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First Nation sues to stop Casino mine assessment

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When a proposal is submitted, the board first checks that consultation has occurred before looking he Little Salmon/Carmacks at the proposal itself.

First Nation is going to About three months after the court over the Casino Casino plan was submitted, the asmega-mine proposal during one sessment board ruled the company of the earliest stages in its assesshad done all the necessary consulment. tations for that early stage of the The First Nation filed a lawsuit process. The proposal is now in in Yukon Supreme Court yesterthe adequacy review phase. day, claiming the Yukon EnviThe First Nation is asking the ronmental and Socio-Economic court to set aside that decision and Assessment Board can’t even begin stop the proceedings until further to consider the project because consultation takes place. the First Nation has not yet been “The duty to consult with Little properly consulted.

Salmon Carmacks before the The lawsuit claims the assessYESAB process starts is a fundament board broke the law by mental legal and treaty obligation,” allowing the mining company to the chief said. enter the environmental screening “This isn’t just lip service – we process without first complying bargained for these rights in our with legal obligations to consult. final agreement, and we can’t allow “I am deeply concerned that a YESAB and Casino mines to just company with a $2.6-billion and go through the motions. It must 30-year mine thinks that they can be meaningful, and our commupush through a project on land nity’s rights must be respected.” that we legally own without first Much of the concern surcomplying with legal obligations rounds a proposed road. At least to us,” said Chief Eric Fairclough 18 to 20 kilometres of it would in a statement. travel through settlement land, the “It is totally unfair of YESAB to lawsuit says. allow this to continue. We are not It would start just south of against mining, but we are against Carmacks and cut through a getting ignored or stepped over by northwest portion of traditional the mining company.” territory.

Casino is a copper, gold, molybThe First Nation says many denum and silver deposit, located details regarding the road have about 300 kilometres northwest of not been released. It claims traffic Whitehorse. volume could exceed 124 vehicles In January, Western Copper and a day.

Gold Corp. submitted a proposal Ownership and management of to assessors for the Casino mine the road is not clear, it says. “In the project through its subsidiary, the absence of these critical aspects, Casino Mining Corporation. the LSCFN is currently severely The giant open-pit mine is by restricted in providing its views on far the largest project ever consid- the project,” the lawsuit says. ered by the assessment board. The The First Nation claims the plan is to process 120,000 tonnes road has many potential impacts, of ore per day. including on wildlife and loss of or According to the law governdamage to settlement land. ing assessments, companies need The lawsuit also questions to consult any First Nation that whether a mining company should might be affected before a probe allowed to enter the assessment and approvals process without seposal can be assessed.

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The statement says the proposed highway will be gated with no public access. “The First Nation rights to fish and hunt and use the lands for traditional purposes should have been respected.”

The law covering assessments says in order to meet that early consultation requirement, there needs to be enough time given, enough detail provided and an opportunity for the First Nation to present a point of view.

Little Salmon/Carmacks says it wasn’t provided with enough detail.

Some critical information was only provided in October and November, the lawsuit says, which was not enough time to gather opinions from First Nation members.

The First Nation says it also didn’t have the time or funding to prepare opinions with the help of a technical expert.

“The lack of access to funding is a factor to be considered in the reasonableness of the time period for a First Nation to respond to complex technical issues and information,” the lawsuit says.

LSCFN asserts that the Selkirk First Nation was given much more time, along with funding help.

And the lawsuit claims the company misinterpreted its requirement to consult by repeatedly suggesting that the First Nation’s concerns would be taken into consideration once the formal review process had begun.

A spokesperson for the assessment board said it couldn’t comment on the case until lawyers had a chance to review the information.

A case management conference is scheduled for May. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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In pursuit of prescription pot Jesse Winter

items including brownies, oils, prerolled joints and dried buds.

The dispensaries are cheaper hen doctors told Lee than the street price – about $7.50 Goodwin he had beper gram from a licensed outlet. tween three to five years Whitehorse street prices range left to live, he says he decided to between $10 and $15 per gram. In dedicate the remainder of his life the communities it can reach as to easing the suffering of others. high as $25 per gram.

Last year Goodwin was diDispensary pot is also higher agnosed with pancreatic cancer. quality than what’s sold on the When he went in for surgery, it was street, said Goodwin. He reckons worse than his original scans had street pot in Whitehorse tends to suggested. The blow came at the be between 18 and 20 per cent end of almost five years of mediTHC (the psychoactive agent). cal hardship, and the only thing Dispensary pot is around 30 per Goodwin could find to help ease cent. his own pain was medical mari“The street stuff is also scary,” juana.

Goodwin said. “You have no idea It started in 2007, when he what’s in it, how it was grown. It broke his back in a car accident. could be laced with anything from He was paralyzed from the waist cocaine to pesticide.” down. Doctors told him there was So far Goodwin has helped 36 a 70 per cent chance he’d never Yukoners get prescriptions for walk again. weed. It’s a decent system, but Doctors prescribed him 11 difGoodwin wants to go bigger. He’s Jesse Winter/Yukon News ferent pain meds, including high applied for a licence to start his Lee Goodwin wants to start his own medical marijuana clinic and dispensary in Whitehorse. amounts of morphine and other own pot dispensary in Whitehorse potentially addictive drugs. After and almost everything is in place.

Even now, back to almost 98 While his medical history reads medical pot are – like him – in surgery and two years of physio“I passed the security checks, like a complicated series of misserious financial hardship already. I passed the business plan, and therapy, he was walking again, but per cent mobility, it hasn’t been an easy go of things. Goodwin fortunes, his plan going forward is Earlier this month, medical pot the only thing stopping me is a he had numerous complications still struggles with memory loss, relatively simple. got suddenly far more complicated location. There’s a lot of distrust of and was plagued by chronic pain.

There are currently no doctors in Canada.

The pharmaceuticals started to a result of the brain injury he the industry. Landlords don’t want in the Yukon who will prescribe As of April 1, anyone with a pre- to rent to someone who’s growworry Goodwin, but he took them sustained in the second car crash. scription can legally buy pot from ing pot, and I can’t afford to buy a so he could function and work on It makes holding down a full-time medical pot. Goodwin gets his prescription through a Dr. Peter anyone they want. But – and here’s space,” Goodwin said. rebuilding a fledgling landscaping job almost impossible. To get by, he makes audio recordings of imGooch, who runs a clinic in Victo- the catch – anyone selling pot business.

“My financial situation isn’t goportant things with his cell phone ria, B.C. Goodwin approached Dr. without a licence is still breaking Then, in 2011, he had another ing to change anytime soon. I can’t and transcribes them all at the end Gooch about getting prescriptions the law. That means that – without qualify for a loan because of my car crash. This time he was hit of the day before bed. for other Yukoners as well, and the Goodwin – anyone who wants to from behind by a speeding driver, past history on social assistance. I He has osteoarthritis and two worked out a system where buy medical marijuana in the Yuand suffered severe head trauma need to find someone with land or chronic pain in his back, neck and Goodwin acts as an intermediary. kon has to go through illegal street an office space that would be willand whiplash, which only exacerWith his self-taught expertise in dealers or grow their own. bated his chronic pain issues. Doc- jaw from his old injuries. ing to lease-to-own,” he said.

He’s been on social assistance navigating Health Canada bureauFurther muddying the waters, tors prescribed more meds.

If he is able to find space, Goodthe government itself was, until Before the second crash, Good- since his bank accounts were emp- cracy, Goodwin helps potential win’s vision is grand. He wants to tied paying for all the medical bills patients collect the right medinow, the only legal grower and win had tried using marijuana as have a clinic and dispensary locatcal history forms, reviews them distributor of medicinal marian alternative to pharmaceuticals. and prescription drugs. ed together, but he also foresees the “The only relief I’ve ever had himself and then sends them on to juana. Under the new laws, private place as a hub, connecting patients It worked, but he couldn’t find a was from medical marijuana,” he Dr. Gooch in Victoria. Dr. Gooch government-sanctioned dispensa- to other non-pharmaceutical treatdoctor to sign a prescription for said. also looks them over, and if the ries can legally grow and sell pot to ments like homeopathy, massage him.

Now, Goodwin wants to make history supports a prescription for prescription holders. But there are therapy, and more.

“The day I ate my first pot sure that no one else suffers the pot, he arranges a Skype interview no dispensaries in the Yukon, and brownie, I didn’t have to take any In the meantime, Goodwin is way he did while fighting to get with the patient and Goodwin. so far only 12 have been approved taking his services on the road, pain killers,” he said. a prescription for the drug that After discussing the merits and across the country.

After the second crash, he touring Yukon communities As well as operating as a gostarted again to pursue a prescrip- makes his day-to-day life possible. risks face-to-face with the patient, starting next week. He plans to hit “It took me three years and 11 Gooch signs the paperwork and between for Dr. Gooch and pation for medical pot, and eventuDawson City first, setting up an indifferent doctors before I could get mails it back to the Yukon. tients in the Yukon, Goodwin also formation booth, doing outreach, ally found a doctor who would a prescription. I don’t want to see Dr. Gooch charges $400 for the connects clients with B.C.-based sign one for him. Since going on and answering questions about service. Goodwin’s contribution dispensaries to order their pot medical pot full time, he has done anyone in my position suffer any medical pot and prescriptions. longer than they have to,” Goodaway with his entire Halloweenis free, a public service, he says, from. Patients can order through Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com bag of prescribed pills. win said. because many people in need of the mail from a long menu of News Reporter

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Falcon Ridge decision scheduled for today The long-running battle over the fate of a half-built apartment building in Falcon Ridge may be finally nearing its end.

A Yukon Supreme Court judge is scheduled to decide today what happens to the shell of the building that has pitted a condo corporation against the developer.

Justice Ron Veale halted the construction of the building early last year after he ruled the developer, Brian Little, did not appropriately consult with the condo owners.

Lawyers for both sides were back in court this week to decide what should be built in its place.

The developer has presented two

options. The options include what its lawyer, Meagan Lang, is calling “attached four-plexes.”

Veale has already ruled that a combination of four-plex and singlefamily units would be appropriate for that spot.

The two options would reduce the number of units on the land from 48 in the original apartment building to either 25 or 28.

But the condo board’s lawyer said neither option captures the spirit of the development.

Jim Tucker called the concept of attached four-plexes “wordsmithing.”

If you attach four-plexes together, they are no longer four-plexes, he said.

The two sides are also arguing over issues of parking and landscaping.

(Ashley Joannou)

Driver fined in Chabot death

territorial court for their roles in Chabot’s death.

Lelievre chose not to have his case heard at the same time as the The driver of the truck that crushed others. a Whitehorse tire technician has Kurt Dieckmann, director of been fined $3,000, but will not need the Yukon Workers’ Compensato appear in court. tion Health and Safety Board’s Allan Lelievre, an employee of Corporate Services branch, said North 60 Petro, was charged follow- there’s nothing new to be gained by ing the death of technician Denis launching into a second trial.

Chabot at Integra Tire in 2011.

He said Lelievre has accepted Chabot, 34, was crushed under- responsibility. neath a truck he had been working By accepting an administrative on. penalty, he is still being found guilty Lelievre was behind the wheel of an offense under the territory’s and did not do a walk around of Occupational Health and Safety the vehicle, which is required by Act, Dieckmann explained. law.

“The main difference is the level Earlier this year, Integra Tire, of penalty that’s available. In either North 60 and Lelievre’s supervicase if you are found guilty you’re guilty of an offence under the act,” sor Frank Taylor were all fined in

he said.

The maximum administrative penalty is $5,000. In court, a judge can fine someone up to $150,000 for a first offence under the act.

Last week a judge fined Integra Tire $48,750. North 60 was fined $43,000 and Taylor was fined $3,000.

In those cases some of the money was earmarked for a local safety organization.

That’s not possible with administrative penalties, Dieckmann said.

“It would have been nice if we could just go and apply it in a similar matter, say to a charity or something like that, but we can’t under the act,” he said.

The money will go into the worker’s compensation fund.

(Ashley Joannou)

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NDP tables lobbying laws Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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he Yukon NDP is pushing for a new law to regulate lobbying in the territory.

The Opposition party tabled its Paid Lobbying Act in the Yukon Legislative Assembly this week.

The act would require anyone paid to lobby the government as part of their job to register and report all lobbying activity.

Non-profit organizations would be excluded, unless they represent industry, management, unions or professional groups, according to the tabled document.

Lobbying has always and will al-

ways occur in a modern democracy, said NDP Leader Liz Hanson at a news conference this week.

The purpose of the legislation is not to curtail lobbying but to make sure it happens in a transparent way, she said. “When the government comes forward each fall and spring with amendments to legislation or proposed new legislation, it didn’t just come out of the air. It came because there are conversations, it comes because there are interests expressed.�

The federal government has had lobbying legislation in place since 1985.

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NDP Justice Critic Lois Moorcroft and party leader Liz Hanson are urging the government to adopt formal lobbying legislation.

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have passed laws or currently have them tabled, said Hanson.

It’s something the NDP has been pushing for in the Yukon for years.

The late Steve Cardiff, former NDP MLA for Mount Lorne, was a champion of the legislation. “The Yukon Party government has consistently refused it,� said Hanson.

NDP Justice critic Lois Moorcroft asked for the government’s

position again in the legislature last month. “When the Yukon Party government came out with its unilateral plan for the Peel watershed in January, it confirmed what many Yukoners suspected,� said Moorcroft on March 25. “This government does not listen to First Nation governments or to the Yukon public.

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Government tries again to build Beaver Creek fire hall

bids for the project came in significantly over budget.

According to Highways and Public Works, the original construction estimate was $3.35 million. When bids came in at $4.56 million and $5.2 million, the tender was pulled and the plans were adjusted.

This newer project has a slightly lower construction estimate of $3.15 million. A number of changes have been made to the project. “We certainly hope that with this new tender, the new bids come back within budget,� said department spokesperson Doris Wurfbaum.

The new fire hall will be smaller than its first incarnation.

The two-storey building was originally a total of 453 square metres. It is now 357 square metres, said Wurfbaum.

Along with that, the new building has three truck bays instead of four, simpler exterior walls and no landscaping.

A backup generator has also been removed from the tender. “All fire trucks have generators

The Yukon government is taking another swing at building a new fire hall in Beaver Creek.

A construction tender for the building was issued this week.

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no way of knowing because Yukon has no lobbying legislation. “Mr. Speaker, does the government believe that Yukoners have the right to know who influences government decisions?�

Premier Darrell Pasloski responded that his government goes not wish to require interest groups register as lobbyists. “As I have said many times in this House, I don’t think that we need to be asking such groups as the Anti-Poverty Coalition, the Salvation Army, FASSY, outfitters, WTAY, TIAY, AYC, AFY, municipalities, YCS, Challenge, Canadian Cancer Society – they are just some examples – school councils – should they all be registered lobbyists? We don’t believe that they should be.�

The NDP has not asked the tabled Paid Lobbying Act to be passed as-is. Instead, the party has called on the government to form a legislative committee to take the question to the public and develop recommendations for lobbying legislation in the territory.

A spokesperson for cabinet said the government is still considering the NDP’s proposal and has not yet formed a position on the question.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

on board. If there’s need for backup power in the building, these are the things that will be utilized,� Wurfbaum said.

The building will still have a radio room, a training room and new water storage.

Liberal Leader Sandy Silver questioned why the construction estimate for the new project had gone down when the original bids came in so far over budget. “It’s projects like this that have left contractors not knowing what to expect from the government,� he said.

The old fire hall will be torn down once the new fire hall is built.

The Beaver Creek Community Library, located next door, will also be demolished.

Plans are underway to renovate the school and move the library into the basement, said Wurfbaum.

The deadline for bids on the fire hall project is April 30. The project is slated to be completed by June 2015.

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Yukon-wide 911 is ready to go: Ice Wireless Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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erritory-wide 911 service could be up and running tomorrow, should the Yukon government desire it, says Cameron Zubko, chief operating officer of Ice Wireless.

The company is currently in discussions with the Yukon government to provide 911 service that would cover any phone call made from within the Yukon, including all land lines and cell phones.

But last week Community Services Minister Brad Cathers said the government is working on an “interim” 911 solution through NorthwesTel that would allow people outside of Whitehorse to reach a recording menu.

The service would require the person calling to press “1” to call police, “2” to call an ambulance and “3” for the fire department.

That doesn’t qualify as basic 911 service under the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s definition.

As a result, NorthwesTel would have to apply to have the service approved through the regulator.

Zubko said there is no technical hold up.

“All we would need is for the Yukon government to accept our proposal and we’re prepared to move ahead with 911 services in the Yukon immediately.”

Cathers said that his department only received Ice Wireless’

Pair of Yukoners face drug charges Two Yukoners are facing drug charges after arrests this week.

Police say officers witnessed what appeared to be drug trans-

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Ice Wireless says there are no technical barriers to getting Yukon-wide 911 service up and running.

proposal three days ago.

Zubko said the company has been in discussions with the government for a few weeks.

Under the company’s proposal, any 911 call would be routed to one of the company’s dispatch centres in Canada or Romania, where a certified operator would assess their situation and send the actions going on inside a vehicle by a downtown hotel Tuesday afternoon.

“The female driver of the vehicle was approached by several people who offered what appeared to be cash in exchange for what appeared to be crack

appropriate emergency responders.

This service, through parent company Iristel, has been in place for more than a decade, and is used by millions of Canadians, said Zubko.

Anyone in Whitehorse with an Ice Wireless cell phone already has access to this service.

BRIEFS cocaine,” Yukon RCMP said in a statement.

“Following several of these open transactions, the ve-

It is already certified by all the appropriate national bodies, so no further regulatory approval would be required to extend the service to the rest of Yukon, said Zubko.

Rob Hopkins, who chairs the telecommunications committee of Yukon’s Utilities Consumers’ Group, said he is confident that Ice Wireless’ plan would work for the hicle exited the area and was stopped.”

Police claim both the woman and a man in the car were in possession of crack cocaine.

The drug was also found in the vehicle, officers say.

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“There is no real risk in that, because this is how the rest of the world operates on this stuff,” he said.

“I’m calling on an Iristel phone right now, which is part of Ice Wireless. I’ve had 911 service in Tagish for over two years now.”

Cathers said some communities have expressed concern about 911 calls being routed to a call centre outside of the community.

“There is local community concern about ensuring that dispatch operators understand the community. That’s one of the specific concerns we’ve heard from some Yukon municipalities about moving even to a Whitehorse-based 911 dispatch system.”

The Yukon government has been working with NorthwesTel, the RCMP and other stakeholders to establish a integrated dispatch facility in Whitehorse for the whole territory.

But the space built for that purpose, in the emergency services building at the top of Two Mile Hill, remains empty. There’s little word from the government on why those discussions have stalled.

“That project is one that both affected municipalities and agencies as well as NorthwesTel have indicated that they feel it’s going to take time to work towards single integrated dispatch that meets the needs of all involved,” said Cathers.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com`

horse woman was arrested and charged with trafficking cocaine and possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

A 54-year-old man, also of Whitehorse, has been charged with possession and obstruction.

(Ashley Joannou)

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t’s too early to ask Yukoners what they would like to see in a new continuing care facility, according to officials with the Department of Health and Social Services. “It’s way too early in the phase to do public consultation, that happens much further along,� said Paddy Meade, deputy minister of health.

The department has to do its homework first before going out to the community, and that’s what they are doing now, she said.

The Yukon government raised alarm bells last month when it announced it would build a 150bed continuing care facility in Whitehorse, with the possibility of phasing in another 150 beds.

Both opposition parties raised concern that the government committed to this project before consulting Yukoners.

But the government has completed a needs assessment that found that we will need those beds.

The territory will need 320-380 beds by 2021 and 430-550 beds by 2035, and those are conservative estimates, said Cathy MortonBielz, assistant deputy minister for continuing care.

Those projections have been confirmed by a review of the needs assessment, and a contractor to the

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Health Deputy Minister Paddy Meade speaks at a technical briefing with Assistant Deputy Minister Cathy Morton-Bielz on plans for a new continuing care facility.

government is currently working on a business case that will refine that data and start to look at options for design, she said.

It’s important to have the right kind of beds available, because the alternative can be very expensive, she said.

There are currently 26 people on the wait list for a continuing care beds, with another 22 waiting for assessment. The average wait time is four months. “It’s growing each month,� said Morton-Bielz.

Those waiting for continuing care often end up in the acute care, or hospital, system.

A continuing care bed costs about $350 a day, compared with more than $2,000 for acute care.

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esidents have filed a lawsuit against the Yukon government calling for the reversal of a decision to allow Mount Lorne property owners to subdivide their lots.

It’s illegal and it’s a breach of contract, says Gary Irvin, who goes

by Rufus and owns a property in the Robinson subdivision.

He is a signatory to the petition filed in Yukon Supreme Court this week.

When he bought the property in 1988, there was a clear indication

that dividing lots would never be allowed, he said. “It’s stated right in the agreement for sale and in the regulations that Robinson could never be subdivided.�

That was a big selling feature of the property, said Irvin. “I brought the property on that basis. I lived in Marsh Lake, and the lots were too small, and it was just crazy.�

All the Robinson lots, on the other hand, are between 15-20 acres each, said Irvin. “Because it said you couldn’t subdivide, well that’s perfect, that’s

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tunity to give their input on the design of the new facility, but not until the department has some options to present, said MortonBielz.

The department must first look at what the standards and best practices are nationally, to make sure that the facility will meet the needs of clients.

That doesn’t mean that it will look like an institution or warehouse. “We will certainly not be looking at old-style design, the type with double-loaded corridors and loud, noisy, confusing dining halls,� said Morton-Bielz. “It will be designed to best-practice standards, and those include segregated living units, or neighbourhoods, that are warm, home-like,

and easy for residents to navigate and to socialize in.�

Those “neighbourhoods� would typically each house 20-24 clients, she said.

Another concern raised by the NDP Opposition is that centralizing continuing care in Whitehorse will not meet the needs of people from the communities.

But that’s the only way it can be done, said Morton-Bielz. While the intent is to keep people in their homes and communities for as long as possible, people with complex needs will ultimately need to move to a larger centre to get appropriate care.

That’s the same anywhere in Canada, she said. “Our communities are extremely small and they generate very little need for expensive and specialized services.�

Dawson’s McDonald Lodge, Yukon’s only continuing care facility outside of Whitehorse, offers a lower level of assistance than what can be delivered in the capital.

Even today, clients with higher and more complex needs must be moved to the city.

This year’s budget has $6.9 million allocated for planning and design of the facility.

If all goes perfectly smooth, there could be some design options on the table this time next year, said Morton-Bielz.

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exactly what I wanted. I didn’t want to live in a town.�

But a recent order in council now permits current Mount Lorne property owners to each subdivide on a one-time-only basis.

It was a group of Robinson property owners who initially started the push to allow subdivision.

A 2013 survey found that most Mount Lorne residents support onetime only subdivision and minimum lot sizes of three hectares.

In the end, the government agreed that only one subdivision per lot would be allowed, but decreased the minimum lot size to two hect-

ares. “This amendment provides consistency in the trend towards two hectare lots in the Whitehorse periphery,� Resources Minister Scott Kent said in a news release.

Irvin said that Robinson should never have been lumped in with the rest of Mount Lorne when considering the question of subdivision.

His lawsuit against Energy, Mines and Resources calls for the court to strike down the order in council that allows the subdivision altogether, or exempt Robinson from it.

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t’s not often that a piece of legislation as obscure as the Vital Statistics Act becomes a focus of political debate in the territory. Over the past week, the Yukon Party government’s handling of two different matters involving that particular law help highlight how our politicians are perfectly capable of doing the right thing when they feel so inclined.

First, the Yukon Party should be applauded for its decision to amend the Vital Statistics Act to allow gay couples to be registered as parents on birth certificates.

The move was prompted by a human rights complaint filed

by Cai Krikorian and Corinne Gurtler. Krikorian recently gave birth to a baby boy after using an anonymous sperm donor. Gurtler then learned that, for her name to appear on the birth certificate, she would first have to adopt the child.

This is clearly discriminatory, and as such runs afoul of the Yukon Human Rights Act. Men in heterosexual marriages are presumed to be the father of children when anonymous sperm donations are concerned. But not so for gay couples.

Health Minister Doug Graham has pledged to see the legislation updated by the end of this sitting. The Official Opposition managed to make itself seem a bit desperate for attention, meanwhile, when Jan Stick called on the government to make this change after she had been informed it intended to do so. (The NDP maintains it raised this fuss to ensure the government would keep its word. But to a jaded outsider, it would be easy to conclude they sought to claim some credit for a decision

the government had already made.)

Yet, on another matter also involving the same law, Graham insists that change can’t come quickly, because amending legislation takes time.

This other matter involves the government’s difficulties in releasing information to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which is seeking to identify children who died or went missing while attending residential schools.

Thanks to our current legislation, the information released by the territory won’t be as detailed as in other jurisdictions. That’s because the Yukon government cannot release a person’s cause of death until 100 years after they’ve died. It’s the most restrictive law in Canada.

The Yukon Party has pledged to do all it can to help the commission. This promise was reiterated by the government’s support of an NDP motion that repeated as much, which called on the territory “to take all necessary measures to expedite the release of data requested by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.”

Now the government is making a mockery of that promise by refusing to amend the law that is proving a barrier to the full disclosure of records.

It’s hard to say what exactly is gained from this obstructiveness. Heaven forbid the Yukon Party actually curry a bit of good will with its First Nations, whose members, needless to say, are in many cases still haunted by the many tragedies that occurred at residential schools.

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This impression is further reinforced by the government’s apparent indifference to proposal made by the the territory’s privacy czar, which would not only elegantly resolve the problem with releasing documents to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but also ensure that the public has better access to other information it deserves.

This change would allow the privacy commissioner to release otherwise exempt information, if she deemed it to be in the public interest to do so.

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But the Yukon Party has typically foot-dragged in response to any proposal to expand the powers of the privacy czar, and this case seems to be no different.

Recall how a string of privacy commissioners, who have all doubled as the territory’s ombudsmen, have complained about how their jobs could only be properly performed if they were paid for a full workweek, rather merely having it treated as a part-time job. In the end, it took the abrupt resignation of our current privacy commissioner’s predecessor,

Tim Koepke, to pressure the government into making that change.

It’s sad to think that our current commissioner will probably have to apply similar pressure tactics if she wants to see any movement on her proposal, as sensible as it is.

It certainly would be nice to see more of the same responsiveness on display with the government’s accommodation of Krikorian and Gurtler, and less of the more general obstructiveness that has marked other decisions. But we aren’t holding our breaths.

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Shooting on your own net job creation and net provincial migration.

But while the Quebec economy

by Keith would have been the main victim, Halliday the collateral damage in the rest of Canada would have been sizeable too.

Quebec represents about 23 per cent of Canada’s population and 20 per cent of our economy.

It is hard for Canada to do well if a fifth of the national economy is ver played a hockey game facing tough sledding. Not only where one of your teamdo companies in the rest of Canmates gets confused and ada have fewer business opporshoots on your own net, but the tunities in Quebec, but the slower puck hits the goalpost and doesn’t Quebec economy negatively go in? affects federal tax revenues as well I had a similar feeling as I read as causing higher equalization the Quebec election results on payments and program spending.

Monday night.

Winning a hockey game takes Can you imagine the economic more than merely not scoring carnage if we were forced to on your own goal, of course. The spend the next five years readchallenge for Quebec is now to ing about Jewish doctors being achieve faster growth. Unfortufired from Montreal hospitals nately, the Parti Quebecois and and wondering when Premier its election platform were not the Pauline Marois would feel lucky only economic problem facing enough to launch a referendum Quebec. The province’s political on independence? The mind consensus is more solidly aligned boggles at the impact on Quebec behind big government and big tax policies than anywhere else in business confidence, investment,

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Canada.

In fact, over the last decade Quebec’s government – under both Liberal and PQ leadership – has even managed to make Ontario’s economic policy look good. And that hasn’t been easy.

The result of these choices shows up in the numbers. Not only has Quebec persistently lagged the Canadian average on key economic statistics, it has also lagged Ontario. This is an importance comparison, because both provinces share roughly similar geographic positions, large populations and have big manufacturing sectors.

In 2012, according to economists at one of the big banks, Quebec’s economic output per person was 12 per cent lower than Ontario’s. Ditto for its personal disposable income per person.

One per cent fewer of Quebec’s population was working, which is a lot of people. Looking forward for 2014 and 2015, economic growth is forecast to be roughly a point lower than Ontario’s each year.

About seven percentage points

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more of Ontario’s economy is engaged in international trade than Quebec’s. Net provincial government debt is around 50 percent of gross domestic product in Quebec, versus less than 40 percent in Ontario (the gap was even bigger before Ontario added about 10 points of debt over the last five years from its big deficits).

On the tax front, Yukon’s Department of Finance reports that Quebec’s provincial income tax rate for people making less than $40,000 per year is 16 per cent.

In Ontario, it is 5.05 per cent.

For people making $100,000, the figures are 24 per cent and 11 per cent respectively.

Quebec’s corporate tax rate is slightly higher, and its small business rate is eight per cent versus just four per cent in Ontario.

Quebec’s sales, tobacco, gas and diesel taxes are also all higher.

I should also mention that Quebec has had a stubbornly persistent deficit for the last five years.

The province is in a tough situation. It risks a vicious circle where high taxes discourage

economic activity, which in turn hurts tax revenues and pressures the government to keep taxes high.

Quebec’s new premier, Philippe Couillard, wants to boost growth a number of ways, including pushing northern resource development while cutting spending and taxes. This is all easier to say than to do.

Economic growth is not a zerosum game. All of Canada benefits when all of our regions are doing well. This creates more jobs, more business opportunities and more tax revenues for government programs.

We should wish the new Quebec government well in its efforts to improve the performance of Quebec’s economy. Team Quebec hasn’t won the game yet, but at least now it is shooting the puck at the goal in the right end of the rink.

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

We have had a productive year at BBBS Yukon with expansion of our in-school mentoring program, Open letter to MP Ryan Leef: an increase in traditional big/little As a concerned resident of National Defence Professional ClasIt is only by taking action for million dollar facility, leased on a matches and more activities and Haines Junction I would like ourselves when faced with adversity sification, in other word must have support provided for volunteer year-round basis to Parks Canada, to raise some serious concerns completed military trade training remains closed to the public to save that we can teach our children to mentors and their littles. regarding the demise of Kluane and must provide acceptable proof do the same.

Corinne and Cai, I the cost of information/interpretaThis is made possible by National Park and Reserve. of service. admire your courage and tenacity, tion staff. businesses and members of the As noted in the recent budget Later on the City of Whitehorse public who participate in our events and I’m proud of you both.

Over the years we have lost our speech, Parks Canada across the has been gracious enough to offer knowing that they are making a difcountry is in bad shape due to con- interpretive programs for tradfree parking, with the usual time Dawna Lewis itionally offered campfire talks and ference in our community. We try tinuing budget cuts to operations limits and restrictions to those guided walks, winter use of ski trails Whitehorse to make our events fun with tons of and maintenance compounded vehicles bearing Yukon veterans door prizes for participants, free hot and maintenance of the Kathleen with major reductions to staff. license plates. This is not a right but pizza lunch, free shoes and bowling, These policies may go unnoticed Lake day use area. These reductions Let’s clarify who is a veteran simply a gesture of recognition to a fantastic silent auction and awards in Canada’s large urban centres but in service, coupled with the preYukon veterans. Therefore I would Even to this day many people are for high scores and top fund raising in small rural communities that mature closure of the visitor centre, still confused over the definition of ask veterans to please respect this teams. depend upon destination tourism, is clearly unacceptable and cannot principle and do not abuse this who is actually a veteran.

Last year Bowl for Kids Sake (our largely fueled by the presence of the be justified on any economic platTherefore I would like to clarify most appreciated act of kindness. signature event) raised over $20,000 federal National Parks and Historic form when we see huge amounts of I hope this clarifies the false the matter: A veteran is any person for our mentoring programs.

Sites, the effects are devastating. infrastructure money wasted in the who is serving or has honourably thinking that only those military There are many ways to get As you know, our communcommunity when we cannot even members who went to war can be served in the Armed Forces of involved: ity is marketed as the “Gateway to open the door to facilities. veterans. As well, a person does not Canada or has served in the forces • Form a pledge team of six Kluane.” That gateway as a result Your response would be apprecihave to be a veteran to join the Leof a Commonwealth nation or has bowlers who ask friends, coof years of re-organizations and ated. gion. Anyone can join the Legion as workers, family and neighbors to served in the forces of Canada’s reductions is now closed for the long as they agree with the objectwartime allies or who has served sponsor them – six members each majority of the year and only open ives and principles the Legion. in the former merchant navy or Brent Liddle raising $100 each covers the costs of half-time during our busiest season Lest we forgetl! former ferry command during warWhitehorse monitoring a match for a year. from May to September. time. Members of the RCMP were • Sponsor a Lane for a game Our economy depends upon the Courage and tenacity later included in this definition and Red Grossinger ($100), three games ($250) or a 100-day season to keep businesses Past president, are veterans as well. whole day ($500). afloat throughout the year. Recent Re: Birth certificate rules changing Whitehorse Legion A few years ago the Whitehorse • Donate door prizes or silent changes to close the popular Kluane for same-sex parents Legion worked in cooperation with auction items.

National Park Visitor Centre and Bowl for Kids Sake Not often are we faced with the the Yukon government to produce • Provide in-kind services or move the operations centre have and make available special vehicle volunteer as a mentor or event asbeen further exacerbated by the de- task of publicly standing up for our beliefs, but that is exactly what plates to recognize Yukon veterans, This year Big Brothers Big Sisters of sistant. cree, without consultation of local Yukon marks our 23rd Anniversary for which we are much apprecia• When asked, donate generresidents or the business commun- Corinne Gurtler and Cai Krikorof Bowl for Kids Sake and our 35th ously – tax receipts are issued for ian have done this past week. As tive. The Whitehorse Legion and ity, to keep the new Parks Canada year of providing mentoring to same-sex parents, they were recently the Dawson City Legion are the donations of $20 or more provided portion of the Da Ku Cultural denied the right to have both their designated verifying and approving Yukon children who want and need complete information is provided.

Centre staffed only from May long This year our goal is to raise over weekend to the end of the Septem- names entered on their infant sons’ authorities for these veteran’s plates a mentor.

The benefits of mentoring are birth certificate, despite the fact that in the Yukon as directed by the $25,000 on Sunday, April 27. Please ber long weekend. well documented and backed up they are married and a family of Yukon government. help us improve the quality of life Statistics from previous years four (they have one other son.)

As the veteran plates designated by extensive research. Children for children who need and want a show August to mid-September as who have had as little as one year Although sexual orientation has verifier for the Whitehorse Legion mentor. our busiest time, yet tourists and of mentoring benefit from higher been addressed under the Yukon I should mention that BC/Yukon For more information, call 668residents are denied access to the self esteem, better attendance and Human Rights Act since 1987, the Command of the Royal Canadian 7911 or email bbbsyukon@gmail. exhibits, displays and audio-visual interest in school, higher graduaterritory’s legislation has not man- Legion added another criteria in com show. On what basis was this deciaged to keep pace. Apparently, the order to qualify for a veteran’s plate; tion rates, less negative behaviors sion made? current sitting of the legislature will in addition to the above definition, (bullying/violence/crime) and less Harold Sher It makes absolutely no sense the Veteran must have met the rectify this.

Executive director, BBBS Yukon incidence of substance abuse. whatsoever that this new multi-

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Longtime finance minister Jim Flaherty has died Rob Gillies

financial crisis.

The House of Commons in Ottawa abruptly suspended business TORONTO as word of his death circulated. ormer Canadian finance Harper addressed members of his minister Jim Flaherty, a government in brief comments fixture on the world finanthat were televised across the nacial stage who stepped down last tion month, has died. He was 64.

“I learned a short while ago Flaherty’s family released a that our colleague, my partner and statement that said he died Thurs- my friend, Jim Flaherty, has passed day in Ottawa. No cause was made away suddenly today,” said Harper. public.

“This comes as an unexpected and Flaherty, who had the job since a terrible shock …”

2006, was the longest-serving Opposition New Democrat finance minister among the Group leader Thomas Mulcair choked of Seven leading industrial econback tears as he expressed condolomies until he announced he was ences to the family. stepping down three weeks ago “We’re very, very sad at the loss to return to the private sector. He of a great Canadian. Jim Flaherty battled a rare skin disease over the was an extraordinarily dedicated last year, but had said his decision public servant,” Mulcair said. to leave politics was not related.

The flag on the Peace Tower Flaherty was Prime Minister on Parliament Hill in Ottawa was Stephen Harper’s only finance lowered to half-mast. minister since Harper took power Ottawa police said they reeight years ago. He is credited sponded to a medical call shortly with helping get Canada back on after noon at Flaherty’s residence. track to a balanced budget after He is survived by his wife Chrispumping stimulus money into tine Elliott and his triplet sons, the economy following the 2008 John, Galen and Quinn.

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entered federal politics.

Harper’s Conservative government plans on entering an election next year with a budget surplus, and the prime minister has praised Flaherty for helping make that happen.

Canada’s commodity-rich economy avoided the worst of the crisis and has fared better than other nations. There was no mortgage meltdown or subprime crisis in Canada.

Flaherty took over from former Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin’s Liberals in 2006 and broadly stuck to his predecessor’s approach, though Flaherty cut Fred Chartrand/The Canadian Press taxes and, when recession struck, A book of condolences and a photograph of former Finance pumped stimulus money into the Minister Jim Flaherty is placed on a table in the lobby of economy. He was also an outHouse of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday. spoken critic of European counFlaherty died suddenly Thursday of an apparent heart attack. tries for their handling of the debt He was 64. crisis and urged them to get their debt problems under control.

Born in Lachine, Quebec, Flain politics, including stints as minFlaherty acknowledged last year herty went on to earn a bachelor’s ister of finance, attorney general that he was suffering from a skin degree from Princeton University and deputy premier at the provin- condition, requiring him to take and a law degree from York Unicial level in Ontario. In 2006, after medication that led to weight gain. versity’s Osgoode Hall Law School. two unsuccessful bids to lead the He also appeared fatigued at some Flaherty spent almost 20 years Ontario Conservatives, Flaherty public appearances.

CBC cuts 657 jobs and slashes $130M from its budget Cassandra Szklarski

lined financial challenges including a softened advertising market, disappointing ratings for CBC-TV, TORONTO “much lower-than-expected” ad he CBC is slashing 657 revenues from Espace musique positions over two years and CBC Radio 2, and the loss of and will no longer pursue NHL broadcast rights to Rogers broadcast rights to professional Media. sports as it grapples with a mas“There’s no easy way to deliver sive budget shortfall. news like this,” Lacroix said in preThe public broadcaster anpared remarks that were posted nounced a swath of cuts Thursday online moments after his private that will shave $130 million from address. its 2014-2015 budget and spur a “I know many of you are new mandate “to reimagine itself ” sad. I know there will be many as the media landscape changes. questions. We will answer them CBC North’s Late Night straight up, both in our Q&A newscast has been cancelled as a session today, in the meetings result of the cuts, the broadcaster that will follow, and as things take reported yesterday. Six positions shape over the coming days.” will be cut at CBC North across all CBC News reports that 334 three territories. full-time jobs will come from CBC president Hubert Lacroix English Services, saving roughly $82 million. detailed the news at a town hall The belt-tightening – which meeting for employees that outCanadian Press

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will incur one-time severance costs of $33.5 million – are geared to guiding the corporation “towards a smaller, more nimble and more open public broadcaster,” Lacroix added.

It will also mean coverage of “fewer events and fewer sports” – including less amateur sports – and the cancellation of planned regional expansions.

Nevertheless, Lacroix said CBC/Radio-Canada will maintain its news-gathering capabilities in the regions and remain committed to “signature events of national importance such as the Olympics.” But only if they make money.

“We will only broadcast events that allow us to break even,” he said in the statement.

When it comes to professional sports, CBC said it can no longer compete with private rivals that

have specialty channels and multiple media platforms.

Meanwhile, CBC-TV programming also took a hit from private rivals, with CBC noting its primetime TV schedule “performed poorly in attracting 25-54-yearold viewers,” considered the most important demographic for advertisers.

In combination with the softened ad market, that represented a $47-million hit to CBC’s revenue.

The watchdog group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting was wary of such comments, and what it signals for the future of CBC. “That is code for we are behaving like a public broadcaster, we are delivering audiences to advertisers,” said spokesman Ian Morrison, who blames the money woes on reduced funding from the federal government.

“That’s not the thing that a

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Morrison also expressed concern over scaled-back regional coverage, warning the move would centralize operations to the detriment of the rest of the country.

“This becomes more and more a ‘Toronto Broadcasting Corporation’ – that’s really what is happening because they’re reducing their capacity to cover and the hours of local content that are live throughout the country,” he said.

“That’s very, very serious.”

He blamed the budget troubles on “a hostile” Conservative government that reduced the CBC’s funding appropriation by $115 million back in 2012.

Lacroix said these were “tough decisions necessary to balance our current budget.”

“As the media landscape changes, CBC/Radio-Canada will also need to reimagine itself in order to continue delivering on the mandate with which we were entrusted over 75 years ago,” Lacroix added in a release Thursday.

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Canada’s tax agency pulls plug on e-filing as world frets over Heartbleed bug “As a preventative measure, the CRA has temporarily shut down public access to our online services to safeguard the integrity of the information we hold.”

Terry Pedwell Canadian Press

OTTAWA ith tax-return season in full swing, the Canada Revenue Agency suddenly locked down its online filing services Wednesday, fearful of a new vulnerability in software used by much of the world to safeguard secure websites on the Internet.

All of the federal government’s online systems were under review after word of the so-called “Heartbleed” computer bug prompted the tax agency to pull the plug on its electronic services as a precaution.

“As a preventative measure, the CRA has temporarily shut down public access to our online services to safeguard the integrity of the information we hold,” the agency said in a statement.

The shutdown came after the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre (CCIRC) issued a warning to system administrators about the coding flaw.

It recommended that system operators unable to plug in an immediate fix get off the grid.

Other federal systems were also being assessed for their vulnerability to the threat, said

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Antoine Ouellon, a spokesperson for Shared Services Canada, the federal agency that oversees the government’s IT infrastructure.

“Shared Services Canada is working with departments and Public Safety Canada to assess all IT systems to identify the ex-

tent of the problem and to apply solutions, including implementing patches, as required,” Ouellon said in a statement.

It was not immediately clear Wednesday whether any other online government would have to be taken offline.

The Canada Revenue Agency

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services that were affected by Wednesday’s outage included the electronic tax-filing systems Efile and Netfile, as well as access to business and personal account data stored by the system.

The agency said it was working to restore safe and secure access and expected the site to be back online “over the weekend.”

The agency also took steps to reassure anxious would-be tax filers, suggesting that anyone who was prevented by the shutdown from filing a return on time would not be penalized.

The minister of national revenue has confirmed that individual taxpayers will not be penalized for this service interruption,“ the agency said later Wednesday.

“We continue to investigate any potential impacts to taxpayer information, and to be fully engaged in resolving this matter and restoring online services as soon as possible in a manner that ensures the private information of Canadians remains safe and secure.”

It is a busy time of year for the tax agency, as people file returns electronically and track the progress of refunds online.

As of the end of March, the agency had received 6.7 million returns, with 84 per cent filed electronically.

The computer bug was reportedly detected last week by Internet security experts in Finland and researchers at Google, but only revealed widely within the online security community on Monday.

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source software called OpenSSL that’s at the very core of millions of applications used to encrypt Internet communications. Experts warn that its impact on consumers could be significant.

It can reveal the contents of a computer server’s memory, including private data such as usernames, passwords, and credit card numbers.

But the flaw also allows hackers to obtain copies of a server’s digital keys, and use them to impersonate other servers and fool people into thinking they are using a legitimate website.

A number of large global websites, such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo, have said they were either in the process of fixing the problem or had already dealt with the threat.

Canada’s major banks were also scrambling to reassess their systems Wednesday, with at least two assuring clients that measures were in place to prevent any loss of information.

“TD already has put in place defences to protect customers from this potential threat, and is adding additional, layered security, so customers can conduct their banking securely and without their data being at risk,” said Barbara Timmins, a spokeswoman at TD Bank Group.

“While we don’t recommend any specific actions to TD customers as a result of this vulnerability, we always recommend that customers change their passwords regularly,” she added.

“That said, TD has intelligent and multi-layered authentication, so there are multiple safeguards in place to protect customers.”

RBC spokesman Jason Graham added that while the bank takes every threat seriously, RBC websites “have not been affected by the Heartbleed security bug.”

Despite the fact the problem is global in scope, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair wasted no time in blaming the federal Conservative government for failing to adequately protect and provide services to Canadians.

“The Conservatives are such poor public managers that they can’t deliver the grain, they can’t even deliver the mail and now at tax time they can’t even communicate with Canadians through the revenue agency,” Mulcair said.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said only that he would support any measures needed to battle the bug.

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Statue would give Parliament daily reminder of war’s consequences: Dallaire “The memorial at Vimy Ridge is an important reminder of the tremendous sacrifices made by Canadians when our country came of age.”

Murray Brewster

Ridge and the country’s 150th birthday, both of which take place in 2017.

OTTAWA Wednesday marked the 97th he strikes a mournful, solitary anniversary of the battle, which pose on the crest of a French claimed 3,598 Canadian lives. ridge once soaked in Canadian Dallaire, who was instrumental blood – an image one prominent in pushing for the addition of the former soldier says should be a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier daily reminder to parliamentarians at the foot of the National War that their decisions have conseMemorial in Ottawa, said a Mother quences.

Canada statue would speak to Sen. Romeo Dallaire has been families in a way that the current quietly lobbying the federal govmemorials don’t. ernment to construct a replica of “We’re in an era now when you the monument known as Mother deploy the troops, you’re deploying Canada, located on the eastern the families,” he said. side of the Vimy Ridge memorial “Because of the media, they’re perched atop the famous battlefield living the missions in ways past in France. generations haven’t and there is no Dallaire wants to see the new monument here that really projects statue erected in Jacques-Cartier how the people of Canada – the Park in Gatineau, Que., directly ones left behind – their sense of the across the river from Parliament price we have paid.”

Hill and within sight of the offices Dallaire’s proposal has won the of MPs and senators who would enthusiastic endorsement of Nadecide where and when to deploy tional Defence and retired general troops in the future.

Walt Natyncyk, the former chief of It’s the sort of sober reflection defence staff, who recommended the country needs in an age of the department lend its full support hyper-partisan politics and emerg- to whichever government departing global crises, he said in a recent ment or agency is best suited to interview with The Canadian Press. take the lead.

“As a nation, we will be called “The memorial at Vimy Ridge beyond our borders again,” Dallaire is an important reminder of the said. tremendous sacrifices made by “I expect that, and I think it’s Canadians when our country came part of our responsibility, and so of age,” Natynczyk wrote in a 2011 we should make people aware that letter to then-defence minister Peter when you take that decision you MacKay. realize you are going to take casual“The mourning figure of ties – both in people who are killed ‘Mother Canada’ would be a fitting reminder to all of Canada of (and) in a hell of a lot of people the sacrifices that her sons and who are injured.” daughters have made, are making, The idea started out as a way and will continue to make in the to commemorate both the 100th future.” anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Canadian Press

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The letter was obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. Despite such high-calibre support, the Harper government has so far remained silent on whether it would consider adding the idea to its laundry list of planned First World War projects and commemorations.

It has shown interest in Toronto businessman Tony Trigiano’s Never Forgotten National Memorial, a giant monument similar to the one in Vimy, but constructed on a patch of Cape Breton coastline, arms outstretched towards the sea.

The idea has been met with mixed reviews in Nova Scotia.

Former veterans minister Steven Blaney spoke to Dallaire about Trigiano’s plans, but Dallaire wants the monument in the more accessible national capital region.

Dallaire has also faced questions about why his monument should be located on the Quebec side of the river, given the province’s reputation for opposing Canada’s past military activity and conscription measures.

“That’s exactly why you want to put it on the Quebec side; so that we sort out” and reconcile with that history, he said.

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Even the marble for the statue could be found among an existing stockpile that the federal government keeps in reserve for repairs to the monument in France, he added.

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Two Tory bills to change the electoral system, two different approaches ‘I believe that a bill like this needs multi-party support in order for it to become law. Because it affects all parties, I believe that support is necessary.’ has raised that to 20 per cent.

The bill now also calls for the publication of names of those MPs who vote in favour of a leadership review.

Chong had originally handed complete power over the timing and rules of electoral nominations to riding associations.

There, too, he has put some water in his wine.

With his new amendments, the party leader would still have the power to deregister a riding association “if it went rogue and totally off the rails.”

And a system of elected,

provincial nomination officers would have the ultimate power to eject an elected candidate in a riding. Those officers would be elected by a party’s riding association presidents in each province.

Chong says the measures would create a sort of tension between the power exerted by the leadership and the power of the grassroots party members. A leader and his or her team would have to be willing to go as far as deregistering a riding association in order to overturn its decisions on a nomination race.

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support is necessary,” Chong told reporters.

By contrast, the government OTTAWA has lashed out at critics of its wo Conservative bills that Fair Elections Act, which would would fundamentally change overhaul parts of the Canada the Canadian electoral system, Elections Act. Experts who have two very different approaches. expressed reservations about On the one hand there is Tory the legislation have found their MP Michael Chong, whose high- motivations questioned, and profile private member’s bill opposition politicians have so far seeks to rebalance power between been ignored.

MPs and party leaders, and also That bill is currently before a between the grassroots and party Commons committee. headquarters.

Interestingly, the minister After hearing input from MPs fronting the Fair Elections Act – of all stripes, Chong introduced Pierre Poilievre – has provided amendments to his legislation suggestions to Chong on his Monday before it even got to legislation. Chong took those second reading. recommendations, along with “I believe that a bill like this others from other parties, and needs multi-party support in or- used them to help amend his soder for it to become law. Because called Reform Act. it affects all parties, I believe that A Conservative source noted Canadian Press

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Chong, a former intergovernmental affairs minister, carefully sidestepped questions about the government’s handling of the elections bill.

“At minimum, the bill should go through the full process, it should receive full consideration and that’s what I expect will happen,” Chong said.

Chong’s private member’s bill would hand power to party caucuses to trigger a leadership review, rather than leaving that up to party members during conventions.

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Baloney Meter: Poilievre statement on Fair Elections Act put to the test Steve Rennie Canadian Press

OTTAWA “Let us consider some examples of the new power the CEO seeks for himself. First, he believes, and I quote from his recommendation, that upon a request from the CEO, political parties be required to produce all documents necessary to ensure compliance with the Canada Elections Act. Let’s examine this: it is difficult to imagine what power the CEO seeks here that he does not already have.”

– Democratic Reform Minister Pierre Poilievre to Senate committee, April 8.

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t is a major reform of the country’s election law that could shape how Canadians choose their leaders. But Bill C-23, which the Conservative government has dubbed the Fair Elections Act, has been steeped in controversy since its inception.

Elections Canada has proposed a number of amendments to the legislation. One of those proposals is to give the chief electoral officer the power to compel political parties to produce documents – and demand invoices and receipts – to show they followed the letter of the law.

“The CEO still does not have any power to require a party to produce documents evidencing its compliance with the Act, including its claimed expenses,” Elections Canada wrote in a submission to the government.

Parties must also have their financial returns approved by an auditor of their choosing.

But Marc Mayrand recently told CBC that Elections Canada only gets an “overall report”

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Minister of State (Democratic Reform) Pierre Poilievre speaks in Parliament.

showing a party’s campaign spending, but not documents to support those expenses.

Democratic Reform Minister Pierre Poilievre counters that Mayrand actually does have the ability to compel the handing over of documents – by starving a party of cash.

Elections Canada pays back some of the election expenses of parties that meet certain conditions. After the last election, the Conservatives and Liberals were each reimbursed about $9.7 million, while the NDP got back a little more than $10 million, the Bloc Quebecois received nearly $2.7 million and the Green party got close to $1 million.

Poilievre points out that

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Mayrand, under section 435 (a) of the Canada Elections Act, has the power to withhold reimbursement of a party’s election expenses until he is satisfied everything is in order.

“In other words, if he wants more information, he can simply ask for it,” Poilievre said Tuesday.

“If he does not get that information, he can refuse to authorize the party’s reimbursement.”

If a problem is found after the money has been repaid, Poilievre says the chief electoral officer can inform the commissioner of Canada Elections, who is in charge of investigating offences under Canada’s elections laws, of the allegation.

It would then fall to the com-

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The rules are different for candidates in elections. Unlike parties, candidates must provide supporting documents – including bank statements, deposit slips and cancelled cheques – with their campaign returns, according to section 451 (2.1) of the Act. The chief electoral officer may ask for more documentation if he is not satisfied, under section 451 (2.2).

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“In terms of the actual ‘do they have power to compel?’ Yes and no,” she said.

“Put it this way: they might not have the power to do it themselves, but they have the power and ability to get it done.”

Errol Mendes, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, says withholding the reimbursement or seeking a court order aren’t quite the same as actually being able to force a party to provide documents.

“It’s a brilliant diversionary tactic,” he said.

The verdict? While the chief electoral officer can hold back a party’s reimbursement, and the commissioner can seek a court order, neither actually has the power to directly compel a party to hand over documents.

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Mt Lorne Cross Country Ski Club: Agnes Seitz Al Foster Andrea Bailey Anke Rhein Ben Shier Bianka Walcher Bruce McLean Caelan McLean Cindy Freeman Claire Desmarais Colin O’Neil Dan Shier Dave Brook Dawn Lammer Gord Wood Grant Abbott Hannah Shier Helen Anne Girouard Helen Stappers Jan Malfair Jennifer Staniforth Karen Baxter Karen McKenna Katherine Scheck Katy Delau Kevin Barr Kim Porter Knute Johnsgaard Logan Potter Lois Moorcroft Margaret Mundell Michelle Harper Sandy Johnston Scott Williams Selena Boothroyd Susan Tinevez Suzanne Den Ouden Tim Sellars Tony Painter Wendy Jickling

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Andy Hall Rick Staley Ryan Kinna Kevin Mclaughlin Judy Unrau Lisa and Andy Preto Bob Braun Lloyd Freese Sherri Cooper Brent Liddle Wenda Lythgoe Sarah Chisholm Courtney Quinn Kari Johnston Meghann Willard Karmen Cheetham Kari Brown Jeff Power Jolene Billwiller Sarah Chan Sarah Davidson Kate Moylan

Jane Vincent Darlene Sillery Silver Sled Race Committee Mark Fletcher Michael Allaway Marty Samis Birch and Karina Howard Glen Hurlburt Ivan and Linda Thompson

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• Emily Nishikawa represented Canada at the Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia • Knute Johnsgaard represented Canada at the World U23 Championships in in Val di Fiemme, Italy • Dahria Beatty represented Canada at the World Junior Championships in in Val di Fiemme, Italy • Graham Nishikawa guided Brian McKeever at the Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia We earned our best ever results at the 2014 National Championships in Newfoundland, with a total of 19 medals, 32 Top-10 finishes and earned a second place Aggregate Club standing for all of Canada!

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From Paris auction block to B.C. First Nation’s museum, rare artifact comes home was recently discovered on the auction block in Paris and was ALERT BAY, B.C. purchased by the U’mista Cultural rare cultural artifact has been Society with a $27,368 grant from returned to a remote British Canadian Heritage.

Columbia First Nation, thanks to Made some time between 1865 a grant from the federal governand 1871, the blanket is now on ment. display at the U’mista Museum in The Chilkat ceremonial blanket Alert Bay, on the northern tip of Canadian Press

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No one from U’mista was available to comment Wednesday. CEO Sarah Holland said in a statement that the blanket’s return ensures the art form can be passed on to future generations.

The blanket is the work of Anisalaga, also known as Mary

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Ebbets, a Tlingit woman whose chieftain father arranged her marriage to a Hudson’s Bay Company trader in the mid-19th century.

She and Robert Hunt settled in Fort Rupert, or Tsaxis, where they ran the company store and where she introduced the art of Chilkat weaving to the Kwakwa-ka-’wakw nations.

“For descendants of Anisalaga, this blanket is a direct link to their ancestors,” the society said on a Facebook page dedicated to the repatriation.

“Her blankets have been scattered across the globe, so bringing this blanket home is a way of honouring Anisalaga and reaffirming the connection of family members to their ancestors and history.

Made of cedar bark and naturally dyed mountain goat wool, the blankets take up to a year of fulltime work to complete. Adorned with intricate designs depicting events, people and spiritual beliefs, they are worn in ceremonies and dances among aboriginal groups along the B.C. and Alaska coasts.

The art of Chilkat weaving –

and the right to don a blanket – is passed down through birth or marriage. This tawny hued U’mista blanket depicts the grinning head of a bear and other animals of aboriginal significance.

It is one of only thirteen in existence, according to Canadian Heritage.

“It is without a doubt that Anisalaga was a formidable woman and a superlative artist whose story is interwoven with the major historical narratives of our province and nation,” the society said on its website.

Anisalaga and Hunt had 13 children and her hundreds of descendants include Corrine Hunt, who designed the medals for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.

Heritage Minister Shelly Glover called it a “highly significant” artifact.

“As we approach Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017, we believe it’s important to give Canadians opportunities to enhance their knowledge of their country and its history through our heritage collections,” she said in a statement.

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Putin warns European leaders: Gas dispute with Ukraine can threaten their own energy supplies Nataliya Vasilyeva And Vladimir Isachenkov

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Putin warned that Ukraine’s Associated Press mounting debt is forcing Moscow to demand advance payMOSCOW ments for further gas supplies. ragging much of EuHe warned that if Ukraine failed to make such payments, Rusrope into his fight sia’s state-controlled gas giant with Ukraine, Russian Gazprom will “completely or President Vladimir Putin urged partially cease gas deliveries.”

European leaders Thursday to Putin told the leaders that a quickly help Ukraine settle its possible shutdown of Russian gas debt to Russia to prevent an gas supplies will increase the imminent shutdown of Rusrisk of Ukraine siphoning off sian natural gas supplies to the gas that intended for Europe continent. and will make it difficult to Putin’s letter to 18 leaders, accumulate sufficient reserves released Thursday by the Kremfor next winter. He urged quick lin, is part of Russia’s efforts to talks between Russia and Euroretain control over its struggling pean consumers of Russian gas neighbour, which is teetering on to prevent a looming shutdown the verge of financial ruin and is of supplies. facing a pro-Russian separatist “The fact that our Euromutiny in the east. pean partners have unilaterally A large Russian military withdrawn from the concerted buildup alongside the Ukrainefforts to resolve the Ukrainian ian border has also raised fears crisis, and even from holding that the Kremlin could use the Alexei Druzhinin/Presidential Press Service/AP consultations with the Russian tensions in eastern Ukraine as side, leaves Russia no alternaPresident Vladimir Putin threatened Wednesday to start charging Ukraine in advance for a pretext to invade, following tive,” Putin said. vital gas supplies — a move that could sharply hurt his neighbour, which is already on the Moscow’s annexation of Crimea He said Russia may decide to verge of bankruptcy. last month. help its struggling neighbour “not in a unilateral way, but on Putin’s move raises the spectre of a new gas dispute be- equal conditions with our European partners.” tween Russia and Ukraine that “It is also essential to take could affect much of Europe. into account the actual inIn 2009, Moscow turned off vestments, contributions and supplies to Kyiv, leading to the expenditures that Russia has shutdown of Russian gas movshouldered by itself alone for ing across Ukrainian pipelines such a long time in supporting to other European countries.

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The recycling society, which was begun last year by brothers Graham and Fraser Lang as a way to get more people recycling conveniently, started as a pilot project in Riverdale.

Now the four-person outfit is expanding its service to other Whitehorse neighbourhoods including the Hamilton Blvd. subdivisions and Porter Creek.

“The pilot was a success.

We’re at about 180 houses in Riverdale, about 80 in Porter Creek,” said Fraser Lang.

“We’re looking to expand on that over the summer, going door-to-door and maybe doing some advertising,” Lang said.

The operation is pretty straightforward. In 2012, Lang and his brother figured that, like them, many people want to recycle, but the hassle of sorting and dropping it all off is just too much – especially if you have a nice big garage to hoard it in.

In such cases, well-intended people end up with stockpiles of recyclables so massive that sorting it and dropping it at Raven Recycling becomes too daunting a task, and instead it all ends up in the landfill.

So the Langs teamed up with two friends, got themselves a cube van, and asked people to pay $20 a month for them to pick up the recycling and do the sorting for them.

There’s no limit on how much recycling a customer can leave on their curb – the Blue Bin team will take all of it.

“People like it. I was surprised by the low turnover rate with this. We’ve lost maybe 10 people so far, and five of those moved up to Porter Creek from Riverdale and re-signed up again,” Lang said.

The other five moved out of town. Once people are signed

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Yukon Blue Bins co-founder Fraser Lang picks up recycling in the Granger sub-division on Tuesday.

up, they see how convenient it is, and it’s hard to go back to making the weekend trip to the recycling depot yourself, Lang said.

The Blue Bins crew did its first pick-up in Granger on Tuesday, hitting about a halfdozen houses. They knocked on a couple doors, dropping off the signature blue bins and clear plastic bags, sometimes reminding people that it was drop day.

With the expansion into other neighbourhoods, Lang said he hopes the society can expand its customer base to 500 from its current 250 or so. Once they accomplish that, they can start looking at reaching the city’s remaining neighbourhoods and pick-

ing up recycling from condo buildings and commercial spaces around town.

“We just want to get ourselves on some stable residential ground first. Soon we’re going to be starting a pilot for condo buildings, giving them big blue dumpsters to toss their stuff in,” Lang said.

“People see the simplicity in it. Just toss your stuff in a clear plastic bag, leave it on the curb, and go spend your Saturday outside,” he said.

You may be surprised how much money Whitehorse residents leave sitting on their curbs. Lang said that the society pulls between $500 and $600 in refundable containers out of Riverdale every time they do a pick up, and that’s

only from about 180 homes.

If they can reach the 500-client mark, Yukon Blue Bins could be pulling in between around $1,600 every second week in cans and bottles alone. That, coupled with the monthly fees, could yield monthly revenues of roughly $13,000.

They don’t keep the profits.

Since the blue bin program started, the organization has been dropping its collected recyclables at P&M’s Recycling in downtown Whitehorse.

They split the revenue from the refundable containers 50/50, and Yukon Blue Bins plows all its money back into its operations.

Once they reach that 500-customer target and cover

their costs, any leftover profit will be donated to Whitehorse charities.

“We have the ability to take styrofoam now, which is big.

We take anything recyclable.

I was talking to a guy up in Porter Creek who said he can’t fill up his garbage anymore.

It used to be overflowing, but now it all gets recycled,” Lang said.

“When you get down to it, about 90 per cent of everything we use is recyclable.

The issue was that you had to sort all of it. With us, you don’t have to do that, so it’s way easier. We must be taking about three or four tonnes out of the landfill every month.”

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Former PM Brian Mulroney appeals for fearless leadership on resource agenda Jennifer Ditchburn

ton. Environmentalists have been referred to as “radical groups,” and the official Opposition as “treachOTTAWA erous” and “clowns.” rian Mulroney says the country Mulroney pointedly urged a needs risk-taking leadership to more collaborative approach to get domestic oil and gas moving resource development, saying there overseas, as well as a plan to work needs to be agreement of all the co-operatively and bring Canadiplayers including the First Nations, ans onside. the provinces and environmental The former Tory prime minisgroups. ter’s speech Tuesday, organized by “Canada is a vibrant federathe progressive think-tank Canada tion. We are not a unitary state,” 2020, comes as major pipeline Mulroney said. “The Government projects languish in limbo. of Canada cannot act unilaterally They have been stymied largely to resolve this matter.” by opposition from First Nations, Mulroney noted the need for environmentalists and ordinary Canada and the United States to Canadians concerned with the work collaboratively on both enimpact on their communities. ergy security and the environment, “Prime ministers are not chosen to “set a new gold standard on to seek popularity. They are chosen environmental performance.” to provide leadership,” Mulroney “I can envisage a new North told a rapt crowd that included American Accord on Carbon politicians of all stripes.

Emissions, one that invokes the “Leadership is the process, not spirit of what we did successfully only of foreseeing the need for together to combat acid rain…and change, but of making the case to clean up the Great Lakes, huge for change. Leadership does not environmental achievements,” said consist of imposing unpopular Mulroney, noting he had once been ideas on the public but of making honoured as the greenest prime unpopular ideas acceptable to the minister in history. nation.”

Earlier in the day, Washington’s Stephen Harper’s Conservative new ambassador to Canada, Bruce government has faced criticism Heyman, also called for more collaboration on the environment. for not doing enough to create “Today you can be pro-economy consensus and allay environmental concerns at home and in Washing- and pro-energy and considerate Canadian Press

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of the environment,” Heyman told reporters.

Mulroney addressed Heyman directly in his speech at one point, telling him that Canada fully expects the United States approve the Keystone XL pipeline, and live up to its obligations under NAFTA. “I know you’re not going to approve it sir, but when you’re talking to President Obama, send him my love,” Mulroney said wryly.

Mulroney is suggesting that the government form a Resource Development Office drawing expertise from across the country, and led by a high-profile person with the “absolute confidence and persistent attention of the prime minister.”

He likened such a body to the Trade Negotiations Office that his government formed to smooth the free-trade talks with the U.S. The government already has a Major Projects Management Office, which is supposed to see resource projects to fruition.

Mulroney pointed to the lack of a “concrete action plan and an enhanced spirit of partnership” in the Ring of Fire mining project in northern Ontario.

Plans to develop the massive chromite deposit are on ice for now as First Nations, the provincial government and the federal government struggle to figure out how to develop the region, who should

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Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney gives the keynote address at the Canada 2020 special event entitled The Next Big Thing For Canada in Ottawa on Tuesday.

pay for infrastructure and how the benefits of the resource should be shared.

Mulroney’s speech drew a wide variety of politicians. High-profile members of the federal cabinet in attendance included Defence Minister Peter MacKay, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander.

The relationship between Harper and Mulroney has hit some serious rough patches over

the years. In 2007, Harper called for a probe of Mulroney’s dealings with shady German businessman Karlheinz Schreiber.

The inquiry eventually found that Mulroney had acted in an inappropriate way when he accepted cash-stuffed envelopes from Schreiber to do internal lobbying after he left office. Mulroney said it was an error in judgment.

At one point in 2009, figures around Harper even tried to suggest Mulroney was no longer a party member – a move that provoked a backlash inside the caucus where Mulroney still has his fans.

The former prime minister complimented the Harper government a handful of times, most notably on its approach to “the lawless takeover of Crimea” by Russia.

But Mulroney struck a largely non-partisan tone, and spoke about how governments of different stripes have acted in the national interest and continued the policy work of their predecessors.

He pointed to the presence in the room of Green party Leader Elizabeth May, who had once worked for him, and also to former NDP leader Ed Broadbent.

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Artificially cooling planet through geoengineering a sensitive topic for UN climate panel Karl Ritter

from both sides this week as it considers whether geoengineering should be part of the tool-kit that BERLIN governments use to keep global t’s Plan B in the fight against warming in check. climate change: cooling the Russia, in particular, has been planet by sucking heat-trapping pushing the panel to place more CO2 from the air or reflecting emphasis on such techniques in sunlight back into space. a key document for policymakCalled geoengineering, it’s ers being finalized in Berlin this considered mad science by oppo- week. nents. Supporters say it would be Drafts leaked before the confoolish to ignore it, since plan A ference only mentioned one of – slashing carbon emissions from the options, removing CO2 from fossil fuels – is moving so slowly. the air and storing it underThe U.N.’s expert panel on ground. Russia, a major oil and climate change is under pressure gas producer, said the IntergovAssociated Press

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ernmental Panel on Climate Change should also mention solar radiation management, which could include everything from covering open surfaces with reflective materials or placing sunmirrors in orbit around the Earth.

“It is expedient to give a short description of the approach and mention the major ‘pro and contra’,” Russia said in comments submitted to the IPCC and seen

by The Associated Press.

But even advocates of studying geoengineering express doubts.

“Really at the present moment there is a high level of uncertainty

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surrounding all of these options,” said Steve Rayner, co-director of Oxford University’s geoengineering program. Still, he said it’s worth continuing to research geoengineering “to get a better sense of whether there’s any merit in pursuing these technologies further.”

After discussions among governments and scientists, a mention of geoengineering was added last year to the first of four summaries of the IPCC’s authoritative assessment on climate change.

They are now working on the third one, which deals specifically with fighting climate change.

The document is important because it will be used as scientific guidance for governments as they negotiate a new global climate pact, set to be adopted in 2015.

Some environmental activists watching the talks in Berlin want the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to scratch references to geoengineering altogether. They worry that such technologies would be ineffective, possibly harmful and delay efforts to shift the world’s energy system from oil and coal to low-carbon energy sources like wind and solar power.

“It seems like a dangerous gamble to hold up this technology that may not work,” said Jim Thomas, of the Canada-based ETC Group.

However, the IPCC’s draft document says that unless emissions are cut much faster than currently projected, measures to scrub CO2 from the air will be have to be deployed to avoid potentially dangerous levels of warming.

The problem is those technologies don’t exist yet or are in an experimental stage. No one

knows whether they will be successful.

Ideas include spraying clouds with seawater to make them more reflective or pumping aerosols into the air to mimic the cooling effect from major volcanic eruptions.

Each is associated with unknown risks, including potentially shifting weather patterns or damaging the ozone layer that protects the Earth from ultraviolet sunrays.

One technology that is currently being tested at a small scale is called “bio-energy with carbon capture and storage,” or BECCS. The idea is to grow crops that absorb CO2 from the atmosphere then burn them in a power station to generate energy.

The resulting CO2 emissions are captured at the plant and then stored deep underground. The net effect of that process is that CO2 is removed from the air.

In a scientific report underlying the summary for policy-makers being discussed in Berlin and obtained by AP, the IPCC notes that BECCS could play a key role in curbing the buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere, which scientists say is the main reason for global warming. However, it would have to be deployed at a large scale, which would require major investments. There could also be negative impacts if food crops are replaced by bio-crops.

Right now the carbon removed through this technique is only a fraction of the 30 billion tons of CO2 emitted annually from the combustion of fossil fuels.

“BECCS faces large challenges in financing and currently no such plants have been built and tested at scale,” the IPCC says in the draft report.

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Russell Gold’s new book on oil and gas fracking illuminates benefits, risks Kevin Begos Associated Press

The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World’ (Simon & Schuster), by Russell Gold

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he once-obscure oil and gas drilling process known as fracking has generated hundreds of billions of dollars and considerable dissent, as communities and experts argue over how to balance the vast amounts of money at stake with environmental and health risks.

In The Boom, Russell Gold brings new clarity to a subject awash in hype from all sides.

The Boom is a thoughtful, wellwritten and carefully researched book that provides the best overview yet of the pros and cons of fracking. Gold quietly leads both supporters and critics of drilling to consider other views, and that’s a good thing.

A long-time energy reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Gold has an impressive range of knowledge, and his clear prose makes wonky topics such as well casings and methane leaks understandable. But even more important, he brings the fracking battles to life with personal stories that go beyond stereotypes.

For example, Gold’s left-wing parents bought some rocky Pennsylvania farmland in the early 1970s with a group of likeminded friends, expecting it to be a quiet refuge from the big city. It was that, but also turned out to be sitting on top of vast

deposits of natural gas. Gold’s parents ponder what they could gain or lose with drilling, see how neighbours feel and ultimately decide to sign a lucrative Marcellus Shale lease.

Gold writes that fracking presents energy companies and landowners with a variety of options and challenges, and people respond differently.

Some embrace drilling. Some resent it. Many have mixed feelings, but in a modern society that uses vast amounts of energy, the fracking boom isn’t going away any time soon.

Gold captures the genius and the failings of George Mitchell, the so-called father of fracking.

Mitchell’s small Texas company experimented with fracking for years while big energy companies scoffed and ultimately reaped a billion-dollar payoff.

But when state regulators found evidence that his poor drilling practices contributed to ruined private water wells in the early 1990s, Mitchell fought the lawsuits tooth and nail, and ultimately paid only token fines. And despite his fracking windfall and an interest in sustainable communities, Mitchell failed to invest in the next frontier of renewable energy. He just wasn’t interested.

The Boom contains a good recap of how the Sierra Club went from embracing fracking and taking tens of millions of

dollars in secret donations from Chesapeake Energy to opposing the process. The chapter “Everyone Comes for the Money” illuminates the vast scale and impact of the Bakken shale oil boom in North Dakota, and other sections cover climate change and the basic geology

of shale rock, which can hold either oil or gas.

Gold rightly notes that the end result of fracking “has been staggering and transformative,” but adds a caution.

Since regulations and even drilling technology are still evolving, “it’s too soon to de-

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Toyota recalls 6.4 million vehicles globally, including half million in Canada Yuri Kageyama Associated Press

TOKYO oyota Motor Corp. is recalling 6.39 million vehicles globally, including more than half a million in Canada, for a variety of problems spanning nearly 30 models in Japan, North America, Europe and other places.

Some vehicles were recalled for more than one problem. The recall cases total 6.76 million vehicles for 27 Toyota models, the Pontiac Vibe and the Subaru Trezia, produced from April 2004 through August 2013.

Toyota Canada issued two separate recall notices affecting a total of 513,401 vehicles on Wednesday as part of the global initiative. One of the recalls affects 360,963 cars and SUVs with a spiral cable assembly that can be damaged when the steering wheel is turned and then, potentially, prevent the driver’s airbag from deploying in a crash.

The spiral cable assembly is in a large range of models, including the Corolla, RAV4, Matrix, Yaris, Highlander, and Tacoma, that were from various model years.

No injuries or crashes have been reported related to the recalls announced Wednesday. But two reports of fires are linked to one of the problems, a defective engine starter that can keep the motor running. The engine starter wasn’t named in either of Toyota Canada’s recalls.

The Pontiac Vibe, which is a General Motors Co. model, is also involved because Toyota and GM made cars at the same plant in California and the recalled model is the same as the Toyota Matrix. It was recalled for a problem with a spiral cable attached to an air-bag. It is unrelated to a separate GM recall over ignition switches linked to at least 13 deaths.

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Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 6.39 million vehicles globally for a variety of problems spanning nearly 30 models in Japan, the U.S., Europe and other places.

Subaru is partly owned by Toyota, and the model was the same as the Toyota Ractis.

Toyota’s global recall also reported problems with seat rails, the bracket holding the steering

column in place, and the windshield-wiper motor.

In Canada, the company is recalling 152,438 vehicles for seat rails that may not click into position after an adjustment –

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increasing the risk of injury in a crash. Toyota Canada said that recall affects certain models of the Yaris hatchback, Yaris sedan and the 2010 model of the Scion xD.

By region, the latest recall affects 2.3 million vehicles in North America, 1.09 million vehicles in Japan and 810,000 vehicles in Europe. Other regions affected by the recall include Africa, South America and the Middle East.

Toyota was embroiled in a massive recall crisis in the U.S. starting in late 2009 and continuing through 2010, covering a wide range of problems including faulty floor mats, sticky gas pedals and defective brakes. In response, it has become quicker to recall cars and Last month, the Japanese automaker reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department to pay a $1.2 billion penalty for hiding information about defects in its cars. It earlier paid fines of more than $66 million for delays in reporting unintended acceleration problems.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration never found defects in electronics or software in Toyota cars, which had been targeted as a possible cause.

The focus in the U.S. auto industry has recently shifted to another major recall problem, this time with defective ignitions in compact cars made by GM.

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Mother Parkers debuts recyclable single use Keurig tea, coffee pods Linda Nguyen

coffee will be out in early 2015.

Both will be for use in Keurig machines.

TORONTO Co-CEO Paul Higgins says Canadian company is Mother Parkers has been devellaunching what it claims to oping the idea for the recyclable be the world’s first recyclable pods since 2006, as it recognized capsules for coffee and tea, tarthe growing concern about the geting consumers who love the environmental impact of the convenience of their single-serve single-serve coffee habit. java boost but hate how the “The premise we started out plastic pods end up in the trash. on was that we had to have a Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee fabulous tasting product – that’s says the EcoCup is now availthe key to any business success,” able with various loose-leaf teas, said Higgins following the prodincluding the Higgins & Burke ucts’ unveiling at a trade show brand, while pods containing Wednesday in Chicago.

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Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee is launching what it claims to be the world’s first recyclable single-use coffee and tea pods.

“Our second point was around the environment. The product itself leaves a big trail of waste and we knew that was going to be a hot consumer item.”

Higgins has no doubt that the resulting waste is a concern.

“Consumers using it are feeling a great deal of remorse when they use it, but our lazy gene takes over and we just do it,” he said.

The Mississauga, Ont.-based company says their EcoCups are made with clear polystyrene, as opposed to the hard plastic usually used to manufacturer the popular pods from Keurig Inc. After brewing a cup, the user has to detach the filter from the pod, discard the tea leaves or coffee grounds in a compost, and throw the pod into the blue bin.

Recycling facilities differ by municipality, but Mother Parkers estimates these capsules can be broken down by about 75 per cent of cities in Ontario. It does not have national estimates.

Bill VandenBygaart, vicepresident of business development, says ideally, the company expects to develop a “zerowaste” product within the next two years.

“This is the type of gamechanging innovation that results from open competition and consumers are the ones who benefit,” he said in a statement.

“There are billions of capsules thrown into landfill each year.

We will change that.”

VandenBygaart said the cost to manufacture the recyclable capsules is more than the ones used now, but the cost will be “minimal” to the consumer.

The recyclable tea pods will be available for order through Amazon in Canada and the U.S., later this week, and will be rolled out at major retailers and grocery stores this summer.

Mother Parkers says there are 20 million Keurig brewers in North American homes, with 10 billion capsules expected to be used in 2014.

In the U.S., the New York Times reported that sales of single-serve coffee machines, including the two most popular brands Keurig and Tassimo, grew at a compound annual rate of 34 per cent from 2008 to 2013. Sales of coffee pods increased by a compound rate of 79 per cent over the same time period, according to market

research firm Euromonitor International. Similar statistics for Canada were not immediately available.

Meanwhile, Keurig Canada says addressing the “environmental impact” of their machines remains a “critical priority” for the company.

“Innovation is at the heart of everything we do. We are dedicated to innovation around our brewing platforms – from new brands and product lines to more sustainable solutions,” said Valerie Ladouceur, a spokeswoman for the company.

Already, Keurig Inc., which is owned by Green Mountain Coffee, launched the Vue brewing system in the U.S. in 2012, which uses capsules that can be recycled in 60 per cent of communities. But the company says it does not expect to have fully-recyclable coffee or tea pods until 2020.

Over the years, manufacturers have attempted to address the environmental impacts associated with single-use coffees with various initiatives, including the marketing of reusable pods as an alternative to plastic capsules.

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Cleaning up contaminated sites to cost billions more than expected: PBO Steve Rennie

characteristics, the analysis did not include low-level radiation sites around Port Hope, Ont., OTTAWA or the so-called Big Five sites: leaning up nearly 25,000 the Faro mine in Yukon; the sites across the country Colomac and Giant mine sites contaminated by hazardous in the Northwest Territories; waste and pollution will cost Cape Dyer-DEW line on Baffin billions of dollars more than Island; and CFB Goose Bay in the federal government has an- Happy Valley-Goose Bay, N.L. ticipated, says a new analysis by “Both the general inventory Canada’s budget watchdog. sites and the Big Five will likely And the cost could run even see increases over and above higher now that a new chemical those currently reported,” the used in fire-retardant foam has report says. been found in the groundwater While the federal governat some airports, says the rement expects the cost to clean port by the Parliamentary Bud- up the general inventory sites get Office released Thursday. to be about $1.8 billion, the “The likely financial costs office anticipates the actual associated with contaminated cost will be closer to $3.9 bilsites are significant and are not lion – an increase of some $2.1 reflected in the figures reported billion. to Parliament in the public acThe report says it gets a counts,” says the report. higher number because its To do the analysis, Treasury estimate includes liabilities for Board provided the office with sites that either haven’t been access to its internal database of assessed or aren’t yet fully ascontaminated sites, which con- sessed. The budget watchdog tains about 1,000 locations not also counts sites that haven’t yet included in the public version been identified in its analysis, for security reasons. and factors in the risk of higher The PBO then looked at liability for sites that are curthe total cost to remediate the rently being remediated. known, suspected and future “The results indicate that the sites in the general inventory. current liability of $1.8 bilThere are 24,990 open, closed lion in the public accounts for and deleted sites listed in the the contaminated sites in the government’s inventory. inventory (minus the Big Five Because of their unique and Port Hope) underestimates Canadian Press

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School couNcil ElEctioNS

ÉlEctioNS DES coNSEilS ScolAirES

This is your Elections Yukon information page. If you can’t find the election information that you need here, please call Elections Yukon at 667-8683 or toll free 1-866-668-8683.

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Avis de présentation des candidatures

Pursuant to the Elections Act, the nomination date for candidates as members of school councils is Thursday, April 24, 2014. Nominations will be received on this date between 10 a.m and 12 noon.

Conformément aux dispositions de la Loi sur l’ éducation, la date de présentation des candidatures aux postes des conseils scolaires est le jeudi 24 avril 2014. Ce jour-là, les déclarations de candidature seront acceptées entre 10 h et midi.

Who is eligible to run?

Candidates must have lived in the attendance area for at least three months or be a parent of a child attending the school.

Candidates must be Canadian citizens who are at least 18 years old.

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Peut présenter sa candidature toute personne qui réside dans la zone de fréquentation du conseil depuis au moins trois mois ou a un enfant qui fréquente une école située dans la zone de fréquentation. La personne doit être citoyenne canadienne et être âgée d’au moins 18 ans.

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Greenpeace claims collusion between Tories and Ethical Oil, wants investigation G

Stewart wants the elections overseer to look into possible collusion in the ties between Ethical Oil and the government.

The institute runs a website called ethicaloil.org which promotes support for the oilsands.

The website says it began as a blog created by Alykhan Velshi to promote ideas raised in Ezra Levant’s book Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands.

Greenpeace said Velshi was director of communications for then-immigration minister Jason Kenny before starting the blog and he later returned to work in

the Prime Minister’s office.

“The links between Ethical Oil and the Conservative party of Canada are clear,” the Greenpeace letter said. “Ethical Oil’s spokespeople, themselves Conservative party insiders and former staff, release specific messages that are repeated by ministers and even the prime minister is a fashion that appears co-ordinated.”

Greenpeace said Ethical Oil does not disclose its sources of funding, but does say it accepts donations from Canadian individuals and companies.

“This indicates clearly that the

organization receives corporate contributions.”

The letter says if a third party raises money from sources which a political party cannot tap and uses it to support the party’s agenda and if the third party was started by a member of the party with staff active in the party “then collusion has occurred.”

Ethical Oil has complaints of its own about the environmental movement. It has asked the Canada Revenue Agency to investigate the David Suzuki Foundation and other green groups for engaging in partisan activity.

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Stewart says the group’s messages often mirror those of the OTTAWA Harper government. reenpeace is asking the He also says there have been commissioner of Canada a number of instances in which Elections to investigate whether Conservative staff left governthe Conservative party and the ment to work for Ethical Oil, then Ethical Oil Institute are colluding returned to political jobs. to get around political donations Stewart says the organization limits draws on funding sources, such In his letter to commissioner as corporations, not available Yves Cote, Keith Stewart says to political parties, then spends Ethical Oil uses donations from money to support the Conservaindividuals and corporations to tive agenda. finance ads attacking environA spokesman for Prime mental groups opposed to the Minister Stephen Harper says the Northern Gateway Pipeline. allegations are ridiculous.

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Astronomers discover pink new world at the outer reaches of the solar system Alicia Chang

The latest discovery shows “Sedna is not a freak. We can have confidence that there is LOS ANGELES a new population to explore,” eering into the far reaches Yale University senior research of the solar system, astron- scientist David Rabinowitz omers have spied a pink frozen said in an email. He was one of world 12 billion kilometres Sedna’s founders, but had no from the sun. role in the new find detailed in It’s the second such object last week’s issue of the journal to be discovered in a region of Nature. space beyond Pluto long conFor years, astronomers sidered a celestial wasteland. hunted in vain for other SedUntil now, the lone known res- nas in the little-studied fringes ident in this part of the solar of the solar system. system was an oddball dwarf The new object, 2012 planet spotted in 2003 named VP113, was tracked using Sedna after the mythological a new camera on a ground Inuit goddess who created the telescope in Chile by Scott sea creatures of the Arctic.

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stitution for Science in Washington, D.C., and Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii. Trujillo was part of the team that found Sedna.

Like Sedna, VP is also a dwarf planet. It’s jokingly nicknamed “Biden” after VicePresident Joe Biden because of the object’s initials. It measures about 450 kilometres across, or half the diameter of Sedna.

Unlike red and shiny Sedna, the newfound object is more pink and much fainter, which made it hard to detect.

By contrast, Earth is about 12,713 kilometres across and located 150 million kilometres from the sun.

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Sedna and VP reside in what’s known as the inner Oort cloud in the outer edge of the solar system where some comets such as the sun-diving Comet ISON are thought to originate. ISON broke apart last year after brushing too close to the sun.

“Finding Sedna so far away seemed odd and potentially a fluke. But this one is beginning to make it look like that might be a typical place for objects to be. Not at all what I would have guessed,” Mike Brown, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, said in an email.

Brown led the Sedna team, but was not part of the new discovery.

Far from being deserted, Sheppard and Trujillo estimate there are probably thousands of similar objects in the inner Oort cloud.

“These objects are not unique. There’s a huge number out there,” Sheppard said.

Not all of them will be visible to telescopes because they’re so far away and it takes a long time for them to swing by the sun. Sedna and VP were spotted at their closest approach to the sun, which al-

lowed light from the sun to hit the objects and bounce back to observatories on Earth.

VP is currently the third farthest object in the solar system after dwarf planet Eris and Sedna, but it has an eccentric, elongated orbit that can take it out to 67.5 billion kilometres from the sun. Sedna can loop out as far as 135 billion kilometres from the sun at its farthest point.

Now that Sedna has company – and likely lots of them – scientists are searching for more objects in an effort to learn how they and the solar system formed and evolved.

In a separate discovery published in Nature, a team led

by Felipe Braga-Ribas of the National Observatory in Brazil found a pair of rings around an asteroid-like interloper in the outer system named Chariklo.

While not as dazzling as Saturn’s rings, it’s the first time rings have been discovered outside of the four gas giants – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. How little Chariklo got its rings remains a mystery, but scientists think they may have formed from debris from a violent collision.

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ord Downie. The Sadies.

Punk rock in Atlin, B.C. Let those words ruminate for a minute or two. You might not expect to see all three of those things on stage together, especially on the bill of a not-sohuge music festival on the edge of the Yukon, but it’s just one of the offerings on tap for this year’s Atlin Arts and Music Festival.

A long-awaited collaboration album joining the Tragically Hip frontman with Toronto’s country rockers drops on April 15, after almost four years worth of waiting.

They’re calling it Gord Downie, The Sadies and The Conquering Sun. And if the newly-released single “Crater” is any indication, the album will be doing a lot of conquering.

The musicians describe the album as “10 songs of visceral punk rock exultation, a spirited halfhour exploration of the darkness surrounding daylight.”

But just as the Sadies themselves can’t be crammed into one genre, oscillating as they do between country, bluegrass, blues and rock, the album’s sound is equal parts old school rock and psychedelic jangle, swirling in a vortex of punk ethos and Downie’s well-worn baritone voice.

Now Magazine called it “a Canrock nerd’s dream … hardcore, near-metal catharsis – equal parts dorky, loose and awesome.”

All of this sounds like something you’d expect to hear blasting from a stadium stage in New York. And many people will. The group is taking the album on the road this summer hitting the Big Apple, The Windy City and Motor City. They’re only making seven Canadian stops, but Atlin is one of them.

But if Canadian geek-rock isn’t really your thing, fear not: David Francey will also be at the festival to sooth your angst with smoky songs of working class labours and loves.

Born in Scotland, Francey lived most of his life in Canada’s rail yards, steel mills and construction sites. His charming brogue and self-deprecating humour lends itself to easy laughs as he regales audiences with stories of a roughshod life working with his hands.

His poetry is dusty and beautiful, like a rusted-out pickup bathing in shafts of early morning light.

OK, so now your options are either moshing to psych-rock or lounging in the grass as waves of melancholy folk songs wash over you. Enter Danny Michel, Toronto’s “musical chameleon.”

With one foot squarely planted

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Music lovers at the Dawson Music Festival.

in blues and pop, and the other straddling the border with his adopted home in Belize, Michel blends sounds from around the world with lyrics that question and probe. Whether he’s astride the stage solo, or backed by a band, his witty stage banter and hook-filled guitar riffs will have you on your feet in no time.

Rounding out the Atlin line up are California singer-songwriter Steve Poltz, old-time bluegrass duo Pharis and Jason Romero, Latin Grammy and Juno winner Alex Cuba and a host of other musical offerings.

Then, you’ve got five days to rest up, because the Dawson City Music Festival follows close on Atlin’s heels.

Alex Cuba and Pharis and Jason Romero will reprise their appearances on stage in Dawson, at a festival fronted by transplanted westerners The Rural Alberta Advantage.

Pitchfork called the RAA’s sound a sort of ramshackle folk-rock about hometowns and heartbreak. Three years from their sophomore release of Departing, the band – which struggled in the early 2000s to make a name for themselves – is now squarely situated in the Canadian indierock canon next to names like Dan

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Danny Michel of Waterloo, Ontario, is playing at this year’s Atlin Arts and Music Festival.

Mangan, Elliott Brood and The Weakerthans.

The Rural Alberta Advantage’s focus on acoustic folk rock fits with a Dawson City festival that, this year, is heavy on the acoustic at the expense of rocking

plugged in.

Evening Hymns is another DCMF act that follows in the same vein. Their latest album, Spectral Dust, was recorded with a host of Canadian indie giants including City and Colour, Timbre Timbre

and The Wooden Sky. For a full list of performers at both festivals, check out www.dcmf.com and www.atlinfestival.ca.

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Stradivarius strung out: In blind test, soloists prefer newer violins to costly old ones Seth Borenstein Canadian Press

WASHINGTON en world-class soloists put prized Stradivarius violins and new, cheaper instruments to a blind scientific test to determine which has the better sound. The results may seem off-key to musicians and collectors: The new violins won handily.

The top choice out of a dozen old and new violins was by far a new one. So was the second choice, according to a study released Monday.

Five of the six old violins were made by the famous Stradivari family in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Strads and other old Italian violins have long been considered superior, even almost magical, instruments. They cost 100 times the violins made today, the study authors said.

“I was surprised that my top choice was new,” said American violinist Giora Schmidt, who lives in New York City.

“Studying music and violin in particular, it’s almost ingrained in your thinking that the most successful violinists on the concert stage have always played old Italian instruments,” he said.

Another participant, French soloist Solenne Paidassi, said “there’s a paranoia” about new instruments, compared to “a glamour about old instruments.”

The idea was to try to unlock “the secrets of Stradivari,” to figure out what makes the famed instruments so special, the study authors said. Their results are in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The study attempts to quantify something that is inherently subjective and personal – the quality of an instrument, said authors Joseph Curtin, a Michigan violin maker and Claudia Fritz, a music acoustics researcher at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in France.

A few years earlier, the duo blind-tested violins in an Indianapolis hotel room, but this test was more controlled and comprehensive. The 10 violinists put the instruments through their paces in a rehearsal room and concert hall just outside Paris.

They even played with an orchestra. The lights were dimmed and the musicians donned dark welder’s glasses.

The 10 violinists were asked to rate the instruments for sound, playability, and other criteria, and pick one that they would want to use on a concert tour.

Even Curtin who makes new violins for a living, said he was surprised by the results, adding the study was designed to eliminate bias in favour of either

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group of violins.

“I remember trying the old violins and the new violins among ourselves just before the testing got going and saying, ‘You know maybe the old ones will win’,” Curtin said.

But when the lights were turned down, all that could be judged was the sound. Some violins were 300 years old. Others days old.

The dozen violins together were worth about $50 million and the older, more expensive ones required special security, Fritz said.

After they had whittled down their choices, the soloists were asked whether the remaining instruments were old or new.

The musicians got it wrong 33 times and right 31 times.

Canadian soloist Susanne Hou has been playing a rare $6 million 269-year-old Guarneri del Gesu violin and knows what she likes and what she doesn’t.

A video of the 2012 experiment shows her playing some of the violins for only a few seconds, then holding the instrument out at arm’s length in apparent distaste.

But, like other participants, she was drawn to a certain unidentified violin. It was new.

“Whatever this is I would like to buy it,” she says on the video.

Schmidt, who normally plays a new violin with a little more down-to-Earth price tag of $30,000, liked the same one,

calling it extraordinary.

“I said kiddingly to them I will write you a check for this fiddle right now,” he recalled in a telephone interview.

Curtin said the researchers won’t ever reveal which instruments were used to prevent conflict of interests or appear like a marketing campaign.

James Woodhouse, an expert

on musical instruments at the University of Cambridge in England, wasn’t part of the study, but praised it as solid “and very tricky to carry out.”

Classic violins “are still very good, he wrote in an email. But on a level playing field, ‘’the very best of the contemporary instruments stand up remarkably well in their company.“

Hou, whose four-year loan of the classic Italian violin has expired, is shopping for a new one this week. She wishes the researchers could tell her which one she picked in the experiment, but they won’t.

She said finding the right instrument is so personal: “There are certain things you can’t explain when you fall in love.”

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He wrote many other books, including Far Tortuga, a novel told largely in dialect about a doomed crew of sailors on the Caribbean, and The Tree Where Man Was Born, a highly regarded chronicle of his travels in East Africa.

In the 1980s and ‘90s, Matthiessen published a trio of novels – Killing Mr. Watson, Lost Man’s River and Bone by Bone – about a community in Florida’s Everglades at the turn of the 20th century and a predatory planter. Unhappy, especially with Lost Man’s River, he spent years revising and condensing all three books into Shadow Country, published in 2008 and a surprise National Book Award winner.

Although an explorer in the Hemingway tradition, Matthiessen didn’t seek to conquer nature, but to preserve it. In 1959, he published his first nonfiction book, Wildlife in America, in which he labels man “the highest predator” and one uniquely prone to self-destruction.

Much of his fiction, from At Play in the Fields of the Lord to Bone

by Bone, bestowed a lion-like aura upon nature – grand when respected, dangerous when provoked, tragic when exploited.

“There’s an elegiac quality in watching (American wilderness) go, because it’s our own myth, the American frontier, that’s deteriorating before our eyes,” he once wrote.

“I feel a deep sorrow that my kids will never get to see what I’ve seen, and their kids will see nothing; there’s a deep sadness whenever I look at nature now.”

Matthiessen was married three times, most recently to Maria Eckhart, whom he wed in 1980. He had four children, two each from his first two marriages.

Shadow Country. His new novel, In Paradise, is scheduled for publication Tuesday.

NEW YORK A leading environmentalist and eter Matthiessen, a rich man’s wilderness writer, he embraced the son who rejected a life of ease best and worst that nature could in favour of physical and spiritual bring him, whether trekking across challenges and produced such acthe Himalayas, parrying sharks in claimed works as The Snow Leopard Australia or enduring a hurricane and At Play in the Fields of the Lord, in Antarctica. died Saturday. He was 86.

He was a longtime liberal who His publisher Geoff Kloske of befriended Cesar Chavez and wrote Riverhead Books said Matthiessen, a defence of Indian activist Leonard who had been diagnosed with leu- Peltier, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, kemia, was ill “for some months.” that led to a highly publicized, and He died at a hospital near his home unsuccessful, lawsuit by an FBI on Long Island in New York. agent who claimed Matthiessen Matthiessen helped found The had defamed him.

Paris Review, one of the most Matthiessen became a Zen BudEd Betz/AP influential literary magazines, and dhist in the 1960s, and was later Peter Matthiessen, award-winning author of more than won National Book Awards for a Zen priest who met daily with a thirty books, world-renowned naturalist, explorer, Buddhist fellow group of practitioners in a The Snow Leopard, his spiritual teacher, and political activist, died April 5. meditation hut that he converted account of the Himalayas, and for from an old stable. The granitehe was an American writer. In the faced author, rugged and athletic mid-1950s he returned to the Unitinto his 80s, tried to live out a mod- ed States; socialized with Jackson ern version of the Buddhist legend, Pollock, Willem de Kooning and a child of privilege transformed by other painters; operated a deep-sea the discovery of suffering. fishing charter boat – and wrote.

Matthiessen was born in New Matthiessen’s early novels were York in 1927, the son of Erard A. short, tentative efforts: Race Rock, Matthiessen, a wealthy architect Raditzer and Partisans, which and conservationist. “The Depresfeatures a wealthy young man who sion had no serious effect on our confides “his ignorance of huSelected Fall Fashions well-insulated family,” the author man misery.” In need of money, Sizes 2-18 S-XXL would later write.

Matthiessen also wrote for such (excludes Jewellery & accessories) While at Yale, he wrote the short magazines as Holiday and Sports Check us story “Sadie,” which appeared in Illustrated.

Tuesday - F riday 10:30 am -6 pm out on the Atlantic Monthly, and he soon In 1961, Matthiessen emerged s aTurday 10 am -5:30 pm acquired an agent. After graduation as a major novelist with At Play B o u t i q u e 2nd Floor ShopperS plaza, Main Street he moved to Paris and, along with in the Fields of the Lord, his tale fellow writer-adventurer George of missionaries under siege from Plimpton, helped found The Paris both natives and mercenaries in Review. (Matthiessen would later the jungles of Brazil. Its detailed acknowledge he was a CIA recruit account of a man’s hallucinations at the time and used his work with brought him a letter of praise from the Review as a cover).

LSD guru Timothy Leary. The book The magazine caught on, but was later adapted into a film of the Paris reminded Matthiessen that same name, starring John Lithgow Associated Press

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Learning ife foratL Hidden Valley

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Education Week 2014 It is with great pride that we celebrate Education Week from April 14-17, 2014, along with all of our stakeholders and partners in education.

This year’s theme, Learning for Life, reminds us that learning does not end when we leave school. This week of events is an opportunity to highlight educational experiences throughout the territory, both inside and outside the classroom, for learners of all ages.

We invite you to attend one of the many public events across the territory, such as the week-long information exhibit at the Yukon government Main Administration Building in Whitehorse. Learn about educational opportunities in Yukon, including apprenticeships, job programs and student financial assistance at the Training Programs display.

Come watch the Porter Creek Robotics Challenge and the student wrestling championships at the Canada Games Centre. Or attend local events in your community, like the Art Gallery and Fancy Pants Day at Johnson Elementary School in Watson Lake or the Ukrainian Easter Egg Decorating Event at St. Elias Community School in Haines Junction.

A special thank you to our partners in education for their continuing year-round work in promoting lifelong learning for Yukoners of all ages.

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I can’t wait to get to class at DVG (Del Van Gorder School), Faro!

Our older students were engaged to grow vegetables from seeds in during spring and summer the community garden. In August, they delivered the vegetabl es to the Food Bank.

Wrestling Championships 2013, Canada Games Centre. Organised by Holy Family School, Whitehorse.

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Yukon Education Week – April 14 - 17, 2014

MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION

Learning ife foratL Hidden Valley

• Learning e you get to is cool, becaus rett, Gr 1) ve (E t. lo a ad re n because fu is ng ni • Lear ords like w w ne we learn an , d we have perseverance (Grace, Gr 2) . ds en fri t grea idden Valley H at • Learning along and t means to ge ra, Gr 3) share. (Phaed to learn ns ea m ng ni • Lear It is so . ch en Fr to speak Gr 4) cool! (Serena,

Education Week 2014 It is with great pride that we celebrate Education Week from April 14-17, 2014, along with all of our stakeholders and partners in education.

This year’s theme, Learning for Life, reminds us that learning does not end when we leave school. This week of events is an opportunity to highlight educational experiences throughout the territory, both inside and outside the classroom, for learners of all ages.

We invite you to attend one of the many public events across the territory, such as the week-long information exhibit at the Yukon government Main Administration Building in Whitehorse. Learn about educational opportunities in Yukon, including apprenticeships, job programs and student financial assistance at the Training Programs display.

Come watch the Porter Creek Robotics Challenge and the student wrestling championships at the Canada Games Centre. Or attend local events in your community, like the Art Gallery and Fancy Pants Day at Johnson Elementary School in Watson Lake or the Ukrainian Easter Egg Decorating Event at St. Elias Community School in Haines Junction.

A special thank you to our partners in education for their continuing year-round work in promoting lifelong learning for Yukoners of all ages.

For a full schedule of events, check out http://www.education.gov.yk.ca/.

n Ulrich

Photo by Sharo

Seniors’ Tea at Christ the Kin g Elementary School, Whiteh orse

Hidden Valley Elementary

School 2013 / 2014

FEAST program at F.H. Col lins Secondary School, Whitehorse

Remy Rodden shares his learning with the . kindergarten class at Grey Mountain Primary School

Learning matters!

Ghùch Tlâ Community School, Carcross

Grade 7 Elijah Smith School

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ouncil from and Student C e collaborating on: am Te e ng ha Be the C hitehorse, ar ary School, W Collins Second

eminder R b m u h T d e R ampaign C s s e n e r a w Texting A nail polish to ith bright red F.H.

Let’s play math tic-tac-toe!

Robert Service School, Dawson City

St. Elias Community School : Learning together with stud ent expertise.

Wrestling Championships 2013, Canada Games Center.

Organised by Holy Family Elementary School, Whitehorse

Sincerely, Elaine Taylor Minister of Education

Government Education

Yukon First Nations Cultura l Week, Vanier Secondary School, Wh itehorse

ur bnails w . Grabbing yo painting thum be ill w ts opriate times en pr d ap an Stud at op ly st on to mind you selves to text n’t thumb will re do remind them d ey re th A ? if xt en te iving to d thumb, ev re a e ir to qu re phone while dr ac su to ne is are encouraged because someo d an t do or to pp think. People ng su si eir oo m, to show th habits, and ch have a proble t noticing our ou inder.com/ ab l em al br is m It hu it. t /www.redt :/ tp ht ask them abou at fo in ntly! More things differe

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Online Resources

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I can’t wait to get to class at DVG (Del Van Gorder School), Faro!

Our older students were engaged to grow vegetables from seeds in during spring and summer the community garden. In August, they delivered the vegetabl es to the Food Bank.

Wrestling Championships 2013, Canada Games Centre. Organised by Holy Family School, Whitehorse.

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Why are Canadian measles outbreaks so much larger than U.S. outbreaks?

Helen Branswell

most measles outbreaks south of the border are far smaller, coming in at under two dozen cases, TORONTO and many times fewer than a t’s an inescapable reality: As handful. long as measles is infecting What explains the substantial children in other parts of the difference in numbers? world, Canada is going to have “Well, that’s the question,” Dr. occasional outbreaks.

Gaston De Serres says. “That’s The same is true in the United the question.”

States, but public health officials “They have more importathere typically have managed to tions per year than Canada. And more quickly extinguish spread yet, you know, the size of outof the virus when it comes from breaks they had in the U.S. in the abroad, leaving some experts on past 10 years is way smaller than this side of the border wonderwhat we have in Canada.” ing: Why does Canada have such De Serres is an infectious large measles outbreaks? diseases specialist with Quebec’s There have been at least 375 provincial public health agency; cases in the ongoing outbreak he led intensive studies into that in British Columbia’s Fraser province’s 2011 outbreak. He Valley. An outbreak in Quebec and some colleagues are now in 2011 racked up a whopping looking at this Canada-U.S. 725 confirmed cases, following question, trying to figure out on a 2007 outbreak of 94 cases how to explain why Canada has in that province. The Vancouver had such large outbreaks of late.

Olympics, which brought people Their investigation will likely to the city from around the lead to a scientific paper, so De world, touched off an outbreak Serres is reluctant to spell out all of roughly 80 cases in B.C. in his theories now. But one possiearly 2010. bility he raises relates to the way By comparison the largest public health authorities north outbreak the U.S. has experiand south of the border respond enced in nearly two decades to reports of an imported case of occurred in an Orthodox Jewish measles.

“The Americans are far, far community in Brooklyn, N.Y., more aggressive in terms of last year. Total cases: 58. Indeed Canadian Press

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tracking every case and implementing control measures,” says De Serres. “That might be a difference between the countries.”

Both countries have high measles vaccination coverage – coverage that is high enough to have stopped measles viruses from spreading here regularly, as they did before the introduction of the vaccine. In fact, the virus is no longer endemic in the countries of the Americas, which are in the process of trying to be certified as having eliminated measles.

Measles is a respiratory disease caused by a virus of the same name. It causes fever, runny nose and a characteristic rash all over the body. Most people recover, but the infection is fatal in between one and three of every 1,000 cases.

Measles is targeted for global eradication. When all six of the World Health Organization regions stop local spread of measles, the disease can be declared eradicated.

The Pan American Health Organization, the WHO regional body for this region, said the Americas achieved elimination status in 2002, but the process of formally certifying that accomplishment hasn’t yet been

completed. And it could conceivably be threatened by large outbreaks sparked by imported measles cases, such as Quebec’s 2011 outbreak. That outbreak lasted almost a year; 12 months of continuous spread of measles in one country would reset the clock on the elimination effort for the entire region.

The Public Health Agency of Canada describes measles vaccination coverage in Canada high but uneven. A 2009 national immunization survey found about 92 per cent of two-yearolds had received the first of two doses, but only 69 per cent of seven-year-olds had received the second dose. Rates are similar in the U.S., where in 2012 nearly 91 per cent of children had received at least one dose of measles vaccine.

Both countries have pockets of unvaccinated children. When those pockets are small – a few kids in a school full of vaccinated children – a case of measles brought back from a country where the virus circulates won’t trigger a big outbreak because there are few unprotected kids to infect.

But when there are more unvaccinated children – or adults – transmission can go on

for weeks, as it has in the Fraser Valley outbreak. There spread has emanated from a religious school – kindergarten to Grade 12 – affiliated with a church that opposes vaccination.

Still, De Serres says Canada does not have more vaccine opponents than the U.S. does, and both countries have religious groups that oppose vaccination. So if the circumstances are roughly the same, is the response what makes the difference?

A 2008 outbreak in San Diego, Calif., is a good illustration of the lengths to which public health officials in the United States go to contain measles when the virus makes an incursion.

An unvaccinated seven-yearold child contracted measles in Switzerland, and infected 11 others on returning home. Public health swooped in, tracing contacts of all cases who were exposed, sending home unvaccinated children and quarantining families. Unvaccinated children cannot return to school until 21 days after the last case developed symptoms, which can mean sitting out several months. They can go back to school immediately if their parents have them vaccinated.

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A report on the outbreak, published in the journal Pediatrics, said county and state public health workers logged 1,745 person-hours on investigation and containment efforts, at a cost of US$10,376 per case.

Affected families reported direct and indirect costs of US$775 per quarantined child.

Dr. Jane Seward is the top measles expert at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. She says the response to measles across the United States is swift and robust.

“Even one case in the United States is considered an ‘outbreak.’ Although our outbreak definition is three or more cases, with even a single case our surveillance guidelines are for states to very, very rapidly report that case,” she says.

“Even a suspected case before confirmation, it needs to be reported to the CDC within 24 hours. And then the case needs to be investigated and all the people who were in contact with that case need to be assessed for evidence of immunity and offered vaccine or immune globulin” – a serum of antibodies – “as appropriate if they don’t have evidence of immunity.”

People who are sick are told to isolate themselves. People who are exposed but don’t yet have symptoms are told to quarantine themselves. People who don’t voluntarily comply are sometimes hit with court orders to do so, such as in a 2004 measles outbreak in Iowa.

This aggressive approach is not cheap. A study by CDC scientists published in the journal Vaccine reported that 16 measles outbreaks in the U.S. in 2011 cost taxpayers between US$2.7 million and US$5.3 million.

Canadian public health authorities have essentially the same tools at their disposal but may not employ them as rigorously as their American counterparts.

Dr. Lisa Mu, medical officer of health with the Fraser Health Authority, says the B.C. Public Health Act gives public health workers broad powers, but authorities prefer not to use them if they don’t have to. Fraser Health tries to take a collaborative approach, Mu says.

“We want to maintain our healthy relationships with the public, and not be seen as enforcers,” she says.

In the ongoing outbreak there – which has placed a huge burden on the public health staff who too have traced contacts of cases – Mu says most people who have been asked to go into isolation or quarantine have obliged.

But health authorities have received reports some people who should be home have continued to move about the community, behaviour that could potentially expose others to measles.

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“When we have possibly hundreds of people who are being requested to remain at home because they may have come in contact with somebody who may have had measles, or they were in contact with somebody who may have had measles, the risk

there is not grave enough, the certainty is not there for us to exercise those kinds of limitations on somebody’s personal freedoms,” she says.

“So to date we have not enforced any kind of isolation orders or quarantine orders.”

The school that is at the heart of the outbreak was closed for an extended spring break, she says.

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Sunday

april 13, 2014

Genome British ColumBia and yukon sCienCe institute present:

7:30 pm Yukon Beringia inTerpreTive CenTre, WhiTehorse

Detectives How do we use DNA to solve mysteries?

Jennifer Gardy Senior ScientiSt, Bc centre for DiSeaSe control Since the mystery of Dna was unraveled by Watson and crick over 60 years ago, scientists have been using the genetic alphabet inside of each of us to solve other mysteries, from crime scene whodunits to disaster relief to personalizing cancer treatment to tracking the latest infectious diseases. in this talk, genetics researcher and science communicator Dr. Jennifer Gardy will take a look at the alphabet inside each of us, and how everyone from physicians to detectives are using it to crack the case.

Tourism & Culture

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Campaign urges Canadians to break up sedentary routines with bouts of fitness “A lot of people with sore backs is due to long-term sitting. So there’s a whole range of health issues that’s related to too much sedentary behaviour – specifically sitting – so breaking that behaviour up will contribute to (addressing) those issues.”

Lauren La Rose

cent of 12- to 17-year-olds met recommended guidelines of 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous TORONTO activity daily. Walking quickly, hile much attention has skating and bike riding are been devoted to monitor- examples of moderate activities, ing the activity levels – or lack while running, basketball and thereof – among Canadian kids, soccer are examples of vigorous many of the country’s adults activities. are also at risk of spending too StatsCan found that adults many of their waking hours be- spent an average of 9.5 hours a ing idle. day – or approximately 69 per With its Sneak It In campaign, cent of their waking hours – which runs until Friday, Partici- in sedentary activities, which pAction is encouraging adults to involve little physical movement break up sedentary time spent and a low expenditure of energy. commuting and sitting in the ParticipAction president and office. To help reach that goal, CEO Elio Antunes said long they’re encouraged to take active stretches of time spent sitting is breaks and boost their fitness detrimental to one’s health and levels by “sneaking in” 10-minit’s important for adults to make ute bursts of physical activity a conscious effort to incorporate activity throughout the day to into their workdays. help limit potential health risks.

According to Statistics “Too much sedentary behavCanada’s Canadian Health iour has led to increases in risk Measures Survey from 2007 to of diabetes, even heart attacks, ‘09, just over 15 per cent of the high blood pressure, elevated country’s adults were meeting cholesterol,” he said in an interthe recommended guidelines of 150 minutes of physical activity view on Tuesday.

“A lot of people with sore a week.

The figures for older children backs is due to long-term sitting. So there’s a whole range of are similarly grim. In its annual report card on the physical PRINTED activity level of children and HOCKEY youth released last year, Active PUCKS Healthy Kids Canada revealed 207 Main Street that only seven per cent of five668-3447 to 11-year-olds and four per Canadian Press

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health issues that’s related to too much sedentary behaviour –specifically sitting – so breaking that behaviour up will contribute to (addressing) those issues.”

Antunes said adults can also wear a pedometer and aim to clock 10,000 steps within a day, and can even transform the exercise into a mini-challenge with their colleagues.

Adults don’t need to devote lunch hours at the gym to see an uptick in their activity levels but can achieve their target with short bursts of everyday activities “that should get your heart rate going,” he noted.

“When you’re going out to lunch for that sandwich, maybe

take that extra walk for 10 minutes, or park your car a bit further from the front doors or take public transit.”

Antunes said he recognized that individuals are busy and that breaking up sedentary time is a challenge within today’s fastpaced environment. But it’s as essential as carrying out a work assignment and can perhaps be accomplished in tandem with office-related tasks, he noted.

“If you’re working towards a deadline, working on a focused project, there are things you can do that doesn’t necessarily impact your productivity,” Antunes said, suggesting individuals stand versus sitting during

Public Interest Disclosure of Wrongdoing Legislation

The Yukon government invites your comments on key policy elements for the development of Public Interest Disclosure of Wrongdoing legislation.

Find out more and download the information package at www.psc.gov.yk.ca.

The comment period closes April 16, 2014.

Public Service Commission

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Boyd CampBell at the

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General Election 2014

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in Haines Junction is proud to announce that david Thompson, head baker for the past 6 years, is taking over operations this summer. David is super excited about the opportunity to become a part of the Yukon community and we wish him the best of luck.

Official Results of Poll

McGinty, Kevin

Wolf Councillors:

Magrum, George Sims, Lorraine (Lori)

Elder Councillor:

Vance-Kurenoff, Annabell

Crow Councillors:

Johnson, Mildred (Milly) Van Bibber, Ashley

Youth Councillor:

Grand re-openinG is May 09,

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Attention Attention Southern LakesLakes Residents Southern and Property Owners Residents

phone calls and walk to speak with colleagues face-to-face versus sending emails.

“If you have your weekly management meeting, get up instead of sitting down and that breaks up your sedentary time.

Anything you can do to get off that chair.”

Antunes said he also has colleagues who book certain walking routes into their agendas, and suggested workers consider going for a walking meeting versus booking a boardroom for their gatherings.

“You’re still being productive … but you’re reducing your sedentary time while being productive.”

we hope to see you there.

Georgina Leslie, Chief Returning Officer

PUBLiC MeetinG #5

Southern Lakes Water Level Committee Whata public about the swans & is holding presentation:

all wildlife habitats?

Meeting #2 – Visions of Water Perspectives on the Southern Lakes Roundtable Discussion & Community Focus Group with local experts including Jim25, Hawkings Thursday July 2013and others 7:00 pm April 24, 2014, 7.00pm MarshCarcross Lake Community Community Centre Centre

To celebrate Dental Health Month this April, the Yukon Children’s Dental Program is hosting a toothbrush exchange. Kids, bring in your old toothbrush and we’ll give you a new one!

Saturday, April 12 • Wal-Mart • 10 am – 2 pm

Hydrology: Richard Janowicz, Are you concerned about the effect on wildlife of Yukon Yukon Government, Water Resources Energy’s concept to increase Marsh Lake’s licensed fully supply level by up to Water: 30cm, and hold it into fall and freeze-up?

Storytelling Eleanor Hayman, PhDYou student, Ludwig Maximillian are invited to come and ask your questions.

University, Germany

if you would like to do a short presentation and share your experiences,

For more information: CONTACT Southern Lakes Water Level Committee: Sue Greetham 660-4106 (867) 660-5611, deborah.fulmer@gmail.com greetham@northwestel.net (867) 667-7670, ramal64@gmail.com Southern Lakes Water Level Committee Health and Social Services

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MDs need to prepare for eventual legalized assisted suicide, some doctors argue Sheryl Ubelacker

He said doctor-assisted suicide could become legal if the Supreme Court of Canada, which will TORONTO review the existing law in October, octors need to move beyond throws out the current statute that the “yes or no” debate about bans someone from seeking mediphysician-assisted death and begin cal aid to end his or her life. preparing policies and guidelines The case stems from a 2012 in the event the act is legalized in B.C. Supreme Court ruling that Canada, a group of palliative-care found the ban on assisted suicide specialists argues. was unconstitutional. Right-to-die In a commentary in Monday’s advocates, aided by the British CoCanadian Medical Association lumbia Civil Liberties Association, Journal, the doctors say the debate took the issue to Canada’s highest about assisted suicide has become court after the B.C. Court of Apmired in for-and-against argupeal overturned the earlier provinments. cial court ruling last October.

“And we felt this focus of the Quebec also had been looking debate was rapidly becoming at legalizing doctor-assisted death obsolete,” co-author Dr. James with Bill 52, which died on the Downar said in an interview. order paper when the provincial “It seems clear that physicianelection was called. assisted death will become legal Assisted suicide is legal in sevin Canada in the very near future eral European countries, among by one means or another,” said them Belgium and the NetherDownar, a Toronto doctor who lands, and five U.S. states, includcares for the terminally ill. “And we ing Washington and Oregon. felt that Canadians would be better If the Supreme Court of served if the debate were to shift Canada were to strike down the to more practical considerations existing law, the onus would be on physicians to deal with any termiabout what that might look like.”

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Information Session A Representative of Veterans Affairs Canada will be presenting an Information Session at the Whitehorse Legion, 503 Steele St, on

Monday, April 14th 2014 at 7:00 PM.

Veterans, their families members and serving members of the CAF & RCMP are invited to attend.

Veterans wishing to talk with the VAC Representative are asked to call Red Grossinger at 667-4780 to make an appointment.

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mAy10th 11:00Am

Whitehorse Public Library

Euthanasia is defined as the act of killing someone who is sick or injured to prevent more suffering, while physician-assisted death involves a doctor helping a person commit suicide by providing a prescription or information about a lethal dose of drugs.

“While physicians may indeed need to be prepared for the challenges of physician-assisted death,” Francescutti said, “we are hearing from Canadians that there is an even greater need for our society to ensure we provide high-quality palliative care to everyone who would need it.”

Downar said doctor-aided death should by no means be viewed as an alternative to palliative care.

“I think while we are pursuing the legalization of physician-assisted death in Canada, we should be equally strong in pursuing and continuing to advocate for expansion and growth of palliative care services across Canada.”

Most patients’ needs are met by CP quality end-of-life care, including Dr. James Downar is part of a group of palliative-care doctors effective pain control, although a that says it’s time to move beyond the “yes or no” debate small percentage of patients do exabout physician-assisted death and begin preparing for its perience physical suffering despite eventual legalization in Canada. doctors’ best efforts, he said.

“And then there is also the nally ill patients who want help to have put “the cart well before question of existential or spiriend their lives due to physical and/ the horse” in concentrating on tual or psychological distress,” physician-assisted death. or psychological suffering, said said Downar, adding that it can Instead, the focus should be Downar. be difficult for people to contend on “addressing the dire need for “And all of a sudden, we are with the idea they may lose control going to have a very short amount improved access to palliative-care of their bodily functions as their services … and Canada’s lack of a illness progresses and ultimately of time to come up with policies national pain strategy,” Francesand practices in Canada to make control over the circumstances of sure there is at least some structure cutti said Monday in a statement. their death.

Delegates to the CMA’s anor guidelines … and oversight to “And that to them is an insult nual meeting last August voted make sure that safeguards are in and an injury to their dignity that against reopening the question of place.” is, I think, as bad or worse than doctor-assisted suicide, arguing Those policies would include any physical symptom they could that physicians need to know more suffer.” ways of protecting vulnerable people from physician-aided death about how Canadians view the In the end, he said, it comes against their will, shielding doctors full spectrum of end-of-life care down to patient choice. from any legal fallout and support- before changing the CMA’s current “Palliative care is about choice. position. ing palliative care.

Palliative care is about choosing The organization, which repre- comfort and quality of life and But Dr. Louis Hugo Francessents about 78,000 doctors across cutti, president of the Canadian dignity. And physician-assisted death is, in my opinion, about the country, does not support Medical Association (CMA), said choosing the same thing.” euthanasia or assisted suicide.

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Does it have heart? Scientists trying to build functional human heart with 3D printer Dylan Lovan Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. t may sound far-fetched, but scientists are attempting to build a human heart with a 3-D printer.

Ultimately, the goal is to create a new heart for a patient with their own cells that could be transplanted. It is an ambitious project to first, make a heart and then get it to work in a patient, and it could be years – perhaps decades – before a 3-D printed heart would ever be put in a person.

The technology, though, is not all that futuristic: Researchers have already used 3-D printers to make splints, valves and even a human ear.

So far, the University of Louisville team has printed human heart valves and small veins with cells, and they can construct some other parts with other methods, said Stuart Williams, a cell biologist leading the project. They have also successfully tested the tiny blood vessels in mice and other small animals, he said.

Williams believes they can print parts and assemble an entire heart in three to five years.

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be called the “bioficial heart” – a blend of natural and artificial.

The biggest challenge is to get the cells to work together as they do in a normal heart, said Williams, who heads the project at the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute, a partnership between the university and Jewish Hospital in Louisville.

An organ built from a patient’s cells could solve the rejection problem some patients have with donor organs or an artificial heart, and it could eliminate the need for anti-rejection drugs, Williams said.

If everything goes according to plan, Williams said the heart might be tested in humans in less than a decade. The first patients would most likely be those with failing hearts who are not candidates for artificial hearts, including children whose chests are too small to for an artificial heart.

Hospitals in Louisville have a history of artificial heart achievements. The second successful U.S. surgery of an artificial heart, the Jarvik 7, was implanted in Louisville in the mid-1980s. Doctors from the University of Louisville implanted the first self-contained artificial heart, the AbioCor, in 2001. That patient, Robert L. Tools, lived for 151 days with the

titanium and plastic pump.

Williams said the heart he envisions would be built from cells taken from the patient’s fat.

But plenty of difficulties remain, including understanding how to keep manufactured tissue alive after it is printed.

“With complex organs such as the kidney and heart, a major challenge is being able to provide the structure with enough oxygen to survive until it can integrate with the body,” said Dr. Anthony Atala, whose team at Wake Forest University is using 3-D printers to attempt to make a human kidney.

The 3-D printing approach is not the only strategy researchers are investigating to build a heart out of a patient’s own cells.

Elsewhere, scientists are exploring the idea of putting the cells into a mould. In experiments, scientists have made rodent hearts that beat in the laboratory. Some simple body parts made using this method have already been implanted in people, including bladders and windpipes.

The 3-D printer works in much the same way an inkjet printer does, with a needle that squirts material in a predetermined pattern.

The cells would be purified in a machine, and then printing

would begin in sections, using a computer model to build the heart layer by layer. Williams’ printer uses a mixture of a gel and living cells to gradually build the shape. Eventually, the cells would grow together to form the tissue.

The technology has already helped in other areas of medicine, including creating sure-fitting prosthetics and a splint that was

printed to keep a sick child’s airway open. Doctors at Cornell University used a 3-D printer last year to create an ear with living cells.

“We’re experiencing an exponential explosion with the technology,” said Michael Golway, president of Louisville-based Advanced Solutions Inc., which built a printer being used by Williams’ team.

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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 Dave & Jane Sager 668-2003 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: 7:00 p.m.

Confessions before Mass & by appointment.

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

ALL WELCOME

FoURSqUaRe ChURCh

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

TRINITY LUTHERAN

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

EVERYONE WELCOME!

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:

at 10:30 AM

Orthodox

Meditation drop-in • Everyone Welcome!

ECKANKAR

Religion of the Light and Sound of God

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

Pastor Mark Carroll

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:

867-633-4903

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

Historic Worldwide Sisterhood Broadcast SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2014 5 PM Yukon Time LDS Chapel at 108 Wickstrom Rd. All women invited - 8 yrs. old to 88 yrs. old

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

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Manta rays worth more alive than dead; Indonesia becomes world’s largest sanctuary Margie Mason Associated Press

JAKARTA, Indonesia ndonesia is now the world’s largest sanctuary for manta rays, after officials were persuaded by evidence that the gentle giants known for delighting tourists are worth more alive than dead.

The government last month announced that manta rays within the archipelago’s 5.8 million square kilometres (2.2 million square miles) of ocean will be protected from fishing and export. It will take time and co-operation at multiple levels to enforce the ban on poaching in the biggest global shark and ray fishery.

Conservationists point to simple economics as an incentive. According to a study published last year in the online journal PLoS One, a manta ray is worth up to $1 million over the course of its long lifetime, thanks to tourists willing to pay generously for a chance to swim with the curious creatures that glide gracefully through the water by flapping their wide wings, almost as if flying.

They are worth only $40 to $500 dead.

Government officials were “so surprised that the tourism value is very high. That’s a very powerful argument,” said Tiene Gunawan, marine program director at Conservation International Indonesia.

“Indonesia is such a big, big, big country. When looking at the size of the water, it’s huge.

And I think we should start small and make some kind of pilot for this enforcement.”

The regulation was passed Jan. 27. Conservation groups are working to teach fishermen about the value of keeping the mantas alive, while business people, the military, water police and local officials are being engaged to assist.

“There are more than 200 special policemen who have been prepared to guard conservation areas and to enforce the law on protection of this species,” Sudirman Saad, director general for marine, coastal and small islands, said at a news conference announcing the protections. He said the government will encourage fishermen affected by the ban to take advantage of manta ray tourism.

In some areas, including a well-known spot near the resort island of Bali, locals are already seeing profits from taking snorkelers out on their fishing boats, or working at larger dive resorts where mantas are a top attraction.

In Indonesia alone, manta tourism brings in an estimated

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Indonesian manta hunters stand on their boat carrying a speared manta ray in the water off Solor island, Indonesia, in February. Indonesia is now the world’s largest sanctuary for manta rays, after officials were persuaded by evidence that the gentle giants known for delighting tourists are worth more alive than dead.

$15 million each year, according to the PLoS One report.

“Indonesia now has the second-largest manta ray tourism industry in the world,” Agus Dermawan, director of the country’s Marine Conservation Directorate, said in a statement. “Given the huge area of reefs and islands in our country, if managed properly, Indonesia could become the top manta tourism destination on the planet.”

Two types of rays exist in Indonesia, the manta and the mobula. Both are killed for their plankton-filtering gills, which are used for medicinal concoctions, mainly in China.

Mantas are also frequently caught accidentally by fishermen, but they are not part of a major targeted industry in Indonesia as in other countries, such as Sri Lanka, Gunawan said.

Increased demand has led to a sharp drop in manta numbers in recent years, raising international concern. Multibillionaire Virgin Group boss Richard Branson has sounded alarms though the “Manta Ray of Hope” conservation project.

And last year the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora imposed new trade regulations for the species.

“Enforcement and commu-

nity education are always necessary in order for this or any law to have a real impact, but passage of the law is a critical step,” Mary O’Malley, lead author of the study from the San Francisco-based non-profit WildAid, said in an email.

She said her organization also plans to launch a campaign in China to address demand there.

Mantas are among the world’s largest fish and can reach up to 8 metres (26 feet) from wingtip to wingtip.

Found in the tropics, they can live up to 50 years, but do not mature until age 8 to 10 and typically give birth to a single pup only every two to five years. This slow reproduction rate means fishing cannot be sustained over the long haul, and mantas are classified as vulnerable to extinction on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species.

Mantas are smart and capable of migrating more than 1,000 kilometres (621 miles), and each has a unique pattern of spots on its belly. Unlike stingrays, they have no barbs and are harmless to humans.

Even though they are beloved by divers and snorkelers, due to their size, friendliness and graceful beauty in the water, much remains unknown about their population num-

bers worldwide.

Early last year, Indonesia’s Institute of Science estimated that the country has 17,000 mantra rays, though it said that approximation did not account for regional migrations and may be overly optimistic.

In addition to Indonesia, manta fishing is banned in Australia, Ecuador, the European Union, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, Guam, the Micronesian island of Yap, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. states of Hawaii and Florida.

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When things are going to the dogs in politics, politicians go for the dogs Bruce Cheadle

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According to someone close to the situation, with news photographers staking out their home, Soudas and Adams decided to fetch his friends’ pugs and go for a stroll in order to feed the media beast and end the siege.

The person who spoke to The Canadian Press asked not to be identified for fear of inflaming an already hot topic, but said it was not the first time Soudas had walked the dogs.

When you want to humanize a politician, it seems, dogs are a go-to device.

A dog in the White House has been almost required kit since the days of Abe Lincoln.

Presidential mutts have become household names, with the Obamas’ Portuguese water dog Bo just the latest example.

Richard Nixon famously dug himself out of a hole in 1952 when a speech about his dog Checkers was attributed with smoothing Republican party concerns over $18,000 in questionable gifts.

In Canada, political pooches have a somewhat checkered history.

“This is the first I’ve heard that the dog is part of the Canadian political public consciousness. I don’t get it, not in the slightest,” Allan Bonner, a political communications consultant who has worked with a dozen premiers and scores of cabinet ministers, said in an interview.

Bonner said he’s been involved in a great many photo shoots of politicians and has some common advice.

“It’s very tempting to put the Christmas tree in the background or be out chopping down a Christmas tree or planting a garden or what have you. But if they don’t really do that (activity normally), it’s really dangerous.”

“I think this rent-a-dog goes kind of beyond that.”

Going to the dogs doesn’t always pass the sniff test.

Canada’s longest serving prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, eulogized his terrier Pat of 17 years in

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an unusually emotional 1944 speech that was broadcast on the radio.

“If I have been true to some of the great causes that I have sought to remain true to, it’s been the example of that little fellow that has helped in many, many ways,” King warbled.

But even introducing Canadians to his family dog Kyoto in 2008 wasn’t enough to save Liberal leader Stephane Dion and his environmental campaign platform.

Danielle Smith, leader of Alberta’s Wildrose Alliance, experienced the downside of animal photo-ops during the 2012 provincial campaign when her two family dogs engaged in some spirited bump-and-grind with news cameras on hand.

And current Justice Minister Peter MacKay caused a sensation back in 2005 when he arranged for a po-faced, farm photo-op with a borrowed Bernese mountain dog after his very public breakup with MP Belinda Stronach.

As Bonner, the communications expert, puts it: “The dog story is simply dangerous because it’s inauthentic.”

Curiously enough, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has gone against the grain by cultivating a public image as a cat person, with his office releasing a number of hand-outs involving the family pets.

“The cat image was kind of gutsy because it could have been ‘You Tube cats’ or ‘soft, fuzzy cats,’ whatever,” said Bonner.

But in its own way, Harper’s cat image works, he argued.

“It’s authentic.”

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Centuries old Egyptian dog and cat mummies take centre stage at California museum

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A cat mummy, is displayed as part of the exhibit “Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt,” at the Orange County’s Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, Calif.

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SANTA ANA, Calif. e love our dogs and cats, but the ancient Egyptians really loved their dogs and cats – not to mention their snakes, crocodiles and birds.

Animals held such a prominent place in ancient Egyptian society that tens of millions were mummified, some going into the pharaohs’ tombs to rest eternally in the company of their kings.

Others had their own special cemeteries, where they were buried in coffins as elaborately carved as those of royal family members.

Dozens of the best surviving specimens have taken up residence at Orange County’s Bowers Museum as the centerpiece of Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt.

There’s a dog so well detailed that even its floppy ears are prominent. An ancient cat has been laid to rest with its little paws drawn across its body, creating an image eerily reminiscent of a human’s funeral pose.

“It just shows how closely Egyptians thought of animals on some basic level as being very similar to human beings,” said Edward Bleiberg, the exhibition’s curator. “The Egyptians believed that animals had souls.”

But soulful or not, most people – other than a king or queen – couldn’t afford to keep a dog or cat around just for companionship in ancient times, Bleiberg

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Thus the hunting dog seen waiting patiently under a chair during a dinner table scene etched onto an ancient tablet in the exhibition would likely have been shown the door if it hadn’t contributed to making that meal possible.

Most animals had an even greater job. They were charged with the responsibility of using their souls in death to carry messages to the gods they had represented on Earth during their lives. The dog, for example, was the sacred votive or messenger of the god Anubis, who is depicted in ancient Egyptian art as a man with the head of a dog.

The Ibis communicated directly with the god Thoth, who had the body of a man and head of a bird and who, it seems, was especially good at resolving human disagreements.

“There’s a letter included with one of the animal mummies that suggests there’s this man who is having a terrible problem at work,” Bleiberg noted. “He has this rivalry with a co-worker, he’s certain that the co-worker is badmouthing him to the boss and making him look bad and he requests that Thoth make him stop.”

Another letter sent with an animal mummy included a plea to heal a sick relative.

In all, the exhibition contains more than 100 items, including drawings and sculptures, as well as the mummified remains

of dogs, cats, birds, snakes and crocodiles. Many are wrapped in intricately patterned linens, and some have been placed in sarcophaguses carved to resemble how the animal looked in life.

To give museum visitors a better look at what’s underneath the wrappings, the mummies have been CT scanned and the scans used to create three-dimensional images.

Preparing animal mummies was detailed and expensive work.

So much so that Bleiberg says an expert at the craft earned twice that of a farmer.

Animal mummifying was such big business that Ptolemaic III, who ruled Egypt more than 2,000 years ago, passed several decrees regulating the industry.

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is open to debate: A CT scan of one exhibition mummy revealed nothing inside but rocks. Another showed bird feathers but no bird.

Like humans, the animals had to be cut open, salted and bathed in a substance like wine to be preserved. Archaeologists have found more than 30 Egyptian cemeteries created for animal mummies, some containing several million specimens.

Those in the exhibition come from the Brooklyn Museum in New York, of which Bleiberg is curator of Egyptian, Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Art. They were excavated in the 19th and 20th centuries.

They will remain at the Bowers until June 15, then move to Tennessee’s Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Bowers’ president, Peter Keller, expects the exhibition could rival

the popularity of its 2010 exhibit, “Secrets of the Silk Road,” which drew tens of thousands to the Orange County museum. That collection, with its ancient Chinese mummies, indicated travel along the trade route connecting Asia to Europe occurred centuries earlier than once thought.

While people will likely come to this show to see the dogs and cats, Bleiberg said, he’s hoping they’ll take something else away, something related to people in general.

Noting the work-related problems the guy with the Ibis mummy was having, the curator added that’s often the same complaint modern-day people have about their jobs.

“In many ways, it makes the ancient Egyptians accessible to us and shows how we all share innately human things,” he said.

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Will we ever learn to celebrate Earth Month? we’re upsetting the balance.

We’re a relatively new species, but we’re altering the geoby DAVID logical properties of Earth to SUZUKI the extent that many scientists refer to this epoch as the Anthropocene – from the Greek anthropos meaning “human” and kainos meaning “recent”.

When Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on pril is Earth Month, and March 8, crews in planes and boats set out to search the April 22 Earth Day. We Indian Ocean. Debris sightings should really celebrate our small blue planet and all it raised hopes that the crash site was located, but they turned provides every day, but recent events give us particular cause out to be endless streams of garbage that humans have to reflect on our home and been dumping into the oceans how we’re treating it. for ages – plastic bottles and Through an amazingly orbags, fishing gear, household dered combination of factors, wastes, cigarette butts, detritus this spinning ball of earth, from shipping containers, even air, fire and water – with its hydrological, carbon, nitrogen bits of space shuttle rocket boosters. and rock cycles, biological We now have massive swirldiversity and ideal distance ing garbage patches in our from the sun – provides perfect conditions for human life oceans, and thousands of birds and fish from remote seas to flourish. But with our vast turning up dead, their bellies and rapidly increasing numfull of plastic and flotsam. bers, breakneck technological We’re also upsetting the advances, profligate use of resources and lack of concern delicate carbon cycle of the for where we dump our wastes, planet and its atmosphere,

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mostly through wasteful burning of fossil fuels. This, in turn, is shifting other natural processes, including the ways water circulates around the globe and climate and weather are regulated.

For a disturbing illustration of the damage we’ve done and how much more we’ll do unless we change our ways, we need only look to the recent installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report. Findings show we’re already experiencing the everincreasing impacts of global warming: ice caps and Arctic sea ice melting and collapsing; more extreme weather-related events like droughts and floods; dying corals; stressed water supplies; rising, increasingly acidic oceans; and fish and other animals migrating with some going extinct. Unless we act quickly, our food and water supplies, critical infrastructure, security, health, economies and communities will face ever-escalating risks, leading to increased human displacement, migration and

violent conflict.

Some argue we must choose between “growing” the economy and protecting the planet.

In response, the report states, “Throughout the 21st century, climate-change impacts are projected to slow down economic growth, make poverty reduction more difficult, further erode food security, and prolong existing and create new poverty traps, the latter particularly in urban areas and emerging hotspots of hunger.”

That’s if we do little or nothing – which is not a viable option. We must reduce our individual impacts, but more importantly, we must tell industry and governments at all levels that we’ll no longer support the fouling of our planet and the madness of putting short-term economic growth ahead of protecting everything that keeps us alive and healthy.

We elect governments to act in our best interests, not to promote polluting industries at the expense of human health and long-term prosperity. One of our species’ unique abilities is foresight,

the capacity to look ahead to avoid dangers and exploit opportunity. It’s time for our leaders to be visionary and steer away from hazards while taking the enormous opportunities offered by renewable energy sources. As I said in last week’s column, climate change is serious, and “Confronting it will take a radical change in the way we produce and consume energy – another industrial revolution, this time for clean energy, conservation and efficiency.”

Meeting this challenge, through reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to changes we can no longer prevent, will offer myriad side benefits, from better health and lower health-care costs to greater economic opportunities through cleaner and longer-lasting technologies.

There’s no excuse to keep on destroying our home. If we are to observe Earth Day and Earth Month, let’s make it a time to celebrate, not to despair.

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Trees awaken from long winter’s nap

by Ned Rozell

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POKER CREEK, ALASKA n this south-facing hillside bathed in spring sunshine, trees are swelling like hot dogs.

“They’re all a little thicker than they were last week,” Jessie Young says of the birch, aspen and occasional spruce in this pleasant open forest about 30 miles north of Fairbanks.

Despite the penetrating warmth of the sun at spring equinox, the woods here in the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed are as quiet as the blue-gray days of midwinter.

More than a foot of snow blankets the ground and the temperature is one degree above freezing.

This relative warmth – more than 30 degrees warmer than just a few days ago – has silently nudged the trees out of their winter sleep, Young says. The ecologist with the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks knows this because she has tapped the trees with instruments. They let her measure what she can’t see.

One of them is a device that resembles a silver belt she fitted around the tree trunks. The band dendrometer allows her to see how a tree plumps in springtime as it pulls water upward from its root system into its water pipeline of xylem tissue.

Wearing a military-type packframe that holds her data-downloading devices in a square plastic carton, Young kneels to squint at the silver band encircling a birch tree at waist level.

“In the last week, this tree expanded 7.7 millimeters,” she says.

Young hooks another instrument to two pins she drove like a pair of nails into her trees. By hooking probes to the rods, she can tell the moisture content of a tree.

“The wettest tree out here is the aspen,” she says as she connects her computer to a greenish tree with moose-gnawed bark.

“This one is about 70 per cent moisture.”

On a chilly day one year ago, Young measured a spruce tree that contained just 25 per cent water, not far from the 20 per cent or less officials from the borough recommend for seasoned firewood. About a week before the trees leaf out, they will be tall cylinders of water, near 100 per cent moisture, she says. Leaf-out happens in these parts about May 5, though last year’s cold spring delayed the unfolding of the green until the end of that month.

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Ecologist Jesse Young measures how much a birch tree has expanded during the past week in a forest north of Fairbanks.

Young hopes to find out how trees are sucking up moisture when the ground is still frozen. Trees might be pulling tiny amounts of free water from their broad fans of roots, she thinks.

Along with the water, the trees are moving carbon to help build their solar panels.

In her quiet grove of trees in this narrow valley, Young is listening to what boreal forest trees are telling her so she can help researchers who model the flow of water over and through

the landscape. A warmer climate favors birch, aspen and poplar over spruce.

“I want to know what theses systems are doing, so when things change I’ll know how they might respond,” she says.

Young has calculated that thirst deciduous trees in the Fairbanks North Star Borough will take up 31 billion gallons of snowmelt water this spring. Black and white spruce, which make up about 75 per cent of the borough landscape, will move about more than

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Blitz for beleaguered boreal blackbirds

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o one is exactly certain why rusty blackbird numbers have been declining so drastically over the past halfcentury. “There’s no one smoking gun,” says Ben Schonewille, a Whitehorse naturalist and local station manager for the Society of Yukon Bird Observatories.

Instead, he says there is likely a suite of causes behind the 90 per cent decline.

This spring, Schonewille and other experienced and trained birders, hoping to prevent the extinction of this once-common wetland resident, are urging the rest of us to pitch in and help determine just what is happening to Euphagus carolinus.

The International Rusty Blackbird Spring Migration Blitz 2014 has been underway since March in the U.S. As the birds progress along migration routes from the hardwood forests of the American Southeast to their northern boreal breeding grounds, which stretch from Newfoundland to Alaska, ornithologists and amateur birders, representing all degrees of experience and skill, are being asked to join the effort to determine what rusties are up against.

Over the past decade, ornithologists have been able to monitor birds in their winter ranges more readily than along the spring migration paths, especially at the northern end, near the boreal nesting grounds. The rusties disperse over a wide area in the North, and in much of the Yukon and Alaska there are far fewer birders to monitor them than there are to the south.

“This is the first time we’ve held the spring blitz,” says Cameron Eckert, president of the Yukon Bird Club. “We sort of know where rusties are breeding and where they’re wintering,” says Eckert. Something is happening in the rusties’ world. Could con-

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Rusty blackbirds were once common in North America’s wetlands.

taminants be a culprit? Habitat destruction is likely a major reason for the birds’ decline. Rusties need forested wetlands to survive.

They are very habitat-specific.

In much of their winter range, wetlands are being drained to make way for construction, logging and agriculture. And, to add irony to injury, rusty blackbirds are caught up in the general vilification of blackbirds – primarily red-wings, grackles, and the non-blackbird starling – which are considered agricultural pests.

Meanwhile, among blackbirds, it is the non-rusties that thrive on the cleared fields. As Eckert puts it: “The rusty has become emblematic for conservation of boreal species at risk.”

Both Schonewille and Eckert stress that birders don’t have to be highly trained ornithologists to be a great service in monitoring rusty blackbirds during the blitz.

That’s especially true for Yukon.

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territory that can be mistaken for rusties, they say. Brewer’s blackbirds, which do resemble rusties, remain south of the territory for the most part. There are only a couple sighting of Brewer’s here each year.

“The big identification challenge,” says Eckert, occurs in the fall when rusty males lose the blue-black gloss in their feathers and the brilliant yellow colouration in their eyes. In autumn, long after the spring blitz, they can be mistaken for brown-headed cowbirds.

“The first rusty blackbirds generally show up in the Yukon about the third week of April,” he says.

“This year is maybe a little colder than average but about normal.

That’s when we expect to see the first birds, but the main migration push is in the last week of April and first two weeks of May.” The earliest recorded sighting is April 12. “In the Yukon the migration continues in dribs and drabs right through the end of May.” Good places to look for rusties are marshy areas with nearby shrubs and trees. In Whitehorse, the marsh on Quartz Road is readily accessible. Rusties show up

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The Yukon Bird Club is holding a field trip that will focus specifically on rusty black birds, on April 29. Pam Sinclair, Canada Wildlife Service ornithologist and co-chair of the steering committee of the International Rusty Blackbird Working Group, will lead the tour. Greg Brunner and Cynthia Hunt will lead a similar expedition at Henderson Corner near Dawson City on May 17. For more information on both field trips and on participating in the blitz contact yukonbirdclub@ gmail.com Individual birders are urged to watch for rusties throughout the April and May. Detailed information on blitz protocols and how to contribute data can be found at http://rustyblackbird.org/outreach/migration-blitz/ Eckert will be proofing the data contributed to the eBird site (ebird.org) before it’s made official in order to prevent errors slipping through. Each region covered by the blitz will be served by such data monitors.

The blitz will be repeated over

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the next two years and it’s hoped that by the end we’ll have a better idea of where the rusties are congregating along their migration routes and what habitats they are using.

Eckert stresses that beyond the much-needed data, there is a “huge awareness component” to the blitz. “Many people may have never heard of rusty blackbirds or they may not know that a common species in the Yukon is in a really critical decline throughout its range.”

As well, a blitz will help convince folks that an individual bird watcher, even the most casual of bird enthusiasts, can contribute to the conservation of a species.

“A blitz like this has the potential of being beneficial to the species but also extremely rewarding for those who participate.”

So can all the new, improved rusty blackbird data help save a species and their environments?

Some people may fear that ever more cautionary data can’t make a real difference. There are, however, plenty of land users, business people and politicians who comprehend the urgency of wildlife conservation in general and the threat to rusties specifically, says Eckert. Updated information can affect how we shop, how we modify our environment and how we vote. The more we learn the more we have to share with those who care.

“With the blitz, citizen science will be put to use,” adds Schonewille. “And it’s great to put our dot on the map.”

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 www. yukoncollege.yk.ca/research/publications/newsletters_articles

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No-gifts policy at work avoids awkward situations

by Judith Martin

MISS

MANNERS

and the impossibility of rejecting an act of kindness.

In the meantime, the present on your kitchen counter demands a letter of thanks. As personal and professional relationships are properly kept separate, no reference should be made to the termination.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am invited to a Super Bowl party. The host is providing all the food and drinks, and says, “Just show up.”

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My He is from the South and says it’s husband and I are expecting our an insult for guests to bring food. first child, a fact he has shared with his employees at the grocery Could I bring a gift for him?

GENTLE READER: Could he manages. you comply with his wish? You He received a present from can show your appreciation by an employee moments before he showing up, socializing with his had to let him go (my husband had known for two weeks that he other guests (although not to the had to terminate his employment extent of distracting them from the game) and reciprocating the but was waiting for him to come back from vacation). My husband invitation.

Miss Manners agrees that it is accepted the present but feels horinsulting to assume that the host rible about it.

Was it OK that he accepted the will not properly provide for the guests, who must therefore bring present? Should we send him a supplies. At a genuine potluck thank-you card as we have sent to everyone else we have received party, there is an organizer, rather than a host, because the host dupresents from? How should that ties are shared by all. This is not thank-you card be worded? such a party.

GENTLE READER: Your husband feels horrible because DEAR MISS MANNERS: We he fired someone who was at that are holding off on a memorial moment acting as a friend. His error, however, occurred earlier: It service for my mother, with a was in allowing, if not encouragnotice of the delay in her obituing, the fiction that employment ary, until my two sisters can come relationships and personal friend- home. I have not received any ships are the same. condolences from my place of It is, Miss Manners believes, work yet. I don’t really expect time for a new office policy barmuch, but an acknowledgment of ring supervisors from accepting her passing would have been nice. gifts from employees. This will Am I reading too much into protect employees from feeling this, or is it normal not to do pressured to give such gifts, and it anything until the memorial takes will give supervisors — including place? your husband — a graceful way to GENTLE READER: It is sadly avoid both the implied obligation normal for no notice whatever to be taken by employers and professional colleagues of the death of a member of an employee’s immediate family — but this does not Why are you make it right.

It would have been right and reading this ad? kind for not only your close colleagues at work, but also your boss, to offer condolences when aware of the death, as well as It is not in colour. attending the memorial service.

It is not very big.

Such duties are exceptions to Miss Manners’ rule about separating It has no artwork. personal and professional life.

It is also inexpensive.

The point is: you are reading it right now in The Yukon News.

You didn’t miss it.

Put your message in this newspaper each week where it will get read, and re-read.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I felt compelled to apologize to a friend for a careless remark I made at a dinner party because, although it was of a general nature, on reflection I think it might have caused offense. I composed a sincere apology and sent it by email. She replied by saying she didn’t recall anything that was offensive and jokingly asked what had I said.

Should I have politely said, “Let’s just leave it in the past,” and left her wondering? Or am I now worse off for having offered up my stupid statement again, but with fewer words? Our conversation ended amicably, but I am not sure I handled it well.

GENTLE READER: Your friend certainly handled it well, reassuring you to the extent of claiming that she didn’t even remember your saying anything that could have been construed as offensive. Even her little joke offered you the opportunity to edit your remark, or to add, “... but what I meant was” and then declare the opposite of what you said.

You missed doing that, but Miss Manners would not have advised you to leave your friend guessing. You wouldn’t want to challenge her to find something that can be interpreted as rude.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My daughter is in kindergarten and was invited to a friendship party hosted by a classmate at a martial arts school. Should she bring a gift?

GENTLE READER: Yes. The gift of friendship.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My 4-year-old is beginning to observe other people when we are out in public and, on occasion, she will ask me about someone who is of a different race, or has their hair dyed pink, a nose ring, a turban, is disabled, very tall, etc.

She’s not referring to these people in a derogatory way by any means, but is curious about their differences.

I tell her that people come in all different shapes, shades and sizes, and that’s what makes the world so interesting. Or I say, “Yes, she does have pink hair — isn’t that pretty!” and then change the subject.

But sometimes she asks me DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it about someone within hearing inappropriate to wear a red dress to a wedding? (I’m a guest, not the distance of that person. Do I need to say anything to these people? bride.) Somewhere I heard that it was a statement to say that you op- Apologizing for my daughter’s inquiries doesn’t seem exactly right, posed the marriage.

GENTLE READER: Really? You since my daughter is not doing anything wrong, but is merely doheard that etiquette thoughtfully ing what curious 4-year-olds do. provides a sabotage-the-wedding (I do, however, reprimand her if dress code for disgruntled guests?

Actually, there has been a ban on she points at people.)

What should I do while we wedding guests wearing red, but for trudge through this “Why? Why? a reason you will find even more Why?” stage? astonishing: It was considered too GENTLE READER: Ah, childracy for a wedding. Now that brides hood — when we begin to master want to look racy, Miss Manners the finer points of tact, accepconsiders that a lost cause.

tance and discretion. And so do our children.

If the child is not directly addressing the person in question, there is no need for you to do so.

Simple, respectful explanations — as you have been giving — are all that is required, perhaps at a slightly raised volume so that there is no question as to content.

Miss Manners assures you that people with “differences” have heard it all, but they — as well as those around them — will likely be as interested as your child to hear a sensitive explanation.

dealing with any other business, and restaurants are businesses that sell meals.

There was ample evidence of rudeness at your table, however. It came from those well-fed people who screamed criticism at you.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When I receive a reply from an email correspondent, I am often chagrined that — most of the time — I receive my original message back, in addition to the response.

I always make sure to delete what I have received before replyDEAR MISS MANNERS: I was ing. Why return what I already know I have written? Is there any in the ladies’ room today, and a woman who does not work in my protocol concerning this?

GENTLE READER: It is true office (but on our floor) walked that to return a paper letter to out of the stall after having used the bathroom and didn’t use soap its writer is considered an insult.

In email, however, it cannot be when washing her hands. She considered so, because that is the turned the water on, rinsed her default form. fingers for maybe two seconds Mind you, Miss Manners and turned the water off.

How should one react without understands that it can be annoying, especially when there are being rude, yet hopefully nixing several exchanges and a trail of the behavior? I thought after the the entire correspondence keeps fact that I should have maybe said: “Oh, is that one out of soap? reappearing. But while she agrees that it would be tactful to delete This one isn’t. Go right ahead.” what was sent, she asks you to There are three sinks in this bathroom with soap dispensers at acknowledge that sometimes it is necessary to leave a reminder each. What would you suggest? of what is being answered. Not GENTLE READER: That you everyone remembers, and you dry your hands and go back to will admit that this is an improvework. Furthermore, Miss Manment over that awkward opening, ners suggests that you content “In regard to your letter of the yourself with resolving not to shake this person’s hand, and not 15th ...” try to police the bathroom.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I You don’t know if the lady hosted a football watch party went into the booth merely to where I instructed guests to arrive adjust her slip. You don’t know at a certain time and that I would if she has hand sanitizer that she be providing food and beverages plans to use back at her desk. for everyone.

You don’t even know her, much My sister and her family arless have jurisdiction over her rived two hours late and were behavior. upset to discover all the food was gone. I hurriedly offered to DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was at a restaurant where the first make more food, and she then proceeded to instruct me on what attempt at my meal was burned. not to put in the dish because her When its replacement didn’t children had various allergies. appear for another 45 minutes, I Am I wrong to feel annoyed asked for the order to be canceled. at her behavior? While I underThe people with me — who had already eaten all three courses stand that as a hostess I should of their meals! — were screaming strive to make my guests feel as comfortable as possible, I felt her at me (literally) that I couldn’t demands were unreasonable. do that, as it was rude. Is it rude GENTLE READER: Did she to cancel an order under those also expect you to have recorded circumstances? the game, so that you could show GENTLE READER: Strange things happen to people who pa- her whatever she missed?

Arriving two hours late, short tronize restaurants, Miss Manners has observed. They have etiquette of an emergency, and being visibly upset are, indeed, rude, panic attacks, out of fear that although reminding you of the their servers may sneer at them. children’s allergies as you look And so they may, as do other workers who deal with the public. for additional food is not unreasonable. But while your sister But it is only at restaurants that exhibited bad guest behavior, the patrons seem to care. Of course they should behave well at Miss Manners commends you for any business, but only restaurants exhibiting good host behavior.

(Please send your questions to Miss frighten them.

Manners at her website, www.

You ordered a decently cooked missmanners.com; to her email, meal to be delivered in reasonable dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or time. When that expectation was through postal mail to Miss Manners, not met, of course you could canUniversal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., cel the order. You would do so in Kansas City, MO 64106.)

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Diamond Tooth Gertie: from dance hall to prayer hall HISTORY

HUNTER

by Michael Gates

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iamond Tooth Gertie’s: Canada’s first legalized gambling establishment; named in honour of the famous dance hall queen. With a sparkling diamond placed between her two front teeth, she mined the miners, who parted with their hard-earned gold in exchange for her affections. That’s the way she is portrayed.

Today, bedecked in fabulous eye-catching gowns, Miss Diamond Tooth Gertie entertains thousands of visitors in the non-profit gambling establishment in the heart of the Klondike.

Gillian Campbell is perhaps the most famous entertainer to have performed this role.

But who exactly was Diamond Tooth Gertie? Was she the dance hall queen of legend?

Ella Lung Martinsen, in her classic narrative Trail to the North Star Gold, describes her father’s encounter with Klondike Kate Rockwell and Cad Wilson on the road to Hunker Creek the summer of 1899, where they were to perform with Diamond Tooth Gertie and the Oregon Mare. But Rockwell and Wilson never shared a stage together; Rockwell didn’t even arrive in the Yukon until 1900 – a year after Wilson had left.

In Martinsen’s account, Gertie says that Rockwell is “plumb crazy” to fall for a “patent leather kid” by the name of Alexander Pantages, who will love her and leave her. But that exchange could never have taken place in 1899 – before Rockwell even arrived in the Klondike. The entire encounter with the dance hall queens on the road to Hunker Creek is fictitious.

Diamond Tooth Gertie – the legend – like Klondike Kate, is a latter-day phenomenon, created years after the gold rush long expired.

Gertie Lovejoy actually existed, but our search to find reference to her in the newspapers of the time did not substantiate the legend.

The papers covered the theatre circuit in Dawson with a close eye, yet her name is not found mentioned as a headline entertainer.

She was not listed in any theatrical advertisements, or reviews of the stage attractions of the day that me and my wife, Kathy, could find.

We do know this much: The Klondike Nugget newspaper reported that she was seen entering the Phoenix dance hall on the evening of April 6, 1899, on the arm of US Consul James McCook.

They shared a bottle of wine, after which McCook embarked on the most notorious binge of the early days. There is no further reference in this article to Gertie, who seems to have been ditched for another dance hall girl named Pearl Hall.

Gertie cropped up in January of 1900 when she lost $2,000

Michael Gates/Yukon News

Diamond Tooth Gertie’s Gambling Hall is named after one of the many dance-hall girls who worked in Dawson City.

We know little about who she was and not one photo exists of her that can be confirmed with certainty.

worth of personal belongings, barely escaping a fire in the Monte Carlo with her life. She was obviously doing well, but there is no explanation of precisely what she was doing.

She eventually married Charles W.C. Tabor, Dawson City’s most prominent lawyer. Laura Berton, in her book, I Married the Klondike, describes her in later years, attending one of Martha Black’s evening social functions, as: “a demure little woman, quite pretty and very self-effacing. She had little to say, but when she did speak, the famous diamond could be seen glittering between the two front teeth.”

The Blacks were always faithful to their political allies, and Charles Tabor shared Black’s maritime origin, as well as his politics. Mrs. Black may also have enjoyed breaking social convention by inviting a former dance hall girl to one of her social functions.

Beyond that, it is difficult to find hard facts.

However, in response to a casual question about Gertie posed by a staff member at the Yukon Archives, Kathy investigated further. She found five lines in a clipping from an obscure newspaper article, dated 1915, referring to a visit by a Mrs. C.W.C. Tabor to her parents in Pepperell, Massachusetts. Kathy sent an inquiry to the Pepperell Public Library and received a reply from Barbara Smith, a member of the local historical society and volunteer at the library.

Smith was able to supply information that confirmed that Gertie was born July 7, 1874. She was Mary Isobel Lovejoy, second daughter of Daniel and Angela Lovejoy of Harbor Street in

Tabor married Stephen C. Hart, memory.

Pepperell. The Lovejoy ancestral Harbor Street home still stands occupation hotel steward, of San What we don’t know about her today.

Francisco. The documents list is what she was really like, and Thus began a chain of corHart as being 35 years of age, and what happened to her over the respondence between them that Isobel being 32. In truth, she was course of her life. The records sughas pieced together much new in- 11 years older than Hart. gest that once she married Tabor, formation about Diamond Tooth Isobel was married to Stephen she lived a rather conventional Gertie Lovejoy. until his death 35 years later. She life, and after Tabor’s death, she Genealogical records reveal became a Christian Scientist in remained in the San Francisco that Mary Isobel married one Fred 1926, and a practitioner in 1928. area until she passed away 40 Ellis February 2, 1896. In Decem- She remained so until she died in years later. She left no descendants ber of 1900, the Pepperell Advertis- San Mateo in 1957. Though it is as far as we know. More research er reports that Mrs. M. Isabel Ellis often stated in print that she was may reveal other details of her life. of Dawson City, and her sister 90 years of age, she was in fact 83 Perhaps Kathy and her fellow Hattie, of New York, were visiting years old. And that seems to be the history hunter Barbara Smith their parents. story of her life – often misrepre- will succeed in finding Gertie’s We don’t know whether Fred sented, often misquoted, definitely personal papers, or other evidence Ellis died, or if they divorced, misunderstood and mythologized. of how she lived her life. Perhaps but we know from the marriage What we know about the we may even learn the fate of the certificate that Ms. Lovejoy was legendary Diamond Tooth Gertie diamond-studded smile that made joined to Charles C.W. Tabor Lovejoy is that she was in Dawson her a legend of the Klondike. in holy matrimony in Portland, City during the gold rush and Michael Gates is a Yukon historian Oregon, November 7, 1901. The inspired the community to name and sometimes adventurer based in document lists her last name as its gambling hall, the first legalWhitehorse. His new book, Dalton’s Lovejoy, not Ellis, raising curious ized casino in Canada, after her Gold Rush Trail, is now available. questions about the first marriage.

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Yukon skiers get experienced at B.C. championships Tom Patrick News Reporter

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fter a busy couple weeks of competing, the Yukon Freestyle Ski Team’s older crew of athletes decided to sit out the B.C. Freestyle Ski Championships over the weekend at Mount Washington on Vancouver Island.

Instead, it was time for the team’s younger bunch of juniors to shine at the slopestyle competition.

“They did really well. We took all the younger team,” said Yukon team head coach Stu Robinson. “For all of them, except for Lyndsey (Boorse), it was their first competition. So they did really well.

“It’s a good event to have new kids go to, that’s why we chose that one.”

Jacob Finton led the charge for Yukon’s five male skiers at the championship. Finton, who was competing up an age division, placed 13th out of 30 skiers in the M4 division (males 12-13).

“He had a really good competition,” said Robinson.

“The three older boys were all doing similar runs, but (Finton’s) came together the best for him.”

Lyndsey Boorse, the team’s only female skier at the event, placed 10th out 10 skiers in the F3 division (females 14-15).

Boorse won gold at last year’s B.C. championship in the same division.

“I’d say she would have been close to the podium, but unfortunately in her two runs she made two separate mistakes,” said Robinson. “Her training run was probably the best I’ve seen. She was doing 360s on some of the mediumsize jumps and that was really good.”

Finton was joined by four teammates in the M4 division.

Yukon’s Milan Lapres placed 18th, Evyn Dinn - another competing up a division came 20th and Isaac Pumphrey 28th.

They were hitting 360s and 540s “spinning in both directions, which is a great thing to be able to do,” said Robinson.

“It’s something we start teaching at a very young age and it makes a big difference when they get older.”

Yukon’s Keegan Hopkins slipped to last in 30th after taking a bad fall.

“Keegan got a concussion, so he had to go to the hospital,

unfortunately, but he’s doing really well, recovering, and will be back to activities in a week or so,” said Robinson.

“We were focused on the process of learning how to go to a first event, and not on the results,” he added. “I was really happy with everyone’s attitude towards competing.

“They did have some pretty good placings.”

The Yukon Freestyle Ski Team has had another fantastic season. Members of the team captured six medals at the Canadian Junior Freestyle Skiing Championships last month in Quebec.

Yukon’s Etienne Geoffroy won his team’s first-ever gold medal at the championships and went on to win two more gold, including an overall medal in the M2 division (16-17).

Teammates Josh Harlow won silver and Dylan Reed won two bronze in the same division.

With great results all season, the same three decided to enter the senior national championships a couple weeks ago in Penticton, B.C. and Geoffroy landed 11th in slopestyle.

Geoffroy then took first place at the Showdown Throwdown Hoedown at Silver

Ronda Barzilay/Yukon News

Top, Yukon’s Lyndsey Boorse competes at the B.C. Freestyle Ski Championships over the weekend on Vancouver Island. Boorse placed 10th in F3 slopestyle. Right, Yukoner Isaac Pumphrey catches air in the M4 division.

Star outside of Vernon while Harlow took seventh in the pro category.

It’s no wonder the older Yukon skiers needed a break.

“We sent our rookies because this is a great entry to competition and it is so much fun at Mt. Washington,” said Yukon association president Lynda Harlow. “Also, since it’s a one-day event, there isn’t a ton of stress for them but still gives them the introduction to competition, which can make some kids pretty nervous. From what I have heard though, these guys had a blast and not a lot of nerves so I can’t wait for them to hit the circuit next year.

“I am excited about the new group of kids coming up through the development group.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Yukoner helps B.C. win at western hockey championships Tom Patrick

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“It’s been great, there are lots of great coaches and we’re hen a championship is able to accomplish a lot,” said on the line and a Tier 1 Leas. team needs a player, who bet“On Jonas’ team there are ter to call up than the captain players from Merritt, Campof the club’s Tier 2 team? bell River, from Kitimat, from It worked for the North all over the Lower Mainland Shore Winter Club Winter– they move their families hawks. to come and be part of this Whitehorse’s Jonas Leas, program,” said father Daryn who captains the WinterLeas. “To take advantage hawks Tier 2 squad, answered of this high level coaching, the call. take advantage of the skill The 14-year-old helped development with ex-NHL the Tier 1 team win gold at players working with the kids, the Western Canada Bantam in addition to all the coachHockey Championships. ing they get. It’s a top-flight “It was great to be a part of program. it,” said Leas. “I did my best to “Jonas has done really well. contribute and we all worked It’s raised his skill level over hard and it was a great win the last three years to be one overall for everyone.” of the elite players.”

The Winterhawks, a Jonas is not the only Leas Vancouver-based team repre- excelling in the Winterhawks senting B.C. as the provincial program. His 10-year-old championships, beat Alberta’s sister Zoe became the first Lloydminster Heat 4-3 in female player in a number of double overtime on Sunday in seasons to earn a spot on the Kelowna, B.C. Winterhawks’ Tier 1 atom Leas played five games boys team. with the Winterhawks at the Jonas isn’t quite ready to Corinne McKay/Yukon News westerns, which also included hang up the skates for the Whitehorse’s Jonas Leas competes with his North Shore Winter Club Tier 2 team during this Saskatchewan, Manitoba and season. He will compete for a past season. Leas was called up to the Tier 1 team and helped the team win the Western the hosting Kelowna team. He chance to play at the B.C. Cup Canada Bantam Hockey Championships in Kelowna, B.C., over the weekend. logged a goal against Saswith the first round of seleckatchewan at the championtion camps this weekend. ship.

“There are a lot of great The winger, who is an players going in, but I think Advertising alumni of the Whitehorse I can make the second round Mustangs rep club, also had a with a lot of hard work and All builders are invited It’s good great season with his Winter- doing what I’ve been doing to attend the following: hawk Tier 2 team. for you. for the past couple years,” said The Winterhawks won the Leas. “There are so many great 8 a.m. – 10 a.m.

Tier 2 Port Moody Tournaplayers from across B.C. – it’ll Westmark Whitehorse ment and took bronze in be a tough one.”

Conference Room the Kamloops International Contact Tom Patrick at Bantam Ice Hockey Tournatomp@yukon-news.com ment with Leas leading the Thursday, April 17, 2014 Optimizing Construction and Energy Costs in tournament in scoring with Energy Efficient Housing 19 points in six games.

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The Winterhawks finished Guest Speaker - Mark Carver, Project Officer, Housing Team with silver after a loss to PenHousing, Buildings & Communities, CanmetENERGY, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa ticton.

James Wigmore, Senior Energy Advisor, Energy Solutions Centre, Leas, who was born and Energy, Mines & Resources, Yukon Government raised in Whitehorse, has Juergen Korn, P.Eng., Research/Development Project Manager, played with the North Shore Yukon Housing Corporation Winter Club the last three News Reporter

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Polarettes vault to four medals in B.C. Tom Patrick

Robyn Poulter took bronze on the vault, fourth on the bars and floor, for fifth allembers of the Polarettes around out of six in Level 2 Gymnastics Club literopen. ally vaulted to hardware over “Vault has always been a the weekend. troubled event for her, so to Gymnasts with the Whiteget a bronze was amazing for horse club won four medals, her,” said O’Donovan. “She including a gold, on the vault had a really clean vault that at the Twisters Invitational in day.”

Abbotsford, B.C. Bianca Berko-Malvasio “I guess we’re turning into made her first south-of-60 a little bit of a vault specialcompetition a memorable ist team,” said Polarettes head one. Berko-Malvasio snagged coach Catherine O’Donovan. bronze on the vault, placed “Our vault was astoundsixth on the bars, en route to ing. We ended up with four 15th all-around out of 20 in medals – a gold, a silver and Level 2 tyro. two bronze – all in different “Bianca is really new; this categories. So that was really was her first time competexciting for the girls. They ing outside of Whitehorse or were really thrilled.”

Juneau,” said O’Donovan. “It Polarette Matisse Robertson was her first time bringing handsprung to gold in vault that vault up to a bigger scale in the Level 2 tyro division. and she placed in it no probShe also claimed seventh on lem.” the bars, and 19th in the beam Whitehorse teammate Anna and floor, for 18th all-around Gishler came 18th on the vault out of 19. and beam for 19th all-around “Her gold wasn’t complete- in the same division. ly surprising to me. I’m sure it Alexis Benson took 13th on was to her because she always the beam and placed 18th allis the unassuming athlete,” around in Level 2 tyro. said O’Donovan. “She’s a very Emily King grabbed eighth strong vaulter.” on the beam, 10th on the bars, Teammate Megan took for ninth all-around in Level silver in the vault in the Level 3 tyro.

4 open division. The 15-year“She’s a bit of a beam speold also finished 12th on the cialist,” said O’Donovan. “She floor for 16th all-around out had one fall and unfortunately of 19. that cost her the silver.”

“She tried a new, really difPolarettes’ Anisa Albisser ficult vault that she just got finished sixth on the bars, a week before the competifloor and all-around in Level tion, so getting a silver in that 4 tyro. was incredibly thrilling for Sydney Cairns picked up her,” said O’Donovan. “It was 10th on the beam and 12th on the first time her parents got the floor for 11th all-around to see her do that vault and in Level 3 novice. maybe the fourth time she had “She didn’t get any topdone it completely by herself.” eight placements, but she by Banks unleashed a Tsufar had the best competition kahara for silver – a half twist out of all of our athletes,” said onto the vault followed by O’Donovan. “She hit all her a back flip after leaving the routines, didn’t run into any vault table. trouble … She was the only “I feel pretty good because one on the team to get her that was the first time I comstart-scores.” peted that vault and it was my Due to injuries, Polarette’s first time competing in Level Reena Coyne did not compete 4,” said Banks. “I was pretty and Fayne O’Donovan only happy. competed in the vault and “Before I was a little nervbars, taking seventh and 11th, ous about doing it, but I just in Level 4 open. pushed through. I thought, ‘I Banks, King, Albisser and might as well doing because Cairns all competed for Yukon I’ve been practising it.’ After in gymnastics at the 2014 ArcI felt pretty good about it, tic Winter Games last month happy that I did it.” in Fairbanks, Alaska. They Brian Barthel/Barthel Photo Whitehorse’s Caitlyn came away with a bronze in Polarettes gymnast Bianca Berko-Malvasio dismounts from the beam at the Twisters Venasse came eighth on the the team event.

Invitational in Abbotsford, B.C., over the weekend.

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Big turnout at Twister season finale

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Katherine Sheepway competes in the skijor division.

Sheepway went undefeated in Twister races this season.

five in a row on Sunday.

Sheepway took first in the skijor race for the fifth time this season, placing first in all five Twister skijor races.

The Dog Powered Sports Asso-

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Results Sleds (nine miles) 1st Jonathan Lucas – 33:30 2nd Marine Gastard – 33:44 3rd Alex Rochet – 34:08 4th Armin Johnson – 34:35 5th Lori Tweddell – 38:54 6th Luc Tweddell – 39:26 7th Fabian Schmitz – 39:32 8th Louve Tweddell – 40:15 9th Jean-Marc Champeval – 41:23 10th Colin Morrison – 43:21 11th Magnus Kaltenborn – 44:26 12th Claudia Wickert – 44:48 13th Martin Haefele – 45:39

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ushers and skijorers evidently wanted to get one last race in before the big thaw of spring hits.

Twenty teams participated in the Watson Valley Grand Finale, the last Yukon Brewing Twister race of the season, at the Mount Lorne Community Centre on Sunday.

The finale marked the biggest turnout of the season at the Twister series, organized by the Dog Powered Sports Association of the Yukon. In fact, it saw the most sleds hit the trails since last season’s finale.

It was a good turnout and “it was a good one to win,” said Jonathan Lucas.

Lucas took first in the ninemile sled division with a time of 33 minutes and 30 seconds, just 14 seconds ahead of Marine Gastard. Third place’s Alex Rochet was close behind with a time of 34:08.

Lucas placed in a tie for first at the Stardog Kennel Twister race in February for his first win in a couple seasons. He finished third in the last Twister at the Takhini Hot Springs in March.

“It’s been a great season: two first, two seconds and two thirds,” said Lucas.

“The trail was as hard and as fast as the last one at the hot springs. At that one I was trying to take advantage of speed and just go fast and I crashed three times and lost lots of time. So this

time I learned to use my brakes and we came first.”

The last time Lucas won a Twister race before this year was in the 2011/12 race season, and that was as a skijorer. Dog sledding allows him to run more dogs at once.

“I have more dogs and I’m about to get more,” said Lucas.

“My kennel is probably going to grow to 30. So I’m just getting used to running sleds. They all have to get running, so I just take them out on the sled.”

“It’s not me, it’s the dogs,” he added. “Most of them are Deb Knight’s (of Jesaris Kennel) …

She has a bad hip at the moment so she asked me to run them. It’s been a joy for me.”

Katherine Sheepway made it

Yukon Soccer Association is holding a

Referee Clinic: Dates: Location: Times: Cost:

April 17-18th, 2014 Canada Games Centre (Meeting Room & Fieldhouse) 6:00 – 9:00pm Thursday 9:00am (sharp) to 3pm Friday

$30 (includes ref kit/new referee) $15 (excludes ref kit/existing referee)

This course is mandatory for any referees wishing to officiate in the upcoming outdoor season that have not taken the outdoor referee clinic before.

Participants must be at least 12 years old.

Requirements for course: Pen & paper.

Interested persons must pre-register in advance at Sport Yukon by noon Thursday April 17th.

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Kakuro

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Sudoku Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku.

This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test!

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

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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.

Thus, a clue of 3 will produce a solution of 2 and 1 and a 5 will produce 4 and 1, or 2 and 3, but of course, which squares they go in will depend on the solution of a clue in the other direction.

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.

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: Familiar friends, neighbors, or relatives

Puzzle A

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WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: desolate, forsaken

CLUES ACROSS 1. Cavalry sword 6. Cleaving tools 11. Fall flower 14. Insures residential mortgages 15. Gran Argentine plain 16. Beak or bill 18. Isaac’s mother 21. Sloping loose rock debris 23. Ballerina painter Edgar 25. Work stoppage

26. Self-immolation by fire rituals 28. Can’t move 29. Measures atmospheric pressure 31. Dash 34. Adult male human 35. Foot (Latin) 36. Hearths 39. Milksops 40. Wax letter closures

44. Withdraw from circulation 45. Manila hemp 47. An alloy of copper and zinc 48. Fire embers 50. Thousand cubic feet (abbr.)

51. Catches 56. British Air Aces 57. Blossoming 62. Rush-like marsh plant 63. Small integer

20. Head covering 21. Throat infection 22. Mediterranean Greek island 24. A brother or sister 25. Golfer Snead 27. Indigenous Laplanders 28. Cornbreads 30. Radioactivity unit 31. Flax spinning staff 32. Upbeat part of a measure 33. Inheritors 36. Marked by extreme emotion or force 37. Perceive with the eye 38. A very large body of water 39. Nuclear near reach weapon 41. Basics

42. Thai language 43. In short supply 46. Wings 49. Left heart there 51. Domestic swine 52. They ___ 53. Point midway between S and E 54. Western states time zone 55. Upstate NY airport code 58. Iron 59. Libyan dinar 60. Trauma center 61. Point midway between N and E

CLUES DOWN 1. Allotments 2. One of the six noble gases 3. Next to 4. Upper left keyboard key 5. Used with sis boom bah 6. Supervises interstate commerce 7. The 17th Greek letter 8. Old English 9. 1/16 inch in printing 10. First lights 11. N. Central African country 12. Sodium 13. More humble in spirit 14. Foreign Service 17. Hive insects 19. Honorable title (Turkish)

Puzzle B

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WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: to appropriate furtively or casually

Puzzle C

ICHLF LOOK ON PAGE 79, FOR THE ANSWERS

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Fashionable, computer skills, sewing experience an asset.

Apply in person to Andrea: 6098 6th Avenue with references.

KAL TIRE is looking for full-time team members in Shipping & Receiving & the Front Shop Pay depends on experience Contact: Rick Copes 633-4482 rick_copes@kaltire.com DAWSON CITY Looking for an experienced cook for exclusive Greek cuisine restaurant For more information contact Tony Dovas 867-993-5868

HOUSE-SITTER AVAILABLE in Whitehorse, mature, many references, good with animals, gardens, some openings still remaining from June-Sept. Josef 335-2300 PROFESSIONAL COUPLE looking for place to rent in town for May 1st. 1 or 2 bdrm place that allows pets. 336-3074 WANTED: 1-2 bedroom suite, house or cabin, long term rental, late 30's single female & well cared for/well behaved dog, low maintenance, quiet, clean and respectful, 506-260-6402 REQUIRE 1-BDRM apt for May 1 in Whitehorse, prefer c/t or Riverdale, professional male YTG employee, arriving April 12.

Phone 519-577-0200 or email Eugene at ritz0530@rogers.com

Real Estate KENO CITY Lot #15, 1 acre in town, property has 6 buildings incl unique 1,500 sqft beer bottle house and 30ʼx45ʼ shop, 867-995-2720

HOUSE HUNTERS

InSite

Home Inspections Buying or Selling?

Good information ensures a smooth transaction.

No SurpriSeS = peace of MiNd

• Pre-Sale or Purchase visual inspections of structure and systems

RIVERDALE LOT, 100x50, zoned RS but new services to support 2nd/3rd residence, S-facing back, quiet alley, close to trails, 21 McQuesten, $169,900. Build in Riverdale. wallymaltz@mac.com.

5 ATLIN lake view town lots. Prime location, Discovery Ave & 3rd St. 1 double lot incls old log house. Reduced to sell, $150,000 takes all. Email: mjbhome14@live.co.uk or John 250-676-9597 TINY HOUSE on trailer, 144 sq.ft main + 72 loft, quality airy beautiful healthy R-30 sheep wool + VIP insulation, incinolet, Bosch hotwat er, p r o p a n e F/P, $ 7 4 ,9 0 0 . wallymaltz@mac.com. Live anywhere, well!

FULL TIME DENTAL ASSISTANT REQUIRED Full Time Assistant required immediately for Pine Dental.

Experience required.

Please fax resume to 867-668-5121 or drop off at clinic at 101-204 Black St.

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• Commercial Maintenance Inventory Inspections • W.E.T.T. Inspections of Wood and Pellet burning stoves / fireplaces

Like new Porter Creek Condo, Available immediately. 3 Bedrooms, 2 Bath, Lots of room at 1742 sq. ft.

www.InsIteHomeInspectIons.ca

Entrance level has bedroom/office, master bedroom with his/her closets, bathroom, large utility room with washer and dryer and entrance to basement storage area. Upper level has bright spacious combined living/dining area with BBQ balcony, sumptuous kitchen, stainless appliances, pantry, bedroom and bathroom. Virtually soundproof.

Call 633-3126 or e-mail tlaw@northwestel.net for more pictures/info or to view.

3 BDRM split level in gRangeR

4 BDRM: coppeR RiDge cul De sac

Call Kevin Neufeld, Inspector at

867-667-7674 • 867-334-8106 KevinNeufeld@hotmail.com

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2 ACRE lot, Atlin, incl 28X34 newly constr unfinished 2-storey house & new 18x28 cabin, mobile home w basement to live in while house completed, well, water, septic, $195,000. 250-651-7868 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

SKY HIGH WILDERNESS RANCH is looking for an experienced horse guide.

4 years experience guiding/training and first aid is required.

(Wilderness first aid preferred) Very labour intensive position.

Trail rides and possible pack trips.

Call Trudy or Gary for more info.

667-4321

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Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871

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When im in my condo I always feel like I’m somewhere extra special! :) Granite countertops, engineered hardwood and ceramic flooring, stainless steel appliances, solid-core fir doors and a full wall of windows with a view of the sunrise on the beautiful Yukon River and Millennium Trail, right below your feet. These are only a few of the many reasons that you will fall in love with this River’s Reach outstanding lifestyle!

This bright third-floor corner unit will literally blow your mind with two huge bedrooms, a den (with custom built-in office), two bathrooms and a killer view from all areas.

Master has huge ensuite with separate tub & glass shower and walk-in closet, openconcept kitchen, dining and living area with fireplace & doors that lead to the spacious BBQ deck with propane plumbed in. Heated underground parking, elevator and storage lockers.

Please call 867-334-1234 to book your appointment to view this exceptional space...priced at $549,000.

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not your average modular home!

667-7681 or cell 334-4994 23 Lorne Rd. in McCrae

clivemdrummond@gmail.com

HOUSE HUNTERS HAINES JUNCTION HOUSE FOR SALE

HANDYMAN SPECIAL, 76ʼx150ʼ lot on Oak St, PC, 1,000ʼ per floor, Feb. 14 new boiler/wood stove heat, $250,000 obo.

633-4259 16X16 CABIN shell. 8x13 timbers w/dovetail corners. 6ʼ extʼd deck. Doors & windows or not cut out. I will deliver & assemble the cabin, $10,000. byrongagne@gmail.com LAKEFRONT ACREAGE; approx 9.7 acres & 1000 ft waterfront on beautiful Crag Lake.

Treed & sloped with several good building sites. $230,000. 821-6011 2-BDRM 1.5 bath house, Teslin, large living room, family room, arctic entry, 1,300sq ft, lake view, well, sewer, oil/wood heat, large fenced yard, in town, $115,000. 335-4460 TESLIN LAKE. Quality 4-bdrm, 2-bath home w/shop on 0.18 acres. Drilled well, gorgeous stone & pine detailed finishing, $364,900.

633-4778.

CHOICE OF 2 land parcels, 7.5 acres each.

Treed with Ag parcels on sides. Near km 1462 (Ak Hwy) on south side. Phone & power avail from hwy, $159,900/ea.

633-4822

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307 Hawkins street Whitehorse 867-334-9996

63 Sandpiper drive Whitehorse 867-668-2148

a perfect match! Location, Luxury, family friendly

60 ACRE HORSE FARM; 4 BDRM HOME

4-BDRM 3-BATH 4-level split, Logan, fireplace, sunken LR, rear deck access, greenbelt, mountain view, AM & PM sunshine, quiet neighbourhood, double garage, 667-6587

COMMUTE!

Help Wanted CHEEKY MONKEYʼS DAYCARE is hiring a Toddler Teacher & a Supported Childcare Worker.

Looking for mature, responsible, fun-loving individuals to join our dynamic team.

Competitive wages & benefits.

Drop off resumes to: 95 Lewes Blvd cheekymonkeysdaycare@gmail.com 334-4665

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Lot 1327 - 2 Rivendell Rd Whitehorse 867-393-3025

LOT 3, BLOCK 45 HAINES JUNCTION BRAND NEW TWO BEDROOM HOME. 1216 square feet with attached single-car garage. Located on very quiet cul-de-sac in the newest serviced subdivision. Great south-facing exposure with full view of the front range of mountains. This home has been built to the latest energy standards and met the energy audit of the latest NBC. It features maple kitchen cabinets, AC4 laminate and ceramic flooring, as well as a gas fireplace. Asking $329,000.

For more information or to make a viewing appointment call: (867) 633-4275 Whitehorse or (867) 336-8850 Haines Junction

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employment opportunity Yukon Suspension Bridge is currently seeking Employees for the up-coming 2014 tourist season that operates from May to October.

Positions available are;

• • • •

Des professionnels engagés Conseils en développement de carrière

Cook AssistAnt/DishwAsher restAurAnt server CAshier tour GuiDe

Yukon Suspension Bridge is a world class tourist attraction located between Whitehorse, Yukon and Skagway, Alaska along the Klondike Highway. We are looking for energetic and personable individual who can work well in our customer service business. Daily transportation to and from the Bridge is provided. Qualifications and duties very from each position, should you require more information please contact us. If you feel you have the experience and knowledge to be a part of our team please submit resume.

Création, amélioration et traduction de CV Simulation d’entrevue

For more information of our business visit us at,

www.yukonsuspensionbridge.com Email: info@yukonsuspensionbridge.com Phone: 604-628-5660 Fax: 250-262-5123

Des services personnalisés et des ressources utiles.

Éducation

Direction de l’enseignement postsecondaire

CENTRE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE 302, rue Strickland, Whitehorse (Yukon) 867.668.2663 poste 223 www.sofa-yukon.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.

Residence Mentor Student and Infrastructure Support Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Permanent Position starting May 1, 2014 Based on 75 hours bi-weekly Salary: $56,448 to $67,209 per annum Competition No.: 14.42 Initial Review Date: April 14, 2014

As a Residence Mentor you will be an integral part of a larger Residence Team responsible for generating enthusiasm as well as creating and implementing programs designed to foster a sense of community among residents.

The ideal candidate will have the skills to develop a strong community, form therapeutic relationships with individual students, guide residence assistants, encourage dialogue about diversity, provide support and/or referral to appropriate academic and personal support services and collaborate with other College departments.

The Residence Mentor is a position with significant responsibilities and you must have the ability to respond to concerns and situations in a professional and diplomatic manner. Responsibilities include: programming, responding to critical incidents, writing a variety of reports, assisting with disciplinary processes, mediating conflict and ensuring policies and procedures are followed.

The successful candidate will have relevant post secondary education and experience designing and delivering events, programs and workshops. Applicants must demonstrate their experience providing leadership, resolving conflict and problem solving.

Experience with post-secondary educational institutions, and similar programs would be considered an asset.

A security clearance is required.

Hours of work are from: Evenings and Weekends 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

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EmploymEnt opportunitiEs At Yukon Energy, we believe that we are the employer of choice in the Yukon. We foster a respectful and positive work environment making it a rewarding place to work. We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits and generous northern and travel allowances. So take the next step in your career path and join our team of skilled and dedicated employees.

Powerline Technician Permanent Full Time Position

Mayo, Yukon Salary Range: $74,639 - $87,809 (plus $10,032 - $10,690 in annual northern benefits) This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled professional to join our Transmission and Distribution team. The primary focus of this position will be in the construction and maintenance of electrical transmission and distribution systems, including substations, and street light systems to maintain continuous and satisfactory service to customers.

Travel throughout the territory and periods of on-call coverage are required.

We are looking for someone with: Journey level Powerline Technician certification and several years of experience with overhead transmission and distribution systems.

Rigging and hoisting certification; minimum of two years experience operating equipment; and a class 3 driver’s license are also required.

Come Join our team at Whitehorse Motors! We are currently seeking a

Journeyman Automotive Service Technician

We offer competitive wages, a great working atmosphere, an excellent benefit package and much more.

Forward resume to Nick Schonewille 4178-4th Ave, Whitehorse, Y1A 1J6 or email service@whitehorsemotors.com

Whitehorse Motors

4th Avenue and Wheeler, Whitehorse, Yukon

ACMG HikinG BACkpACkinG SnowSHoeinG Guide Duties: • Safe Outdoor guiding with interpretation, transporting, emergency procedure, cooking at camp. (NOC #6532) Wage: • $18.95 / hr, Permanent position • Full time position (min. of 35 hrs / week) • WCB, Staff Accommodation 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

Miscellaneous for Sale BETTER BID NORTH AUCTIONS Foreclosure, bankruptcy De-junking, down-sizing Estate sales.

Specializing in estate clean-up & buy-outs.

The best way to deal with your concerns.

Free, no obligation consultation.

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 MAKITA 12” planer, 6” joiner combination machine, 220 volt, 3 sets of blades, $700 obo. 633-2916 JACQUES COUSTEAU Collection set of 4, #1 Life & Death in a Coral Sea, #2 Dolphins, #3 Sharks, #4 Whales, Collection of 4, $100.

633-3113

IT Helpdesk Support

ROYAL WEDDING Album, $20, King Tutankhamenʼs Treasures, $20, Mandrell family album, signatured, $20, assorted novels, $5. 633-3113

Whitehorse Salary Range $30.89/hr - $36.34/hr

3 1000 sq.ft. rolls of Thermaflow poly sheeting, super white reflective, $25 per roll.

334-7535

Casual On-Call

Working as part of the IT team this casual on-call position will support the IT group with computer software, hardware or systems problems and clean, install and modify existing operating systems.

The successful applicant will have first or second year Computer studies or equivalent experience or certification. Knowledge of installation and configuration of Windows operating systems; and experience troubleshooting computers, laptops, servers, printers and LAN/WAN system components in a Windows Active Directory Domain. Knowledge of workstation security software, databases and data backup systems would be an asset.

To apply on either of these positions, submit a covering letter and resume by 5:00 pm April 25, 2014 to Human Resources via fax to (867) 393-5334 or email us at hr@yec.yk.ca.

We appreciate all responses; only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

15 1000 watt HPS, high efficient light bulbs, $25 ea. 5 1000 watt IMH bulbs, $25 ea.

334-7535 SHEET METAL air ducting adapters, 3 10”-8”, 3 8”-6”, 1 10”- 3 8”, thermo insulated ducting 6”, 8”, 10”, various lengths, offers.

334-7535 8 1000 watt light reflector hoods w class bottom, enclosed w 6” air cooled ports, $75 ea.

7 1000 watt 6” ported” glass tube w batwing reflector, A$80 ea 9 1000 watt ballasts Lumatek 240 power supply only, $100 ea. 3 Intermatic model T104 heavy duty timers, $35 ea. 334-7535 YAMAHA EF4600DX generator, both 120 & 240 volt, economy (auto) idle, low oil alert, 21lt fuel tank, good cond, $1,500 obo.

332-2113 9 1000 watt ballasts dual 120/240 watt w dimmable & super lumens from 50%-110% operating output, super efficient, lightweight and cool, $150 ea. 336-4202 AIR HOCKEY table, $25. 633-2906

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Friday, April 11, 2014 3 8” inline Hurricane fans, used, $100. 1 8” Hurricane fan, new, $150. 336-4202 2 HONEYWELL Air Genius air purifier, screens out microbials, mould, bacteria, new $225, asking $100. 336-4202

Village of Teslin

18 240 watt electrical plug receptacles wired into elec boxes, offers. 4 Green Hornet LED lights for dark room, $5 ea. 334-7535 GRANDMAʼS CUTLERY. Some silver, some not. Good for craft projects. 28 spoons; 8 forks; 3 knives. $25 firm. 821-6011 DOUBLE STAINLESS steel kitchen sink, c/w faucets, & lazy Susan, all in gd cond, $50. 667-2760 RV PLASTIC water tank 15 gal. 8”x16”x30”, exc cond, $50 firm. 821-6011 DEARBORN 2 bottom furrow plow. Fits a three point hitch, $500 obo. 633-6502 1750 POWER converter, $275, mini cement-mixer, $175, both from Cdn Tire, both still in boxes, 633-4606 32,000 BTU Geostove, gravity oil stove, perfect for cabin, camp, greenhouse. 334-8335 14ʼX16ʼX6ʼ CANVAS wall tent, new, $1,200 w/out frame. 334-8335 GLASS ENTRANCE door, metal frame, used. Steel tracks for 5th wheel hitch. Basic cash register. 667-7144 1 400L Tidy Tank with hand pump, L-shape, drywall taping Bazooka construction air nailer (assorted). 667-7413 MEC FULL side zip waterproof pants, womenʼs medium, new, $80. Large spider plant, $40. 1llB Hanson St.

Closing Date: April 23, 2014

We are seeking an energetic, motivated and outgoing office assistant to work part time and on call with the Dispute Resolution Board.

Salary: Hours per Week: Starting Date: Hours:

Duties: Answering enquiries, typing, filing, office administration duties, may include some research, compiling results and organizing workshops

MASON INDUSTRIAL sewing machine, as is, needs a little TLC, $200 firm. 667-6760 BRAND NEW self contained, stand alone, odourless compost toilet. Evirolet brand.

Very efficient, low maintenance, Needs no water, c/w ducting, no tax and no shipping. $2,200 obo. 633-6502 50-YEAR COLLECTION of National Geographic magazines in good quality slipcases [1961-2011), $100. 668-2877 30 CC, 8-inch ice auger. $275 obo. Like new. 633-6502 HYDRAULIC WOOD splitter. Fits on three point hitch of tractor. $1500 obo. 633-6502 60-INCH GASPARDO Sickle mower with hydraulic lift. Spare blade. Like new. $1500.

390-2507 2 LARGE house plants, 1-5ʼ tall palm tree, $75 obo, 1 bushy palm plant, $50 obo.

667-7107 CORDLESS PASLODE Li-ion C325 nailer, new, with 6 cartridges, case, charger + 100lb nails, $475. 334-8335 HOMELITE 4300 watt generator, never used, $300 obo. 668-5882 GARAGE WORK table, 10ʼx8ʼ, $100 obo.

667-7107 CURTAINS, 54”X74”, cabbage rose pattern, Lancashire cotton, 4 for $100. Double duvet cover, multi burgundy with gold, orange, green, $30. 633-5009 WALL TENT McPherson 16x14 with 4ʼ wall, used, no holes, chimney on wall side. $500 334-5491 26” FRONT tine roto-tiller, works great, $275 obo. Call 335-7455

Electrical Appliances PROPANE DRYER, new, $1,200. 334-8335 STAND-UP FREEZER, exc cond, 59 1/2" tall by 28 3/8" wide, $225.00. 334-5189 COMPACT 336-4242

F R I D G E , 4.5 cu ft, $75.

TVs & Stereos Paying cash for good quality modern electronics.

G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS SHAW DIGITAL Satellite Receiver HDPVR, 1-yr use, paid $400, asking $200, 633-6597 btwn 6:00pm & 8:30 pm

Qualifications: Standard First Aid and CPR or the ability to obtain it within the first two months of employment, high school diploma or equivalent, ability to pass a criminal record check and vulnerable sector check, valid Class 5 drivers license (Class 4 would be an asset). Previous experience in recreation planning or programming would be an asset. The successful applicant must have a personal interest in recreation and community services as demonstrated by volunteer work, participation, or previous experience. This position is a seasonal term position.

Requirements: previous office experience, familiar with computer programs, word, excel, power point, ability to work independently when required, strong business writing skills, organizational skills. Willingness to learn sage accounting if required. Available to cover for staff annual leaves.

Wage will be commensurate with experience.

Please contact Frank Thomas for a complete job description.

Knowledge of the Yukon First Nation land claims agreements, dispute resolution and mediation processes are an asset.

Submit resume to: Email: Phone: Fax: Address:

INFRARED SAUNA, 3-person corner unit with built-in radio/CD player, lights, oxygen ionizer, used for 2 yrs, great health benefits, low energy consumption $1,700. 334-7507

DEEP FRYER, double basket, propane powered, new $1,800, asking $700. 456-4922

Position summary: The Recreation Coordinator reports to the Chief Administrative Officer of the Village of Teslin. This position is responsible for summer recreation planning and implementation for the community of Teslin. Responsibilities will include organizing activities for residents of all ages, supervising the recreation centre, coordinating special events, and planning and delivering recreation and leisure activities including, but not limited to: arts, sports, educational, cultural and sporting events. This position is required to work flexible hours with some evening, weekend, and holiday work.

Beginning at $20/hr depending upon experience 18.5 flex hours per week May 12, 2014 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday

MOVING OUT sale, 393-3113

DISPLAY REFRIGERATOR, approx 4ʼ wide, curved glass front, sliding back doors, new $2,000, asking $1,000. 456-4922

Summer Recreation Coordinator

Part Time Office Assistant

HONEYWELL DIGITAL thermostat, model Focus Pro 5000, 5-yr warranty, new, $25.

Daytol cooling thermostat, $50. 336-4202

www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

How to aPPly:

Dispute Resolution Board drb.ufa@northwestel.net 867.668.3562 867.668.4474 100 – 407 Ogilvie St Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2S

Applications may be submitted to Frank Thomas no later than April 17th, 2014.

Village of Teslin PO Box 130 Teslin, YT Y0A 1B0

Employment Opportunity

Phone: (867) 390-2530 Fax: (867) 390-2104 Website: www.teslin.ca f.thomas@northwestel.net

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.

Student Housing Manager Student and Infrastructure Support Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Term position from: June 18, 2014 to August 18, 2015 Salary: $41.10 to $48.92 per hour Based on 75 hours bi-weekly Initial Review Date: April 16, 2014 Competition No.: 14.41

We are seeking a dynamic individual to manage Yukon College’s student housing complex and Residence Life Program.

You will implement the annual business plan, including managing revenues and expenditures, and supervising a Residence Life team to foster a respectful, safe and supportive learning environment for students.

As a member of the Student & Infrastructure Support team you will collaborate in providing a broad range of student success services related to education planning, discipline, recruitment, retention, and other programs.

The ideal candidate will have a post-secondary degree in Social Sciences, Social Work, Business, Education, or a related discipline, combined with experience working in a similar setting. You must be capable of assuming a variety of roles in response to the changing needs of students, and the creation of an environment that inspires students to develop independence and learn to live cooperatively with others.

Candidates must clearly demonstrate their experience successfully creating and managing programs, supervising staff, monitoring and managing revenues and expenditures, and providing responsive leadership.

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

IS ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR:

Accounting Assistant •

Applicant should have accounting/business courses along with a couple of years of accounting/bookkeeping experience.

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Ability to take direction easily, work under pressure and deadlines, and communicate effectively with staff and lawyers is essential.

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This position involves data entry, reconciling different accounts, paying invoices, recording of all monies and month end procedures.

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Good working knowledge of office procedures and accounting software. An understanding of Word, Excel, and Outlook are essential to this position.

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Experience with Simply Accounting would be an asset.

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Experience working with trust accounting would be an asset, but we are willing to train the right person.

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This position is permanent full time and salary will correspond with experience. We provide an attractive benefit package along with a progressive vacation plan.

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Confidentiality and a police check will be required We invite interested candidates to apply with resume to our office by 5:00 p.m., Friday, April 18th to: 3081 ThIRd AvE WhITEhORSE, YukON Y1A 4Z7

Attention: Greg LeBlanc, Manager No phone calls please and only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Stand out from the crowd and be seen!

Advertise your business in the Yukon News.

Phone: 867-667-6283 • Fax: 867-667-3755

Marsh Lake Solid Waste Management Society Is seeking

On-call/Casual Waste Facility Attendants

SFA certification / WHMIS training / CSR approved footwear required Wage: $17.00/hr. Hours Vary.

Priority will be given to Marsh Lake residents.

For further information please call: (867) 660-4660 and leave a message or you may email your Resume to: yukondundee@northwestel.net

Canyon City Construction Is looking to hire a

Superintendent to work in Whitehorse on various construction projects including commercial construction and renovations, residential projects, and site works.

Email resume to: office@canyoncity construction.com Or fax resumes to: 867-633-6859

www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

Employment Opportunity

Computers & Accessories SEAGATE EXTERNAL Hard Drive w/2TB capacity, new, $120. GE Answering Machine w/instruction manual, $10 obo. Battery charger for 4AA, 4AAA or 9V nickel Cardium batteries, $5. 633-2093

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Friday, April 11, 2014 Musical Instruments

PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com

OPTIMUS MD-1200 electric keyboard w/stand. 25 black, 36 white keys. In perfect cond, $250 firm. 667-4526

TRABEN CHAOS Core Bass with strap, hard case, amp & amp cord, 1 year old, great cond, plays well. 335-5185

WHITE OYSTER shell finish touring pro 5pcs. Taye Drum set excellent condition .

Pedal, stool, stands included, $800 obo.

332-6970

Here is your opportunity to work in a diverse and dynamic environment for an evolving sport organization in the Yukon.

THe WHiTeHorse Curling Club is seeking an

assistant Manager

Knowledge and SKill RequiRed The successful candidate will have a passion for customer satisfaction and excellent skills in event coordination, normally acquired through a combination of education and experience, recreation and sports leadership, and some time spent working with non-profit organizations. The required strengths include strong planning, organizational, motivational, negotiation, and reporting skills. As well, the Assistant Manager will have an excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Excel, and the ability to independently perform all required duties.

deadline for applications is 6:00 pm Friday, april 18th.

For further details on this posting or to apply on the position, please contact Sandy Miller at info@ whitehorsecurlingclub.com or call 667-2875.

www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

Employment Opportunity

Instructor/Coordinator

The Community Campus is looking for an enthusiastic and energetic part-time Coordinator/Tutor to share the coordination duties of the community campus. Duties include the following: liaising and partnering with the local public, government and business communities, conducting training needs analyses, developing and presenting proposals, planning, coordinating and promoting the campus’s programs and tutoring in Adult Basic Education courses, including math, English and computer applications.

We are looking for an individual who has completed relevant post-secondary level coursework, with excellent computer skills and who has experience in: community development, teaching and/or tutoring, and working in a cross-cultural and team environment.

Knowledge of the area and of the culture and traditions of the Na-Cho Ny’a’k Dun First Nation would be considered and asset. Consideration may be given to candidates with the appropriate blend of education and experience.

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

Firewood

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

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Coordinator/Tutor

Mayo is a small Yukon community within the traditional territory of the Na-Cho Ny’a’k Dun First Nation with an approximate population of 500 people. It was originally established as a river port and is located at the confluence of the Mayo and Stewart rivers about 400-km northeast of Whitehorse.

We will buy your musical instrument or lend you money against it.

G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS

Thank you in advance to all applicants; however only those candidates selected for the interview process will be contacted.

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.

School of Community Education and Development Permanent Position Salary: $33,868 to $40,325 per annum (Based on 45.0 hours bi-weekly) Competition No.:14.30 Initial Review Date: April 22, 2014

BEAVER CREEK acoustic guitar, c/w voyager soft shell case, new strings, $140.

333-9084

The Assistant Manager position supports the financial and operational requirements of the Club by planning and administering specific Club functions and activities. This work is performed in a diverse and dynamic environment, which demands flexibility, adaptability and high caliber interpersonal skills on the part of the successful candidate. The position reports to the WCC Manager.

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.

Mayo Community Campus

FULL-SIZED VIOLIN for sale. Never played.

Comes with case, bow and instructional video on how to learn. $300. 668-7659.

Tr’odek Hatr’unohtan Zho (Dawson City) Community Campus

School of Community Education and Development Permanent Position from: August 04, 2014 Salary: $72,629 to $86,462 per annum (Based on 75.0 hours bi-weekly) Competition No.:14.32 Initial Review Date: April 22, 2014 Located 530 kilometers north of Whitehorse on the North Klondike Highway and connected by ferry to the Top Of The World Highway, Dawson City lies at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers. This vibrant community is within the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation and was central to the historical Klondike Gold Rush.

Reporting to the Chair, School of Community Education & Development (SCED), this position works as a member of a diverse team to develop, promote, deliver and evaluate programs/courses that support the educational, social and cultural goals of the Dawson City community and Yukon College.

Applicants should have an undergraduate degree, preferably a Masters in a related field, combined with experience in the following: instructing in Adult Basic Education, developing and coordinating educational courses and programs, community development and working with First Nations organizations and agencies.

Consideration may be given to those with an appropriate blend of education and teaching experience.

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

Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.

FIREWOOD FOR SALE Beetle killed Approximately 20-cord logging truck loads $150 per cord Delivered to Whitehorse Call Clayton @ 867-335-0894 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 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 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

Guns & Bows Case cutlery, high quality hand-crafted pocket and hunting knives available at G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS SEARS ROEBUCK J.C. Higgins, 12-gauge bolt action shotgun w tube magazine, blued 27” barrel, walnut stock, recoil pad, all good cond, $200. Bill @ 633-2443 FEG DOUBLE action semi-auto 9 mm pistol, 4.5” barrel, blue frame/slide, checked walnut stocks, cross between Browning H Power & S&W model 39, good cond, $500. Bill @ 633-2443 WINCHESTER MODEL 67 .22 single shot bolt action, good cond, $150. Winchester model 77 semi-auto .22, good cond, $250.

Bill @ 633-2443 CZ RINGNECK sxs 12-gauge shotgun, unfired, NIB, 28” black chromed barrels, 5 interchangeable chokes, checkered walnut stocks, recoil pad, $1,000. Bill @ 633-2443 MUZZLELOADER SCOPE, lightly used Nikon Omega 3-9x40, $100. Mike 633-2945

VIVITAR (CAMERA lens company) scope, fixed 4-power scope with rings, duplex cross-hair reticle, exc cond, $75. 633-2443 BUSHNELL SPORTVIEW scope, 3x-9x cross-hair reticle with built-in range finder, good cond, $75. Bill @ 633-2443 WEAVER K-1 scope, post and cross-hair reticle, shotgun or short range scope, good cond, $150. Bill @ 633-2443

Wanted WANTED: DOG-SITTER in your home for 8 lb dog, no other pets, please, for June, July & Aug, Monday through Thursday overnight.

Will pay well. 633-6401 for info.

WANTED: CORELLE round plates & bowls in any pattern. Any amount is fine. Full set not necessary. Reasonably priced. 393-3682 SPRING TIME MEANS CLEAN UP TIME! WILL PAY CASH FOR UNWANTED ITEMS: Downsizing, de-junking, moving, estate dispersals Call Brenda @ 993-3689 in the Dawson City area for a free no obligation assessment.

WANTED: SEA can for storage. 633-3086 WANTED: BANDSAW mill. 668-6871 WANTED: GOOD wood stove for large cabin, $500-$700 range. 334-7387 WANTED: CANOPY to fit short-box on 1994 Ford F150 XLT 4x4 extended cab.

Stephanie at 335-3905

Cars

the yukon’s best pre-owned vehicles! ✔ I50 point comprehensive vehicle inspection ✔ 3 month or 5000 km limited powertrain warranty ✔ 10 day or 1000 km Vehicle Exchange Privilege ✔ Car Proof verified report ✔ Complimentary Roadside Assistance ✔ Nitrogen inflated tires ✔ Full tank of fuel ✔ First two oil changes FREE

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Friday, April 11, 2014 2007 DODGE Caliber, like new, 129,000 km, remote start, heated seats, new summer/winter tires, 6-CD stereo, $9,500.

456-4112 or 333-0236

2005 CHEVROLET Impala sedan, V6 auto, air, cruise, tilt, power windows, locks & seat, low kms, $5,900. 660-4220

Server

2005 TOYOTA Camry sedan, 4-cyl auto, air, cruise, tilt, power windows/locks, $5,900.

660-4220

2007 HONDA Civic, 4-dr, auto, new windshield, all power options, good tires, lots of service records, clean, runs great, 200,000km. 667-4463

1982 CHRYSLER Cordova slant 6, auto, good shape, make offer. 336-1695

CPAWS Yukon is currently recruiting a

The Town and Mountain Hotel seeks an experienced Server for a busy, fast paced Lounge.

Please email or drop off résumé to Greg.

Town & MounTain HoTel 401 Main STreeT wHiTeHorSe, Yukon

part-time

Admin/ProgrAm ASSiStAnt CPAWS Yukon is one of 13 Chapters of the Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society (CPAWS). The Yukon Chapter was founded in 1993 by a group of Yukon citizens committed to safeguarding Yukon’s wild lands, waters and wildlife. Currently our major focus is protection of the Peel River Watershed.

Reporting to the Admin/Finance Manager this position has two major focuses: office admin. functions (administer mail, membership, office supplies, maintain campaign activity log, digital photo files, Quickbooks data entry, petty cash & VISA reconciliations, deposits) and program support/outreach (run weekly Fireweed summer market booth, tabling at community events, organizing other CPAWS events) Qualifications & skills • Strong administrative skills (financial experience an asset) • Excellent communicator who enjoys working with the public • Experience organizing events • Proficient with Microsoft Office suite and social media platforms • Post secondary education in related field and/or relevant work experience • Ability to work evenings (Thursdays) and occasional weekends as required The ideal person has strong organizational, communication and computer skills; is a team player who is also effective working on projects alone; and has good time management skills with ability to meet deadlines.

Compensation: 25 hrs/wk at $18 to $22/hr This is a contract position to March 31, 2015 with the possibility of extension funding dependent

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations

JOB OPPORTUNITY

Housing Programs Manager Regular Full-time | Salary: $70,821.44 - $82,851.07 Location: Haines Junction, YT | RE-POSTED March 27, 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.

Closing Date: tuesDay, april 22, 2014 4pM

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.

For full job description, visit cpawsyukon.org/about/jobs/ submit resumes by email to ltaylor@cpawsyukon.org or fax to 867-393-8081

We thank all those who apply but only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

We thank all applicants and advise that only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

Application Deadline: 4:30pm on April 14th, 2014.

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

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whitehorsemotors.com 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, warranty remaining, well maintained, $14,900. 335-3691 2010 TOYOTA Corolla, great cond, exc fuel economy, 4-dr, manual, 60,500kms, c/w winter/summer tires/rims, $13,500 obo.

335-2999 2009 CHEVROLET Aveo 5, showroom cond, 74,000+ kms, aftermarket accessories, winter/summer tires, $8,000. 993-5000 2009 NISSAN Maxima Sport, 58,000 kms, exc cond, Bose, remote start, leather heated seats/steering and much more, $25,750.

335-9976 2009 NISSAN Versa SL, 1.8L, 5-dr hatchback, many options, sunroof, 2 sets tires/wheels, command start, original owner, only 46,000 kms, $12,000. 660-4220 2008 CHEV Cobalt automatic , air conditioner, new set of winter studded tires and new set of summer tires. Hood scoop and wing. Custom pink colour. 334-9385 2005 KIA Majestis 4-dr sedan, $4,700 obo.

333-0129

Capstone Mining Corp. is a Canadian mining company with three producing copper mines, Pinto Valley in the US, Cozamin in Mexico and Minto in Canada. In addition, Capstone has two development projects, Santo Domingo in Chile and Kutcho in Canada, as well as exploration properties in Canada, Chile and Mexico.

As a Capstone Mining Corp. employee you will become part of a supportive, performance-driven and dynamic environment. You will be given the opportunity to expand your knowledge and skill set working alongside dedicated employees from a variety of backgrounds and cultures. We place the highest priority on employee safety, protecting the environment and enhancing the development of the communities where we operate.

By joining the Capstone team, you will be become part of an inclusive and loyal team where you will be supported in your career growth through training, diverse opportunities and professional development.

CURRENT MINTO MINE CAREER OPPORTUNITIES INCLUDE:

• • • • •

Mine Surveyor Experienced Mill Operator Contract Administrator Warehouse Person Human Resources Supervisor

Visit our Careers link at www.capstonemining.com to view a full description of each position’s responsibilities and minimum requirements.

If you meet the qualifications and are interested in becoming a member of the Minto Mine team, please send a cover letter and resume by email to hr@mintomine.com or by fax to (604) 343-2830.

We thank all candidates for their interest however only those considered for an interview will be contacted.

Employment Opportunity

SGS DIRECTOR

YUKON FIRST NATIONS PREFERENTIAL HIRING POLICY IS APPLICABLE AND MUST BE CLEARLY IDENTIFIED ON APPLICATION. Closing Date: Location: Hours: Salary:

Until filled Whitehorse 37.5 hours per week full time, One Year Term Position Level 10

Job Summary: Under the general direction of the Executive Director, the incumbent is responsible for all operations and staff of the Self Government Secretariat (SGS) department; facilitating the sharing of information and resources; collective problem-solving; common action on political and legal strategies; and the review of proposed legislation among all member First Nations. The primary responsibility of the Director is to ensure that mandates set by Self Governing First Nations Leadership make up the SGS annual work plan. The position will implement the SGS work plan within the set time lines for the department and in collaboration with the CYFN Senior Management team on implementing the CYFN Strategic Plan.

Additional Information: Only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.

For further information and job description, please contact Renie Bruton at 867-393-9206 or email at renie.bruton@cyfn.net.

Please submit applications and/or resumes to: Name: Renie Bruton Address: Council of Yukon First Nations, 2166 2nd Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 4P1 Phone: (867)393-9206 Fax: (867)668-6577 E-mail: renie.bruton@cyfn.net

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2005 TOYOTA Echo hatchback, exc cond, great on gas, 132,000 kms, standard, red, c/w summer & winter tires on rims, $7,250 obo. 335-0607

1992 AWD Toyota Previa 7-passenger minivan still in good running condition. This is a great, roomy family van that is excellent in the snow. $950 obo. 668-2768

2004 MUSTANG, 3.8l, V6, drive train warranty until Nov. Good on fuel, posi track rear end, winter/summer tires, two 12'' kicker subs, well maintained, 120,000kms, $7,000 obo. 668-7212

Labourers in Fish Processing

2002 FORD Escape, new tires, command start, new plugs, belts, fluids, block, pan, battery, interior heaters, sport rack, tow hitch, clean/well maintained, $6,000 obo.

668-6927 or 334-8347

Processing and packing Arctic Charr; Reliable, punctual, heavy lifting, 6 months experience of fish plant work with Arctic Charr.

High School education required. $16.40 per hour, permanent, full time Mon-Fri with some overtime.

1993 JEEP Grand Cherokee fully loaded AWD. Has a beefy bumper, new stereo. Nice treads. Many parts have been updated. $2,400. No reasonable offer refused.

335-0486

Icy Waters Ltd. (NOC 9618)

Apply by email with resume to jlucas@icywaters.com ClOSiNg dAte FOR APPliCAtiONS MAy 1St.

Trucks

We Sell Trucks!

1-866-269-2783 • 9039 Quartz Rd. • Fraserway.com

#17 Burns Rd. Whse, Y.T. Y1A-4Z3

Request foR JanitoRial seRvices We are looking for proposal for janitorial services at our place of business for the following, 2 evenings a week cleaning 12 offices, showroom, 6 washrooms, kitchen area and floor cleaning for hard and soft surfaces.

Friday, April 11, 2014

2008 GMC Acadia AWD SLT1 (SUV), 92,000km, blue-gold crystal metallic, fully loaded (no Nav), 7 seats, 3rd row foldable, great family vehicle. New price, $18,000 obo.

333-0033

FOR SALE

2007 DODGE Laramie 3500 diesel. Low mileage, incls 2 sets of tires on rims, $38,000 obo. 336-1701

Dodge Ram 1 Ton Quad-Cab Dually Cummins Diesel, Auto Tran, Cruise A/c, Mechanic’s Deck, & Electric Crane, 227, 000km

$22,000 667-7777

2012 TOYOTA Tacoma 4X4 4-dr, trd auto black, 46,000kms, levelling kit w/rear air bags for camper, $33,900. 335-5428 2011 DODGE Grand Caravan, 130,000km, great cond, new all season tires, $11,500 obo. 333-0236 or 456-4112 2010 FORD F150 Lariat quad cab 4X4, 89,000 kms, white canopy, leather, command start, driving lights, exc cond, 2 sets factory rims//tires, $29,500. 333-9551 2010 SUBURBAN, black on black, heated leather, Bose sound, sunroof, air, power everything, tow pkg, additional 20" custom rims, $29,500. 334-2289

Services will start on May 1, 2014

ORTHODONTIC OFFICE We will train the right candidate!!

Duties include: Instrument sterilization for our very busy orthodontic clinic, Pouring dental models and construction of simple retainers, Maintaining well stocked dental units, General tidiness of the clinic and laboratory, Other duties as required based on the successful candidates abilities.

Reliable, self motivated with close attention to detail Part-time position Please eMaIl yOuR ResuMe tO cIndy@ORthOaRts.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.

Expression of Interest for: Researcher

Norther Adult Basic Education (NABE) Community Program School of Academic and Skill Development Ayamdigut(Whitehorse) Campus Hourly Rate: $28.99 Competition No.:14.39 Initial Review Date: April 22, 2014 Yukon College is looking for a qualified individual to follow up with Adult Basic Education students in the communities to capture data regarding Northern Adult Basic Education (NABE) program indicators.

The successful candidate will work closely with the NABE Coordinator and campus staff to document and track NABE students in the communities. This person will be responsible for meeting with NABE students, Campus Coordinators and consulting with key community stakeholders. Duties will include: drafting and distributing questionnaires, conducting telephone or in person interviews and producing a final report tracking the success of NABE students.

Applicants should have relevant education and experience. Previous experience working with aboriginal governments, organizations and/or communities would be considered an asset.

For additional position information, please contact: Gabriel Ellis, Instructor/Coordinator, NABE Email: gellis@yukoncollege.yk.ca 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

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 2005 FORD F-250 4X4 FX4, off-rd pkg, trailer pkg, a/c, cruise control, box liner, new windshield & more, $10,900 obo. 660-5166 2004 F150 Lariat crew cab, 205,000kms, after market exhaust, intake, wheels & programmer, $8,000. 393-3973 lv msg 2004 F250 diesel 4x4 crew cab short box, 165,000kms, 6" lift, after market exhaust & programmer, $17,000. 867-393-3973 lv msg 2004 FORD F350 Super Duty diesel, extʼd cab, $13,000 obo. 333-0129 2003 DODGE Ram 2500, gas engine, 4x4, long box with canopy, crew cab, good cond but needs new engine, $3,000. 336-0595

2003 GMC 7-passenger Safari van, blue, 4X4, 170TKM, well maintained, $5,800 obo, call 334-5491

It will be mandatory to submit proof of WCB and Liability Insurance Coverage with your bid.

All bids will be received no later than April 22, 2014 at 4:00pm, in a sealed envelope tagged “Northerm Janitorial Services”

2007 FORD Ranger 4x4 extended cab, V6, manual trans, 140,000kms, no accidents, summer/winter tires on rims, tow package, will replace windshield for asking price. $12,000. 334-8851

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 obo. 335-3674

We will have a mandatory site visit at 1-17 Burns Road on April 15th 10:30 am.

At this time a tour and a list of duties will be presented for your requests for services.

Please contact the following on your attendance at this mandatory site visit rgingell@northerm.yk.ca

2009 FORD F-350, 4X4, comfortable, clean, great cond, tall canopy, lined box, full towing pkg, 4-dr diesel, fully loaded, travel trailer to sell as well. 334-6724

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.

Expression of Interest for: Instructor School of Liberal Arts

Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Hourly Rate: $32.30 to $36.33 Competition No.: 14.48 Initial Review Date: April 22, 2014 Yukon College is looking for a qualified person, on a casual/sessional basis, to teach courses in the following: English (Academic Writing and Critical Thinking) The successful candidate must have an MA in English.

If you have the relevant education and are excited about teaching in a postsecondary setting, please send us your resume.

For additional position information, please contact: Dr. Victoria Castillo a/Chair, Liberal Arts vcastillo@yukoncollege.yk.ca 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

2002 CHEV Silverado 4x4 ext cab, 4-dr, V8 auto, cruise, new Wrangler tires, $5,999.

667-7777 or 336-2029 2002 F250 Lariat, ext cab long box 4x4, 225,000km, new trans, tow package, camper package, leather, $7,900 obo. 668-5882 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 2001 TOYOTA Tacoma, user-friendly, likes fishing, bumps and bruises but burns no oil, dealer-serviced from birth, red, 2WD, extended cab, canopy, roof racks, 279,000km, $3,500 obo. 334-2457 1999 GMC 3500HD 4x2 flat deck truck, 6.5L diesel, good shape, many new parts, new tires, must be seen. 633-5578 1998 LINCOLN Navigator, loaded, 7-passenger full size sport utility, $3,400.

333-9899 1996 GMC 1500 ext. cab, short box 4X4, 5.7 litre. 340,000 km. Green and clean. Trans replaced, hvy dty rear shocks, v. good cond. $4,200. 633-2493 1995 FORD F250 Econoline van, engine good, needs windshield, body decent; 1995 Ford Aerostar, needs TLC, engine will run, $800 for both. 333-9358 1992 CHEV cargo van, 4.3L V6 auto, original kms, needs a muffler, $1,800 firm.

335-5428 1991 GMC 1500 diesel 4X4, good shape, make offer. 336-1695 1990 NISSAN ext cab, 4-cyl auto, 2WD, trailer hitch & wiring, spray in box liner, great on gas, $1,700 obo. 335-1106 1986 CHEVY flat deck 3/4 ton, new battery, tranny kit, power steering hose, alternator, new tires all around, exc cond, $2,800.

633-5130

Auto Parts & Accessories 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 TIRES! TIRES! TIRES! Seasonal Changeover Good used tires–15”,16”,17”,18”,19” and 20”–lots to choose from. $25 to $150 a tire. $25 to mount and balance per tire.

Mechanical Services Call Art 334-4608 GOODYEAR NORDIC 4 non-studded 15” winter tires and steel wheels. Chev/Buick 5 bolt pattern. Approx. 70% tread remaining. $375. 821-6011.

1994 CHRYSLER Concord for parts, winter/summer tires. 633-3982 TRUCK TIRES, LT 265/70 R17, 3 Pirelli Scorpion STR white letter, $75 ea, 3 for $200, 2 Michelin ATX A/S, $50 ea, 2 for $80.

660-5166

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Friday, April 11, 2014 NEW 305 v-8 engine. $1,200 obo. 633-6502 NEW MULTI port fuel injected system for V8 engine. Convert carb or TBI to MPFI, c/w Intake fuel rails injectors and ecu. Easy to install and tune. $2,000 obo. 633-6502 VARIOUS DODGE Cummins parts. Turbo, intercooler, air intake. 633-6502 TO GIVE away, bench seat (3rd) from 1999 Suburban, 667-7107

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

LEER CANOPY for 2004-2008 Ford F150 6.5 foot bed, colour matched red, roof height, good cond, locking, high quality unit, $1,000.

Mark at 334-7335

2009 KLX 250 c/w cover, rear rack, runs great, perfect commuter, 1,700 kms. $3,750 obo. 334-9098

RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg

2004 YAMAHA Virago 250, 06725 kms, new condition, $3,600 obo. 667-6990

2005 YAMAHA V Star 1100 cc, exc cond, c/w helmet, cover, Vance & Hines pipes, 13,000kms, $5,500 obo. 334-9098

2007 VESPA LX50 motor scooter, as new cond, 319 original kms, c/w floor mat, new battery & helmet. $2,900. 335-4768

WANTED: SUZUKI Samurai/SJ410 parts. I need drive train, front quarter panels and engine parts. 332-1999 ALL SEASON BF Goodrich 205 50 R17, slightly used, still new, $350 set of 4. Message me 334-2472

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

1988 BLACK Silverado parts vehicle, no motor, $400. For info call 689-1484 2-POST CAR hoist, can be seen working, $1,750. 867-536-7206 ALL SEASON Hankook Pptimo 225 60 R17 80% tread life, $350 for set. Message me 334-2472

Pets IT'S A DOG'S LIFE BOARDING KENNEL New, clean, safe, family friendly.

Heated indoor kennels with covered outdoor runs.

Large play area in natural setting, daily walks.

131 Empress Rd, Golden Horn Subdivision 333-9841

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.

Expression of Interest for: Part-time Instructor(s)

School of Trades and Technology Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Hourly Rate: $32.30 to $36.33 Competition No.: 14.50 Initial Review Date: April 25, 2014

CANINES & COMPANY Dog Obedience School Training Programs Puppy Fundamentals: Apr 15/June 17/Aug 12 Reactive Dog Class: June 23/Sept 01 Canine Good Neighbour: June 30 caninesandcompany@northwestel.net (867)333-0505 www.facebook.com/ caninesandcompany (867)668-4368

Are you interested in teaching part-time? Do you possess Journey Level certification or possibly have a combination of related education and experience?

2 FEMALE Flemish Giant/Angora cross rabbits. $65 each. Large rabbits. Will reach 8 pounds. 333-0915 GERMAN SHEPHERD female Sch3, FH1, retired 7 years old, trained in Germany, needs good home with large fenced yard, new owner needs some training, $1,000 obo. 668-6118 BIOLOGIST RELOCATING TO Whitehorse for summer work.

Wanted for monthly rental starting May 1st pet-friendly furnished cabin, apartment or basement suite.

Up to $900/month 334-7472 GERMAN SHEPHERD working line, 6 month old sable male CKC Reg, hip guarantee, trained for 4 months, house broken, crate trained, raised with kids, proven pedigree, $4,000 firm. 668-6118

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles 1999 YAMAHA V-Star Classic 650cc, V twin, 11,000 kms, c/w helmet, rain gear, bike cover, saddle bags, shop manual, $4,500.

Gerry 633-4036 eves

Yukon College, Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining, the School of Trades and Technology is looking for qualified person(s), on a casual basis, to teach in one or more of the following trade areas: • • •

Electrical Plumbing Carpentry

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

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Director of Implementation and Reconciliation– Whitehorse (Permanent) Closing Date: April 25, 2014 Requisition: #4822

Regional Program Manager, Bridges – Whitehorse (Permanent) Department of Highways & Public Works Salary: $89,732 to $103,874 per annum

Closing Date: April 25, 2014 Requisition: #5048

Chief Electoral Officer – Whitehorse (Permanent) Legislative Assembly Salary: $90,851 to $124,770 per annum

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1995 21.5’ Starcr

aft 5th Wheel Everything works great!! Fridge, freeze r, a/c, microwave, furnace, HW heater stove/ oven.

Half-ton towable!

Full bthrm w/showe r/tub.

Tires in excellent shape. $5000 obo.

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For more information please contact: Jeff Wolosewich jwolosewich@yukoncollege.yk.ca 867-332-2347

Executive Council Office Salary: $107,193 to 147,133 per annum

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211 Wood Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2E4

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.

Clinical Instructor Practical Nurse Program (PN)

School of Health, Education & Human Services Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Term Position from May 12, 2014 to April 30, 2016 $37.12 to $44.19 hourly (based on 75 hours biweekly) Competition No.: 14.49 Initial Review Date: April 25, 2014 Yukon College is seeking a Clinical Instructor to provide instructional duties in the Practical Nurse Program. This position is also responsible for coordinating clinical practicum placements in the Practical Nurse Program and will provide both theoretical & practical lessons through classroom and/ or distance learning technologies, curriculum development, and student advising.

The ideal candidate will have a Baccalaureate degree in nursing; registration or eligibility for registration with Yukon Registered Nurse Association, previous instructional experience, preferably in an adult education environment, and experience working in community settings, long-term care and acute care facilities, including hospitals.

Consideration may be given to those with an appropriate blend of education and experience.

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

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1984 YAMAHA Virago 1000cc, V twin, 39,000 kms, c/w helmet, rain gear, bike cover, saddle bags, shop manual, a complete gasket/O-ring kit, $3,500. 633-4036 eves 700 RMK, 600 RMK (2,700 mi), (2,200 mi), mint cond, can, boost, skis, bags, hot-doggers, riser, hooks, rack, covers, $5,200 obo.

332-1199 2005 HARLEY Davidson Electra Glide standard, $10,500 obo. 2010 Polaris 800 Assault, 154” track, 20 hours, $7,500 obo.

390-2158 1997 GREEN 454 Arctic Cat ATV, full windshield, aluminum skid plate, winch, 4X4, great shape, $3,000. 456-7370 or 335-4754 2009 POLARIS Assault SLP, pipe heads, reeds power commander, 1,700 miles $7,000. 334-7131 2010 XP RS 600 Ski-Doo race sled, lots of fun, good cond, call for details. $5,500 obo.

334-2347

2008 POLARIS Ranger. Full poly doors $500 obo. 633-6502 2008 8X12 double wide quad trailer, $2,800 obo. 336-1701 2008 SUZUKI GSX-R 750, 5,000 kms, mint cond, well maintained, $7,500 obo or trade for quad or truck of equal value, 335-1106 MOTORCYCLE LEATHERS, full jacket & pants, menʼs size 42, $300. 633-5009 WANTED: HARLEY Davidson Panhead motorcycle, 668-1315 1999 BMW RS 1200. Excellent touring machine, low kms, yellow/black checkers, new tires/oil change, touring bags (hard shell) and tank bag, $7,500. 332-1970 DIRTBIKE, 110CC, runs great, c/w chest protector for 13-yr-old, $650 obo. 393-3638 2009 HONDA Recon 250 ATV 250, perfect working condition, low mileage. Call or text 334-6890

Marine

2009 DUCATI Monster 696, showroom condition, red color, 2,700 km, one owner, incl cover, battery charger and more. $8,750, serious inquiries only. 335-3349

PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467

1995 POLARIS 2 stroke 400 4x4 quad, hi/ low range, hitch ready, 2,000km, new parts including shoxs and mudding tires, drivetrain, sperokets, seat pullstart cooling fan. $2,600 obo. 335-0486

Pet Report Hours of operation for tHe sHelter: Tues - Fri: 12:00pm-7:00pm • Sat 10:00am-6:00pm CloSed Sundays & Mondays

633-6019 FriDay, aPril 11

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

2014

have your pets spayed or neutered.

For inFormation call

633-6019

REPOWER YOUR boat, V-8 Chevy, OMC inner/ outer transom shield, can be converted to Volvo Penta or Mercruiser, manifolds, exhaust, water pumps, starter, ignition, etc. $4,800 obo. 633-6502 16-20ʼ BOAT trailer, good shape. Electric brakes, good tires. Swing away hitch, $1,300. 333-0020 or 333-0656 2-CANOES, 17ʼ6” cedar/canvas, good cond, built by Paul Fletcher, $2,800, Mad River Royalex Explorer canoe, 17ʼ, good cond, $800. Bill @ 633-2443

16' JOHN boat, c/w 20 hp 4-stroke Yamaha, electric trim, 20 hrs on motor and boat, $5,000. 335-1666 ONAN MARINE generator, 3 KVA. Complete with water cooling. ULine marine ice maker.

336-8850

For Sale

2009 Alumacraft Jet Boat & Mercury Optimax 115 hp jet leg. Power trim, less than 100 hours since new. EZ Loader trailer, kicker motor bracket, rod holders, spare impeller. Room in front to haul a quad. Needs just a few inches of water. $17,400.00 OBO Call 335-3656 after 5 pm.

Gently Used

Inventory

Atv’s:

FOUND

• 8th and Jarvis street, medium, brown and white chest, husky wearing a leather studded collar no tags, contact Joanne @393-

snowmobiles:

MILLERMATIC 211 welder, auto set, new in box, $1,500, Watson Lake. 867-536-6576

‘07 Yamaha Apex Gt 121" ........................................ $5,999 $4,999 ‘08 Yamaha Phazer Mtx 144" .................................. $6,499 $5,499 ‘09 Yamaha Nytro Rtx Se 121" ............................... $7,999 $6,999 ‘12 Yamaha Nytro Xtx 144" Speed Racer .............. $9,999 $8,999 ‘12 Yamaha Venture TF ........................................................ $9,799

motoRCYCles: ‘00 Yamaha 650 Vstar ............................................... $3,499 $2,999 ‘08 Yamaha Wr450 Offroad ..................................... $4,499 $3,999 ‘08 Honda Shadow 750..........................................................$4,999 ‘08 Yamaha R6 Canadian Edition .........................................$7,999 ‘12 Yamaha Bw50 Scooter ................................................... $2,499 ‘13 Kawasaki Ninja 300 .........................................................$3,999

YAMAHA

3573 (15/03/14) • Hamilton Blvd near Falcon drive, medium dog, long black curly hair, not wearing a collar, contact Kristen @ 3348622 (17/03/14) • Black street and 7th ave, small dog, black and white with a curly tail, female, no collar, contact alrs @ 604-347-7115 (25/03/14)

RUNNING AT LARGE...

if you have lost a pet, remember to check with city Bylaw: 668-8382

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION DOGS

• 4 yr old, neutered male, husky, black and white (rikki)

cATS

• 3 yr old, neutered male, GSD/rottie, black and brown (tristan) • 7 yr old, spayed female, beagle/houndX, brown and black (tootsie) • 3yr old, neutered male, akita, grey and white (a.J.) • 4 yr old, neutered male, chihuahua, cream (Willie) • 1 yr old, spayed female, chihuahua bear dogX, (Pipper)

YOU WANT TO WORK HERE! Be part of one of Canada’s most dynamic environmental and socio-economic assessment processes; working with an energetic, progressive organization. We are committed to the well-being of our employees and encourage their personal and professional development.

Network Administrator Head Office, Whitehorse • 2 yr old, neutered male, maltese, white (Zeus) • 1 yr old, male, GSD/Husky, brown and black (teddy)

cATS

• 3 yr old, DSH, white and black neutered male (Jax) • 2yr old, DSH, grey and white, neutered male (Sappy)

• Homes needed for retired sled dogs. they would make excellent pets. Please contact 668-3647 or kennelmanager@muktuk.com if your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 Tlingit Street.

Full-time one-year term position

The Network Administrator position co-ordinates the implementation, management and technical support of YESABs IT network infrastructure.

The position handles the deployment and maintenance of YESABs software and hardware while providing user support services to YESAB staff and Board. This position performs systems and administration functions for YESAB and participates in the planning, development, analysis, evaluation, implementation and management of information systems and platforms such as SharePoint and Microsoft Server.

The annual salary range for this position is $68,252. – 78,749 based on 75 hours biweekly.

If you feel you have the qualifications and desire to meet the challenges of this position please forward a cover letter and resume outlining how your experience and qualifications relate directly to the position.

SPEcIAL

Pets will be posted on the Pet report for two weeks. Please let us know after that time if you need them re-posted.

You can also check out our award winning website at:

www.Humanesocietyyukon.ca

2008 KX161 Kubota excavator, 1,700 hrs, c/w 2 buckets, $45,000. 334-9867 LISTER GENSETS, various sizes. 633-4822 1998 SKYJACK articulated boom lift, 2080 hrs. In gd general cond. 4x4, gas/propane.

Can reach 40' high to platform. 334-3393 PLACER MINER with ZX 270 Hitachi excavator available for work for machine with operator.

Might consider leasing machine.

633-4309 PORTABLE HOBART 225 amp welder/ genset powered by Kohler 17 hp engine, exc cond, on steel 4-wheeled wagon w hitch, $1,800 obo. 633-6502 CATERPILLAR D9N, D10N, and D11N dozers (all with u-dozers and rippers), Cat 345C excavator, and Cat D400D Rock trucks for sale, rent, or rental purchase.

All sitting in Dawson City, YK. Phone A1 Cats for questions or details at 780-538-1599 or view www.a1-cats.com for photos

FEDERAL A1500 aircraft skis (mains and tail) suitable for many small 2-seat aircraft, asking $1,200. 667-2760

• none at this time .

AT THE SHELTER

2008 T-190 Skidsteer, 2,500 hrs, c/w 2 buckets and forks, $25,000. 334-8357

Aircraft

Our commitment is to be an impartial, effective and efficient organization that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.

IN FOSTER HOMES

Heavy Equipment WANTED: CATERPILLAR 955 Traxcavator, or would be interested in a parts machine.

333-9536

1 KM south of Robert Service Way, Alaska Highway, Whitehorse, Y.T.

• Dawson, beardog X, neutered male, blonde, wearing a black collar answers to Hunter, contact Brittany @ 689-11744 (10/04/14)

12x54' houseboat w trailer, 14' extended deck, fully equipped, c/w depth sounder, fish finder, radio completely refurbished, engine tune-up, 1-yr moorage incl at Atlin Lake, $53,000. 250-651-7880.

‘09 Yamaha Big Bear 250 ......................................................$3,499 ‘09 Yamaha Wolverine 450 ...................................................$4,999

(867) 668-2101 or 1-800-661-0430

LOST

DOGS

12X54ʼ HOUSEBOAT w trailer, 14ʼ extended deck, fully equipped, c/w depth sounder, fish finder, radio completely refurbished, engine tune-up, 1-yr moorage incl at Atlin Lake, $53,000. 250-651-7880

YUKON

LOST/FOUND

Friday, April 11, 2014

2005 VAN'S RV-6A, 160TT, 0-320 E2D 2200 SM running well, hangared since 2008, 406 ELT, IC-A200, GTX-320A, intercom, much more. $48,000, pics at www.yukonflying.com. 633-3126 tlaw@northwestel.net

Campers & Trailers 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 10ʼ CAMPER, Adventurer 2007, exc cond, north/south queen bed, bathroom w/shower, fridge, stove, oven & furnace, $10,000 obo.

633-4356 2000 COACHMEN Mirada 30ʼ motorhome, 66,122 kms. Triton V10, mechanical inspection in July/13. Onan 4000 gen, A/C, separate shower, walk-around queen bed. $23,500, phone 335-5506 2004 8ʼ Camperette, sleeps 2, very clean simple design, great for hunting. $1,700 obo or trade for quad/dirtbike of equal value, 335-1106 TRAILER, HAULMARK cargo, 12ʼx6ʼ, single axle, rear barn door, side door, clean, $4,000 obo. 660-5101 2004 26ʼ Thor Wanderer Travel Trailer, asking $9,700. 334-5213

A job description is available at the YESAB Head Office, Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse or on our website at www.yesab.ca.

2009 VERY low mileage, easy towing, 15' Hi-LO travel trailer, 3-way fridge, propane furnace & stove, Everything works perfectly, $14,000 obo. 335-2223

Please submit applications to: Finance and Administration Manager, YESAB Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9 Ph: 867.668.6420 Fax: 867.668.6425 or email to yesab@yesab.ca Toll free: 1.866.322.4040

CHATEAU 23U Model 2012, U-shape dinette, 5 seat belts, fridge/freezer, conv microwave, stove, AC, queen bed, TV, elec awning, tow pack, heated holding tanks, generator, emergency start, $40,975. 456 2729

Resumes must be received by April 30, 2014.

1980 20ʼ Holidaire travel trailer, good cond, new fridge, full bathrm, new grey/black water tanks, solar panel, 2 batteries, 2 30-lb propane tanks, $6,700. 867-689-7848

2009 27ʼ Jayco Bunkhouse, queen bed, bunk beds, full kitchen, indoor/outdoor shower, built in barbecue, TV, double batteries, exc cond, also awesome truck to sell, both for $50,000. 334-6724

WHITEHORSE SEARCH & Rescue AGM April 23 at 6:00 pm @ 60 Norseman Road. If interested in joining application forms will be available. For more information call 456-4981

1979 FORD 350 Econoline motorhome, 50,000 miles, sleeps 4, has great characteristics, a must see, very well maintained, $8,200 obo, serious inquiries, 336-1189

HOSPICE WALKING Group. Tuesdays 6-7:30pm May 6-June 10. Walk the Millennium trail as you receive and give healthy grief support. To register: 667-7429 or administrator@hospiceyukon.net

1995 SLUMBER Queen import camper, exc cond, last used on Tacoma, $4,200. 335-5428 NEW 2013 Cargo-Mate enclosed 7ʼx14ʼ, tandem Dexter axles, 3,500 lbs, vent side door, barn doors, spare tire & rack, $5,200.

250-651-7880 2007 GOOSENECK flat deck trailer. 20,000 GVR, 20ʼ long + 4ʼ w/ramps, triple axles, electric brakes. In great cond. Have installed an 8,500-pound winch, $8,000. 334-3393 1992 8.9ʼ Frontier camper. Very good condition, clean. Lots of storage. Many new/upgraded features. See ad on Kijiji/Craigslist.

Must be seen to be appreciated. $7750 obo.

633-4618 2009 T@B trailer for sale in excellent condition. Comes with large attached tent and bike rack, fridge, stovetop, table, bed, sink, a/c. $11,750 obo. 335-0607 or 334-5190 2014 16ʼ car hauler trailer, w sidewalls, exc cond, GVW 7,000lbs, electric brakes, pullout ramps, flipjack, removable 4' high sidewalls w slide tailgate, $3,790 obo. Marc @ 336-0023 2000 24' Travelaire Rustler 5th wheel, sleeps 6, mint condition, hitch available, $12,000 obo. 668-5882 2005 9 1/2ʼ Northern Lite camper, north/south bed, washroom, fridge, stove, oven, furnace, hot water tank, CD player, exc cond, $15,000. 667-7649 2004 PIONEER travel trailer, overall length 28ʼ, large bath, queen bed, full kitchen, stereo, large awning, $14,000. 633-2580 WANTED: USED ATCO type trailer, must be clean and have working power and plumbing. 336-3836 after 4:30pm

Coming Events 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 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 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 CHILKOOT TRAIL/LOG Cabin: Non-Motorized Weekends: Feb 28-March 2 & 21-23.

Other weekends & weekdays: Multi-Use. For info: 867-667-3910 HORAIRE PISTE Chilkoot/Log Cabin: Multi-usage sauf du 28 fév au 2 mars et du 21 au 23 mars : activités non motorisées.

867-667-3910

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SPRING JOB & Volunteer Fair, Wed April 23, 10:00am-5:00pm, Yukon Convention Centre. Everything from summer jobs to lifetime opportunities! www.yuwin.ca/jobs PORTER CREEK Community Association Annual General Meeting (AGM) Tuesday, May 20th at 7:00 p.m., Guild Hall, Porter Creek. All Welcome. Come show and your support. Info 633-4829 FROSTBITE MUSIC Society AGM, April 29, 7:00pm, Frostbite House, all welcome. Email hzimmering@gmail.com for more info, or 336-0551 YUKON PARTY, Whitehorse Centre meeting 7:00pm, April 17, Whitehorse Public Library. More information: Chris 668-2853 BONES, BOTTLES and birch bark baskets.

Long Ago Yukon artifact identification day Whitehorse Library meeting room Saturday, April 12, 2:00pm to 4:00pm. For information 633-6579 ACTIVE TRAILS Whitehorse Association, Annual General Meeting, Tuesday May 13, at 7:00pm, Sport Yukon boardroom, all members welcome. Info: www.activetwa.org AGM FOR Climb Yukon at FH Collins on the gymnasium stage April 16, 6:00pm-7:00pm.

Use the front door to get access to the climbing wall YUKON PARTY Lake Laberge AGM and Election of delegates Tuesday April 15 at 7:00pm at the Hootalinqua Firehall. For more info call 334-9726 YUKON ORIENTEERING Association Learn to "O" Workshop Sat. May 3. Pre-register by April 28. Call Barbara 668-2306. Registration fee includes membership and coupon to one orienteering meet in 2014 ÉCOLE WHITEHORSE Elementary School is offering a Late French Immersion Grade 6 information night on April 11th 6:30pm at the school for 2014/2015 school year. Questions? Call 667-8083 BACHATA BASICS: In this class you will learn the basic Bachata steps and turns and learn strategies to be a better. Bachata dancer. Starting April 4th 8:50pm. Leaping Feats Studio. salsayukon@gmail.com for info.

FALUN GONG 9-day lecture, relieves stress, improves health, increases energy, promotes spiritual growth/enlightenment, Tuesday Apr 16-18 6:00pm-8:00pm everyday, Yukon College, Room A2206.

334-7030, kcflamand@gmail.com THE YUKON Child Care Association AGM on April 25, 2014, Westmark Whitehorse, 12:00 pm.

GOSPEL SERVICE, April 11, Watson Lake Rec Centre, Mezz Room, 7:30pm to 8:30pm.

Sharing the purpose of life from the scripture, quiet and reverent, no collection, everyone welcome WHITEHORSE COMMUNITY Choir presents Songs of Peace and Protest, Friday May 2nd & Saturday May 3rd, 8:00pm, Yukon Arts Centre. Tickets available at Yukon Arts Ctr and Arts Underground. Hippie attire encouraged YUKON CHURCH Heritage Society AGM, Wednesday, April 30, 7:00pm, Old Log Church Museum. 668-2555 for info YUKON TABLE Tennis championships, Saturday & Sunday, April 26 & 27, WES gym, Info: Dave 668-3358 or stockdale@yknet.ca THE WHITEHORSE Children's Wish Foundation is looking for volunteers for this year's walk being held in September. Please email whitehorsewishmakers@gmail.com if interested in volunteering GOSPEL SERVICE April 20 and 27 at Carcross Community Centre 3:30-4:30pm. Sharing the purpose of life from the scripture, quiet and reverent, no collection, everyone welcome GOSPEL SERVICE April 13, Atlin Recreation Centre (board room) 7:00-8:00pm. Sharing the purpose of life from the scripture, quiet and reverent, no collection, everyone welcome GOSPEL SERVICE April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, Haines Junction School Library 7:308:30pm. Sharing the purpose of life from the scripture, quiet and reverent, no collection, everyone welcome YUKON COUNCIL on Aging AGM Friday, April 25, Golden Age Society. Registration at 9:00am, meeting at 9:30am WHITEHORSE G E N E R A L Hospital Women's Auxiliary monthly meeting, Mon. April 14th, 7:30 p.m. at WGH. New members welcome!

TAGISH PANCAKE Breakfast. April 13th, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Tagish Community Centre. $8 per adult, $3 per child. Everyone is welcome to attend

In Memory of

Archie Graham Oct 14, 1934-July 9, 2013

There is a link death cannot sever.

Love & remembrance go on together.

13 Denver roaD in McCrae • 668-6639

Custom-cut Stone Products

HEADSTONES • KITCHENS • BUILDING STONE • AND MORE...

sid@sidrock.com

The family of

Harmeny Daniel

sadly announce her sudden passing.

(1958-2014) Harmeny’s warmth and compassion were unlimited. Each day, she fulfilled her desire to make the world a better place.

A Celebration of life is planned for Saturday, April 12th, 2pm at Rotary Park in Whitehorse. Reception to follow at Whitehorse United Church (601 Main St.) We ask that her friends to bring a photo of themselves.

A complete obituary is available at www.heritagenorth.ca/obituaries If you wIsh to honour harmeny’s memory, please donate to a charIty of your choIce In her name.

F u n e r A l S e rv i C e S for the late

Elizabeth (Liz) Walker nee: Johnathan

will be held at Champagne Sat. April 12 at 2pm.

Potlatch to follow.

Out of respect for the family, no alcohol or drugs allowed.

Thanks to Doug & Adaire Makkonnen, Trans North Helicopter and search team, Order of Pioneers, and the doctors, nurses, local folk and neighbours who so generously helped me during my time of loss and after.

A memorial for Archie will be held the end of May. Mary Lavigne and family

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

Peggy NolaN

HORSES!

Have you always wanted to ride?

Find a complete list of all the great horse activities in Yukon! www.HorsinAroundYukon.com

February 7,1947 April 11,2013

SPRING JOB & Volunteer Fair, Wednesday April 23, 10:00am - 5:00pm, Yukon Convention Centre, where employers, jobseekers, volunteers and NGOs connect. www.yuwin.ca THE WHITEHORSE Oldtimer Hockey League Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, April 24 at 7:00pm, Tetra Tech EBA, 61 Wasson Place THE WHITEHORSE Children's Wish Foundation is looking for volunteers for this year's walk being held in September. Please email whitehorsewishmakers@gmail.com if interested in volunteering NORTHERN SAFETY Network Yukon (NSNY) announces the date of their AGM on April 24th 2014 at NSNY location, 478 Range Road from 12:00 to 1:00. All are welcome TIA YUKON Annual General Meeting.

Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 4:00pm to 6:00pm, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. Visit tiayukon.com for more details

Celebration of Life for

You are always held close to our hearts You are always on our minds Never could you be replaced For you were one of a kind Your smile is ever with us Your laughter ever near Never to be forgotten With memories held dear Dearly Loved and Greatly Missed by: Lea-Anne, Donna, Dianne, Laura and by everyone she loved

Dale Flood February 27, 1953 - December 31, 2013

to be held Sunday, April 27th 2014 at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Service is at 2:00 pm Reception to Follow

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TAGISH EASTER Celebration, April 19th, 11:30am-3:00pm, Tagish Community Centre, a free, family fun event for Easter. Easter egg decorating and Easter egg hunt! Everyone welcome

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Action Circle.

Letter writing to protect and promote human rights worldwide. Tuesday, April 22 at Whitehorse United Church (upstairs) 7:00pm-9:00pm. www.amnesty.ca Info call 667-2389

GEORGE KOLLER Jazz Reunion, Wed April 23, 7:30 pm, The Old Fire Hall, Tickets Available at Deanʼs Music, Sponsored by Jazz Yukon, Contact: Ken Searcy 667-6931 email: ken@discoverdrums.com

WRITERS ROUNDTABLE presents:Tips on Applying to the Advanced Artist Award & Touring Artist Fund for Yukon writers, Tues Apr. 15, 7:30pm. Whitehorse Public Library.

667-5239.

The Dornian family are happy to announce the birth of

Liam Joseph Hanlin 7lbs 9oz 26th March 2014 at Burnaby General Parents Joy & Christopher

Friday, April 11, 2014

MARSH LAKE Solid Waste Management Society AGM. Wed, May 7, 7:00pm, Marsh Lake Community Centre. Please come out and support your solid waste facility.

STORY TIME: Wed. Apr. 16, 10:30 – 11:30 am. A one time, drop in story time for 2 – 6 year olds (with adult), Whitehorse Public Library meeting room. 667-5239.

YUKON PARTY Pelly/Nisutlin Association AGM Thursday April 24, 2014 8:00pm Teslin Mezzanine BOOKS, BISCUITS and Tea – Hospice Library drop-in. April 14-17 from 11:30am-3pm. Browse our excellent library and enjoy a cookie and a cup of tea. www.hospiceyukon.net HOSPICE OPEN House Wed, May 7 noon to 6pm, 409 Jarvis. Help celebrate 25 years of Hospice Care in Yukon. Refreshments will be served. 667-7429 YUKON SCIENCE Institute presents DNA Detectives with Jennifer Gardy, Sunday, April 13, 7:30pm, Beringia Centre, Whitehorse. Free.

DAY OF MOURNING 2014 - Remembering Yukon workers injured or killed on the job.

Monday, April 28th, 12:30pm Main Foyer Yukon Government Administration Building.

Happy 70 Birthday

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SALSA AND Bachata beginner dance classes starting April 11th, Salsa 7:45pm, Bachata 8:50pm, Leaping Feats Studio, salsayukon@gmail.com for info

LIVE WORDS: Reading & Reception with writers Bruce Barwin, Alan Cumyn, Charles Demers, Lori Garrison & Charles Wilkins, Wed Apr 23, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, 7 pm, free

WHITEHORSE CROSS Country Ski Club Open forum about Dogs On Leash rule, challenges and solutions, Thursday April 24 7:00pm, Grey Mountain Room Mt Mac. 668-4477 for more info

Love Mr. Ed

LIVE WORDS: Young Authors Conference: Wed Apr 24 & Thurs Apr 25, 8:45 - 3:10, FH Collins

Happy Birthday to my

Ryan & Naomi

COLLECTABLES BAZAAR, May 3, 2014 10:00am - 4:00pm, Gold Rush Inn, rent a table for $30 and sell unwanted books, china or whatever. Contact Sally at YHMA, 633-3896 or srobinson@northwestel.net

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JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER/PAINTER 30 years experience No job too small.

Free quotes. References available.

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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

LIVE WORDS: Yukon Writersʼ Festival, Charles Demers, Reading & Talk, Thurs, Apr 24, Whitehorse Library, 12 p.m, free LIVE WORDS: Apr 24: Yukon Writersʼ Festival - Charles Demers, St. Elias Convention Centre (Council Chambers), Haines Junction, Reading & Talk, 7 pm, free

Snow Removal

LIVE WORDS: Apr 25: Yukon Writersʼ Festival, Charles Demers, Reading & Talk, Faro Library, 7:00 p.m, free

1 column x 3 inches ............. Wed - $34.02 • Fri - $35.10 2 columns x 2 inches ........... Wed - $45.36 • Fri - $46.80

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

HOUSECLEANING, Spring Cleaning, Detailing!

Safe, reliable, bondable RCMP check available on request For into call 334-7405

LIVE WORDS: Readings & Music, Sat Apr 26 at 7 pm, St. Elias Convention Centre, Haines Junction, $10 adults, $5 youth

CELEBRATE!

NORTHRIDGE BOBCAT SERVICES • Snow Plowing • Site Prep & Backfills • Driveways • Post Hole Augering • Light Land Clearing • General Bobcat Work Fast, Friendly Service 867-335-1106

Services

AMNESTY MONTH: April is amnesty month at Whitehorse Public Library. No charges for overdue books returned late! For info call 667-5239

LIVE WORDS: Apr 26: Yukon Writersʼ Festival, Charles Demers, Reading & Talk 1:30 p.m. Tagish Library, free

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

LIVE WORDS: Yukon Writers Festival with writers Bruce Barwin, Alan Cumyn, Charles Demers, Lori Garrison & Charles Wilkins, Wed Apr 23 – Sat Apr 27

SWAZILAND EDUCATIONAL Trust Society spaghetti dinner and loonie auction, Saturday April 12, Hellaby Hall, 4th & Elliott, dinner 5:00pm-7:00pm, auction at 7:00pm. $10 per person. Prizes African arts/crafts.

689-1501

Jo

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

AL-ANON MEETINGS, contact 667-7142.

Wednesday 12:00 noon, Hellaby Hall, 4th & Elliott, Friday 7:00pm, Lutheran Curch, 4th & Strickland, beginnerʼs meeting, 8:00pm Lutheran Church, 4th & Strickland, regular meeting

(867) 336-3570

Parking Lots, Sidewalks, Rooftops and Sanding

Births! Birthdays! Weddings!

Graduations! Anniversaries!

2 columns x 3 inches ........... Wed - $68.04 • Fri - $70.20 2 columns x 4 inches ........... Wed - $90.72 • Fri - $93.60

211 Wood Street, Whitehorse • www.yukon-news.com • Phone: 867-667-6285

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.

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DOWNTOWN:

Canadian Tire Cashplan The Deli Edgewater Hotel Extra Foods Fourth Avenue Petro Gold Rush Inn

PORTER CREEK

Coyote Video Goody’s Gas Green Garden Restaurant Heather’s Haven super A Porter Creek Trails north Home Hardware Klondike Inn Mac’s Fireweed Books Ricky’s Restaurant Riverside Grocery Riverview Hotel shoppers on Main shoppers Qwanlin Mall

RIVERDALE: 38 Famous Video super A Riverdale Tempo Gas Bar

superstore superstore Gas Bar Tags well-Read Books westmark whitehorse Yukon Inn Yukon news Yukon Tire

“YOUR COMMUNITY CONNECTION” WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

AND …

Kopper King Hi-Country RV Park McCrae Petro Takhini Gas Yukon College Bookstore

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 WHITE TORNADO CLEANING SERVICES Hiring seasonal, summer, part-time, casual employees.

Need to be bondable, hard-working, fast & efficient Attention to detailing (fine gyprock dust) Valid driverʼs licence Vehicle preferred but not essential Drop off resume at Employment Central No phone calls, please

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS Yukon Communities & Atlin, B.C.

Beaver Creek Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Carcross Y.T. Wednesday - 7:30 p.m.

Library Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Carmacks Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Dawson City Y.T.

Thursday - 8:00 p.m.

New Beginners Group Richard Martin Chapel Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Saturday 7:00 p.m.

Community Support Centre 1233 2nd Ave.

Destruction Bay Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Faro Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Haines Junction Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Mayo Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Old Crow Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Pelly Crossing Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Ross River Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Tagish Y.T. Monday 7:30pm Lightwalkers Group Bishop’s Cabin, end of road along California Beach Telegraph Creek B.C. Tuesday - 8:00 p.m.

Soaring Eagles Sewing Centre

Teslin Y.T. Wednesday - 7:00pm Wellness Centre #4 McLeary Friday - 1:30p.m.

Health Centre Watson Lake Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Bookkeeper Taking new clients 393-3201 TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865 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

DRUG PROBLEM?

SHARPENING SERVICES. For all your sharpening needs - quality sharpening, fair price & good service.

At corner of 6th & Strickland.

667-2988

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- 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 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

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS in Whitehorse

MONDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm New Beginnings Group (OM,NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. TUESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:00 pm Juste Pour Aujourd’hui 4141B - 4th Avenue.

8:00 pm Ugly Duckling Group (CM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. WEDNESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St..

8:00 pm Porter Crk Step Meeting (CM) Our Lady of Victory, 1607 Birch St. 8:00 pm No Puffin (CM,NS) Big Book Study Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. THURSDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Grapevine Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 6:00 pm Young People’s Meeting BYTE Office, 2-407 Ogilvie Street 7:30 pm Polar Group (OM) Seventh Day Adventist Church 1609 Birch Street (Porter Creek) FRIDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Big Book Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 1:30 pm #4 Hospital Rd. (Resource Room) 8:00 pm Whitehorse Group (CM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. SATURDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 2:30 pm Women’s Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital (room across from Emergency) 7:00 pm Hospital Boardroom (OM, NS) SUNDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 7:00 pm Marble Group Hospital Boardroom (OM, NS)

NS - No Smoking OM - open mixed, includes anyone CM - closed mixed, includes anyone with a desire to stop drinking

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INVITATION TO TENDER 2014 Supply of 20mm Crushed Gravel 2014-001356 The City of Whitehorse (the “City”) is inviting tenders in writing from bona fide proponents for the supply of 20mm Crushed Gravel.

Interested bidders must submit tenders in writing enclosed in a sealed envelope clearly indicating the bidders name and address and referencing “Tender for Supply of 20mm Crushed Gravel”; 2014-001356. All Tender submissions must be addressed to the City of Whitehorse, Manager Financial Services, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 and received before 3:00:00 PM Local Time, Wednesday, April 30, 2014.

Invitation to Tender documents with complete specifications may be obtained by Proponents who are or will be authorized to conduct business in the City of Whitehorse, from the Office of the Manager of Finance at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 on or after 12:00:00 PM local time Friday, April 11, 2014.

Tender submissions will be "EVALUATED IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY OF WHITEHORSE.” Tenders by facsimile WILL NOT be accepted and / or considered.

All inquiries regarding this tender may be directed to the City’s Transportation Supervisor at 867-668-8368 between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm Monday to Thursday.

www.whitehorse.ca

ELECTRICIAN FOR all your jobs Large or small Licensed Electrician Call MACK N MACK ELECTRIC for a competitive quote!

867-332-7879

Licensed and Professional Automotive Repairs 20-year Journeyman Mechanic Monday - Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm Call Brian Berg 867-633-6597

PUBLIC TENDER

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

CUSTODIAL SERVICES CLOSELEIGH MANOR BLDG. #1925, WOMEN’S DIRECTORATE - BLDG. #1975, INDIVIDUAL LEARNING CENTRE - BLDG. #1973, 49A WATERFRONT PLACE - BLDG. #1988

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS TO ESTABLISH STANDING OFFER AGREEMENTS: ARCHITECTURAL, TECHNICAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES RELATED TO BUILDING DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION AND REPAIR

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 22, 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 Karen Bevilacqua at (867) 456-3869.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 24, 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 Haider Rajab at (867) 456-6153.

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

Highways and Public Works

LAND LOTTERY and TENDER Carmacks

Energy, Mines and Resources, Land Management Branch is holding a lottery and tender offering for (3) three urban residential lots and (2) two industrial lots in Carmacks.

Information packages and application forms are available from: Land Management Branch 3rd Floor, Room 320 Elijah Smith Building 300 Main Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Or online at: www.emr.gov.yk.ca/lands/upcoming_lotteries_tender.html Or at the EMR office in Carmacks.

Deadline: Lottery applications and tenders must be received before 4:30 p.m., April 14, 2014.

Lottery Draws: The lottery and tender opening will take place in Carmacks at 1:00 p.m., April 17, 2014 at the Carmacks Village Council Chambers.

Applicants and the general public are welcome to attend the draw.

All successful applicants will be notified the next day.

For more information contact the Land Management Branch at (867) 667-5215 or Toll-free 1-800-661-0408 local 5215 or visit online at: www.emr.gov.yk.ca/lands

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Mining Claims For Sale in the Mayo Mining District Placer Claims • Good no. 1 P509005 • June 1 P15858 • June 2 P48144

Friday, April 11, 2014

BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755

LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632

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

PASCAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Small drywall repair Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368

Quartz Claim • Try Again 1 YB65553 SEALED bids plainly marked “Mining Claim # ___” will be received up until 3:00 pm on May 9, 2014.

Highest, or any bid, not necessarily accepted.

Sold as is- where is, no guarantees.

Sealed bids can be placed in person at: Public Guardian and Trustee 3rd Floor , Andrew Philipsen Law Centre Whitehorse, Yukon Or by mail to: Public Guardian and Trustee PO Box 2703 (J2B) Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2C6 or for more information, please contact 867-667-5366 or toll free at 1-800-661-0408 (extension 5366)

2014 Mosquito Control Program

2014 SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL LANDFILL OPERATIONS TENDERS will be received at the office of the Manager of Financial Services at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 before 4:00:00 pm local time, Thursday, April 24th, 2014.

Tenders must have the seal of the Tenderer affixed and must be submitted in a sealed opaque envelope clearly marked "TENDER FOR THE 2014 SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL LANDFILL OPERATIONS, ATTENTION: MANAGER FINANCIAL SERVICES." This tender is to manage the disposal of domestic wastes that will be landfilled at the Son of War Eagle Waste Management Facility.

The work will require the spreading, placing and compacting of Domestic (ICI), and Construction Demolition (C&D) wastes being disposed of within the landfill. The work will also include managing the disposal of large recyclable materials such as scrap metal, tires, and white goods, as well as the grubbing/stripping and brushing pile.

Tender documents may be obtained by qualified Tenderers who are or will be authorized to conduct business in the City of Whitehorse, from the office of the Manager of Financial Services at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon on or after 12:00 PM local time Friday, April 4th, 2014.

A $50.00 nonrefundable tender deposit, payable to the City of Whitehorse, will be required to obtain Tender documents.

Each Tender must be accompanied by the Tender Security as specified in the tender documents. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any or all Tenders, or to accept the Tender which the City deems to be in its own best interest. Tenders submitted

by Fax will not be accepted nor considered.

All enquiries to: Dave Albisser Manager Water & Waste Services City of Whitehorse 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse Phone: (867) 668-8351 Fax: (867) 668-8653

www.whitehorse.ca

CUTTING EDGE BOBCAT SERVICES •Experienced operator •Insured & WCB certified •Concrete driveways •Site preparation •Landscaping •Backfills •Asphalt prep work •Clean up & haul away More Info & Free Estimates 333-9560

Lost & Found FOUND: ONE Black mitt, jokatherm, with grey liner on Alaska Highway near Aishihik Road turnoff on 30 March, scaly PVC covering, sz 10. 668-2802

Larval surveying and monitoring for the City of Whitehorse 2014 Mosquito Control Program is scheduled to begin 28 April 2014, depending on conditions. The goal of the annual control program is to reduce adult mosquito annoyance for residents and visitors.

Experience has proven that the best way to achieve this is through effective control of larval mosquito populations.

Control of larval mosquito populations will be completed as required, and where necessary, throughout the season on the basis of mosquito population surveillance. Larvicide applications will be made using aerial (helicopter) and groundbased, hand-broadcast methods. Control program operations will extend throughout the summer and until mid-August.

INVITATION TO TENDER

MOD CONSTRUCTION New Construction • Renovations Flooring • Siding Fencing • Decks No job too small Fast, friendly service Ticketed carpenter with Red Seal reg_andrews@hotmail.com Call Reg @867-335-3690

Larval development occurs with water accumulations from snowmelt and precipitation in depressions and established ponds. Permanent water bodies include stagnant ponds, marshes, non-flowing ditches, depressions and any other natural or man-made container, which can hold water for several weeks or months. Left unchecked mosquito larvae will complete their development to adult and provide a source of annoyance.

For this reason control program efforts are focused on the identification and treatment of developing mosquito larvae using the biological larvicide VectoBac 200G which contains the heatkilled bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis var. isrealensis (Bti). This bacterium is specific in its control of mosquitoes and biting flies.

It does not reproduce in the environment and has no effect on non-target insects, fish birds or mammals, including humans, livestock and pets. All applications will be directed to infested mosquito development habitat located within, and adjacent to, the City of Whitehorse.

Residents can reduce the likelihood of mosquito bites by eliminating mosquito development sources around their property and by using personal protection methods. Regular draining and refilling of wading pools, livestock watering troughs, tires, bird baths and emptying of tarped boats, canoes or wheelbarrows reduces a source of mosquito development.

Filling of depressions such as tire ruts, borrow pits and excavations prevents water accumulations and the creation of larval mosquito habitat.

While the larval mosquito control program will reduce overall mosquito populations, residents and visitors should still be prepared to protect themselves from adult mosquitos. Ensure window screens are in good condition, wear loose, light coloured clothing. Limit outdoor activities near landscaped areas, marshes, ponds, lake margins and forested or overgrown areas where adult mosquitos may rest. Avoid perfumed skin care products, shampoos and consider using repellents.

The firm responsible for managing control program operations is D.G. Regan and Associates Ltd., an environmental services firm with over twenty years of providing these specialized services to the Yukon. All mosquito larvicide applications would be completed under the approved conditions of Pesticide Use/Service Permit # 4201-21-04. For more information on mosquitos, the control program or VectoBac 200G please visit www.dgregan.com or www.valentbiosciences.com. You can also leave a message for the mosquito control program biologist at City of Whitehorse offices, locally through the ‘BITE’ line 633BITE (2483), or directly with DGRA Ltd. at 1-604-881-4565 or at 1-800-681-3472. Biologists will follow up with a telephone call and on-site property inspection where required.

www.whitehorse.ca

FOUND: DIABETIC case on the trail near the airport. Call 633-3486 if yours FOUND: PADOMETER Biofitness on Millenium Trail, 633-6404

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS IN THE MATTER of the Estate of KENNETH RANDAL HERRMANN, deceased, late of Dawson City, Yukon Territory, who died January 9th, 2012, in Dawson City, Yukon Territory.

All persons having claims against the above-mentioned estate are requested to file the same, supported

by Statutory Declaration, with the undersigned on or before May 2nd, 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 said estate are requested to make immediate payment to the Estate in care of the undersigned.

Christine M. Hakim Lamarche Pearson Barristers and Solicitors 505 Lambert Street, Whitehorse Yukon Y1A 1Z8

PUblIC TENDER GROUND WATER MONITORING 2014/2015 Project Description: Provide professional and technical services for the ground water monitoring program for waste water facilities throughout the Yukon.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 23, 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.

Non-mandatory meeting April 15, 2014 at the Community Services boardroom @ 1:30pm.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Community Services

LOST: ON Air North Flight 507A Acer Tablet. Left in seat 6F on March 24 in Calgary.

Please return no questions asked. Return to Air North, RCMP or 334-3300 LOST: HEART shaped pendant circled with diamonds on white gold chain, reward offered for return, sentimental value. Phone 332- 5552 or 668- 2414

Business Opportunities

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ARCTERYX GEAR: Gamma AR jacket, women's small, green. $120. Rana pant, size 6, brown. $40. Alpha SV 3-ply Gore-tex bib rain pant. x-small women's. $250 (retails over $600). Email: greenkanoe@gmail.com

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 2008 BAY homozygous (100% colour producer) Tobiano stallion, versatile, easy going, outstanding personality, always wanting to please, 15hds, 1200lbs. Stud fee $600.

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Sports Equipment GOLF CLUBS, right-hand Taylor Made Irons 3-pw, $50, Taylor Made R11 Driver, $75, Taylor Made Hybrid Rescue, $50. 334-1785 JIFFY 60CC 8" gas ice auger. Only used once. Runs perfect, $350. 335-8062 ESKIMO FATFISH 949 pop up ice fishing shelter. Only used once. Very easy to set up & take down. Lots of windows, 2 doors, $350. 335-8062 DOWNHILL AND back-country ski gear, various ski lengths, boots size 11, all in exc cond, 668-3266 ROAD BIKE, Giant "Avail", fits women 5'7"-5'10", lightly used, fast, high-end bike, great components, perfect for Haines to Haines! 336-2108 TWO OSPREY packs for sale, womenʼs.

Never used Sirrus 36L daypack, green, size small. $120. Luna 75L backpack, purple, size small. Used, but excellent condition. $150. Email: greenkanoe@gmail.com 8-DOG DOG-BOX, needs TLC, but still functional as is, $100 obo. Stephanie at 335-3905

pUBLIC TENDER

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Land Act:

Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land Take notice that Walter J Duncan, Doreen Duncan and Susan Milligan from Teslin, YT, have applied to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), Smithers, for a Crown Grant of existing Licence - Residential Recreational puropses situated on Provincial Crown land located ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN LAND IN THE VICINITY OF TESLIN LAKE, CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 0.09 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS. The Lands File for this application is 6401657.

Written comments concerning this application should be directed to the Skeena Stikine Land Officer, MFLNRO,at Bag 6000 – 3333 Tatlow Road Smithers, BC V0J 2N0.

Comments will be received by MFLNRO up to May 25, 2014. MFLNRO may not be able to consider comments received after this date.

Please visit the website at http://www.arfd. gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/index.jsp for more information.

Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be considered part of the public record. For information, contact the Freedom of Information Advisor at Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations’ Office in Smithers.

PUBLIC TENDER

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

PUbLIC TENDER CONSOLIDATION, TRANSPORTATION AND PROCESSING OF ELECTRONIC WASTE FROM SOLID WASTE FACILITIES IN YUKON Project Description: Consolidation and transportation of E-waste from Solid waste facilities to a recognized processor outside the Yukon Territory Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 24, 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

REqUEST FOR PROPOSAl STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT FOR ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION SERVICES FOR MINOR WORKS FOR YUKON MINE SITE AND MINE REMEDIATION PROJECTS Project Description: Government of Yukon is soliciting proposals for Standing Offer Agreements for engineering and construction services for minor works for Yukon mine site and mine remediation projects managed by Assessment and Abandoned Mines Branch.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is May 1, 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 Monique Raitchey at (867) 6337966.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Energy, Mines & Resources Community Services

pUBLIC TENDER CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BEAVER CREEK FIRE HALL, BEAVER CREEK FIRE HALL-BLDG #3137, BEAVER CREEK, YUKON

PubLIC TENDER SITE PREPARATION FARO MINE COMPLEX

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 29, 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 Nick Barnett at (867) 667-3588.

Site Visit April 23, 2014 at 11:00 a.m.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Project Description: Establish Standing Offer Agreement(s) (SOA(s)) for the Supply of Fibreglass or polyethylene Septic tanks and Related Products Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 29, 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 David Knight at (867) 667-3114.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 24, 2013. 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, Second Floor, 9010 Quartz Road, P.O. Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Rob Kelly at (867) 667-8980.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

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

Project Description: Government of Yukon is soliciting bids for earthworks, demolition, and clean-up to be conducted within an area approximately 3 hectares in size at the Faro Mine Complex.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is May 1, 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 Carenn Kormos at 867-393-7429.

Mandatory Site Visit: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

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

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

Community Services

Energy, Mines and Resources

YUKON COLLEGE MOULD REMEDIATION YUKON COLLEGE - BLDG. # 1227 WHITEHORSE YUKON

SUPPLY FIBREGLASS OR POLYETHYLENE SEPTIC TANKS AND RELATED PRODUCTS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS in the matter of the estate of

Joey Lee Evans

Deceased, late of Whitehorse, in the Yukon territory, who died on

March 27, 2014.

all persons having claims against the above mentioned estate are requested to file a claim, supported by Statutory Declaration, with Bhreagh D. Dabbs, on or before April 25, 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: Bhreagh D. Dabbs AUSTRING, FENDRICK & FAIRMAN

Barristers & solicitors 3081 third avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1a 4Z7

REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS Mobile Food Vendors on Downtown Public Land, 2014 Season The City of Whitehorse is inviting applications from mobile food vendors for the 2014 summer season. A list of approved vendor sites has been developed by the City and will be awarded through a lottery process.

Application forms must be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “Request for Applications Mobile Food Vendor Stalls, Whitehorse, Yukon” and addressed to: Manager, Financial Services City of Whitehorse 2121 Second Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1C2 Application closing time and date is before 2:00 p.m. Local Time (P.S.T.) on Wednesday, April 23, 2014. The complete Application Package, including the Application Form can be picked up starting 8:30 a.m.

Friday, April 4th, 2014 from the office of the Manager of Financial Services, City Hall, Whitehorse. Applications received after this time will not be considered regardless of the reason for being late, and will be returned to the applicant unopened.

Get details at whitehorse.ca/ foodvendors. Inquiries may be directed to Ben Campbell, Planner, at 867-668-8338 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday or by email at ben. campbell@whitehorse.ca.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of

KELLY ANNE PATRICK,

of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Deceased, who died on March 3, 2014, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executor at the address shown below, before the 18th day of April, 2014, after which date the Executor 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: Gerald A. Patrick c/o Lackowicz & Hoffman Suite 300, 204 Black Street Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2M9 Tel: (867) 668-5252 Fax: (867) 668-5251

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of Robert Arthur King (Robb), of Whitehorse, Yukon, Deceased, who died on June 15, 2007, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Administrator at the address shown below, before the 15th day of May 2014 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

Chris J. King, Administrator PO Box 4298 Spruce Grove, AB, T7X 3B5 Tel: (780) 960-3555 x1102 Fax: (780)960-3555

WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

House Hunters

Advertise your Home in 3 issues for only $60+GST

(3 consecutive weeks)

PHONE: 867-667-6283

CHICKENS FOR sale, 10 Brown Leghorns, 2 Red Sussex, 1 White Leghorn, 1 Red Rock Cross, $27 ea. 333-0915

Friday, April 11, 2014 THREE-MONTH-OLD 633-4249

GOATS for sale.

18 HP 4wd B7000 Kubota diesel tractor with 3 point hitch tiller. New loader, new tires new paint, $8,000. 332-3221 DEARBORN TWO bottom plow for three point hitch. $500 obo. 633-6502 Hay & Straw For Sale Excellent quality hay Alfalfa mix 60-65lb $14.50 Timothy/grass mix 60-65 lb $14.50 Brome hay 50-55 lbs $12 Straw bales $7 Nielsen Farms Maureen 333-0615 or yukonfarm@gmail.com

Liquor Corporation

LiQUoR acT Take noTice ThaT, Aurora Inn Holdings Ltd. of Canada, of 817-6th Avenue, Dawson City, in Yukon, is making application for a Food Primary-All Liquor Licence, in respect of the premises known as the Aurora Inn Restaurant situated at 5th and Harper, Dawson City, Yukon. any person who wishes to object to the granting of this application should file their objection in writing (with reasons) to: President, Yukon Liquor corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1a 4P9

Baby & Child Items PLAN TOYS wooden doll house w/furniture & dolls, $120 for everything. 668-7659 2-SEATER BIKE trailer in new cond, $225.

393-2630 BURLEY CHILD Trailer Encore, for 2 children, including ski, jogging and bike set, like new, paid $1,250, asking $900. 633-3399

not later than 4:30 pm on the 30th day of April, 2014 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant.

CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903

The first time of publication of notice is April 11, 2014.

CAR SEAT, exc cond, holds 45-100 lbs. $100. 393-2630

The second time of publication of notice is April 18, 2014.

LARGE & XL Easter bunny stuffies in good cond, $10 ea. 633-4379

The third time of publication of notice is April 25, 2014. any questions concerning this specific noTice are to be directed to Licensing & Social Responsibility at 867-667-5245 or 1-800-661-0408, local 5245.

Childcare ROSIEʼS DAY HOME Opening May 1, 2014 Day/Night/Weekend Spots available Call 668-3448

Furniture ANTIQUE LIGHT oak hutch, newly refinished, new glass doors on upper half, 6ʼ length, $1,100 obo. 633-6244 LOVESEAT. KROEHLER brand; high quality foam & construction. Smoke & pet-free home. Factory Scotchguard protection. L 65.5", W 35", H 35.5". Antique-type pattern w/light jade/salmon/cream colours, $290.

821-6011 SKLAR-PEPPLER DINING room suite. Oak veneer on ash. 63"x42" pedestal table, 2 extensions, 6 chairs. Hutch upper: 4 doors w/glass shelves. Bottom: 3 drawers & 2 cupboards, $1,700 obo. 821-6011 USED LEATHER couch w coffee/end tables, $90. 335-4837 ANTIQUE DUNCAN Phyfe double drop-leaf table, $225. Maple rocking chair, $95. 311B Hanson St. WANTED: GOOD quality chest dresser (deep drawers), also metal adjustable queen frame to fit a double bed. 334-5189

GRACO INFANT car seat, $25. Basic white crib, no mattress, $50. 334-7061

HAND-CRAFTED COFFEE table & 2 end tables, made from tree trunks, oak bases & glass tops, $1,200 or $500 apiece obo.

667-7107

CLOTH DIAPERS, organic cotton Bummis, 6-pack Bum-Genius quick-dry with inserts (hardly used), homemade varieties, lots of sizes/designs, Rubbermaid full for $200 obo.

335-3905

DECOR-REST DOUBLE bed chesterfield, like new, dark green, $600. 633-3113

KING MATTRESS & box spring, paid $2,300, asking $900 obo, 2 yrs old.

667-7107

RECLINING COUCH & love seat, beige w/abstract pattern, free. 633-6263

INVITATION TO TENDER

INVITATION TO TENDER

2014 SOLID WASTE FACILITY TRANSFER STATION OPERATIONS

2014 SOLID WASTE FACILITY RECYCLING OPERATIONS

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Manager of Financial Services at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 before 4:00:00 pm local time, Thursday, May 1, 2014.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Manager of Financial Services at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 before 4:00:00 pm local time, Thursday, May 1, 2014.

Tenders must have the seal of the Tenderer affixed and must be submitted in a sealed opaque envelope clearly marked "TENDER FOR THE 2014 SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL TRANSFER STATION OPERATIONS, ATTENTION: MANAGER FINANCIAL SERVICES."

Tenders must have the seal of the Tenderer affixed and must be submitted in a sealed opaque envelope clearly marked "TENDER FOR THE 2014 SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL RECYCLING OPERATIONS, ATTENTION: MANAGER FINANCIAL SERVICES."

This tender is to supply bins to the City’s transfer station at the Son of War Eagle Landfill Waste Management Facility for the purpose of collecting wastes that will be deposited by the public.

The contract will also include the operation, maintenance and the transfer of bins containing the wastes to the various disposal sites located within the Facility.

This tender is to receive, manage, and process recyclable material being brought to the Son of War Eagle Waste Management Facility by members of the public. The work will also include supply, management, and operation of containers at the Son of War Eagle transfer station for a recycling program including the collection, removal and processing of batteries and electronic waste.

Tender documents may be obtained by qualified Tenderers who are or will be authorized to conduct business in the City of Whitehorse, from the office of the Manager of Financial Services at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon on or after 12:00 PM local time Friday, April 11, 2014.

A $50.00 nonrefundable tender deposit, payable to the City of Whitehorse, will be required to obtain Tender documents.

Each Tender must be accompanied by the Tender Security as specified in the tender documents. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any or all Tenders, or to accept the Tender which the City deems to be in its own best interest. Tenders submitted

by Fax will not be accepted nor considered.

Tender documents may be obtained by qualified Tenderers who are or will be authorized to conduct business in the City of Whitehorse, from the office of the Manager of Financial Services at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon on or after 12:00 PM local time Friday, April 11, 2014.

A $50.00 nonrefundable tender deposit, payable to the City of Whitehorse, will be required to obtain Tender documents.

All enquiries to:

Each Tender must be accompanied by the Tender Security as specified in the tender documents. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any or all Tenders, or to accept the Tender which the City deems to be in its own best interest. Tenders submitted

by Fax will not be accepted nor considered.

Dave Albisser Manager Water & Waste Services City of Whitehorse 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse Phone: (867) 668-8351 Fax: (867) 668-8653

Dave Albisser Manager, Water & Waste Services City of Whitehorse 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse Phone: (867) 668-8351 Fax: (867) 668-8653

www.whitehorse.ca

All enquiries to:

www.whitehorse.ca

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 DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office 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

pUbLIC TENdER VEGETATION CONTROL ALASKA HIGHWAY WHITEHORSE AREA YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is May 1, 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 Mackenzie Ingram at (867) 667-3697.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

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GarageSALES saturday, april 12

copper ridge M 19 OLIVINE PLacE, Copper Ridge. Saturday, April 12, 9amnoon. Kitchen items, books, bookcases, electronics, rakes, shovels, youth clothing, outdoor winter gear, bedding, pillows, Xmas & seasonal items.

M 69 FaLcON DrIVE, Copper Ridge, Saturday April 12, 9:30am1:00pm, assorted household items & tools, moving out sale.

downtown M WHITEHOrSE ELEMENTarY ScHOOL gYM, downtown. Saturday, April 12, 10am. Gala garage sale. Fundraiser for Little Footprints Big Steps in Haiti. Donate/Help? 456-4434 or 335-0333 M 97 LEWES BLVD, Riverdale, Saturday April 12, 9:00am-12:00noon, furniture, storage containers, ceramic planters, books, plants, kitchenware, household items, etc, if raining/snowing then cancelled

rEmEmbEr....

porter creek WHEN placing your Garage Sale Ad through M 73 WaNN rD, Porter Creek, Saturday April The Yukon News 12, 10:00am-2:00pm,everything household, Website TO INCLUDE: furniture, dressers, kitchen stuff, bow flex, tools, etc • ADDRESS • AREA riverdale • DATE(S) M SELKIrIK ELEMENTarY ScHOOL FuNDraISEr • TIME OF YOUR Garage Sale! Saturday, April 12 9:00am- Noon.

GARAGE SALE Selkirk Elementary Gymnasium 30 words or less FREE! takhini north Classifieds/Reception M 55 NOrTHLaND TraILEr ParK. Saturday April wordads@yukon-news.com or 667-6285 12, 9am-noon. Table saw, pine headboard, La-zDeadline: Wednesday @ 3pm boy chair, desk, hh items. 332-1933

REqUEST FOR PROPOSAL PROCESS AND MONITORING EVALUATION FOR SNAP

INVITATION TO TENDER

INVITATION TO TENDER

INVITATION TO TENDER

Supply of 2014/2015 Full Size Van 2014-001359

2014 Supply of 10mm Crushed Sand 2014-001355

2014 Supply of Road Salt 2014-001358

2014 Supply of Calcium Chloride 2014-001357

The City of Whitehorse (the “City”) is inviting tenders in writing from bona fide proponents for the supply of one (1) each: 2014/2015 Full Size Van.

The City of Whitehorse (the “City”) is inviting tenders in writing from bona fide proponents for the supply of 10mm Crushed Sand.

Interested bidders must submit tenders in writing enclosed in a sealed envelope clearly indicating the bidders name and address and referencing “Tender for Supply of 2014/2015 Full Size Van”; 2014-001359. All Tender submissions must be addressed to the City of Whitehorse, Manager Financial Services, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 and received before 3:00:00 PM Local Time, Wednesday, April 30, 2014.

Interested bidders must submit tenders in writing enclosed in a sealed envelope clearly indicating the bidders name and address and referencing “Tender for Supply of 10mm Crushed Sand”; 2014-001355. All Tender submissions must be addressed to the City of Whitehorse, Manager Financial Services, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 and received before 3:00:00 PM Local Time, Wednesday, April 30, 2014.

Invitation to Tender documents with complete specifications may be obtained by Proponents who are or will be authorized to conduct business in the City of Whitehorse, from the Office of the Manager of Finance at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 on or after 12:00:00 PM local time Friday, April 11, 2014.

Invitation to Tender documents with complete specifications may be obtained by Proponents who are or will be authorized to conduct business in the City of Whitehorse, from the Office of the Manager of Finance at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 on or after 12:00:00 PM local time Friday, April 11, 2014.

Tender submissions will be "EVALUATED IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY OF WHITEHORSE.” Tenders by facsimile WILL NOT be accepted and / or considered.

All inquiries regarding this tender may be directed to the City’s Equipment Maintenance Supervisor at 867-668-8356 between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm Monday to Thursday.

www.whitehorse.ca

The City of Whitehorse (the “City”) is inviting tenders in writing from bona fide proponents for the supply of Road Salt.

Interested bidders must submit tenders in writing enclosed in a sealed envelope clearly indicating the bidders name and address and referencing “Tender for Supply of Road Salt”; 2014-001358.

All Tender submissions must be addressed to the City of Whitehorse, Manager Financial Services, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 and received before 3:00:00 PM Local Time, Wednesday, April 30, 2014.

Invitation to Tender documents with complete specifications may be obtained by Proponents who are or will be authorized to conduct business in the City of Whitehorse, from the Office of the Manager of Finance at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 on or after 12:00:00 PM local time Friday, April 11, 2014.

The City of Whitehorse (the “City”) is inviting tenders in writing from bona fide proponents for the supply of Calcium Chloride.

Interested bidders must submit tenders in writing enclosed in a sealed envelope clearly indicating the bidders name and address and referencing “Tender for Supply of Calcium Chloride”; 2014-001357. All Tender submissions must be addressed to the City of Whitehorse, Manager Financial Services, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 and received before 3:00:00 PM Local Time, Wednesday, April 30, 2014.

Invitation to Tender documents with complete specifications may be obtained by Proponents who are or will be authorized to conduct business in the City of Whitehorse, from the Office of the Manager of Finance at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 on or after 12:00:00 PM local time Friday, April 11, 2014.

Tender submissions will be "EVALUATED IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY OF WHITEHORSE.” Tenders by facsimile WILL NOT be accepted and / or considered.

Tender submissions will be "EVALUATED IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY OF WHITEHORSE.” Tenders by facsimile WILL NOT be accepted and / or considered.

All inquiries regarding this tender may be directed to the City’s Transportation Supervisor at 867-668-8368 between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm Monday to Thursday.

All inquiries regarding this tender may be directed to the City’s Transportation Supervisor at 867-668-8368 between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm Monday to Thursday.

All inquiries regarding this tender may be directed to the City’s Transportation Supervisor at 867-668-8368 between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm Monday to Thursday.

www.whitehorse.ca

www.whitehorse.ca

www.whitehorse.ca

Tender submissions will be "EVALUATED IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY OF WHITEHORSE.” Tenders by facsimile WILL NOT be accepted and / or considered.

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04.11.2014

INVITATION TO TENDER

Project Description: To evaluate the “Stop Now and Plan” program provided by the Youth Justice unit of Family and Children’s Services, Department of Health and Social Services.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 30, 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 Renee Mills - Acting Supervisor at (867) 667-3758.

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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