Yukon readies for national child care.WHITEHORSE Whitehorse, city (1991 pop. 17,925), S Yukon, Canada, on the Yukon River. Since 1952 it has been the territorial capital. Whitehorse is on the Alaska Highway and was the terminus of the White Pass and Yukon Railway from Skagway, Alaska, which suspended service in -- The Yukon Yukon (y  `kŏn), river, c.2,000 mi (3,220 km) long, rising in Atlin Lake, NW British Columbia, Canada, and receiving numerous headwater streams; one of the longest rivers of North America. government is reconvening its Child Care Working Group. The move is the territory's response to Ottawa's plans to create a national child care program, and its promise to fund it to the tune of $5 billion over the next five years. The group's task is to find places to spend the new money within the child care community, as well as identify some of the early-learning issues that need to be addressed Out of the federal allocation The apportionment or designation of an item for a specific purpose or to a particular place. In the law of trusts, the allocation of cash dividends earned by a stock that makes up the principal of a trust for a beneficiary usually means that the dividends will be treated as of $700-million, the Yukon Territory Yukon Territory, territory (2001 pop. 28,674), 207,076 sq mi (536,327 sq km), NW Canada. Geography and Climate The triangle-shaped Yukon territory is bordered on the N by the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean, on the E by the Northwest Territories, expects to receive about $210,000 this year, and then over $500,000 in the next fiscal year. A Yukon government concern is the $100 million set aside for child care on aboriginal reserves and within self-governing self-gov·ern·ing adj. 1. Exercising control or rule over oneself or itself. 2. Having the right or power of self-government; autonomous. Adj. 1. First Nations. The Yukon has no reserves, but has a number of natives living off reserves with no special consideration in the federal plan. The territorial government is second only to Quebec in its per-capita spending on child care, and currently spends $5.5 million a year on such programs. |
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