Yukon
Northern territory of Canada
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| April 28 2025 | The NDP announced a formal confidence and supply agreement with the Liberals. |
| April 23 2025 | The incumbent Liberals were sworn in with a minority government. |
| 2023 | Douglas Cooper became the principal of J.V. Clark School for the 2023-2024 school year. |
| 2023 | Forty Mile (Ch'ëdähdëk) became part of the Tr'ondëk-Klondike UNESCO World Heritage Site, recognizing the transformation of the landscape and Indigenous adaptation to European colonization. |
| 2022 | Zelezny attended some convoy protests in Yukon organized by a citizens group called 'Yukon Freedom', though the party denied any official connection to the protest organizers. |
| 2021 | Currie Dixon led the Yukon Party, winning 8 seats and the popular vote overall. Dixon was personally elected in the district of Copperbelt North. |
| 2021 | Brendan Hanley of the Liberal Party was elected as the Member of Parliament for the Yukon electoral district. |
| 2021 | Census recorded Whitehorse with a population of 28,201 residents, confirming its status as the largest city in Northern Canada's three territories. |
| November 2021 | The party raised $8,149 in the remaining weeks of 2021. |
| November 15 2021 | The Yukon Freedom Party was officially formed and registered with Elections Yukon. |
| October 26 2021 | Ralph Shaw shot and killed two people in Faro, Yukon Territory, including town councilor Patrick McCracken (73) and his estranged wife Saenduean Honchaiyaphum (42). One man was critically injured. |
| October 26 2021 | Jack Bowers' swearing-in ceremony as the town's new mayor was postponed due to the shooting incident. |
| October 26 2021 | Royal Canadian Mounted Police placed the entire town of Faro into lockdown at 4:57 PM, rescinding the order at 5:29 PM while maintaining a heavy police presence. |
| October 26 2021 | Yukon Premier Sandy Silver publicly condemned the murders that afternoon. |
| August 16 2021 | Lesley Brown begins her term as president and vice-chancellor. |
| July 1 2021 | Mike DeGagné begins his term as president and vice-chancellor. |
| June 23 2021 | Lesley Brown is announced as the next president and vice-chancellor of Yukon University. |
| January 2021 | Karen Barnes is named president emerita by the Board of Governors, becoming the first president emerita of Yukon University. |
| November 17 2020 | Jamena James Allen is officially installed as chancellor in a small, physically distanced ceremony. |
| October 6 2020 | Jamena James Allen is announced as the new chancellor of the university. |
| June 30 2020 | Karen Barnes steps down from her position as president and vice-chancellor. |
| May 2020 | Planned commemoration events for university reorganization were cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic safety measures. |
| May 23 2020 | Currie Dixon was elected as the new party leader, winning 50.44% of the vote on the second ballot. He defeated Brad Cathers, taking 752 votes to Cathers' 682. |
| March 25 2020 | Party president Mark Beese announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the leadership voting would take place over phone and online. |
| February 20 2020 | Legislation establishing Yukon University went into effect, creating a new bicameral governance structure with a board of governors and university senate. |
| 2019 | Joseph Zelezny ran as the People's Party of Canada candidate for Yukon in the Canadian federal election. |
| 2019 | The Yukon Bureau of Statistics estimated Mayo's population had increased to 496 residents. |
| November 2019 | The Yukon University Act was passed, initiating the reorganization into a post-secondary university. |
| November 20 2019 | The Yukon Party announced it would hold a leadership election on May 23, 2020. |
| 2018 | Created its first degree program specialized for the territory, a Bachelor of Arts in Indigenous governance. |
| 2016 | The Yukon Party was defeated in the general election and became the Official Opposition. |
| 2016 | Stacey Hassard becomes leader of the Yukon Party |
| 2016 | Mayo recorded a population of 200 residents according to the census. |
| 2016 | Admitted as a member of the BC Association of Institutes and Universities. |
| 2011 | Darrell Pasloski leads the party to 1 seat with 40.6% of votes, forming a majority government. |
| 2011 | Efforts began with the Government of Yukon to reorganize the institution into a university. |
| July 1 2011 | Karen Barnes begins her role as president and vice-chancellor of Yukon College. |
| May 28 2011 | Darrell Pasloski was elected as the new leader of the Yukon Party, replacing Dennis Fentie. He won with 61.3% of the votes (767 votes) in a single ballot, defeating Rod Taylor and Jim Kenyon. |
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