Canada tuned into phase one of the Yukon government’s Mental Wellness Summit, hosted virtually on Monday, February 14, and Tuesday, February 15, 2022.

Presenters at the Summit discussed mental wellness topics such as prevention, treatment, support services and aftercare, while also sharing a variety of harm reduction models and solutions.

The most attended sessions covered Indigenous-led approaches to healing, reconciliation and cultural considerations in mental health and the impact of culture-based interventions.

As the Yukon continues to respond to impacts of COVID-19, it is important that Yukon employers and employees can access the support they need when they need it the most. To help make support for employers more accessible, the Government of Yukon is restructuring the Department of Education’s Post-Secondary and Labour Market Unit. The new structure will include a labour market component and a training component.

Due to staffing challenges, the Department of Health and Social Services is temporarily reducing services at the Carcross Health Centre and the Teslin Health Centre.

As an update, the Carcross clinic will extend the emergency only service from Monday, February 14, through Friday, February 18, 2022.

The Teslin clinic will be open for emergencies only from Wednesday, February 16, to Friday, February 18, 2022.

In order to expand public testing accessibility, the Government of Yukon will now be offering additional opportunities in Whitehorse to pick up at-home rapid COVID-19 test kits.

This week, at-home rapid tests kits can be picked up from the existing Takhini Arena distribution site and the Centennial Motors drive-thru location across from the Erik Nielsen International Airport. Rapid tests can be used at home when a person develops COVID-19 symptoms and are available to pick up by all Yukoners whether they are symptomatic or not.