Yukon NDP Leader Liz Hanson has written the following letter regarding the planned knocking down of McDonald Lodge and potential alternative uses for the building:

Yukon NDP Official Opposition Health and Social Services Critic Jan Stick is pleased for Yukon families that the government confirmed today it will not take any of the incoming Canada Child Benefit from social assistance recipients. Since April, Stick has been questioning the territorial government on whether it would claw back a share of the tax-free federal measure, which is set to replace the taxable Universal Child Care Benefit on July 1st.

Yukon NDP Health and Social Services Critic Jan Stick has made the following statement ahead of the implementation of the Government of Canada's Canada Child Benefit:

The following is an open letter written by Yukon NDP Health and Social Services Critic Jan Stick:

I was disappointed, yet not surprised, to read Dr. David Storey’s repeated concerns about the critical shortage of beds at Whitehorse General Hospital in Friday’s Yukon News. Last week, Dr. Storey was forced to cancel two scheduled operations because there were no beds available for his patients. At present, chronic and palliative care patients occupy the majority of the hospital’s 17 acute and post-surgical care beds.

The Yukon NDP Official Opposition is taking the Yukon Party government to task for its tired and out of touch agenda as the Yukon Legislative Assembly closes its doors for the last time before this year’s territorial election. Inside the legislature, Yukon NDP Leader Liz Hanson called for a fairer, more sustainable Yukon while holding the government to account for its failure to improve access to health care, grow Yukon’s economy and protect the environment.

The Yukon NDP Official Opposition is welcoming the Government of Yukon’s new mental wellness strategy, published yesterday under the title “Forward Together”, as a long overdue strategy that identifies gaps in service, but that also needs a significant commitment of health care resources to achieve its stated outcomes.

Yukon NDP leader Liz Hanson is calling Yukon Party government’s 2016 budget a cynical attempt to buy Yukoners’ votes by giving $100 per child to Yukon families weeks before a fall election. The pre-election budget further ignores the wishes of Yukon seniors and Elders who want to access more local health care services as they age. Investment in an Oil and Gas Action Plan shows a refusal to recognize the opportunities to create green jobs and a long-term sustainable energy plan. A sudden conversion to supporting Yukon businesses should have happened years ago.

The Yukon NDP Official Opposition has blasted the Yukon Party government for holding “information sessions” on its planned Whistle Bend facility instead of meaningful consultations about the future of continuing care in Yukon. 

The Yukon NDP Official Opposition will use their opposition motion debate time tomorrow to call Motion 1080, which calls on the government to better engage Yukoners in light of its failure to consult Yukoners across the territory about its controversial 300-bed Whistle Bend continuing care facility.

Yukon NDP MLA for Riverdale South Jan Stick asked the following questions about an overdue mental health strategy for Yukon to the Yukon Party government on November 5, 2015: