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Big air, big win Etienne Geoffroy brings home three golds for Yukon at the junior national freestyle skiing championships in Quebec.

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A pair of Southern Lakes caribou pause to consider their options along the Carcross Road this week.

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North American Tungsten’s Mactung site, on the NWT border east of Ross River. The project has been given the go-ahead by Yukon environmental assesors.

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so it’s not very much at all, but it is pretty steep,” said Krasnick, chuckling. he Yukon Environmental and The company has yet to apply to Socio-economic Assessment the Mackenzie Valley Review Board Board has issued its final recomfor approval of the road project, but mendations on North American that will happen relatively soon, he Tungsten’s Mactung mine project. said.

The board says the project can The other major stipulation go ahead as long as the company is in the YESAB approval is that the able to use an existing road through company must dispose of tailings N.W.T. to access the mine site, and waste rock in underground which straddles the territories’ shafts that sit below the natural border about 250 kilometers east of water table. If tailings and waste Ross River. rock are deposited above the table, “We’re very happy. It’s a major there is concern that contaminants milestone for the company,” said could seep down into the water, the North American Tungsten board recommendation document says. member Allan Krasnick, who holds Krasnick said that shouldn’t responsibility for the Mactung be an issue, in part because the project. company has recently finished “We’re all quite excited about refining a new state-of-the-art the opportunity to move from this water treatment facility at its other stage to more detailed planning and major tungsten mine, Cantung. development of the mine,” he said. Last March that system was still in To access the mine site, the the testing phase, but it’s now fully company will use the existing spur operational, he said. road, an extension of the Canol “That’s worked. We’ve now built Road, which runs through the a permanent plant. We’ve applied to Northwest Territories for about 11 the Mackenzie Valley Review Board kilometres. The company had origi- to increase the amount of water we nally proposed building a new road treat there. that would remain entirely on the “Everything’s nice and clean Yukon side of the border, in order now. We tell Jason (McKenzie, the to stay out of the N.W.T.’s messy Cantung mine manager) that he’s regulatory regime. got to take a sip from a glass of But it withdrew that plan last water out of that plant every day,” year on the advice of YESAB asKrasnick joked. sessors, saying that the N.W.T.’s The company plans to use the devolution agreement would clean same technology at Mactung to up the assessment issues on that treat the water there as well. Details side of the border. will unfold soon, once the company The road was originally built reaches the next phase of its plandecades ago but is in need of serining. ous upgrading. The terrain is some “There were a number of changof the most challenging in the es we made based on comments territory. made and concerns raised. We’re “It’s only about 11 kilometres, moving into detailed planning this News Reporter

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summer and will involve the Ross River Dena Council in that,” he said.

The Mactung project is one of the largest tungsten deposits in the world. Founded in 1962 by F.J. Allen (for whom the mountain is named), Mactung holds an estimated 33 million tonnes of tungsten ore. The project is expected to have an underground lifespan of 11.5 years, with the possibility of expanding to 17 years through open-pit mining. It will employ 250 people during construction and around 200 during operations,” Krasnick said.

“We still need a quartz-mining licence and a water licence. We probably won’t start construction for about a year and a half, I’d say,” he said.

The company also has to line up financing for the project, but Krasnick said the company has been in touch with potential backers throughout the process and he isn’t worried about finding the funds in time to start building.

Yukon’s economic development minister Currie Dixon said he was happy with the YESAB approval.

“We want to have a healthy mining industry and you need to have a healthy mining pipeline right from the exploration stage all the way up to the operating mine stage,” Dixon said, adding that Mactung is a perfect example of a project moving successfully along that pipeline.

“We now have two mines that have finished the assessment phase, Mactung and Victoria Gold’s Eagle Mine. That represents around three quarters of a billion in needed investment,” Dixon said.

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

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Mulcair brings platform speech to Whitehorse Jesse Winter News Reporter

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he leader of Canada’s official opposition was in Whitehorse this week, testing out his campaign speech for the 2015 federal election.

Tom Mulcair gave a public lecture at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre on Tuesday night before a crowd of hundreds, and he brought some former parliamentary backup.

Former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page joined Mulcair on the stage to discuss the state of democracy and finance in Canada.

The double-header lecture was sponsored by the Yukon NDP. Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants Canadians to think we need to accept less, to look out for ourselves at the expense of others, Mulcair said.

“Mr. Harper is telling us that he doesn’t care. He’s too smart to come right out and say it, but James Moore isn’t,” the NDP leader said, laughing. “(Industry minister James Moore) asked, ‘is it my problem that my neighbour’s child doesn’t have enough to eat?’ And then (Moore) answered his own question and said, ‘I don’t think so.’

“Well, I do,” said Mulcair.

“I don’t think it’s normal that in a country as rich as Canada, 800,000 children go to school in the morning without having enough to eat.

“I also think that we’re paying a much greater price for that than what it would cost to fix it,” Mulcair said.

But in order to have that conversation, Canadians need access to the information, the raw data and business cases that the government is currently denying them, he said, echoing Page’s sentiments from earlier in the evening.

Mulcair recapped many of his now well-known campaign promises, including bringing in a national daycare program similar to Quebec’s, and his utter resolution to

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Federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair laughs during a public meeting Tuesday at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. Mulcair spent the week in the Yukon meeting with several groups and road-testing his campaign speech.

abolish the Senate once and for all.

Under an NDP government, Mulcair would create a new and improved form of the long-gun registry, he said.

One of his very first moves would be to bring Canada back to the Kyoto Accord table.

In explaining his stance on resource extraction, Mulcair spoke about Yellowknife’s Giant Mine – which he accidentally said was in Whitehorse – as an example of the mistakes of the past.

“We can be forgiving of the people who did that, because that’s the way you did mining a couple of decades ago. Nobody is going to forgive this generation for continuing to do what we’re doing in extraction without making the polluter pay,” he said.

Throughout the speech, Mulcair often invoked the names of past NDP paladins including Tommy

Douglas, the father of Canadian medicare, and Audrey McLaughlin, who he said held the party together through some of its toughest days.

There were plenty of references to “Jack and I” having fought the last federal election together, a notso-subtle nod to the late Jack Layton and the so-called Orange Wave.

In an interview on Monday, Mulcair offered his thoughts on more Yukon-specific issues.

The Yukon Party’s current fight with First Nations over the Peel watershed land use plan is an example of how governments have been getting things wrong with Canada’s indigenous communities, he said.

The Taku River Tlingit lawsuit over the Atlin campground is another example, one where “the federal government has not been living up to its negotiations,” he said.

“You’re going to continue to see an increase in these cases as long as

we continue to refuse to get it right,” he said.

Canada’s resources are a “blessing,” but more needs to be done to ensure they are developed sustainably, he said.

Even though jurisdiction over resources falls with the provinces and territories, “the federal government can play an accompanying role …

All parties have to work together.”

For a more business-like crowd on Wednesday, Mulcair adjusted his speech a little, touching on themes for small businesses and families at a luncheon hosted by the Yukon Chamber of Commerce.

He promised to take a hard look at ATM and credit card fees, and to do away with the rampant “price fixing” that he said occurs at gas stations across the country.

“Every Canadian pays their fair share of taxes except Canada’s biggest companies,” which use

loopholes in tax laws to avoid paying a single penny of tax in Canada, he said.

That line raised some eyebrows among the territory’s business community.

Northern Vision Development CEO and chamber interim chair Rich Thompson asked Mulcair to clarify his stance, saying, “What we hear is that our business doesn’t get the respect it deserves from your party. When we hear that businesses don’t pay their fair share, we have a negative response to that because that’s simply not true.”

Mulcair explained that his concerns about tax-evading companies are leveled at only the largest multinationals, not responsible Canadian companies. He also elaborated on the need for stronger regulatory regimes, not to forestall development but to help companies gain much-needed social capital for projects to proceed.

In an interview on Monday, Mulcair explained in greater detail.

The Conservatives thought that by gutting regulatory regimes like the navigable waters act and the fisheries act, they could guarantee project approvals faster, he said.

They were right, but only because they didn’t understand the importance of social capital going handin-hand with regulatory approval.

“The day that we say a project is good to go, then it will actually mean something other than the fact that the Prime Minister’s office has decided that it’s good to go,” he said.

Knowing that a project has been properly vetted will help the public rest easier, which in turn lets them believe in the companies proposing them. That social licence then prevents the kinds of antagonistic relationships and protests that spring up around projects like the Northern Gateway pipeline, he said.

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

Fix Canada’s democracy: former PBO Jesse Winter News Reporter

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anada’s democracy is broken, and it will likely require a Royal Commission to set things right, according to the former Parliamentary Budget Officer.

Kevin Page spoke on Tuesday at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre in an event with federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair. He outlined his past role as watchdog of the government coffers and the myriad frustrations he faced in showing parliamentarians exactly how they were spending Canada’s money.

“The institutional trust in Canada is at an all-time low,” Page said, and it is in part because of a federal government allergy to free information, especially when it comes to spending and budgets on things like F-35 fighter jets and

other big-ticket items.

Page’s job was to examine government spending habits and plans, help develop business cases for big decisions, and share that information publicly.

Instead he was stonewalled at almost every turn and faced threats that he was violating parliamentary privilege by doing his job, he said. At one point he actually took the federal government to court.

Once, speaking to a house committee, Page was asked by NDP MP Pat Martin what to do to fix things.

“Do you want the power of the purse to rest with the House of Commons?” he asked the MPs. “Don’t you want this information? Don’t you think you need it? You’re not a part of the executive; you’re not a cabinet minister.

Even if you’re of the same political

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Kevin Page, former Parliamentary Budget Officer, was in Whitehorse this week speaking about threats to democracy from within government.

stripe, it’s still your job to hold them to account.

“They had no idea what I was talking about. It was like some strange math they had never seen before,” he said.

Rather than MPs empowered with information to vote intelligently, Page said he saw something more akin to trained seals, voting along party lines without any real understanding of the bills.

“In my view, we’re going to need almost like a Royal Commission to fix it,” he said.

“It has to be big. How do we really fix the public system so that when Mr. Mulcair becomes Prime Minister we can trust him?” Page asked.

The double-header event was sponsored by the Yukon NDP. Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

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Pasloksi lobbies Washington for highway funds Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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arrell Pasloski says there should be news in the next few months surrounding the Shakwak highway project.

The premier was in Washington this week encouraging American lawmakers to reinstate cash for the project to improve Yukon highways that connect mainland Alaska to the panhandle.

The Shakwak Agreement was signed by the governments of Canada and United States in 1977.

It lays out responsibilities for 523 kilometres of road the Canadian portion of the Haines Road from Haines, Alaska, to Haines Junction and the northern portion of the Alaska Highway from Haines Junction to the Alaska Border.

Funds to reconstruct and improve the highways come from the United States. The work has been done by local Yukon contractors, the premier said, and any ongoing maintenance is the responsibility of the Yukon government.

U.S. money came in annually until 2012, when the American government removed the project from the federal Highways Act funding.

“They signed an agreement.

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Canada and the United States, who agreed to the reconstruction of this highway to get it to a modern, all-weather, two lane highway,” Pasloski said.

“That work still is not completed.”

Historically the American transportation bill provided $20 to $30 million a year to the project, Pasloski said.

The first step to re-establish the money is to get the Shakwak project back into the American’s transportation bill, he said.

“I’m asking them to put the language back into the bill. If we can get the language back into the bill then it will be a part of whatever the appropriation is for transportation and there will be some money,” Pasloski said.

There is still a lot of work to be done.

“There’s a bit of asphalt paving to be done still on the Haines Road. But there is a considerable amount of roadwork to be done primarily between Destruction Bay, Burwash Landing and the border and then of course the paving of that. I think there might be a little bit of paving left between Haines Junction and Destruction Bay as well,” the premier said.

Highways and Public Works director of transportation engineering Paul Murchison said there is about $14 million worth of work left paving the Haines Road. The gov-

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ernment also estimates $65 million in work paving from Haines Junction to Destruction Bay. On top of that there is between $60 and $120 million worth of work related to permafrost between Destruction Bay and the U.S. border, he said. That same section will cost $140 million to paved.

All the figures are in Canadian dollars.

According to Pasloski, the Canadian government and the governments of British Columbia and Yukon have invested about $1.5 billion on the entire Alaska Highway.

The Americans, through the length of the agreement have contributed about $460 million, he said.

Officials say the American contribution is expressed in U.S. dollars and the Canadian contribution is expressed in Canadian dollars.

“This has been a great deal for U.S. taxpayers. They have really invested about a quarter of the money being spent; our data says that 80 to 85 per cent of the traffic on the North Alaska Highway is U.S. traffic,” Pasloski said.

The premier said he has met with a number of high ranking U.S. officials from both American political parties and brought with him letters of support from American labour and business groups.

“What we’re seeing is good bipartisan support. While there is no guarantee, we’re feeling good that we will know in two to three months whether this work has been successful,” he said.

“Of course we’ll continue to have officials follow up with the staff of the senators and congressmen to make sure that this stays a priority.”

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Susie Smith leads a group lesson in sign language during the 12th Annual Disability Expo on Wednesday at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre.

The expo brought together two dozen organizations dedicated to helping Yukoners with disabilities live fully in the community.

Government files response in Atlin campground case The government insists it did properly consult with the Taku River Tlingit First Nation regarding a campground on Atlin Lake.

Government lawyers filed a statement of defence in Yukon Supreme Court this week as part of a lawsuit launched by the First Nation in February.

“The defendant says that it did properly engage in consultation with the plaintiff regarding the

proposed campground, but that the plaintiff did not articulate with any specificity the nature of its asserted rights and title or the adverse impacts of the proposed campground on those asserted rights and title,” the document says.

The government goes on to list more than 60 letters and emails between the two sides that it says occurred between May 2013 and January of this year.

Lawyers also point out that the project was subject to an environ-

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“The defendant modified the proposed campground project and imposed terms and conditions on it as a result of the direct consultation with the plaintiff and the YESAA assessment,” the document

Only a small portion of the First Nation’s claimed traditional territory is within the Yukon, the government says. Its primary claim is in British Columbia.

The government denies “having engaged in conduct adversely affecting the plaintiff’s asserted aboriginal title or rights to or in the lands in question.”

The First Nation has seven days to file a reply to the government.

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“The plaintiff did not make any further suggestions as to other specific concerns it had other than to ask that all activity proposed to be carried out on the lands in question be stopped until a transboundary claim was negotiated.”

The government says the First Nation’s title and rights to the land in question “has not been established to be a strong claim.”

No land claims negotiations between the two sides have been started, the government says.

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Let’s strengthen the Yukon human rights system Shelagh Day

system.

Mr. Lang’s assumption seems n the Yukon News of March to be that only courts can deliver 5, Graham Lang says: “Let’s justice, and that to the extent abolish the Yukon Human that the Yukon human rights Rights Commission.” This is system is not like a criminal law a foolish idea, and Mr. Lang’s system and not court‑based and reasoning is full of errors. judge‑run, it is flawed. If Mr. I speak from experience. In Lang were right about this, most 2002, British Columbia abolished of Canada’s legal system would its human rights commission, have to be thrown out. and I have observed the impact.

As Pearl Eliadis points out in a There were some legitimate newly published article, “Human criticisms of the human rights rights commissions and tribu‑ system at the time; but abol‑ nals are part of a large family of ishing the human rights com‑ administrative agencies … which mission was not the answer. A decide the bulk of rights disputes decade later, British Columbia is of our citizens. [These admin‑ a poorer place because we have istrative law agencies] deal not no institutional processes, except only with human rights claims, complaint adjudication, for but also with refugee claims, na‑ addressing discrimination. No tional security oversight, health public education, no prevention and safety standards, access to work, no research, no interven‑ public health insurance, employ‑ tion or mediation in community ment standards, food safety, conflicts. housing standards and build‑ The public education and ing codes, and the regulation of prevention work of the human transportation and broadcasting, rights commission is sorely to name but a few.” All of these missed, not just by groups that administrative law systems are feel the brunt of discrimina‑ bound by rules of fairness. tion in our province, but also by It is simply wrong for Mr. employers and service provid‑ Lang to imply that there is ers who miss the capacity of something shadowy, lesser, or the commission to provide arbitrary about human rights them with guidelines, protocols, screening and adjudicative training and practical hands‑on systems. They are just like other advice about how to make their administrative law systems in workplaces and services dis‑ Canada: well‑established, care‑ crimination‑free. fully balanced, remedial not Mr. Lang says that the Yukon punitive, and designed to be less human rights system is a “shad‑ expensive, more accessible and ow” rather than a “normal” more efficient than criminal justice system. He implies that court processes, precisely because because the human rights com‑ they deal with the routine legal mission is authorized to screen disputes that arise in our daily out complaints that are not lives. They are not designed to within its jurisdiction and to rec‑ deal with “accused” or to find ommend hearing of complaints anyone “guilty.” that cannot be settled, and Finally, Mr. Lang states that because complaints are not heard we should get rid of the whole by courts but by members of a Yukon human rights system panel of human rights adjudica‑ – commission and boards of tors, there is something biased, adjudication – and send every‑ suspicious, or faulty about this thing to the courts because the

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issues that the human rights system is dealing with – mainly free speech, he says – are just too important.

Of course, human rights sys‑ tems are not mainly dealing with disputes about free speech. The number of complaints regarding free speech that are dealt with in human rights systems in all juris‑ dictions in Canada is miniscule – although they tend to receive a disproportionate amount of attention from the media. To my knowledge, there has not been one complaint that raises a free speech concern in the Yukon, and it is not clear that a complaint regarding speech can even be laid under Yukon’s human rights legislation.

No, the bread and butter of human rights commissions and tribunals is employment and ser‑ vice related complaints that have to do with disability, pregnancy, sexual harassment, and race and age discrimination. The main work of human rights commis‑ sions and tribunals is to ensure that all Canadians, no matter their sex, race, age, or disabil‑ ity status, have access to work, housing and services without discrimination. Their job is also to make sure that when dis‑ crimination occurs, the situation Reporters

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is put right through obtaining an appropriate remedy for the individual, and ensuring that corrections are made to guaran‑ tee that others will not encounter the same discrimination.

Mr. Lang seems to forget that sending all discrimination com‑ plaints to the courts is where we started, back in the last century before comprehensive human rights legislation was adopted across the country in the 1970s.

Our experience with discrimina‑ tion claims in the courts was very poor; the courts were hard to access and those who sought justice got no satisfaction. It was because of this experience that human rights commissions and tribunals were designed, pre‑ cisely in order to provide a more remedial and effective approach to the elimination of discrimina‑ tion.

There may be some chan‑ ges to the Yukon human rights system that will improve it, make it more responsive and more able to help both employers and employees, service‑providers and service‑users. I understand that Yukon is in a period of study regarding reform. This is a mo‑ ment to strengthen the Yukon human rights system; it is not a moment to weaken or abolish it.

Mr. Lang is trying to take us back to the bad old days. But, if we want a fair and egalitarian com‑ munity, it is essential to move forward.

Shelagh Day lives in Vancouver. She is the president and senior editor of the Canadian Human Rights Reporter.

She was the director of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission, and was British Columbia’s first Human Rights Officer. She is a Member of the Order of Canada.

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Canada’s feistiest policy analyst visits Whitehorse PBO. They prefer that legislatures and voters rely on the figures that the government deems fit to release.

by Keith The current government pointedly Halliday did not renew Page’s contract and he was replaced last March as head of PBO by someone who is more agreeable to the powers that be.

Washington is used to the CBO. Politicians disagree with it and call it names, but few question the need for it. In Canada, however, both ukon public policy wonks had cabinet ministers and senior government officials were outraged by the a treat this week when Kevin independence of Page and his gang Page visited town and gave a talk about his surprisingly dramatic of less than a dozen out-of-control economists in Ottawa. experience as federal Parliamentary Page pointed out that this issue Budget Officer. is crucial to effective democracy, Page was the first head of Cansince a fundamental principle is that ada’s PBO, which was inspired by elected representatives control the the widely-admired U.S. Congresbudget. sional Budget Office (CBO). The Our forebears fought a long and idea is to have an independent and costly civil war on this point against non-partisan set of eyes to review King Charles II and his autocratic budgets, forecasts and major policy tendencies, and it was a critical part initiatives so that the people’s repof the arrival of responsible governresentatives have all the facts they ment in Canada in the mid 1800s. need before they vote. The recent The American revolutionary slogan brouhahas in Washington over the of “No taxation without representadeficit, Obamacare and the debt ceil- tion” was on a similar theme. ing would have been even worse if Page was surprisingly entertainCBO hadn’t been putting some hard ing for an economist. He made some numbers on the table. sobering points nonetheless.

Having access to objective facts He said that one of the objectives is critical in a democracy so elected of the PBO should be to put the representatives can hold the execufacts on the table so that short-term tive to account. and spin-obsessed politicians don’t This, of course, is why the execu- get decisions “grotesquely wrong.”

He said that the level of debate in tive generally hates things like the

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LETTERS

Let’s not forget Kelly Patrick’s legacy I knew Kelly Patrick only through how many of us knew her through her dedicated work for her community as a lifeguard at the Canada Games Centre.

How anyone could meet so many people and still remember their names is beyond me. That is such a gift, and Kelly displayed an amazing talent for kindness and connection with the people she worked with.

I just found out that Kelly has unexpectedly passed away and I feel such a sense of loss and sadness. My profound condolences to her family, including her two sons whom she talked so highly of to everyone and whom she clearly loved very much and was so proud of.

Also condolences to her friends and colleagues at the games centre, who must be reeling from the unexpected loss.

I pray she knew what an incredible contribution she made to the games centre and to her community; even I feel as though I’ve lost a friend, though I didn’t know her at all.

I want everyone to know that we as a community will feel her absence for some time.

My heartfelt wishes for a healthy grieving: Be angry, be sad, cry and yell as much as you need to, but know she was an amazing woman, kind and strong, a real person with real struggles.

Ottawa puts us at risk of getting several huge issues grotesquely wrong, including the aging population, health care and the environment. This is something that most observers of Ottawa over the last few decades would agree with.

He also talked about specific big-ticket items where bad decision making could cost billions. Examples include the “tough on crime” agenda and its need for thousands of expensive prison spaces, and the F-35 fighter jet program.

Page also made a broader point about “institutional degeneration.”

By this he meant the erosion of the institutions that this country needs to be effective, and which have helped Canada become one of the most desirable places to live on the planet. A key example is Parliament.

The degree of scrutiny that Parliament gives to most bills and budget proposals is now minimal. Huge bills pass without most MPs having read them or even thought seriously about the consequences. Parliamentary committees and question period have degenerated into strange forms of performance art.

He also made an interesting reference to “high quality people” being involved in many parts of the government machine, but the level of debate and outcomes being so woeful. It is indeed interesting that this widely shared view that the poor quality of our public decision making comes at a time when MPs are

Eventually I hope love and pride will be the feelings that prevail. May we band together as a community to ensure her legacy of dedication and her formidable talents are not soon forgotten.

Andrea Cook Whitehorse

Support farm workers Open letter to MP Ryan Leef: We have just returned from Mexico where we have gotten to know some of the people who work on the farms that produce some of the food that we eat every day, like tomatoes, grapes, oranges, and much more.

What we have learnt is that these people are often abused and taken advantage of. Their salary is very low, about $10 a day Canadian. This is not surprising, but it still is sad that those who work growing our food do not have enough to feed their families well.

These conditions make Canada seem like heaven for them and they want to come here to work. We have friends from Mexico that have come to Canada to work as farm labourers. What a surprise for them when some things are not much better here.

They may not be treated illegally,

but the problem is how Canadian law allows farm workers to be treated. One of our Mexican friends told us of working up to 20 hours a day, with no overtime, and feeling that if he did not comply with his boss’ wishes that he would be sent back. He described his work as being in a prison without walls. But it was all legal.

Allow me to quote from the Manitoba labour standards branch: “What about employees who spend one season in climatecontrolled facilities, and the rest of the year working both indoors and outside?

If employees are hired to work partly outside on the farm and partly inside a climate-controlled facility, they would not be entitled to minimum standards regarding overtime, hours of work, general holidays or wages for reporting to work.

An example of this is an employee of a vegetable farm, who works outside tending to the crop for part of the year, and then works in a climate-controlled facility during the winter for grading, packaging and shipping.”

Things only get worse for farm workers in Alberta and Nova Scotia.

They are the only provinces where workplace safety standards don’t apply to farms. In Alberta, farm

better educated on average and departments have more policy analysts than ever before.

The former PBO puts it down to “weak leadership,” which is something every cabinet minister and senior official in Ottawa should think about.

Page’s speech was sponsored by the Yukon NDP, which was very nice of them. Page’s non-partisan talk was followed by federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, who test-drove his stump speech for the next election.

The need for a PBO is not limited to Ottawa. Every provincial and territorial legislature suffers from many of the same dysfunctions as their federal counterpart. If anything, the facts coming out of a small provincial or territorial government may be even spottier and less reliable than those coming from federal departments.

Here in the Yukon, we desperately need a Territorial Budget Officer.

We do get periodic visits from the Auditor General, but those reports come years after the bad decisions in question. It would be much better to close the gate before the huskies run off.

A TBO would have published the business case for the Watson Lake and Dawson City hospitals, including their long-run operating costs.

This would have allowed a cleareyed debate about the total cost of those facilities and their long-term impacts on the stretched health

budget.

The new F.H. Collins is another example. If we have $50 million (or whatever the number is today) to spend on education, where is the options paper comparing hiring ten more teachers for the next fifty years at the school to rebuilding it with a smaller gym and classrooms? The schmozzle around the cancellation of the first new F.H.Collins and the exact budget also had a strong whiff of the federal F-35 jet budget fiasco.

A TBO would have gotten to the bottom of that, or let voters know that the numbers didn’t add up.

It’s worth pointing out that the existence of a TBO wouldn’t just help voters and MLAs hold the executive to account. It actually would help cabinet ministers too, since the prospect of scrutiny forces officials to sharpen their thinking.

This helps politicians avoid those painful moments when they end up owning some bad idea that has percolated up unchallenged from their department.

All the territorial parties should promise to create a truly independent TBO as soon as possible.

Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels.

You can follow him on Channel 9’s “Yukonomist” show or Twitter @hallidaykeith

off-road vehicles.

The question is, when will Yukon get ATV legislation? Must we always be at the tail end of legal owners don’t have to be part of the developments? The Yukon governworkers’ compensation program, and the government doesn’t have to ment has been studying the issue since at least 1986, when a select investigate fatalities like it does for committee of the legislature recomother industries. Farm workers are mended restriction of ATVs from also barred from unionizing.

Conditions like these are what we sensitive environments. Most rewould expect to find in third world cently, the Select Committee on the countries, but not Canada. I think it Safe Operation and Use of Off-road Vehicles was created in 2010. Public is time for the federal government consultations were held but, despite to step in and put pressure on the provinces to change their farm labor overwhelming support among laws and bring them in line with the those who participated for legislaother sectors. tion of some kind, the government Thank you for taking the time has done nothing. to make positive changes for those It’s time. Currie Dixon? Brad who bring us our daily bread.

Cathers? When will off-road vehicle legislation be introduced in the Jack Vogt Yukon legislature?

Dawson City Lenore Morris ATVs should be licensed Whitehorse

and registered

Congratulations to the B.C. government for introducing legislation to regulate the use of off road vehicles.

If passed, the Off Road Vehicle Act will require registration and licence plates for all quads, dirt bikes and snowmobiles. If passed, Saskatchewan will be the single province not requiring ATVs to be registered.

Many off-road riding groups in B.C. are welcoming the new legislation because, among other things, it will aid police in tracking stolen

Show proof that Streicker’s words were mangled Gerald Haase claimed in the Yukon News on March 7 that Peter Becker “has misquoted, edited, and taken out of context” John Streicker’s words (google: Streicker synergy) but did not provide any evidence, corrected quotes or sources to back up his claims.

Jacqueline Vigneux Whitehorse

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COMMENTARY B.C. has an effective oil and gas regulator Paul Jeakins

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s with all Canadians living in our great country, Rick Griffiths is entitled to his opinion about oil and gas development. However it is not fair or appropriate for him to denigrate the 200 men and women working at the BC Oil and Gas Commission on behalf of the citizens of British Columbia in order to advance his viewpoint.

In addition, many of his statements do not stand up to the scrutiny our team puts on all oil and gas applications and activities. As a regulator in B.C., we encourage discussion on all topics related to our mandate. We make every effort to be proactive and transparent. I think it is important to address some of the misconceptions Mr. Griffiths is promoting.

1. British Columbia has a modern regulatory framework in place for natural gas development. It’s called the Oil and Gas Activities Act and was brought into force in 2010 after years of development at the very time industry was shifting to unconventional development.

This included anticipating the regulatory needs for an increase in hydraulic fracturing. There are numerous regulations under that legislation to ensure the resources are developed safely.

2. The commission has mapped all of the watersheds in northeast B.C., has extensive stream flow data and knows how much water is available before granting any short-term water permit or a longer term licence. All water allocation decisions ensure the protection of environmental flows for fish, future supplies for communities and can be rescinded in times of drought.

3. There is no surface discharge of produced water allowed in British Columbia.

It must either be recycled for use by the company or disposed of in a commissionregulated disposal well, which is naturally sealed.

4. The commission’s first priority is public safety and takes extensive efforts in that regard, from initial engineering reviews of facility and pipeline designs, to on-theground inspections. Health authorities in British Columbia have a mandate for public

health and the commission has contributed its expertise to the provincial government’s human health study currently underway.

5. The commission maintains a 24/7 emergency response system and any reports of a leaking well are dealt with immediately. This includes sending an inspector to the site and requiring companies to take the necessary actions to fix any problem.

In addition, the commission has state-of-the-art infrared cameras and a mobile air monitoring laboratory to detect any potential leaks and ensure there is no threat to the environment. This is in addition to all of the pre-application engineering work as mentioned in the point above.

6. The commission carries out more than 4,000 inspections annually and publishes a quarterly compliance and enforcement summary detailing the name of the company and any potential violation, plus the status of mitigation measures.

7. B.C. has strong regulations that limit methane emissions from natural gas exploration. Provincial regulations require natural gas to be con-

served where possible instead of flared and vented, which limits the amount of methane emitted. Operators in B.C. are also required to have a fugitive emissions management plan. Monitoring and controlling leakage is part of fugitive emissions management.

Contrary to the assertion in the commentary, I did mention the legal action underway during questioning before the Yukon legislature. It’s a judicial review of our shortterm water permits, but the commission always considers any permit as “new” before issuing.

This ensures environmental flows and community values are protected and we require mandatory public reporting of that water use. The commission is looking forward to having these matters decided by the court.

We also recently took on responsibility for issuing longer-term water licences, and this brings notable improvements, including mandatory reporting and public disclosure of all water use.

And again, contrary to the characterization of “supposed to consult” – the BC Oil and

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Gas Commission has a legal duty on behalf of the Crown to consult with First Nations, something we take very seriously and something we do on every application that may affect First Nation rights.

Far from any conflict in roles arising as a result of our single-window model, it is actually an efficient and effective model for regulatory delivery. It’s no coincidence that other regulators, national and international governments have come to us seeking information on how we regulate.

Our mandate is clearly laid out in legislation and we have a very effective compliance and enforcement team, an emergency management program and community relations group that works with local landowners.

The agreement we have in place with the Yukon government provides for information sharing. The commission is happy to share all that we have learned on the worldwide trend of developing shale resources for the benefit of their citizens.

With our experience regulating oil and gas, and expert hydrologists, engineers, resource officers, environmental technicians, inspectors and safety officers, the BC Oil and Gas Commission is continually improving and adapting to meet the needs of this rapidly changing sector, but it consistently ensures the industry is effectively regulated on behalf of all British Columbians.

Paul Jeakins is commissioner of the BC Oil and Gas Commission.

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Elections watchdog says proposed election law damages level playing field Joan Bryden and Bruce Cheadle Canadian Press

OTTAWA anada’s chief electoral officer has provided fuel to opposition claims that new election rules being proposed by the Harper government are designed to tilt the field in the Conservative party’s favour.

The massive rewrite of the Canada Elections Act will increase party spending and decrease voting among some groups, all the while failing to provide the investigative powers needed to get to the bottom of election fraud, Marc Mayrand told a House of Commons committee last week.

“In Canada, electoral fairness has traditionally been understood to mean maintaining a level playing field among parties and candidates by the imposition of strict spending limits,” Mayrand said.

“By increasing those spending limits and, most significantly, creating an exception for certain fundraising expenses, Bill C-23 may well compromise that level playing field.”

Mayrand has had a fractious relationship with the governing party ever since he was appointed to his post in 2007 by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

It took five years and dozens of spirited denials in the House of Commons before the Conservative party finally pleaded guilty in 2011 to significant overspending in the 2006 campaign – a plea deal that Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre celebrated as a victory.

Poilievre also frequently rose in the House to defend the government in the ongoing investigation into fraudulent robocalls during the 2011 campaign.

Poilievre, now the minister responsible for democratic reform, is questioning Mayrand again, dismissing his criticism and declaring him wrong about many of the provisions in the sweeping bill.

Among Mayrand’s concerns: – By ending the practice of “vouching,” the bill would disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters who are unable to provide identification with an address, mostly students, the elderly, natives and the poor.

– The bill would muzzle both Mayrand and the elections commissioner, who investigates violations and enforces the Canada Elections Act. “I’m concerned that during an election we could not issue a press release alerting electors to certain practices that may happen that they should be aware of,” said Mayrand, who pointed to events in the 2011 election as an example.

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Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand speaks to reporters after leaving a committee hearing on Bill C-23, the Fair Elections Act, in Ottawa on Thursday.

tors the power to demand receipts from parties, who got $33 million in public rebates after the last election without providing documented evidence of expenses.

“It is striking when looking at provincial regimes that we remain the only jurisdiction in Canada where political parties are not required to produce supporting documentation for their reported expenses,” Mayrand said.

– The bill creates some new offences and increases penalties, but fails to give elections investigators the powers they need to compel testimony or evidence.

“It’s all well and good to have penalties and offences, but if the commissioner doesn’t have the tools to shed light on the truth, then it’s all in vain,” he told the committee.

Mayrand did not specifically say which party would benefit most from the changes, but New Democrats, Liberals and the Bloc Quebecois all say they’re of the most advantage to the party with the deepest pockets – in this case, the Conservatives.

One particularly problematic provision in the bill is a measure that allows parties to remove from their campaign expenses any money spent soliciting donations from supporters who have contributed at least $20 over the previous five years.

“For anybody who has ever seen one, there is no practical way of distinguishing a fundraiser mail-out from advertising and it takes little imagination to understand that other partisan communications can be dressed up as fundraisers,” Mayrand warned.

Later in the Commons, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair pounced on Mayrand’s testimony to charge: “The only reason (the Conservatives) are doing this is to stack the deck for the next election.”

Poilievre responded that Mayrand “is wrong on this point, as well as on other points.” He said the bill provides many layers of protection against illegal campaign spending, including requiring external audits of party books.

Conservatives on the committee, led by Tom Lukiwski, the par-

liamentary secretary to Poilievre, hammered away at the potential for voter fraud under a vouching system that has been found to have tens of thousands of reporting errors.

“Clearly, where vouching takes place, perhaps the majority is above board but the potential for fraud is there,” Lukiwski said.

“The only true way to get rid of the potential for fraud under those cases is for proper identification to be provided at the polling station by the individual.”

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An estimated 120,000 voters relied on vouching in the 2011 election. In justifying the elimination of vouching, Poilievre has pointed to a report commissioned

by Elections Canada which found 50,000 procedural irregularities.

Given the wide scope of the election act reforms and the chronicled history of financing jiggery-pokery and robocalls abuse, NDP MP Alexandrine Latendresse questioned the Conservative attention to vouching.

“I find it very strange that my colleagues across the table are talking about potential (fraud) when we have real fraud cases that need to be investigated,” she said.

Mayrand also questioned the Conservative preoccupation, telling Lukiwski, “It is essential to understand that the main challenge for our electoral democracy is not voter fraud but voter participation.”

The chief electoral officer also had a stern message for a majority government that appears intent on ramming through the changes without getting all the players in the political system on board.

“It’s a well-known international standard that if you want to be successful in ensuring the integrity and legitimacy of your institution, that you should seek the broadest consensus possible,” said Mayrand, drawing a cheer from the opposition MPs on the committee.

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Olivia Chow resigns as New Democrat MP to run for mayor of Toronto Canadian Press

OTTAWA livia Chow resigned her seat in Parliament on Wednesday to launch her bid to replace Rob Ford as mayor of the country’s largest city.

The long-time New Democrat MP and former city councillor made her entry into the mayoralty race official by filing her nomination papers hours after submitting her resignation as MP to the Speaker of the House of Commons.

She is expected to hold her campaign kickoff Thursday in the inner city Toronto neighbourhood of St. James Town, where she grew up.

Chow is already considered a front-runner and the only serious left-winger in the crowded mayoral race that includes one-time provincial Conservative leader and failed mayoral candidate John Tory, city councillor Karen Stintz and infamous incumbent Ford.

Her principal opponents didn’t wait for the official launch of her campaign to begin painting Chow as a tax-and-spend leftie.

“She makes David Miller look like a conservative,” Ford joked, referring to his predecessor.

“I’ll put my proven track record of saving taxpayers’ money and customer service against anyone, any day. Let the people decide,” he added.

Tory’s campaign issued a statement saying: “With respect to Ms. Chow, she’s never met a public dollar she couldn’t spend. We welcome the contrast with John who is committed to keeping taxes low and building a more liv-

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Olivia Chow officially entered the race to be mayor of Toronto on Thursday.

able, affordable, functional city.”

However, as a member of former mayor Mel Lastman’s budget committee, Chow actually earned something of a reputation for fiscal prudence.

Jamey Heath, who will be communications director for Chow’s campaign, acknowledged she’ll be the only “progressive” contender in the field.

But he predicted she’ll appeal to people across the political spectrum, including the blue-collar folks who supported Ford’s no-

nonsense populism as well as those who believe it’s time for a change following Ford’s admitted “drunken stupors” and use of crack cocaine.

“We think there are two candidates who can appeal to sort of blue-collar, regular voters in Toronto, one of whom is Rob Ford and one of whom is Olivia Chow,” Heath said.

“We don’t see John Tory being able to connect with them. We think Olivia can.”

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Ford, who was stripped of most of his powers last year after a series of personal scandals, scoffed at the notion that Chow can shake up his support base.

“My people are strong. My Ford Nation people aren’t budging and we’re doing great. I can’t wait, it’s going to get interesting.”

As the widow of late NDP leader Jack Layton, Chow has always been closely associated with the New Democratic Party. But her team is emphasizing her ability to bridge partisan differences and work with people of all party stripes to get things done.

Chow’s campaign will involve New Democrats like Heath and Brian Topp, who were key to Layton’s success in the federal arena. But it will be headed by veteran Conservative strategist John Laschinger, who masterminded Miller’s successful mayoral campaigns, while her war room will be run by Warren Kinsella, a well-known Liberal.

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“Thanks @oliviachow for yr Parliamentary service!”

Kenney tweeted. “You’ve always shown civility & respect 4 colleagues despite policy differences. Best wishes.”

In a later interview, Kenney described Chow as “a friend.”

Kenney broke ranks with his more circumspect cabinet colleagues last fall when he publicly said Ford, initially considered a political ally of federal Conservatives, had “brought dishonour to public office and the office of mayor and his city” and should step aside.

Chow’s departure after eight years in Parliament was greeted with “mixed emotions” from federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair, who said his party’s loss is Toronto’s gain.

“Olivia Chow is a fighter who will always defend the public’s interest first and foremost,” he said.

“I thank her wholeheartedly for her constant support and her important contributions to making Canada a fairer, more prosperous country.”

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Grade 6 class sends letter critical of rude politicians in Alberta legislature The school, in the letter dated last November, said while all parties were at fault, students EDMONTON were particularly appalled over Grade 6 class has taken the behaviour of two of PreAlberta’s top politicians to mier Alison Redford’s cabinet task for childish behaviour, but ministers. opposition politicians say it’s It says their jaws dropped the Speaker who needs to sit in during a Nov. 5 visit when the corner.

Alberta Service Minister Doug A letter made public this Griffiths mocked the Opposiweek from Innisfail Middle tion Wildrose for its “ability to School informed the legislature suck and blow.” that the students will no longer And they wondered why attend question period after it was OK for Jobs Minister watching repeated displays of Thomas Lukaszuk to challenge rudeness, name-calling and ofthe Wildrose to a fistfight. fensive language.

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“It’s been bugging us for over a year, a couple of trips now.

And we just felt like someone should say something,” school principal Jay Steeves said in an interview.

He said they knew they had a problem when they held a mock parliament and one of the students wanted to emulate Lukaszuk.

“One of the kids, and he was saying it facetiously, but he wanted to be the guy who goes outside and starts the fight,” said Steeves.

“You’re trying to promote a certain way and then that’s the behaviour we see among adults.”

Lukaszuk said message received.

“I say mea culpa,” said Lukaszuk. “The behaviour in the chamber is out of control some times, and I’m part of it.”

Lukaszuk said he would accept any invitation to the school to explain his role and the role of question period in a democracy and to hear concerns and comments firsthand.

Griffiths agreed.

“When you’re sitting there in a heated debate, sometimes things slip out. I probably could have used a better reference. I’ll watch myself closer next time.”

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The letter, copied to all party leaders, didn’t come to light until this week, when Speaker Gene Zwozdesky referred to it in the house while chiding politicians for unruly behaviour.

Zwozdesky himself has been criticized by opposition members for holding too tight a rein on cross-aisle heckling during debate.

Some say while outrageous comments and falsehoods are not acceptable, the normal back-and-forth between partisan opponents, even if it gets noisy at times, exemplifies a robust democracy.

“The importance is we protect the freedom of speech of members,” said NDP Brian Mason.

Mason said some of the frustration stems from Zwozdesky’s inconsistency: cracking down on minor squabbling while letting slide major violations, such as those cited in the school letter.

“He should call (out) those members specifically and not blame the whole assembly,” said Mason.

Wildrose MLA Kerry Towle attended Innisfail Middle School as a child and now represents the riding. She said

while politicians can all do better, respect breeds respect.

“Sometimes that (heated) decorum in the house gets elevated because we’re often treated like children (by the Speaker),” said Towle.

Liberal house leader Laurie Blakeman said Zwozdesky is confusing the legislature with a schoolroom.

“We are there to vigorously debate public policy. And I think we’d all be a little upset if you look down to the assembly floor and everybody was sitting there quiet as a mouse with their hands folded in their laps,” said Blakeman.

“If a classroom is unhappy because the assembly is not behaving like a classroom, I would expect the Speaker to be explaining why it’s not a classroom rather than turning on our leaders and our members in the assembly and admonishing us that we all should be quiet and be good.”

Steeves was asked if he would take the class back if specifically invited for a make-good visit.

“Honestly, if it was as unproductive as the pieces we’ve seen over the last couple of years, I don’t know why we’d go back.”

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Conservatives watch for promised openness as party nominations begin Jennifer Ditchburn

to follow through on its commitment to have open nominations across the country,” said Liepert, OTTAWA who sent his completed papers. onservatives across the In Saskatchewan, Agriculture country are watching closely Minister Gerry Ritz’s riding of to see whether party brass live up Battlefords-Lloydminster has to their promise of fair and open opened for nominations, where nominations, as the first races qui- Ritz does not appear to be facing etly get underway in the lead-up any competition. And the nomito the 2015 election. nation race for Calgary East – MP While incumbents were proDeepak Obhrai’s riding – has also tected from challengers during the opened. minority government years, this The names of both Ritz and is the first time nominations have Obhrai had also appeared in the been declared fair game. leaked memo as nominations the Former Alberta cabinet minparty wanted to have in the bag ister Ron Liepert, who is hoping early. to upset MP Rob Anders for the The Canadian Press asked the privilege of carrying the Conserparty to share the names of ridvative banner in Calgary-Signal ings that opened their nomination Hill, said his team had to be on processes. Spokesman Cory Hann the ball to find out the nominaresponded in an email by saying tion countdown had started in “these are internal party matters.” that riding.

Conservatives, meanwhile, After the Toronto Star pubare watching with interest how lished a leaked memo last month the race will unfold in the new that said the party wanted to Ontario riding of Oakville-North speed up certain nominations to Burlington, where a longtime help incumbents – including An- local Conservative will be competders specifically – Liepert’s people ing against MP and parliamentary began making calls to Tory HQ to secretary Eve Adams.

There’s no word on when the check the date.

Sure enough, the nominations party will fire the starting gun had opened last week, starting the there.

Adams, who currently rep14-day clock.

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Mississauga-Brampton South, is also the partner of the party’s executive director, Dimitri Soudas – a fact that has only fed the curiosity around the local nomination process.

Dr. Natalia Lishchyna, an Oakville, Ont., chiropractor and college professor, has worked on campaigns for MP Terence Young and has support on the new riding association board. She said she approaches the process with optimism.

“If I told you I didn’t have any concerns at all, that wouldn’t be forthright. But I think the Conservative party wants to make sure that there’s good people representing the ridings, and the nomination meetings are an area where you can find very good candidates and I think we’re doing that here, too,” said Lishchyna.

A party source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Soudas has removed himself from any involvement in OakvilleNorth Burlington. That job will instead fall to the party president.

Larry Scott, a candidate for the provincial Tories in Oakville, said he’s firmly backing Lishchyna. Scott said party members would be upset if headquarters did anything to prevent her from running.

“There’s an old saying that all politics is local, and Oakville and North Oakville, this is a really local area,” Scott said of the dynamic.

“Everybody knows everybody, and those people who’ve been supporters, you’ve just seen them for years and you know who they are.”

Adams says she is perfectly capable of “standing on my own two feet,” having successfully fought off a wide roster of Ontario municipal candidates at Mississauga city hall in the past and handily beating Liberal MP Navdeep Bains

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“I have a proven track record – I run and I win, because of hard work and because of a great team of volunteers,” said Adams.

The party recently decided that ridings that have held byelection nomination races since the 2011 election won’t have to do so again, thereby protecting a handful of incumbents.

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Ottawa orders railways to move minimum amount of grain each week or face fines Chinta Puxley

“This is a very serious situation,” Raitt said at a news conference in Winnipeg last week. “We have to WINNIPEG demonstrate that Canada can mainttawa is forcing Canada’s two tain an efficient transportation system main railway companies to which is capable of moving our grain double the amount of grain they ship to market. This is an issue of great in a week to try to unclog a transport significance and we have to address it bottleneck that has left piles of grain in a timely manner.” sitting in bins across the Prairies.

Farmers and provincial governTransport Minister Lisa Raitt ments have been complaining loudly said cabinet has passed an order-inthat a bumper grain crop is still council that gives Canadian National sitting in bins while prices fluctuate. and Canadian Pacific a month to start Last year’s harvest was up by about 20 moving a minimum of one million million tonnes. tonnes of grain in 11,000 cars each Ottawa has already chipped in $1.5 week. million for a five-year transportation If CP and CN don’t meet the study and ordered rail companies to requirement, Raitt said they face fines report monthly on their performance. of up to $100,000 a day. The ConserCN and CP did not get a headsvatives are also promising legislation up about last week’s announcement, when Parliament resumes that will Raitt said. help ensure agricultural products get Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz to market. said farmers are increasingly frusCanadian Press

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“The railways have dropped the ball,” he said. “This situation is not acceptable.”

Ed Greenberg, spokesman for Calgary-based CP, said the railway will comply with the order. But he called the move unfortunate and suggested it didn’t take into account the “entire supply chain.” The issue is complex and goes beyond the railway, he added.

The backlog has not been caused by a shortage of locomotives or crew, Greenberg said.

“It’s been a combination of an extraordinary crop size combined with extreme weather that has resulted in this situation,” he said. “And despite an extraordinary crop size that was not forecasted by anyone, and periods of extreme winter weather, our railway has continued to move record amounts of grain.”

CN’s Jim Feeny said the company can comply with the order if everyone in the supply chain works together.

The challenge in moving the biggest Prairie grain crop in history is unprecedented, he said. The company

has been doing everything it can to keep grain moving but it has been hampered by extreme cold, Feeny said.

“We have hundreds of employees in those locations who have spent the last three to four months working night and day outside in temperatures that have persisted at -30, -35, -40 and even beyond at times with very little respite,” he said.

“But the reality is, when you get that kind of cold, across that kind of territory, for that length of time with no breaks, it has a severe effect on the mechanical ability to operate trains.”

Many farmers praised the order.

“Obviously the government heard us,” said Dan Mazier, vice-president of Keystone Agricultural Producers, who was part of a delegation that met with Raitt last week. “This is great news from a farmer’s perspective.

“The government keeps on telling us they want us to produce more so we can export more. We’d better have a transportation system that can support all that.”

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Birth of Trudeau’s son poses political opportunity, risk of exploitation Joan Bryden

intent on shielding his infant son from the glare of the public spotlight, the Liberal party OTTAWA has had no qualms about or a compulsive social me- using Hadrian’s birth to help dia junkie, Justin Trudeau build up its data base of pohas fallen uncharacteristically tential supporters and donors. silent since his third child was Newly elected party presiborn two weeks ago. dent Anna Gainey, a Trudeau The Liberal leader anconfidant, sent out an email nounced Hadrian’s birth to blast last week urging wellhis 330,000-plus followers on wishers to send the party their Twitter, with a discreet closenames and email addresses, up photo of the baby’s tiny along with congratulatory hand clutching his finger. messages that would be passed Since then, he’s been home on to Trudeau and Gregoire. with his wife, Sophie Gregoire, “Don’t expect to see much and kids Xavier and Ellaof Justin in the news for the Grace, privately enjoying the next few days, right now he’s new addition to their family. where he should be – with his No tweets. No Facebook posts. family,” Gainey said.

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The dissonance between Trudeau’s circumspect conduct and his party’s willingness to exploit the birth of his son underscores the balancing act facing a political leader with young children.

“It’s kind of a double-edged sword,” says Karen Brunger, president of the Torontobased International Image Institute.

On the one hand, voters love to see politicians with their cute kids, the younger the better. And being seen with kids is generally a plus for the politician, making him or her seem warmer, more human, more caring, she says.

“I don’t know a politician who doesn’t use their children,” Brunger says, noting that municipal, provincial and federal politicians often send Christmas cards or campaign brochures plastered with photos of themselves posing with their happy families.

But there’s a fine line between featuring one’s children occasionally and being perceived to be exploiting them for political gain. And figuring out precisely where that line is can be “challenging,” says Brunger.

“It’s such a fine line. Can you think of another line of work where family plays such a role?”

From her perspective, Trudeau’s handling of his son’s birth was “sweet” and not exploitative. The party’s handling of the occasion was “much more obvious” and, therefore, more likely to prompt eye-rolling.

Not since Brian Mulroney have Canadians had a political leader with an infant child.

Mulroney’s youngest son,

Nicolas, was born the year after Mulroney became prime minister in 1984.

Before that it was Pierre Trudeau, whose three sons – including his eldest, Justin – started life living at 24 Sussex Dr., the prime minister’s official residence.

The current occupant of 24 Sussex, Stephen Harper, has two teenaged children, Ben and Rachel, who were 10 and seven respectively when he took office.

Cynical members of the parliamentary press gallery used to refer to Nicolas Mulroney, who was often carried by his mother or father at official events, as “the prop.” Hadrian’s eventual public debut will no doubt elicit a similar response in some quarters.

But Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc contends that kind of cynicism is an unfair knock on politicians with young kids.

“It’s not fair because if you’re doing those jobs as Mr. Trudeau did, as Mr. Mulroney did, as Justin is doing … here’s the problem. You have so little time to do things with your family that every time you do it becomes, because of your job, a public event or a source of public interest,” says LeBlanc, a childhood friend.

For instance, he says, if Trudeau takes the kids to a ball game, it winds up becoming a public event, with fans lining up for autographs or posing for pictures with the leader. Even on vacation out of the country, LeBlanc says Trudeau is constantly approached by Canadian tourists.

Having grown up in a “fish bowl” himself, Trudeau’s capacity to mix private and public life is probably more than most people would feel comfortable with. But LeBlanc

says Xavier and Ella-Grace, at six and five, are already emulating their father, readily joining him to pose for photos taken by total strangers.

Being a political leader also inevitably means summers and many holidays are spent travelling the country.

A leader with young children will often take his kids along just to spend time with them.

“Somebody who’s trying to do a job that’s often seven days a week, if they can integrate their family into their work routines, it makes a much healthier political leader,” argues LeBlanc.

“Justin will be a much happier and positive political leader if he gets the right balance between seeing his family and spending time with them and being able to include them, where appropriate, in his work obligations.”

Trudeau’s own father used to take his three boys on official visits to foreign countries. And LeBlanc, who himself grew up with a single politician dad – Romeo LeBlanc, who served as the elder Trudeau’s fisheries minister and eventually went on to become governor general – also recalls joining his late father as youngster on work trips.

Far from being exploitative, LeBlanc says the experience was positive.

“Some of the nicest memories I have of my father was when he was minister of fisheries visiting the outports of Newfoundland or the northern coast of British Columbia and I got to go with him during summer holidays or on a school break,” he says.

“And I assume Justin would have had 10 times those occasions with his father and if history is allowing him to have that experience with his kids, it’s terrific.”

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Ambivalence, remembrance marks Canada’s end of Afghanistan military mission Mike Blanchfield Canadian Press

OTTAWA ome people searched their souls while the politicians offered glowing tributes and flags flew at half-staff.

Meanwhile, one survey suggested that 42 per cent of Canadians were oblivious to the fact their soldiers were still working in a war-scarred land.

There was much ambivalence and some outright avoidance in Canada on Wednesday as the last 100 Canadian Forces soldiers on duty in Afghanistan saw their mission formally come to an end.

A ceremonial flag-lowering at the Canadian embassy in Kabul marked the shuttering of their three-year-old training mission for Afghan security forces.

It followed a five-year combat mission in Kandahar, the traditional Taliban heartland, which ended in the summer of 2011 and where the country suffered its heaviest casualties since the Korean War. The Canadian death toll in Afghanistan was 158 soldiers, one diplomat, one journalist and two civilian contractors. Canada’s military engagement in Afghanistan began with the unpublicized arrival of special forces in late 2001.

The Canadian Press Harris-Decima poll released Wednesday showed widespread Canadian ambivalence about the country’s military legacy from Afghanistan.

Two-thirds said it was too soon to call the decade-plus military involvement a success or failure, while only 58 per cent realized that the Canadian Forces actually had, until Wednesday,

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The army hauled down the Canadian flag for the last time in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, bringing an end to 12 years of military involvement in a campaign that cost the lives of 158 soldiers.

a continuing military mission there.

The telephone survey of 1,051 respondents was conducted Feb. 20-24 and is considered accurate to within plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

Harris-Decima vice-president Megan Tam said Canadians want to reserve judgment until they see whether Afghanistan can make significant progress on its own.

“I’m reminded how impatient we all are. We’re always keen to change the channel, and some things take a long time,” said John Manley, the former Liberal cabinet minister who chaired the Conservative-led panel

on the way forward in Afghanistan at the height of the Canadian bloodshed in 2008.

“Taking on the renovation of a country like Afghanistan, that’s about as long term a project as you could find.”

Polls such as Wednesday’s paint a complicated world in black and white, he said.

“Is it a success? Yeah. Is it a failure?

Yeah. Will we know soon? No.” The poll also found that in the future, 74 per cent favoured Canada taking part in peacekeeping missions, rather than “military engagement.”

“Who wouldn’t prefer that? Too

bad we don’t live in a world where every military operation was peacekeeping,” said Manley.

“We are among the most privileged countries on earth. And with great privilege comes great responsibility. Sometimes you just have to do the jobs that you don’t really want to do, because that’s your responsibility.”

Fen Hampson, director of the global security at Waterloo, Ont.’s Centre for International Governance Innovation, said polls like Wednesday’s and similar recent ones in the United States reflect the frustration and fatigue of the general public toward the unresolved Afghanistan war

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“The poll seems to suggest it’s the mission Canadians want to forget,” he said.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper released a written statement that lauded the record number of 40,000 Canadian troops that served in Afghanistan over the years, including those who paid “the ultimate price.”

“The end of the military mission and the lowering of the flag is a significant milestone in the fight against global terror,” the prime minister’s statement said.

“Canada will continue to play an important role in supporting efforts that contribute to building a better future for all Afghans.”

Manley said that’s significant because Wednesday’s military milestone “is not really the end of the mission” because Canada will continue with helping build Afghanistan’s governance, institutions as well as contributing foreign aid.

“We must not forget that the road toward lasting peace in Afghanistan is still long,” said NDP defence critic Jack Harris.

“The Canadian government must redouble its development and diplomatic efforts to ensure that Canada can leave a legacy of greater peace, prosperity and freedom for all Afghans.”

Liberal defence critic Joyce Murray said the county’s responsibility toward its young veterans also has not ended. “We, as a country, must take the best possible care of all those who have returned from Afghanistan.”

There were gestures of remembrance across Canada.

At the New Brunswick legislature in Fredericton, family members of some of the soldiers from the nearby military base Gagetown, who were killed during the mission, came together.

Progressive Conservative member Jack Carr told them their loved ones had made the “ultimate sacrifice.”

Saskatchewan Lt.-Gov. Vaughn Solomon Schofield saluted the Canadian soldiers, “who have risked their lives to protect the innocent victims of the conflict, and to bring peace to this troubled country.”

Manley, who has travelled to Afghanistan in various capacities, says he still sees hope for Afghanistan’s future, despite the rampant instability and corruption that still exists.

“Personally, I think three million girls going to school is a game changer. Even in that culture, you’re not going to put those women back to where they were in 2001.”

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Feds look to Australia for pointers on Made in Canada brand campaign Jennifer Ditchburn

of the costs of producing the good happened in Canada.

But Canada does not have a OTTAWA single logo that is administered rom those ubiquitous UGG by any one body, or a strategic boots to kayaks and cherplan to market that brand. ries, a little green logo featuring Finance Minister Jim Flaa kangaroo has told Australian herty recently travelled to consumers what’s been made Australia to talk to the people or grown by their country for running their product brandnearly 30 years. ing campaign. Other countries, Now the Canadian governincluding South Africa and ment is looking to the AusNew Zealand, have also gone to tralian Made campaign as a Australia for pointers. model for a domestic branding Australian Made’s history exercise here. This year’s federal wasn’t all rosy. It was started as budget promised a private-sec- a government-funded initiative tor steering committee would in 1986 until its cash was pulled be struck to make recommenby the John Howard governdations about a formal Made in ment a decade later. After going Canada system. into liquidation, it eventually The committee is expected resurfaced as a not-for-profit to number around six people, organization managed within composed of marketing experts the private sector, but with its and figures from various major compliance rules overseen by industries, says a government the federal government. source. Although the govern“Australian Grown” and ment is kick-starting the idea, “Australian Seafood” logos were the source said the campaign recently added. would ultimately be funded Since 2004, the campaign within the private sector. has grown from 800 licensees The Competition Bureau to 1,900. The entire budget is already oversees countryfunded through the licensees. of-origin rules that prohibit “Fortunately for Australians Canadian manufacturers or by and large our standards are producers from making false high, our healthy, clean, green claims about their products. An environment is very desirable, item that claims to be “Made in particularly into Asia,” said Canada” must have had its last Australian Made CEO Ian Hartransformation in Canada, and rison.

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which means you’ll get a premium in the marketplace for it in competition with cheaper alternatives.”

Harrison had some tips for Flaherty and the federal government, which he shared with The Canadian Press:

1. Don’t run the campaign out of the national capital Harrison was part of Australian Made’s move from the national capital Canberra to the country’s second-largest city Melbourne in 2004.

“If you operate in a capital city like Canberra, I presume Ottawa’s not dissimilar, then the focus is politics and the process of government and governance.

I see this, and you guys should see this, as a commercial activity.

We’re not for profit, but we sure aren’t for loss.”

2. Don’t talk about it as a trade measure “It is a branding device, it’s not a trade policy, it’s not an import restriction, it’s not anything that gets in the way of industry or trade policy per se. What it does, it enables business to easily promote the fact that their products or produce are Australian.”

3. Make sure the business community is in the driver’s seat “This needs to be seen as an initiative that industry has

a close relationship with. The administration of that symbol should not reside in government at all. Government should be supportive of the program, but the business community is where it should reside because it’s a device for business to clearly identify their products.”

4. But make sure the federal government controls the compliance rules “It’s a very exacting process, and I said that framework’s important because it clearly establishes the legal identity of the symbol, and establishes automatic legal recourse in the event companies or individuals or whatever don’t comply with the rules.”

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U.S. gas boom: A tool against Russian coercion, but one that’s not yet ready to use Steven R. Hurst Associated Press

WASHINGTON he United States, with its abundant supplies of natural gas, would seem to have an easy answer to Europe’s fears that a strong response to Russia’s rapid takeover of Ukraine’s Crimea region could prompt Vladimir Putin to shut down gas lines that keep European homes warm, factories humming and electricity flowing.

Trouble is: Right now there’s no way to get meaningful American supplies across the Atlantic Ocean.

Turning U.S. natural gas into liquefied natural gas (LNG), a process that makes the fuel transportable by ship, is very expensive. Beyond that the U.S. government has – until recently – been stingy with permits to build those facilities. And regulations make it difficult to sell U.S. gas to nations that aren’t in free trade compacts with Washington.

That’s not good news for Europeans, who are dependent on Russia for at least 30 per cent of its natural gas. Consequently, Europe’s reaction to the Russian seizure of Ukraine’s semi-autonomous Crimea, while noisy, has little teeth.

Moscow already has a history of cutting some supplies to Europe. In 2009, Europeans shivered through part of the cold winter because Moscow turned the taps off in a dispute with Ukraine over the price of gas. Some of the pipelines carrying Russian gas pass through Ukraine. And Ukraine is once again in hock to Moscow for $1.89 billion in gas bills.

European dependence on Russian gas no doubt played into Kremlin leader Putin’s calculus when his forces took control of the Crimean Peninsula, home to Moscow’s Black Sea fleet and 60 per cent populated by ethnic Russians.

Natural gas is Russia’s trump card.

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But, he said, “I want to emphasize this is not going to happen overnight, over years, if not decades, not in days and weeks… ‘’ So the United States can’t do much on the natural gas front right now, but it will become a lever Washington can pull in future crises with Moscow. Given Putin’s recent behaviour and his drive to bring former Soviet republics back under Moscow’s sway, there seems little doubt those future crises will arise.

The long view might be what prompted the ambassadors to Bela Szandelszky/AP Photo Washington from Hungary, Poland, An engineer checks the pressure in the pipelines near Budapest, Hungary. The United Slovakia and the Czech Republic States’ supplies of natural gas would seem an easy answer to Europe’s fears that to write over the weekend to John Vladimir Putin could shut down gas lines that keep European homes warm, factories Boehner, Speaker of the U.S. House humming and electricity flowing. of Representatives, urging the U.S. to increase natural gas exports to not quickly make up any shortages. U.S. natural gas at home. Exports, the Council on Foreign Relations, ward off shortages if the Russians The crisis in Ukraine is expected some argue, would raise the cost it is unlikely that a shift in U.S. cut off supplies, even though Boehto drag on even after Crimea’s for Americans who heat their policy that would exploit exports ner needs little convincing. status is resolved, and Europe could homes with the fuel and impose to Europe, would “deter Putin from The ambassadors pushed for be waiting a while for new exports higher prices on manufacturers using the gas weapon.” quick approval of natural gas of liquefied natural gas from the who use the resource to make other “Moreover, unlike European exports, saying the “presence of U.S. The first are not expected until products like plastics and fertilizer. gas companies, the big Russian U.S. natural gas would be much late 2015 from a Louisiana facility.

What’s more, environmental activ- players have much tighter ties with welcome in Central and Eastern President Barack Obama’s Energy ists contend a booming U.S. export the state. If Moscow wants them Europe. All four countries were Department has approved only six sector would only cause even more to keep their share in the Euroinvaded by Soviet forces or place LNG export applications in the past fracking – shorthand for hydraulic pean market for strategic reasons, under martial law during reform four years. All of those, aside from fracturing – a process that many it may be able to make them do movements before the Soviet emthe Louisiana operation, aren’t claim pollutes water supplies and that. Russia would lose money – an pire collapsed in 1991. likely to be in operation until 2017. increases greenhouse gas emissions. important piece of geopolitical They had a sympathetic ear in Twenty-two LNG export projThen there’s the cost. Russia, harm – but its leverage wouldn’t be Boehner, who wrote in the Wall ects remain pending. Initial U.S using existing pipelines – some of slashed,” he said.

Street Journal last week: “The abilexports, even if they went to Europe which cross Ukraine – can deliver Vali Nasr, dean of the Johns ity to turn the tables and put the rather than pricier markets in Asia, gas far less expensively than could Hopkins School of Advanced Russian leader in check lies right would not suffice to offset Russian U.S. companies who would have to International Studies, says however, beneath our feet, in the form of vast domination of the market. undertake the expense of turning that American supplies could have supplies of natural energy.”

The Obama administration the gas into a liquid and sending it an effect.

But the White House argues has been determined to use the by ship to market. And Asians are “America’s gas would be more Russia is so dependent on revenue American energy boom to move already paying far more for LNG expensive than Russia’s, but the from gas sales that it is unlikely that the United States away from depen- deliveries than what Europeans mere fact of an alternative would the Kremlin will cut off supplies to dence on imported energy supplies, spend for Russian gas. sap Russia’s leverage to blackmail Europe regardless of the Ukraine with many arguments for keeping Thus, writes Michael Levi of Europe with threats of price rises or crisis.

“Proposals to try to respond to the situation in Ukraine that are related to our policy on exporting natural gas would not have an immediate effect,” White House Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Students spokesman Josh Earnest said.

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Mexico cartel leader thrived after federal officials declared him dead Mark Stevenson and E. Eduardo Castillo

Sunday that was missing the first time: his body.

Associated Press Tomas Zeron, head of the criminal investigation unit for the MEXICO CITY federal Attorney General’s Office, artel kingpin Nazario Moreno said his identity had been conGonzalez knew how to play firmed by fingerprints, but added dead. that tests would continue.

It was the perfect alibi, delivIn Mexico’s campaign to take ered by the Mexican government down top capos, the killing of itself: The head of the vicious a supposedly dead man was the cartel based in the western state most bizarre event yet, even after of Michoacan had been killed in the capture two weeks ago of a shootout with federal police, Mexico’s most-wanted and powerofficials announced in December ful drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” 2010.

Guzman, another near-mythical Not only did Moreno change figure who surrendered without the name of his organization, he a fight after 13 years on the run became more powerful operatsince escaping from prison. ing from the shadows, eventually Residents of Michoacan had using extortion and intimidation reported seeing Moreno, known to control the lime, avocado and as the “The Craziest One,” around mining industries in the mineral- the state. The Templars distriband agriculture-rich state. uted literature and preached faith “He was the biggest beneficiary in God and a moral code, even as of his anonymity,” said Alfredo they became major traffickers of Castillo, the federal commissioner methamphetamine to the U.S. and who was sent in January to take ruled Michoacan through stealing back control of the violent state. and murder.

“It kept him playing the game.”

“He went around in his tunic The game ended early Sunwith his Bible under his arm, like day when Mexican soldiers and a priest,” said Ramon Contreras, marines confronted Moreno a town official in La Ruana and in Timbuscatio, a town in the member of one of the self-defence remote mountains. Officials said groups that eventually rose up the troops fired to respond to an to fight the cartel. Contreras said “aggression” as they tried to arrest Moreno lived in a cave that had a huge library, where he wrote his him. Authorities had something

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books.

“It was great theatre to show that you were a follower,” Contreras said. “To be in good with him, there had to be an altar to him in almost every town.”

Castillo told Milenio Television that it became an open secret among Michoacan residents that Moreno was alive. But the only things authorities had to go on for a long time were composite sketches made from people’s reports and a few photographs taken from long distance.

Moreno, who spent his teenage years in the United States, founded La Familia cartel, which was the first target of former President Felipe Calderon’s assault on Mexican drug trafficking. While Calderon touted Moreno’s supposed death and his dismantling of La Familia as a victory, Moreno and his cartel morphed into the more ruthless Knights Templars.

La Familia reportedly took its inspiration from an odd source: the book “Wild at Heart,” by American evangelical author John Eldredge of the Colorado Springs, Colorado-based Ransomed Heart Ministries. A Mexican government profile said Moreno “erected himself as the ‘Messiah,’ using the Bible to profess to poor people and obtain their loyalty.”

He set a code of conduct that

prohibited using hard drugs or dealing them within Mexican territory.

Moreno reportedly wrote his own religiously tinted book of values for the cartel, sometimes known as “The Sayings of the Craziest One.” He lived up to his nickname in many ways.

Moreno announced the emer-

gence of his La Familia cartel by having his gang roll five severed heads into a Michoacan nightclub.

Only when the vigilante groups took up arms in February 2013 and began driving the Knights Templar from much of the state’s Tierra Caliente farming region did the federal government assign a commissioner to take over the state.

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Research that stinks: using bacteria to clean up old mines

Ian Stewart/Yukon News

Guillaume Nielsen examines samples of mine waste water containing active bacteria at the Yukon Research Centre. Nielsen is pursuing a PhD in mine reclamation.

Jesse Winter

quite simple. The bacteria, if provided with the right mix of environmental substrates s Guillaume Nielsen – like rocks, gravel, biochar, peels back the plastic vegetation and oxygen – will seal on a glass jar, a eat up the heavy metals and powerful stench wafts free. essentially poop out organic It smells like a combination matter and water. of rotten eggs and a mouldy “The game is to find the coffee cup that’s been left unright balance of ingredients washed for far too long. to keep the bacteria happy,” “It’s good,” Nielsen says, Nielsen explained. laughing. “When it smells bad, The experiments start off it means the bacteria is work- with small samples placed in ing.” re-used jam jars where they Bacteria. Most of us think are allowed to ferment for of it only as something to be a while. After that, the most destroyed, sanitized, washed successful concoctions are away. We reach for the peniplaced in larger bioreactors, cillin, but Nielsen reaches for which look like pieces of clear another pipette to sample his sewer pipe stacked together. biological brews.

The substrates are added to He is a PhD student with the tubes, and contaminated the Institut National de la mine water is poured in from Recherche Scientifique, and the top. he has 100 jars full of bacteria, As the water filters down rocks, gravel, and – most imthrough the bioreactors and portantly – waste water from the bacteria do their work, it the Keno mine site. eventually comes out the botWorking in collaboration tom to be sampled and comwith Yukon College’s Centre pared to the unfiltered water. for Northern Innovation in Scientists have been studyMining and the Yukon Reing using bacteria to clean up search Centre’s Cold Climate contamination in the mining Innovation group, Nielsen is industry for almost three dectesting the bacteria’s ability ades, explained Nielsen’s PhD to remove heavy metals from supervisor, Amelie Janin. The contaminated water sources, trick for Nielsen’s project is to and if the system will work in find a way to make it work in the North’s harsh climate. the Yukon’s frigid winters.

If he gets it right, bioremedThat’s never been done iation could be used as a cost- before, she said. effective way to clean up mine “To try to apply this resites across the North. search in cold climates is The way it works is actually exciting and very new,” Nielsen News Reporter

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said.

“We know that the temperature affects a lot - how the bacteria lives. It grows more slowly, and is less efficient.

We also want the substrates to be easily found in Northern environments,” he said.

That’s important, because for isolated Northern industry sites, companies need to be able to use whatever materials are around when it comes time to remediate closed mines.

If Nielsen’s research is cutting-edge, so is the program allowing him to do it.

A lot of PhD work is done in the silo of academia, with students earning their degrees in isolation from the working world. They end up teaching other students, and knowledge developed sometimes has a hard time reaching the outside, Janin said.

Nielsen’s project is different.

It’s being done as a partnership between the INRS and Yukon College, with help and funding from Alexco Resources. The money allows Nielsen’s work to progress, but Nielsen also has the added benefit of using the company’s Keno Hill mine site for largescale testing once he gets the recipe close to completion.

“By incorporating Nielsen’s focus and expertise, we’ll work toward solving mine water treatment challenges by using local products, thereby limiting the need to ship materials to remote mining sites from

Ian Stewart/Yukon News

Bioreactors are used to measure the effectiveness of various bacteria and material combinations at removing toxins and heavy metals from the water.

Ian Stewart/Yukon News

Nielsen and supervisor Amelie Janin examine the bioreactors.

outside the Yukon,” said Jim Harrington, president of the Alexco Environmental Group, in a release.

The project is expected to last three years.

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

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U.S. Justice Department investigating GM’s response to deadly ignition switch problem Tom Krisher and Dee-Ann Durbin

York, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the investiAssociated Press gation has not been made public.

Spokesmen for the Justice DeDETROIT partment and GM would not comeneral Motors faced more ment. The investigation was first pressure over its handling of reported by Bloomberg News. a deadly defect in certain compact At issue is why GM waited until cars Tuesday as word leaked of a February to recall 1.6 million oldercriminal investigation and two model compact cars worldwide, congressional committees opened even though it admitted knowing probes into the matter. about the problem for a decade. The The Justice Department is inves- faulty ignition switches have been tigating whether GM broke any laws linked to 31 crashes and 13 deaths. with its slow response to a problem Committees in the House and with ignition switches in compact Senate also want to know why the cars from model years 2003 to 2007, government’s road safety watchdog, according to a person briefed on the the National Highway Traffic Safety matter. The probe is being handled Administration, didn’t take action by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New sooner.

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GM announced last month it will replace ignition switches that can shut off car motors unexpectedly.

When that happens, drivers lose power-assisted steering and brakes and can lose control of the cars. The ignition can slip from the run position to accessory or off, due partly to heavy key chains dangling from the steering column.

Also, if the ignition switch isn’t in the run position, air bags may not inflate if a crash occurs.

An Associated Press review of a NHTSA database found that drivers started submitting complaints about the problem in early 2005, shortly after the first Chevrolet Cobalt went on sale. The review of complaints about the Cobalt, GM’s top-selling small car in the mid-2000s, found 173 instances of engine stalling or air bags failing to deploy, both symptoms of the ignition problem.

Many drivers reported problems with keys sticking in the ignition in addition to the stalling.

Fred Upton of Western Michigan, the chairman of the House committee, said in a statement Monday that a hearing will be held in the coming weeks.

Congress passed legislation in

2000 requiring automakers to report safety problems quickly to NHTSA. The laws came after an investigation into a series of Ford-Firestone tire problems.

Upton said the committee wants to know if GM or the agency missed something that could have flagged the problems sooner.

“If the answer is yes, we must learn how and why this happened, and then determine whether this system of reporting and analyzing complaints that Congress created to save lives is being implemented and working as the law intended,” Upton said.

NHTSA has said the rate of problems in the GM cars was not significantly different from similar vehicles.

The prospect of congressional hearings means more bad publicity for GM, which is trying to distance itself from a reputation for building lousy cars. The company has said it’s more focused on quality since emerging from bankruptcy protection in 2009.

“It’s the old GM haunting the new GM,” said Jake Fisher, director of auto testing at Consumer Reports magazine. “They have a lot of the

old products still hanging around.”

Fisher said GM’s new cars and trucks will have to be better than the competition to lure back buyers who swore years ago to never again to buy a GM car.

NHTSA already has demanded information from GM about when it knew of the ignition problem.

The agency could fine GM up to $35 million for a delayed response.

Automakers must report safety problems to NHTSA within five days of learning about them.

GM said in a statement that it’s co-operating with NHTSA and the House committee.

On Feb. 13, GM announced the recall of more than 780,000 Cobalts and Pontiac G5s (model years 20052007). Two weeks later it added 842,000 Saturn Ion compacts (20032007), and Chevrolet HHR SUVs and Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky sports cars (2006-2007).

GM said Monday that it has hired attorney Anton Valukas to investigate the company’s actions before the recall. Valukas, who investigated the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers for a bankruptcy court.

GM has promised an “unvarnished” investigation into the recall.

Religious Organizations & Services Whitehorse United Church

Yukon Bible Fellowship

(Union of Methodist, Presbyterian & Congregational Churches) 10:30 a.m. - Sunday School & Worship Service Rev. Beverly C.S. Brazier

160 hillcrest Drive 668-5689 Sunday Service 10:00 a.m.

Pre-Service Prayer 9:00 a.m.

Family Worship & K.I.D.S. Church

Grace Community Church

Church Of The Nazarene

601 Main Street 667-2989

8th & Wheeler Street

Pastor Paul & Moreen Sharp 667-2134 10:30 aM FaMILY WoRShIP WeeKLY CaRe GRoUP STUDIeS Because He Cares, We Care.

The Salvation Army

311-B Black Street • 668-2327

Sunday Church Services: 11 am & 7 pm eveRYoNe WeLCoMe

Our Lady of Victory (Roman Catholic)

1607 Birch St. 633-2647

Saturday evening Mass: 7:30 p.m.

Confessions before Mass & by appointment.

Monday 7:00 PM Novena Prayers & adoration Tuesday through Friday: Mass 11:30 a.m.

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PaSToR RICK TURNeR

2111 Centennial St. (Porter Creek) Sunday School & Morning Worship - 10:45 am

Call for Bible Study & Youth Group details

PaSToR NoRaYR (Norman) haJIaN

www.whitehorsenazarene.org 633-4903

First Pentecostal Church 149 Wilson Drive 668-5727

Sunday 10:00am Prayer / Sunday School 11:00 am Worship Wednesday Praise & Celebration 7:30 pm Pastor Roger Yadon

Whitehorse

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Baptist Church

668-4079 tlc@northwestel.net Sunday Worship at 10:00 aM Sunday School at 10:00 aM

Family Worship & Sunday School

4th Avenue & Strickland Street

Pastor Deborah Moroz pastor.tlc@northwestel.net

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Riverdale Baptist Church

15 Duke Road, Whse 667-6620 Sunday worship Service: 10:30am Rev. GReG aNDeRSoN

www.rbchurch.ca

Quaker Worship Group ReLIGIoUS SoCIeTY oF FRIeNDS Meets regularly for Silent Worship.

For information, call 667-4615 email: whitehorse-contact@quaker.ca

website: quaker.ca

Seventh Day Adventist Church

Reader Service Sundays 10:30 am 332-4171 for information

www.orthodoxwhitehorse.org

www.vajranorth.org • 667-6951

Christ Church Cathedral Anglican

Church of the Northern Apostles

An Anglican/episcopal Church Sunday Worship 10:00 aM

Sacred Heart Cathedral

TAGISH Community Church

www.tagishcc.com

The Church of Jesus Christ of

(Roman Catholic)

4th Avenue & Steele Street • 667-2437 Masses: Weekdays: 12:10 pm.

Saturday 5 pm Sunday: 9 am - english; 10:10 am - French; 11:30 am english

Bethany Church

Ph: 668-4877 • www.bethanychurch.ca

Christian Mission

403 Lowe Street

Mondays 5:15 to 6:15 PM

For more information on monthly activities, call (867) 633-6594 or visit www.eckankar-yt.ca www.eckankar.org ALL ARe WeLCOMe.

Box 31419, Whitehorse, YT Y1a 6K8 For information on regular community activities in Whitehorse contact:

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Religion of the Light and Sound of God

oFFICe hoURS: Mon-Fri 9:00 aM to 12 Noon

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St. Nikolai

Vajra North Buddhist Meditation Society

1609 Birch St. (Porter Creek) 633-5385 “We’re open Saturdays!”

Worship Service 11:00 am Wednesday 7:00 pm - Prayer Meeting All are welcome.

Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada early Service 9:00 - 10:00 am Family Service 10:30 am - Noon Filipino Service 4:00 - 5:00 pm Sunday School ages 0-12

2060 2nd AvEnuE • 667-4889

Rigdrol Dechen Ling,

91806 alaska highway

The Temple of Set

The World’s Premier Left hand Path Religion

a not-for-prophet society. www.xeper.org

canadian affiliation information: northstarpylon@gmail.com

4Th aveNUe & eLLIoTT STReeT Services Sunday 8:30 aM & 10:00 aM Thursday Service 12:10 PM (with lunch)

668-5530

Meeting First Sunday each Month Details, map and information at:

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Calvary Baptist

1301 FIR STReeT 633-2886

Sunday School during Service, Sept to May

THe ReV. ROB LANGMAID

45 Boxwood Crescent • Porter Creek 633-4032 • All Are Welcome

Bahá’í Faith

whitehorselsa@gmail.com

Latter Day Saints

108 WICKSTROM ROAD, WHITeHORSe

1-867-667-2353

Sunday Sacrament Service starts at 10:00 AM Sunday School at 11:00 AM and Priesthood hour will be from 12:00 to 1:00 PM

Northern Light Ministries Dale & Rena Mae McDonald Word of Faith Ministers & Teachers. check out our website!

Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.

Sunday evening Worship 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Study 7:30 p.m.

Pastor L.e. harrison 633-4089

www.northernlightministries.ca

St. Saviour’s

1154c 1st Ave • Entrance from Strickland

Regular Monthly Service: 1st and 3rd Sundays of the Month 11:00 AM • All are welcome.

Rev. David Pritchard 668-5530

For further information about, and to discover Islam, please contact: Javed Muhammad (867) 332-8116 or Adil Khalik (867) 633-4078 or send an e-mail to info@yukonmuslims.ca

Anglican Church in Carcross

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Starbucks adds digital tipping that lets customers give 50 cents, $1 or $2 Candice Choi

sin for more than three years, said most customers nevertheless leave a tip of some sort. She said NEW YORK tips generally add between $1.50 tarbucks will soon let cusand $2 to her hourly pay of tomers leave tips with its $9.05. But she noted that there’s mobile payment app, which no rule on how much baristas raises the question – how often can expect to earn from tips. do people tip their baristas?

“It varies a lot from store to The coffee chain says the store, even in the same city,” mobile tipping option, which Lemke said. At the drive-thru it announced more than a year location where she works, for ago, will be available on its instance, she said tips go down updated app for iPhones starting when it’s cold out and people are March 19. The rollout comes as less likely to reach out and put the company’s app has surged in money in the tip box that hangs popularity, with roughly one out of every 10 purchases now made with a mobile device.

After paying with the app, Starbucks says customers will be able to leave a tip of 50 cents, $1 or $2 anytime within two hours of the transaction. The tipping option will only be available at the 7,000 of the roughly 11,000 Starbucks locations in the U.S. that are owned by the company.

The move puts a spotlight on what can be a sensitive topic for customers, workers and even Starbucks, which has faced lawsuits over how it divvies up the contents of tip jars among workers. Some customers are happy to tip for friendly service, knowing that baristas don’t earn that much. Others say that they already fork over enough money and shouldn’t be made to feel like they should throw money into a tip jar as well.

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off a ledge.

Lemke, 30, said mobile tipping has the potential to boost the amount she earns. Still, she doesn’t like the idea of employers relying on tips to compensate workers.

“It’s a way of claiming workers make more than you’re paying them,” she said.

Starbucks, meanwhile, has been pushing to get people to sign up for its mobile app and rewards program, which helps boost the number of times people are likely to visit its stores.

The Seattle-based company says the addition of the mobile tipping option is a response to demand from customers, many of who no longer carry around much cash.

“We asked our customers what they thought would be easiest and best,” Adam Brotman, chief digital officer for Starbucks, said in a phone interview. There are no plans to bring the mobile tipping option to stores licensed to other operators, however.

Exactly how Starbucks divides

up the tip jars varies. Shannon Liss Riordan, an attorney who represented baristas in lawsuits saying shift supervisors shouldn’t share in tips, said the cash is typically distributed on a weekly basis.

“They keep it in a safe and dole it out to employees … based on the number of hours worked,” she said.

As for the tips earned through mobile payments, Starbucks said they’ll be paid out to workers in cash in line with however they receive their regular tips.

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On December 9, 2013, the Yukon Energy Corporation (YEC) applied under Part 3 of the Public Utilities Act for an energy project certificate and an energy operation certificate regarding the Whitehorse Diesel to Natural Gas Conversion Project (project).

In order to make a presentation at the Community Session, advanced registration is required. You may register to make an oral statement by contacting the Board’s Executive Secretary by one of the following methods no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 28, 2014:

The Minister of Justice referred the YEC Application, by way of correspondence dated December 20, 2013, for an energy project certificate and an energy operation certificate, to the Yukon Utilities Board (Board) for a review and hearing.

> By email: yub@utilitiesboard.yk.ca (preferred method) > By phone: 867-667-7500 or 867-334-3400

A notice of the hearing was published on January 17, 2014, and in that notice the public was advised that the oral hearing of the Application is scheduled to commence at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, March 31, 2014, in Whitehorse, Yukon, and is tentatively scheduled for four days.

Community Session The notice of hearing also advised that a Public (Community) Session would be held outside of the regularly scheduled hearing hours to allow members of the public who are not otherwise Registered Parties to make submissions to the Board.

Please provide your contact information so that you may receive confirmation of your registration.

Community Session Guidelines Participant guidelines for oral presentations are available at www.yukonutilitiesboard.yk.ca. These guidelines outline the process to be followed by registered participants in making their oral presentation, explain the nature of the information the Board expects to hear during the presentations as it pertains to the matters before the Board, and also outline a process for making written submissions to the Board if that is preferred.

A copy of the Application and supporting documents are available on the Board’s website: http://yukonutilitiesboard.yk.ca/proceedings/yec-lngproject-proceeding/

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Entrepreneurs rely on full time jobs to keep startups in business LuAnn LaSalle

back because it’s “easier to just go day-by-day,” Wear said.

But entrepreneurs need to have MONTREAL a solid financial plan for both their t some point, part-time entre- living expenses and for building preneurs with big ambitions their businesses. have to decide when they can quit “It’s just discipline,” Wear said. their day jobs - and give up the “Don’t be thinking rainbows. regular paycheque.

That doesn’t mean anything until For Jean-Philippe LeBlanc, money is in the bank.” who just quit his job at a MonA study by Intuit Canada, a treal tech company to launch his business and accounting software business software company, it took company, showed that 53 per cent nearly two years and a nest egg of of all new startup businesses in banked paycheques that will last six Canada are run by part-time entremonths to a year. preneurs.

“Getting a paycheque every two Charles Benoit makes organic weeks was the reason why I didn’t whisky, but the 32-year-old figures take the plunge before,” said LeBit will take a year before he can quit lanc, co-founder of Dotted Block, his job as a lawyer. which offers work performance “In a small business, you are the management software. last to get paid,” Benoit said from “I think this is when, after talk- Toronto, where he co-founded ing to the family, you can take the the Toronto Distillery Co. “If you plunge,” said LeBlanc, 37, who has don’t meticulously plan out where two children and a wife who runs money is going to go, you will her own web marketing and design hit the wall in no time flat,” said business.

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Sandra Wear, who has founded Benoit and his business partner, two tech companies and advised also a practising lawyer, are planmore than 100 entrepreneurs, said ning to hire their first employee as the process is a tough slog. they continue to work full-time.

It’s usually one in 10 entrepreGetting a distillery up and running is a “six-figure project,” said neurs who succeed, she said from Benloit, and they want to put as Vancouver. much money back into their busiFear of making the business a ness as possible. full-time venture can hold people Canadian Press

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Loblaws first to offer new responsibly farmed certified Atlantic salmon of Canadian farms have achieved sustainability TORONTO certification through other rocery giant Loblaws will agencies, with three fish be the first retailer in farms aiming to achieve ASC North America to sell a new standards by 2020. type of responsibly-farmed “It shows the feasibility salmon, an offering it hopes and that the industry is movwill differentiate itself amid ing in that direction, but it intense competition from its is a rigorous standards,” said grocery rivals.

Agopian.

Loblaws, which is also ASC-certified farms adthe country’s largest biggest dress social and environmenbuyer and seller of seafood, tal concerns, such as waste said the decision to stock production, precautions to Atlantic salmon certified by manage and stop the transfer the Aquaculture Stewardof disease and how the feed is ship Council (ASC) will give sourced and used. customers more choice when Agopian said the Atlanselecting responsibly farmed tic salmon will be sold at fish. fresh fish counters at select The ASC is an indeLoblaws and Zehrs stores in pendent, not-for-profit Ontario and Quebec, beginorganization based in The ning in early April.

Netherlands that certifies It already sales ASCresponsible seafood farms, approved tilapia, and says it processors and distributors only sells seafood at its stores around the world that profrom sustainable sources. duce Atlantic salmon, Arctic About 60 per cent of char, shrimp, mussels and all fish sold in Loblaws is oysters. farmed, it says.

Melanie Agopian, senior Like other Canadian retaildirector of seafood sustainers, Loblaw is losing market ability with the supermarket share to domestic and forchain, said only one Atlaneign competitors – including tic fish farm in Norway has Sobeys, Metro, Walmart and been approved by the group, the newcomer Target, which which introduced the stanentered the food business in dards late last year.

Canada about a year ago.

“We are excited to bring The retail chains have conthis market to Canada,” she solidated in the past year, cut said. prices and tried to differentiCurrently, ASC-approved ate their offerings in a bid to farmed Atlantic salmon is lure in more customers.

Kevin Grier doesn’t think only sold in Japan and Euthis latest move by Loblaws is rope. necessarily due to consumer The B.C. Salmon Farmers demand for responsiblyAssociation says a number Canadian Press

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farmed fish, but an attempt by the food giant stand out against its competitors.

“Store after store, it’s about differentiation of the product and differentiation about the store,” said Grier, senior market analyst with the George Morris Centre, an independent economic research centre in Guelph, Ont., focused on agriculture and food.

He said that consumers are more concerned about the safety of their food, and price point, rather than whether farming practices meet any globally-accepted standards.

“It’s not due to consumer demand. (The industry) keeps on telling them its something to worry about, and they will, eventually,” Grier added.

Rick Routledge, the acting director of environmental science at B.C.’s Simon Fraser University, said grocery stores and restaurants tend to stock fresh farmed salmon because of its abundance compared to wild salmon, which is only available in summer and early fall season.

He noted that there are concerns about salmon fisheries, such as the spread of viruses and sea lice, and the potential impact on wild salmon stocks.

“There are good reasons for people to take a careful look at whether they want to eat any farmed salmon, especially produced on the Pacific Coast here,” said Routledge, who is also an ecological statistician.

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Canadian makers of ‘world’s lowest cost tablet’ aim for a $20 device Michael Oliveira

Datawind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli during an interview at his Toronto-area office, one of five TORONTO the company has in Canada, he Canadian makers of the England, Germany and India. “world’s lowest cost tablet,” “We think as the Scandinathe UbiSlate 7Ci, think $37.99 vians do that (Internet access) is still isn’t cheap enough. a fundamental human right.”

They figure there’s still room On the second floor of an to knock about 50 per cent off its unassuming strip mall – strateprice and make tablet ownership gically located within spitting possible for anyone and everydistance of Toronto’s Pearson one. airport, where Tuli says he’s “This idea is to bridge the coming from or going to a few digital divide, it’s really that times a week – the Datawind simple, the idea is to overcome team is working on its strategy the affordability barrier,” says to sell cut-rate “good enough” Canadian Press

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The company is best known for its work with the Indian government, which it supplied with low-cost tablets for a program to get technology into the hands of students. Datawind was recently named one of the world’s 50 smartest companies by the MIT Technology Review magazine for launching those tablets, branded under the Aakash name.

While India’s government is considering proposals from Datawind and other vendors to make the next version of the Aakash, the company has turned

its attention to North America and the U.K. to sell its tablets directly to consumers under the UbiSlate brand.

The cheapest version of the seven-inch tablet, the UbiSlate 7Ci, has a not-too-sharp screen resolution of 800 by 480 pixels, four gigabytes of memory, half a gigabyte of RAM, runs a current version of Google’s Android operating system and can only get online with WiFi. It sells online for $37.99 plus taxes and shipping. The next model up, the UbiSlate 7C+, costs an additional $42 to gain access to EDGE mobile networks. The most expensive model, the UbiSlate 3G7 at $129.99 plus taxes and shipping, has a better screen and processor and can also access HSDPA 3G mobile networks.

Tuli says the company can sell the tablets so inexpensively because of the scale of its production runs and the fact that it makes its own screens, which helps boost profit margins. A preloaded web browser also displays ads that generate additional revenue for Datawind – although users can choose to download another ad-free browser – and the company monetizes some downloads of apps.

Datawind has also kept its prices down by selling directly to consumers through its website and not seeking retail partners.

“Something that costs $50 to make ends up at $150 easily at retail,” he says.

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costs $32 to make ends up at $38 in the consumers’ hands.”

Tuli says he envisions the price of Datawind’s lower-end tablet slipping below $20 “within the next year or two,” especially if revenues from ads and apps grow.

“We think pricing will continue coming down and we think features will continue going up. We will keep our high end between $100 to $150, we don’t see ourselves going up anything higher than that, but we’ll continue pushing the barriers on the lower end,” he says.

While he insists that Canadian consumers won’t find the tablets lacking, the reviews for Datawind’s tablets in India were far from positive. And anyone who has used an iPad or a higher-end Android tablet will notice a major difference in performance.

But he believes there is a strong market of consumers who are willing to trade performance for a low price.

“What we tried to focus on was realizing that for our customer, price is the most important feature and starting with that element we said, ‘What can we bundle in to provide a performance experience that would be good enough for them?”’ Tuli says.

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Facebook, Twitter and other websites where fraudsters are trying to sell fake products or rip people off.

OTTAWA Scammers use social-media beanada’s competition watchdog cause they can play on assumptions is warning Canadians to be ever that users are dealing with people watchful for online scams that try to they trust, said Daniel Wilcock, the take advantage of the uninformed bureau’s assistant deputy commisand the soft-hearted. sioner of fair business practices.

The Competition Bureau says “People might be exposed to scammers are becoming more scams on Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest sophisticated in using the Internet to from friends or followers where defraud Canadians of their money social-media accounts have been deand personal information. signed solely to promote fraudulent As it issued that message Tuesday, products,” said Wilcock. the bureau itself said it may have But few people caught up in been the target of would-be scam scams are reporting the incidents to artists. police or other authorities.

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A big reason for that is embarrassment, said Wilcock.

“You can certainly imagine types (of scams) where people are less willing to come forward,” he said.

“Dating and romance scams are one of those listed. People don’t like to admit that they’ve been taken in by one of those scams.”

The bureau has published what it calls the Little Black Book of Scams, which spells out a number of ways that criminals attempt to defraud the public, sort of an anatomical breakdown of scams.

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Internet and social media scams run rampant Internet security.

One participant identifying herself as an Ottawa teaching assistant, recalled how she received an email from “Facebook” telling her to log in.

“I was about to login as well, but I noticed the URL was strange,” said (at)JerieShaw.

Perhaps as a message from someone that only served to prove their point, the bureau suggested that scammers may have tried to infiltrate its Internet chat.

“We recv’d a suspicious looking link via a tweet at the end of our #2G2BT chat,” it said.

“A reminder that you should never open these links,” said the bureau’s final message once the Twitter party was over.

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Game Review: Titanfall a beauty and a beast of an online shooter Derrik J. Lang Associated Press

LOS ANGELES I fear I won’t survive. My vision is blurred. I’m being chased by a pistolpacking militia member across the rooftops of an abandoned neighbourhood. He’s already shot me. One more shot and I might be dead. Then I hear: “Your Titan is ready to drop.

Signal when ready.” I point to a nearby parking lot below me and – boom! – a Transformers-like robot descends from the sky.

Leaping from the building’s roof, I slide into my mechanized beast’s chest and quickly assume the controls, swinging the 24-foot-tall walking tank around to my pursuer and blasting him to smithereens. That’s just one breakneck moment among the dozens I’ve experienced while playing the frenetic Titanfall (Electronic Arts, for the Xbox One, PC, $59.99).

Titanfall is the ambitious inaugural game from Respawn Entertainment, a studio that includes developers who worked on the landmark Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series. It’s clear after

Electronic Arts photo

An image from Titanfall, the new first-person shooter from Electronic Arts.

spending a few days clashing with Titans that they’ve changed the game again, refreshing the static shoot-’em-

UMBRELLA FINAL AGREEMENT BOARDS AND COMMITTEES Are you interested in being a federal nominee?

Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, Yukon Region, is seeking Yukon residents who wish to be considered for nomination as the federal nominee to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) as required under the Umbrella Final Agreement (UFA).

Applicants must have knowledge or experience in the YESAB’s areas of interest/focus.

Appointments will be made for a three-year term. Remuneration will be provided. Board members carry out the mandate of the Board as set out in the UFA and relevant legislation.

If you are interested in serving on the YESAB, please send a letter stating your interest and a detailed resumé that includes your current contact information.

For further information, questions can be directed to: Donna-Marie Haughton, Yukon Region Appointments Co-ordinator Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada Room 415C – 300 Main Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2B5 Telephone: (867) 667-3324 (direct) (800) 661-0451 (toll-free) Fax: (867) 667-3801 Email: donna-marie.haughton@aandc-aadnc.gc.ca Application deadline: March 21, 2014 Please forward your complete information by mail or email to the contact above.

up genre with this fabulously fluid sci-fi shooter.

Any notion of interactive story-

telling has been ejected into space in favour of a strictly online-only affair where each matchup between the

CONSEILS ET COMITÉS DE L’ACCORD-CADRE DÉFINITIF Aimeriez-vous devenir un représentant fédéral?

La région du Yukon d’Affaires autochtones et Développement du Nord Canada est à la recherche de résidents du Yukon qui souhaitent présenter leur candidature à titre de représentant fédéral auprès de l’Office d’évaluation environnementale et socioéconomique du Yukon (OEESY), conformément à l’Accord-cadre définitif.

Les candidats doivent avoir des connaissances ou de l’expérience dans les domaines d’intérêt et d’étude de l’OEESY. Les nominations seront d’une durée de trois ans. Une rémunération sera versée. Les membres devront accomplir le mandat de l’OEESY établi dans l’Accord-cadre définitif et la législation pertinente.

Si vous souhaitez siéger à l’OEESY, veuillez envoyer une lettre qui exprime votre intérêt et un curriculum vitæ détaillé dans lequel figurent vos coordonnées actuelles.

Pour de plus amples renseignements, adressez les questions à : Donna-Marie Haughton, Coordonnatrice des nominations – Région du Yukon Affaires autochtones et Développement du Nord Canada 300, rue Main, bureau 415C, Whitehorse (Yukon) Y1A 2B5 Téléphone : 867-667-3324 (direct) 800-661-0451 (sans frais) Télécopieur : 867-667-3801 Courriel : donna-marie.haughton@aadnc-aandc.gc.ca Date limite de présentation des candidatures : 21 mars 2014 Veuillez faire parvenir tous vos renseignements par la poste ou par courriel à la personne-ressource susmentionnée.

game’s warring Frontier Militia and the Interstellar Manufacturing Corp. is comprised of real players portraying balletic gun-toting pilots. They’re each equipped with jet packs and can call on those behemoth Titans for support.

Pilots begin most matches without a Titan sidekick. They can speed up its construction occurring in a ship overhead by shooting down foes and completing objectives in the game’s five multiplayer modes – from the death match-like Attrition to the rock-’em-sock-’em Last Titan Standing – that are spread across 15 of the most vertical levels ever depicted in a shooter.

The expansive battlefields aren’t merely populated with other human pilots. There are also dozens of computer-controlled foot soldiers whose presence imbues Titanfall with the feeling of an epic war. Enemies serve as fodder. Their deaths shave off time until the next Titan is ready, while allies helpfully lead pilots to the next closest kerfuffle on the map.

It might all seem complicated. It’s not. There are so many different ways to play as either a free-running pilot on the ground or inside a lumbering Titan that it’s always entertaining, no matter if you’re a shooter newbie or hardcore Halo and Call of Duty devotee. Heck, even losing is fun because the missions end with an adrenalinepumping race to an escape vessel.

An unfulfilling but necessary campaign mode attempts to make sense of the man-versus-machine conflict that’s waging between the militia and the IMC. It’s inadequate because it provides zero background on how or why these factions are at each other’s steel throats, but it’s paramount because playing completely through the mode unlocks two of the game’s three Titans.

No, Titanfall isn’t 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s Space Mountain. By relinquishing a true plot and instead masterfully blending guns, robots, parkour and sci-fi cliches into a giant interactive thrill ride, Respawn Entertainment has put together an innovative toy box where players can act out their own stories on otherworldly front lines. Four stars out of four.

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Tourism Times TIA Yukon, Chair

Neil Hartling

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ive years ago we would not have dared to dream of the boom in winter tourism that continues this year. Winter 2013/2014 was a record year and we eagerly await what the numbers tell us about this year. Despite some early concerns with flight schedules, operators have been busy and pleased with their results. The great news about this success is that we still have capacity for expansion.

Tourism continues to be the good news story for our challenged economy.

However, to take it to the next level Yukon’s tourism industry needs greater market penetration – more eyeballs on the beauty of the Territory. The most effective way to do this is by leveraging broadcast opportunities with TV, strategically blending it with the social media and other mechanisms already at play.

But the entry level requires an investment of at least 2.5 million per year. We have demonstrated that we get a very high return on investment for every marketing dollar spent, so this will bring many millions of much needed money into the Yukon economy. The high tide will float all boats and the increased publicity will benefit every industry in the economy.

#3-1109 Front Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5G4 Phone (867) 668-3331 Fax (867) 667-7379 info@tiayukon.com www.tiayukon.com

This is why TIA has requested that the Yukon Government find $2.5 million per year to take the Yukon economy to the next level. It is a small investment for a big return.

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Friday, March 14, 2014

ApplY EArlY for Tourism Cooperative Marketing Fund

YukomiCon

W

hen a few like-minded individuals got together in the fall to discuss the idea of a comic convention in Whitehorse, they weren’t sure what would become of it. At first, a one-day get-together to celebrate pop culture and alternative art was proposed. Since then, things have grown rapidly into a three-day festival, and a Facebook survey has attracted over 40 local volunteers.

Being dubbed ‘YukomiCon’, the Yukon Comic Culture Society is hoping to make this year’s event the first of an annual tradition. The board, lead

by President Christi Mathews, is chockfull of strong arts and organizational talent from here in Whitehorse.

“We’ve been blown away at the reception we receive when people hear the news that we’re holding a comicon in Yukon,” says Mathews. “From individuals and companies alike, there’s a lot of excitement. It seems like everyone has been waiting for one to happen here.”

For the uninitiated, comic conventions began in the early 70’s as a way to bring together fans of comic books.

Since then, they have grown into a cultural phenomenon, a way for the entertainment industry – from videogame developers to Hollywood A-listers – to connect with fans and enthusiasts.

The YukomiCon will feature collect-

ables dealers from outside the territory, hobby demonstrations such as Warhammer, and even a retro room where attendees can play their favourite nostalgia videogame consoles.

The convention will also showcase live music from local talent and food tents in the parking lot of the Coast High Country Inn. Among the events planned are games tournaments, a cosplay (costume play) contest, and artist and writer workshops and panels.

The Yukon convention will focus on a lot of homegrown talent here in Yukon. “We’re blessed in Yukon with a massive talent base,” says Mathews.

“We have accomplished cartoonists, filmmakers, writers, animators, and videogame developers. We’re hoping to tap into all these talent pools to help bring the YukomiCon alive.”

Mathews expects this event to attract regional visitors from around Yukon, NWT, Alaska and northern BC into Whitehorse, as well as provide a very unique experience to those already panning to visit. The event promises to have something for everyone, from kids to adults.

The inaugural event is scheduled to take place on August 8th-10th, 2014!

To learn more about the YukomiCon visit www.yukoncomicculturesociety. com and fill out their survey.

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or the Yukon Convention Bureau (YCB), 2013 certainly has proved to be a year of success in further establishing Yukon as the destination for outside organizations to hold their conferences and business events. In 2013, Yukon saw an upswing of interest in convention and event organizers not only considering but choosing Yukon as a unique destination to host their meetings and events.

This year YCB celebrates our 15-year anniversary. Since 1998, YCB’s continuous message has been; hosting an event in Yukon is attractive, accessible, and affordable. All our Yukon tourism partners have sung this message far and wide. YCB’s success is a result of these collective efforts. Since our inception, YCB has received strong support from our industry, with a steady 100+ membership. In 2013 YCB received over ¼ of our annual budget in sponsorship and partner buy in programs.

This is a testament to the importance of working together, in seeking a common platform for our marketing efforts. This past February, YCB recognized our top sponsors at our annual Bravo awards. Air North – Yukon’s Airline – Platinum sponsor and Westmark Whitehorse, Northern Vision Development Hospitality Division, Driving Force, Northwestel, CKRW the Rush – Gold Sponsors, have contributed heavily to YCB for over 15 years. Their support is invaluable, which without, YCB could not achieve the success we have today.

Recently, Air North, Yukon’s Airline, announced direct service from Whitehorse to Ottawa. This new route will offer key MICE markets, direct and affordable service, further establishing Yukon as a top contender for convenient and affordable access. YCB actively pursues business and earlier this year travelled to Ottawa, with Air North – Yukon’s Airline, City of Whitehorse, TIA Yukon, Sport Yukon and YG Department of Tourism & Culture to celebrate Air North’s new Ottawa route. By hosting several targeted industry events, our Yukon contingent showcased the special energy of the Yukon and established real time, face-to-face relationships with our prospective clients.

The picture for 2014 looks just as bright with Yukon being chosen as the destination for many national business events. These events will surely bring extensive national coverage, which only boosts the exposure that Yukon is the place to be. Our incentives attract producers, corporations and associations, who are looking for value and most of all that renowned “Yukon experience” that many only dream of. With the hard work dedication, and cooperation of our partners and sponsors, we are more than confident YCB will help visitors reach the Yukon to Experience the Rush in 2014 and beyond.

Keynote Spotlight:

Andy Nulman

T

he Tourism Industry Association of the Yukon (TIA Yukon) is happy to announce that Just For Laughs co-founder Andy Nulman will be this years keynote speaker.

Nulman got his start at age 23 when he joined a two-night, French-language humour event starting up in Montreal. When he left 15 years later as its CEO and driving force, the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival was the biggest and most prestigious of its kind on earth, attracting more than 2 million visitors over a month-long period and some of the best comedians in the world. In 2010, Nulman would return as President of Festivals and Television to Just for Laughs and its French component Juste Pour Rire.

Andy will be presenting on The Three-Word Secret to Tourism Success: a topic relevant to the entire tourism industry, whether you’re responsible for the territory, a city, major attraction, community event, hotel or even a roadside stand. Filled with real-life examples and colorful pictures, swathed in Nulman’s off-the-wall and no-holds-barred humour, and appended by a real-time Q&A brainstorming/work session, The Three-Word Secret to Tourism Success promises to be the optimum mix of learning and fun.

As the Tourism Cooperative Marketing Fund (TCMF) was waitlisted in the 2013/2014 fiscal year, TIA Yukon would like to encourage operators to apply early to ensure funding is set aside for their projects in the 2014/2015 fiscal year. Remember to apply to the fund before you attend any shows. Don’t miss your opportunity to take advantage of TCMF and promote your business!

The following trade shows are eligible for funding in 2014/2015: • Rendez-vous Canada • Conozca Canada • Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE) National Conference • Travel Trade Canada • Showcase Canada Asia • CITAP Winter Function • Dallas Safari Club Convention & Sporting Expo • The Sheep Show • Grand Slam Club/OVIS Hunter & Outfitter Convention

• Safari Club International Convention • Tete a Tete Tradeshow • The Motorcycle & ATV Show Edmonton • International Sportsmen’s Exposition • Calgary Home & Garden Show • Canada Corroboree • Edmonton RV Show • Great American Outdoor Show • Toronto Sportsmen’s Show • ITB Berlin Convention • The Outdoor & Adventure Travel Show

As well, sales calls and DMO-related sales missions are eligible all year round!

This list only represents a small portion of the popular eligible trade shows for TCMF. If you will be attending a trade show that is not on this list, please contact programs coordinator Zara Bachli at tcmf@tiayukon.com

Other accomplishments include the founding of Airborne Mobile, a media-space company, being named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 business leaders by the Financial Post in 1997, voted one of the Top 100 Montrealers of the 20th Century by the Montreal Gazette in 2000, and honored as a distinguished recipient of the McGill Management Achievement Award in 2004. Andy is also published author of three books, including the breakthrough marketing effort Pow! Right Between The Eyes-Profiting From The Power of Surprise.

The TIA Yukon Spring Conference will be taking place from April 24- 26, 2014 at the Kwanlun Dun Cultural Centre. Conference registration is now open! Do not miss your opportunity to be a part of the fun.

Adäka Cultural Festival

T

he Adäka Cultural Festival was launched in July 2011 with a mission to develop and deliver a world-class, iconic First Nations Art and Culture festival.

Adäka showcases, celebrates, and fosters the development of Yukon’s diverse and distinctive First Nations arts and culture with participation and input from almost every First Nations community in the territory. Now into its fourth year, the festival has continued to grow and evolve.

#3-1109 Front Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5G4 Phone (867) 668-3331 • Fax (867) 667-7379 info@tiayukon.com • www.tiayukon.com

The festival prides itself on focusing on every aspect of First Nation culture, not just music and art, but food, people and history. Some big changes are happening in 2014. For the first time, the festival will be separated from National Aboriginal Day and it will instead fall on Canada Day, creating two separate First Nation cultural experiences for visitors to the territory. By moving the festival a week closer to the peak of summer, Adäka’s Executive Producer Charlene Alexander hopes that

it will help generate a greater awareness for those visiting.

A special addition to the 2014 Adäka Cultural Festival will be Journey with Our Hearts and Hands, a collaborative gathering of Pacific Northwest master carvers from Yukon, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, B.C., Alaska and New Zealand. 14 of the top carvers from around the world will be in Whitehorse to provide public lectures and host a collaborative exhibition. The master artists will share ideas, inspiration and knowledge through organized forums and informal studio time in a carving tent by the Yukon River, discussing issues, trends, challenges and opportunities, while working on their art together in a creative and supportive environment.

Journey with Our Hearts and Hands will create bonds between younger artists, who will be invited to attend and participate in the

daily forums. They will be working in a tent adjacent to the master carvers, affording more opportunities for interaction and relationship building. The Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre will provide exhibit space for the collaborative exhibition, and also provide the forum for several public discussions of the traditional and contemporary development of Pacific Northwest art forms, including contributions by curators and gallery owners from Vancouver, Germany, Ottawa and the U.S. With each year, Adäka has been able to grow its economic impact and attract more visitors from outside of Yukon. The 2013 festival will be featured in a northern travel video produced in China. Community buy-in has also grown, and with each successive year, new partnerships and sponsorships have formed. The 2014 Adäka Cultural Festival is scheduled for June 27th - July 3rd.

The Yukon Culinary Festival 2014 Save the date:

August 1st - 5th A celebration of local food and homegrown cuisine

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Friday, March 14, 2014

Friday, March 14, 2014

ApplY EArlY for Tourism Cooperative Marketing Fund

YukomiCon

W

hen a few like-minded individuals got together in the fall to discuss the idea of a comic convention in Whitehorse, they weren’t sure what would become of it. At first, a one-day get-together to celebrate pop culture and alternative art was proposed. Since then, things have grown rapidly into a three-day festival, and a Facebook survey has attracted over 40 local volunteers.

Being dubbed ‘YukomiCon’, the Yukon Comic Culture Society is hoping to make this year’s event the first of an annual tradition. The board, lead

by President Christi Mathews, is chockfull of strong arts and organizational talent from here in Whitehorse.

“We’ve been blown away at the reception we receive when people hear the news that we’re holding a comicon in Yukon,” says Mathews. “From individuals and companies alike, there’s a lot of excitement. It seems like everyone has been waiting for one to happen here.”

For the uninitiated, comic conventions began in the early 70’s as a way to bring together fans of comic books.

Since then, they have grown into a cultural phenomenon, a way for the entertainment industry – from videogame developers to Hollywood A-listers – to connect with fans and enthusiasts.

The YukomiCon will feature collect-

ables dealers from outside the territory, hobby demonstrations such as Warhammer, and even a retro room where attendees can play their favourite nostalgia videogame consoles.

The convention will also showcase live music from local talent and food tents in the parking lot of the Coast High Country Inn. Among the events planned are games tournaments, a cosplay (costume play) contest, and artist and writer workshops and panels.

The Yukon convention will focus on a lot of homegrown talent here in Yukon. “We’re blessed in Yukon with a massive talent base,” says Mathews.

“We have accomplished cartoonists, filmmakers, writers, animators, and videogame developers. We’re hoping to tap into all these talent pools to help bring the YukomiCon alive.”

Mathews expects this event to attract regional visitors from around Yukon, NWT, Alaska and northern BC into Whitehorse, as well as provide a very unique experience to those already panning to visit. The event promises to have something for everyone, from kids to adults.

The inaugural event is scheduled to take place on August 8th-10th, 2014!

To learn more about the YukomiCon visit www.yukoncomicculturesociety. com and fill out their survey.

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F

or the Yukon Convention Bureau (YCB), 2013 certainly has proved to be a year of success in further establishing Yukon as the destination for outside organizations to hold their conferences and business events. In 2013, Yukon saw an upswing of interest in convention and event organizers not only considering but choosing Yukon as a unique destination to host their meetings and events.

This year YCB celebrates our 15-year anniversary. Since 1998, YCB’s continuous message has been; hosting an event in Yukon is attractive, accessible, and affordable. All our Yukon tourism partners have sung this message far and wide. YCB’s success is a result of these collective efforts. Since our inception, YCB has received strong support from our industry, with a steady 100+ membership. In 2013 YCB received over ¼ of our annual budget in sponsorship and partner buy in programs.

This is a testament to the importance of working together, in seeking a common platform for our marketing efforts. This past February, YCB recognized our top sponsors at our annual Bravo awards. Air North – Yukon’s Airline – Platinum sponsor and Westmark Whitehorse, Northern Vision Development Hospitality Division, Driving Force, Northwestel, CKRW the Rush – Gold Sponsors, have contributed heavily to YCB for over 15 years. Their support is invaluable, which without, YCB could not achieve the success we have today.

Recently, Air North, Yukon’s Airline, announced direct service from Whitehorse to Ottawa. This new route will offer key MICE markets, direct and affordable service, further establishing Yukon as a top contender for convenient and affordable access. YCB actively pursues business and earlier this year travelled to Ottawa, with Air North – Yukon’s Airline, City of Whitehorse, TIA Yukon, Sport Yukon and YG Department of Tourism & Culture to celebrate Air North’s new Ottawa route. By hosting several targeted industry events, our Yukon contingent showcased the special energy of the Yukon and established real time, face-to-face relationships with our prospective clients.

The picture for 2014 looks just as bright with Yukon being chosen as the destination for many national business events. These events will surely bring extensive national coverage, which only boosts the exposure that Yukon is the place to be. Our incentives attract producers, corporations and associations, who are looking for value and most of all that renowned “Yukon experience” that many only dream of. With the hard work dedication, and cooperation of our partners and sponsors, we are more than confident YCB will help visitors reach the Yukon to Experience the Rush in 2014 and beyond.

Keynote Spotlight:

Andy Nulman

T

he Tourism Industry Association of the Yukon (TIA Yukon) is happy to announce that Just For Laughs co-founder Andy Nulman will be this years keynote speaker.

Nulman got his start at age 23 when he joined a two-night, French-language humour event starting up in Montreal. When he left 15 years later as its CEO and driving force, the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival was the biggest and most prestigious of its kind on earth, attracting more than 2 million visitors over a month-long period and some of the best comedians in the world. In 2010, Nulman would return as President of Festivals and Television to Just for Laughs and its French component Juste Pour Rire.

Andy will be presenting on The Three-Word Secret to Tourism Success: a topic relevant to the entire tourism industry, whether you’re responsible for the territory, a city, major attraction, community event, hotel or even a roadside stand. Filled with real-life examples and colorful pictures, swathed in Nulman’s off-the-wall and no-holds-barred humour, and appended by a real-time Q&A brainstorming/work session, The Three-Word Secret to Tourism Success promises to be the optimum mix of learning and fun.

As the Tourism Cooperative Marketing Fund (TCMF) was waitlisted in the 2013/2014 fiscal year, TIA Yukon would like to encourage operators to apply early to ensure funding is set aside for their projects in the 2014/2015 fiscal year. Remember to apply to the fund before you attend any shows. Don’t miss your opportunity to take advantage of TCMF and promote your business!

The following trade shows are eligible for funding in 2014/2015: • Rendez-vous Canada • Conozca Canada • Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE) National Conference • Travel Trade Canada • Showcase Canada Asia • CITAP Winter Function • Dallas Safari Club Convention & Sporting Expo • The Sheep Show • Grand Slam Club/OVIS Hunter & Outfitter Convention

• Safari Club International Convention • Tete a Tete Tradeshow • The Motorcycle & ATV Show Edmonton • International Sportsmen’s Exposition • Calgary Home & Garden Show • Canada Corroboree • Edmonton RV Show • Great American Outdoor Show • Toronto Sportsmen’s Show • ITB Berlin Convention • The Outdoor & Adventure Travel Show

As well, sales calls and DMO-related sales missions are eligible all year round!

This list only represents a small portion of the popular eligible trade shows for TCMF. If you will be attending a trade show that is not on this list, please contact programs coordinator Zara Bachli at tcmf@tiayukon.com

Other accomplishments include the founding of Airborne Mobile, a media-space company, being named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 business leaders by the Financial Post in 1997, voted one of the Top 100 Montrealers of the 20th Century by the Montreal Gazette in 2000, and honored as a distinguished recipient of the McGill Management Achievement Award in 2004. Andy is also published author of three books, including the breakthrough marketing effort Pow! Right Between The Eyes-Profiting From The Power of Surprise.

The TIA Yukon Spring Conference will be taking place from April 24- 26, 2014 at the Kwanlun Dun Cultural Centre. Conference registration is now open! Do not miss your opportunity to be a part of the fun.

Adäka Cultural Festival

T

he Adäka Cultural Festival was launched in July 2011 with a mission to develop and deliver a world-class, iconic First Nations Art and Culture festival.

Adäka showcases, celebrates, and fosters the development of Yukon’s diverse and distinctive First Nations arts and culture with participation and input from almost every First Nations community in the territory. Now into its fourth year, the festival has continued to grow and evolve.

#3-1109 Front Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5G4 Phone (867) 668-3331 • Fax (867) 667-7379 info@tiayukon.com • www.tiayukon.com

The festival prides itself on focusing on every aspect of First Nation culture, not just music and art, but food, people and history. Some big changes are happening in 2014. For the first time, the festival will be separated from National Aboriginal Day and it will instead fall on Canada Day, creating two separate First Nation cultural experiences for visitors to the territory. By moving the festival a week closer to the peak of summer, Adäka’s Executive Producer Charlene Alexander hopes that

it will help generate a greater awareness for those visiting.

A special addition to the 2014 Adäka Cultural Festival will be Journey with Our Hearts and Hands, a collaborative gathering of Pacific Northwest master carvers from Yukon, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, B.C., Alaska and New Zealand. 14 of the top carvers from around the world will be in Whitehorse to provide public lectures and host a collaborative exhibition. The master artists will share ideas, inspiration and knowledge through organized forums and informal studio time in a carving tent by the Yukon River, discussing issues, trends, challenges and opportunities, while working on their art together in a creative and supportive environment.

Journey with Our Hearts and Hands will create bonds between younger artists, who will be invited to attend and participate in the

daily forums. They will be working in a tent adjacent to the master carvers, affording more opportunities for interaction and relationship building. The Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre will provide exhibit space for the collaborative exhibition, and also provide the forum for several public discussions of the traditional and contemporary development of Pacific Northwest art forms, including contributions by curators and gallery owners from Vancouver, Germany, Ottawa and the U.S. With each year, Adäka has been able to grow its economic impact and attract more visitors from outside of Yukon. The 2013 festival will be featured in a northern travel video produced in China. Community buy-in has also grown, and with each successive year, new partnerships and sponsorships have formed. The 2014 Adäka Cultural Festival is scheduled for June 27th - July 3rd.

The Yukon Culinary Festival 2014 Save the date:

August 1st - 5th A celebration of local food and homegrown cuisine

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he first few months of 2014 have been busy at TIAY; the office has been abuzz with helping operators receive training, assisting them with securing funding to attend trade shows and putting together the logistics for our 2014 spring conference.

TIA Yukon, Executive Director

Blake Rogers

This year’s spring conference will take place at the KDFN Cultural Centre in Whitehorse, April 24-26. The overarching theme of this year’s conference will be the economic impact and potential of tourism. The conference theme will also underline the benefits of responsible risk taking, including the cultivating of niche products, the harnessing of global trends and the encouraging of innovative ideas. This is something that the Yukon’s tourism industry has embraced over the years and which it continues to promote today. It is one of the main reasons why the industry has been able to remain competitive and why it continues to excel.

One recent example of a creative and calculated venture by the Yukon’s tourism industry is the launch of the new WhitehorseYellowknife-Ottawa route by Air North, Yukon’s airline. This was a decision that took vision, research, courage and determination, and as a result, it will open the Yukon up to new markets.

The Carcross Tagish Management Corporation decided to take a responsible risk after looking at global trends and what opportunities the geography of Carcross could provide. The result was the creation of a network of mountain bike trails that have gained recog-

nition as being the best in the world.

It takes strategic, innovative thinking and the will to turn great ideas to meaningful action in order to move things forward. Tourism business owners in the Yukon know the value of responsible risk taking and taking advantage of opportunities when they arise. This is the fundamental basis of the entrepreneurial spirit.

Without this spirit, those who have developed tourism centred businesses would never have developed them in the first place; and without these operations, we wouldn’t have the thriving tourism industry that we now have. The success of the industry and the impact it has on the Yukon economy hinges on responsible risk taking.

When it comes to the economic impact and potential of tourism in the Yukon, it’s also important to recognize the role that festivals and events in the territory play. Festivals and events in the Yukon are sparked by the community grassroots who see an opportunity to meet an identified need. Several of the territory’s festivals, such as the Sourdough Rendezvous Festival have been taking place for years and have become rooted in Yukon tradition. Others, such as the Yukon Culinary Festival that launched last year, are newer events that are trying to promote niche products in the territory. If these types of activities are given the support they need to be sustained, they can help develop tourism product or eventually become a stand alone product on their own that tourism operators can use to help sell the Yukon and their businesses to potential visitors.

On behalf of TIA Yukon’s staff, we hope to see you at our 2014 Spring Conference in a few weeks!

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Shaquille O’Neal to follow up Shaq Fu game Derrik J. Lang

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The game was derided by Shaq fans for its cheesy story, wonky LOS ANGELES controls and blatant attempt to haq wants to be back in a video cash in on O’Neal’s superstar status. game.

Shaq Fu prompted one group of Shaquille O’Neal says he’s seekgamers to create the site ShaqFu. ing redemption for Shaq Fu, his com and post photos and videos of infamous fighting game originally fans destroying copies of Shaq Fu in released in 1994 that’s now considunusual ways. ered to be among the worst games “I don’t think it was the worst,” ever made. The four-time NBA said O’Neal. “When you talk about champion is launching a crowdthe worst, you’ve got to talk about funding campaign to create a Shaq sales. I actually sold a lot of games, Fu follow-up titled Shaq Fu: A but when I did the first Shaq-Fu, Legend Reborn. that was at the end of analog right In return, backers could receive before digital came out. It wasn’t a anything from a pair of autobad game. It wasn’t a good game, graphed size-22 sneakers to a pickbut it wasn’t awful.” up basketball game and lunch with Unlike the original Shaq Fu Shaq, depending on how much they released by Electronic Arts, Shaq donate.

Fu: A Legend Reborn will be a beat“The old Shaq Fu was a ‘ha, ha, ’em-up game created by Big Deez ha,”’ said O’Neal in a telephone Productions in the style of Streets interview this week. “This will not of Rage. The studio said A Legend be a ‘ha, ha, ha.”’

Reborn will feature Shaq taking on In the original Shaq Fu, O’Neal’s hordes of enemies with hundreds character stumbles across a kung of different moves, as well as melee fu dojo while taking a break from weapons, in various levels. The playing a charity basketball game game’s soundtrack will be created in Tokyo. He discovers a portal

by Steve Molitz and feature remixed inside to another dimension where renditions of Shaq songs. he engages in Mortal Kombat-like “The graphics, animation and battles with such characters as an storyline are definitely going to be evil mummy, voodoo priestess and top of the line,” said O’Neal.

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Utilizing crowd-funding services such as Indiegogo and Kickstarter has become an increasingly popular method for game developers to fund new titles. Kickstarter said earlier this week that more money has been pledged to game projects than any other category since the site launched in 2009.

However, that’s typically for small indie or niche gamemakers. Why is a multimillionaire like O’Neal asking fans to open their wallets to resurrect Shaq Fu instead of simply coming up with the cash himself?

“That’s just the new way of doing business,” said O’Neal, who retired from the NBA in 2011. “I have a big social following, so everyone will have their hand in it. As a businessman, you have to take advantage of all available options.”

Shaq Fu funders who donate $15 on the game’s Indiegogo site will receive a copy of the game, while those who donate big bucks will be granted various prizes and opportunities, such as $400 for admission to a Shaq-Fu launch party; $600 for O’Neal to record an outgoing voicemail message; $3,000 for a size 22 sneaker signed by O’Neal; and Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo $15,000 for lunch and a pick-up Shaquille O’Neal said he’s seeking redemption for Shaq Fu, basketball game at one of O’Neal’s considered among the worst games ever made.

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“I’m way too old to be doing that, but I’m never too old to whoop some (expletive),” said O’Neal.

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Don’t scrub: Many get it wrong when it comes to tooth brushing technique So what are we doing wrong?

The most common shortcomings relate to the motion used and the TORONTO length of time we spend on each atching people brush their brushing session, experts say. teeth in movies or on TV “The tendency is for people to can really irk Dr. Andrea Johnbe far too quick when they brush stone. their teeth, to actually not take A Toronto-based periodontist the 2 1/2 to three minutes that are with a gleaming smile, Johnstone necessary to get your teeth clean,” says the technique on display is says Dr. Peter Doig, president of often the very approach dental the Canadian Dental Association. professionals warn their patients Some people go on autopilot not to use. when they put a toothbrush into “They are generally doing the their mouths. Up and down, or scrub-brush method of just back back and forth, they make a quick and forth scrubbing their teeth. tour around their teeth, spit, rinse Even sometimes on toothpaste and are done with it. commercials. It drives me nuts, Doig says in order to effecactually,” she admits. tively remove plaque – the film of It’s an illustration of a common bacteria that can accumulate on problem. Everyone thinks they teeth after eating foods containing know how to brush their teeth. sugars and starches – you need to Heck, it’s one of the first skills we concentrate. Every time, on every learn in childhood, one we use – or should use – at least twice daily tooth.

Neither Doig nor Johnstone every day of life.

But many people don’t actually recommends a specific toothbrush. use the right tooth-brushing tech- “It’s not the wand, it’s the magician,” Doig says. But both say you nique, which can lead to cavities, should always use a soft-bristled tartar buildup and gum disease.

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my day I spend trying to transplant gums back onto people. …

A lot of that could be avoided with proper tooth brushing.”

Doig says it’s important to remember to brush each tooth, and each exposed surface. People often do a good job of brushing the exterior of their front teeth, he says, but may spend too little time on the inside of each tooth – or the inside of the teeth in general.

People may also forget to brush their tongue, which should be part of the routine, he says. Tongues get coated with a lot of bacteria, which can be a cause of halitosis, or bad breath. Johnstone recommends Chris Young/The Canadian Press tongue scrapers – small plastic Dr. Andrea Johnstone demonstrates the correct way to clean devices that can be run over the teeth when using a toothbrush at her practice in Toronto. surface of the tongue to remove that film. And yes, she knows treatbrush to safely remove the plaque “The goal is to get it before it ing your tongue can trigger a gag hardens,” says Johnstone. without damaging the gums. reflex.

That’s because as tartar accuThat area – where the tooth “I find the tongue scrapers a mulates, it can go below the gum meets the gum – is a critical part little better for gaggers. But it can line, eroding the bone that holds of the tooth to focus on. That’s still make you gag. But you’ve got the teeth in place. As the bacteria where plaque builds up. If it’s to get through it. It’s worth it for triggers recession of gums, more of fresh breath.” not removed, it forms into tartar, the tooth’s root is exposed, ampliwhich normal brushing won’t Johnstone and Doig offer some fying the bone erosion problem. remove. oral hygiene dos and don’ts: To stop this process from even – Do brush at least twice a day. starting, Johnstone says you need Brushing after every meal is better to angle the bristles of your tooth- still. brush at a 45-degree angle where – Don’t hurry. You need to the gum meets the tooth. Use a spend two to three minutes at gentle, circular massaging motion brushing every time. Use a timer to loosen the plaque, and then flick or pay attention to the timer feathe brush upward (or downward, ture of your electric toothbrush. if you are working on the upper Or brush for the duration of a teeth) to move the plaque away. song on the radio, Johnstone sug“So basically it’s just kind of a gests. wiggle at the gum line, and then – Do use fluoridated toothswishing the plaque away from paste. the gum line with their brush,” she – Do change your toothbrush says. every three months or so.

Easy does it.

– Don’t share a toothbrush.

“A lot of people think they need – Do floss, at least once a day. to scrub brush their teeth,” says It is the only way to clean the surJohnstone. “And then what can faces between teeth. Floss before end up happening is then we start brushing. to see areas of gum recession. So – Don’t use stiff-bristled they actually start to brush their brushes. gums away.

– If you aren’t sure about your “We want to focus on removing brushing technique, do ask your dentist or hygienist to show you the plaque gently and efficiently, how to do it properly. but not removing the gums. Half

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Teen energy drink consumption linked to depression, substance abuse: study Sheryl Ubelacker Canadian Press

TORONTO significant proportion of high school students appears to be consuming high-caffeine energy drinks, and for some of them at least there seems to be a link with mental health issues, substance use and sensation-seeking behaviour, a study has found.

The findings have prompted the researchers to call for a reduction in the amount of caffeine in energy drinks and reduced access to the beverages for teens.

In the study of more than 8,200 high school students in Atlantic Canada, researchers at the University of Waterloo and Dalhousie University in Halifax found that about two-thirds of respondents reported consuming an energy drink in the previous year.

About one in five students said they drank the beverages once or more each month, said the study published in the journal Preventive Medicine.

“We also found something very interesting,” said principal investigator Sunday Azagba, a researcher at the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact at the University of Waterloo in southwestern Ontario.

“The more intense users tend to be more likely to be depressed, they’re more likely to have substance use,” he said, referring to alcohol and marijuana.

Sensation seeking – taking part in novel activities that provide excitement – also was higher among those who reported consuming energy drinks compared to those who don’t imbibe the caffeinecharged drinks, the researchers found.

“While it remains unclear why these associations exist, the trend is a concern because of the high rate of consumption among teenagers,” said Azagba. “These drinks appeal to young people because of their temporary benefits like increased alertness, improved mood and enhanced mental and physical energy.”

The study, based on data from the 2012 Student Drug Use Survey of high school students in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador, found that younger teens were more likely to consume energy drinks than their older peers.

“Marketing campaigns appear designed to entice youth and young adults,” said Azagba, noting that brand names like Monster Energy, Red Bull and Rockstar Energy can be appealing to young people.

“It’s a dangerous combination, especially for those at an increased risk for substance abuse.”

Kathleen Miller, a senior scientist at the Research Institute on Addictions at the University at Buffalo, said the findings are

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troubling but not surprising, as they’re in line with the body of emerging evidence on energy drinks and their potential effects.

The study’s findings on the tie-in between sensation seeking and energy drink consumption are among the strongest “we’ve encountered yet,” she said.

While clearly intended to provide a bit of a caffeine buzz, most regular or “mainstream” energy drinks contain about the same amount of the stimulant as a cup of coffee, Miller said Thursday from Buffalo. “So it’s not just the caffeine. There’s something else going on here.

“I think it’s more to do with the way these energy drinks are subculturally understood, the way they’re marketed and the narrative behind them. The whole message is take risks, live on the extreme, live on the edge,” she said, pointing out that Red Bull, for instance, is a major sponsor of virtually “every extreme sport on the planet, literally.”

Energy drinks have been associated with a number of adverse health effects, including cardiovascular symptoms, sleep disorders, nervousness and nausea.

The side-effects are caused by the beverages’ high concentration of caffeine.

“Given the negative effects of excessive caffeine consumption as well as the coincident occurrence of the use of energy drinks and other negative behaviours in teens, the trends we are seeing are more than cause for concern,” said Azagba.

In recent years energy drink consumption has skyrocketed. In the U.S. alone, sales are expected to reach $20 billion in 2013.

“In our opinion, at the very least, steps should be taken to limit teens’ access to energy drinks, to increase public awareness and education about the potential harms of these drinks and to minimize the amount of caffeine available in each unit,” said Azagba.

“This won’t eliminate the problem entirely, but steps like these can help mitigate harm to our youth that appears to be associated with consumption of these drinks.”

The Canadian Beverage Association (CBA), which represents most manufacturers of non-alcoholic beverages in Canada, said the study findings reflect only an association, not causality, as the researchers themselves admit.

“The use levels reported by the researchers reinforce the fact that the vast majority of teens, over 80 per cent, rarely or never consume energy drinks,” the association said in statement. “Further, there is no evidence – here or anywhere else – to indicate that the consumption of energy drinks in any way led to substance abuse or to the sort of behaviour associated

amount of caffeine of a similar size cup of coffeehouse coffee.”

Miller, who was not involved in the study, is researching the connection between sexual risk-taking and the use of energy drinks mixed with alcohol – which many researchers deem a dangerous combination.

“What we’re finding is that drinking them together seems to put you at greater risk than just drinking alcohol,” she said, suggesting that the stimulating effect of caffeine in energy drinks may mask the effects of alcohol, so a person may not realize their level of impairment.

“When you drink alcohol alone, it makes you slower, it makes you sleepy and it makes you stupid because it has an effect on cognitive judgment,” she said.

“What the caffeine does is take away the sleep part and reduce the slow part.

“You’re still stupid, but you’re in a better position to do something about it. So it’s a recipe for trouble.”

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Sunday Azagba, a researcher at the University of Waterloo, has found consumption of high-caffeine energy drinks among high school students may be linked with mental health issues.

with substance abuse.”

Noting that energy drinks are regulated in Canada and have a capped caffeine content, the CBA

said “contrary to the misperception perpetuated by this paper, most mainstream energy drinks contain only about half the

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George Mercer Dawson, a famed surveyor and scientist who mapped much of western Canada, is the namesake of Dawson City. The origin of Yukon place names is the subject of What’s in a Name?, on display at Arts Underground.

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to gather them all in one place.

What’s in a Name? explores how 15 of Yukon’s communities came to f the folks at the White Pass and be called what they are today.

Yukon Route Company had The exhibition runs until June in their way more than 100 years the Hougen Heritage Gallery at Arts ago, Whitehorse wouldn’t have been Underground.

Whitehorse at all.

“Everything we do at the museum, It would have been Closeleigh, we try to allow for Yukoners to see Yukon. themselves reflected back in what we Company officials wanted to present,” said co-curator Stephanie name the settlement Closeleigh after Webb. the Close brothers, their financiers.

“Hopefully, for people that see it But community members were and are from the communities it can having none of it. help them trigger memories. And for Before it was officially named, visitors, (it will allow them) to have the place was commonly known as an understanding of an aspect of White Horse. That was an acknowlthese communities.” edgement of the white-capped waves At the exhibit, a short written around Miles Canyon that looked a explanation for each community’s little like the white manes of running name is accompanied by photos that horses. come mostly from the museum’s The spot was officially named massive collection.

White Horse in 1900. The two words The MacBride museum has an were eventually combined in the style overall collection of nearly 30,000 we know today in 1957. items made up of a range of artifacts, There is a story behind every letters and, of course, photos. name in the Yukon and the latest “The idea was to find photographs show presented by the MacBridge that reflect stories of the towns and Museum of Yukon History attempts the history of their names and/or are News Reporter

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representative of the town,” Webb said.

The photo picked for Faro shows the mine in 1970 at 3 p.m. with the sun setting.

The museum’s research found that Faro was likely named after a card game that was popular during the Klondike gold rush. It’s rarely played anymore but was simple to learn if you had two decks of cards.

The story behind Destruction Bay is as colourful as you might imagine.

The community as it sits today started out as a camp for U.S. Army engineers building the AlaskanCanadian Highway in 1942.

Once the camp was built, high winds picked up.

Most of the buildings were destroyed.

Each community in the Yukon is

represented in the exhibit with the exception of Beaver Creek and Old Crow. Webb said the museum did not have photos to do justice to those communities.

This is not the first time the museum has explored the history of names in the territory.

Late last year staff used land surveys, historical photographs and biographies to explore the stories behind the street names in downtown Whitehorse.

“The previous show that we did was Paved with Stories looking at the history behind the names of the streets of Whitehorse. (This is) taking that one step further and expanding it over the territory,” Webb said.

Names “tell you who was there, and who stayed there,” she said.

Webb is hoping a visit to the exhibit will allow Yukoners to take away “a sense of place, definitely a sense of place,” she said. And for visitors, “Curiosity. I hope it peaks their curiosity as well.”

The exhibit is free.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Noah featuring Russell Crowe as ark-building prophet will not debut in parts of Muslim world Aya Batrawy Associated Press

DUBAI fficials across much of the Muslim world said Thursday that the upcoming big-budget Hollywood film Noah featuring Russell Crowe as the ark-building prophet will not be shown in local theatres because it could offend viewers.

The decision comes after the film sparked controversy among conservative Christians in the U.S., which prompted Paramount Pictures to add a disclaimer to its marketing material saying that “artistic license has been taken” in telling the story.

Director of media content at the National Media Center in the United Arab Emirates, Juma Al-Leem, told The Associated Press that the movie

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will not be allowed in local cinemas because it contradicts a generally held taboo in Islam of depicting a prophet.

“There are scenes that contradict Islam and the Bible, so we decided not to show it,” he said, adding that UAE censors watched the film before deciding to ban it. “It is important to respect these religions and not show the film.”

Paramount Pictures told the AP that along with the UAE, censors in Qatar and Bahrain also have confirmed they will not release the film because “it contradicts the teachings of Islam.”

Niko Tavernise/Paramount Pictures/AP Photo One of Islam’s most revered reliLogan Lerman, left, and Russell Crowe in a scene from Noah. gious institutions, Al-Azhar in Egypt, issued an edict saying it objects to countries said government censors this could “provoke the feelings of the film because it violates Islamic probably will not approve the movie. believers.” law by depicting a prophet and that Mohammad Zareef, an official Among Muslims, depictions of with Pakistan’s Central Board of Film any prophets are shunned to avoid worship of a person rather than God. Censors, said the government body generally does not approve films that Many Muslim majority countries touch on religion. also criminalize blasphemy.

“We haven’t seen it yet, but I don’t The Qur’an mentions only 25 think it can go to cinemas in Pakiprophets by name, including Noah. stan,” he said.

Muslims believe that Noah, who is Tunisian Culture Ministry spokesreferred to in Arabic as Nuh, built his ark after God charged him to do it as man Faisal Rokh said the government does not authorize the screenpeople in his community refused to ing of films that cover the lives of worship God alone. While there are prophets due to local sensitivities. As differences between the biblical and is the case in Morocco, he says there Quranic story of Noah, both mention a terrible flood and Noah’s vessel have not been any requests by local saving a pair of each kind of animal. distributors to show the movie.

There are many children’s films Officials in other Muslim majority

and cartoons created that tell the story of Noah in Islam without showing his face. However, there have been cases where prophets or their companions have been shown on screens in the Middle East.

Despite some objections, the popular MBC Arabic satellite network broadcast a television series in 2012 on the life of Omar ibn al-Khattab, one of the Prophet Muhammad’s most revered companions.

Mel Gibson’s Passion of Christ, which depicts the crucifixion of Jesus, was screened across much of the region, though it was not shown in most cinemas in Israel and parts of the Gulf.

In October 2011, a private television station screened the animated film Persepolis, which includes an outright portrayal of God. It sparked riots and demonstrations in Tunisia.

The head of the TV station was later convicted of an “attack on the sacred” and fined 1,200 euros.

Like Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian Gaza Strip does not have movie theatres. One theatre in the Palestinian West Bank says it has ordered the film.

“The fact that some countries in the region prohibit it makes it the more fun to watch” Clack Cinema manager Quds Manasra said. “The production is magnificent, the story is beautiful.”

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With the help of thousands, Veronica Mars is reborn on the big screen Jake Coyle Associated Press

NEW YORK ob Thomas knew he might make movie history by using Kickstarter to crowd-fund his Veronica Mars film. But he wasn’t prepared for the posters.

Of all the prizes offered to donors of Veronica Mars – everything from a digital copy of the script for $10 to a walk-on cameo for $10,000 – the most taxing was autographing the cast-signed posters promised to more than 5,000 backers. It took several hand-cramping days and constant shuttling of boxes from one signee to the next.

“We’ve got our own poster handler who is in charge of getting them to us and getting them signed,” Thomas said in a recent interview. “It’s required, like, its own department.”

But, he adds, “This movie would not exist if we had not gone down this path.”

It’s been a year since Thomas sent shockwaves through the movie industry by turning to the crowd-funding site Kickstarter to help finance a movie based on his cultishly adored but short-lived high-school detective series. On Friday, the movie hits theatres and video-on-demand. As the first high-profile celebrity project to drum up money on Kickstarter, Veronica Mars is a trailblazer, albeit one with a cloudy legacy.

Thomas has already been followed by projects by Zach Braff (to fund his second directorial effort) and Spike Lee (to raise cash for his latest joint). The land rush into a new avenue of funding (a major struggle for most filmmakers) has raised questions about the ethics of fan-based financing. (Contributors pay for different levels of rewards, but don’t share in profits.)

Veronica Mars may have introduced a democratic spirit to a green-lighting process usually controlled by film executives, but it has also opened a Pandora’s box where, critics say, established insiders can take advantage of their loyal followings.

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their first window), Warner Bros. is renting out from AMC Theaters most of the 270 screens the film will play on.

Executives for Warner Bros. declined to comment for this article.

The film, which has already found warm reviews, will likely please fans of Veronica Mars. It takes place 10 years after the TV series, with Veronica, now an upand-coming attorney, lured back to Neptune when her old flame Logan (Jason Dohring) is framed for a murder. Fans will quickly recognize the familiar snappy rhythm: A police officer warns Veronica, “When you mess with the bull …,” and she interjects, “You get the cliches?”

“After all this rigmarole and all this publicity, if the movie isn’t successful financially, then we are the guinea pig that failed,” says Thomas. “It will be such a better ending to the story if it were successful and this was a harbinger of things to come.”

The film culminates a whirlwind year for Thomas, one effectively spent in a digital fish bowl, surMatt Sayles/Invision/AP Photo rounded by thousands of collaboFrom left, Jason Dohring, writer/producer/director Rob Thomas, Kristen Bell, Ryan Hansen rators. Kickstarter backers populate and Amanda Noret arrive at the LA Premiere of Veronica Mars on Wednesday in Los Angeles. scenes as extras.

The $10,000 contributor, atmosphere of a corrupt California it one of the largest, most powerful 45-year-old Canadian entrepreneur said at a SXSW panel discussion. town, the fictional Neptune. As movie studios on the planet, which and currency exchange site XE.com ‘’It’s wrong when people like Zach the witty, street-smart title charac- easily could have bankrolled the Braff or Spike Lee use that same co-founder Steven Dengler, ended ter, Kristen Bell (whose fame has film if it wanted to. service to fund their films when up playing not a waiter (as the resince grown and who now stars on If legitimate rewards hadn’t been ward had advertised), but introducthey already have access. I think it overshadows and takes away from Showtime’s House of Lies) followed offered for donors, Thomas says: ing a viral video with James Franco, the little guys who actually need the the strong female protagonists of “That would have smelled. That who also makes a cameo. funding.“ shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer would have felt icky.”

“I didn’t back the project to get Thomas says he’d rather not and Alias.

Like its unique development, the part,” says Dengler, a Veronica be considered a poster boy for Thomas, whose other shows the release of Veronica Mars will Mars fan and avid Kickstarter supKickstarter. “Every project has its include the similarly cult favourite also be unusual. It will be the first porter, speaking by phone from Toown separate concerns,” he says.

Party Down, was only able to lobby studio movie to break the standard ronto. “I backed the project because Instead, he believes the choice is up Warner Bros. to make a Veronica 90-day window between theatriI liked the project and because it to consumers.

Mars movie if he proved the fervent cal opening and DVD or digital really felt to me like a sea-change “If it bothers you that Zach Braff fan base. Though a grassroots release. To avoid agreements with moment.” probably has a lot of money from triumph, Veronica Mars has behind theatre chains (which fiercely guard “I’m a fan that they let in.”

Scrubs,” says Thomas, “then don’t give to it.”

Before Veronica Mars found 91,585 backers who pledged about $5.7 million (far surpassing the $2 million Thomas sought), it was essentially doomed. The Warner Bros. Television-produced series was cancelled in 2007 after three seasons on UPN and CW. Yet fans of the show – which Thomas pitched as “teen noir” – loved its sharp banter and the dark

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Putting their best paw forward, dogs audition for Broadway role opposite Audra McDonald Mark Kennedy

held, get along with other animals and people and weigh less than 15 pounds. No previous stage experience NEW YORK was required, and most didn’t have hey were raw talents – some any. Many were service dogs. One had delighted by the attention, others been the ring bearer at a wedding. confused. More than one sniffed hapAt the beginning of the process, pily in the audition room, just happy held in the lobby of the Circle in the to be there.

Square Theatre, Broadway animal Fourteen small dogs ranging from trainer Bill Berloni told the owners English cocker spaniels to toy poodles that an ability to do tricks wasn’t what got callbacks Wednesday for the he and the producers wanted. chance to star opposite five-time Tony “What we’re looking for is a dog Award winner Audra McDonald on who will portray this character’s best Broadway in Lady Day at Emerson’s friend at the end of her life. So relax, Bar & Grill, a musical that imagines everybody. It’s all about the relationone of Billie Holiday’s last perforship you have with your animal,” he mances in 1959. said. “Be yourself. Show us what’s The dogs had to enjoy being special about your dog. Don’t worry Associated Press

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about putting on a performance.”

The final 14 had been whittled down from an initial group of close to 100 dogs. A winner – picked on a score that incudes appearance, demeanour and physicality – will be announced in the coming days.

McDonald and Berloni took turns asking each owner questions and holding the dogs. “I’m going in!” warned McDonald as she got out from behind her desk and scooped up a Teacup Yorkie. “We do listen to Billie Holiday CDs,” said Catherine Grant, the dog’s owner.

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“It’s not a love match,” she said.

One of the animals became a crowd favourite: Sylvia, a French bulldog who prefers to drink out of stemware and attacks tennis balls, licked McDonald’s face lustily. Cradled in the actress’s arms, Sylvia was on the heavy side and snorted happily. “She sounds like Jabba the Hutt,” McDonald said.

After meeting all the applicants, including a Jack Russell terrier rescued from a puppy mill and a white Maltese so professional it had a resume and headshot, McDonald was philosophical: “You know what’s interesting? You certainly find out whether you have chemistry or not.”

The musical, written by Lanie Robertson and directed by Lonny

Price, puts an ailing Holiday in a small club in Philadelphia and lets McDonald sing such timeless classics as “Somebody’s On My Mind,” “Don’t Explain” and “Strange Fruit.” Previews begin March 25 at the Circle in the Square Theatre, and opening night is set for April 13.

The dog will appear in one scene close to the end of the musical, as McDonald sings “Ain’t Nobody’s Business.” Berloni said he was leaning toward two dogs who “wouldn’t upstage Audra and who felt comfortable in her arms.”

In reality, Holiday had first a boxer and then a Chihuahua, but producers are more interested in the relationship between the animal and McDonald, who has three dogs of her own. The dog will be the fourth animal trained for a New York stage this season, following dogs in Bullets Over Broadway, The Threepenny Opera and The Open House.

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Aliens in the sky? Survey shows 1,100 UFOs spotted in Canada last year Chris Purdy Canadian Press

WINNIPEG wo children out sledding told their parents they heard a beeping noise before seeing what looked like a flying hotel, a massive structure with protrusions and windows. It flew over a nearby house and vanished.

The encounter is listed in an annual survey that reports that 1,180 UFOs, or unidentified flying objects, were spotted in Canada last year.

A Winnipeg group called Ufology Research has been compiling data on suspected spacecraft sightings across the country for the last 25 years.

In its latest survey, released Tuesday, it said most of the 2013 observations were of lights in the night sky. The most common sighting was of an orange star-like shape that lasted an average of 13 minutes.

Almost half the sightings took place in Ontario. British Columbia and Alberta had the next highest numbers.

“It’s a matter of eliminating possible explanations, until we’re left with something we can’t explain,” said the group’s editor, Chris Rutkowski.

“It may or may not have anything to do with aliens, and very likely not.

And yet the possibility that there’s an interesting phenomenon there is something that scientists should be curious about.”

Rutkowski, a media relations staffer at the University of Manitoba, studied astronomy and started the ufology group when he realized no one in Canada was collecting data on UFOs. His hobby morphed into annual surveys and several books.

He said the 2013 sightings are the second most he’s recorded since 1989, when there were just 141. The highest number – 1,981 – was tallied in 2012, although the survey suggests that was an anomaly because people were

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anxious about the Mayan calendar’s prediction about the end of the world that year.

Rutkowski also explained that it has become easier for people to report sightings through the Internet and, in general, he believes more people are looking up.

“I think people are growing more curious about what’s up in the sky and the possibility of something out there that they don’t understand.”

It may sound a bit out there.

Among last year’s sightings, three were classified in the category C3 or “close encounters of the third kind,” because people reported seeing actual extraterrestrials. Another three were listed under C4, “close encounters of the fourth kind,” described as alien abductions or having alien contact.

The survey said some witnesses were “pilots, police and other individuals with reasonably good observing capabilities and good judgment.”

A few of what the report calls its most reliable and strange “unknowns” include the one involving the two children out sledding in Musquodoboit, N.S., on Jan. 8, 2013.

Rutkowski said some people argue

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A child’s drawing of a reported UFO sighting on Jan. 8, 2013 in Musquodoboit, N.S. A new survey reports that about 1,100 UFOs, or unidentified flying objects, were spotted in Canada last year.

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“The kids remained true to their story even while the RCMP were talk-

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Jules Verne on to something: Study hints at water deposits deep in the Earth Bob Weber Canadian Press

EDMONTON ules Verne was on to something.

In his classic 1864 adventure story “Journey to the Centre of Earth,” the French novelist imagined a vast ocean deep within the planet’s bowels. University of Alberta scientists have found the first direct evidence that he wasn’t far off.

“The original idea is a Jules Verne idea, isn’t it?” laughs geologist Graham Pearson. “One hundred years later it turns out to be pretty much true – except you can’t really stand around and see the water.”

In a paper published in the journal Nature, Pearson and his co-authors describe how a Brazilian diamond originating at least 400 kilometres down has yielded the only surface sample ever found of a deep-Earth mineral and provides the first concrete proof for a longRichard Siemens/The Canadian Press held theory about how the planet Scientists at the University of Alberta examined this Brazilian diamond and found a mineral works. containing water - evidence of a long-held theory about vast quantities of water kilometres “We found it by accident,” beneath the surface.

Pearson says. “It was really a bit of

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Pearson’s lab studies diamonds.

One of its scientists was trying to date a stone from a region of Brazil where the gems are known to have originated in a so-called transition zone between the Earth’s upper and lower mantle, between 400 and 600 kilometres deep.

The researcher found a mineral inside the diamond, but couldn’t identify it. He was about to move on when one of his colleagues walked in and realized it was ringwoodite.

“That was a eureka moment.”

Ringwoodite, thought to be one of the main constituents of the Earth’s mantle, is only stable at pressures deep underground equivalent to 150,000 times surface atmospheric pressure. The only previous examples of it came from meteorites and the bit in Pearson’s lab – 40 millionths of a metre long – is the first found at the Earth’s surface.

“The beauty is it’s trapped in diamond,” Pearson says.

“The diamond is this amazing material that can withstand huge, intense internal pressures. The diamond is such a strong host it doesn’t allow the ringwoodite to expand.”

Once the scientists realized what they had, they knew they had a golden opportunity to test a theory about water in the deep underground.

Researchers have long suggested that minerals such as ringwoodite have the ability to store water molecules locked within their crystal structure. Pearson and his colleagues, for the first time ever, had a chance to look inside an actual sample.

Sure enough, their tiny chip of ringwoodite was about one per cent water by weight. Over the uncountable millions of tonnes of ringwoodite in the Earth’s mantle, it adds up – and makes a big difference.

Thermal spikes from even deeper underground can “torch off” water from transition-zone rocks, says Pearson. Scientists theorize such releases of water can destabilize upper layers, sometimes resulting in volcanoes on the surface.

“Water exerts a huge influence on the strength of rocks and their melting temperatures. It can remove very large thicknesses of the plate beneath continents.

“Water’s the reason that the interior of the Earth flows so well and it’s also the reason why we see a lot of melting of the deep Earth evident at the Earth’s surface – volcanoes.”

Pearson says the finding confirms a generation of theorizing and mathematical models, and opens up new ways of understanding Earth’s geology. It’s also, he says, a good example of how science really works.

“It’s an example of why you can’t just do applied science all the time,” he says.

“A lot of really fundamental discoveries are made by accident, but you’ve got to be doing the science in the first place. It stifles innovation if all you do is applied science.”

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Texas animal rescue aims to boost adoptions with ‘muttbombing’ photos of celebs, dogs Sue Manning

photobombing, where someone slips into a picture without the subject knowing, has proved so LOS ANGELES popular online it has touched off andy the dog “muttbombed” requests from shelters across the celebrities like Bradley Cooper, country and overseas on how to Ellen DeGeneres and Brad Pitt as launch their own campaigns. With they posed at the Oscars for the social media increasingly becoming now-famous star-studded selfie. the go-to advertising tool, shelters That digitally tweaked version of are rushing to take up the sucthe most retweeted photo ever is a cessful strategy and DreamWorks Texas animal rescue’s bet that com- Animation has used it to promote bining cuddly canines and Holboth homeless pets and its new lywood stars will entice more social movie starring a cartoon canine. media users to adopt needy pets.

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firm working pro bono, launched Feb. 10. They take the publicly posted Instagram photos of both the glitterati and the girl next door, edit in the friendly face of a dog in need and attach often humorous captions urging adoptions. The Oscars selfie has a caption reading, “I’m Sandy and I’m #muttbombing you in hopes of finding a home.”

In another celebrity muttbomb, a pooch named Max sneaked in next to actor Ryan Gosling and asked, “Hey Ryan Gosling, can I follow you home? My parents always told me to follow my dreams.”

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The hashtag “muttbombing” also reached millions of Twitter users, Sans said.

The attention has helped the rescue find homes for more dogs.

Ten were placed the first week of March, compared with just one dog placed the first week of the same month last year.

Dallas Pets Alive found homes for 84 animals in all of 2013. This year, it placed 40 in two months and seven days.

“In all my years, I’ve never had a campaign with 100 per cent positive results,” said Carla Eboli, Dieste’s chief marketing officer.

Dieste, with offices in New York and Dallas, has gotten calls from 10 animal shelters around the United States and one in the United Kingdom in the last few weeks, “saying they loved muttbombing and wanted to use it, and how do you do it?” Eboli said.

Dallas Pets Alive trademarked the word “muttbomb,” but it is sharing how to roll out the campaign with any rescue that asks.

One of the posts quickly got the attention of Hilary Walker, whose public Instagram picture was used in the campaign. But the Dallas interior designer and veteran blogger

said the pooch muttbombing her was too big for her to adopt.

“That dog wasn’t the right fit for us, but it motivated me and piqued my curiosity,” she said. She and her husband already had been thinking of getting a playmate for their rescue dog.

On the non-profit’s website, Walker found a small, short-haired terrier mix named Marlon Brando, who they met Saturday.

“He will be a perfect fit for our house,” she said.

Walker says she’s a big muttbombing fan. It got her to the website and now she has a new dog.

Sans, the rescue’s director, said she doesn’t know how it will top muttbombs – 30 or 40 have been done – but the plan is to start a Facebook campaign to recruit more foster volunteers. The rescue can place more dogs if there are more temporary homes for them.

Dallas Pets Alive’s plan with muttbombing was to “hit every social media outlet we could,” Sans said. “The idea was to make noise.”

It seems to have worked, with DreamWorks Animation embracing muttbombing on Twitter and Facebook last week ahead of the premiere of “Mr. Peabody & Sherman.” The animated film, starring a genius dog, Mr. Peabody, and his adopted human son, Sherman, gave a boost to some homeless dogs in California by editing them into stills with the movie’s cartoon stars. A tweet said, “Wally & his friends are #muttbombing #MrPeabody & Sherman in hopes of finding a loving home!”

It even got a shoutout from Dallas Pets Alive: “thanks for using #muttbombing! Best of luck with #MrPeabodyandSherman tomorrow! We all think it’s pawsome!”

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Competition heating up as students aim to bolster resumes with summer jobs Lauren Krugel Canadian Press

CALGARY liya Noorani, a fourthyear business student at the University of Calgary, is on the hunt for a summer job – and the competition is fierce.

The 21-year-old, who aspires to a career in marketing, says good grades aren’t enough to impress.

“You have to really show them who you are. You can’t just say you’re the best at school. You have to show what extracurricular activities you’ve been in, if you’re involved in anything else and just to show your personality,” she said, adding she’s used videos and even poems and raps to set herself apart from the pack.

“The hunt is really crazy.

Everyone wants the jobs. It’s really cutthroat.”

Melissa Jarman, head of student banking at Royal Bank of Canada, agrees it’s tough out there.

“One of the things we’re telling students is now is the time. For some of them, they started long before March trying to set up summer employment,” she said.

“And with what we know about tuition and the cost of going to school in general across Canada, it’s more imperative than ever that students land jobs – and hopefully well-paying jobs.”

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For some students, becoming their own boss for the summer might be a good option – painting homes, tutoring or babysitting, for instance. The creativity and initiative involved could be very appealing to employers down the road.

“Treat it like a real business, even though it’s scaled down. Work in advance to think about how you’re going to drum up business,” said Jarman.

She adds student entrepreneurs should also consider startup costs and do some market research to figure out what they should charge.

If students want to add work experience to their resume that’s relevant to their field of study, it might mean taking on an unpaid internship. But not everyone has the financial ability to do that.

“It is probably something that many are going to consider. For them, though, it’s the matter of figuring out, do you have the time to do something else or do you have the resources to also go to school and pay for school?,” asked Jarman.

“So it may mean they may have to get a little more creative and look to other sources in order to pay for their education while they do these internships to gain experience. So I’m sure for many of them, the experi-

ence is valuable and for many maybe even necessary.

But it does create a challenge – no question about it.”

Colleen Bangs, director of Career Services at the University of Calgary, says social media plays an important role in the job hunt.

“It’s really important for youth to at least start thinking about building a really comprehensive LinkedIn profile and make sure that profile matches up with whatever they’re presenting on their CV or resume,” she said, adding it may be worthwhile to check out profiles of student club presidents or other admired peers.

“Don’t make your LinkedIn profile public until it is something you would want an employer to see.”

Employers may also want to check out profiles on more social sites, like Facebook – so be careful what you post.

Bangs said students shouldn’t get too fixated on landing a job that’s right in their field.

“No matter where you’re going to work, you’re going to get some good experience and then you really have to focus in on how you’re going to present that information,” she said.

“I think that people often underestimate themselves. I think that they don’t see the

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value necessarily in the work that they’ve done or they’re not connecting the dots.”

First-year environmental science student Spencer Klettke says he’s looking forward to a second summer working at a small “ma and pa” amusement park in scenic Columbia Valley in the B.C. Interior.

“I was getting the place ready for the summer season, building things, cleaning up, doing maintenance and then as the season went on, we got more customers, I was sort of assigned to the bumper cars and I was a mechanic,” he said.

“I loved it. I absolutely loved it. It was great. It’s changed me entirely as a person, just as every experience does.”

Klettke landed the job old-fashioned way.

“I brought a handful of resumes and I went from place to place, handed them out, talking to people, just being myself.”

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Canada’s success depends on municipal infrastructure investments

by DAVID SUZUKI

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anada’s federal government recently announced $14 billion in new funding to help municipalities repair and replace aging infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, sewer lines, energy production and distribution systems, and subways and other public transit. About $1 billion is dedicated to smaller communities, but most of the funding will target urban areas, which makes sense.

Despite being a vast land of mountains, forests and ice, Canada is an urban nation.

Over 80 per cent of us live in large centres like Montreal, Toronto and Calgary, as well as rapidly growing communities like Regina, Surrey and Markham.

This increasing concen-

tration of people in cities is consistent with rapid urbanization over the whole planet.

Now more than half the world’s population resides in urban mega-regions – and these are increasingly driving the global economy.

Over 60 per cent of world GDP is generated in just 600 cities. This includes international financial hubs like New York City and London, but also emerging powerhouse markets in the developing world, such as Sao Paulo and Mexico City, as well as Guangzhou, Tianjin and other urban centres in China.

According to a study by CIBC World Markets, the Greater Toronto Area accounts for about a fifth of Canada’s total economic activity, though prairie cities like Regina are emerging as the country’s new economic tigers.

Although many Canadian cities are booming, their ability to survive and thrive in today’s hyper-connected, globalized economy depends on being competitive enough to attract investment and acquire and retain skilled workers from around the globe.

And to really flourish, municipal centres need infrastruc-

ture. As noted in a Federation of Canadian Municipalities study, “Our small businesses need quality roads and bridges to deliver goods and services.

Our workers need fast, efficient public transit to connect them to new jobs. And our companies need access to affordable housing and high-quality community services, from libraries to hockey rinks, to recruit skilled workers.”

With climate change impacts increasing, cities must also invest in storm-water management systems, including green infrastructure such as trees, shrubs, bioswales and engineered wetlands.

Unfortunately, Canadian municipalities lack the fiscal tools to generate the billions of dollars needed each year to maintain and expand essential infrastructure. Though they retain only a paltry eight cents of every tax dollar paid in Canada, municipalities must cover 60 per cent of the cost of their infrastructure. And though a portion of taxes paid at gas pumps is dedicated to municipal infrastructure through the federal Gas Tax Fund, maintenance costs are increasingly

being downloaded onto citizens through user fees, road tolls and transit fare increases.

Starving Canadian cities of cash further increases the nation’s municipal infrastructure deficit – which already stood at $123 billion in 2007. And Canadians feel the pain every day, in the form of crumbling roads, mind-numbing and wasteful traffic jams and deteriorating bus, subway and streetcar services.

A survey of urban experts and other “city-builders” by engineering firm Siemens concluded that poor public transit is the Achilles’ heel of urban development and is keeping many Canadian cities from achieving greatness.

The problem is, unlike many European and American counterparts, Canadian cities don’t have dedicated and sustained federal funding for core infrastructure needs, most notably public transit. For example, Toronto currently ranks 15th out of 21 large global cities on per capita investment in public transit – well behind sixth-placed New York City, which spends twice as much.

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Solving the mystery of the South Fork wolf

by Ned Rozell

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he wolf lies on a metal table, its white legs and massive paws hanging over the edge. Kimberlee Beckmen, wildlife veterinarian, wears a white lab coat and purple gloves. Scalpel in hand, she positions herself at the wolf ’s belly.

Beckmen, who just finished a necropsy on an arctic fox that had been hit by a truck on the Dalton Highway, leans in on a wolf found dead on a trail east of Fairbanks. She checked her database this morning, she says. More than 250 wolves have been on her table in the 12 years she has worked for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Many of those wolves had been trapped or shot. The cream-colored wolf now before Beckmen died of an unknown cause. Biologists Tom Paragi and Mike Taras sledded in the frozen wolf a few miles from where it had dropped on a snow machine trail and lay until a dog musher discovered it.

A hint of wet-dog smell fills the room. Before she begins cutting, Beckmen says this wolf is a female, about five years old, with good teeth. She measures the skull with calipers and then cuts into the animal’s neck.

Within 10 minutes of placing the animal on the table, she solves the mystery of how it died.

“It’s definitely a wolf attack,” she says while pulling skin from the neck. “The tears in the muscle right there, looks like hamburger meat.”

Before Beckmen cut, the wolf ’s neck showed no clues of the damage beneath.

“When they bite on a soft part (that can give), their teeth don’t actually make holes in the skin, because the skin gives,” she says before adding that the wolf ’s larynx is also fractured.

Damage to the throat along with the ripped hide on the wolf ’s loin is something Beckmen has seen before, the result of when many wolves attack a single wolf.

“They’ll just shred ‘em,” she says.

As she continues cutting away hide with the smooth, quick motions of an artist dabbing paint on a canvas, Beckmen finds what she thinks was the coup de gras — a bite to the chest that collapsed a lung.

“This is a wolf attack,” she says. “I’m 100 percent certain.

It’s not a bear. It’s not a dog. It’s not a gunshot.”

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Wildlife veterinarian Kimberlee Beckmen of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game performs a necropsy on a wolf found dead near Fairbanks while Jesse Dunshie looks on.

In less than one hour, after skinning and removing the wolf ’s skull for the UA Museum of the North and placing into small vials samples of skin and muscle tissue for the department’s freezer, Beckmen is done. She washes up, removes her white smock and returns to her office in the Fish and Game complex about 75 steps away.

In the same building is a man with possible insight to the last moments of the South Fork wolf. Craig Gardner is a biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game who worked for years with Beckmen to successfully rid lice from wolf packs in the Tanana Flats south of Fairbanks.

During that study, they found 24 dead wolves while checking in on the packs.

Wolves were the killers in seven of those deaths. Five happened at the boundaries of two territories; two happened during clashes between a resident wolf pack and another pack on what biologists call an “extraterritorial foray,” when wolves for unknown reasons head deep into another pack’s turf.

“Almost every time, it was dominant wolves that died,” Gardner says of the seven wolves killed in clashes with other wolves.

From what he has seen,

battles between packs often involve head-to-head combat between alpha wolves.

At five years old and healthy, the wolf on Beckmen’s table was “most likely the big and bad female in a pack,” Gardner says.

During a skirmish, pups and smaller wolves often run away.

“It’s usually older wolves that die, because they’re willing to fight,” he says.

Gardner figures the South Fork wolf died when one pack of wolves (a group numbering from two to 20, with an average of eight) entered the territory of another.

“That’s when things can happen,” he says. “When the resident pack and this pack come together, there’s going to be a dustup.”

The death of the South Fork wolf is not unusual, Gardner says, and this wolf lived longer than most. Evidence that wolves bedded down for some time on a hillside less than 100 yards away could suggest the South Fork wolf was one of the parent wolves of a pack. Parent wolves are almost always the ones that kill large prey like moose.

“She was an important wolf.”

Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in co-operation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.

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Ice-age plants suited mammoth appetites

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by Erling Friis-Baastad rtists’ renditions of northern ice-age landscapes could do with a bit more colour, says Yukon paleontologist Grant Zazula.

Instead of fields of uniformly bleak grasslands, future paintings of late-Pleistocene Yukon, Alaska and eastern Siberia should include brilliant dabs of blue, yellow and orange scattered among the mammoths, horses, camels and other ancient mammals, he says.

Recent research, presented in “Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet” in the journal Nature last month, suggests that our favoured image of ice-age Beringia may well have been too grim. That paper was coauthored and co-ordinated by Danish biologist Eske Willerslev and supported by a veritable international army of experts. It helps explain why our concept of late Pleistocene plant life didn’t jive with the great numbers of large mammal bones found in northern permafrost, says Zazula, one of the authors.

“This paper really Duane Froese, of the University of Alberta, collecting permafrost cores in the Klondike. pushes a different concept,” he says. Our misconceptions were well aware the problem by ancient grass pollen some sciherders of the Russian North about Beringian plant life were the time Willerslev, Zazula and and was familiar with permaentists claimed that the ice-age seemingly supported by the University of Alberta Quaterfrost and its ability to preserve steppes couldn’t have supported science of palynology since the nary specialist Duane Froese organic matter for millennia. many large mammals.

They said mid 20th century when that excavated cores in Beringia.

“Willerslev started thinking, that the myriad bones and tusks discipline, the study of ancient

“When the first cores ‘We’ve got DNA preserved in found in Beringia were the repollen and other particulates, were taken, it had to be made museum specimens of modern really got up and running. Core mains of relatively few animals samples taken from permafrost- that would have survived during animals. That’s interesting, how certain that there was no way for DNA in upper levels to mifar back can we push this?’” warmer episodes of the late rich sites like the goldfields of grate down,” stressed Zazula. “It

“Willerslev had the the Klondike revealed a prepon- Pleistocene, or roughly since had to be clear that once stuff idea that instead of needing 50,000 years ago. derance of pollen from grasses was frozen it was permanently bones to look at ancient DNA,

The evidence was “real(graminoids). There was less frozen. Willerslev did a bunch of we’d see what DNA is preserved ly problematic,” says Zazula. evidence of more nourishing experimental work that showed from soils in the ancient past,” “Grass is an immense pollen plants, more easily digested that these stratigraphic levels of says Zazula. “Animals live and vegetation, that could have sup- producer and it later became permafrost were really stable, they die and they pee and they ported of population of hungry known that grass pollen was that there wasn’t a mixing of defecate and slough off hair and an over-representation of what megafauna. material up and down within skin all the time and that stuff was on the landscape.” Zazula’s

“Grasses are pretty the profile.” gets incorporated in the soil. own 1990s PhD research had tough to digest,” says Zazula.

Cores from within revealed evidence of many other That’s what soil is, basically – “There is not a lot of nutribroken-down organic material.” a time period that could be ents, there’s not a lot of protein plants, non-grasses, in ancient covered by radio-carbon dating,

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Thank wind-blown dust. Loess was carried onto the landscape from outwash streams at the edge of glaciers.

Dust even arrived from exposed portions of the ocean floor after sea levels dropped and the Beringia Land Bridge was exposed.

Such particulates make the soil more porous so water can percolate down rather than pool in bogs. “Boggy landscape isn’t good for much,” says Zazula, perhaps speaking for a mammoth.

Evidence of this percolating process is readily seen today in the windblown flats east of Kluane Lake because of dust coming off the Kaskawulsh Glacier, says the paleontologist.

Meanwhile, the dust-darkened soil absorbs heat from the sun.

Moisture and heat help make for more nutrient-rich earth, more nutrient-rich plants and better-fed beasts.

That conclusion is only one of many we can expect from further DNA analysis of Beringian permafrost samples, says Zazula. We will likely come to better understand the forces behind mass extinctions that occurred, along with the changing northern climate, at the end of the ice age.

This column is co-ordinated by the Yukon Research Centre at Yukon College with major financial support from Environment Yukon and Yukon College. The articles are archived at http://www.yukoncollege. yk.ca/research/publications/newsletters_articles

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Has Yukon government gone a bridge too far?

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by Michael Gates

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he Ross River suspension footbridge is in sorry condition and at imminent risk of catastrophic failure, according to the September 30, 2013 recommendations of a structural engineer at the firm of David Nairne and Associates.

“The north tower head beam is in a critical condition and is at the point of failure and can collapse at any time without warning. The collapse of the head beam will result in the collapse of the bridge deck and possibly the collapse of the north and south towers. The north tower head beam is structurally unsafe in its present condition and we recommend that no further inspection or any repairs to the head beam be carried out.”

This warning sounds dire – and it is. If you look at the condition of the head beams on the north and south towers, you will see for yourself.

Video clips of these features are posted on the Government of Yukon website at: www.infrastructure.gov. yk.ca/newsroom.html.

It’s grim viewing: the beams are twisted out of alignment where clamps on the suspension cables have pulled against them for decades.

Menacing cracks and deformation reveal the imminent failure of the beams.

Imagine that the head beam on one of the towers finally fails and the load of the cable and the span across the river comes down upon the aging tower. It starts to crumple and the cables, ramp and other features collapse onto the ice.

Things could be worse. If a catastrophic collapse were to take place during the summer, the span would fall into the Pelly River. Then, the inexorable force of the river current would pull everything down into a chaotic jumbled mess that would be dragged downriver.

But it could be even worse. Just below the bridge is the cable ferry across the Pelly. If it were crossing the Pelly with a load of vehicles at the time of the collapse, it would become entangled in the mess, possibly capsizing in the process.

One could readily understand how a responsible elected official would not allow the structure to remain standing, given the possible consequence of inaction, or delayed action. If there was a loss of life as a consequence of a catastrophic collapse, then the lawsuits would be costly, given that the engineering reports warned of the imminent failure. Political careers would be shortened considerably under such

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circumstances.

The logical course of action: tear it down. Any politician conscious of protecting his posterior, as well the lives of citizens, would say so.

But the problem is not as straightforward as it would seem, because of its historical value. For decades after the gold rush, Ross River was one of the most remote communities in the Yukon Territory.

A trading post was first built on the north shore of the Pelly River shortly after the turn of the twentieth century. Soon, there was a competing post on the opposite bank. Within a dozen years, First Nation people were attracted from as far away as the Mackenzie River to come here to trade seasonally. Taylor and Drury operated a trading post, and the Mounted Police kept an officer here as well.

The Second World War changed everything. Ross River found itself in the middle of a strategic wartime initiative known as CANOL - a pipeline and service road from Norman Wells to Whitehorse, to carry oil to a refinery that was being built in Whitehorse. When first constructed, the pipeline was temporarily laid across the ice of the frozen Pelly River, and then soon supported on the suspen-

sion bridge spanning the river.

Although the CANOL project was short-lived, the event was recognized as having national significance by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. The bridge survives as perhaps the most tangible symbol of the event.

After the pipeline was removed, the span was modified for foot traffic and continued to be used for that purpose until recently. Over the decades, the bridge, said to be the longest such span in Canada or the United States, acquired iconic status in the community. In fact, the Department of Tourism and Culture included the bridge as one of the stopping points in the Yukon Gold Explorer’s Passport program.

Then-Community Services Minister Elaine Taylor announced in June of last year that the suspension bridge was to be revitalized. Upgrades worth $1.1 million were to be completed by the end of the year.

The engineer’s report at the end of September brought an end to that.

Because of the imminent danger posed by the condition of the bridge, a decision for emergency demolition bypassed any process of community consultation and environmental assessment. Members of the com-

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munity have become active in voicing concern for the future of the soon-tobe-demolished bridge.

Letters have been written by concerned citizens. A Facebook page has been set up. The Yukon Historical and Museums Association has added its concerned voice to the issue. The Heritage Canada National Trust wrote a letter of concern for the future of the bridge. In it, they referred Minister Brad Cathers to the federal government’s recently announced Legacy Fund as a possible source of funding to aid in the restoration of this World War II construction. Even CBC personality Jian Ghomeshi recently talked about the bridge in the introduction to his popular radio program, Q. In a last-ditch effort to save the structure from demolition, Ross River residents blocked access to the bridge by the contractor assigned to do the demolition. Minister Cathers reiterated his determination to see the bridge come down – but – he added that the span and cables would be saved and the towers left standing until they decide what to do next.

Perhaps he should turn to Parks Canada, whose interventions on Dredge Number 4 National Historic Site averted potential catastrophic failure

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of that massive structure.

I hope that Minister Cathers is wise enough to listen carefully to the wishes of the community about what to do next. The community, for its part, is going to have to commit to long term engagement in the process.

One of the major challenges will be to pinpoint those key values that define the physical and historical importance of the bridge.

Lack of proactive maintenance of this important historical feature brought it to the brink of destruction. The community has had to assert its passionate feelings for the bridge in a last ditch effort to save it.

Let’s hope that government and community will be able to work together to a mutually satisfactory solution.

The government has made a compelling case to dismantle the bridge for reasons of public safety.

The big question is this: Once the public safety issue is addressed, will the commitment still be there to address the heritage values and restore this iconic structure, or will it simply be forgotten?

Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His latest book, Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail, is available in Yukon stores. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net

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New twist on candid camera feels like an assault a good time? I feel totally all right with the old practice of a picture or photo from time to time. It is just this barrage of “candid” shots that makes me want to hide out!

GENTLE READER: Reaby Judith sonable as your point is, it is Martin unlikely to be taken well. Either you will yourself be accused of ruining a good time, or the image of you scowling disapprovingly as you lecture the photographer will turn out to be just the candid snapshot the DEAR MISS MANNERS: I offender was hoping for. feel intimidated and insulted Better to render the photo(perhaps assaulted) by everyone graph itself uninteresting. Miss and their cameras.

Manners recommends a bored Everywhere I go lately, everybody is taking pictures with smile accompanied by turning away to notice something off in their cameras and phones. It’s the distance. a constant barrage, and then, “Look! Look! How do you like DEAR MISS MANNERS: this one? HAHAHA! Let’s do it again. Oh, now it’s my turn.” What do the parents do when their daughter gets engaged?

On and on and on.

GENTLE READER: Some I am not crazy about having dance in the streets; others try my picture taken to begin with. to lock her in her room.

And now there is the concern Miss Manners advises a about what they are going to short rest period following do with it. I don’t want to end either activity before entering up on someone’s social media into discussions comparing the page.

How can I tell people politely couple’s idea of a perfect wedthat I feel like they are compro- ding with the parents’. mising my privacy and ruining DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was saddened to read a newspa-

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per article in which a pregnant lady attempted to get a seat in the subway and failed a number of times, despite seats being reserved for this purpose (and for seniors, people with disabilities, etc.)

This is certainly unfortunate, but I can’t help but think that there may be an additional explanation besides just lack of courtesy. After all, there’s a competing social norm that prohibits one from inferring a stranger’s pregnancy. Imagine the embarrassment of attempting to give up one of the reserved seats to a lady, only to have her tell you she’s not pregnant!

Could there be another solution? Perhaps if the pregnant ladies made some obvious gesture such as putting one hand maternally on their belly while trying to catch someone’s eye? I think that would make it much easier for the polite among us to give up our seats without fear. However, I don’t want to add to, as it were, the burden.

GENTLE READER: As the lady in question may need both hands to hold on in a moving subway car, let us not add to her burden with unnecessary gesturing.

Stand and ask her if she

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returned.

To my horror, she is now (not surprisingly) pregnant. I’m not sure how I can get past the seething anger I feel every time I think of her, let alone having to be tied to her for the rest of my life. I am filled with rage every time her name is mentioned.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Please give me guidance on Please tell me the proper way how to handle this rage and still to open a cracker package in a support our son. Loving the restaurant. I know using your teeth is probably not right, but child is without question, and we have also found ourselves I don’t know the proper alterquite taken with her child from native. a previous relationship.

GENTLE READER: Why is GENTLE READER: Where traditional etiquette constantly was your son when all this was charged with setting mealgoing on? And where is he now? time traps, when all it does is Are they to be married? to provide sturdy utensils for In any case, you now are, as consuming food? you are chagrined to admit, tied And meanwhile, establishto your unwelcome visitor for ments that expect diners to cope with paper and cardboard life. Your access to your grandchild will depend on her good have people like you assuming will. that propriety is legitimately This will be as severe an etiinvolved. quette test as Miss Manners can There is no proper way of dealing with trash on a properly imagine. You will have to keep reminding yourself that you set table because it shouldn’t be there. Miss Manners realizes are doing it for the sake of your grandchild — not just for your that restaurants are required own satisfaction, but to provide by health laws to present some a alternative household and items in their commercial way of behaving, which it seems wrappings, but that prevents likely that the child will need. them from being models for correct service.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: However, she does agree How did we arrive at the that using your teeth is not etiquette rules regarding men an attractive solution. If the wearing hats inside buildings? designated “tear” part of the packaging doesn’t yield, as is so What was the original ratiooften the case, she recommends nale? I have been unable to find an explanation that makes attacking it with knife edge or sense. fork prong.

GENTLE READER: When it comes to tracing back the oriDEAR MISS MANNERS: gin of folk customs, the choice Our son has brought home is often between making sense his girlfriend twice, each for a and being factual. Sometimes week-long stay. On both occawe do things a certain way just sions, within an hour, she sat his father and me down to have because that is the way we do things. a discussion about our son by stating, “This is what I need you DEAR MISS MANNERS: I to do to get Jackson to marry was wondering if there were me,” and “This is the converany clear-cut rules for encounsation you need to have with tering, working with or conhim.” fronting a person with disabiliOn both occasions, we exties? plained that our son will make GENTLE READER: You deal that decision on his own. only with the person. Unless During the second visit, she you have been hired to deal also let us know how “cool a with the disabilities, Miss Mangirlfriend” she is because she ners assures you that they are was taking our son to a strip none of your concern. club that night. I was dumbIt is widely believed that the founded. I told her we didn’t custom evolved from knights’ need to know those details. lifting or removing their headThe rest of the second visit gear out of politeness, to show had her traipsing about my their adversaries who was about home in her underwear and a to hack them to pieces, or to T-shirt; talking about her sexy make eyes at married ladies look to my husband while I whom they idolized. wasn’t in the room; standing Miss Manners doesn’t know. at the top of our stairs in said She wasn’t there. underwear trying to get my (Please send your questions to Miss husband to engage in conversaManners at her website, www. tion (requiring him to look up missmanners.com; to her email, at her). I was infuriated, ceased dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or communication with her and through postal mail to Miss Manners, left for the grocery store, prayUniversal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., ing they would be gone when I Kansas City, MO 64106.) would like your seat. If she does not want or need it, Miss Manners hopes she will politely decline. If she responds rudely (“What makes you think I need it?”) you need only re-seat yourself and continue your journey.

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RECREATION Yukon skier bags three golds at freestyle nationals Tom Patrick News Reporter

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he Yukon Freestyle Ski Team has now occupied each tier of the podium at the Canadian Junior Freestyle Skiing Championships.

Yukon’s Etienne Geoffroy won his team’s first-ever gold medal at the championships on Wednesday in the Le Relais ski area in Lac-Beauport, Que. On Thursday he did it again with a gold in the big air competition. Geoffroy also claimed gold in the competition overall.

Wednesday’s big win was in slopestyle in the M2 division (16-17). Geoffroy produced the highest score of the competition, not just in his category, but every category.

“I’m feeling great about my win,” said Geoffroy. “The extra days of training really paid off. I didn’t focus on other people and just focused on landing my run and showing people what Yukon is all about. I landed my run twice in a row and got 91 on my first run and 93.8 on my second one.”

Geoffroy landed a switch bio 1080 with a blunt grab. That’s the trick that put him on top both days.

“I’m really stoked because I landed my best runs out of the four days here and I really couldn’t do it any better. I got the highest score out of everyone and I’m really happy it was here at junior nationals.”

Geoffroy wasn’t the only Yukoner on the podium Wednesday.

Teammate Josh Harlow took silver in the same division. Harlow, who won Yukon’s first medal at the junior nationals last year with a bronze in big air, hit corked 900s with tail grabs, alternating the direction of his spins in each jump, “which is really hard to do,” said Yukon head coach Stu Robinson. “That’s what got him silver.”

“All of our guys are doing some of the hardest tricks at the top of the course each time, so they’re really pushing the limits

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Yukon’s Etienne Geoffroy, seen here at the Yukon Freestyle Ski Championships earlier this month, won three golds at the Canadian junior championships in Lac-Beauport, Quebec, last weekend.

on the smaller end of the course,” said Robinson. “A lot of the (other) guys were saving their big tricks for the final jump. That was a big thing that set us apart.

“The guys were doing corked 900s on the top jump, which is a smaller jump, and still doing big tricks on the bottom.”

Yukon’s Dylan Reed was edged out of a medal in fifth place for M2 and teammate Aidan Allen came 11th in slopestyle.

Reed snagged the bronze on Thursday, though, in the big air competition with a switch bio 900 with a safety grab. He also took bronze in the competition overall.

Yukoners Kyran Allen and Niko Rodden placed seventh and 24th, respectively, in the M3 division (15-16) in slopestyle on Wednesday.

“As proud as I am of these guys, I honestly am not surprised, these guys are all amazing athletes and have so much potential,” said Yukon coach Steven Harlow.

“Athletes and coaches were all blown away in just our warm-up.

“This is the highest level team we have ever produced and I’m super proud to be apart of it.”

Wednesday was not the first time Geoffroy set a high water mark for his team. Geoffroy won his team’s first gold medal on the Timber Tour, a national level event, in Prince George, B.C., last month. He also came first in big air and second in slopestyle at the Yukon championships.

Geoffroy only turned 16 in December and is therefore one of the youngest skiers in the M2 division.

Reed, Harlow and Geoffroy have decided to compete at the senior nationals at the end of the month in Calgary, Alta.

“Big air tomorrow, got to forget about today and do what I do best,” said Geoffroy when speaking to the News on Wednesday. “Its a great building block for my next competition, senior nationals.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

Yukon biathletes crack top 10 at nationals Tom Patrick News Reporter

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wo Yukon biathletes have faced the best in Canada and have broken into single digits.

Ryan Burlingame and Nadia Moser placed top 10 at the Canadian National Biathlon Championships in Charlo, New Brunswick, on Wednesday.

Burlingame placed seventh out of 13 in the open men’s 10-kilometre sprint. He shot nine out of 10 to be the best shooter in his division, which includes two Sochi Olympians, Scott Perras and

Jean-Philippe Le Guellec, who placed first and second.

Moser placed 9th in the senior girls six-kilometre sprint, cracking the top 10 in the largest senior girls division in the championship division with 28 entered.

Yukon teammate Maria Peters placed 16th in the same division in Wednesday’s six-kilometre sprint.

Yukon’s Tristan Sparks raced to 27th out of 32 in the senior boys six-kilometre sprint, shooting seven out of 10 at the range.

Thursday’s pursuit races were postponed after a blizzard

dumped 50 centimetres of snow in Charlo Thursday morning.

“They are all very positive about their experience,” said Yukon coach Dennis Peters.

“Three of them are brand new at the nationals, so it’s a new experience. It’s a high calibre event; there are a lot of very good athletes over here.

“Tristan shot really well. Maria and Nadia weren’t as happy with their shooting but they both skied very well.

“It’s unfortunate that it looks like we’ll miss the next race because we’re heading back to

Whitehorse tomorrow morning to catch the plane to the Arctics.”

Moser, Maria and Sparks, who are members of Biathlon Yukon’s Velocity Squad race team, will represent Yukon at the Arctic Winter Games next week in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Moser won a gold, two silver and a bronze at the 2012 Arctic Games in Whitehorse, claiming hardware in every race she started.

Sparks won two silver at the 2012 Games.

Burlingame, who is not going to the Arctic Games, will remain

in Charlo for the rest of the championships. Burlingame was the only Yukoner to compete at the nationals last year, placing 11th in three races.

He also competed for Team Canada at the Winter World University Games in Trentino, Italy, this past December. Burlingame, who studies at the University of Alberta, led Team Canada in the 10-kilometre sprint at the Games, placing 45th. He also helped the team take ninth in the mixed relay.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Finishline heroics plentiful at Yukon XC champs Jesse Winter News Reporter

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ki racing fans and athletes always love a good sprint finish.

On Saturday at the Yukon crosscountry ski championships, they got two for the price of one.

After a hard-fought comeback in the midget girls 5-km freestyle race, Amanda Thomson charged the finish line with teammates Hannah Jirousek and Regan Fuerstner, earning a shared silver medal with Jirousek in the process.

“We (Fuerstner and Jirousek) skied together the whole way, and Amanda caught up on the second lap,” said Fuerstner, who managed to out-stretch her competitors at the line for the win.

“Around the second lap, I caught up just before a big hill,” Thomson said.

“It was also down the last big hill and into the stadium,” Jirousek said.

“We were all pushing ourselves, and we all wanted to come in first. It was really exciting,” she said.

Skiing together as they did should be a good warm up for the girls, all three of whom are off to Fairbanks for their first Arctic Winter Games.

“I’m feeling really good. I’m excited to see the results from today. Fairbanks is going to be really exciting too. I think there’s going to be lots of people,” Amanda said.

The other high-octane finish came in the junior boys 7.5-km freestyle race.

Race winner Marcus Deuling gapped the field early on, and skied a mostly solitary race to take the win in 22 minutes, 22 seconds flat.

But the battle for second place played out in the final 100 meters, with Hudson Lucier just barely besting Mac Prawdzik at the line, for times of 23:43 and 23:44 respectively.

“It was really nice to sprint to the finish with Mac. I really love that stuff. I led for the first lap and then led Mac and Simon for the rest of the race,” Lucier said after the race.

The junior boys trio won’t be headed to Fairbanks, though.

Instead they’re off to Corner Brook, Newfoundland for the 2014 Canadian championships.

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Hannah Jirousek, right, leads Reagan Fuerstner and Amanda Thomson in the midget girls 5-km freestyle during the Yukon Cross Country Ski Championships on Saturday at Mount McIntyre.

“The year has been great so far. I’ve had great guys to train with. We’ve all pushed each other really hard and we’re really ready for nationals,” Deuling said.

“I’m really looking forward to the 15-km classic,” Lucier said.

“The season has been great. We went to Easterns, in Ottawa. I came from Ottawa and I knew those trails really well, so it was a good time there.”

Yukon Elite Squad member Knute Johnsgaard skied a lonely 27 minute, 29 second race in the open men’s 10 km. As the only competitor, he started with the junior boys, but took off solo after the first few hundred metres.

Johnsgaard said he’s recovering from a minor illness but is excited for the competition at Canadian championships in a few days’ time.

“Today was pretty fun. It’s not very often that I get to do a

race at home anymore. It’s fun to sometimes just race against yourself. It’s good practice to race your own race,” he said.

Fellow Yukon Elite racer Collin Abbott missed the Yukon Championships because he was already en route to Corner Brook to get ready for the nationals.

Johnsgaard met up with him and the rest of the Yukon team this week to prepare as well.

“I’m kind of just rebounding now and trying to get my shape back. Today was okay, so I think I’m on the way up in time for Nationals,” he said.

Jesse Winter/Yukon News For a full list of Saturday’s Hudson Lucier collapses at the finish line of the junior boys results, head to zone4.ca.

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Skiers prep for Arctics with Yukon Cup Tom Patrick News Reporter

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t was the same old Storey at the Yukon Cup – the same old Josie Storey.

The 15-year-old member of the Yukon Alpine Race Team was fastest overall both days at the Yukon Cup – the territory’s alpine ski championships – over the weekend at Mount Sima.

“It was a pretty fun race,” said Storey. “The slalom race stands out more, I guess, because it was a better time than my GS compared to the others.”

After two days Storey was 3.49 seconds ahead of teammate Abby Hawes, who had the second fastest combined time from the giant slalom and slalom.

Hawes was second in the GS and third in the slalom behind under-14 male winner and brother Charlie Hawes.

Yukon teammate Tayler Mitchell, skiing in under-16 female with Storey and Abby, had the third fastest combined time overall.

At last year’s Yukon Cup Abby had the fastest time of any skier in the giant slalom, while Storey had the fastest overall time in the slalom event.

Abby “was really close in the GS,” said Storey. “She was 0.19 seconds behind me … She skied really well.”

Storey, Mitchell and the two Hawes’ are among 11 Yukon alpine skiers who will race at the Arctic Winter Games next week in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Team Yukon skiers posted nine out of the top 10 fastest times in the GS on Saturday and slalom on Sunday.

“They all did very well,” said Yukon coach Yves Titley. “They’re all fired up.

“Tayler Mitchell was just back from Josie and Abby in giant slalom.

“Slalom was a little more difficult because I set the course a little bit harder for training. We used the Yukon Cup as a training venue for

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Josie Storey races to a first-place finish in the Yukon Cup giant slalom race on Saturday at Mount Sima.

the Arctics, so I set it pretty hard.

But they all did well; every one of them did very well.

“So they’re all primed up for the Arctics and I think we should have good results.”

This year’s Yukon Cup had just shy of 40 racers both days, nearly double the participation from last year. Included in the races were young skiers who will soon move up onto the Yukon Alpine Race Team and will likely compete at future major Games like the Arctics.

“We had great weather for the event and we had a lot of young kids from the Snow Stars program,” said Titley. “This is the group that will come in a year or two onto the race team. I was quite impressed by quite a few of them.”

“A lot of people came out and there were a lot of great younger skiers there too,” said Storey. “It was fun to see everyone racing and to see the future generation.”

Other skiers heading to Fairbanks on Team Yukon next week are Liam Diamond, Zackary Endress, Angus Endress, Shane Orban, Samantha Richardson, Manas Sarin-

Toews and Katelyn Vowk.

Yukon will field its largest alpine ski team in eight years at the Games next week with 11, up from eight in 2012.

Storey was the only Yukon skier to win an individual medal at the 2012 Games in Whitehorse, claiming silver in the dual slalom.

Her medal was the first won by the Yukon in alpine skiing since the 2006 Games.

Despite not fielding any skiers in the junior male division at the 2012 Games, the Yukon team accumulated enough points to take bronze in the team event. It was the first time in Games history the Yukon won a team medal in alpine.

Next week will be Storey and Abby Hawes’s third and final Arctic Winter Games.

“It’s a little sad it’s going to be the last one, but the Yukon Cup was good training for that and we’re all pretty excited to hit the slopes in Fairbanks,” said Storey. “I don’t think any of us have skied in Fairbanks before, so it’s a new thing.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Charlie Hawes races the giant slalom.

Results (combined times) Under-eight female

1st Tori Vollmer – 2:44.08 2nd Jordan Minifie – 3:08.72 3rd Maddie D’Abramo – 3:42.42

Under-14 female

1st Katelyn Vowk – 1:45.44

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1st Charlie Hawes – 1:44.28 2nd Shane Orban – 1:45.71 Under-eight male 3rd Manas Sarin-Toews – 1:56.47 1st Gallagher D’Abramo – 2:41.41 4th Angus Endress – 2:03.48 2nd Colin Diamond – 3:11.36

Under-10 female

1st Greta Gladwin – 2:15.73 2nd Adele Anderson – 2:41.91

Under-10 male

1st Clayton Chapman – 2:11.22

Under-16 female

1st Josie Storey – 1:37.94 2nd Abby Hawes – 1:41.43 3rd Tayler Mitchell – 1:43.73 4th Samantha Richardson – 1:49.70

Under-16 male

1st Zackary Endress – 2:15.56

Under-12 female

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To solve Kakuro, you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares. The clues are the numbers in the white circles that give the sum of the solution numbers: above the line are across clues and below the line are down clues and below the line are down clues.

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No difit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. © 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.

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WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: to assert as true.

CLUES ACROSS 1. Regions 6. Abu __, UAE capital 11. Forever 13. Lower position 14. Masterpiece series 18. Atomic #18 19. Cuckoos 20. Goat with conical horns 21. European money 22. Flaw the surface 23. Restaurant bill 24. Indicated horsepower (abbr.)

25. Go in advance 28. Ancient Egyptian King 29. Insert mark 31. Palm fruits 33. Peels a fruit’s skin 34. Many not ands 35. Cathode-ray oscilloscope 36. Bo __, “10” 38. Satisfies to excess 40. More dry 41. Of he 42. Lay a tax upon

45. Ed Murrow’s home 46. Newsman Rather 47. Swiss mountain 49. Till 50. Potato, tossed or green 52. Italian automaker 53. Birthplace of Abraham 54. Scheduled visits 57. Yemen capital (alt. sp.)

59. Assisted 60. Persian kings 61. Accumulate

17. Founder of Babism 21. Ireland 26. Love intensely 27. One who confronts boldly 28. Atomic #52 29. Feels concern or interest 30. Got up from 32. Sound of disappointment 33. Out of 100 (abbr.)

36. Actress Kerr 37. Irish Gaelic 38. 10 Commandments mountain 39. Morning 40. Straight downhill ski run

41. Angel’s crown 43. Canonized individuals 44. Old school tablets 46. Dip lightly into water 48. Traumatic anxiety disorder 50. Mineral spring resorts 51. Desoxyribonucleic acid 52. Greek cheese 54. Express pleasure 55. Don’t know when yet 56. 13th Hebrew letter 58. Chinese tennis star Li

CLUES DOWN 1. Unkeyed 2. Recable 3. Sea eagles 4. Small social insect 5. __ Paulo, city 6. 2 man fight 7. Honey (abbr.)

8. Anno Domini 9. Malibu and Waikiki 10. To burst in 11. Mild yellow Dutch cheese 12. Liquefied natural gas 15. Douroucoulis 16. Spoiled child

Puzzle B

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WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: full in sound; also, bombastic

Puzzle C

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RENT ONE of our cozy cabins with sauna for a weekend getaway Relax and enjoy the winter wonderland on the S. Canol Road 332- 3824 or info@breathofwilderness.com.

DOWNTOWN BACHELOR suite, furnished, for quiet person, clean and bright, hardwood floor, nice house, laundry/utils incl, N/S, avail immed, $1,000/mon. 332-3598.

1 BDRM in shared PC home, c/w phone, cable, internet, heat & electric inclʼd, N/S, no parties, serious inquiries only, $650/mon.

334-1179 FURNISHED ROOM for female roommate until end of April, d/t house, N/P, N/S, refs reqʼd, $600/mon + $400 dd. 668-5185 days or 667-7840 eves, weekends

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668-5558 3-BDRM 1.5 bath condo, Riverdale, newly renoʼd, new kitchen, avail immed, N/S, N/P, dd&refs reqʼd, $1,400/mon + utils. 332-8686 LARGE ROOM in Northland, everything included, avail April 1, $750/mon. 668-4776 ROOM FOR rent, Riverdale, furnished, N/P, N/S, no parties, $650/mon incl utils & internet, avail immed. 335-5248 Office Space for Rent 550 sq. ft., ground floor Wheelchair access Close to Law Centre, City Hall $25/sq. ft. includes heat, power, taxes, basic janitorial, free off-street parking with plug-in 335-3123 FEMALE ROOMMATE for downtown house for March and April, 2014, refs reqʼd, $600/mon incl elec, heat, kitchen/laundry facilities, 668-5185 1-BDRM APT 20 mins south of Whitehorse, N/S, $750/mon + utils. 456-2135 after 7:00pm

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3-BDRM DUPLEX in Crestview, attached garage, large kitchen, N/S, N/P, $1,400/mon + utils & DD. 393-3117 RENDEZVOUS PLAZA on Lewes Blvd, Riverdale Lots of parking 1,100 sq ft (previously flower shop, studio) 7,000 sq ft (previously Frazerʼs) Call 667-7370

CABIN FOR rent, Riverside, rustic, cozy, blue jug, outhouse, propane stove, woodstove, greenhouse, water/showers nearby, 30 minutes from town in Mt. Lorne, prefer long term, $550/mon. 633-4322 DOWNTOWN BRIGHT spacious 2-bdrm apt, top floor, views, shared yard/greenhouse, avail Apr. 1, N/P. $1700/mon incl. heat/elec, 334-8001

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nacho nyäk Dun First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun is seeking 3-4 interested individuals to serve as Trustees to the NND Investment Trust for terms of 3 years.

Please send your resume and cover letter with attention to: Executive Director, Brenda Jackson First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun Box 220, Mayo, Yukon Y0B 1M0 Or email to: execdirector@nndfn.com

Closing date for applications is March 31, 2014 by 4:00 PM.

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1-BDRM BASEMENT suite, Granger, bright & spacious, own parking, no laundry, N/P, N/S, no parties, dd&refs reqʼd, avail April 1st, $1,000/mon incl heat, hydro. 335-5890

3-BDRM 2-BATH mobile home, country living, clean, bright, newer, large garage, avail immed, 15 mins north of town, N/S, pets negotiable, $1,650/mon + utils. 334-6941

FURNISHED BACHELOR apt 15 mins from downtown, private entry, small deck, N/S, N/P, dd&refs reqʼd. $1,000/mon incl.

322-3116

1-BDRM APT located right downtown near Main St, avail Apr. 1, $900/mon incl utils.

334-4741

ROOM FOR rent, PC, avail Apr 1, N/P, $700/mon all incl & dd. 335-3136 after 4:30pm

1-BDRM SUITE, furnished, large/bright, sep ent, w/d, BBQ deck, new renos, dd&refs reqʼd, N/S, N/P, no parties, $1,300/mon incl utils, heat, 668-4966

2-3 BDRM (or 2-bdrm with den), 1 bath house, Riverdale, large fenced backyard, avail immed, $1,700/mon incl City bill.

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2-BDRM (1-BDRM, 1 lg loft) 1-bath 3-storey home 20 mins south of town on shared acrege, N/S, pets welcome, looking for long term renter/s, $1,800/mon + water delivery.

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SMALL BACHELOR suite in 1-yr old modern duplex, 1509B Dogwood St, Porter Creek, fully furnished, N/S, N/P. $900/mon all incl. Contact: joshrwiebe@gmail.com

3-BDRM 2-BATH condo, PC, avail May 1, large living/dining area, deck, private laundry, lots of storage. N/S, pets considered, 1-yr lease & refs, $1,750/mon +. 335-9674

YOuTh DElEGaTE POSITION

Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre Governance Council - Youth Representative JOB DESCRIPTION: The Kwanlin Dün Cultural Society’s (KDCS) Governance Council is placing a call for a youth delegate. The youth delegate will sit on the KDCS’s Governance Council and take part in key strategic decisions and planning discussions for the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre. This is an opportunity for a young individual to learn and take part in community planning with a focus on local First Nations culture.

Applicants up to 30 years of age are welcome to apply.

ClOSING DaTE fOR SuBmISSIONS: Sunday, March 23rd 2014.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations

Senior Advisor to Chief & Council

Term Full Time Salary: $70,821.44 - $82,851.07 Location: Haines Junction Under the direction of the Chief, this position provides a wide range of administrative and analytical self-governance support to the Chief that includes strategic thinking on new directions for the organization; project design and project analysis including financial review. As well this position will assist in fostering good public relations with citizens, staff and other governments.

This position works in Haines Junction in a normal office setting and requires occasional overtime. Position is regularly required to meet regular and ad hoc deadlines in the production of materials and information. A high level of concentration is required while conducting research. Frequent travel can be expected, including accompanying the Chief or Council members to meetings as required. The incumbent will frequently interact with people of different culture and values. Stress may be encountered when responding to inquiries or interacting with people of different values We offer a competitive benefits package with RRSP plan, group health with Sun Life, and a travel benefit.

Education and Experience: Successful completion of a Degree in Public Administration, Political Science or a directly related field combined with Human Resource & Financial experience at a senior level with Self Governing First Nation governments. Executive level experience working with First Nations governments in a political and administrative capacity. Fluent in English is a requirement.

Condition of Employment: Criminal Record Check Possess a valid Yukon Class 5 Driver’s License CAFN’s Human Resources Policy will apply. For complete job description please check the CAFN website at http://www.cafn.ca/jobs.html or contact below.

We thank all those who apply but only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

Application deadline: 4:30 p.m. on March 20th, 2014 Send Applications and/or resumes to: Kathy Brown Champagne and Aishihik First Nations 304 Jarvis Street Whitehorse Yukon Territory, Y1A 2H2 Fax: (867) 667-6202 Phone: (867) 456-6879 Cell: (867) 332-5247 Email: kbrown@cafn.ca

fuRThER INfORmaTION: can be obtained at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, 1171 Front Street,Whitehorse YT. For questions regarding the position, please contact Amanda Buffalo at (867) 633-7805.

Documents and full job description can be obtained from the KDCC website (www.kdcc.ca).

www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

Employment Opportunity

Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.

Summer Camp Facilitators (x5)

Science, Trades, Technology & Munchkins Camps Continuing Education - Extension Services Casual Hire from: May 12, 2014 - August 22, 2014 Hourly rate: $16.52 Initial Review Date: March 28, 2014 Competition No.: 14.28 Yukon College is looking for enthusiastic Summer Camp Facilitators who enjoy working with youth in both an indoor & outdoor, experiential setting and travelling throughout the Yukon.

The successful candidates will help coordinate and facilitate weeklong Science, Trades, Technology & Munchkins summer camps, for ages 5-15, to both Whitehorse and the communities throughout the Yukon from mid-May to midAugust.

The successful candidates will be post-secondary students in the following disciplines of Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Education, Computer science and/or candidates with teaching experience and previous experience in the trades/construction industry. Candidates with an acceptable combination of education, training and experience may also be considered.

A criminal record check will be required upon hire. A valid Yukon driver’s license and Standard First Aid/CPR-C certification would be considered assets.

For more information please contact: Ashley Pettitt, Acting Coordinator Email: apettitt@yukoncollege.yk.ca Phone: (867) 668-8819 Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca

3-BDRM UPPER level of Crestview home, landscaped, deck, mountain view, N/P, N/S, dd&refs reqʼd, avail Apr 1, $1,600/mon + utils. 667-4858 2-BDRM, 1.5 bath, greenhouse, garden, lawn, covered deck, close to school, 20 mins south of town, avail May, $1,200/mon + utils.

336-1998 ROOM WITH own bath, 31-67 River Ridge Lane, Whitehorse, N/S, N/P, avail immed, $600/mon + 1/2 utils, Corey at 668-4073 TAKING APPLICATIONS for 1,750 sqft 3-bdrm condo in PC, N/P, N/S, no parties, $1,800/mon. Dave 334-3032 2-BDRM LOWER level of Crestview home, N/P, N/S, dd&refs reqʼd, avail Apr 1, $1,150/mon + utils. 667-4858 PRIVATE ROOM downtown, avail Apr. 1, $800/mon all incl. CAll/e-mail to view.

647-996-7531 1-BDRM SUITE, PC, full bath, in-suite laundry, attached greenhouse, on bus route, N/S, $795/mon + utils. suites@auroramusic.ca 1-BDRM GROUND floor suite, PC, new renos, large, bright, private ent, full bath, kitchen, shared laundry, N/P, N/S, no parties, $1,250/mon incl heat, power, TV, wifi, avail May 1. 633-6389 ROOM IN PC, shared accom, recent renos, avail Apr 1, $750/mon all inclusive + dd.

667-2046 2-BDRM, 1.5 bath, 3-level condo, Granger, master w/walk-in, finished family room, deck, attached garage, 5 appliances, immaculate, avail immed, $1,500/mon + utils. 334-1170 ROOMMATE WANTED to share Marsh Lake waterfront home, animals welcome, N/S, $500/mon + shared elec. 660-4321

Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 HOUSE-SITTER AVAILABLE in Whitehorse area, May to Sept, many references, good with animals, gardens, etc. jgraf5@yahoo.ca or 335-2300 PROF. SEEKING 1-bdrm apartment/suite in Riverdale, downtown or Granger area for April 1st. 336-8194 SINGLE MALE, N/S, hard working, looking for room with family or roommate within 10-15min drive to DT or in DT, can afford $400-$500/mon, 393-8270 lv msg, or email israelmounted@gmail.com

Real Estate 2-BDRM CABIN, Tagish, Sidney Str, Lot 12, blue siding. Electric ready to hook up. Gd location, 5 minutes to bridge for fishing. Serious Inquiries only. Tony 780-926-1966 HAINES JUNCTION, 2-storey 2-bdrm house, contemporary design, open concept, 10-acre lot, cul-de-sac, fire-smarted around house, 85% completed, 1,350 sq ft, $275,000 as is. 634-2240 LARGE 5-BDRM home in Watson Lake, for rent or sale, $229,000. 780-632-9618 LAND FOR sale, 7.5 acres, no building deadlines, accessible gravel road on one side, power,phone available nearby, gently sloped and treed, $159,900. 633-4822 LAKEFRONT ACREAGE, approx 9.7 acres & 1,000ʼ waterfront on beautiful Crag Lake, treed & sloped, several good building sites, $230,000. 821-6011 MAYO, 3-BDRM retrofitted home, double lot, for sale in town. 867-393-3853 for details

Help Wanted DOWNTOWN DAYS CHILDCARE CENTRE Looking for an early childhood caregiver Training in early childhood or a related field required This position is 9:00am-5:30pm, Monday to Fridays Wage dependent on training and experience Call 667-6776, Echo or Lynda, for further information Resumes may be dropped off at 478 Range Road, faxed to 667-6736 or emailed to rustic@northwestel.net

CFL FOOTBALL cards, 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards, serious inquiries. $1,500.

633-3154

Gold Village Chinese Restaurant Looking for experienced full-time kitchen helper and server Apply with resume to 401 Craig Street, Dawson City, YT Y0B 1G0 Fax resume to: 867-993-2336

MCDONALDS H O C K E Y cards from 1991-92 to 2009/10. Almost every card issued minus some short prints, incl. 27 unopened paks/yr. Over 1,200 cards, $1,000 firm. 633-3154.

CANADIAN LYNDEN TRANSPORT Looking for Class 1 drivers with superb experience Please e-mail resume to abjork@lynden.com or Fax 867-668-3196 Phone: 668-3198

STARTECH 7 Port USB 3.0/2.0 Hub with Charging Port ST7320USBC, $35, 667-6472

Animal Control Constable

CLARK BUILDERS Now Hiring in Whitehorse and Yellowknife Project Managers Project Coordinators Estimators Superintendents Apply at www.clarkbuilders.com

Permanent Full Time 40 hours per week – scheduled between 0700 and 2400 hours, Sunday to Saturday.

Amber Enterprises is looking for: SEASONAL LIVE-IN ONSITE CAMPGROUND OFFICE MANAGER NOC #0632 $12.50 per hour.

May till Oct, full time, shift work.

Requirements: Accommodation Registration Management, Payroll, Scheduling, Staffing, Customer Service Must speak English and also have one of the following: German, Spanish or French Contact: rsc@klondiker.com Apply with cover letter, resume, and references.

Salary Range $27.30 to $32.12 / hour. This is a unionized position and contract negotiations are in progress.

ACMG HikinG BACkpACkinG SnowSHoeinG Guide Duties: • Safe Outdoor guiding with interpretation, transporting, emergency procedure, cooking at camp.

Job Location: • Whitehorse, Dawson City, Haines J. area requirements: Skills and certification requirements: • Must speak and write in English • ACMG Hiking certification • Valid wilderness First Aid (80 hrs) • Previous guiding experience 1 yr to less than 2 yrs. consiDer as an asset: • Japanese speaking skill.

• Local guiding knowledge / Good fitness level YM Tours LTd o/A Yamnuska Mountain Tours Box 31112 Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A5P7 job2@yamnuskaguides.com

20 IAN Rankin paperback novels (John Rebus detective), all in good cond, $25.

633-3154 FIBREGLASS WALL & tub combo, 2 pcs, minor damaged edges, color snow white, retail $950, asking $450. 647-996-7531 MOVING OUT, white entertainment centre, stereo stand, new breadmaker, area rug 7ʼx10ʼ, dishes, pots, lamps, white microwave stand, etc. 393-3113 for info ENVIROLET COMPOST toilet, needs no water, chimney/ducting incl, $2,400 obo.

633-6502 MICROWAVE OVEN, 19x9, near new, used once, paid $84, selling at $70. 668-6007 CONTACT ME if you are interested in ordering bulk, organic food from Horizon Foods.

334-3978

Kluane First Nation JOB OPPORTUNITY EnvironmEntal officEr Full Time/Regular Salary: $45,000. - $65,000. Per year, depending on experience Based on 70 hours biweekly/ Burwash Landing Application deadline: 4:30 – march 28, 2014

ovErviEw: Under the direction of the Natural Resources Manager, the Environmental Officer is responsible for monitoring and administering environmental acts, regulations, policies and procedures. This includes assessing development applications where KFN has jurisdiction and making recommendations regarding those applications to senior staff or Council. As well, they are responsible for monitoring projects within KFN jurisdiction or in co-management areas and serve as the overall technical support to KFN in matters relating to the environment.

accountabilitiEs:

Apply to careers@ whitehorse.ca by 11:59pm March 20, quoting 025-BYL14. For details, visit:

MENʼS GOLD chain, 26”L, 10k yellow gold, appraised at $450 in 2007, $300 obo.

633-2837

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KRENOL 425 All Fiber insulating machine, 200ʼ of 2 1/2” hose, used twice, paid $7,000, asking $5,000. 335-2005 or 668-5814

Qualifications:

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OIL FURNACE, 3 yrs old, just serviced professionally. Olsen BML80B, 59,000-97,000, BTU/hr. EnergyGuide 83, $1,000. 335-8153

Miscellaneous for Sale

MAKITA 12” planer, 6” joiner combination machine, 220 volt carbide joiner blades, 3 sets HSS planer blades, exc shape, $900.

633-2916 after 6pm.

The City of Whitehorse offers a competitive benefits and leave package.

Amber Enterprises is looking for: CAMPGROUND ACCOMMODATION ATTENDANTS, NOC #6435 May till Nov, full time, shift work.

Requirements: Front desk customer service, accommodation registration, barista, and office staff Must speak English with a second language preferred (German, French, Spanish) Contact: rsc@klondiker.com Apply with cover letter, resume, and references.

Wage: • $18.95 / hr, Permanent position • Full time position (min. of 35 hrs / week) • WCB, Staff Accommodation

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333-0717 We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, cameras, furniture, antiques, artwork, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, vehicles & ATVs. G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS DIRT DEVIL vacuum cleaner, nearly new, $40. 668-6007 TRADING CARDS, binder full of non-sport trading cards (James Bond, X-men, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards. $50. 633-3154

SMALL SLOW cooker, gently used, $15; black canvas travel bag w wheels, $10; scales, in good shape, $8. 668-6007 MYSTERY AND detective novels, 35 cents each, 668-6007

CARPET AND underlay, used, approx. 200 sq ft, brown/earth tones, excellent for cabin or basement, $200 obo. 668-5644 INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY: Two Air North shares, Class C convertible to Class D, for sale. 334-7441 SPRING IS THE TIME to get your firewood in place $225/cord for fire-killed pine 5 cord minimum Credit cards accepted Doug Martens, 334-7364 RED WOOL coat, sz 16, exc cond, $100 obo; Black wool coat, sz 20, exc cond, $100 obo. 633-2751 AIR ROCK drill c/w 3 section of drill rod and bit, $1,200. 334-3237 GAF SLIDE projector, like new, spare bulb, numerous slide trays, $60. 667-6907 TWO BLUE Lenses for 10” Lightforce lights, $35. 667-6907

THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets (1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some short prints. Over 900 cards. $150. 633-3154

EXTRA LARGE suits for sale for women, different colours & materials, different prices, one is new. 667-7840 evenings & weekends, 668-5185 days

WORLD HOCKEY Association, remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. 633-3154

MARMOT LIKE down jacket, womenʼs small, $40. MEC hydro foil pants, womenʼs medium, new, 311B Hanson St. after 6:00 pm.

WORLD HOCKEY Association – 5 complete hockey card sets from the 1970s. Exc cond. $750. 633-3154

BRAND NEW Murdoch gold nugget watch, double ram head design, paid $4,700, asking $4,000 firm. August @ 393-4796

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Park Development Person – Whitehorse (Term) Department of Environment Salary: $26.45 per hour

Closing Date: March 25, 2014 Requisition: #4899

Park Attendant – Whitehorse (Term) Department of Environment Salary: $26.45 per hour

Closing Date: March 26, 2014 Requisition: #4900

For viewing all jobs, please go to

www.employment.gov.yk.ca “Committed to employment equity” Public Service Commission (867) 667-5834

Ensuring KFN meets their responsibilities under the YESSA agreement Conduct and perform environmental assessments Monitoring by on-site visits and reviewing developer/operator terms Collecting and disseminating YESSA information Monitoring environmental clean-ups Assisting with developing strategies for dealing with environmental issues Conduct water samples and other testing as may be required Assisting the KFN Lands, Resources and Heritage Department with other duties relating to environmental issues as may be required

The candidate will have a minimum of 2 years Post-secondary education in the field of environmental assessment or completion of the Environmental Officer Training Program or equivalent. They are required to possess work experience in environmental assessment and monitoring.

conditions of EmploymEnt: Valid Class-5 Yukon Driver`s licence, Wilderness First Aid

candidates can submit their resume to: HR Kluane First Nation email: hr.capacityofficer@kfn.ca We thank you in advance for your application, however only qualified candidates will be contacted.

Executive Assistant Yukon Employees’ Union (YEU) Permanent full-time Position salarY: $53,633 to $62,743 per annum based on 37.5 hours per week (under review) Yukon Employees Union is committed to providing friendly and professional service to its 4000+ members throughout the Yukon.

While our main business is representation, training and education, we accomplish our work through commitment to the principles of open communication, inclusion and professionalism.

Reporting to the Executive Director, you will be providing administrative support to the union executive, and sharing the day to day reception and operation of the office. You will work in a busy environment where priorities can change any moment.

You will need broad knowledge and skills in general office and administrative work; excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to deal with upset individuals; good written and oral communications skills (composition, spelling and grammar); a working knowledge of a variety of office equipment; as well as excellent keyboarding and personal computing skills on MS Office.

Familiarity with collective bargaining/grievance processes, a unionized environment and collective agreements and knowledge of file management principles and practices, are desirable. applications should be forwarded to: Laura Hureau, A/Executive Director Yukon Employees Union 201-2285 Second Avenue Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 1C9 lhureau@yeu.ca application Deadline: march 21, 2014 Please note: We welcome applications from all equity groups.

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2” HONDA water pump, like new, with hoses & nozzle, $600. 335-0164

WANTED: 821-2938

MURPHY bed and frame.

Quick Copy Operator/CSR This fast paced job requires organizational skills and some computer knowledge. Join a great team!

Call Doug for more details 667-4639 Drop off your resume and references at the front desk, 411D Strickland St. or email: mark@integraphics.ca

EARLY CHILDHOOD Education Books for different courses, Learning Through Play, Science for Young Children, Guiding Young Children and more. Selling 1/2 a price, good cond, 668-5185

CANON 5D Mark II DSLR Camera, 21.1 Megapixel, full frame sensor, 1080p, broad ISO, Live View, 3.9 fps, weather resistant, original box, new fall 2011, excellent condition, $1,250. 667-6472

OLDER STYLE double paned wooden framed windows for solarium, 4x3ʼ, 4x4ʼ, or 4x5ʼ, 668-5964

4ʼ X 8ʼ pool table, cues, three sets of balls, $250. 633-3041

17 HP Kolher 225 amp Hobart arc welder, on wagon with hitch pull, low hours, $2,400 obo. 633-6502

LOW BUSH cranberries, 20 cups, 4 cups $10, nice, clean and frozen. 633-4079

GRIPPING HAND tool design for lifting, carrying, moving building materials, like new condition, retail $57 each, asking $45 for pair. Save your back. 335-0177

TECK CABLE 40 or 50 feet, armored, suitable for outdoor locations such as a hot tub, very thick, high current type. 332-2449

Blood Ties Four Directions Centre is seeking to fill the full-time term position of

À LA RECHERCHE D’UN EMPLOI?

RuRal PaRtneRshiP CooRdinatoR The Rural Partnership Coordinator • delivers interactive culturally relevant workshops in rural Yukon communities designed to address HIV and Hepatitis C risk, harm reduction and addiction • supports individuals and families impacted by HIV/AIDS and/or Hepatitis C in rural communities • works strategically and collaboratively with Yukon First Nation community stakeholders to reduce stigma associated with HIV, Hepatitis C, and addiction in rural communities • coordinates the Community Workshop Series: Addressing the needs of rural Yukon First Nations

Des professionnels engagés Conseils en développement de carrière Création, amélioration et traduction de CV

The ideal candidate has: • some post-secondary education in the field of education, social services, or health.

• experience coordinating & delivering educational projects in a variety of settings • experience in providing advocacy to vulnerable populations • excellent communication skills both oral and written • knowledge of Yukon First Nations history and culture

Simulation d’entrevue

Des services personnalisés et des ressources utiles.

Friday, March 14, 2014

This position involves extensive travel throughout the Yukon. Candidates must be willing and able to travel several days per month throughout the project period. Éducation

Direction de l’enseignement postsecondaire

CENTRE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE 302, rue Strickland, Whitehorse (Yukon) 867.668.2663 poste 223 www.sofa-yukon.ca

Kluane First Nation EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

This rewarding and challenging position is a full-time 10-month position from approx.

April 22, 2014 to March 31, 2015.

Salary: $41,000 to $44,000 per annum (35 hours per week), plus benefits and all travel related costs while working in Yukon rural communities (accommodations, meals, vehicle/fuel, etc.).

Please send your resume and cover letter via email to: Patricia Bacon, Executive Director Blood Ties Four Directions Centre executivedirector@klondiker.com APPlICATIoN DEADlINE: MArch 21, 2014

archivist

TERM: Regular Full Time LOCATION: Burwash Landing, Yukon Territory SALARY: L4 - Commensurate with experience APPLICATION DEADLINE: 4:30 p.m. – March 28, 2014

PurPose of Position: To work within the Kluane First Nation government to regulate the archival management system and activities.

Reporting to the Heritage Manager, this position is responsible for the administration and maintenance of the Kluane First Nation Archives. In addition to meeting archival industry standards, the position is also responsible for the appraisal, selection, arrangement, and description of KFN government records and relevant donor collections. This position is responsible for the management of KFN archive facilities, the development of archival procedures and policies, and delivery of delegated special heritage projects.

The position may be required to write and manage funding proposals. Conduct primary research and assist in preparation of reports for KFN projects. Sit on various boards or committees dealing with archives and collections management.

education and exPerience: The successful candidate must be a high school graduate with training &/or experience in Archive, Library, and Information Management studies. Cultural resource management, museology or university level courses in equivalent fields would also be considered an asset.

The incumbent should have strong technical writing, research, analytical and communication skills with a high level of attention to detail; the ability to work independently; strong organizational skills; and, as a member of a team.

Computer proficiency including word processing (Word), spreadsheet (Excel) and presentations (Power Point) and current database systems knowledge.

Please submit resume, cover letter to: Kluane First Nation P.O. Box 20, Burwash Landing, Yukon Territory, Y0B 1V0 Ph. (867) 841-4274 Fax: (867) 841-5900 attention: Human Resources Officer hr.capacityofficer@kfn.ca We thank all applicants who apply; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

OUTSIDE the CUBE is looking for T W O new C U B E R S !

Electrical Appliances KENMORE DRYER, front loader, works great, $300. Also nw pump out of Kenmore washer, $40. 332-7797 KENMORE CERAMIC top range, convection, self-clean, delay cook, top end several years ago, one burner is slower, $200, can deliver in Whse area. 667-2276 CLOTHES DRYER, good working cond, heavy duty, $50. 633-2837

TVs & Stereos Paying cash for good quality modern electronics.

G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS STEREO SYSTEM incl JVC AM/FM computer-controlled receiver w 5-band equalizer, JVC double cassette-deck, audiotape selection, continuous play, Yamaha 5-CD players, 2 BSM speakers, $175 obo. 821-6011

Computers & Accessories PANASONIC KX-FP250 plain paper fax and copier, incl spare roll of ink film (KX-FA136A). $30, 667-6472 HP LASERJET 6P C3980A plain paper B+W Laserjet printer w nearly full cartridge, quality results, $40, 667-6472 CANON CANOSCAN 5600F scanner, exc cond, rarely used, c/w setup guide and installation software, $40, 667-6472 APPLE AIRPORT Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi Model #A1354, 4th generation, $50.

667-6472 LEXAR PRO Compact Flash Reader ExpressCard PCLe Interface, $35. 667-6472 EPSON PHOTO R1800 color printer, free.

633-3154 SONNET TEMPO SATA PRO, 2 port expresscard/34 expansion card, $35. 667-6472 ESATA KIT: G-Technology 4 Port eSATA PCIE Host adapter, 2x Startech 2 Port PCI ExpressCard, 4x 6ft cable male/male, 5x 3ft cable male/male. $350 new. Asking $135, 667-6472 SANDISK COMPACT Flash CF cards, 9 cards/4GB Extreme IV, 6 cards/46B Extreme III, 1 card Ultra II 1GB, $125. 667-6472

Musical Instruments We will buy your musical instrument or lend you money against it.

G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com ELECTRIC GUITAR: Fender Bullet Strat (Squier), Arctic white, excellent for beginner/students or casual players, $100.

335-9875 FENDER SUPER Champ X2 HD guitar amplifier, mint, $350. Thomas @ 867-660-4826, lv. msg

If you are energetic and have a sense of humour, then we want to hear from you!

We are looking for two new members to join our awesome team: • Digital Ad Manager • Finance Director As part of the digital team, the Digital Ad Manager will be responsible for strategy, implementation and optimization of our client’s SEM, display and social ad campaigns.

As the Finance Director you will bring expertise regarding bookkeeping and standard accounting procedures, budget management, strategic financial insight, and innovative thinking in order to create value for OTC.

OTC is a fast-paced, actiondriven workplace that takes pride in exceeding our clients’ expectations. From campaigns to sporting events to social media strategies, OTC tackles each project with enthusiasm, fearlessness and a team approach.

Check out the job descriptions at outsidethecube.ca, then tell us why you want to become our newest CUBER. Send your resume and cover letter by March 24, 2014 to jobs@outsidethecube.ca

FENDER SQUIER Vintage modified precision bass, exc cond, c/w gig bag, $385. Thomas at 867-660-4826, lv msg YAMAHA CLARINOVA CPL-820 digital piano, $500. 333-0329 1960'S BLONDE-COLOURED Sterling Piano, needs to be tuned, $800. 334-4236 lv msg

Firewood

Duke’s Firewood standing dry beetle Killed spruce

avoid the Fall rush & prices! spring Wood prices: 6 cord load $210/cord $230 for multiples of 2 cords Approx 8 cord loads of 20ft dry logs $1300 cash and debit accepted

334-8122 Cheapest wood from Haines Junction!!

CGFJ WOODCUTTING SERVICE Delivered $220 - 16” lengths $200 - 4ʼ lengths Prompt, friendly service Dry timber, money-back guarantee Prices vary for Communities 689-1727

FIREWOOD FOR SALE Beetle killed Approximately 20-cord logging truck loads $150 per cord Delivered to Whitehorse Call Clayton @ 867-335-0894 DONʼS FIREWOOD, congratulations James Kirby, #5 Bluebell Place, winner of my seasonʼs 750th cord of firewood free of charge.

Thank you to all my valued, loyal friends & associates. Don. FIREWOOD Clean, beetle-kill, dry Ready for pick-up, $210/cord or Local delivery, $250/cord 1/2 cords also available for pick-up only Career Industries @668-4360 TEN TON Firewood Services $150/cord for 10-cord load - 30ʼ lengths $200/cord - 3-cord load 11' lengths $240/cord - bucked up, discounts on multiple-cord orders Call or text David 867-332-8327 DIMOK TIMBER 6 CORD OR 22 CORD LOADS OF FIREWOOD LOGS BUNDLED SLABS U-CUT FIREWOOD @ $105/CORD CALL 634-2311 OR EMAIL DIMOKTIMBER@GMAIL.COM ANDYʼS FIREWOOD SERVICE February 1st Price Drop!

Limited time quantity offer Haines Junction Standing Dry Fully stacked, measured cords $220/cord - 7-cord loads $230/cord - small orders Stock up now!

667-6429 DONʼS FIREWOOD 100+-cord bucked firewood always available No-charge emergency delivery Kwanlin Dun/Social Services Why wait? Prompt delivery $240/cord City limits No excuses 393-4397 EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery • Dry accurate cords • Clean shavings available • VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise.

ORDER NOW 456-7432

HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782

✔ Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed ✔ Everything over 8" split ✔ $250 per cord (2 cords or more) ✔ Single and emergency half cord deliveries ✔ You-cut and you-haul available ✔ Scheduled or next day delivery

MasterCard

Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.

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Friday, March 14, 2014 Case cutlery, high quality hand-crafted pocket and hunting knives available at G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS WHITEHORSE RIFLE and Pistol Club, firearms safety course (class size limited) Mar. 15 & 16, 2014. Info 633-2488, 333-5640

BRAZILIAN MAUSER in 8mm Mauser, hand made hardwood stock, bedded and floated, recent refinish of whole rifle, $300 firm, PAL req'd, 667-2276 HARRINGTON & Richards 12 Gauge Magnum single shot shotgun w/hammer, 32” barrel, with removable recoil pad and shell holder, $100. 332-2501 or 668-2522 PENTAX PF ED 60 spotting scope with 60X zoom eye piece, $500. 668-4634

The Patty Maker We process wild meat.

We offer: Cut, grind, cut & wrap Fresh sausages 1/4 lb patties All natural casing Werner Fischer 7 Locust Place (off Ponderosa) 633-2346

300 SAVAGE bolt action rifle, $400, PAL reqʼd, August @ 393-4796 NORINCO 97 Bullpup unfired, mint condition in .223, $1,000 firm. 335-7154 8'' MEADE Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, many accessories, must go ASAP, $700 obo. 335-7154 WTB NON-SPORTERIZED Lee Enfield .303. Call or text 335-2034

Job Posting

TEEGATHA’OH ZHEH Champagne and Aishihik First Nations

ON-CALL Relief Support Worker

JOB OPPORTUNITY Housing Programs Manager

Day/Evening Shifts $17.25 to $18.35 Over Night Shifts $11.76 to $12.51

Regular Full-time | Salary: $70,821.44 - $82,851.07 Location: Haines Junction, YT | POSTED March 7, 2014 The Housing Programs Manager is responsible for the overall administrative function of CAFN’s Housing Programs, including homeownership – both the transfer of existing homes and new units, as well as rental units, transitional housing and social housing.

Requirements: • Current Valid Standard First Aid, • Valid Yukon Driver’s Licence • Clean Criminal Records Check Further posting information go to Teegathaohzheh.org or Yuwin.ca Apply to tcromarty@teegathaohzheh.com

CAFN’s Human Resources Policy will apply. For complete job description please check the CAFN website at http://www.cafn.ca/jobs.html or contact below.

We thank all those who apply but only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

The Yukon News is seeking a general assignment reporter with photography skills.

Application deadline: 4:30 p.m. on March 19th, 2014.

We’re a twice-weekly community newspaper that often punches above our weight, producing probing, award-winning journalism. Last year we won six Canadian Community Newspaper Awards – more than any other publication in our circulation size.

Send ApplicAtionS And/or reSumeS to:

Human Resource Officer, Champagne & Aishihik First Nations Fax: (867) 667-6202 | Phone: (867) 456-6879 | Email: kbrown@cafn.ca

This is a full-time job.

We’re looking for someone to preferably start June 1.

e m p l o y m e n t

We’re looking for someone who has a proven ability to work as a newspaper reporter. In exchange for your hustle and drive, we’ll give you an opportunity to do some of your best writing in your career.

o p p o r t u n i t y

As one of three or four news reporters, you’d be expected to divide your time between writing news assignments and producing features for our arts, business and life sections in the back of the paper. The ideal candidate is able to pound out a hard-hitting news story on deadline and write a thoughtful, entertaining feature during a lull. News judgement, attention to detail, the ability to meet daily deadlines and a cool head under pressure are all essential.

SkillS Canada Yukon

Program Coordinator Description: Under the direction of the Executive Director and the Board of Directors, the Program Coordinator will manage the logistics required to successfully coordinate Skills Canada Yukon programming for high school and post secondary students. The Project Coordinator has two main responsibilities: 1. To act as Competition Coordinator and work with volunteers to design scopes, projects, judging criteria and to secure judges, materials, equipment etc to run a successful Territorial Competition. The project coordinator is responsible for ensuring that all committees and volunteers are working effectively together and meeting established guidelines and deadlines to ensure the integrity of the competition.

2. To assist the Executive Director in delivering in-school programs and attend career fairs / community events to promote Skilled Trades and Technology Careers as first-choice career options for Yukon youth.

Having competent photography skills is an asset. The Yukon News supplies the camera equipment. Please also indicate if you have a driver’s licence.

Please send editor John Thompson a cover letter, resume and five published stories that show the depth and breadth of your reporting experience, as well as samples of your published images.

Full job description available online at www.skillsyukon.com MONDAY • WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

Guns & Bows

“YOUR COMMUNITY CONNECTION” WEDNESDAY * FRIDAY

TIKKA 300 WSM Stainlees steel lite, exc cond, less than 100 rounds put through, glass fibre polymer stock, muzzle break, bi-pod attached, scope unmounted, limbsaver, FAC reqʼd, $1,400. 633-2449

WHERE DO I GET THE NEWS? The Yukon News is available at these wonderful stores in Whitehorse ☛ THE YuKon nEws Is Also AVAIlABlE AT no CHARGE In All YuKon CoMMunITIEs AnD ATlIn, B.C.

Applications may be emailed to editor@yukon-news.com.

DeADLINe Is MArCH 31.

Education Government Éducation

HILLCREST

Airport Chalet Airport snacks & Gifts

GRANGER

Bernie’s Race-Trac Gas Bigway Foods

DOWNTOWN:

The Deli Extra Foods Fourth Avenue Petro Gold Rush Inn Cashplan Klondike Inn Mac’s Fireweed Books

PORTER CREEK

Coyote Video Goody’s Gas Green Garden Restaurant Heather’s Haven super A Porter Creek Trails north Ricky’s Restaurant Riverside Grocery Riverview Hotel shoppers on Main shoppers Qwanlin Mall superstore superstore Gas Bar Tags

RIVERDALE: 38 Famous Video super A Riverdale Tempo Gas Bar

well-Read Books westmark whitehorse Yukon Inn Yukon news Yukon Tire Edgewater Hotel

“YOUR COMMUNITY CONNECTION” WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

AND …

Kopper King Hi-Country RV Park McCrae Petro Takhini Gas Yukon College Bookstore

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NEW BUSHNELL scope (banner) 3-9x 40mm including mounting rings, $80.

335-0177 WINCHESTER MODEL 47 single shot .22 bolt action w Lyman target sights front & rear, 24” barrel, exc cond, missing safety button, $400. Bill 633-2443 WINCHESTER MODEL 77 semi-auto .22 long rifle, c/w vintage Weaver B4 3/4” tube scope in Weaver mounts, 10-shot mag, good cond, $335. Bill 633-2443 NON-RESTRICTED FIREARMS course presented by Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club, April 5 & 6. For more info call 633-6536 or 334-1688

Wanted

WANTED: SOMEONE to service a cassette deck and/or an 8” reel-to-reel tape recorder.

Len @ 393-4732

WANTED: TRUNK in good condition, good locks and very clean inside, 668-6007

OLD LIFEBUOYS in good condition.

456-2019, lv msg

WANTED: PICK up truck. Prefer 4 x 4, late 80's or 90's Toyota, Nissan, but will consider what you have. 633-4322

WASHSTAND IN oak or pine in good condition. 456-2019, lv msg

WANTED: PLAYMOBILE figurines, big pieces, suitable for 8-yr old boy. 667-6616 HOUSE-SITTER AVAILABLE in Whitehorse, no fees for usual house-sit, pets, garden, etc., discount on house-painting (journeyman), for longer term sit. 335-2300 LOOKING FOR monitor heater 442 ,441,or 2400 working or not for parts only, 994-3322

WANTED: WALL tent, 8x10 or larger, 4ft walls, window, with stove if available, no frame needed, good condition, no mildew!

Call 332-2113 WANTED: USED furniture, just moved, anything will help. 334-0745 WANTED: PROPANE stove & fridge.

633-3494, lv msg

Friday, March 14, 2014 Trucks

We Sell Trucks!

1-866-269-2783 • 9039 Quartz Rd. • Fraserway.com

2011 1-TON diesel crew cab 8 ft box 40,000km, still under warranty, great condition command start, $39,000. 456-7157 2008 FORD Superduty diesel quad cab, XLT, headache rack, driving lights, 169,000 km., good cond, $21,000 obo. 335-9596

WANTED: CASSETTE player in good working condition, 633-3664

2008 GMC 2500 Sierra ext cab, long bed, 4x4, 200,000km, new rims and tires, $14,000 obo. 334-4923

Cars

2007 CHEVY Colorado LT 4X4 Crew Cab 110,000 kms, great cond. 336-8161

13 Denver roaD in McCrae • 668-6639

2007 TOYOTA Tundra 4X4 crew cab, V8, auto, loaded, dealer serviced, matching canopy, 2 sets wheels/tires, 150,000kms, exc cond, $25,000. 334-8912 lv msg

HEADSTONES • KITCHENS • BUILDING STONE • AND MORE...

2005 F350 diesel Lariat, 4wd, long box, fully loaded, all engine updates, orig owner, exec cond, 160,000kms, $18,000. 334-9436 or 667-4463

Custom-cut Stone Products sid@sidrock.com

2004 GMC 7 passenger Safari van, blue, 170,000km, well maintained, $5,800 obo, 334-5491 for info 2003 FORD E-350, 1 ton cargo van, clean, with shelves & separator, gas, 5.4l engine, auto, good 4 season tires, new battery, 210,000 kms, $8,000, 335-3674

Thomas J. Patterson May 16, 1928 - March 11, 2014

Tom slipped away peacefully, surrounded by his family. He leaves behind his beloved wife, Beth, children, Ruth (Bob Foster), Dan, grandchildren, Cody (Kate), Kyle (Joy), greatgranddaughter, Paige, his brother Ian (Irene), and many nieces and nephews.

We all loved him dearly.

Tom’s funeral will be held Saturday, March 15th at 11:00 AM at the Whitehorse Baptist Church, 2060 2nd Avenue in Whitehorse. Interment to follow at Grey Mountain Cemetery.

Light refreshments immediately afterward at Mt. Mac Rec Centre.

Everyone welcome.

Thank you Dr. Himmelsbach, Dr. Tyranny, and the nursing staff at the WGH Surgical Ward, for the amazing compassionate care you gave Tom during his final days. Each of you epitomize true professionalism.

Thank You from the Caron Family

We would like to extend our sincerest appreciation and gratitude for all of those that joined us in celebrating the amazing, fun loving, hard working life that we spent with our son, dad, gramps and uncle Tony Caron. He meant so much to us and it meant so much that so many people came to celebrate with us, we enjoyed the stories and the memories, we know Dad would have enjoyed seeing all of you one more time.

A special thank you to those that helped put everything together we couldn’t have done it without you!

• Yukon Transportation Museum – Casey and Miranda • Westmark Whitehorse – Heather McIntyre and Stephane Cote • Feature Foods – Barry Davidson • Wendy Brown • Brigitte Aube • Marianne Phelps • Joan Steele • Travis Wilcox • The Magill Family • Tangie Fisher Thank You to Dad for providing us with strength, wisdom, love and the lifetime of memories we have of you.

Love your family Mary Louise Caron, Ann Caron, Justin Magill, Sharon Caron, Konn and Maureen Caron, Kevin Caron and Teneil Caron (Michael Fisher)

2010 MAZDA 3 GS Sport, 6-spd manual, 2.5 L 4 cyl, fully loaded, power everything, full size/factory spare, 16" studded winter tires, low kms, well maintained, $14,900.

335-3691 2009 VOLVO V-50 2.4i, 5-door estate wagon, 5-spd manual, red, FWD, winter/summer tires, convertible child seats, alloy wheels, roof load carrier/rack, $18,500.

334-7441 2004 VOLKSWAGEN Jetta TDI, fully loaded, heated leather seats, sunroof, good cond, well maintained, $7,500. 667-7741 or 336-8383 2003 FORD Focus, 25k, stick, good cond, sunroof, heated seats, 6-cd's-music player, $5,000. 647-996-7531 2003 SUBARU Forester AWD, great shape, well-maintained, summer/winter tires, roof racks, auto-start, $6,250 obo. 335-3784 2002 C H R Y S L E R Concorde LX, 117,000kms, spotless cond, runs/drives exc, well cared for, $3,800 obo. 335-3868 1999 VOLKSWAGEN Jetta TDI, 1.9L, 5-spd, invested $5,000, asking $4,000. August @ 393-4796

2002 CHEV Silverado 4x4 ext cab, 4-dr, V8 auto, cruise, new Wrangler tires, $5,999.

667-7777 or 336-2029 2002 GMC Sonoma SLS 4X4 quad cab, auto, 4.3L V6, power everything, 192,000 kms, exc cond, good rubber, full size spare, tow package, canopy, racks, $8,500.

335-3692 1999 DODGE Ram 1500 SLT 1/2 ton, 4X4, ext cab, 4-dr, V8 auto, c/w canopy, new Michelin tires, all power equipped, $4,299.

667-7777 or 336-2029 1998 YUKON Navigator, low average miles, V8, 7-passenger, fully loaded, $3,900.

333-9899 1994 7.3 diesel 17-passenger shuttle bus, 270,000km, no passenger seats, made into work truck, shelving in back, $3,500.

335-5046

TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 GOODYEAR NORDIC 4 non-studded 15” winter tires/steel wheels, Chev/Buick 5-bolt pattern, approx 70% tread remains, $375.

821-6011 4 LT Nokia tires, 245/75 R16 studded, used one winter, mounted on Chevy rims, centre bolt 3 1/2”, $400 firm. August @ 393-4796

Pets Canines & Company Puppy & Obedience Level 1 Feb 25, April 15 Private Lessons Behaviour Modification FCI/WUSV/MEOE certified Bronze Master Trainer Serving the Yukon since 1992 www.facebook.com/ caninesandcompany 333-0505 or 668-4368 caninesandcompany@northwestel.net FLEMISH GIANT/ANGORA cross rabbits for sale. Ready to go to new homes. $65 ea.

333-0915 WANTED: 668-7659

EXTRA-LARGE dog crate.

20 GAL fish tank and stand. Lots of extras including live plants, under-gravel heater, moonlights, decorations and timer. $200 335-5018 DOG RADIO fence containment system, never used, $25. 633-6603 TO GIVE away Lab/Shepherd cross puppies, weaned, ready for a good home. 393-1953 LARGE MIXED breed dog needs good home with outdoor environment, she is quiet and good with children, have a lung condition which requires we find her another home. 660-5213

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles 2010 POLARIS 800, 155 track, all stock, 30 hrs on unit, c/w cover, wheel dollies, $6,500 obo. 334-5182

Auto Parts & Accessories

TAITʼS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles

by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com

FULL SIZE truck bed liner, fits 1974-1996 Ford, $200. 633-2580

SKIMMER, STAND behind style, box is l:65”; w:21"; h:19", exc cond, $300. 821-6011

1992 GMC 2500 4X4, new motor, exhaust system & transfer case, good cond, low kms, very powerful, $4,800 obo. 334-5032

1 9 9 7 IN TR EPID Sport 3.5 ltr auto, 114,000kms, nice running car, newer summer tires ,inspection done, body/glass in good cond, $2500. 335-3868 1992 BUICK Regal Grand Sport, 4-dr, 170,000 miles, good all-around car, $1,000.

335-5046 1987 DODGE 600, 4-dr, runs fine, good on gas, $1,500 obo. Text only to 867-336-3529 FREE, 1992 Ford Festiva, fixable. 633-4391 JEEP WRANGLER Unlimited 4DR 2007, manual, 76000km, good cond, ike new Goodrich 10ply all-terrain tires, all weather rubber mats, $13,500 obo. Daniel 335-6503

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Mad as a Hatter Masquerade Mae Bachur Animal Shelter FundrAiSer

Saturday, March 22nd

$25/ticket available at Mae Bachur Animal Shelter Dinner included. Cash Bar.

Doors open at 6:30 • Dinner at 7:00 pm

by Music ead Fish h w ste Legal age only.

Great prizes to be won!

Everything from 26x13 canvas print of the Mount Sumanek Wolf Pack Meet Up December 2010 by Inanda Images to.... a one night stay at the Hidden Valley B&B (romantic champagne and jacuzzi for a couple).

RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg

ALUMINUM FUEL tank, pup trailer holds 30,000 litres, 3 compartments, all good valves, new 40X40 foot liner, no registration, good for mine or private yard, $6,500.

Wesley 250-235-3333

45ʼ VAN trailer, made into very nice home, lots of extras, 4-pc bath, kitchen, etc, water truck, generator, battery packs, inverters, 10ʼWx15ʼLx12ʼH addition, $18,000 obo.

335-5046

1998 PETERBILT highway tractor, ex large sleeper, new batteries, belts, etc, used as fuel hauler, $15,900. 30ʼ Jeep flat deck trailer, $7,900. Dual axle/5th wheel 1989 Freightliner, complete parts, $6,900.

333-0717

2006 STARLITE enlosed cargo trailer, 14ʼ inside, 6ʼ wide, man door & side, exc cond, $4,700. 334-8912 lv msg

Aircraft

Coming Events

3430 FLOATS with 185 gear. 399-3332

Campers & Trailers

2011 YAMAHA 25hp LS 4 Stroke outboard w/ 5gal tank/stand, less than 60 hours, well maintained, yearly maintenance on lower unit oil/lube changes, quiet, easy to start, $3,950. 334-8324 2010 KAWASAKI KLR 650 cc, 1,850 kms, on/off road, XL pants, jacket, helmet, saddle bags, exc cond, $5,400. 334-8912 lv msg

TAITʼS TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers For sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon

2009 RHINO/CHINO UTV side by side for sale for parts only, $1,800 obo. email: hendrik@mountsima.com or call (867) 332-4174 2012 POLARIS assault 800, 155" track, good shape, well maintained, low miles, C&A pro skis, extra belts, $9,000 obo. 334-6032 2010 HARLEY Davidson Sportster 883L, red, beautiful bike, 11,000 kms, c/w windshield, locking saddlebags, engine guard, luggage rack, $8,000 obo. 334-4364 2013 SKIDOO Exp 550F, $6,500 obo.

335-0164 1995 340 Arctic Cat, good shape, good track, new front ski, $1,000. 633-3303 ICE AUGER for sale, Jiffy 30 cc, as new, $300 obo. 633-6502 1991 HARLEY Davidson Electra Glide, has newer motor, 1,450 cc, twin cam, $13,000.

335-5046 2014 SWT Skandic 4 stroke, take over monthly payments. 867-336 -3833 2000 POLARIS 550 Sports touring, reverse, 2-up seat, 742ms, runs nice, $3,700. 1993 Polaris Indy 500, runs good, 2-up seat, $2,400 obo. 333-0717 2003 MOUNTAIN Cat 600, 1,600 miles, runs good w trailer, $3,700. 1995 Polaris Indy 500 electric start, reverse, new seat/windshield, 3,300km, 2-up seat, $2,900. 333-0717

Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 18ʼ FREIGHTER canoe & trailer, 20 hp Johnson, exc cond, $3,200. 334-8912 lv msg 2002 16.25ʼ Harbour Craft boat & trailer, 50 HP Johnson & 9.9 hp Yamaha, down rig, new winch, life jackets, exc cond, $14,000.

334-8912 lv msg 2000 15HP Mariner outboard, long shaft, exc cond, electric charging system, day tank, spare prop, $1,500 obo. 668-5644 eves

Heavy Equipment 5KW DEUTZ genset , top end done, $4,500, ST2 Lister, 4.5 kw, top end done, good fuel economy, 1200rpm, $5,500, SR3 Lister, 6kw-1200rpm, $5,000. Ph 633-4822 2003 VOLVO A35D articulated truck, 9500 total hours, new trans @ 5,000 hours, tires are approx 65%, FOB Dawson City, $135,000. jonathanganter@hotmail.com, 780-289-4989

10ʼ SLUMBER Queen camper, like new, no damage or leaks, rear bathroom, one owner, $3,500. 456-2130

THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. A group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info and register call Cathy 633-7337 or Joanne 668-7713 ATLIN GUEST HOUSE Deluxe Lakeview Suites Sauna, Hot Tub, BBQ, Internet, Satellite TV Kayak Rentals In House Art Gallery 1-800-651-8882 Email: atlinart@yahoo.ca www.atlinguesthouse.com

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS

WANTED: LATE 60s or early 70s snowmobile, any condition, seeking Elan parts.

633-5480 Recreational Powersports and Marine (RPM) Repairs Service, repair and installations for snowmobiles, ATVs, motorcycles, chainsaws, marine and more Qualified and experienced mechanic Great rates 335-4181

PUBLIC TENDER BANK DEPOSIT AND DOCUMENT DELIVERY SERVICES FOR YUKON HOUSING CORPORATION WHITEHORSE, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 25, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Sharon McCreadie at 867-667-5796.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

REQUEST fOR PROPOSAL WATER QUALITY LABORATORY SERVICES Project Description: To provide analytical laboratory services for the analysis of environmental compliance samples and baseline samples.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 8, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Jean Beckerton at (867) 6673233.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

FALUN GONG, an advanced practice of Buddha school self-cultivation. Fa study Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Wood Street School from 6 p.m. No charge. For an introduction to the practice call 633-6157 ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away” Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail sidkatours@ atlin.net www.glacierviewcabins.ca

HOSPICE WORKSHOP "LIVING with Loss" Thurs Feb 27, 6:30-8:30pm for anyone living with personal loss or supporting others who are grieving. Register: 667-7429, administrator@hospiceyukon.net FREE WIGS, hats and head coverings for people who have lost their hair due to cancer treatments. For more information email: yukonsupport@hotmail.com YUKON CONSERVATION Society AGM, Wednesday March 19, 2014 at 5:30pm. 302 Hawkins St. 668-5678 for more info

request for ProPosAls

Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre National Aboriginal Day 2014 Coordinator ProjeCt DesCriPtioN: The NAD Coordinator will be responsible for the planning and implementation of the NAD events and main stage performances on June 21st, 2014 at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre. In collaboration with the KDCC team, the Coordinator will work with the programming partners to ensure the successful execution of activities at KDCC on June 21st.

in the matter of the estate of

the ClosiNg DAte for submissioNs is Sunday March 23rd, 2014.

Applications should include a cover letter, resume, and relevant background in event coordination. As well as references, work plan and proposed fee of service.

Deceased, of Whitehorse, Yukon territory, who died on January 24, 2014.

further iNformAtioN can be obtained at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, 1171 Front Street, Whitehorse YT. For questions regarding the contract please contact Elise Bousquet at (867) 456-5320. Documents and full job description may be obtained from the KDCC website (www.kdcc.ca)

Mary Catherine Gilmour

all persons having claims against the above mentioned estate are requested to file a claim, supported by Statutory Declaration, with anna J. Pugh, on or before March 31, 2013, after which date the said estate will be distributed, having reference only to claims which have been so filed. all persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to:

anna J. Pugh AUSTRING, FENDRICK & FAIRMAN

Barristers & solicitors 3081 third avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1a 4Z7

PUbLIc TENDER DIP REMEDIATION, KM 1446.5, ALASKA HIGHWAY #1, YUKON, 2013-2014 Project Description: Remediation of an existing dip; located at km 1446.5, by reconstructing approximately 635 metres of the Alaska Highway from km 1446.2 to km 1446.8 Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 20, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Sandra Orban at (867) 633-7935.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

1995 FREIGHTLINER, 350 CAT engine, 10-speed, $10,000 obo. 335-1088 2004 DOOSAN Ex. 300 size Was used as a spare, low hours, QA, extra bucket and hyds. to stick. $78,000 firm, located in Whitehorse.

Can finance to right place Contact Wesley at 250 235 3333 or brmining@hushmail.co

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Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre Five-Year Strategic Plan and a Business Model Options Paper PrOject DeScriPtiOn: This request for proposals has two parts: a Strategic Plan and a Business Model Options Paper. Please note that applicants can submit a proposal for either one or both parts of the RFP. The KDCS (Kwanlin Dun Cultural Society) requires a strategic plan that establishes immediate and long-term programming, operational and developmental priorities that ensure organizational continuity and mechanisms for long-term, sustainable growth.

The KDCS requires an Options Paper on business models for KDCC that will ensure inclusion of stakeholders and community members. the clOSing Date FOr SuBMiSSiOnS is March 14th, 2014 .

Further inFOrMatiOn can be obtained at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, 1171 Front Street, Whitehorse YT. For questions regarding the contract please contact Amanda Buffalo at (867) 633-7805. Documents and full job description may be obtained from the KDCC website (www.kdcc.ca)

Public Meeting

Proposed Agriculture Subdivision Km 1462-1464 north Alaska Highway (ibex Hamlet Area) The Ibex Hamlet Council is sponsoring a public meeting in cooperation with Yukon government Agriculture and Land Planning Branches to present the updated concept plan for the proposed agriculture subdivision in Ibex Hamlet.

Please join us to provide feedback on the proposed agriculture subdivision.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 7:30 - 9:00 pm ibex Fire Hall, KM 1442.9 Alaska Highway For more information, please contact the Yukon Agriculture Branch at (867) 667-3699 or toll-free in Yukon at 1-800-661-0408, ext. 3699.

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EVEREST NIGHT, dinner and slideshows of Himalayas, April 10, United Church basement 6:00pm, tickets for sale March 10 at Well-Read Books, Fundraising Event for Hands of Hope, www.hands-of-hope.ca 668-7082 YK-AK COFFEE House, Sat. Apr. 19, 2014.

Open Stage By Invitation, bring potluck 4:30PM, help set-up 5:30PM, 7:00PM show! $5 United Church Bsmt, 6th+Main, 633-4255 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Action Circle.

Letter writing to protect and promote human rights worldwide, Tuesday, March 25, Whitehorse United Church (upstairs) 7:00pm-9:00pm. www.amnesty.ca Call 667-2389 CRESTVIEW CROSS-COUNTRY ski group meets Sundays at 12:00 noon at 222 Squanga Ave to ski Pine Forest Loop, 2-3 hours, free HABITAT FOR Humanity Yukon will be holding its AGM March 29, 2014, at the Whitehorse Public Library at 1:00 p.m. Everyone welcome!

TAGISH COMMUNITY Centre, Vanier Jazz Combo Performance, March 5th, 1:00pm. 8 members of grade 9-11 students performing a variety of styles of jazz music, lots of improvisation and fun GOLDEN AGE Society is holding it's Annual General meeting Monday March 17th 2014 at 1:00pm at the Golden Age Center, Sport Yukon Building, 4th Ave. For info call 668-5538

MARCH 16TH, 11:00am, Maple Sugar Time Brunch, French-Canadian specialities served with pure maple syrup, 302 Strickland, tickets at the door, all details at afy.yk.ca/fondation STREAMS IN the Desert, world day of prayer by women of Egypt, Friday, Mar 14, 7:00pm at Whitehorse United Church. Free, all welcome. 667-2989

HORSES!

Have you always wanted to ride?

Find a complete list of all the great horse activities in Yukon! www.HorsinAroundYukon.com

HOMEGROWN THEATRE Festival still taking registrations! We encourage as many genres of live performance as you can imagine. For registration details www.nakaitheatre.com Registration closes Mar 17

YUKON OUTDOORS Club meeting March 27th 7:00 p.m. Sport Yukon Board Room (4061-4th Avenue) to discuss the disbanding of the Club EVEREST NIGHT, HIMALAYA slide show presenters: Sally Wright, Dr. Zimmerman, Carlos and Petra Ferguson, Shelagh Smith, Lise Densmore. Tickets at Well-Read Books, April 10 event at the United Church TAGISH PANCAKE Breakfast, March 23rd, 9:30 am-12:00pm, Tagish Community Centre, hosted by the Tagish EMS Team, $8.00 per adult, $3.00 per child. Everyone is welcome

YUKON RESIDENTIAL Landlord Association AGM Wednesday, March 26, 7:00pm, Whitehorse Public Library, membership purchases/renewals at 6:30pm. Questions/comments about AGM or survey are welcomed, YRLA Facebook or ytrla2014@gmail.com

BLUEGRASS CAMP, June 9-13, Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Camp at Sundog Retreat. Don't miss out, registration now open.

Stellar lineup of instructors. Details at www.yukonbluegrass.com or email camp@yukonbluegrass.com

WOLF WORKSHOP, Transportation Museum, March 15th, 10:00am, bring own lunch, hosted by the Yukon Trappers Association. Pay by donation. 667-7091

YUKON SCIENCE Institute presents A fuller, rounder mouthfeel without the “red wine headache” with Hennie van Vuuren, Sunday, March 16, 7:30pm, Beringia Centre, Whitehorse. Free

READING & Talk with Yukon fiction writer Dan Dowhal, Mon Mar 31 at 7:00pm, Dawson City Library. For info call 993-5571

PUbLIC TENDER

PUbLIC TENDER

MAINTENANCE AND EMERGENCY REPAIRS YUKON HOUSING UNITS FARO, YUKON

MAINTENANCE AND EMERGENCY REPAIRS YUKON HOUSING UNITS TESLIN, YUKON

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 25, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 25, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Leithe Minder at 867-994-3113.

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Gerri Thomas at 867-390-2024.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

DECADENT SUNDAY Brunch & Live Bluegrass Music, Marsh Lake Community Centre Sunday, March 30th 10:00am. Tickets $15 adults, $5 kids 6-12, age 5 and under free.

660-4999 to reserve by March 26th

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

WHITEHORSE MINOR Soccer Outdoor Registration March 24 to April 4, 2014, 4:00pm to 5:30pm on weekdays, 12:00noon to 2:00pm on Saturday. For more info call 667-2445 POTLUCK FOOD Co-op AGM, with renowned food journalist Jon Steinman presenting "Deconstructing Dinner", March 29, 6:00pm, Old Fire Hall. Soup and refreshments. Everyone welcome!

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS in the matter of the estate of

Shane Donovan Buchanan Deceased, late of Whitehorse, in the Yukon territory, who died on

June 13, 2013.

all persons having claims against the above mentioned estate are requested to file a claim, supported by Statutory Declaration, with Gregory a. fekete, on or before March 31, 2014, after which date the said estate will be distributed, having reference only to claims which have been so filed. all persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to:

Gregory a. fekete AUSTRING, FENDRICK & FAIRMAN

Barristers & solicitors 3081 third avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1a 4Z7

PUBLIC TENDER PURCHASE W-BEAM GUIDERAIL AND ACCESSORIES FOR GOVERNMENT OF YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 8, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Jenny Richards at (867) 393-6387.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

PUBlIC TENDER MAINTENANCE AND EMERGENCY REPAIRS YUKON HOUSING UNITS CARMACKS, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 25, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Marshal Burnham at 867-863-6411.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Highways and Public Works

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

PUblIC TENDER REPAIRS AND UPGRADES UNIT 210700 - 111 MCDADE, CARMACKS, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 27, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Laura Vanderkley at 867-667-8114.

Site Visit: March 17, 2014 at 10:30 a.m.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Friday, March 14, 2014 FIREWEED COMMUNITY Market Society AGM Monday March 31 7:00pm, Whitehorse Library meeting room. All members welcome. Agenda items include market reports, NEW Saturday Outdoor Market, financial summary and 2014 budget

BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755

SPRING JOB & Volunteer Fair, Wednesday April 23, 10:00am - 5:00pm, Yukon Convention Centre, where employers, jobseekers, volunteers and NGOs connect. www.yuwin.ca

LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632

DIVERSITY SPEAKS! International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination open dialogue, Friday March 21, 2014 5:30 to 7:00 pm at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. Info: 667-4733 SEMINAR, 3 major misconceptions professional women face that keep them stuck in low back pain, March 20, 7-9 pm or March 22, 2-4 pm. $15, or free with pre-registration, 633-3154, violetvanhees@fastmail.fm YUKON SPEED Skating Championships, Sunday, March 30 ATCO Ice, Canada Games Centre. 5:00pm register, 5:30pm warmups, 6:00 pm racing starts. Open to all ages and abilities. Info Susanne 667-4348 HABITAT FOR Humanity Yukon will be holding its AGM March 29, 2014, at the Whitehorse Public Library at 1:00pm, everyone welcome PORTER CREEK Community Association meeting Monday, April 7th, 5:15 pm at the Guild Hall. More information 633-4829. Everyone Welcome. Come show your support.

Services BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta.

Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc.

Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050 SHARPENING SERVICES. For all your sharpening needs - quality sharpening, fair price & good service.

At corner of 6th & Strickland.

667-2988 HOUSECLEANING, Spring Cleaning, Detailing!

Safe, reliable, bondable RCMP check available on request For into call 334-7405 MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Windows Framing, Board, Drywall, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com - INSULATION Upgrade your insulation & reduce your heating bills Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414

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PASCAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368 THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY • construction • renovation • finishing • cabinets • tiling • flooring • repairs • specialty woodwork • custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowing” •Post hole augering •Light landscaping •Preps & Backfills Honest & Prompt Service Amy Iles Call 667-4981 or 334-6369 NORTHRIDGE BOBCAT SERVICES • Snow Plowing • Site Prep & Backfills • Driveways • Post Hole Augering • Light Land Clearing • General Bobcat Work Fast, Friendly Service 867-335-1106 MAR. CITYLIGHT RENOS Flooring, tiling, custom closets Painting & trim, kitchens & bathrooms Fences & gates Landscaping & gardening Quality work at reasonable rates Free estimates Sean 867-332-1659 citylightrenos@gmail.com S.V.P. CARPENTRY Journey Woman Carpenter Interior/Exterior Finishing/Framing Small & Medium Jobs “Make it work and look good.”

Call Susana (867) 335-5957 susanavalerap@live.com www.svpcarpentry.com KLASSIC HANDYMAN SERVICES “HOME RENOVATION SPECIALIST” “SPECIALIZING IN BATHROOMS” Start to Finish • FLOORING • TILE • CARPENTRY • PAINTING • FENCING • DECKS “ONE CALL DOES IT ALL!!

DON: 334-2699 don.brook@hotmail.com

LOW COST MINI STORAGE

Now 2 locations: Porter Creek & Kulan.

Onsite & offsite steel containers available for rent or sale.

Phone 633-2594 Fax 633-3915

OFFICE LOCATED BESIDE KLONDIKE WELDING, 15 MacDONALD RD., PORTER CREEK, info@lowcostministorage.ca

60 Below Snow Management Commercial & Residential

Snow Removal (867) 336-3570

Parking Lots, Sidewalks, Rooftops and Sanding

AVAILABLE NOW Mending, running errands at reasonable costs Please call Violet at 867-336-2866 Licensed and Professional Automotive Repairs 20-year Journeyman Mechanic Monday - Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm Call Brian Berg 867-633-6597 TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865 ELECTRICIAN FOR all your jobs Large or small Licensed Electrician Call MACK N MACK ELECTRIC for a competitive quote!

867-332-7879 SNOW CLEARING/REMOVAL Sidewalks, Driveways, Parking lots, Compounds Private and Commercial Properties Fast and reliable service Aurora Toolcat Services 867-334-8447 HOUSEKEEPING/HOME BAKING PREPARATORY COOKING Do you need more time to relax at home?

If you need extra hands to vacuum, bake cookies or peel potatoes, call 668-6835 Over 10 years experience Journeyman Plumber Available for residential and commercial repair, service and installation Prompt, professional, and guaranteed workmanship $50/hour until May 1st Call 335-6982 ELEMENTAL FARM Eat organic, fresh & local this summer!

15-week veggie box program (CSA) Free-range chickens & turkeys Must pre-order by April 1st Email elementalfarm@riseup.net for more information BALANCED BOOKKEEPING Full range of services from data entry to year end financials and everything in between including payroll, GST, and remittances.

20+ years experience.

Call today, 332-8489 or 633-8489

DRUG PROBLEM?

FINISHING CARPENTRY & RENOVATIONS For Clean, Meticulous & Tasteful Quality Work INTERIOR Design & organization of walk-in closets, laundry & storage room, garage Kitchen & Bathrooms, Flooring, Wood & Laminate, Stairs.

EXTERIOR Decks, Fences, Insulation, Siding, Storage Shed DIDIER MOGGIA 633-2156 or cell 334-2156

Narcotics

Anonymous MEETINGS:

Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. <BYTE> Fridays 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm 4071 - 4th Ave. <Many Rivers>

Sports Equipment BOWFLEX BLAZE, 1.5 yrs old, barely used, good cond, $500 obo. 335-6937

GIRLʼS BIKE, 16” Illusion Supercycle, purple/pink, white tires, age 4-6, good cond, $30. 667-6472 TIPI, CANVAS, 10ʼ diameter, 8ʼ peak, stove pipe hole, similar to wall tent but goes up with one pole, weighs about 25 lbs. $175 obo. 633-4322 SUMMER TENTS: Kelty sleeps 4, $60.

Eureka Cirrus for 2, $30, call 633-4887

Livestock HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Dev & Louise Hurlburt Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix Small square & round bales Discounts for field pick up or delivery Straw bales also for sale 335-5192 • 668-7218 QUALITY YUKON MEAT Dev & Louise Hurlburt Grain-finished Hereford beef Domestic wild boar Order now for guaranteed delivery Payment plan available Samples on request 668-7218 335-5192 HAY FOR SALE Square bales kept under a shelter Great quality, $12/bale.

633-4496 WANTED: AGRICULTURE land for rent, long term or seasonal, fully developed or in need of improvements, large or small, irrigated or dry, all inquires welcomed. Call 334-8960

Baby & Child Items CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903

Childcare ROSIEʼS DAY HOME Opening May 1, 2014 Day/Night/Weekend Spots available Call 668-3448 MARANATHA DAYCARE has openings for children ages infant to 12 years Long-term staff qualified and experienced Fun & educational environment Call Gurnam 668-7937

Furniture KROEHLER LOVESEAT, high quality construction, smoke/pet free home, factory Scotchguarded, 65.5”l, 35”w, 35.5”h, antique pattern jade/salmon/cream, $290. 821-6011

LOOKING FOR a lady in her late 60s to mid 70s with a great sense of humour, sincere, honest, and a loving heart. Call 633-4079

Garage Sales 7 WILLIAMS Road, Granger, Saturday March 15, 9:00am to 1:00pm. Indoor estate sale, furniture, all types of household goods, books, bunk bed, holiday décor, appliances etc.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS in the matter of the estate of

DAVID MIERAU

deceased, late of Dawson, in the Yukon territory, who died on February 13, 2014.

notice is hereby given to Creditors and others having claims against the estate of David Mierau that the particulars of their claims should be sent to the executor at 310-1230 haro street Vancouver, BC V6e 4J9 on or before april 4, 2014, after which date the executor will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regards to the claims of which the executor then has notice

PUBLIC TENDER DESTRUCTION BAY SOLID WASTE FACILITY MAINTENANCE Project Description: To provide maintenance services at the Destruction Bay Solid Waste Facility.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 27, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Darrin Fredrickson at 867-667-5195.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

102 BENCHMARK Trailer Court (old McKenzie Trailer Court), Saturday, March 15 from 9:00am-2:00pm, estate sale. Phone 332-2461

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of

Jacob Kenneth Beckley,

of Keno City, Yukon, Deceased, who died on August 10th, 2013, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Administrator at the address shown below, before the 30th day of April, after which date the Administrator will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which they have notice.

AND FURTHER, all persons who are indebted to the Estate are required to make payment to the Estate at the address below.

BY: Michelle Anne Beckley 867-668-7970 michelleabeckley@gmail.com

PUbLIC TENDER STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT FOR COLD LAID PLANT MIX ASPHALTIC PATCHING MATERIAL FOR GOVERNMENT OF YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 8, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Jenny Richards at (867) 393-6387.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

REqUEsT FOR PROPOsAL EVALUATION OF PROJECT LYNX Project Description: To perform an evaluation of the implementation and service delivery for Project Lynx, an inter-agency initiative to streamline and enhance service delivery for child and youth victims and witnesses of crime.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 9, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Annette King at (867) 667-5962.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

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Kakuro:

KITCHEN STORAGE unit, 2 drawers, bottom lg drawer w pull-out shelf, good for counter extension, 23.5”w, 24”d, 35”h, $45 obo. 821-6011 SKLAR PEPLAR dining room suite, oak veneer/ash, 63”x42” pedestal table, 2 extensions, 6 chairs, hutch upper, 4 doors/glass shelves, hutch bottom, 3 drawers, 2 cupboards, $1,700 obo. 821-6011

PORTER CREEK Mall, Unit #9, Saturday March 15, 9:00am to 12:00noon. Call 334-1046

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Highways and Public Works

KINGSIZE WOODEN bed frame in good cond, $20. 633-2837 3 TABLES, kitchen/utility, $20 ea. 311B Hanson St. after 6:00 pm.

BOX SPRING, mattress, rails & headboard, $75 obo. 660-5478

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Personals CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community?

Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime.

Info: RCMP 867-667-5555 ARE YOU MÉTIS? Are you registered?

Would you like to be involved?

There is a Yukon Metis Nation that needs your support Contact 668-6845 DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office

WHITEHORSE - ASSISTANT STORE MANAGER Love Jeans? Warehouse One is looking for an experienced and enthusiastic retail supervisor to join our team. We offer our team members great sales and leadership training, a positive work environment, and a 50% off employee discount.

Send your resume by e-mail to hr@warehouseone.com For more information visit warehouseone.com/careers

Word Scramble A: Exhort B: Aver C: Orotund

03.14.2014

VEHICLE LOANS Bear Country Pawn is offering vehicle loans up to $10,000 Must have stable employment and chequing account Call 335-5500

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