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At that point in the conversation, just four minutes in, the premier’s executive assistant stepped in and ukon’s premier has come out said Pasloski had run out of time to swinging against federal Libtalk. eral Leader Justin Trudeau’s The Yukon government has not promise to put a price on carbon set a target for territory-wide emispollution. sions reductions. “We can’t really support at all In 2009 it set a goal of doing so a concept of a mandatory carbon within two years. But in 2012 it conpricing that’s being suggested by cluded that predicting the territory’s the federal Liberal leader, because future industrial and economic the consumption of fossil fuels is growth is not possible. certainly not a luxury in the North, “Rather than commit to an it’s a necessity,� said Premier Darrell arbitrary target based on estimated Pasloski in an interview Thursday. projections of Yukon’s economic Trudeau’s plan is to set national growth, the government is working targets and work with provinces and with key players in the electricity, territories individually to ensure building and energy efficiency, inthey put the policies in place to help dustrial, and transportation sectors achieve them. to identify actions that will lead to “As it stands, the provinces and realistic and measurable outcomes to territories have their own carbon minimize growth in Yukon’s overall reduction targets, which added toGHG emissions,� according to the gether are very similar to the targets 2012 progress report on the climate that the prime minister committed change action plan.

Canada to,� Trudeau said in the anThe government has set a target nouncement last week. for emissions reductions related to “But as I mentioned, we’re not its own internal operations. collectively on track to meet those The goal is to reduce emissions targets – not even close.� by 20 per cent in 2015 compared to An auditor general’s report from 2010 levels. this past fall confirmed that the Yukon government operations federal government’s plan to reduce accounted for about 10 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions is not the territory’s greenhouse gas output working. in 2012. “In 2012, we concluded that the That benchmark level was 41.6 federal regulatory approach was unkilotonnes of greenhouse gas emislikely to lead to emission reductions sufficient to meet the 2020 Copenha- sions.

The next year, emissions went up gen target,� according to the report to 42.3 kilotonnes, and in 2012 they summary. That goal is to reduce went down to 40.7. emissions levels by 17 per cent in The 2013 levels are expected to be 2020 compared with 2005. available next month, an official with “Two years later, the evidence is Yukon Environment confirmed. stronger that the growth in emisIn two years, the government sions will not be reversed in time managed to reduce the emissions and that the target will be missed.� of its internal operations by just Pasloski said that the Yukon is two per cent, leaving an 18 per cent doing its part to combat climate change. He pointed to investments in reduction to achieve in three years.

Pasloski called on Yukon Liberal the Yukon Research Centre and the Leader Sandy Silver to clarify his territory’s hydro projects. position on Trudeau’s federal policy.

When asked if actions had had a “Mr. Pasloski is warming up to measurable impact, he referred the question to the government’s climate being an opposition leader by asking questions of other leaders of other change action plan. parties,� Silver said in an interview When asked if the government Thursday. is prepared to set targets and enact “I think he should spend a lot policies to achieve them, he said the more time governing and a lot less same.

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Silver said the Yukon Liberals do not support a carbon tax for the Yukon.

Trudeau’s plan would not require the provinces and territory’s to implement carbon prices, only work with those who choose to do so, he said.

However, Trudeau’s own remarks suggest that this is not the case. “We will set a national standard in partnership with provinces and territories, one that gives them the flexibility to design their own policies to achieve those targets, including their own carbon pricing policies,� Trudeau said in the announcement.

It’s unclear at this point how much special consideration would be given to territories, given the disproportionate burden northern residents and industries would feel under a carbon tax regime.

Silver said a Yukon Liberal government would work to reduce the territory’s impact on climate change, but that details on a plan won’t come out until the next election campaign. “We would definitely want to move forward in a manner where we reduce our carbon footprint.�

Mark Jaccard, a professor at Simon Fraser University and leading expert on climate change policy, said that reducing greenhouse gas emissions requires either a price on carbon or regulations on technologies and fuels. “If politicians are unwilling to admit this, then they are lying when they say they want us to do our part on climate change. They are not being honest. We need honest politicians,� he wrote in an email. “If you took the 100 leading climate-energy economists in the world, they would all tell you that a price on carbon is the best way – in terms of the economy – of achieving Harper’s promise.�

Evidence shows that carbon pricing can be used to reduce other taxes that hurt economic growth, said Jaccard. “But it sounds like the Yukon Party is not interested in unbiased evidence.�

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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Ultra-marathon runner sidelined with severe frostbite Myles Dolphin News Reporter

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ichal Kielbasinski recalls how his heavily frostbitten fingers felt like they were “blowing up from the inside” when they were thawed, following his evacuation from the Yukon Ultra race earlier this week.

“Imagine a huge pressure, pumping your fingers like a balloon, and you think they’re going to explode at any time,” he says from his bed in Whitehorse General Hospital.

The 46-year-old says this is the last place he wants to tell his story from. “I should be in Dawson City by now,” he says.

Doctors are still trying to save the fingers on his right hand and one of his toes from amputation.

His fingers are individually wrapped in thick bandages, and it looks like he’s suffered a bad sunburn on his nose.

As of Wednesday afternoon, he didn’t know if he needed surgery.

He says he’s let his friends, his sponsors and the thousands of supporters back in Poland down.

“Really, this is a huge disappointment for me,” he said.

“It’s my fault, my mistake, my responsibility. I apologized to people on my Facebook page for letting them down but they told me “it’s OK,” but I don’t feel that.”

Kielbasinski remembers feeling euphoric as he stood on the starting line for this year’s edition of the Yukon Arctic Ultra, one of the longest and most physically demanding races in the world.

“I was brought back to my childhood, I was laughing like a kid,” he says.

“I’d been dreaming about this moment all my life.”

He thought he was well prepared for the race. A seasoned ultra-marathon runner, he won a 223-kilometre race in 2013

a mistake,” he wrote in an e-mail.

“Unfortunately, Michal ignored all the signs that indicated he is getting himself into trouble.

And he did not listen to checkpoint staff.”

Pollhammer says organizers never received a distress message from Kielbasinski, but rather that his team checked up on him because they were afraid he wouldn’t warm up again.

“We really like the SPOTs and they help us a lot, but we will never just rely on SPOTs,” he wrote.

“As this example once more shows, technology can fail or the people using the technology can make mistakes.”

As a child growing up in the Polish city of Lodz, Kielbasinski’s father regaled him with stories of the Klondike Gold Rush.

Myles Dolphin/Yukon News For years, he dreamed of stepYukon Arctic Ultra athlete Michal Kielbasinski is being treated at Whitehorse General ping foot in the Yukon and seeing Hospital for severe frostbite on his hands and feet. the inspiration for Jack London’s tales with his own eyes. with a time of 35 hours. He’d In fact, he was leading the a group of racers going by and As the first Polish citizen to even sought advice from 2011 pack of 31 athletes taking part in asked them to look at his hand.

Yukon Arctic Ultra winner Greg the 700-kilometre race by a wide They noticed the frostbite and take part in the Ultra, news of his hospital stay has made headlines McHale. margin. used their satellite phone to call back home, in the city of about And despite a mild Polish “My sled was light – I didn’t for a medevac.

750,000 residents. winter, he trained by pulling tires bring pictures of my friends.

Doctors told him he made Kielbasinski hopes to race through the mud, simulating the But something happened to my the right call. Had he kept going again, but he is uncertain about 20-kilogram sled he’d be pulling fingers. to the Braeburn checkpoint, he being able to find future sponall the way to Dawson City.

“When I ate or drank somealmost certainly would have lost sors.

Last Saturday, Kielbasinski thing, I had to remove my big his fingers, they said.

“The first night I was at the exploded out of the gate. McHale gloves and I wasn’t as careful as I Kielbasinski says he was used hospital, I didn’t sleep at all, my told him to keep a good pace at should have been.” to racing in temperatures around mind was racing,” he says. the beginning, knowing it would That night, snug in his -25, but this was altogether dif“I thought my running career gradually diminish as the race extreme-weather sleeping bag, he ferent. was over. At around 3 a.m., I went on. was mildly successful at warming He wishes he had more time started thinking about what Despite temperatures dipping his fingers up, he said. to adapt to the cold before setting changes I’d have to make with to -35 degrees Celsius that day, Early on Tuesday morning, he off from Whitehorse, he said. my equipment to be able to race and the wind factor bringing finally decided to use his SPOT Race organizer Robert Pollagain. it down even lower to -45, he device to let organizers know he hammer says guidelines have al“I’d love to have another opreached the first checkpoint at needed help. ways been followed since the race portunity but it’s not possible Rivendell Farm in great shape.

“My life wasn’t in danger but I began in 2003, and it wasn’t cold without financial help. If someBut once he got to Dog Grave asked them to come pick me up, enough to postpone the start. body would give me that chance, Lake, about 100 kilometres away, and I’d be there waiting,” he says, He also says racers are briefed I’d start preparing for next year’s he realized something was terexplaining that one of the buton the dangers of extreme cold race as soon as I leave this hosribly wrong with his fingers. tons on the device was for that and the risks associated with it. pital.”

“The first 100 kilometres was purpose.

“That does include the warnContact Myles Dolphin at nothing,” he says.

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Yukon buys new student information system Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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he Yukon Department of Education says a new system for tracking student information will be more user-friendly than its glitchy predecessor.

The department announced this week that it will be moving to a new web-based system called Aspen. That’s because the territory’s existing Yukon Student Information System, or YSIS, will be discontinued in 2016.

The new system, like the old one, keeps track of attendance, grades, graduation requirements, individual learning plans and basic demographic information.

“In technology life, five years

later, we actually got a lot of life out of that system,” said Nicole Morgan, director for learning support services for the Department of Education.

Going to a website, as opposed to going through a specific server, means staff can use mobile devices to log in and it won’t matter what type of operating system a computer uses, Morgan said.

Up until two years ago, she was using YSIS herself as a school counsellor.

She describes a program that sometimes wouldn’t work if too many people were logged on. In other cases, if they accidentally signed out of the system, teachers would have to wait half an hour before they could sign back in.

It also didn’t automatically save any changes made, so teachers could accidentally lose their work halfway through a project.

Many teachers and staff don’t find the existing system easy to use, Morgan said.

In 2013, users were surveyed about weaknesses in the current system and desired features for a new one.

But the government doesn’t intend to make the survey results public. They were never intended to be, Morgan said.

Counsellors and administrators receive training on Aspen in May, Morgan said. That’s so they can start working on timetables and class scheduling for the next year.

Teachers will start their training in professional workshops before the school year starts.

They’ll continue training in the fall ahead of report cards.

The department has budgeted $750,000 to set up the new system. That includes all implementation and training costs, Morgan said.

After that, the new system should cost about $100,000 a year to run. That’s about comparable to the old version, she said.

There are no serious concerns about transferring data from one system to the other, she said.

Teachers in the Yukon and Outside were complaining about the old system since about day one.

In April 2009, B.C. teachers threatened a province-wide boycott over the version they were using. That’s the same year the Yukon looked into implementing it.

The system was installed in response to criticism by auditor general Sheila Fraser, who criticized the Yukon’s Education Department for not keeping adequate track of the information it collects.

When the old system rolled out, the Yukon Teachers Association complained about its glitches and the way teachers were being trained on it. The teachers association did not respond to requests for comment.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Wellness court reduces criminal relapses: report Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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detailed study of Yukon’s Community Wellness Court has concluded that the program is helping to reduce repeat offenders.

The court, created in 2007, targets offenders who struggle with drug and alcohol addictions, mental health problems or cognitive disabilities such as fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

Once someone has pleaded guilty and been accepted into the court, an individual wellness plan is created. They get various types of counselling and other supports and check in with the court on a regular basis.

Sentencing takes place after that’s complete, which typically takes 18 months to two years, or the person has quit the program.

The 88-page report looked at data from 2007 until the end of 2013.

Twenty-six clients completed the program and were sentenced. That’s about a quarter of the people who started.

But considering only those who have been in the program long enough to finish it, the report concludes that’s actually a completion rate of 38 per cent.

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“I think the court itself helps to spark that difference, but the individuals themselves at some point want to change their lives too,” said therapeutic court co-ordinator Tanya MacKenzie.

The report compares people who completed the program to those who only made it partway through. It has no comparable statistics for people outside of the wellness court.

In some cases it breaks down the numbers even further, splitting up people who left the program before and after they started a wellness plan.

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That also means he’s not accessing the RCMP, ambulance, hospital or arrest processing unit.

The report also shed lights on the kind of help that people got through the program.

The most common service used was individual counselling, accessed by 74 per cent of completed clients and 65 per cent of partially completed clients.

First Nation clients make up about 58 per cent of people who come to wellness court.

Almost three-quarters of the aboriginal clients who completed the program made contact with First Nations during that time. That’s compared to just over 40 per cent of the partially completed First Nation clients.

For those clients who received substance-abuse treatment programs, 96 per cent of the completed clients were rated as having made significant progress in dealing with their substance abuse issues while in the program, compared to 53 per cent of the partially completed clients.

“We’re really trying to make those initial connections with the hopes that once they’re out of the justice system they have all these supports in place, so they’re not coming back to us again,” MacKenzie said.

The report was released after the program secured stable core funding for the next three years.

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Whistle Bend residents to eat costs of Mountain View Golf Club bail-out Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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hen the Yukon government bailed out the Mountain View Golf Club in 2011 for $750,000, it left the bill for future residents of Whistle Bend.

By a rough calculation, the purchaser of a $130,000 singlefamily lot will have paid about $350 towards the deal.

Brad Cathers, who was the minister of community services when news of the deal broke last year, was made aware of this fact on Dec. 8, 2014, according to documents received by the News through an access-to-information request.

Still, when the NDP asked the government directly on Dec. 9, 10 and 18 if the cost of the golf club deal was passed on to Whistle Bend residents, the questions went unanswered. “I’m not sure why they felt that they had to try so desperately to hide stuff,� said NDP Leader Liz Hanson in an interview this week. “He misrepresented what the public servants had provided to him. “It shows disrespect not just for the citizens but also for those people who serve the public through their service to the politicians.�

Cathers declined an interview request, but said in an email that he revealed where the money came from more than once in the legislative assembly, including during the budget debate on Dec. 16. “If the member was listening, I actually answered that previously,�

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Part of the cost for buying a lot in Whistle Bend will go towards the $750,000 bail-out for the Mountain View Golf Club.

development area of the budget and the money was paid in February of 2011, which I think should answer the member’s question.�

The NDP should know that land development expenditures are intended to be recovered through future land sales, Cathers wrote in the email.

The deal saw the golf club give up rights to a portion of land it had been sitting on for potential future development. It had signed a 30year lease on the property at a cost of $125 per year.

There was also a conflict between the boundaries of the lease the golf course currently occupies and the planned boundaries of the Whistle Bend subdivision, and that issue was resolved through the deal as well.

The deal inked with the golf club states that government was interested in the expansion lease “to support potential future development in the area.�

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But a $9,900 report commissioned by the government in 2010 found the area unsuitable for development. The City of Whitehorse said then and now that it would oppose the expansion of Whistle Bend into that parcel.

The true motive for acquiring that piece of land back from the golf club is revealed through internal correspondence, released through an access-to-information request.

They demonstrate that Archie Lang, then minister of community services, instructed his staff to come up with a way to help out the golf course with its $500,000 debt load.

In an interview this week, Mike Gau with the City of Whitehorse said he is not surprised the costs of the deal was passed on to Whistle Bend.

Residents benefited from the deal because it ended the boundary conflict with the subdivision, allowed for the construction of a

perimeter trail and allowed for the use of the northern parcel of land to help with storm water management, he said.

Gau said he can’t comment on the appropriateness of the $750,000 price tag.

Mountain View’s financial woes did not end with the bail-out.

According to the publicly available financial fillings, the society has had a shortfall of revenues over expenses every year since.

Less than two years after the deal was reached, club president Tony Hill wrote to Premier Darrell Pasloski asking for help replacing the course’s aging sprinkler system, at an estimated cost of $1 million.

Hill – who is also the director of the agriculture branch of the Yukon government – asked Pasloski – who used to be on the golf club’s board – for the request to be considered “outside of the traditional annual community and recreation grant system.�

Hill declined an interview request for this story.

Pasloski has removed himself from discussions related to the club on advice of the territory’s conflict of interest commissioner.

The golf club’s request for funding was denied.

So too were two subsequent requests to the Community Development Fund, also for help with the sprinkler replacement.

These were denied on the basis that helping Mountain View would give it an unfair advantage over its private sector competitor, the Meadow Lakes golf club.

The fund’s guidelines specify that it “may not fund projects that compete with, or cause market disruption, for local for-profit businesses, except in those circumstances where there are defensible and significant benefits to the community or territory as a whole,� according to a Oct. 2014 letter from Economic Development Minister Currie Dixon to the golf club formally denying its most recent request.

The difference in how the previous government dealt with the request from Mountain View compared with this government’s response does not necessarily suggest a policy change, said cabinet spokesperson Dan MacDonald.

One fund’s policy does not equal the policy of government as a whole, he said.

Cathers has previously said that this government would have issued a news release about the Mountain View deal after it was completed.

He has not indicated that this government takes any issue with other parts of how the deal was completed.

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About 30 people, mostly Riverdale residents, sat down to speak with Mayor Dan Curtis and three other councillors during the second of a series of town hall meetings planned for this year.

The format for the meetings involves people sitting in a circle, in this case in the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gym, and taking turns introducing themselves and their top issue.

Last night, 23 of the 30 people who attended said the bridge was their top concern.

The future of Whitehorseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recycling industry was a distant second.

Motorized vehicles are currently not allowed on the bridge, but ATV and snowmobile users have been calling for access to it, arguing that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s their only way out of the neighborhood.

Another group asserts that the footbridge was never intended for motorized use and should remain

that way.

Mayor Dan Curtis pre-empted the discussion by saying that council had tasked the trails and greenways committee with finding recommendations for the future use of the bridge.

Once theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve narrowed down their solutions and presented them to council, a public input period will follow, Curtis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not taking this lightly,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Elaine Smart, a longtime Riverdale resident and Rotary Club member, said the bridge and Millennium Trail were the fulfillment of Father Jean-Marie Mouchetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the few places nearby she can walk for exercise, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a snowmobile user you have access to 700 kilometres of trails around town, and as a walker, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have that option,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Another Riverdale resident, Dorothy Lebel, asked why the city hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t held a referendum on the issue to â&#x20AC;&#x153;clear it once and for all.â&#x20AC;?

Curtis had to interrupt a few times during the meeting to restore order. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not having a debate here,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here to listen to you so please address us (council), and not

people individually.â&#x20AC;?

Tony Gonda, who has lived in Riverdale for 33 years, said there are some things you just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t share.

He estimates heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s put in about 50,000 kilometres on a snowmobile, but he said the Millenium Trail and bridge should remain off-limits because of its importance to active living. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The demographics are changing in this town, there are more old people,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Monty Alford used the trail for exercise when he became older. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great opportunity to promote physical activity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The city should look into building an extension beside the bridge if so many motorized users want to get across.â&#x20AC;?

The addition of a pre-fabricated truss bridge is one of seven solutions the trails and greenways committee is exploring.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estimated that a secondary crossing like that would cost approximately $2.5 million.

The committee is scheduled to meet on Feb. 19 to narrow its recommendations down to one or two.

Other solutions being kicked around include launching a public education campaign to encourage motorized vehicle users to stick to

trails on their side of the river.

Another option is to draw a line down the middle of the bridge so pedestrians could have one side, and motorized users could have the other.

Terence Tait, 36, is a Riverdale resident who said that not all snowmobile users could afford a trailer otherwise needed to drive out of the neighborhood to access other trails. â&#x20AC;&#x153;About 95 per cent of the people my age in Riverdale use motorized vehicles,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But in many cases we can only afford the snowmobile, and the bridge is the only access out.â&#x20AC;?

Barb Pratt said one of the reasons the bridge is so special is because it attracts so much wildlife. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m speaking in defence of the animals, the beavers, the ducks, the birds, and others that make this place so special,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Another resident commended the city on its holiday lights and said it was the highlight of his commute to work every morning, which drew a round of applause.

The next town hall meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 10 at the Frank Slim Building at Shipyards Park.

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uilding a community garden and greenhouse will help the Kluane First Nation feed itself and generate economic prosperity, according to a research report.

The First Nation partnered with the Arctic Institute of CommunityBased Research over a six-month period after becoming concerned with its long-term food sustainability, said Norma Kassi, indigenous collaborator for the institute. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The idea for a community garden and greenhouse is part of an economic initiative by the community,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They wanted people to be trained and working there constantly, to be able to market the produce to local restaurants and KFN citizens.â&#x20AC;?

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cluded encouraging more agricultural projects, increasing community celebrations and raising awareness about the importance of healthy eating practices.

The institute trained two local youth to help Kassi carry out a series of interviews with citizens of the First Nation, to get more insight on their thoughts about food insecurity.

The research had four objectives: to gather local experiences with climate change and its effects; to find ways KFN citizens can ensure local, nutritious food is available; to identify ancient methods of conservation for the community; and to discuss options for a food security strategy.

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The communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two oldest elders were interviewed about their thoughts on the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longterm food sustainability and access to clean water.

The elders encouraged a return to ancient methods of conservation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For example, in the winter months of January, February and March, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when people start needing fresh food from the land,â&#x20AC;?

Kassi said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The elders would like to see hunters go out on community hunts, and bring the animals back to the community to share with single parents and children in particular.

They also talked about stopping the hunt of species that are in decline, such as caribou, and switching to others, such as bison.â&#x20AC;?

In October, Environment Yukon asked hunters to help curb the territoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growing wood bison population.

Following last summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s census, there were an estimated 1,470 animals in the herd, almost 500 over the target set in a 2012 management plan.

Kassi said declining food sources has a huge impact on indigenous people, not only in the Yukon but elsewhere in Canada. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening in the N.W.T., in Nunavut, in Labrador too,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Caribou herds are on the decline and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge concern. This is our food. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not accessing as much salmon as we used to so hard times are coming. This is where elders are saying itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to come together and start planning for long-term food sustainability.â&#x20AC;?

The First Nation is now trying to access funds to build the community garden and greenhouse, Kassi said.

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OPINION One more reason to be teed off about the Mountain View mess

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omeowners in Whitehorse’s new Whistle Bend subdivision deserve a complimentary membership at Mountain View Golf Course. After all, whether they like it or not, they will be the ones who ultimately pay for the Yukon Party’s secretive bail-out of the club a few years ago.

By our rough calculations, the buyer of a $130,000 single-family lot will have paid about $350 towards the golf club deal. This, like much else about this mess, is something that our political leaders would prefer you not to know.

To recap: the debt-ridden golf club received $750,000 from our previous Yukon Party government, under the pretense of a land parcel purchase. The catch? The government actually owned the land it was buying. The golf course had paid just $125 annually to lease the parcel, with the idea of eventually developing it, although it had no immediate plans to do so.

As government memos obtained by the News make clear, this transaction was never really about the land. It was about bailing out the club while keeping the public in the dark. As an official wrote at the time, hushing up the transaction would avoid “a ‘me too’ scenario” and ensure the “political backlash is minimized.”

All this was done by the previous Yukon Party regime. Yet it turns out that our current premier, Darrell Pasloski, sat on the golf course’s board at the time of the transaction. That helps explain why our current cabinet is so determined to bury any piece of information related to the scandal.

Yet this seems to only draw out the misery of those involved, as embarrassing facts keep coming to light. Such is the case with the revelation that the bail-out cost had been dumped on Whistle Bend homeowners.

The government could have provided this information when the scandal broke back in Decem-

ber. Certainly, it was asked for it, both in questions posed by opposition MLAs in the legislature and by the News’ queries to cabinet communications staff.

What’s more, records show that Brad Cathers, who was community services minister at the time, had been briefed on this very point not long before he was asked about it during question period.

So, lest there be any doubt, he knew at the time. He just didn’t want to say.

Cathers also refused to speak to the matter with us this week.

But he sent us a statement that maintains the government had always been above-board with the reporting, because during legislative debates he acknowledged that the bail-out had been stuffed away somewhere in the land development budget.

In other words: we answered your question, but in a general way that didn’t actually provide the information you sought, and at a time we hoped you weren’t listening. This is what passes for our government’s idea of transparency.

Similarly, when pressed about whether our current government would have handled the Mountain View bail-out request any differently, Cathers has conceded that our current regime would have issued a news release. The implication is that the bail-out itself was publicly defensible. Yet, if that were true, the government would not have bothered with structuring the deal as a bogus land transaction – the whole purpose of which was to keep the deal secret.

And, if our current leaders are not the least bit squeamish about how the bail-out was brokered, why did they, to their credit, balk at a later deal that the golf course tried to broker? Not long after the bail-out, the golf club asked the territory to pay another $1 million for a new sprinkler system. The club proposed that this payment be done “outside of the traditional annual community and recreation Publisher

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grant system,” like what was done with the bail-out.

The reason for taking this route is clear enough. When the golf course later did apply for a traditional grant, it was denied on the grounds that the course competed with another, privately owned golf course, and the government didn’t want to help one and not the other. Of course, this same objection should equally apply to the course’s earlier bail-out.

The public also continues to remain in the dark about how Mountain View wound up deep in debt in the first place, what actions the course took following the bail-out to ensure it would be financially sustainable, and how the club spent the $250,000 that remained after it had settled its debts. We’ve asked club executives repeatedly for this information.

They decline to say.

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also show that the club sank its left-over cash into investments of some kind. (Let’s hope they plopped the money into boring government bonds, rather than mining stocks.)

Of course, Yukon’s ski hill operators and recycling depots are expected to publicly disclose their financial details and present a persuasive business case before receiving government support, if they indeed receive it. But golfers?

Apparently they play by a different set of rules. Why go through the hassle of showing that public funds have been well spent?

Clearly, that’s never been part of the deal.

The board’s flagrant sense of entitlement is somewhat galling, given the prominent public roles that some board members play. For the record, the current directors, according to the club’s latest filings, are Tony Hill, Gord Zealand, Larry Kwiat, Ron Gorrell, Mark Wesolowski, Don Coates and Vic Istchenko.

Hill, Mountain View’s president, has indicated that he considers it scurrilous muckraking for these questions to even be asked.

If he feels that indignant, maybe he should spend a moment to consider how lot owners in Whistle Bend must feel.

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Alaskans accuse Obama of wanting to make state ‘one big national park’ ponent’s quip in 2014 that he had a jar of mayonnaise in the fridge that had lived in Alaska

by Keith longer than Sullivan (he moved Halliday to the state in 1998), called Obama’s move an act of “war on Alaska’s families.”

Congressman Don Young tweeted that the “politically motivated attack on AK by Obama is akin 2 spitting in our faces & telling us it’s raining outside.” f Alaskans voted to replace Governor Bill Walker said he their Democratic senator would respond by considering with a Republican, as they accelerating drilling on statedid last November, what would owned lands outside ANWR. a nice guy like Barack Obama Rounding out the big four do? state-wide offices, Senator It turns out the answer is to Lisa Murkowski said Obama’s ask Congress to designate an moves amounted to “gut additional 12 million acres of punches from this White House the Arctic National Wildlife to our economy and future.”

Refuge as wilderness, making She went on to say Alaskans it much tougher for the cashwould defeat Obama’s “ultimstrapped Alaskan government ate goal of making Alaska one to push drilling there. big national park.”

Alaska’s politicians reacted Murkowski framed the issue to Obama’s announcement like as a “stunning attack on our the anti-ballistic missile base at sovereignty and our ability Fort Greely would to a North to develop a strong economy Korean scud aimed at Fairthat allows us, our children banks. and grandchildren to thrive…

Rookie senator Dan Sullivan, I cannot understand why this administration is willing to who is still living down an op-

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New credit card penalties are outrageous Until a few weeks ago, I was a happy (for the most part) TD Bank customer.

That changed when I opened my TD Visa statement to learn that the bank is increasing penalties (21 per cent to 24.99 per cent and 27.99 per cent) and penalty durations (two months to 12 months) for missed minimum payments on credit card accounts.

The letter helpfully explains that for a balance of $2,500, this change will only cost $8.43/ month. But that $8.43 is not the monthly penalty, it’s the increase. And it’s not for two months – it’s for 12 months. So the cardholder actually pays an increase of $101.16 for missing one payment, to say nothing of cardholders carrying far more debt than just $2,500.

This change is unlikely to affect me as I’ve rarely missed a payment entirely (though it has happened). Also, being allergic to bank fees, I chose the TD Emerald Visa with an interest rate of 12.9 per cent. I get no points, no cash-back, nothing but the ability to keep my finances simple.

But this change applies to me too.

If I missed a payment on a balance of $2,500, my penalty would go from roughly $34 on the old system (21 per cent for two months) to over $260 (24.99 per cent for 12 months)!

That’s more than seven times the original figure. And if I were to miss a payment again, the twelve month count would start all over!

I am angry on behalf of the many TD Visa cardholders who cannot afford what is a cash grab for stockholders on the backs of struggling families and other hard-working Canadians. There is no forgiveness, no understanding in this policy.

The TD Bank has posted quarterly profits in 2014 of $1.75 to $2.1 billion. That’s billion with a B! Comments in stockholder reports include “record earnings,” “outstanding,” “especially strong,” and “solid performance.”

Overall 2014 earnings of $7.88 billion (up 19 per cent over 2013) “surprised even its own executives,” according to a Dec. 4 article by the Globe and Mail.

So tell me, given these figures, where is the need to increase penalties and penalty durations?

Reading through the letter, I acted on the request to contact the bank before cancelling my TD Visa. The first representative explained that she couldn’t do anything about bank policy.

I asked what other options may be available? She offered a lowinterest Emerald Visa. I already have an Emerald Visa!

Then I spoke to her manager who agreed with my reaction, but again, couldn’t do anything

negotiate with Iran, but not Alaska.”

Three of the big four seats are currently occupied by Republicans, while Governor Walker is a former Republican turned independent. But don’t get the impression that Alaska Democrats wholeheartedly support Obama. The Alaska Democrat party chair put out a wistful statement noting that Democratic ex-senator Mark Begich had “served as a firewall to protect and expand Alaska resource development;” a firewall, presumably, against the Democratic administration in Washington.

The Alaskan reaction underlines two differences between their politics and ours: first, that Alaskan politicians are a lot less boring; and, second, that the resource industry’s defenders are much more passionate in Alaska.

The contrast with the recent Yukon legislature fracking committee’s work is stark.

Representatives of all three Yukon parties were on the committee, yet the supposedly pro-development members of it failed to even study seriously

the potential economic benefits to be measured against the environmental risks. As reported in a recent column, after a year and a half of work, the committee’s section on the economic benefits was only half a page long and didn’t have a single number in it.

Nor did they try to explain to Yukoners why the governments of B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan are comfortable with fracking.

Pro-resource Yukoners must have been left thinking that with friends like these, who needs enemies? Potential investors will have noticed the same thing.

The Yukon resource industry is at another of those crossroads it finds itself at every decade or two. The Peel is essentially an investment no-go zone, due to legal and regulatory risk. Capital markets are nervous even about small gold mines with their permits in place. Two mines have closed, leaving just Minto operating.

Non-conventional oil and gas is under what appears to be a de facto moratorium. And recent developments in aboriginal

law raise new questions about resource projects.

With all of that in mind, how likely do you think that the big Casino or Howard’s Pass projects will go ahead? Or even that a couple of new mid-sized mines will open in the next couple of years? Conventional oil and gas?

The trajectory does not look promising for the Yukon’s resource industry. And if no one in public office stands up and vigorously defends it Alaskastyle, then that trend seems likely to continue.

If Obama’s ANWR designation eventually ends up getting overturned by Congress (although the Republicans don’t have the votes in the Senate to do it today) or a future president, there may already be a large triangular shaped park directly to the east.

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

have now found common ground with China to act to drastically reduce their carbon emissions. about it other than recommend I an email with links to two very But they can’t do it alone. speak to my local branch manimportant presentations at the They are calling on everyone else ager (who also can’t do anything last UN climate change conferon the planet to step up to the about it) or to email TD’s cusence in Lima, Peru, December. plate, and that includes all of us tomer feedback service.

The two scientists in the first here in the Yukon.

So I did. They replied, and presentation were very clear: we For us, this means we must suggested I see their brochure are facing a climate crisis and stop wasting our tax dollars on about “problem resolution.” It that we must act now to reduce developing oil and gas, and start directs me to follow the steps I’ve our fossil fuel dependency. (To putting our investments towards already taken. see the video, search online for renewable energy research and Wouldn’t it be nice to hear “UNFCCC Arctic methane emer- development. about a bank lowering fees for a gency.”)

The Yukon has the expertise change?

The reality is: the Yukon and is full of great potential for must leave our fossil fuels in developing renewable energy to Wendy Avison the ground. This vision of deeliminate our fossil fuel addicWhitehorse veloping our economy around tion. Working together we will oil and gas in the Yukon is not a achieve independence from fossil Break free from fossil fuels dream, it is a nightmare. It can- fuels. not happen if we are to save our We need to start now. We need Open letter to Premier Darrell children’s future. your help.

Pasloski: The next link is a presentation Please show us leadership Today is Global Divestment

by John Kerry, the US secretary and help us build our renewable Day. This event calls attention to of state, who spoke six days later energy future. a movement that started last year at the same climate conference.

As the rocker Sam Roberts and is picking up steam. sings: “We’re all in this together.”

(Search “John Kerry remarks Major investors like the COP-20”) Rockefellers and the Norwegian JP Pinard, PhD, PEng, He stated that the U.S. now sovereign wealth (oil) fund, and Whitehorse gets climate change and they major universities have joined this movement and begun to remove their investments from oil and gas stocks. UBC just announced this week that they are The Yukon News welcomes letters from its readers. pulling out all of their investLetters should be no longer than 500 words and must be signed ments in fossil fuel stocks. with your full name and place of residence. A daytime phone Their reason? Fossil fuels are number is also required for verification purposes only. We reserve destroying the environment that the right to edit letters for clarity, length, accuracy and legality. we depend on for our survival You can send submissions to editor@yukon-news.com. They can and wellbeing. be faxed to 867-668-3755 or mailed to 211 Wood St., Whitehorse, Before Christmas I sent you Yukon Y1A 2E4. and all of the elected members

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NATIONAL Cabinet shuffle puts harder edge on Harper’s front bench ahead of campaign Stephanie Levitz Canadian Press

OTTAWA ason Kenney isn’t known for holding his fire on the subject of radical Islam – and now he’s in charge of whether the Canadian military will or won’t continue to do the same.

Kenney took charge of the defence portfolio this week in a cabinet shuffle that puts a definite edge on the team Prime Minister Stephen Harper will lead into the October election campaign.

Former defence minister Rob Nicholson took over foreign affairs following the abrupt resignation of John Baird from that position last week. Kenney’s former job as minister of employment and social development will be handled by Minister of State for Democratic Reform Pierre Poilievre.

The triumvirate represents three of the most battle-tested MPs in the Conservative caucus who’ve all shown a willingness to take a hard line on controversial policies.

“The changes to the ministry announced today will help ensure that key portfolios continue to have the strong leadership required to advance

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That was forced off course when then-veterans affairs minister Julian Fantino failed to keep a lid on simmering discontent among war vets.

Harper pushed him out of that portfolio in favour of Erin O’Toole in early January.

Then Baird decided to quit. While Harper could have left International Trade Minister Ed Fast holding the reins at foreign affairs, the file is too big for the government to leave it without its own minister, especially at a time of global conflict.

“I look forward to representing Canada’s interests on the world stage as we continue to promote Canadian values abroad,” Nicholson said in a statement.

But New Democratic Party Leader Tom Mulcair questioned whether Nicholson was the right choice for the time, saying he never wavers from party dogma.

“At a time like this in the world that we live in today, it is a bit surprising you have someone who can’t reach out more than he can,” Mulcair told reporters in Toronto, also critiquing Nicholson’s inability to speak French.

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of the Conservatives tough-on-crime legislation. While there had been speculation he wasn’t going to run again, he was re-nominated in his Niagara Falls riding in late January.

But his role in the party’s electoral machine isn’t as key as that of Jason Kenney, freeing him up to be sent abroad in the lead-up to the campaign.

From Nicholson, Kenney takes over responsibility for the Canadian contribution to the air strike campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in its march across Iraq and Syria.

The mission is about half-way through the allotted six months and it will be Kenney who will have the task of deciding whether or not to keep it going.

He’s used some of the toughest language in government when it comes to denouncing ISIL’s actions.

“It is a genocidal organization motivated by its hatred of innocent people,” Kenney told the House of Commons in October.

“It continues to commit acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing, mass rape of women and girls, sexual slavery, daily torture and the beheading of innocent people, including children.”

Kenney will also retain his title as Minister of Multiculturalism as

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he continues to advance the party’s standings among ethnic Canadians, a vote key to keeping the party in majority standings.

For Poilievre, the appointment comes after years of incremental moves up the ladder of power since he was first elected in 2004 to represent the suburban Ottawa riding of Nepean-Carleton.

As minister of state for democratic reform he was in charge of shepherding through controversial election law changes, and will retain control of that portfolio even in his new job.

But when it came to getting a full cabinet minister position, he ran up against geographical realities. For years, there were already two ministers from the Ottawa area, John Baird and Gordon O’Connor.

With neither running again, it was Poilievre’s time.

At the helm of the employment portfolio, he’ll be in charge of reforms to the social security tribunal as well as the temporary foreign workers program.

Critics of the Conservatives often say companies use the program to avoid union workers at higher wages; and Poilievre has been a fierce critic of unions in the past and has supported legislation that would force unions to open their books to their members and the public.

Mulcair called it an odd appointment for a job that requires a range of partners.

“We’ve seen the abrasive character as he’s tried to work in the past on files like the new Elections Act,” Mulcair said.

“It was a bizarre experience and to see him moving up the conservative food chain is I guess no surprise if your purpose is to keep putting people off.”

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Tory MP Eve Adams switches to Liberals, brings backing from Harper loyalist cabinet.

Adams took some harsh parting shots at the party she has OTTAWA championed since she was 14 and ustin Trudeauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Liberals scored at Harper as she blasted the Toa two-fer earlier this week. riesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; recently-introduced incomeWell-connected Toronto-area splitting tax measures for families.

Conservative MP Eve Adams â&#x20AC;&#x153;I cannot support mean-spiritcrossed the floor on Monday to ed measures that benefit only the sit with the Liberals. And her richest few,â&#x20AC;? she said. surprise defection has the full â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can no longer support support of her fiance, former top mean-spirited leadership that Conservative operative Dimitri divides people instead of bringing Soudas â&#x20AC;&#x201C; long considered one of them together â&#x20AC;Ś I want to work Stephen Harperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fiercest loyalists with someone who inspires, not and an architect of the Toriesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rewith fear mongerers and bullies.â&#x20AC;? election strategy for 2015.

However, NDP Leader Tom Within hours, Soudas made Mulcair accused Trudeau of it clear heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prepared to use his â&#x20AC;&#x153;stoking cynicismâ&#x20AC;? about politics inside knowledge of the Conserby welcoming an MP who, until vatives against them.

Monday, had supported â&#x20AC;&#x153;every â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mike, stand down on throwsingle decision,â&#x20AC;? including income ing stones from glass houses,â&#x20AC;? he splitting, taken by Harper for the tweeted in response to what he past nine years. considered a jab at Adams from Adams was first elected for the Justin Tang/CP Edmonton Tory MP Mike Lake.

Conservatives in 2011 in the ToFormer Conservative MP Eve Adams is joined by Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau as she anâ&#x20AC;&#x153;What did you ask me to do ronto-area riding of Mississauganounces in Ottawa on Monday that she is leaving the Conservative Party to join the Liberal again?â&#x20AC;?

Brampton South but had hoped Party of Canada.

Conservatives cast Adamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to run again for the Tories in the decision as pure opportunism by newly-created riding of Oakville a woman spurned by the govern- North-Burlington.

A bitter nomination contest ing party. Party president John Walsh said Adams asked â&#x20AC;&#x153;just a ensued and both she and her couple weeks agoâ&#x20AC;? about runopponent were forced to drop ning in another riding, after the out amid allegationis of dirty party barred her last summer tricks. Among other things, it from running in Oakville North- was alleged that Soudas, at the Burlington. time the executive director of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;I informed her in writing Conservative Party, was using his on Jan. 29 that she would not be position to unfairly help Adams. permitted to run for our party Soudas, who formerly served in the next election due to the as the prime ministerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s communimisconduct from the Oakville cations director, subsequently lost North-Burlington nomination his party job, to which heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been race,â&#x20AC;? Walsh said in a statement. personally appointed by Harper.

Prime Minister Stephen Soudas confirmed Monday, Harper echoed those comments through Twitter, that he is on side later Monday at an Ottawa news with Adamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; switch. conference with German Chanâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Fully support bMPEveAdcellor Angela Merkel. amsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision. She is smart, hard â&#x20AC;&#x153;The national council of our working & caring,â&#x20AC;? he tweeted. party is responsible for an honest, Adams said sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll run for a Libclean nomination process. It ineral nomination in a Toronto-area formed MP Adams some 10 days riding but declined to identify ago that she could not be a candithe riding. However, she is exdate for the party for reasons that pected to seek the nomination in I think everybody understands,â&#x20AC;?

Eglinton-Lawrence, currently held

Harper said.

by Finance Minister Joe Oliver. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obviously the reality Her choice of riding â&#x20AC;&#x201C; won by of the situation and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Oliver in 2011 with a comfortsole reason we obviously have the able 4,000-vote lead over former development we have today.â&#x20AC;?

Liberal cabinet minister Joe Volpe But Adams and Trudeau cast â&#x20AC;&#x201C; suggests Trudeauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team was her move as a matter of principle. & -%) (+ $ $ $ not prepared to offer a safe seat in â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not about having a +%)# #!" (% ( " -%)& )'!$ '' tough day at the office; everybody return for Adamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; defection. (% ( $ ,( # * # Moreover, Liberal insiders say has grumpy bosses from time to it has been made clear to Adams time,â&#x20AC;? Adams said. that candidates are responsible â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is about the fact that my for the conduct of their campaign values simply donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t align with this

teams and any misconduct could (Conservative) team and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like

be grounds for being barred from to continue serving Canadians.â&#x20AC;? running.

Whatever the Conserva

Trudeau said he discussed the tives may say about Adams now, possibility of a hypothetical Tory Trudeau noted that she continfloor crosser with his caucus last ued to serve as a parliamentary week, without identifying Adams. secretary to the health minister â&#x20AC;&#x153;The caucus knows that we right up until she resigned Mon %##%+ )' day. Parliamentary secretaries are have to grow in order to be competitive and this is what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all appointed by the prime minister about,â&#x20AC;? he said. and are one rung down from Joan Bryden Canadian Press

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Canada’s U.S. ambassador sends letter bemoaning Keystone ‘distortions’ The spat comes just as two major only displace light, lower-polluting developments unfold.

Saudi crude.

One is Congress passing In reality, Doer said, it would WASHINGTON provide Gulf Coast refineries with a pro-Keystone legislation, which he Canadian government has substitute for heavier crude oil from President Barack Obama has accused a U.S. federal agency called constitutionally invalid and Mexico and Venezuela – which he of a dishonest intervention in the promised to veto. Also, a decision said have emission levels compaKeystone XL pipeline debate, voic- rable with Canada’s oilsands. through the standard regulatory ing its displeasure in a combative process is expected soon from the He said the EPA also “chose diplomatic letter. rather conveniently” not to examine Obama administration – although Ambassador Gary Doer said the data from the last two years showno date has yet been set for a final Environmental Protection Agency ing exports by rail have increased in decision. used out-of-date data, worst-case Obama’s opponents made it the absence of a pipeline, and that scenarios, and erroneous comit also “chose to ignore that Canada, clear they’ll keep pressing him parisons in its submission on the an ally,” has greenhouse-gas reduc- on the pipeline: “The president is pipeline. standing with a bunch of left-fringe tion targets, unlike every other oil “One is left with the concluextremists and anarchists,” said the supplier to the U.S. sion that there has been significant top Republican in the House, John The State Department is exdistortion and omission to arrive at pected to soon complete its review Boehner. “The president needs to the EPA’s conclusion,” Doer wrote into whether a cross-border permit listen to the American people and in a letter sent to Secretary of State should be granted to the long-desay, ‘Yes, let’s build the Keystone John Kerry, the cabinet member in layed oil pipeline from Canada. pipeline.”’ charge of the file.

Like Doer, TransCanada Corp.

The EPA had challenged a The missive was released as the also complained about the EPA favourite talking point of pipeline pipeline saga opened a new chapter proponents: that the State Departintervention.

Wednesday: the U.S. Congress TransCanada, the Calgary-based ment’s own internal analysis had passed a pro-Keystone bill for company planning to build the concluded that Keystone wouldn’t the first time, setting the stage for US$8-billion conduit, wrote to the hurt the environment. The envia possible showdown with the State Department to say it believes ronmental agency said the figures Obama administration. the EPA’s assessment is off base. might not be relevant anymore, Doer urged the administration “TransCanada disagrees with given the change in oil prices. to consider the project on its merits – and treat the EPA claims with skepticism.

He began his letter with an observation that the EPA derived its greenhouse-gas emission calculations from a study in 2005 – which he noted was two years before iPhones existed.

Just as smartphones improved, so did oilsands technology, Doer said.

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any suggestion that the Department has not fully and completely assessed the environmental impacts of the proposed project,” CEO Russ Girling wrote in a letter.

“In addition, TransCanada rejects the EPA inference that at lower oil prices, the project will increase the rate of oilsands production growth and accompanying greenhouse gas emissions.”

The State Department’s approval of the project is required because the pipeline crosses the CanadaU.S. border.

Keystone XL would connect with TransCanada’s existing Keystone network, which delivers crude to the U.S. Midwest and Gulf Coast. It would provide a more direct route to the Gulf by cutting diagonally from the Saskatchewan-Montana border to Steele City, Neb.

In its letter, the EPA said the State Department should give more weight to a “low price scenario” outlined in last year’s environmental impact statement, which said sustained low oil prices at US$65 to US$75 a barrel could make oilsands producers more sensitive to transportation costs.

Girling didn’t buy that logic.

“We don’t believe that any single pipeline will cause production of oil to accelerate or decelerate,” he told reporters on a conference call Wednesday, adding the cost of pipe versus rail is not the “primary driver” for oilsands output.

“There’s many other factors that go into that decision making for producers, be it technology, oil prices, operating costs and all those kinds of things which are constantly moving.”

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Boko Haram kidnaps hundreds in Nigeria, taunts victims with stories of abducted Chibok girls prayers, she says. When the fighters got angry, they shot their guns in the air. Aiden finally gave in and denied YOLA, NIGERIA her Christian faith to become Mushen Islamic extremists lim, at least in name, she says. snatched more than 270 One day, the fighters stormed girls from the Chibok into the room where she was kept boarding school in Nigeria in the locked up with a dozen other girls. dead of night, protests broke out They showed a video of the Chibok worldwide. The U.S. pledged to help girls, dressed in hijabs, with only find them, and the #BringBackOurtheir faces visible through their veils.

Girls hashtag was born.

Aiden says she was so overwhelmed that she cried.

Some 10 months later, most The fighters said the Chibok girls are still missing. The Boko Haram were all Muslims now, and some extremist group sees the mass were training as fighters to fight kidnapping as a shining symbol of women, which Boko Haram men success, and has abducted hundreds are not supposed to do. of other girls, boys and women. The Aidenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s captors boasted about militants brag to their new captives how they had married off the Chiabout the surrender of the Chibok bok girls, she says. One fighter said girls, their conversion to Islam and he would marry her. She balked. their marriage to fighters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;No, I will not marry â&#x20AC;&#x153;They told me the Chibok girls you,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Aiden recounts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So he pulled have a new life where they learn to out a gun and beat my hand.â&#x20AC;? fight,â&#x20AC;? says Abigail John, 15, who was Lekan Oyekanmi/AP Aiden says the insurgents threatheld by Boko Haram for more than Dorcas Aiden was another of the girls caught in Boko Haramâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s siege in Nigeria. She had ened to break the legs of any girl four weeks before escaping. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They finished high school and was living at home when the war came to her village. Fighters said we should be like them and took her to a house in the town of Gulak and held her captive for two weeks last September. who tried to escape, but she and six others ran anyway. As she made her accept Islam.â&#x20AC;?

The kidnappings reflect the The kidnappings of the Chibok The girls had no idea whether the in a few weeks,â&#x20AC;? Jonathan promised, way through abandoned farm fields, growing ambition and brazenness girls in April brought Boko Haram militants were telling the truth or as he has many times in the past, on she noticed that Boko Haram had filled about 10 other houses with of Boko Haram, which seeks to im- making up stories to taunt their vic- to the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention in a way the a nationally televised program. kidnapped girls and women. pose an Islamic state across Nigeria, tims. John says the fighters enjoyed group could not have imagined. The In the 10 months since the Aiden, who is now in Yola with Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most populous country. relating how they had whipped and hashtag #BringBackOurGirls was mass kidnapping, Boko Haram has tens of thousands of other refugees, Some 10,000 people have died in the slapped the Chibok girls until they tweeted more than 480,000 times increased the tempo and ferocdreams of going to university, in Islamic uprising over the past year, globally in early May, and U.S. first submitted. ity of its insurgency. In August, it defiance of the extremistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; insiscompared to 2,000 in the previous lady Michelle Obama held it up in a began seizing and holding towns, When the Nigerian air force tence that girls should be married, four years, according to the U.S. sign to television cameras. She said dropped a bomb on the house and â&#x20AC;&#x201C; copying the Islamic State not educated. The nickname Boko Council on Foreign Relations. at the time, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In these girls, Barack where John was confined, she tried group â&#x20AC;&#x201C; declared it would recreate Haram means â&#x20AC;&#x153;Western education is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s devastating,â&#x20AC;? said Bukky to escape, she says. She wrestled and I see our own daughters â&#x20AC;Śwe an ancient Islamic caliphate in the forbidden or sinful.â&#x20AC;?

Shonibare, an activist in Abuja, with the fighters, but they broke her can only imagine the anguish their region. The fighting has since spilled Another escapee, a shy 16-yearof the kidnappings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It makes you am and hauled her off to another parents are feeling right now.â&#x20AC;? across Nigeriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s borders, and the old captured in September, begs that wonder, what is being done?â&#x20AC;? house.

On Wednesday, Nigerian African Union this month authoher name not be published because John was among three girls At the end of last year, the Nige- President Goodluck Jonathan again rized a multinational force of 8,750 she escaped only a few weeks ago interviewed by The Associated Press rian army liberated the town where promised the girls will be brought troops to try to stamp it out. and believes the fighters are actively who recently escaped from Boko she was held. She is now in Yola with home alive, saying he is â&#x20AC;&#x153;more Dorcas Aiden, 20, was another of searching for her. After the girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Haram. While their stories could her father, sister and six brothers, in hopefulâ&#x20AC;? about their fate now that a those caught in Boko Haramâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s siege. village was attacked four times, she not be independently verified, they a house overcrowded with refugees. multinational force is being formed She had finished high school and fled to a great-aunt. Then that vilwere strikingly similar, and all spoke She finally was able to get medical to fight Boko Haram. was living at home when the war lage also was targeted, she says. of their captorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; obsession with the attention for her fractured right â&#x20AC;&#x153;Give us some time over the came to her village. Fighters took The fighters held her for four arm, which remains in a cast.

Chibok girls.

Chibok girls. The story will be better her to a house in the town of Gulak months. When she escaped, she and held her captive for two weeks walked through the bush and across last September. the border into Cameroon to avoid The more than 50 teenage girls areas under Boko Haramâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s control. crammed into the house were beat- She is now taking refuge in a Cathoen if they refused to study Quranic lic church in Yola. verses or conduct daily Muslim All the girls say they were not Chika Oduah Associated Press

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raped, despite the fears of some villagers. Instead, the fighters said they wanted the girls to remain virgins until they were married off.

“They said they are doing the work of God, so they will not touch us,” the 16-year-old recounts.

As she tells her story, she fidgets

and looks down at her hands, clasped in her lap. She recounts how one fighter, nicknamed “Tall Arab,” was set on marrying her. She pleaded that she was too young, but was told, “Do you think you are better than those Chibok girls that we kidnapped?”

The man told her the Chibok girls were “enjoying their matrimonial homes,” she remembers. He also said the Chibok girls had turned against their parents, and were “ready to slit their parents’ throats” if they ever saw them again.

Some never will. Even if the girls

are released, people in Chibok say at least 13 of their parents have died since they were seized, in Boko Haram violence or possibly stressrelated illness.

While dozens of Chibok girls escaped on their own after their kidnapping, 219 are still missing.

Nigeria’s military initially feared any action could lead to the girls being killed. But villagers reported last week that air force jets have begun bombing the Sambisa Forest – the area where fighters told Aiden some girls still are held captive.

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115A/16

1040

2007Y0460

423.68

42.36

466.04

Y15-01161045090 ZAYCHUK, STACIE & STEVE NEAR MENDENHALL SUBDIVISION

2007-0076

115A/16

1045

2008Y0466

3,654.26

365.42

4,019.68

Y46-21840390080 LAPOINTE, FRANCINE ROCK CREEK

16

2010Y0856

986.20

98.62

1,084.82

Y48-00048000030 KLIPPERT, DANIEL ADJACENT TO RECYCLING DEPOT

61678

Y55-00000007070 JEFFREY, LONNIE ROSS RIVER

27954

Lot

Certificate of title

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Lien Admin Charge

Balance Owing

105C/04

1014

2005Y0267

293.72

29.37

323.09

2002-191

105C/04

1019

2013Y0758

1,375.31

137.53

1,512.84

Y05-04141178090 MARTIN, CLAYTON LEVIN KM 211.2 MAYO ROAD

88-184

105D/14

1178

2013Y0911

1,529.91

152.99

1,682.90

Y09-20001006090 JOHNSON, KATHLEEN BURWASH LANDING

89-148

115G/07

1006

2011Y1298

110.81

25.00

Y09-20001014090 SIMLETT, MARK HADYN & MOCHIZUKI-SIMLETT, REIKO BURWASH LANDING

92-92

115G/07

1014

2007Y0689

110.81

Y09-20001019040 DANROTH, DOUGLAS IVAN BURWASH LANDING

92-92

115G/07

1019

2012Y0649

Y13-00003005040 MOE, MARY ANN CARCROSS

7556

3

5

Y13-00022017000 RODRIGUEZ, MICHELLE CARCROSS

93-124

22

Y14-05031006080 SCOTT, WALTER GRIZZLY VALLEY KM 215.9

93-101

Y14-05031022080 NORBERG, ALLAN & JOAN GRIZZLY VALLEY KM 215.9

Y05-03041014000 GILBERT, JEFFERY DAVID & JUVY DEJARO OLD LUBBOCK VALLEY FARM - ATLIN ROAD Y05-03041019050 1440208 ALBERTA LTD HITCHING POST NEAR KM 40 ATLIN ROAD

Y15-01111040090 STEFANOVIC, MARKO KM 218.6 HAINES ROAD NEAR KATHLEEN LAKE

Y15-15110014070 HOLMES, KATHLEEN H INDIAN RIVER

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9057

Group

1002

Block

Plan

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2010-0131

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Y20-04101198000 NIEBECKER, BRUCE & DEBORAH GOLDEN HORN - EAST OF GENTIAN LANE

2009-048

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Block

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Balance Owing

29774

1052

184-27 & 184-28

94Y1194

396.84

39.68

436.52

2002-123

1052

184-39-1

2010Y0572

453.56

45.35

498.91

2014Y0414

292.96

29.29

322.25

7&8

2004Y0157

309.13

30.91

340.04

Y46-21840270030 CLELAND, LORALYN ROCK CREEK

48

Y15-16071013010 TAYLOR, JAMES STUART STEWART CROSSING RV PARK

93-146

115P/07

1013

2013Y0927

1,306.39

130.63

1,437.02

Y15-16071017070 JOST, LIANA NEAR KM 536.5 KLONDIKE HWY

95-59

115P/07

1017

99Y786

572.97

57.29

630.26

Y55-00000027030 MACKENZIE RESOURCES LIMITED ROSS RIVER

27954

27 & 28

74Y648

872.19

87.21

959.40

Y16-03081010070 VIDMAR, FRANZ NEAR COAL CREEK

90-10

116C/08

1010

98Y699

110.81

25.00

135.81

Y55-00000053000 SHORTY, FRANK & MARGARET ROSS RIVER

29803

53

82Y25

414.34

41.43

455.77

Y16-03081011060 BOUCHARD, KYIA NEAR CASSIAR CREEK AND YUKON RIVER

2000-199

116C/08

1011

2009Y1057

401.98

40.19

442.17

Y55-00000066050 DE RUITER, PAUL ROSS RIVER

29803

66

2011Y0373

244.40

25.00

269.40

Y18-04081115080 KNIGHT, LARRY AK HWY NORTH OF JUDAS CREEK SUBDIVISION

2002-199

105D/08

1115

2011Y0696

1,446.44

144.64

1,591.08

Y55-00000166040 BAILEY, ALVIN M ROSS RIVER

43548

166

2010Y0897

586.69

58.66

645.35

Y18-04083074040 KNIGHT, LARRY ROBERT JUDAS CREEK

2002-064

74A

2002Y0888

1,000.63

100.06

1,100.69

Y55-10000070230 ALAN KULAN LTD ROSS RIVER

22968

905

7

76Y421

132.07

25.00

157.07

Y18-04095080090 RAFTIS, MITCHELL DOUGLAS M’CLINTOCK PLACE

2012-009

80

2014Y0198

1,037.06

103.70

1,140.76

Y55-10001060310 REID, MURRAY ROSS RIVER

32366

905

106

2004Y0450

423.13

42.31

465.44

Y60-20001023040 CORCORAN, THOMAS JOSEPH UPPER LIARD

78123

105A/02

1023

2005Y0844

320.32

32.03

352.35

Y60-20001078080 SUNNY HOLIDAY GOLF COURSE CORPORATION UPPER LIARD GOLF COURSE

96-111

105A/02

1078

2011Y0697

829.73

82.97

912.70

Y66-03060015050 STONEMAN, BRADLEY JAMES & TAMMY HARRIET TESLIN AREA - KM 1305 ALASKA HWY

20575

15

2013Y0840

444.47

44.44

488.91

Y19-04081027040 SCHMID, FRANK, & OCHSENWADEL, MARC, & SCHAICH, MARTIN TAGISH ESTATES

85196

105D/08

1027

97Y1124

1,175.61

117.56

1,293.17

Y19-04081028030 SCHMID, FRANK, & OCHSENWADEL, MARC, & SCHAICH, MARTIN TAGISH ESTATES

85196

105D/08

1028

97Y1124

290.99

29.09

320.08

Y19-04081044030 PEETERS, GREG TAGISH ESTATES

85196

105D/08

1044

93Y337

549.47

54.94

604.41

Y20-04101080010 VOWK, LISA-MARIE GENTIAN LANE

93-93

105D/10

1080

2008Y0509

1,753.04

175.30

1,928.34

FINAL TOTAL

Dated this 13th day of February, 2015 Kelvin Leary, Collector of Taxes

805

$54,945.36

$5,597.06 $60,542.42

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Alaska leaders decry US ban on oil drilling in Arctic Ocean area where walrus feed, raise pups Dan Joling

seals. The remote area lies 80 miles off the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s northwest coast, beyond even sparsely populated ANCHORAGE, ALASKA subsistence whale hunting towns plateau on the Arctic Ocean such as Barrow, the northernmost floor, where thousands of Pacommunity in the U.S. cific walrus gather to feed and raise Federal estimates, however, show pups, has received new protections that the Chukchi and Beaufort seas from the Obama administration could hold 26 billion barrels of that recognize it as a biological hot recoverable oil, and many Alaska spot and mark it off-limits to future leaders are eager to begin drilling in oil drilling. the area to create jobs and fund state But the announcement from In- government projects and services. terior Secretary Sally Jewell triggered About 90 per cent of Alaska state an uproar from Alaska leaders, revenue comes from oil taxes or fees, angry that the federal government and with the price drop of nearly was making a decision that they said $60 per barrel since April, the state would harm the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy. faces a $3.5 billion budget deficit â&#x20AC;&#x153;This administration has effecnext year. Leaders in Alaska want to tively declared war on Alaska,â&#x20AC;? U.S. find new drilling opportunities as a Sen. Lisa Murkowski said. way to offset those losses.

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Researchers say the shoal, a 30by 100-mile area, rises from the shallow continental shelf like the top half of a football. Its physical properties interrupt ocean currents to creating eddies where plankton, algae and other organic materials swirl and fall, nourishing bottom feeders that are in turn eaten by walrus and seals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The physics are driving the biology,â&#x20AC;? said Dr. Ken Dunton, U.S. Geological Survey/S.A. Sonsthagen/AP chief scientist for the Hanna Shoal Adult female walruses on an ice flow with young walruses in Ecosystem Study. the Eastern Chukchi Sea, Alaska.

The shoal rises about halfway up the water column, said Thomas just two days after President Barack newly removed section covers about Weingartner, professor of physiObama declared he would seek 2,500 square miles. Meanwhile, cal oceanography at the University wilderness protection for the Arctic more than 184,000 square miles of Alaska Fairbanks, and seawaNational Wildlife Refuge, includof Arctic Ocean territory remain ter freezes over the plateau each ing its coastal plain, which holds an available for future oil leases and winter, expelling salt. The salt sinks estimated 10 billion barrels of oil. exploration. and mixes with water lower in the The back-to-back announceAlso, Alaska officials have failed column, creating very cold, dense, ments hit a familiar nerve for to get drill rigs onto the ANWR salty water. Scientists call it â&#x20AC;&#x153;winter Murkowski and others, who say coastal plain for three decades, water.â&#x20AC;? the federal government frequently under presidents from both parties.

In summer, warmer water flowmakes decisions that are bad for The president cannot designate ing north through the Bering Strait stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy. The Obama wilderness areas in the refuge, and hits the dense winter water and administration wants to preserve cannot open it to drilling; only swirls around it. The cold, dense, Alaska like a â&#x20AC;&#x153;nice little snow globe,â&#x20AC;? Congress has that authority. salty water not only creates giMurkowski said.

Environmental groups bitterly ant eddies to trap plankton, it can The announcements change very oppose Arctic Ocean drilling and retain ice floes longer than other little for current oil exploration. The contend oil companies cannot clean parts of the Chukchi, giving walrus a platform from which to dive and raise young. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The winter water stays in that area for a good deal of the year, if not the entire year,â&#x20AC;? Weingartner said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only slowly replaced.â&#x20AC;?

Walrus are drawn to the shoal even when ice melts above it, Tuesday, February 17 researcher Chad Jay of the U.S. Geological Survey said. Some make 5:00 -7:00 PM a 300-mile round trip to feed in DOORS OPEN AT 4:45 the area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They felt that area was important enough to make that Whitehorse United Church trip,â&#x20AC;? Jay said.

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SaskPower says carbon capture and storage is working; critics say not so much Clare Clancy

power. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about the same cost as from solar (power), but the cost REGINA of solar is coming down, so that askatchewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s power utility equality wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t (last) long,â&#x20AC;? he says its flagship, $1.4-billion said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot more expencarbon capture and storage proj- sive than hydro even.â&#x20AC;? ect is proving the controversial The report also argues that technology works.

SaskPower could see up to $1 bilBut critics of the Boundary lion in operating losses over the Dam project argue that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t next 20 years. effectively address environmental â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an interesting engineerconcerns because it justifies the ing project, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deny that,â&#x20AC;? burning of fossil fuels.

Bigland-Pritchard said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But it The retrofitted coal-fired seems to me to be the wrong power plant near Estevan garproject for Saskatchewan at the nered international attention moment.â&#x20AC;? when SaskPower launched it last Some of the carbon dioxide fall. It is touted as the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s released at Boundary Dam is first commercial-scale operation liquefied and sold to oil compaof its kind. nies to help extract more crude SaskPower executive Mike from the ground. The utility has Monea said the plant will proa 10-year contract with Cenovus duce affordable coal power for Energy Inc., a Calgary-based oil more than 100,000 homes and company, to buy the captured businesses for the next three gas. decades. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It makes it difficult to see â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are extremely proud of this as a carbon-saving measure,â&#x20AC;? the project,â&#x20AC;? he said Wednesday.

Bigland-Pritchard said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enâ&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to abandon coal abling them to get more oil out plants or lay off people. of the ground.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It looks very encouraging to The power station also capsee the performance, not only on tures sulphur dioxide, which can the power side, but on the capbe converted to sulphuric acid ture side of the whole plant.â&#x20AC;? and sold for industrial use. A The aim is to capture one byproduct of coal combustion million tonnes of carbon dioxide called fly ash is captured and sold annually to be pumped underfor use in concrete products. ground â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 90 per cent of the emisThe carbon dioxide that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sions the plant produces. The used for oil recovery is stored plant is on target to meet that permanently by injecting the goal, Monea said. gas more than three kilometres But a report released by the underground.

Canadian Centre for Policy Bigland-Pritchard said the Alternatives suggests the finanpower plant represents a lost opcial costs of the project are high portunity for the province. and the environmental rewards â&#x20AC;&#x153;With renewables, we could go remain unproven. to a zero-carbon economy. With Co-author Mark Biglandthis we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.â&#x20AC;?

Pritchard said the project is subâ&#x20AC;&#x153;The reality is we have to stantially more expensive than come off coal one way or anif wind technology were used other.â&#x20AC;?

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SaskPower said it continues to tally the final cost. Monea said it

could be between $150 million and $200 million over budget.

Bigland-Pritchard said there has been a lack of financial transparency. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how much Cenovus is paying for the (car-

bon dioxide),â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d really like to see is a proper balance sheet.â&#x20AC;?

Monea said he canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t release the information because of a confidentiality agreement with Cenovus.

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Military concerned about Arctic spy drones Murray Brewster

government announced recently it is activating two motorized rifle brigades and OTTAWA possibly a marine brigade in he country’s chief of the North, as well as establishdefence intelligence has ing a major northern comtaken an in-depth look at how mand headquarters.

Russia, or even China, could “Russia and China do not use drones to spy in Canada’s currently possess land-based Arctic in a wide-ranging UAVs capable of conductreport that was quietly flagged ing (intelligence, surveillance to some of the country’s clos- and reconnaissance) against est allies. the Canadian Arctic,” said the The heavily censored clasApril 12, 2013 assessment, sified analysis was obtained written by the directorate of

by The Canadian Press under scientific and technical intelaccess to information legligence. “This limitation could islation. The release comes change should UAVs gain as Russia moves troops into aerial refuelling capabilities.” a northern base near the The intelligence assessFinnish border as part of an ment notes the proliferation extensive military buildup in of cheap, commercial drone the region. technology, and goes on to The analysis, which was say both Russian and Chinese flagged to the so-called “Five Eyes” community of the U.S., forces could launch drones from ice floes, submarines or Britain, Australia and New Zealand, is significant because long-range bombers.

Russia has been known to Canada lags behind many of place small research stations its allies in terms of acquiring on floating sheets of ice as drones for surveillance. small as 700 metres in length.

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Aurora surveillance planes are also active there, he said.

Vance, echoing comments of other top commanders, said he “finds it unlikely that we’ll be fighting a land battle in the Arctic any time soon,” given the severe weather.

An armed clash may be remote, but U.S. defence planners are worried about a sneak attack from the Far North. The threat is one of the reasons the Harper government is considering participation in the ballistic missile defence program.

But not all threats are the Cold War-era submarineJonathan Hayward/CP launched cruise missiles, The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent and the report noted that makes its way through Baffin Bay in July 2008. The country’s drones will have to monitored chief of defence intelligence warms that Russia, or even carefully as they increase in China, could use drones to spy in Canada’s Arctic. sophistication.

Other NATO countries are bureaucracy. A few years ago, a recent interview, said the defence contractors Northrop defence of Canada is the “No. watching Russia’s northern 1 mission,” and Arctic security sabre rattling with concern.

Grumman pitched the idea Norway, for example, is planis a preoccupation. of Canada acquiring highning to hold its largest mili“The Canadian Armed altitude Global Hawk drones, tary exercise since the Cold Forces is always in the Arctic,” which could fly above rough War next month. said Lt.-Gen. Jonathan Vance, weather, but the plan fizzled NATO’s top commander, who pointed to an increasing with no result.

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Scientists dispute ethics of Alberta study using wolf cull data Paquet said the authors should have distanced themselves from the cull. Instead, they concluded it should continue.

Hervieux said the caribou would be gone without removing wolves.

At least half of any one area’s wolf population must be killed every year to have an impact, he said, and guns and poison are the only methods likely to work.

“Wolf population reduction that is less than that is of no benefit for caribou. It is a pointless loss of wolf life.”

Both sides agree that the real problem is provincial oversight that has allowed industry to ravage caribou habitat for more than a decade. While

Bob Weber Canadian Press

EDMONTON ome scientists are calling Alberta’s wolf cull cruel and unnecessary and say researchers who used the program to gather data on its results violated professional ethics.

“We should be concerned when researchers impose suffering on wild animals and advocate for such programs to continue,” says an article that ran this week in the journal Canadian Wildlife Biology and Management. “We believe this controversial study should never have taken place.”

The authors of the original study say they did nothing wrong in analyzing the cull results over eight years during which 841 wolves were shot from helicopters or poisoned by strychnine in an effort to keep up caribou numbers in areas heavily damaged by energy and forestry activity.

“We chose to implement a wolf management program to avoid the permanent loss of caribou populations,” said Dave Hervieux, a caribou biologist with the provincial government. He and his fellow authors have written a rebuttal to the criticisms.

“We wrote: ‘Here’s what we did and here are the results.’ What’s wrong with that?”

What’s wrong, said University of Victoria biologist Chris Darimont,

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federal scientists say the animals need at least 65 per cent of their range to be left alone to survive, the region of one Alberta herd is 95 per cent disturbed.

“Who should we be blaming?” asked Stan Boutin, a University of Alberta biologist and co-author of the original study.

“One could step back and say, ‘Alberta government, your choice of full-scale development everywhere, any time has in some ways led us to this, and that’s partially true.

“But you could step further back and say, ‘Gee, I didn’t hear any Albertans or Canadians trying to block this at an earlier date when we were reaping the benefits of oil and gas.”’

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A male wolf roams the tundra near the Meadowbank gold mine in Nunavut in 2009. Scientists raising questions about the ethics of Alberta’s wolf cull call it cruel and unnecessary.

is that neither strycchnine nor aerial gunning meet Canadian Council on Animal Care guidelines which the province and the University of Alberta support.

Shooting from helicopters produces a high number of wounded animals, said Darimont, a co-author of the critical paper. Strychnine kills by stiffening an animal’s muscles until it strangles.

“Both these techniques are cruel and are specifically forbidden.”

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Co-author Paul Paquet, also of the University of Victoria, said Hervieux and his colleagues not only used data the cull generated, but advocated for the program to continue.

“What they’re arguing is that this was a management cull and a management cull would be exempt from those guidelines. I don’t believe it is – and, if it is, I still don’t believe it’s morally right.”

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DR. BRITTA JENSEN NSERC POST- DOCTORAL FELLOW, QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST The White River Ash is familiar geologic feature for many Yukon residents. This distinct volcanic ash layer emerges from many riverbanks and road cuts, reaching up to a meter thick near Carmacks. Originating from an Alaskan volcano about 1200 years ago, it has long captured the attention of geologists and archaeologists, and is an important geologic time marker in northern Canada and Alaska. Just recently it has also been identified in Europe. Join Britta Jensen as she explores what this exceptional distribution can tell us about how ash is dispersed, its use in linking geologic records, and how past records of eruptions help us understand volcanic hazards.

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California governor, once environmental hero, harshly criticized for refusing to ban fracking planned their largest protest so far, a rally Saturday in Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hometown of Oakland that SACRAMENTO, CALIF. they hope will attract thoun the 1970s, the environsands. More than 100 environmental movement had no mental and community groups bigger political hero than have signed on, and protesters California Gov. Jerry Brown. are being bused in from around He cracked down on pollutthe state. ers, ended tax breaks for oil Some began their protest companies and promoted solar Friday outside Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s San energy.

Francisco office. Police said 12 Forty years later, in his people were arrested when they second go-around as governor, briefly blocked public access to conservationists are among his the building. harshest critics.

These days, Brown rarely enClimate change is one of gages with his critics. He barely Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s key issues, and he said campaigned for re-election in his inaugural address last last year and holds few public month that his goal is to have events.

California get half its energy The exception is appearances from renewable sources within promoting the use of solar 15 years. energy or other environmental But because he has refused initiatives. Still, Brown has to ban hydraulic fracturing for noted that Californians love oil, protesters, or â&#x20AC;&#x153;fracktivists,â&#x20AC;? their freeways and gas-guzzling have dogged Brown for more vehicles. than a year, even interrupting â&#x20AC;&#x153;As we speak, protesters and his speech at the Democratic non-protesters are burning up Party convention last spring. gasoline that is being shipped â&#x20AC;&#x153;Climate leaders donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t frack,â&#x20AC;? said Kassie Siegal of the from Iraq, from Russia, from Center for Biological Diversity, Venezuela and all sorts of other places, and coming in on a group that praises Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trains, so whatever we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t programs to boost renewable energy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The oil and gas boom do here we are going to get from someone else until we get threatens to undercut all the that moratorium on driving â&#x20AC;&#x201C; other progress that our state which I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t heard proposed may make on climate.â&#x20AC;? yet,â&#x20AC;? Brown said in response to Fracking opponents have a reporterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s question Friday.

California is the No. 3 oil The Yukon home of producer in the nation and has added an average of 300 wells each month for the past decade, about half of them using hydraulic fracturing, which involves forcing fluid, sand and chemicals underground to break rock formations and Juliet Williams Associated Press

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by Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Last year he persuaded lawmakers to devote revenue from fees charged to polluters to help fund the proposed $68 billion bullet train, which Brown touts as an environmentally friendly approach to transportation.

Environmentalists want Brown to follow the lead of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a fellow Democrat who banned fracking last year. But reports by the California Council on Science and Technology contend the kind of fracking done in California is less risky, with little horizontal drilling to expose large areas underground Jae C. Hong/CP to potential contamination.

California Gov. Jerry Brown speaks as protesters opposing â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t agree with the nofracking hold up signs during the general session at the tion that Jerry Brown is in the California Democrats State Convention in March 2014. pocket of big oil. Some people Brown has angered environmental activists for his think that, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t,â&#x20AC;? said Ross refusal to ban the practice of hydraulic fracturing.

Bates, who headed a successful campaign last November extract oil and gas. A fifth of California regulators have to ban fracking in San Benito the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oil production comes also authorized oil companies County. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you try to take to inject production fluids and a middle road, people on either through fracking. waste into federally protected Through a spokesman, side have a problem with it.â&#x20AC;?

Still, environmentalists were Brown declined to comment on aquifers more than 2,500 hoping for a more aggressive the protest, referring questions times, risking contamination of underground water supplies, approach from Brown when to the California Department he returned to office in 2010. of Conservation. In a prepared an Associated Press review found.

Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ballot measure comstatement, chief deputy direcState officials are conducting mittee last year accepted more tor Jason Marshall avoided than $600,000 from oil comusing the term fracking, instead a series of fracking reviews as California sets up its fi rst companies and energy interests that calling it â&#x20AC;&#x153;well stimulation.â&#x20AC;? prehensive regulatory framealso gave nearly $200,000 to his â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have no direct evidence work, after Brown signed a bill re-election campaign. that any harm has been caused imposing new rules. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In general we expected by the practice in California,â&#x20AC;?

Oil producers say they will more of him because we as he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We believe the regube the toughest regulations in a state expect more, period,â&#x20AC;? lations weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve created, atop the nation; environmentalists said Marta Stoepker, a spokesexisting well construction stan- say they were watered down woman for the Sierra Club dards, will protect the environ- after legislators caved in to oil in California, one of the ment.â&#x20AC;? companies. groups taking part in Brown is also seeking to Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s protest.

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12 actors, 11 scenes, one murder, one accidental stabbing, four affairs, six broken hearts, and one memorable kiss

Mike Thomas/Yukon News

Anton Solomon and Moving Parts Theatre will be producing Christopher Lockheardt’s Talking to Strangers at Well-Read Books later this month.

play in mind.

Now, two years later, Moving Parts is coming back to the he last time Moving Parts stage, starting next week with Theatre put on a play in Christopher Lockheardt’s TalkWhitehorse it was quite ing to Strangers. the production.

The latest production is Peer Gynt, a play by 19thsignificantly smaller than its century Norwegian playwright predecessor in almost every Henrik Ibsen, required more sense. than 50 hand-made masks for Instead of one long play, the 15 actors in a three-hour play. two-hour show is made up of It took a lot of time and en11 shorter ones, one after the ergy, remembers Moving Part’s other.

Anton Solomon, and by the end It’ll be in the tiny six-by-18 people needed a break. foot space at Well-Read Books “People went and had chilin downtown Whitehorse, indren, and one got a full-time stead of a larger stage. job, two moved away, some The smaller venue means the people had other priorities, and maximum size of the audience by the time we got to the end is 30 people. of that season of workshops we In all, there will be “12 acdecided we’re not going to be tors, 11 scenes, one murder, ready to do a show,” he said. one accidental stabbing, four Actors continued training to- extramarital affairs, six broken gether, but without any specific hearts, and one memorable Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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kiss,” according to the promos.

Solomon said it’s a mistake for anyone to think short plays can’t be compelling.

It was that ability to write short, interesting pieces that first attracted Solomon to the relatively-unknown Lockheardt.

“He has an amazing economy of writing. You can, in a way, see the 10-minute scene that you see and you’re exposed to years of life that led to it and left wondering what the years of life are like after it,” Solomon said.

He first learned about Lockheardt after coming across one of his plays in a theatre book during a trip to Toronto.

When he reached out to try and get the rights to put it on stage in Whitehorse, Solomon discovered it was part of the larger Talking to Strangers series.

Moving Parts started in Whitehorse in 2001. At its core it has always been about teaching and honing the craft, said Solomon, who is one of the last remaining founding members in the territory.

During the theatre season – from about September to April – actors get together weekly to train what Solomon calls “actor muscles.”

That could mean working on anything from movement to voice work to stage combat training.

“Imagine people training for the Olympics. They don’t wait until they actually have the race before they start training. They start training before the race,” he said.

Moving parts used to have a running joke that it was training actors for every other theatre company in town. That’s

not really accurate, Solomon said, laughing.

But most of the faces in this production are recognizable to anyone familiar with the Whitehorse theatre scene.

The cast is made up of Solomon, Carrie Boles, Emelie Caron, Jacob Fitzsimmons, Laurie Gendron, Tim Green, Iantha Greer, Mike Ivens, Camille Luks, Mike Tribes, Carolyn Westberg, and Winluck Wong.

Solomon directed eight of the plays. The other three were directed by Ivens.

The play is happening Feb. 18 to 21 and Feb. 24 to 28. All shows are at 8 p.m. at WellRead Books (4137 Fourth Ave.) Tickets are $17 and are for sale at the bookstore. Feb. 24 is paywhat-you-can night.

Seating is limited.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Jon Stewartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Daily Show held a special place for Canadian viewers when he saw one.

With word of Stewartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impending departure, Canadians anxiously await news of his successor. There can be, of course, only one logical replacement: a Canadian.

Toronto-born Samantha Bee has been with the show since 2003 and is its longest-serving â&#x20AC;&#x153;special correspondent.â&#x20AC;? Since anyone who follows Stewart would have big shoes to fill, pairing Bee with her husband and fellow Daily Show sniper Jason Jones as a new coanchor duo makes a lot of sense.

The important thing is she already speaks Canadian.

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Canadian led study confirms game changing approach to stroke care Helen Branswell

the standard of care for strokes caused by clots. The standard treatment is to use a drug, tPA, anadian and international which breaks up the clot. It must researchers have shown a new be used as quickly as possible and approach to treating some devas- is not effective if it is not given tating strokes could dramatically within 4 1/2 hours of a stroke oclower the toll these brain attacks curring. cause. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a once-in-a-generation The new technique, which advance in stroke care,â&#x20AC;? the head involves extracting large clots of one study, Dr. Jeffrey Saver, from the brain arteries they block, stroke chief at the University of should substantially lower the California, Los Angeles, told The number of deaths caused by stroke Associated Press. and make an enormous differAn independent expert, Dr. ence in post-stroke quality of life, Lee Schwamm of Massachusetts several research teams reported at General Hospital, called it â&#x20AC;&#x153;a real the American Stroke Association turning point in the field.â&#x20AC;? For conference in Nashville, Tenn. many patients, â&#x20AC;&#x153;this is the differâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Basically we saw that people ence between returning home and who would end up in a nursing not returning home,â&#x20AC;? although home were walking home back only certain types of patients can into their lives,â&#x20AC;? Dr. Michael Hill, be offered it, he said. director of the stroke unit at Stroke care â&#x20AC;&#x153;needs to be Calgaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Foothills Hospital and completely changedâ&#x20AC;? to make the senior author of one of the papers, treatment more widely available, said in an interview. Hill, a neusaid Dr. Walter Koroshetz, acting rologist, is also a professor at the director of the National Institute University of Calgary. of Neurological Disorders and â&#x20AC;&#x153;So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty big deal for us Stroke. in the stroke world.â&#x20AC;?

The new procedure requires Hillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s study, which reports doctors to work swiftly to diagresults of a clinical trial testing nose the cause of the stroke. Some Covidien/Stan Sholik/AP the procedure in five countries, are caused by bleeding in the Covidienâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stent is used to clear blood clots in the brain that was published online Wednesday brain and cannot be treated this cause strokes. by the New England Journal of way.

Medicine, which also published sometimes isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough to open tientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s groin and snaked a catheter Once the cause is determined an Australian paper investigating to be a clot, the clot-busting drug the artery and re-establish blood up into the brain, to the site of the the same technique. Both were flow to the brain. is administered. But with really clot. They threaded a retrievable presented at the Nashville confer- large clots â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which cause the most With this new technique, docence, along with a third that found damage in survivors â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the drug tors made an incision in the pasimilar results.

All three were stopped early when it became clear that the new procedure was more effective than the treatment it was tested against, research business funding plans The Yukon home of Canadian Press

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stent â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a small tube â&#x20AC;&#x201C; over the clot, trapping it inside. The stent was then removed.

In the Canadian-led study, people who had their clots removed were nearly 50 per cent less likely to die from their stroke, and survivors had substantially fewer consequences of the brain attack.

Still, this is a technique that cannot be rolled out overnight.

Even getting hospitals to use tPA on all patients who would benefit from it has been tough slogging, said Dr. Stephen Phillips, a Halifax-based stroke neurologist who was an investigator in the Canadian-led trial.

The new technique involves more sophisticated imaging and requires the skills of highly trained interventional radiologists, Phillips said. Even at his institution â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, which took part in the trial â&#x20AC;&#x201C; adjustments will need to be made to be able to offer this level of care around the clock.

Talks have been underway to try to find ways to extend this type of care to the rest of Nova Scotia, he said, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a clear plan of action yet about how weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to do it.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not straightforward. There are lots of logistical hurdles.â&#x20AC;?

The Canadian-led study was funded in part by Medtronic, which makes the retrievable stent.

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Aboriginal children suffer as governments shuffle files: report Bob Weber

As part of the study, 25 front-line workers in childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s services were interviewed. study suggests aboriginal â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of them were able to children often get poorer point to differences in the health care than other kids process for accessing services while governments argue over for First Nations children and who pays the bill. other children,â&#x20AC;? Sinha said.

Co-author Vandna Sinha, Statistics on the number of a professor at McGill Univeroccurrences proved impossible sity, says the problem persists to develop, she said. despite the federal governâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to go jurisdicmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position that there are tion by jurisdiction, to each inno violations of the so-called dividual service provider, and Jordanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s principle. ask them. Right now, nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;You get children and First even trying to count.â&#x20AC;?

Nations families caught in the The report details stories middle,â&#x20AC;? she said. of how First Nations children Jordanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s principle holds that suffered while governments no aboriginal child should shuffled files. suffer denials, delays or disrupParents have been denied tions of health services availsupport even when their chilable to other children due to dren require 24-hour care. An jurisdictional disputes. Jordan infant who wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t breastfeed Anderson was a Cree boy from and was allergic to normal Norway House, Man., who formula couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get Health died in hospital in 2005 after Canada to cover the non-allersuch disagreements kept him genic type. from spending his last years in Federal and provincial home care. governments dickered over the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just provide (the sercost of a special crib for a baby vice), whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re federal with neurological disorders. A or provincial or whichever child with permanent hearing department, and sort it out loss couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get a hearing aid afterwards,â&#x20AC;? said David Morley, because the province wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t president of UNICEF Canada, pay for a service delivered on a which helped fund the study. reserve. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It seems that the bureaucratic One band had to conduct mechanisms have been getcommunity fundraising for ting in the way of that simple, a wheelchair for a paraplegic quick response.â&#x20AC;? child because it felt it couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to go through Health Your Community Connection Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three levels of review.

Another band was in a threeyear legal fight to get federal funding for a single mother to get help for her dependent son after she had a stroke.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;These jurisdictional disputes are getting in the way of children who are already so disadvantaged,â&#x20AC;? said Morley. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are already among some of the most disadvantaged children in the country.â&#x20AC;?

A spokeswoman for Indian Affairs said the government has agreements to implement Jordanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s principle with Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and New Brunswick. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are currently no outstanding jurisdictional disputes involving Jordanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s principle in Canada,â&#x20AC;? Emily Hillstrom said in an emailed statement.

Sinha said her research examined federal documents that show Ottawa defines the problem so narrowly it simply disappears.

The government, for example, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t consider disputes involving off-reserve aboriginals to come under Jordanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s principle.

It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t consider disputes between departments within the same government, says the report. Nor does it include issues where a problem exists because of under-funding compared to non-aboriginal communities.

A case involving many of the examples raised in the report is currently in front of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. A ruling on it is expected in early April.

The report points out that in 2007, a motion endorsing Jordanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s principle was unanimously adopted by the House of Commons.

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LIFE Chinese association invites Yukoners to celebrate the new year

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Chinese New Year celebrations will take place at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre on Saturday at noon. This year is the Year of the Sheep.

Jacqueline Ronson

to learn a different perspective and things about Chinese culture.”

The event will introduce guests he Chinese Canadian Asto some Chinese New Year tradsociation of Yukon welcomes itions and showcase what members you to the Year of the Sheep. of the association have been workThe association’s third annual ing on for months, said Cheung.

Chinese New Year celebration will Some of the performances will be held Saturday at the Kwanlin blend Chinese and western tradDun Cultural Centre, and it’s itions, to showcase the diversity of bound to be quite the event.

Yukon’s Chinese community, she Almost a year in the planning, said. the celebration will feature elaborThere will be ballet dancers in ate costumes, songs and dance, as Chinese costumes, and a musical well as a variety of Chinese foods. performance using traditional ChiThe wildly popular event has nese instruments to play western sold out every year, and unfortunately for those still without tickets, pop songs.

This celebration marks the bethis year is no exception. ginning of the Year of the Sheep.

It’s about celebrating Chinese “Sheep, as you know, they’re culture and tradition, but it’s also a way for the association to say thank very calm and they’re very peaceful and quiet,” said Cheung. you to the Yukon, said Charmaine “People born in the year of the Cheung, the group’s vice president. sheep are supposed to be very kind “It’s a way to give back to the hearted and vey polite and very community,” she said. smart and clever. And they are “Since we started three years also very sensitive to arts and very ago we’ve just received so much beautiful things in life.” support, including the governMale sheep in particular are said ment, including local businesses, to have exceptionally good luck, she even people on the streets tell us said. how much they enjoy watching Cheung grew up in Shanghai, the shows, how much they enjoy News Reporter

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and has lived in the Yukon for about seven years.

“We are so far away from home, but we feel this is our home,” she said.

“What keeps me here is the people. I just feel that as an immigrant, I never, ever feel excluded.

“I never feel I need to change myself to fit in. I never need to, for instance, eat turkey to be a Canadian. I can eat rice and still feel I’m Canadian.”

Growing up in China, the new year celebrations were a time to visit with extended family, said Cheung.

The children looked forward to collecting little red envelopes at each relative’s house they went to, she said.

“Because every time you go to an uncle’s house, you bow and you get an envelope, and there’s money in there.”

And there’s lots of food.

“Literally we just eat from day one to 15, and every day have a 10-course meal with family, all different relatives.”

It was rare to get new clothes growing up, Cheung said, and she

remembers looking forward to a new outfit that was picked out specially for the new year.

Richard Li, president of the association, also remembers spending the new year’s celebration with extended family. He grew up in Beijing and spent some time in Victoria, B.C. before moving with his family to the Yukon about 10 years ago.

“I guess the family definition in the Yukon is quite different than back in China,” he said.

“As long as you want to be a part of the Chinese culture, you are welcome. You can celebrate together with us, as if you are our family.”

Here in the Yukon, the community is so much closer than in a big city, he said.

“Back in China, you never walk down the street and see someone you know. The probability is so low. Here the opposite is true. You never walk into a place where you know nobody.

“This is a community that you really feel you belong to, because of the size.”

The Chinese Canadian Association of Yukon helps Chinese people

who come to the territory find that sense of community, said Li. A Chinese family moved up from Vancouver recently, and got involved with the community right away, he said.

“Once they came here, they immediately felt that this community is quite different from the community they used to have in Vancouver. In Vancouver, because there are so many Chinese people, nobody really gets together, because you’re talking about millions of people.

“They started to fit into the community really quickly, and that really impressed them. And that really impressed me, because I think this is exactly the value that I see from this organization, which is to help the local people, especially the Chinese ethnic group, to fit into the local culture, the local community, quickly settle down and start to enjoy life.”

The association is not just for Chinese people, though. The group welcomes anyone with an interest in Chinese culture to become a member.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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BDSM educators say Fifty Shades isn’t an accurate portrayal of kink community Lauren La Rose

relationships. What people get up to behind closed doors, providing it is safe, sane, consensual and TORONTO legal, is completely up to them hile the Fifty Shades and it’s not for you, I or anybody of Grey book trilogy to judge,” she told Katie Couric in and film have brought a 2012 interview. increased mainstream attention Elwood, a Toronto workshop to alternative sexual practices, instructor who only uses his first BDSM educators say the racy tale name professionally, said there isn’t the most accurate depiction are a higher number of people of the kink community. “coming out to the scene” who are The erotic series that centres curious about BDSM (bondage, on a dominant-submissive reladominance, submission, masotionship between a student and chism) since “Fifty Shades” hit the business magnate has achieved shelves. massive fandom. But it has also However, what angers the kink faced criticism for what some see community about the story are as Christian Grey’s controlling instances where consent violation behaviour over Anastasia Steele. is broken, such as when alcohol is Author E.L. James has deused to sway compliance. fended Fifty Shades against char“In kink land, negotiation and ges of abuse. consent is king,” Elwood said.

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a lot of negotiation before any of this starts. So, somebody wants to be spanked, they tell someone who wants to spank them, ‘I’m into this,’ and that’s how it starts.”

Trevor Jacques, co-founder of the Safer SM Education Project of the AIDS Committee of Toronto, said the titillation factor coupled with the slick marketing of Fifty Shades – like sophisticated images of a necktie on the cover – may have helped in part propel its popularity.

“It’s rather like Hitchcock in the sense that everything is implied but nothing is shown,” said Jacques, principal author of On the Safe Edge: A Manual for SM Play.

“The quality of that photograph allowed people to leave it on the coffee table without anybody else realizing exactly what it was while at the same time it does allude to some of what’s inside.”

Still, Jacques feels that there are far more true pop-cultural depictions of BDSM than Fifty Shades. He singled out the critically acclaimed 2002 film Secretary – which documents the complex submissive-dominant relationship between a secretary and lawyer – as a “marvellous love story.”

While the series may be the source of much of the current chatter around BDSM, Jacques said it could be argued that there is a “Fifty Shades generation” that should be credited for broader views on sexuality.

“They’re very much more open today than we were,” he said. “The only possible reason for that has to be that we’ve succeeded in that gays and lesbians and trans and almost all the various flavours in between have been completely accepted.”

Toronto-based Heather Elizabeth, a sexuality educator

in the kink community, said that BDSM’s mainstream emergence is generating public curiosity.

She said the biggest misconception is extremism and images of whips, chains and intense bondage, which is not the reality for most people.

“Kink is a spectrum just like anything else in the world,” said Elizabeth, who is also a sexuality empowerment coach.

“There are some people who are quite light and sensual with it and really use it to heighten their bedroom play. Then there are some people who are not necessarily as much focused on sex and the physical side of BDSM but the power exchange and the creating of a stable dynamic.

“Everyone understands their role and their place in the relationship and it winds up becoming a very healthy place to move through the world.”

World’s oceans awash in plastic drifting into sea from landfills: report Alison Auld Canadian Press

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round eight million metric tons of shopping bags, bottles, food wrappers, toys and other plastic waste drifted into the world’s oceans in a single year,

says a new study that warns the amount could double over the next decade.

The unique research, published Thursday in the journal Science, suggests that between 4.8 million and 12.7 million metric tons of plastic entered the oceans in

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2010 from people living within 50 kilometres of coastlines in 192 countries.

In the same year, those countries generated a total of 275 million metric tons of plastic waste, with much of it coming from mismanaged landfills and litter.

Kara Lavender Law, one of the report’s authors, said she was stunned by the findings after determining that eight million metric tons is the equivalent of several shopping bags of plastic per foot of coastline.

“I’ve been out to sea and I’ve seen plastics in the middle of the open ocean, so I didn’t think it was going to be a small number,” she said in an interview from Portland, Me.

“But when I start to think of five grocery bags per foot of coastline, that’s pretty staggering.”

The researchers found that countries with the highest populations, the largest amount of coastline and less developed waste management systems produced the most plastic garbage that was likely to blow into waterways.

China was by far the biggest generator of mismanaged plastic waste, with several other East Asian countries and the United States making up the top 20 offenders. Canadians produce a high rate of waste per person, but strong management systems mitigate the amount that ends up in the marine environment, she said.

“Developing countries are ex-

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Law said what makes this research unique is that, for the first time, it determines the volume and sources of plastic marine debris coming from land. Previous studies looked primarily at plastics on the ocean’s surface, but Law says those estimates are between 20 and 2,000 times lower than her estimates of what’s entering the ocean.

“We know there’s more going into the ocean than we can presently account for,” Law said.

Janna Jambeck, an environmental engineering professor at the University of Georgia and the study’s lead author, said the amount of plastic ending up in the ocean could rise to 155 million metric tons by 2025 if consumption isn’t curtailed and waste management infrastructure isn’t improved.

“We’re being overwhelmed by our waste,” she said.

Boris Worm, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, said the research paints a grim picture for marine species that come in contact with toxins in the plastic. There is also concern that the resins in plastic could be ingested by people eating seafood.

“Unimaginable quantities of plastic waste needlessly strangle and poison untold marine life forms every day,” he said.

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Quebec reports 10 measles cases linked to outbreak at Disneyland parks Helen Branswell Canadian Press

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en individuals in Quebec are confirmed to have been infected with measles in an event health officials are linking to a large outbreak in California.

And another case has been reported in the Toronto region, bringing to eight the number of cases discovered in the past few weeks in southern Ontario.

In a statement, the Lanaudiere health authority said the first Quebec case contracted the virus during a visit to a park in California which has been the source of other recent infections.

Though they do not name it, it would appear that it is Disneyland.

A large measles outbreak in the United States has been

linked to the southern California theme park, which is located in Anaheim. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control says so far the Disneyland outbreak has involved 114 cases in seven U.S. states.

Canada is not the first country outside the United States to report cases related to the Disneyland outbreak.

At least one case linked to the outbreak has been diagnosed in Mexico.

The measles virus is currently causing infections in several parts of Canada. In Ontario, seven cases have been reported in Toronto and one in the Niagara region in southwestern Ontario. None of the people had recently travelled outside the country, which means they contracted the virus in Canada.

And on Tuesday officials in Manitoba reported find-

ing a case in a child who had recently returned from India.

Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Minister, Dr. Eric Hoskins, and Dr. Robin Williams, the provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acting chief medical officer of health, urged people to check their own and their childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vaccination records. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is important for people to be fully immunized against this serious disease; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best way to prevent measles and its spread,â&#x20AC;? they said in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are urging Ontarians to ensure all their immunizations for measles and those of their children are up-to-date, not only to protect them from this disease, but those around them. Parents who do not get their kids immunized are putting other children at risk.â&#x20AC;?

In the Lanaudiere health region, authorities said all the cases are known to have

been in contact with each other and all reside locally.

Lanaudiere region is centred around Joliette, a city located between Montreal and TroisRivieres on the north side of the St. Lawrence River.

None of the 10 was vaccinated, the press release said.

The statement did not indicate if the infected individuals are children, adults or a mix of the two.

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Stewart was subsequently treated by the PMO â&#x20AC;&#x153;with the caution one would accord a ticking mailbox,â&#x20AC;? the late June Callwood wrote of the incident.

Other members of the press gallery who werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t invited to the flag shindig were miffed that the prime minister had played favourites. They also treated Stewart like a pariah for bucking press gallery convention and refusing to agree to Pearsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conditions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They knew I was the one who â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ratted,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and they did not like that one bit,â&#x20AC;? Stewart recounted in the 1993 book Scrum Wars by Allan Levine.

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out of a job. Oil prices have shrivelled below US$50 a barrel, leading to widespread cutbacks across Alberta’s oilpatch. Some 350 Tim Hortons employees are out of work.

Lawyer Kim Nutz figures her office is fielding between 30 and 50 calls a day from folks seeking a severance review.

Her firm, Kahane Law Office, is based in Calgary, the whitecollar heart of the oilpatch.

Some employees may be afraid to go up against the “so-called big, bad employer” if they feel they’ve been shortchanged. But getting a second opinion is worthwhile, especially in these gloomy times.

“Having it reviewed might at least give you the peace of mind” that you’ve been treated fairly, Nutz said.

Be certain you’re getting a good deal before signing any papers, said Robert Sider with Lawson Lundell LLP in Vancouver.

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you’re done,” he said.

And it’s not just about the salary. Other considerations include health benefits and life insurance, said Sider.

Bob Sawers, co-founder of employment-law focused firm Sawers McFarlane, had a client who he believed was entitled to 12 months worth of severance, but was only offered three.

“And in today’s world, if you jump on three months and you remain unemployed for nine or 12 months, you’re hooped,” he said.

Bonuses earned before an employee gets the axe – sometimes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars – can be a point of contention, said Sawers.

There might also be additional provisions imposed on the way out, such as a clause preventing you from working for a competitor for a set amount of time.

There’s no cut-and-dried rule for how many months of

severance an employee ought to get, said Josh Sutherland, a lawyer at Walsh LLP. Employers are required to give “reasonable” working notice that employment is to be terminated, or – as is often the case – pay in lieu.

There are legislated minimums at the provincial or federal level, but often the contract an employee signed when he or she was hired will lay out entitlements exceeding those.

Factors that are taken into consideration are age, length of service, the type of job and how easy it will be to find similar or equal employment.

Going to court is a last resort, and the “vast, overwhelming majority” of cases don’t come to that, said Sutherland.

When there’s a disagreement, a negotiated settlement is the preferred route.

“If the parties don’t want to go to court, you have to understand that you’ll have to give up a little to get a little.”

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Old Kentucky mine to be converted into nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest underground bicycle park, owners say said.

Washington state, Joe Prisel and who has been invited in to test Rayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and other indoor parks are It has long smooth stretches Jeff Perkins, were brought in and typically built with wood. Burling- out the course. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Plus being able began designing the course in Oc- for take-it-easy riders, steep jumps to ride on dirt in the winter, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ton Bike Park in Washington is all LOUISVILLE, KY. dirt but it is much smaller than the just something we typically canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tober. Prisel designed the Burling- for daredevils and plenty of rocks tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the perfect setting: millions and other physical obstacles to ride ton course. do here in Kentucky, because the Louisville park. of tons of dirt, plenty of space around and on top of. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We brought them in and said ground freezes and thaws, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just â&#x20AC;&#x153;The dirt is a lot smoother for and an atmosphere that stays at a The course is expected to be hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the canvas, paint it the way the steeper jumps, which we really too messy.â&#x20AC;? constant 58 degrees. you would like to see it done,â&#x20AC;? Tyler open to the public in March.

Two course designers from like,â&#x20AC;? said Derek Fetko, a local rider A new underground bicycle park with miles of dirt trails, jumps and stunt courses is being built inside an abandoned limestone mine in Louisville that has been recycled into a popular tourist attraction.

The owners of the 320,000-square foot park say it will be the largest indoor course in the nation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a very large area to work with,â&#x20AC;? said Tom Tyler, who My mountain biking requires going oďŹ&#x20AC;-road on co-owns the former mine, now called the Mega Cavern. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rugged, steep terain. My Tacoma has always done so safely. duplicate it. Somebody would have to go out and dig rock for 40 years before they have what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got - CAM McRAE / NORTH VANCOUVER, BC here.â&#x20AC;?

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Survival Skills for the First Responder Survival Skills for the First Responder is a 1-day awareness program developed and delivered by a former first responder in the Yukon. A set of practical skills has been identified that may contribute to a healthy work/life balance. Awareness of PTSD and maintaining a healthy work/life balance may be keys to thriving as a first responder. This is an interactive program that includes presentation of information and three exercises. The program is intended to raise awareness and provide basic information; it is not intended to provide counselling or treatment. This program may also be of interest to the spouse or partner of a first responder.

Instructor: Michael Swainson For questions or more information contact Joanne Lewis, Northern Institute of Social Justice, Yukon College, 867.456.8590.

March 10, 2015 9:00am to 4:00pm CRN: 20842 $50 + gst Location: Yukon College Room T1022

YFN 101: History of Yukon First Nations and Self-Government This 1-day course is intended for anyone interested in learning more about Yukon First Nations and Self-Government. Develop a broader understanding and appreciation for the key events in Yukon First Nations distant and recent past, in a day that includes interactive activities, discussions and presentations by staff from the Yukon First Nations Initiative department at Yukon College. The instructors incorporate historical timelines, facts, personal stories, and activities for an engaging look at history and recent developments.

For more information on this course call: First Nations Initiatives @ 867.456.8582

March 13, 2015 9:00am to 4:30pm CRN: 20485 $200 + gst Location: Yukon College Room C1440 (The Glass Class)

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Core Competencies for FASD: Awareness to Understanding This 6-hour course provides participants with essential understanding of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder as a brain-based condition that challenges current ways of understanding behavior and thinking about support and intervention. This interactive training engages participants in understanding the neurological impacts of FASD on daily living.

Completion of this course is required for entry into further training in the “Accommodating for the Challenges of FASD” series. For more Info call: FASSY @ 867.393.4948

March 19, 2015 9:00am to 4:00pm CRN: 20841 $80 + gst Location: Yukon College Room T1023

REGISTRATION: Please call Admissions to register at 867.668.8710 and quote the Course Registration Number (CRN) listed above.

WITHDRAWAL POLICY: Please notify the Admissions Office, in person or by telephone, five business days prior to the course start date to allow for a refund. If you withdraw fewer than five business days before the start of a course, you will forfeit the course fee.

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Bees matter, so restricting neonics is the right thing to do Bees have borne the brunt of our unfortunate, uncontrolled experiment with

by DAVID neonics. Beekeepers report SUZUKI unusually high bee death rates in recent years, particularly in corn-growing areas of Ontario and Quebec. Virtually all corn and about 60 per cent of soybean seeds planted in Ontario are treated with neonics.

A federal Pest Management o matter how you Regulatory Agency investigafeel about Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tion concluded that planting proposal to restrict use neonic-treated seeds contribof neonicotinoid insecticides uted to the bee die-offs. on corn and soybean crops, Europe reached a similar we can all agree: bees matter. conclusion and placed a moraBut as important as bees are, torium on the use of neonics thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more at stake. Neonics on bee-attractive crops, which are poisoning our soil and wa- took effect last year. ter. This problematic class of Critics emphasize that pesticides needs to be phased other factors â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including out globally to protect Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s climate change, habitat loss ecosystems. By implementing and disease â&#x20AC;&#x201C; affect pollinator restrictions now (the first in health. But these factors are North America), Ontario will not entirely independent; for have a head start in the transi- example, chronic exposure to tion to safer alternatives. neonics may increase vulnerNot surprisingly, Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to disease. A comproposal has drawn the ire of the pesticide industry.

Neonics have only been around for a couple of decades, but annual global sales now top $2.6 billion. They were initially embraced because they are less directly toxic to humans than older pesticides and are effective at low levels, reducing the volume used. They can be applied to seeds and are absorbed into the plant, which then becomes toxic to insect pests, reducing the need to spray.

We now know these characteristics are the problem.

These chemicals are nerve poisons that are toxic even at very low doses and persist in plants and the environment.

They affect the informationprocessing abilities of invertebrates, including some of our most important pollinators.

SCIENCE

MATTERS

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prehensive pollinator health action plan should address all these factors, and scaling back the use of neonics is a good place to start.

Apart from the immediate and lethal effects on bees, neonics represent a more subtle threat to a wide range of species. The 2014 Worldwide Integrated Assessment of the Impacts of Systemic Pesticides, the most comprehensive review of the scientific literature on neonics, pointed to effects on smell and memory, reproduction, feeding behaviour, flight and ability to fight disease. Jean Marc Bonmatin, one of the lead authors, summarized the conclusions: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The evidence is very clear. We are witnessing a threat to the productivity of our natural and farmed environment equivalent to that posed by organophosphates or DDT. Far from protecting food production the use of neonics is threatening the very

infrastructure which enables it, imperilling the pollinators, habitat engineers and natural pest controllers at the heart of a functioning ecosystem.â&#x20AC;?

Is there some uncertainty involved in calculating these risks? Absolutely. Uncertainty is at the heart of scientific inquiry. The precautionary principle requires that where there is threat of serious or irreversible harm to human health or the environment, the absence of complete scientific certainty or consensus must not be used as an excuse to delay action. In the case of neonics, the weight of evidence clearly supports precautionary action to reduce â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or even eliminate â&#x20AC;&#x201C; them.

Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal to restrict the use of neonictreated corn and soybean seed, starting next year, is far from radical. The idea is to move away from routinely planting neonic-treated seeds and use neonics only in situations where crops are highly vul-

nerable to targeted pests. The government expects this will reduce the uses of neonictreated corn and soybean seed by 80 per cent by 2017.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no surprise that the pesticide industry and its associates oppose even this modest proposal and are running expensive PR campaigns to obscure the evidence of harm.

The industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s objection to restrictions on neonics is eerily similar to big-budget advertising campaigns to create a smokescreen thick enough to delay regulatory responses to the obvious harm caused by cigarettes.

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decisionmakers have a better grasp of the precautionary principle and a stronger commitment to protecting the public good, because bees really do matter.

Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Ontario and Northern Canada Director-General Faisal Moola. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

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The continued mystery of the Denali Gap

by Ned Rozell

ALASKA

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orth America’s highest mountain should be a volcano. Denali sits about 100 kilometres above where the Pacific Plate grinds beneath the North American plate, as do Iliamna, Redoubt and Augustine.

If you draw a line from the Aleutians to volcanic features in interior Alaska, the curve goes over Denali’s summit.

Like its neighbours in the Alaska Range, the big mountain shows no signs of having erupted. But seismologists recently noticed deep shaking that was intriguing enough to explore.

About one year ago, a seismic station in Denali National Park between the Toklat River and the Eielson Visitor Center recorded an earthquake about 30 kilometres deep. It wasn’t big, a magnitude 1.7, but it shook longer than most earthquakes.

“These are volcanic-like earthquakes,” the type that happen when molten rock oozes beneath the surface, said Stephen Holtkamp, a researcher with the Alaska Earthquake Center.

“They are right where volcanoes should be, right above the subducting slab at 100 kilometres depth.”

Ned Rozell photo

Despite volcano-like rumbles deep beneath the mountain, Denali will not erupt soon.

Mount Spurr, a volcano across Cook Inlet from Anchorage, erupted explosively in 1992. It hums all the time with earthquakes like the ones Holtkamp studied beneath Denali.

Mount Spurr is on the southern end of what scientists call the Denali Gap, a 430-kilometre silent swath of the Alaska Range that could be pimpled with volcanoes but does not seem to be.

On the north end of the gap are two ponds filled with dark water near Healy. Volcanologists recognize these as maars, craters that formed when molten rock reached the water table and detonated. This event happened about 3,000 years ago, when the Iron Age began and the world held 50 mil-

ably water coming from the slab (the lion people, few of them near Healy.

Rocks at the Buzzard Creek maars Pacific plate, which is diving beneath have the same chemical signature of the North American plate under Aleutian volcanoes.

As he looked back at more than a decade of Denali station data, Holtkamp found 200 similar volcano-like signals. So, is Denali about to erupt?

No. If Denali was a volcano, the mountain would show its hand with volcanic rocks on the surface as well as hot springs. As for the volcano-like earthquakes, Holtkamp said they don’t require the movement of molten rock, just active fluids passing through masses of rock.

“There might be magma, but only small packets,” he said. “It’s prob-

Denali and most of Alaska). I think it’s evidence that fluids from the slab can migrate through the crust (the outermost shell of the planet).”

Given the uncertainty of science and the surprises the planet often delivers, does Holtkamp rule out the possibility of Denali someday expressing its inner volcano?

He would make that bet for our lifetimes and well beyond. But the workings beneath Denali might change to another state from the present “flat-slab subduction,” which makes the rock beneath the crust too cool to melt. That is millions of years in the future.

“A more traditional volcanic arc may emerge, but not necessarily at Denali,” Holtkamp said.

Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.

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Book reveals heartbreak in Dawson City HISTORY

HUNTER

by Michael Gates

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ittle did Betty Matteson Rhodes know when she and her husband Chuck purchased their first computer in 1996 that it would unlock the secrets of a long past and help her discover a distant relative, Nelson A. Soggs.

Nelson A. Soggs shot his mine manager, J.W. Rogers, on May 9, 1900, on the workings of Claim No. 34 on Gold Run Creek. Soggs was a jeweler and optician with a business in Dawson City, while Rogers, a San Francisco man, used to work at the Monte Carlo Saloon on Front Street before becoming the foreman on Soggs’ claim.

The cause of the altercation is not known, but because it took place on the accumulated paydirt excavated during the winter months, it was thought to have been the result of some sort of dispute over the clean-up. Soggs and Rogers were known to have quarrelled before on several occasions.

On this day, Rogers advanced upon Soggs, threatening to throw the jeweler into Gold Run Creek.

When Rogers refused to stop, Soggs took a .38 revolver out of his pocket and fired four times.

The first shot entered Rogers’ left shoulder just below the collar bone. Rogers turned to run away when the second round was fired, entering his left shoulder above his heart. The third shot missed his spine and lodged in his stomach.

Rogers was taken to hospital; it didn’t look good for him. Four doctors were consulted on his case and prepared to operate to remove the bullet lodged in his stomach. Soggs was arrested and taken into custody by the mounted police, waiting to determine if the charges were to be for murder, or attempted murder.

Rogers made an unexpected recovery and within a couple of months, was in the fittest of health again. Soggs pleaded not guilty and went to trial a few weeks after the

Michael Gates collection/Yukon News

The book Heartbreak at Dawson City is the colourful yet tragic story of Nelson Soggs, who shot a man in the Klondike. This 1898 photo shows Soggs’ jewelry shop in a log building (far right) on Front Street in Dawson City.

incident. He was convicted and placed in jail, but a few months later, was pardoned and released.

Nelson Soggs was born in Columbus, Pennsylvania in 1858.

His father was an inventor among other things, and taught Nelson and his brother Leslie watch and clock repair as well as jewelry making and the optical business.

When Nelson grew up, he went into the jewelry and optical businesses, operating stores in a number of different cities before coming to the Klondike in 1897.

He married Amelia Excell in 1879.

When he left Pennsylvania in 1897 to come to Dawson City, she remained behind until she came from Binghamton New York, to join him in Dawson in June, 1901.

Sadly, she died of pneumonia a few months later on November 1.

Soggs left Dawson City the following June.

After leaving the Yukon, Soggs remarried and continued his business in Niagara Falls, New York, but in 1909, declining in health and

mentally unstable, he killed himself by ingesting poison.

So goes the account of Nelson Soggs’ adventures in the Yukon.

The story of his life has been compiled in a book, half historical fact, and half fictionalized narrative titled Heartbreak at Dawson City.

Written by Betty Matteson Rhodes and Chuck L. Rhodes, this book was self-published by Betmatrho Publications in 2014.

Betty Matteson Rhodes is Nelson Soggs’ first cousin three times removed. Digging out the details of Nelson Soggs’ life “from the archives of history” was at first to satisfy her own curiosity, but she found his story so colourful and at the same time heartbreaking, that she felt compelled to share the story through the medium of a book.

The book is an historical novel.

As the author states at the beginning, the details pertaining to Soggs’ birth, as well as his personal thoughts, not to mention the dialogue are fictional, but they are

built around the facts as uncovered

by Rhodes during her personal quest of discovery.

The account is also filled with factual information uncovered by the author. The text of newspaper articles as well as information derived from sources such as census records and patents are inserted within the fictional narrative.

Included within the 250 pages are 58 illustrations and 3 maps.

A chapter at the end of the book includes illustrations of many of the patents granted to Henry Soggs, Nelson’s father. There is also a timeline of key events in Soggs’ life.

To make it easier to separate the facts from fiction, the factual information is placed in boxes or highlighted, but the authors appear to fall victim to the curse of many self-published works; the lack of an outside editor. Citations for the sources of the information are inconsistent, and not all of the factual information was highlighted as described above, so I found myself struggling at some points to separ-

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ate the factual content from the fictional account.

I have read a number of historical novels that were constructed upon a foundation of historical fact, including Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail, by Arthur R. Thompson, and Gold Fever, by R.M. Dickey. Where this book differs from these others is in the way that the historical information is inserted both graphically and textually, within the story. Some might find that confusing, others may consider it intriguing. It is certainly a “novel” way to meld the fact and fiction.

I found the book to be neither fish nor fowl. For someone seeking the facts of history, I have always found this kind of historical fiction a challenge. If the reader loves a good historical novel, then the insertion of the graphic historical detail might be considered a bonus.

I have long been intrigued by the story of the gold fields of the Klondike in the period after the gold rush, and was already aware of the Soggs affair. This book helped me understand the human face of Nelson Soggs, the man behind the headlines. For that, I felt that it was worthwhile.

Whether you will find this an entertaining read, I leave to you to decide.

And what about Rogers? He left the Yukon for San Francisco a short time after the shooting.

Rogers proved to be something of a scoundrel, and disappeared from Los Angeles in 1904, leaving behind a pile of unpaid debts.

From L.A. he went to London, England promoting schemes in faraway Asia, and then he relocated to Africa where he became a poacher and illegal ivory hunter. He was eventually shot and killed by British troops in 1912.

Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His latest book, Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail, is available in Yukon stores. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net

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Some guests think ‘off-limits’ applies to others

by Judith Martin

MISS

MANNERS DEAR MISS MANNERS: I own a home with my boyfriend of six years, and I love entertaining. Mostly, this consists of family parties; his family lives nearby, mine a bit further. We all get along very well.

However, I am repeatedly chagrined by his family’s use of our entire house during get-togethers.

I want guests in my home to feel relaxed – but certain members of his family always seem to find their way into areas of the house where I don’t feel they should be: the bedroom, my art studio, my office, the guest room where a member of my family is currently staying (unaccompanied by said guest), none of which are located on the ground floor of the house.

Most often, it’s his middleschool-age nieces, but occasionally his siblings as well.

Maybe it’s just me, but I feel that it’s not appropriate to enter someone’s bedroom uninvited, and there are certain boundaries to be respected when someone invites you into their home. My office contains sensitive documents, and my studio, expensive supplies and equipment.

I have appealed to my boyfriend to help me keep everyone in the common areas, but he’s less than vigilant with the followthrough.

I am in the habit of reminding his nieces when they arrive to please stay downstairs with everyone else – and generally try to say this within earshot of the other adults – but it seems I’m wasting my breath. The last time I found the nieces and one of my boyfriend’s siblings in my office, the sister told me it was OK because she was chaperoning them.

It was all I could do not to cry out in exasperation, “Yes, but why are you all in here?”

As much as I love cooking and getting together with family, I’m beginning to feel I can’t host any more gatherings until I replace all the doorknobs in my house with ones that lock. Or am I in the wrong – by inviting people into my home, am I inviting them to every room of it?

GENTLE READER? No, you are not wrong.

Miss Manners proposes that you try enlisting your nieces as guards, which might appeal to their sense of power. You could say conspiratorially that you don’t want “other” guests meandering around, and ask the nieces if they can subtly and gently distract or herd wanderers into the designated areas for entertaining.

Of course, the fox-guarding-

(non-networking) social life survives is likely to be in organized groups, such as book clubs, or at meetings in restaurants.

When feeling overscheduled, people tend to react to social opportunities, rather than to initiate them. There is an age factor in this out-of-sight, out-of-mind assumption: People who do not hear from you may think that for one reason or another, you have retired from the social scene.

Technology has changed correspondence dramatically, in that the regular use of cards, written invitations and even the telephone can no longer be assumed.

Now, where does the relentlessly optimistic Miss Manners find an upside to all this? You may safely assume that she shares your yearning for home entertaining, reciprocating invitations, staying in touch and handwritten correspondence.

But so do your socially delinquent friends. Those of us who provide such things now find ourselves all the more valued.

Miss Manners hopes we will serve as models for a renaissance of satisfying and mutual social life once society has figured out how to lessen the work-family conflict.

So she urges you not to retreat now, but to advance. Think of yourselves as medieval monks, who are preserving civilization until that time.

GENTLE READER: If you have had the opportunity to go on the public tours of the White House, a state governor’s mansion or the receiving rooms of royalty, enthroned or de-, you will no doubt have discerned a pattern in the decoration.

There is a definite bias toward displays that make the owner look magnificent, munificent, omniscient or, occasionally, omnivorous. Whether the state treasury could spring for Berninis and Michelangelos, or had to settle for maps showing territorial boundaries of dubious legality, it was the owner’s fondest hope that his guests, subjects or clients would look around.

Miss Manners has no objection, even if modern hosts are limited to showing off the books they have read, the schools they have attended or the celebrities with whom they have been photographed. She would, however, refrain from pointing out that the painting attributed to “Titian” is merely “school of.”

how much the gift card will help me with things.

Since her card to me was essentially a thank-you, how do I respond? Do I write her one back, or do I thank her in person when DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was she returns from her holiday time raised to believe that the head of off? the household – or owner of the GENTLE READER: Wouldn’t home, or whatever – is responshe have a better idea of how sible for carving the turkey (when much this meant if you wrote turkey is served) unless that her? person designates someone else Because this is more like a boto the task. nus than a present, Miss Manners Is it wrong for someone to does not insist on a letter. But volunteer another individual to she is glad that you realize that it perform this (albeit “traditional”) does require thanks. A letter of task without the homeowner’s thanks need not be answered, but consent? when the expression of gratitude GENTLE READER: Dependincludes actual items, it requires ing on the century in which you thanks. were reared, either the hostess or, DEAR MISS MANNERS: At a in modern times, the host, has church supper, I clearly heard an been considered in charge of any acquaintance say that all suicide large animal that appears on platis because of self-pity. ters. Should anyone else attempt Not only am I a mental health to take over, the host should be professional, but I have a personal able to say no firmly, especially as history of suicidal feelings of my he has a large knife right at hand. own. This woman’s remark was cruel and downright evil.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: For Of course, I couldn’t say anyyears, my husband and I enterDEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it thing in that setting, and she was tained guests for holidays with ever good manners to apologize also sitting directly across a large, gusto, pleasure and enjoyment. for a wrongdoing via a text mesfull table from me. So although Now that we are in our 70s, we sage? Maybe I am set in my ways, I ended up saying nothing, and decided to keep quiet and not but I think a personal phone call that was several months ago, it send any written invites nor make would have been more sincere. still bothers me. calls and wait to see if we get GENTLE READER: How Should I still respond in invited. wrong? In the example you have some way? If so, how? I’m sure The telephone company asin mind, did the offender break she didn’t know I overheard the sured us the phone was in workyour bathroom glass or wreck remark. I’m sure that, by now, she DEAR MISS MANNERS: My ing order, but it never rang. your car? has forgotten she said it.

We stayed home at Thanksgiv- oldest friend (since kindergarten) The apology scale goes from Is there anything I can do to let me borrow a set of four books. texting, at the bottom, to calling and had a convenient turkey advocate for people who are hurtAnother friend was having a hard ing, to hand-writing a letter, to frozen (but cooked) dinner and ing from depression, or should I time finding two books in the set. wailing, to holding a weepy press just chalk it up to ignorance and enjoyed the laughs about all the I asked my friend if I could let her conference. past nice times we had, and how forget it? thoughtless people have become. borrow the books. She said it was Miss Manners regrets that GENTLE READER: There fine.

It seems that if we don’t send there is no such thing as a sincer- is not much you can do about Over the last couple of years, I ity detector test, so the rule is the it now, since the comment was Christmas cards first, we won’t have asked for the books back so greater the wrongdoing, the more made months ago and not adget any in return.

I could return them. She has just labor-intensive the apology.

What is going on with these dressed to you. If something simiignored me. I asked her again, obvious social changes in lar happens to you, Miss Manners sent her a map from her work to America?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I suggests quietly saying, “I assume my house and on to her house.

GENTLE READER: The worked on Thanksgiving, and as you’ve been fortunate enough not world is changing all the time, in According to Mapquest, it would a small thank-you, my boss left to encounter this situation.” many ways, and always has been. add 6 minutes to her commute to me a card and a $25 gift card. She Leave it at that. There are more drop the books off at my house.

But whenever social change is has no idea how difficult things effective ways to channel your mentioned to Miss Manners, it is She drives within a mile of my have been for me lately and how desire to be an advocate than with one of only two conclusions: house daily. much it meant, not only to be ap- embarrassing individuals, which I waited three more weeks and preciated on the holiday, but also rarely works.

That nobody has any manners anymore, or that nobody needs to sent a friendly reminder. I received a text back swearing at me have manners anymore. and saying I will get them when Neither is true. Some things THE COUNCIL OF YUKON FIRST NATIONS WOULD LIKE TO I get them. I dropped the books have changed for the better – off to her at her work when she society no longer tolerates the open expression of bigotry – and borrowed them. So I went out of my way twice to be sure she had others, such as the open expresthem. sion of greed, for the worse.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nation, I am at my wits’ end. My Similarly, adaptations because of changes in the way we live may friend who owns the books said Teslin Tlingit Council, not to worry, and it is not worth be done well or badly. subjecting me to the abuse. What Therefore, Miss Manners is First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun not convinced that your strategy do you think? and Vuntut Gwitch’in First Nation GENTLE READER: That you of waiting for people to seek you out has revealed that the world have one good friend and one has turned callous. Here are some really bad one. on their 20TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the factors she believes are at of SELF-GOVERNMENT on play: DEAR MISS MANNERS: Many people simply do not If I’m asked to wait in an ofFebruary 14, 2015 entertain, even those who used to fice setting or while waiting in We commend you in leading the way with your vision, hard work and do so. They plead that they can someone’s home, is it rude of me accomplishments achieved for your citizens and your communities today. barely manage their work and to get up and look at paintings on family commitments, but Miss the wall or book spines on a book Manners suspects it also has to do shelf (not touching or opening Together today for our children tomorrow with the unreliability and picky the books) in the room where I behavior of guests. What real was instructed to wait? the-henhouse approach does not have a high success rate. In that case, Miss Manners suggests that you look into replacing those doorknobs.

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Seven Yukon Special Olympians en route to B.C. Games Tom Patrick News Reporter

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eam Yukon will hit the snow and ice next week with seasoned veterans and upand-comers at the 2015 Special Olympics B.C. Winter Games in Kamloops next week.

Special Olympics Yukon is send a team of seven athletes to the Games, it was announced Thursday. Four figure skaters and three cross-country skiers will represent the territory in Kamloops.

All of the athletes have previous Games experience, either at the provincial, national or international level, but a few are competing in their sport for the first time at the Games level.

“It’s a new thing for some of them but we’ve been training hard, been training twice a week,” said Yukon’s figure skating head coach Michelle Semaschuk. “They seem prepared. They got to have a test run at the Yukon (Figure Skating) Championships, so that’s good. It gave them a bit of experience of what to expect for the Games.

“We’re looking forward to having lots of fun and representing the Yukon well.”

Skating for Yukon are Aimee Lien, Tijana McCarthy and Theresa Roberts in Level 1 and Michael Sumner in Level 2.

“It’s good. I’m a little bit nervous going to Kamloops,” said Lien. “This is my first time, so I’m really nervous going away without my mom.”

Sumner is a veteran of the skating team. The 18-year-old won silver at the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

He will also represent Yukon at the Canada Winter Games in Prince George the following week.

Sumner, whose routine has a Robin Hood theme, will be competing at Level 2 for his first time next week.

McCarthy will compete to a hip-hop techno beat. Roberts, who is skating at her second Games, will compete to jazz standard “Sing sing sing.” Lien will perform to an instrumental version of Avril Lavigne’s “My happy ending.”

Yukon’s cross-country team also contains an athlete with international competition under his belt.

Owen Munroe, who won two

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Team Yukon figure skater Tijana McCarthy dances to the music during a practice at the Canada Games Centre on Wednesday. McCarthy is one of seven athletes Yukon is sending to the 2015 Special Olympics B.C. Winter Games in Kamloops next week.

bronze medals in cross-country at the 2009 World Winter Games in Idaho, is set to com-

pete next week.

The 27-year-old will be

Intyre and Ernest Chua.

“We’re a small team, but I

joined by teammates Darby Mc- think we’re a strong team,” said

ski coach Jerome McIntyre.

“There’s quite a bit of diversity in the group. Our most experienced skier of course is Owen Munroe; Owen has competed at the provincial and national level, and went to the World Games in 2009 in Bosie, Idaho.

“He definitely does well at the longer distances. I think five-kilometres is the one he’s performed the best at in past competitions.”

Munroe and Darby will race the longer five- and 7.5-kilometre events. Chua, who captured a silver and a bronze in swimming at the 2014 Special Olympics Canada Summer Games, will compete in the shorter 500-metre and onekilometre races.

“Ernest is fairly new to skiing; he’s in his second year of skiing,” said Jerome. “Ernest is better known as a swimmer but he started skiing when he came up here.”

Munroe played on Yukon’s first-ever gold-winning soccer team at the national Games last summer, while Lien and Roberts played on Yukon’s bronzewinning bocce team.

Darby competed in track and field, winning silver in the shot put and in the 5,000-metre.

Those results helped him land a spot on Team Canada for the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games this July in Los Angeles, Calif.

“Darby is more of a distance, endurance athlete,” said Jerome.

“This year, he’s certainly been skiing, but he’s been focusing a lot of attention on the bigger goal of what’s going to happen when he goes to Los Angeles next summer. He’s still doing a lot of running and snowshoe running with (Athletics Yukon head coach) Don White.”

Other Yukon team members include cross-country coach Helen Slama, skating coach/ mission staffer Charlene Donald and chef de Mission Janine Peters.

“I’ve had two great coaches help with preparation on Wednesday night with Tanya Sage and Charlene Donald on Thursday night,” said Semaschuk.

“Tanya has been helping the athletes prepare for the element portion of their competition on Wednesday night. So we’ve had a very supportive group leading up to this weekend.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Mustangs put the fright into Tier 1 teams in Abbotsford Tom Patrick News Reporter

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efore of the start of the Dallas Saunders Bantam Tier 1 Tournament in Abbotsford, some B.C. coaches were griping about how a Tier 3 team was allowed to enter.

The complaints were shortlived.

The Tier 3 Bantam Mustangs won one, tied one and sent a third team scrambling to keep their lead at the tournament over the weekend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The guys were in the fight of it, right in the mix,â&#x20AC;? said Mustangs assistant coach Carl Burgess. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Besides that weird game against Hollyburn, they realized they were doing just fine and could have gone further in the tournament.â&#x20AC;?

The Whitehorse rep team went 1-1-2 at the tourney with a onegoal loss to start. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were two goals away from finishing first in our pool but we finished fourth,â&#x20AC;? said Burgess. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we turned a one-goal loss into a tie and a tie into a win â&#x20AC;Ś we could have come first in our pool and gone straight to the medal rounds.â&#x20AC;?

The Mustangs opened the tournament with a 3-2 loss to the Prince George Cougars with two goals from forward Bryce Anderson and an assist from captain Joe Stokes.

The loss should come with an asterisk. The Mustangs fought back from down 3-0 in the third before the game was cut short due to a problem with the rink. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Due to some rink malfunctions they had to cut our third period by six stop-time minutes, which we think would have made the difference for us,â&#x20AC;? said Burgess. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all realized this wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a long shot â&#x20AC;Ś They fully deserved to be there and fully demonstrated it.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel our first game, against Prince George, was probably our best game as a team,â&#x20AC;? said Stokes, who was named his teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MVP in the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Other than the start, I think we were running on all cylinders and played well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had them on their heels at the end, but unfortunately it was only a 14-minute third period.â&#x20AC;?

Following a 6-0 loss to North Vancouverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hollyburn Huskies, in which Anderson got the MVP nod, the Mustangs got back on track with a 3-3 tie to the hosting Abbotsford Hawks.

The Huskies went on to take the bronze in the 16-team tourney. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were a very big, extremely skilled team and it took everything we had to get there,â&#x20AC;? said Burgess. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A couple bounces one way or another and we could have walked away from that with a win.â&#x20AC;?

Stokes scored twice, forward Dylan Cozens added one and

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Whitehorse Bantam Mustangs captain Joe Stokes pops a goal in against the Ridge Meadow Rustlers at the Dallas Saunders Bantam Tier 1 Tournament in Abbotsford, B.C., over the weekend. The Mustangs went 1-1-2.

Anderson notched two assists.

Mustangs goalie Ethan Vanderkley was named game MVP. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a real eye-opener for players and parents in that there was one to two dozen scouts at every game,â&#x20AC;? said Burgess. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was heavily watched and our boys generated a lot of interest and might have developed some opportunities for themselves â&#x20AC;Ś We got a bunch of interesting questions as coaches. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the crowd there were academies, junior teams, WHL teams, major midget teams all looking.

We had a couple games where there were literally 20 guys in the stands with clipboards taking notes.â&#x20AC;?

One Whitehorse player was scouted and received an invite to a prestigious camp, but the News has agreed to not release that in-

formation until it is made official.

The Mustangs went out on a high note in Abbotsford with a 7-5 come-from-behind win over the Ridge Meadows Rustlers.

Cozens scored four goals, assisted two others and got the MVP nod. Anderson had a threepoint game with a goal, Stokes posted a goal and assist and forward Johnny Elias also scored.

The Mustangs scored four in the third period with an emptynetter at the end for the win. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For whatever reason, we start slow and have teams scrambling by the third period,â&#x20AC;? said Burgess. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That showed up in spades at the tournament. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to work on going towards provincials.â&#x20AC;?

The Mustangs canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let the classification of a team intimidate them. They need to go into

games with more confidence, said Stokes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re from a Tier 3 town and you look at a Tier 1 (team), itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost a mental game and you just have to overcome that and realize you are as good as those teams and play like it â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not play like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not as good as them,â&#x20AC;? said Stokes.

The Bantam Mustangs have already had plenty of success against higher tier teams this season.

They went undefeated to capture gold at the 12th annual Seafair International Ice Breaker Rep Tournament â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a Tier 2 tournament â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in October.

During a road trip on Vancouver Island in December, the Mustangs produced four wins and one loss against four Tier 1 teams in exhibition games. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just very happy with how the boys competed,â&#x20AC;? said Mustangs head coach Martin Lawrie. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have shown that they can play with some of the best teams in B.C.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought we played really good and surprised a couple teams there,â&#x20AC;? added Stokes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We played well throughout the tournament and I think moving forward we just have to play that way and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do good at the Tier 3 provincials.â&#x20AC;?

Nine players from the Bantam Mustangs, including scoring leaders Anderson, Cozens and Stokes, will play for Team Yukon in the second week of the Canada Winter Games in Prince George, B.C. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Whitehorse skiers burn up the trails at junior/U23 worlds Hanthorn, who is a member of the junior national team, posted consistent finishes in Almaty.

In what was her first junior worlds, she took 45th in the sprint, 44th in the five-kilometre free and 47th in the 10-kilometre skiathlon.

She finished the championships helping Canada’s junior team take 10th in the 4x3.3-kilometre relay.

With her strong results, Beatty has decided to stay overseas to race in Scandinavian Cups for her second year in a row.

Johnsgaard and Hanthorn have returned and are set to represent Yukon at the Canada Winter Games, which begin Saturday in Prince George, B.C. The crosscountry events will take place in the second week of the Games, beginning on Feb. 23.

“I had the option of staying in Europe and racing the same Scandinavian Cups as I did last year, but I chose to come back and compete at Canada Games,” said Johnsgaard.

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t should be no surprise that a skier from a mountainous region like Yukon would excel at an uphill climb.

That’s what Whitehorse’s Knute Johnsgaard did to start the FIS Nordic Junior/U23 World Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan, last week.

Johnsgaard, who was racing in U23 men, led the Canadian team with a 14th place finish in the sprint event on Feb. 3, outpacing competition on the steep incline towards the finish.

“Overall I’m very happy with my performances in Kazakhstan,” said Johnsgaard in an email to the News. “The sprint race was my best result. There was a big hill near the end of the course, which suited me well. It was almost too steep to glide up so I kind of just ran/shuffled up it as fast as I could. I managed to move up a few positions from 16th to 14th in the heats so I was very happy.”

The Yukon Elite Squad skier then took 47th in the 15-kilometre free on Feb. 5 and once again led Canada with a 32nd place finish in the 30-kilometre skiathlon last Saturday.

“I’ve been to worlds three times and each time I’ve improved on my results so experience has definitely been valuable,” he said.

“Kazakstan was actually quite similar to Turkey where I competed at my first world junior championship. Kazakhstan is not a skiing nation so it was very much a test event for the 2022 Olympics which Almaty is bidding for. They had less than ideal conditions to deal with.”

Johnsgaard was joined by fellow Whitehorse skiers Dahria Beatty and Annah Hanthorn in Almaty.

Beatty, who was competing in her fourth worlds but first for U23, also opened with her best finish. The 20-year-old led the Canadian team in the sprints, qualifying in 27th and finishing in 20th.

“I was happy with my sprint race, it is always great to get more international experience and I was able to fight with the other girls for the lead throughout the sprint,” said Beatty in an email to the News. “Unfortunately in the last 100 metres I wasn’t able to stay with the pace and finished fourth in my quarterfinal placing me 20th. I would have liked to have moved on to the semi-finals, but it was a good day overall.”

Beatty then skied to 30th in the 10-kilometre free on Feb. 5, despite breaking off part of the base of a ski on a rock.

She dropped out during the 15-kilometre skiathlon on Saturday.

“I was really looking forward to the skiathlon but the night

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Yukon’s Knute Johnsgaard competes at the FIS Nordic Junior/U23 World Championships last week in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Johnsgaard was one of three Whitehorse skiers to represent Canada at the championships.

before the race I came down with a stomach bug and was up the entire night sick,” said Beatty. “I tried to start the race and for the first 2.5 kilometres I was up with the lead group around 17th, but

then having not been able to eat and having been sick caught up to me and my body shutdown, I had to drop out of the race when I started shaking and my vision was going blurry.”

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Hometown pride on the line as Huskies host Flyers this weekend Tom Patrick News Reporter

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akhini Arena will be the scene of a capital showdown this weekend.

The Whitehorse Huskies senior men’s team is hosting the Yellowknife Flyers for a two-game series.

Both teams are completely made up of hometown players.

“Much like the guys over there, we don’t have much of an idea what we’re walking into, but we’re definitely looking forward to it,” said Flyers defenceman and team rep Sam Shannon. “I grew up here in Yellowknife, so I’ve played Team Yukon in the Arctic Winter Games and Canada Games and things like that, but it’s been quite a few years.

“From the little bit of reading I’ve done, it’s nice that it’s all local guys on the team there as well.

“It’ll be nice to hopefully start a northern community rivalry.”

The Flyers, which is a team made up of players from Yellowknife men’s rec hockey league, have already faced a Huskies team this season. They played the Hay River Huskies in a three-game series with Hay River winning two.

The Flyers were formed three years ago and won the Northern Hockey Challenge Cup in April 2013. Yellowknife won the western side of the tournament and met

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Whitehorse Huskies assistant captain Evan Campbell handles the puck against the Powell River Regals on Jan. 30. The Huskies are hosting the Yellowknife Flyers for two games this weekend.

the Iqaluit Icemen in a best-of-five The Huskies will attempt to series final that the Flyers won in keep their unbeaten streak going three straight. this weekend. The Whitehorse team currently has a 6-0 record with four wins over the Fort Nelson Yeti – two away and two at home – and two wins over the Powell River Regals two weeks ago.

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Whitehorse defeated the Regals 10-3 and 7-3 in Whitehorse.

The Huskies have been resurrected as a AA team this season after five years of dormancy. The club played the 2009/10 season in AAA, the Huskies’ first season since 1993 when they won the Al-

lan Cup, Canada’s senior amateur trophy.

They have fulfilled the requirement of six regular season games against B.C. AA teams to be eligible for the Coy Cup, B.C.’s senior men AA championships.

The Huskies next have to beat the Fort St. John Flyers at the end of the month to reach the Coy Cup, which is being hosted by Fort Nelson at the end of March.

“This is our final tune-up before we hit the playoffs at the end of the month,” said Huskies head coach Michael Tuton. “We’re missing a couple of key guys with Rob Warner and Derek Klassen – they’re off to the Canada Games (in Prince George) coaching Team Yukon.

“They’re going to go do that and we’re going to try to hold the fort and get the win for us.”

Goalie Rob Young will get his second at-home start for the Huskies on Firday. “Maybe he’ll play both games,” added Tuton.

The action starts at 7:30 p.m. both Friday and Saturday at Takhini Arena with a beer garden in the mezzanine. Tickets are $10 at the door (cash only). Minor hockey players under 12 and wearing their team jersey, get in for free.

“It’s warmed up, so hopefully people get out of the house and come see the Huskies for the last time this year – potentially last time this year,” said Tuton.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to hear it:â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Missing rescue techâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mom says his loss hard to accept Canadian Press

LAKE LOUISE, ALTA. he mother of a missing search-and-rescue technician buried in deep snow on a mountain in Alberta says he was a powerful physical presence but had a gentle soul.

Sgt. Mark Salesse, 44, was training with others when an avalanche swept him off the Polar Circus iceclimbing route in Banff National Park last week.

His parents, Liz Quinn and Robert Salesse, issued a statement Tuesday saying military officials had updated them on the recovery mission.

They said theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been told that their son is beneath at least 4 1/2 metres of snow.

In an interview with The Canadian Press, Quinn said the loss is a harsh reality and hard to accept. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come as a surprise, but it was something I was really trying not to hear. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to hear it,â&#x20AC;? she said from home in Moncton, N.B. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really, really had hoped from the bottom of my heart that if anybody was going to survive this it was going to be Mark,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I am faced with the factsâ&#x20AC;Śyou know that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way anyone would have made it.â&#x20AC;?

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Quinn said her son joined the military when he was 18 and turned down a mission to Afghanistan when the search-and-rescue opportunity came along.

She described the six-foot-fiveinch Salesse as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;machineâ&#x20AC;? of a man, who was physically active and enjoyed competition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was a tall, strapping lad but he was a very gentle soul. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was a very giving person.

He was selfless.â&#x20AC;?

Quinn said Salesse survived a fall during training in Colorado in 2011 and shattered his pelvis. He wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expected to walk again but he managed to get himself back in shape.

Crews were still trying to reach Salesse after having to call off a short search on Monday due to the threat of further avalanches.

His parents said that if his body is not found in the next week, the search will resume in the spring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They will continue searching for Mark and bring our beautiful loving son home to us,â&#x20AC;? they said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mark has died doing what he loved most, in the majestic mountains that so beckoned him. He chose his final resting place. He is at peace.â&#x20AC;?

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prove safety â&#x20AC;&#x201C; have fallen on the area where he is believed to have been buried last Thursday.

Salesse, who was based at CFB Winnipeg, was swept off a narrow ledge when weather conditions changed quickly during a military exercise.

A spokesman for Parks Canada has said Salesse wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wearing an avalanche transceiver, a device that allows rescuers to hone in on a signal and locate buried victims.

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Kakuro

By The Mepham Group

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.

FRIDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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: of low sleazy taste or quality

Puzzle A

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Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: to existing or present on all sides : encompassing 2 of electronic music : quiet and relaxing with melodies that repeat many times

Puzzle B

CLUES ACROSS 1. Admirer 7. National security department 10. The first State 12. Fallow deer 13. Flowed over completely 14. He had a golden touch 15. Blocks 16. Muslim call to prayer 17. A fashionable hotel 18. Greek god of war

19. Rended 21. Box (abbr.)

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39. Times past 40. Bird of the family Cracidae 41. Metric linear unit 44. Father of Psychology Wilhelm 45. Commonly encountered 48. Swiss river 49. Heavy unglazed drapery fabric 50. Community Relations Officer (abbr.)

51. Sidewalk material

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38. Moons of Jupiter author Alice 40. Plant that makes gum 41. Acarine 42. University in N. Carolina 43. The quality of a given color 44. WW2 female grunts 45. Licenses TV stations 46. They __ 47. The 13th Hebrew letter

CLUES DOWN 1. Protoctist 2. Coat with plaster 3. Nocturnal birds of prey 4. Airforce of Great Britain 5. Before 6. Communist color 7. Partners with mamas 8. Arabian gulf & sultanate 9. Cony 10. Plunder 11. Make bigger 12. Dress up garishly 14. Gin with dry vermouth

MINTEBA

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: from a one-sided or partisan point of view

Puzzle C

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FURNISHED ROOM in newer new home in Ingram Sub, incls cable tv, internet, laundry.

Available March 1, $700/mon. 334-3186

Beautifully ďŹ nished ofďŹ ce space is available in the Taku Building at 309 Main Street.

This historic building is the ďŹ rst L.E.E.D. certiďŹ ed green building in Yukon. It features state of the art heat and ventilation, LAN rooms, elevator, bike storage, shower, accessibility and more.

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334-5553 OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE Above Starbuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Main St. Nice clean, professional building, good natural light. 536' ft. office space on Main St c/w kitchette.

Competitive lease rates offered.

Sandor@yukon.net or C: 333.9966

2-BDRM HOUSE, Hot Springs Rd, new floors throughout, full services. $1,000/mon + utils, water delivery, available Feb 1.

633-6178 3-BDRM DUPLEX, Granger, avail March 1, beautiful, bright, spacious, views, large backyard w/deck, long term only, responsible tenants, $1,700/mon incl heat. 808-359-4959 or Jacklyn-stockstill@coldwellbanker.ca 2-BDRM LEGAL suite, Fox Haven subdivision, bright, avail Mar 1, $1,600/mon incl utils. 456-5505 or 334-1266 or steve.yukondirect@gmail.com FURNISHED BEDROOM, Hot Springs Rd, clean, avail immed, responsible tenant, incl satellite TV, Internet, lg bathroom, shared kitchen/laundry, LR w/own fridge & storage closet, heat, light & usual chores, $900/mon.

633-2119 2-BDRM 1-BATH legal basement suite, Granger, avail Mar. 1, sep ent, refs reqĘźd, $1,350/mon incl utils. 668-6446 or 336-1406 after 3pm 3-BDRM 1-BATH mobile home, Arkell, avail immed, N/S, N/P, refs reqĘźd, $1,300/mon + utils. 334-3670 ROOM, CRESTVIEW, available until June 1, washer/dryer, $400/mon all inclusive.

335-5310 Edgewater Hotel Monthly Rentals Jan 01 - Apr 30 from $800/month Includes weekly housekeeping service All rooms come with mini fridge and microwave Contact Dylan at dylan.soo@yukonhotels.com or 867-668-4500 SHOP/OFFICE/STUDIO Multi-Use Building with space available to rent Very Competitive rates Various sizes, short & long term Washroom on site Friendly environment whserentals@hotmail.com Phone 667-6805 JASPER PLACE TRIPLEX now available for rent â&#x20AC;˘New, large (1,900 sq ft) â&#x20AC;˘2 bedroom, 2.5 bath units. â&#x20AC;˘Each bedroom has its own bathroom and patio. â&#x20AC;˘Dishwasher, washer, dryer, plenty of space to park extra vehicles including boat and motorhome â&#x20AC;˘Walking distance to downtown core â&#x20AC;˘Garage â&#x20AC;˘$2,200/mon plus utilities.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2015 3-BDRM 2-BATH new condo, Porter Creek, N/P, N/S, dd&refs reqĘźd, avail Mar. 1, $1,700/mon + tils. 335-0369 3-BDRM 1-BATH mobile home, 20 mins north of Whitehorse, 5 appliances, energy efficient, pets welcome, $1,350/mon + utils.

335-0150 3-BDRM, 2-BATH, Copper Ridge, garage, rec room, stainless steel appliances, central vac, on green belt, responsible tenants, N/S, N/P, $1,600/mon + heat & utils. 668-7502 or e-mail yukonnaise@gmail.com 3-BDRM SUITE, Riverdale, quiet street, fenced yard, parking, garage, $1,750/mon incl heat & utils. Leave 668-7502, lv msg, or e-mail yukonnaise@gmail.com 1-BDRM BSMT suite, Riverdale, avail Mar 1, bright, clean, private ent, fenced yard, dog friendly, dd & refĘźs reqĘźd, $800/mon + utils.

456-7849 3-BDRM 1.5-BATH duplex, Riverdale, avail March, N/P, N/S, $1,450/mon + utils & dd.

334-8088 2-BDRM MOBILE home, close to College, bus, furnished, pet friendly, N/S, no parties, refs reqĘźd, rental purchase considered, $850/mon + utils. 633-5023

TAKHINI TRANSPORT is seeking a Truck Bus Journeyman Mechanic Apply in person to: Takhini Transport #9 Lindeman Rd, Whitehorse, YT 867-456-2745 MACHINIST (NOC7231) Brent's Hydraulics $20.00/hr 3yrs experience needed Permanent Contact: 867-456-2071 Email: dbrentschultz@hotmail.com

Miscellaneous for Sale WINDOOR RECYCLER We buy & sell: â&#x20AC;˘ Brand new/used double/triple pane vinyl/wood windows. â&#x20AC;˘Brand new steel/vinyl exterior doors with frames.

Now selling: â&#x20AC;˘Brand new unfinished oak kitchen cabinets.

333-0717

2-BDRM DUPLEX, Hillcrest, wood stove, avail immed, $1,100/mon + utils. 668-5558 1-BDRM CABIN, Carcross Corner, $875/mon incl elec, water/heat extra, c/w oil furn, pellet stove, older w/d, dd reqĘźd, responsible tenant, avail Apr.15-May 1. Kim 668-2706 1-BDRM TRAILER, Takhini, avail immed, 3 years old, bright & spacious, small yard, pets considered, $1,200/mon + utils & dd.

333-9616 3-BDRM DUPLEX, Granger, bright, spacious, views, lg yard, avail March 1, $1,700/mon incl heat. long-term only.

334-8001 1-BDRM GROUND floor condo, downtown, bright, small fenced yard, avail Mar. 1, N/P, N/S, dd reqĘźd, $1,200/mon + utils. 393-3924 2-BDRM BSMT suite, downtown, convenient location, N/S, N/P, refs reqĘźd, avail Mar. 1, $1,050/mon, utils incl. 667-7778 TITANIUM WAY commercial space for rent/sale.

1,000 feet includes office, boardroom, open work area, kitchen, washroom.

Separate storage area.

Wired for phone/data, has security system. $1,800/month + electricity.

Phone 335-1932.

Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 WOULD LIKE to house-sit or rent in Whitehorse from April 13 to May 15 or sooner.

Professional couple currently house sitting until April 15. 336-8900

Real Estate 2 SMALLER downtown homes, free, must be removed from site by spring. Perfect for out of town cabins. 334-3523 or 456-2162

Help Wanted LOOKING FOR a generous volunteer driving instructor.

Gas and vehicle provided.

Please call 867-335-3289

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We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, cameras, furniture, antiques, artwork, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, rifles & ammo.

G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY â&#x20AC;˘ SELL

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Please submit your resumĂŠ and a copy of your current certiďŹ cations by February 27, 2015 to: Marie Cairns Government of Yukon Sport & Recreation Branch C-10 PO Box 2703 Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2C6 FAX: (867) 393-6416 E-mail: maire.cairns@gov.yk.ca

Pool Manager Applicants must possess the following current awards or certiďŹ cations: National Lifeguard Service, Water Safety Instructor, Lifesaving Society Instructor, Pool Operator Level I, CPR â&#x20AC;&#x153;Câ&#x20AC;? and Standard First Aid or Aquatic Emergency Care. CertiďŹ cation in Pool Operators II, Aquatic Emergency Care Instructor/ Examiner, Water Instructor Trainer and NLS Instructor/Examiner would be an asset.

Wages range from $18-22/hour and many communities offer extra beneďŹ ts, such as accommodations and a travel subsidy.

Lifeguards / Instructors Minimum qualiďŹ cations for a Lifeguard/Instructor are a current National Lifeguard Service Award, Red Cross Water Safety Instructor, CPR â&#x20AC;&#x153;Câ&#x20AC;? and Standard First Aid or Aquatic Emergency Care.

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IPHONE 4S, good condition, Bell or Virgin mobile free of contract, $170. 334-6087 For Sale NATIVE BRAIN-TANNED HIDES and Tanned Beaver Pelts at reasonable prices Phone (780)335-3557 If no one is available please leave msg or call (780)461-9677

SUMMER POOL STAFF We are now accepting applications for Yukon summer aquatics staff in Yukon communities.

PIONEER FEATHER-LITE parka, menĘźs sz med, like new, $150, snowmobile suit, unisex down insulated, $75. 633-3053

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JOTUL F500 WOODSTOVE, non-catalytic, front and side-loading, matte black, up to 24" logs, heats up to 2,000 sqft, exc cond, $1,400 obo. 633-2091

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YUKON PARKA, emerald green, sz L, Yukon Parka, long, sapphire, sz S, view Booth 18 CGC Feb. 14.

CARCROSS TAGISH E MPLOYMENT FIRST NATION O PPORTUNITY Natural Resources Manager CLOSING DATE: February , 13 2015 STATUS: Full-Time/Permanent SALARY: CTFN Wage Scale, Level 10 - 12, Commensurate with experience and duties

JOB SUMMARY Under the direct supervision of the Director of Heritage, Lands and Natural Resources the Natural Resource manager is responsible for developing, implementing and administering Fish and Wildlife Management, Lands Management and Forest Resource programs for the Carcross/Tagish First Nation (CTFN) and other related duties as requested.

We thank all those who apply and advise that only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

Preference may be given to Carcross Tagish First Nation citizens on all CTFN competitions.

Candidatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cover letter and resume should clearly demonstrate their related qualifications, since selection for further consideration will be based on the information provided. Job descriptions are available upon request.

For more information go to CTFN Website or Phone (867) 821-4251 Ext 8269 Fax (867) 821-3903 E-mail tanya.james@ctfn.ca

YAMAHA GENERATOR, EF 2600, 1.5 yrs old, just serviced at Yamaha, $395 obo.

633-4322 WOLF HIDE, large tanned timber wolf pelt, typical grey & white colour, $500. 668-3632 lv msg

INSTANTANEOUS PROPANE fired water heater, Bosch WR400-7.K, $600. 335-7773.

WANTED: SMALL wood stove to heat an enclosed trailer. 667-6683

FRAMED WALL hangings, pictures, Electrolux vacuum, good cond, view at Booth 18 CGC, Feb. 14.

KITCHEN AID mandolin slicer, never used, $50 firm. 668-2387

NEW LADIES winter boots/shoes/sandals, sz 10, new ladies professional clothing, sz 12-16, girlĘźs clothing, outerwear, boots, NB to sz 6X, view at Booth 18, CGC, Feb. 14.

The Yukon Literacy Coalition is looking for a

PROJECT MANAGER This position will take the lead on an exciting new Pan Territorial initiative and work as a team member on a variety of smaller projects.

This is a permanent full-time (37.5 hrs. wk.) position.

Salary will be commensurate with experience.

Required experience and qualifications: t Masters/B.A. degree or equivalent in Social Sciences or related discipline t Experience with northern communities and community development t Understanding of the current social, cultural, political, community and language issues and needs in the North t Proven experience in project management t Research skills t Ability to engage and work with a variety of stakeholders t Ability to travel t Ability to work flexible hours t Solid communications, writing and reporting skills Deadline for applications - February 16th, 2015 For a complete job description or more information contact Beth at YLC offices 668-6535 or e-mail enquiries: yukon.literacy.coalition@northwestel.net

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NEW 10ĘźX12' linoleum flooring, white tile pattern, $75 obo. 456-7880.

VACUUM, HIGH-END Dyson model, good for all floors, carpet, hardwood, barely used, $600 new, asking $380. 668-4699 RENDEZVOUS 2-PC gold outfit, halter top, capri bottoms, sz sm, $15. 311B Hanson St, pms MOUNTAIN EQUIP womenĘźs down coat, blk, sm, $75. 311B Hanson St, pms.

SEALSKIN MUKLUKS, mens size US 8.5-9, handmade in Holman, NWT, home-tan moose hide footbed, wool duffel, very warm, almost new, exc cond, $425. 336-8737 HEAVY EQUIPMENT tools, various large axle sockets, wrench set, 24" crescent wrench, good shape, good prices. 633-3392 for details CHERISH TEDDY Bear collection, Calico Kitten collection, Princess House crystal, German collector plates, silk plants, view at Booth 18, CGC, Feb. 14 LADIES WEDDING ring, size 7, gold, fused engagement ring, opal stone, size 7.

633-2837

Electrical Appliances BOSCH TASSIMO coffee maker w/tray for cartriges, used but exc cond, $45. 333-9604 KENMORE DRYER, white, older model but works great, $150. 335-1088

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Computers & Accessories

Teslin Tlingit Council

DELL POWEREDGE 2950, ex-Google server, holds WIN2k8 R2 OS. 2x Dell Quad Core 2.66ghz, 8x 2GB PC2-5300 RAM, 6x 250GB 7.5k, 3.5" Seagate HDDs. kmoorlag@gmail.com $750 obo.

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2 GRADUATIONS gowns, never worn in Whitehorse, pink princess ballgown size 6-8, $175, orange shimmer mermaid gown size 4, $100. 668-5882

FREE: 2 tube-type TVs, 32â&#x20AC;? JVC, 28â&#x20AC;? Sears, both work. 667-2601

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CAN-CAN COSTUME, yellow and black, reversible top, size 12-14, $100 firm. 633-2037

Aboriginal Rights & Title Researcher THIS IS A 12 MONTH TERM POSITION The Aboriginal Rights & Title Researcher will report directly to the Implementation & Negotiations Director, and work closely with TTCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal advisers, Executive Director, Designated Executive Councillor, Lands & Resources Department and the Heritage Department as well as with TTC Elders and Citizens

Musical Instruments PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com BASS PLAYER looking to join working band, no beginners please. Thomas @ 660-4826

JOB KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED Identify, organize and correlate documents that relate to: a. Tlingit culture, history and traditions; b. Review and research TTC archival records c. Organize and conduct oral history recording d. Document and inventory oral history research to archival standards e. Land use and occupation in British Columbia, including permanent and semipermanent settlements; camps; burial grounds; cultivated or enclosed ďŹ elds; dwelling structures; hunting, trapping, ďŹ shing, and harvesting grounds; trails; sacred sites; water routes and crossings; f. Tlingit systems of governance, laws and customs; g. Tlingit legends and stories; h. Tlingit ancestry and genealogy; i. Tlingit collective identity and sense of unity; j. Tlingit religion; Digitalize documents in TTC Archives, including audio and video recordings; t Enter index into database; t Utilize consistent keywords in describing paper, audio and video documents.

SQUIRE BY Fender MB-4 bass electric guitar, cherry red, c/w carry case & strap, $155 obo. 333-9084

FOR DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION CALL 867.390.2532 EXT 316

â&#x153;&#x201D; Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed â&#x153;&#x201D; Everything over 8" split â&#x153;&#x201D; $250 per cord (6 cords or more) â&#x153;&#x201D; Single and emergency half cord deliveries â&#x153;&#x201D; Scheduled or next day delivery

To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume HR & Staff Development OfďŹ cer Workforce Development Teslin Tlingit Council Box 133 Teslin, Yukon Y0A 1B0 f. 867.390.2176 humanresources@ttc-teslin.com Closing Date: Monday, February 16, 2015 **no later than 4pm** TTCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PREFERENTIAL HIRING POLICY WILL BE IN EFFECT. AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE MAY BE CONSIDERED. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY www.ttc-teslin.com

DRUM SET, Pearl Export, 5-piece w/cymbals, crash & ride, $550. 335-1993 PIANOS FROM piano technician, Samick upright & Kimball grand, exc cond, after sales tuning, piano stool & moving costs incl.

333-3941 for info/viewing

Firewood

HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782

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DONĘźS FIREWOOD SERVICE â&#x20AC;˘Single cord specialist â&#x20AC;˘Wood stockpiled in Whitehorse for quick daily deliveries â&#x20AC;˘Social Services accepted 393-4397

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2015 DRY SPRUCE FIREWOOD Cut to length 16” and up From Haines Junction Local delivery $250 per cord 456-2035 ANDYʼS FIREWOOD SERVICE Quality standing dry Haines Junction Full measured cords, stacked $250/cord $240/cord 6-cord loads 335-0932, leave message DUKE'S FIREWOOD Round Firewood Multiples of 2 cords, $250/cord Round 6 cord load, $230/cord Cash sales only 334-8122 FRANKʼS FIREWOOD Standing dead spruce cordwood •$230/cord for stove length delivered in town •$90/cord u-cut on the landing •1/2 cord orders welcomed •Special rates for cordwood resellers Phone 334-8960 DJG CONTRACTING Delivering single/multiple cord orders cut to length 20 cords in tree length Pick up in Whitehorse or Haines Junction Call or text David at 332-8327 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.

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Full-Time, Permanent Executive Council Office February 16, 2015 $90,352.08 to $117,457.92 per annum (Level 9) plus benefits

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Intermediate/Senior Biologist (Whitehorse) EDI is an employee owned terrestrial and aquatic biology company that’s been in business over 20 years with offices in western and northern Canada. EDI provides science-based fish and wildlife risk management services and products to all major industrial sectors, First Nations, and government.

We are searching for scientists to join our team of experienced environmental professionals based out of Whitehorse, Yukon. The person selected for this position will lead baseline terrestrial and/or aquatic studies, wildlife and fisheries inventories, water quality monitoring, environmental impact assessments and environmental monitoring.

Responsibilities will involve project execution, assisting with study design, field work, data management and analysis, quality control, and technical reporting.

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EDUCATION 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 Level 10

Job Summary: This position reports directly to the CYFN Executive Director and is responsible for all day to day operations of CYFN Education Department. The position ensures the most efficient and effective delivery of services required to ensure Yukon First Nations are positioned to implement education programs and services through their Self-Government Agreements. This position is responsible for performing other duties as assigned by the Executive Director.

The position will supervise the education department staff by providing management, leadership, mentorship/development and staff accountability ensuring CYFN is an effective results driven organization.

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 867393-9206 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

AYA (SPANISH) 12-gauge boxlock sxs shotgun, vg to exc cond, trade for good quality 16-gauge sxs or sell for $475. 633-2443 ANSCHUTZ CIL model 111.22 single shot, vg to exc cond, $175. 633-2443 RUGER M77 Hawkeye 338RCM, open sights, rings, stainless, synthetic w/some ammo, 338 win mag performance from 20" barrel, $750, rare exc cond Savage 24 Series S, 20 g/.22 lr over/under, $650.

393-3564 CUSTOM BUILT .458 Win Mag large game hunting rifle, $1200 obo, PAL required. Rick @ 333-9601 FREE-50 WINCHESTER 22-250 cases, 8 live factory 22-250 55 grain, 25 live factory 22-250 45 grain. Call 668-6066 REMINGTON R1S 1911, mint cond, less than 300 rounds fired, c/w Hogue grips, $700 obo.

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Wanted WANTED: VOLUNTEER to teach beginner English to an adult. 393-2275 NINTENDOS, SEGAS, games & accesories, will pay $. 334-1502 WANTED: 1 or 2 budgies in good health, reasonable price, for a senior. 667-4526 or 335-4708 WANTED: CANDLE maker for my candle scraps. 633-2037 WERE YOU a squatter in Whiskey, Moccasin Flats, Sleepy Hollow or the Wye area?

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Cars 2009 DIESEL TDI Volkswagon Jetta Wagon, exc cond, 110,500 kms, leather seats, 1-yr old Noikan studded tires/rims, all weather tires/rims, moon roof, $20,000 obo. Shelagh at 393-2962 2007 HONDA Fit, 154,000 kms, 5-spd manual, well maintained, have all service records, power windows, mirrors & door locks, new all seasons & near new winters, $6,500 obo. 335-1230 2008 NISSAN Versa hatchback, 4-cyl, 6-spd standard, air, cruise, tilt, P/W, P/L, AM/FM/CD, 2 sets of tires & wheels, $6,500 obo. 660-4220

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Justice Administrative Assistant

Heritage Sites Officer

THIS IS A REGULAR PART TIME EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY. Under the direction of the Justice Implementation Coordinator, this position is responsible for providing administrative support to the Justice department including the Justice Council. This position also coordinates the administrative records; a wide range of secretarial and administrative support; provides arrangements and secretarial support for meetings, including minute taking and transcribing; and performs other related duties EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE t Grade 12 supplemented with a certificate in Administrative Services or the equivalent in training or experience t experience in general office procedures t excellent written and oral communication skills t knowledge of filing systems t knowledge of TTC Final Agreement, Self Government Agreement and Implementation Plan, Administrative of Justice Agreement and Implementation Plan, TTC’s Peacemaker Court and Justice Council Act and Strategic Plan t knowledge of TTC culture, history, goals & aspirations Due to the requirement for in depth knowledge of “Ha Kus Teyea” including those principles and philosophies which guide Teslin Tlingit society and culture in this position, this competition is open only to those who are Teslin Tlingit Citizens.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 867.390.2532 EXT 316 TO APPLY, PLEASE SUBMIT A COVER LETTER AND RESUME HR & STAFF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TESLIN TLINGIT COUNCIL BOX 133 TESLIN, YUKON Y0A 1B0 F. 867.390.2176 HUMANRESOURCES@TTC-TESLIN.COM

Closing Date: Thursday, February 19, 2015 **no later than 4pm** TTC’S PREFERENTIAL HIRING POLICY WILL BE IN EFFECT. AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE MAY BE CONSIDERED. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY www.ttc-teslin.com

THIS IS A REGULAR FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY. Reporting to the Heritage Director, the Heritage Sites Officer is responsible for managing historical and cultural land based resources in Teslin Tlingit Council (TTC) traditional territory. The Heritage Sites Officer will also participate in organizational activities such as strategic planning, internal and external communications, and administrative activities in order to help achieve the department’s overall mandate, strategic plan and work plan. The position will be a resource for identification, preservation, management and interpretation of heritage sites and buildings, historic trails, sacred and culturally significant places and resources. The incumbent will be responsible for managing related projects and seeking funding.

JOB KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS &QUALIFICATIONS t post secondary education and/or extensive experience in Cultural Resource t Management or a related field such as Anthropology, Archaeology, Conservation t or Museum Studies; or an equivalent level of education and experience may be t considered t strong knowledge of TTC traditional territory, culture, heritage and traditions t thorough knowledge of TTC Final Agreement, particularly Chapter 13 (Heritage); t social structure, Tlingit clan system and the social conditions and social dynamics t prevailing in the community t knowledge of Yukon First Nation Government (land claim & self-government t agreements, TTC Constitution) and social issues affecting First Nations t knowledge of project management methods and techniques t strong written and oral communications skills t sound computing skills, including word processing, databases, and mapping t proven ability to work in a team setting, interact well with others, and to supervise t seasonal project staff FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 867.390.2532 EXT 316.

TO APPLY, PLEASE SUBMIT A COVER LETTER AND RESUME HR & STAFF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TESLIN TLINGIT COUNCIL BOX 133 TESLIN, YUKON Y0A 1B0 F. 867.390.2176 HUMANRESOURCES@TTC-TESLIN.COM

Closing Date: Thursday, February 19, 2015 **NO LATER THAN 4:00PM** TTC HIRING POLICY WILL BE IN EFFECT. AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE MAY BE CONSIDERED.

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DIRECTOR, NATURAL & HERITAGE RESOURCES THE JOB: Reporting to the Executive Director, this position is responsible for directing the business of the Natural & Heritage Resources Department in lands, environment, heritage, and fish and wildlife. This position supervises the Heritage Manager, Lands Manager, Fish & Wildlife Manager and Administrative Assistant. This position also serves as a member of the Senior Management Team in the Vuntut Gwitchin Government.

THE CANDIDATE: The ideal candidate will hold a degree or diploma in one or more of the following: natural or renewable resource management, land management, environmental studies and have extensive relevant work experience at a senior management level. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of the principles, practices, issues and legislations associated with natural resources management. Strong skills are needed for managing projects, developing policies and procedures, applying financial management, negotiating, supervising and problem solving. Excellent oral and written communication skills are required.

Pay Range: $79,806 - $103,748 ($52.47 - $68.21) per annum plus an excellent benefit package This is a full-time position based on 32.5 hours per week. (6.5-hour workday 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. & 1:00 to 4:30 p.m.) VGG closes every second Friday.

Reporting to the Executive Director, this position is responsible for information management and communications to assist the Board in fulfilling its mandate and objectives, which includes territorial, national and international issues relating to the management of Yukon’s fish, wildlife and their habitats. This position will support the Board in making recommendations to the appropriate Ministers, Yukon First Nations and Renewable Resources Councils on all matters related to fish and wildlife management, including legislation, regulations, policy, planning, research and programs.

Priority Skills and Qualifications: t Excellent communication skills, both oral and written; t Knowledge of the mandate and responsibilities of the Board t Strong information management and analysis skills; t Knowledge of the Umbrella Final Agreement, specifically Chapter 16; t Developing, analyzing, implementing communication/media strategy t Excellent computer literacy; t Website management, updating, maintenance and training. t Strong project management skills; t Good interpersonal and presentation skills; t Knowledge of fish and wildlife management planning processes; t Knowledge of the preparation and planning of public reviews, hearings, meetings or other events; t Administering the production of public information materials including reports, printed materials, educational brochures etc. t Knowledge of Yukon environmental, land claims, and resource issues; t Knowledge of resource management principles and practices; t Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously;

A detailed job description is available at: http://www.vgfn.ca/employment

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Please submit resumes that include job experience related to position to: Brenda Frost, Manager, Human Resources Vuntut Gwitchin Government Box 94, Old Crow, YT Y0B 1N0 Phone: (867)966-3261, ext. 256 Fax: (867)966-3800 Email: hrd@vgfn.net While qualified VGFN citizens will be given preference, all interested and qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

CLOSING DATE: FEBRUARY 20TH, 2015 Applications may be submitted in person, by mail, or email to: Graham Van Tighem, Executive Director Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board (In person) #409 Black Street (2nd floor däna Näye Ventures Building) (Mail to) P.O. Box 31104 Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 5P7 Phone: 867-667-5835 executivedirector@yfwmb.ca

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2008 TOYOTA Tundra, 99,000 km, comprehensive extended warranty until Feb 2016, remote start, air bags, newer tires, serviced regularly at Mic Mac Toyota, have detailed records, $21,500. 335-1713

BETTER BID NORTH AUCTION has been commissioned by YTG Dept of Motor Vehicles to sell by sealed bids 2002 Dodge Ram 1500 4x4, Bidding from Jan 30 to Feb 14.

Contact Paul Heynen @ 333-0717.

Bids close Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 6:00pm

2007 DODGE Caravan stow nĘź go, new tires, rotors, brakes, auto, CD, remote start, crack on rear bumper, runs perfectly, 87,000km, $7,800. 332-2252 2004 LIMITED Edition Dodge Grand Caravan, 170,000kms, great condition, runs well, $4,000 obo. 633-3148 for viewing 2001 FORD F150 short box, c/w high rise canopy, 4X4, never been off-road, offers.

Lloyd 456-7243 1996 TOYOTA Tacoma, ext cab, 4x4, 2.4L 4-cyl engine, manual 5-spd, c/w extra set of tires on rims, high mileage, very good cond, $2,500 obo. 334-5182 1994 FORD Explorer, summer & studded winters, $200 radio, 5 seats, 4 door + hatch, blue, 4x4, power windows/locks, lots of trunk space, runs well, $2,000 obo. 336-1493 after 3pm

Want to get involved with the Humane Society? Become a volunteer and join the Board, walk dogs or help with a fundraiser;

it all helps!

Auto Parts & Accessories

IN-HOUSE FINANCING AVAILABLE!

4 Door, Blue, Low Kms

$

15,500

Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100

2012 Ram 1500 Quadcab 4x4 Outdoorsman

5 BRAND new Goodyear 245/75-17â&#x20AC;? 10ply mud/snow tires, $420 cost each, complete set of 5 for $1,350 obo, will not fit my truck.

Call 332-1374 TOYOTA ALLOY wheels, fits Tacoma or Tundra, 16X7, retail $490/ea, asking $125/ea or all for $400. 633-3053 BOAT/UTILITY RACK for full-size p/u, rated at 800lbs, 3 yrs old. Paid $800 at Buffalo Tools, asking $275. 334-8738

Auto, Hemi, 20â&#x20AC;? Wheels

$

27,500

2010 Chev 2500 Crew 4x4 LT Grey

$

27,900

2013 Ram 2500 Crew Cab 4x4 SLT Diesel, 66,000 Kms, Black

$

42,995

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Bless them, Lord, who give of care.

That eases heartache and despair; Hearts of healing love and smiles That comfort, pain and tears of trials For they are Christian, through and through Who do, as You would have them do â&#x20AC;&#x201C; And live, within Your holy creed, To answer answ to a suffererâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s need.

If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

IN FOSTER HOMES t 7 yr. old, female spayed, Rottie X, brindle (Daphne) t 5 yr. old, female, Border Collie, brown, ( Annie) t 3 yr. old, neutered male, GSD/Rottie, black and brown (Tristan)

4"-&4 t #0%: 4)01 t 1"354 t 4&37*$& 2013 Chrysler 300, BLACK, 30,000 KMS ...................................................$27,900 2003 Pontiac Montana Ext, 2-TONE GREEN........................................... $5,595 2005 Ford F350 Crewcab, 4X4, DIESEL ................................................. $11,995 1997 Dodge Quad Cab SLT.............................................................................. $2,995 1994 Ford Explorer, NEW TIRES ....................................................................... $1,995 2006 Chev 1500 Reg Cab, WHITE................................................................. $6,995

2013 Chrysler 200 LX

TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box

RUNNING AT LARGE...

DOGS

6-SPEED TRANSMISSION for 2003 Dodge Ram 3500, $500. 633-6502

t 3 yr. old, neutered male, Argintino Dogo, white, ( Kale)

Celebration of Life for Rose Worthington service and potluck dinner at Nakwataku Potlatch House on Sunday, February 15, 2 p.m.

Bring a dish optional.

All welcome to come pay respects.

TThe Theyy sow Your seeds of love and care, TThat blossom into kindly fare Tha AAnd n share the gifts, You give to them, W Kin and stranger, foe and friend â&#x20AC;&#x201C; To Dr. Avery and Dr. Kanawoski, With A by their acts of loving hearts, And, hospital staff, FN health and nurses, and also homecare. To their awesome T better life and human lot They work for my wife Rose Worthington and A honor You, upon this earth, And their labour of love. Thank you from By giving of their Christian worth.

By Duane Worthington and family, and Michael Dubina. also Roseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family in Carmacks.

CATS t 11 yr. old, DSH, male neutered, black (Mingus) t 1 yr. old, DLH, female, black, ( Luna)

AT THE SHELTER DOGS t 4 yr. old, neutered male, BeagleX, brown and black and white (Dexter) t 2 yr. old, female, Labx , black and white, (Prancer) t 6 year old. female, Husky X, white and black, (Shylo) t 6 months old, male, Husky X, black and brown, (Max) t 14 weeks old, female, Shepherd X Collie, black and white, (Astrid)

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t 14 weeks old, female, Shepherd x Collie, brindle grey, (Rosie)

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t 8 yr. old, female spayed, DSH, black, (Forest) t 2 yr. old, female, DMH, black and white, (Mika) t 6 yr. old, DMH, female spayed, brown tabby, (Judy) t 5 yr. old, DSH, female, black, (Juanita)

SPECIAL t Homes needed for retired sled dogs. They would make excellent pets. Please contact 6683647 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.

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:

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Call 633-6019 today to find out how you can become involved!

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Hi, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Annie. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a very sweet old girl looking for my forever home. I do love to go on walks.

So come on down and meet me today.

633-6019 126 Tlingit Street

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2015 Pets

Juzo James (Butch) Nakamura IT IS WITH GREAT SORROW THAT

CANINES & COMPANY Dog Obedience School Puppy fundamentals March 10 Private Lessons Reactive dog rehabilitation Professional, high quality certified trainers Phone 333-0505 caninesandcompany@northwestel.net www.caninesandcompany.ca Has your fur buddy slowed down?

Return 'spring' to your dogʼs step.

Older or injured dogs benefit from Glucosamine and MSM. Tasty pharmaceutical grade powder.

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332-7828 WANTED: HABITRAIL setup for a hamster in good condition for a senior 335-4708 or 667-4526

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles Recreational Powersports and Marine (RPM) Repairs Service, repair and installations for snowmobiles, ATVs, motorcycles, chainsaws, marine and more Qualified and experienced mechanic Great rates!

Call Patrick at 335-4181

WE ANNOUNCE THE PASSING OF

May Victoria BRODHAGEN ON

(NEE NEHASS) FEBRUARY 7, 2015.

FUNERAL SERVICE TO BE HELD Saturday, February 14 at 2:00 pm in Watson Lake at the High School.

“You were loving and kind in all your ways Upright and just for all your days.

Sincere and true, in your heart and mind Only beautiful memories you have left behind”

Dr. Helmut Ewald Grünberg

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 RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg 2011 SKANDIC WT 600 ACE, $6,500 obo.

633-5955

2009 YAMAHA Grizzly, 125 cc, well maintained, cargo box, thumb/hand warmers, $2,400. 456-7758 after 5pm WANTED: CHILDRENʼS size snow machine, my son desperately wants one. Have your children outgrown theirs? 667-6683 1992 POLARIS Indy 500cc, new 121'' 1 1/4 inch ripsaw track, many other new parts, hood is rough, runs good, $1,000 firm.

334-7374 2005 POLARIS Switchback 600, 4,000 km, like new cond, $3,500. 399-3904 1997 BEARCAT 440, runs great, small fuel problem, $800 for quick sale. 335-1088

Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 1988 MERCURY 8hp long shaft, runs good, c/w 2 tanks, $750 firm. 334-7374

Heavy Equipment

OCTOBER 20, 1930 – FEBRUARY 14, 2005 Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet.

Let it not be a death but completeness.

Let love melt into memory and pain into songs.

Let the flight through the sky end In the folding of the wings over the nest.

Let the last touch of your hands be gentle Like the flower of the night.

Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, And say your last words in silence.

I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.

Forever in Our Hearts, Carol, Dean, Emily, Taylor, Ian, and Kaelyx

It is with bittersweet sadness and joy we announce that our husband, father, friend, mentor and very proud Opa went home to be with Jesus.

Ronald Jacob Brown “Brownie”

MAY 18, 1951 TO FEBRUARY 2, 2015

DECEMBER 9, 1939 – FEBRUARY 10, 2015 • WHITEHORSE, YUKON

Helmut was born in Hamburg, Germany and arrived in the Yukon “by accident”, which is a story he was fond of telling. In the early 1970s, Helmut was in the Yukon en route to a climbing expedition at Mount Denali, Alaska when he broke his arm. He enjoyed his unplanned stopover in Whitehorse and decided to make the Yukon his home. Helmut brought with him a passion for nature, birds, wilderness and conservation. It is a passion he would share with his fellow Yukoners and visitors to the territory for the next forty years.

Helmut received a Master’s degree in Germany in 1967, and then came to North America where he earned a Ph.D. in plant biochemistry at University of Maryland. In 1978, he became an instructor at Yukon College where he spent the rest of his professional career.

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Ron, the first born son of Jacob and Mary Brown, was born in Leamington, Ontario in 1951. He, along with his younger brothers Dave and Jim were raised on a farm where they learned the value of hard work. Jake and Mary raised their boys in a Christian Mennonite home full of love and storytelling.

In 1971 Ron moved north to the Yukon to join his cousin and dear friend Bill Braun. Before he even knew what happened, he fell in love with his best friend and partner, Sheila McLennan. By 1974 they were married and were thrilled to welcome Ryan to their family in 1975. In 1977 there was great joy when Jordan completed their family.

Helmut is well known as one of the Yukon’s foremost birdwatchers. Helmut’s generosity in sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm for the Yukon’s birdlife was extraordinary. He was a founding member of the Yukon Bird Club and served as a director for over 20 years. Helmut led countless birdwatching trips and always made a special effort to ensure that everyone came away with a special sighting.

Helmut established the Marsh Lake Christmas Bird Count, and conducted breeding bird surveys for many years to monitor northern bird populations.

He meticulously recorded all his sightings and breeding records, which he shared through North American Birds, and Birds of the Yukon Territory (2003) of which he was an author.

Ron was a family man with a great love of God, his family and the outdoors.

When he was unable to be out hunting or fishing he spent much time regaling stories of those activities. Many Yukoners will remember Ron’s voice heard regularly on Saturday mornings on Trader Time.

Helmut served as a director for the Yukon Conservation Society in the 1980s, and always sought ways to reduce his own ecological footprint. He strongly advocated protecting large wilderness areas, as well as the many small wetlands and special habitats that are so important to the Yukon’s biodiversity. In 2001, Helmut was awarded the first-ever Yukon Biodiversity Awareness Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions.

He was a God loving, generous man who was active in his church and the community. He, along with his wife and their children spent many summers at the local ball diamonds where ‘Ronnie’ could be seen on the pitcher’s mound while Sheila was score keeping for the Men’s fastball league.

Summers also found Ron dedicating much time to Marsh Lake Bible Camp where he touched the lives of many Yukon youth.

Foremost among Helmut’s achievements was the publication of his book, Birds of Swan Lake, Yukon. Since Helmut’s first days in the Yukon, he visited this rich boreal lake near Whitehorse and carefully recorded his observations. In 1994, he compiled his own sightings, as well as those of many other local birders and published this delightful book. In sharing his love of this special place he recognized that the area is home of the Ta’an Kwäch’än, and gently reminded visitors to treat the land with respect.

Helmut very much appreciated the caring and compassion he received from Tina Bunce, Hayley Henderson, George Kokuryo, Dr. Jake Morash, the staff of the Thompson Centre and Whitehorse General Hospital, as well as his many friends. Helmut is survived by his brother Reinhard Grünberg, and his sisters Arnhild Grünberg and Erika Heser.

A Celebration of Life will be held in April.

Ron began his career in the Yukon as a self-employed roofer and sider.

He had a career change when he was hired to manage Woodland Creations.

His next career move found him working for the Council of Yukon Indians (later known as CYFN). He joined the Yukon Government Department of Education before moving to Yukon Housing where he spent the rest of his career in Government before failing health took him away from his position.

Ron was a mentor to many young adults over the years through the Bible Camp, the Whitehorse Baptist Church Youth Group and the College and Career Group of the Church. Sheila, Ryan, and Jordan have been on the receiving end of many testimonials in the days since Ron was called home.

Ron is survived by and will be forever missed by his wife of 41 years, Sheila, his son Ryan and his wife Neely of West Virginia, his daughter Jordan and her husband Mike of Whitehorse and his grandchildren Caden (and his mother Harmony), Emerson and Adelaide Brown and Micah, Ezra and Jude Grossman. He was also ‘Poppa Ron’ to many surrogate grandchildren. He will be missed by many nieces and nephews, extended family and his many friends from the Yukon, BC, Alberta, Ontario, Alaska and beyond.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held on Saturday, February 14 at 3:00 pm at the High Country Inn Convention Centre.

In lieu of flowers the family invites you to donate to Marsh Lake Bible Camp in Ron’s memory. www.whbaptist.ca (click Donate Now)

TOP: Helmut on the lookout for Arctic birds at Herschel Island and receiving recognition from the Yukon Bird Club for his work.

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Romans 10:13

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2000 INTERNATIONAL Hull all garbage truck, 102,000 km, runs like new, exc cond, $39,900. Andy @ 867-536-7712

DODGE HI-TOP camping van, bed, fridge, stove, sink, table, exc cond, $1,800 or will consider trade. Wayne 456-7707

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BUNGALOW, 8ĘźX8Ęź model Atco on skid, insulated, $2,000. 867-862-7047 KUBOTA 24KW diesel, new rod, gasket, piston ring, starter, alternator, battery, c/w wiring to connect, $2,600. 867-862-7047 DIESEL TANK, 5,000L, good cond, no leaks, $1,800. 867-862-7047 2014 MULCHER brush head, $11,500; 2014 rotary brush mower, $8,500. 867-536-4595

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WANTED: 2000 to 2007 Lance Lite 815 truck camper, if youĘźre looking to upgrade your rig here is your opportunity. 668-7963

THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. A group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info and register call Cathy 334-1548 or Joanne 668-7713 AL-ANON MEETINGS, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someoneĘźs drinking?

Wednesday 12Noon @ Anglican Church, 4th & Elliott, back door, Friday 7pm Lutheran Church, 4th & Strickland, beginnerĘźs meeting, Friday 8pm Lutheran Church regular meeting

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HOSPICE YUKON: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to all those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis, M-F 11:30-3PM. 667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net

SCOTTISH COUNTRY Dance classes, weekly, Tuesdays 7:15pm at Ecole Emilie-Tremblay gym. Come alone or bring some friends. All welcome. No experience necessary. Info: Patricia 668-4976 or scdwhitehorse@gmail.com

HEALING TOUCH Yukon Association AGM will be Wednesday, Feb 25 at 5:30 pm at 412 Cook Street. Email jenniferg@northwestel.net for more information.

GALA GARAGE Sale April 11 at Whitehorse Elementary gym. Fundraiser for Little Footprints Big Steps work in Haiti. Donate/Help?

456-4434

BABY STORY Time, Ages 6-24 months & caregiver(s), Friday Jan 16 to Friday Mar 6, 10:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11:30am, no program on Fri Feb 20, Whitehorse Public Library

SUGAR SHACK. Come indulge your sweet tooth with our famous maple taffy on snow from February 20 to 22 at Shipyards Park. cabane.afy.yk.ca

NEW TO Whitehorse? 35 or over? Come out and meet other newcomers. Email newtowhitehorse@gmail.com to get reminders of upcoming events TODDLER STORY Time, 10:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11:30am, for children 2 & 4 yrs of age & caregiver(s), Wednesday Jan 14 to Wednesday Mar 11 at Whitehorse Public Library HOSPICE POETRY-WRITING Workshop.

Explore a loss you are grieving through poetry with guidance from a poet and Hospice counsellor. Feb 5, 12, 19, 7-8:30pm 667-7429 GROWERS OF Organic Food Yukon Annual General Meeting is on Sunday, March 8th at Yukon College, room C1440. For more info e-mail goofy@yukonfood.com or visit organic.yukonfood.com. New members welcome.

44TH ANNUAL Carmacks Sweetheart Bonspiel, February 13-15, $200 per team. To register call Carmacks Rec Centre, 867-863-5057 or George Skookum, 867-863-6134, George.skookum@lscfn.ca.

Deadline to register February 12th @ 6pm AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Writing Circle meeting Tuesday, February 24, 7pm - 9pm, Whitehorse United Church (upstairs), scent free. Writing letters to support human rights worldwide. www.amnesty.org SOURDOUGH PANCAKE Supper, Tuesday February 17, 5pm-7pm, Whitehorse United Church, 6th & Main, elevator access, adults $10, seniors $7, children 12 & under $5, family price $25 CRIME PREVENTION Victim Services Trust Fund application deadline Feb 16. Visit www.crimepreventionfundyukon.ca or call 667-8746 or 1-800-661-0408 ext 8746 to find out more DUNGEONS & Dragons: Role-play & craft a fantasy adventure! Feb 19, Mar 19, Apr 16 & May 14, 3:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5 p.m, Whitehorse Public Library. Free, drop in.

ANY REGISTERED LPN who is interested in creating or learning more about the LPN Association, call Tara. 334-5189

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FIREWEED COMMUNITY Market AGM, everyone welcome, Library meeting room March 5th, 2015, 6pm-9pm. More Info: fireweedmarket@yahoo.ca COMICS: LEARN the art of storytelling & make your own comics! Feb 5, Mar 5, Apr 2 & May 7, 3:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5 p.m. Whitehorse Public Library. Free, drop in.

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HOLISTIC HEALTH Practitioners Reconnection Gathering February 18, 5:30-7:30pm at RahRah Gallery. To RSVP or for info contact 668-5180.

TALKING TO Strangers, by Christopher Lockheardt, collection of short plays portraying relationshipsĘź various angles presented

by Moving Parts Theatre, Feb. 18-21 & Feb. 24-28, 8pm, Well-Read Books YUKON INVASIVE Species Council public meeting to inform on current projects and how you can get involved, February 18, 12:30-1:30pm, at board room Yukon Research Centre. All are welcome.

WHITEHORSE CONCERTS presents local soloists and ensembles, plus Whitehorse Community Orchestra, Saturday, February 28 at The Yukon Arts Centre at 8pm. For more information contact steve@whitehorseconcerts.com AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Writing Circle meeting Tuesday, February 24 from 7pm-9pm, Whitehorse United Church, upstairs, scent free please. Writing letters to support human rights worldwide. www.amnesty.org HOW WAS your money spent? Hands of Hope update on charity work we do in Nepal and India, Friday, February 13, 1pm, Whitehorse Public Library. www.hands-of-hope.ca facebook.com/booksandbasics. Coffee & tea WHITEHORSE UNITED Church's Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper is Tuesday February 17 5pm-7pm, $10 adults, $7 seniors, $5 children, 601 Main Street YUKON SCIENCE Institute presents What is the White River Ash doing in Europe? with Britta Jensen, Sunday, February 15, 7:30pm, Beringia Centre, Whitehorse & Monday, February 16, 7:30pm, Dawson City Community Library. Free.

KLUANE MTN Bluegrass Festival, June 12-14, Haines Junction, tickets on sale at Dean's Strings in Whitehorse, Kluane Machine in HJ, and online at: yukonbluegrass.com Buy yours now, don't be disappointed OBLATE CENTRE Farewell sale of furniture, kitchen and household goods indoors at 6189 6th Avenue at Cook, Saturday, Feb. 14, from 10am-1 pm CANSI LV1 instructor course, Feb 20-22, 2015 at Mt. Sima. Registration online only at cansi.ca } courses before Feb 16. Lift ticket discount avail if needed.

CANSI TELEMARK refresher Saturday Feb. 21 at Mt. Sima. Open & no-cost to all current CANSI members. Preregister at cansi.ca } courses is a must. Lift ticket discount available if needed.

COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS will be holding a meeting on Feb 16th at 6:30 at Second Opinion Society 304 Hawkins St. Contact Kim Tucker 336-1416

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2015 LPN MEETING, 7pm, March 11, 2nd floor boardroom, Whitehorse General Hospital.

334-5189 for info CRESTVIEW CROSS-COUNTRY ski group meets Sundays, 12Noon, 222 Squanga Ave, to ski Pine Forest Loop, 2-3 hours, free.

Franz @ 633-2455 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Association general sharing meeting Wednesday February 18, Whitehorse Public Library meeting room @ 3:30 pm. Find out/tell us about EE in Yukon. All welcome. 335-7475 YUKON CIRCLE of Change AGM, Thursday February 19, 7:30pm Heart of Riverdale.

Come and be the change!

HOSPICE WORKSHOP:LIVING WITH Loss, Thursday Feb 26 6:30-8:30pm at WPL for anyone living with grief or supporting others who are grieving. To register: 667-7429 COFFEE HOUSE Saturday March 7, 2015.

Featuring Barbara Chamberlin + the Open Stage. Help set up 6pm + open stage sign-up, 7:30PM show, $5, United Church Bsmt, 6th+Main, 633-4255 F.H. COLLINS parent/teacher/student conference Thursday, Mar. 5, 5pm-7pm & Friday, Mar. 6, 10am-1pm. There will be no classes on Friday, Mar. 6 for students, but they may attend either conference without appointment.

NORTH TO the Yukon Slowly, Jefferson Ground Sloth from Old Crow. Long Ago Yukon SKYPE lecture, Beringia Centre Saturday, Feb. 28, 1pm, Dr. Greg McDonald, Senior Curator, Natural History. Info 633-6579 CABARET GRIVOIS February 20, 7:30 pm, Centre de la francophonie. Discover the wilder side of your favourite artists during the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous Festival.

Presented in French. afy.yk.ca

Services Big or Small Jobs Construction and Handy Man Work Call James at 335-1328 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 BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Chainsaw Work, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 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 SUBARU GURU Fix•Buy•Sell Used Subarus 30 year Journeyman Mechanic Towing available Mario 333-4585 THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY • Construction • Renovation • Finishing • Cabinets • Tiling • Flooring • Repairs • Specialty woodwork • Custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowing” All Subdivisions & acreages off Mayo Rd, MacPherson, Hidden Valley, Pilot Mountain & Hot Springs Rd. Honest & Prompt Service Amy Iles Call 667-4981 or 334-6369 GEORGE SAURE Carpentry •Interior finishing of stairs, wood flooring, kitchen installation •Custom woodwork •New construction •Renovations Call for a Free Estimate 333-9530 MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Cabinets, Windows, Framing, Board, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com

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YUKON NEWS TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865 BURGESS BUILT CONSTRUCTION Journeyman Carpenter New Construction, Renovations Big or Small Frame to Finish Call Shawn 867-334-5190 shwn.burgess@gmail.com SNOW CLEARING/REMOVAL Sidewalks, Driveways, Parking lots, Compounds Private and Commercial Properties Fast and reliable service Aurora Toolcat Services 867-334-7635

Liquor Corporation

LIQUOR ACT TAKE NOTICE THAT, A Little Taste of Home, of Box 444, Watson Lake, Yukon Y0A 1C0 is making application for a Food Primary-Beer/Wine Liquor Licence, in respect of the premises known as A Little Taste of Home situated at 805 Frank Trail, Watson Lake, 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 not later than 4:30 pm on the 25th day of February, 2015 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant.

The first time of publication of notice is 6, February 2015.

The second time of publication of notice is 13, February 2015.

OLD CATSKINNER Wants to work in 2015.

Full-time, part-time, anytime.

Anywhere in YT. 867-689-1998 or dougsack@outlook.com "Retirement sucks."

LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL GENERAL SALES AGENT FOR THE NETHERLANDS (BENELUX) Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 19, 2015. 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 Robin Anderson at (867) 6673532.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

The third time of publication of notice is 20, February 2015.

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.

PUBLIC TENDER

HANDY GAL AVAILABLE! Over 10 yrs experience References and warranty incl.

Roofing: Flat roof, shingle & metal Small renovations at affordable pricing!

Call Iri @ 335-1088

LOST: APPLE iPad in black case. 334-8782 LOST: MAGENTA wool lady's glove with beads, downtown or Riverdale greenbelt, also reflective dog leash, on Grey Mt. road on Solstice Day run/walk December 21, and Honda car keys, Scout Lake Rd. 335-3918 OSLO INFRARED Sauna, MSRP is $5,500, asking $3,500. 335-7773

Lost & Found LOST: GOLD nugget pendant on gold chain @ CGC Friday, January 23, after 9pm, around the Flexi-hall. Reward. 335-2811

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL EMPLOYEE SAFETY TRAINING

Project Description: This request for proposals is intended to procure a contract for water delivery to homes and businesses in the community of Ross River.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 4, 2015. 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 Rob Anderson at (867) 456-6542.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Project Description: The Public Service Commission is accepting proposals for a Yukon Government wide Standing Offer Agreement, for the provision of training services as defined in this document. This is to establish and maintain safe work practices for Yukon Government employees that work in rural “field” conditions.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 12, 2015. 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 Steve Hahn at (867) 667-3498.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Community Services

Public Service Commission

ROSS RIVER WATER DELIVERY

Tourism and Culture

PUBLIC TENDER

MAINTENANCE SERVICES FOR JOHNSON’S CROSSING TRANSFER STATION

TRANSPORTATION OF HOUSEHOLD WASTE FROM UPPER LIARD SOLID WASTE FACILITY

Project Description: Site maintenance including snow removal.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 5, 2015. 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 Rob Anderson at (867)456-6542.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Project Description: Transportation of Household Waste Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 5, 2015. 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 Rob Anderson at (867)456-6542.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Community Services

Community Services

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST Qualified Treasurer for the Board of Directors

Northern Cultural Expressions Society is seeking a Qualified Treasurer for the Board of Directors. Expressions of interest required prior to AGM Elections.

Please contact Jackie at 633-4186 or email ed@northernculture.org and provide CV before February 18, 2015.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

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The Yukon Outfitters Association is accepting proposals to develop a

STRATEGIC MARKETING AND PROMOTION PLAN FOR MEMBERSHIP COMMUNICATION, PUBLIC AWARENESS AND EDUCATION. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 20th, 2015.

Please refer to the complete document package for closing time and location.

Complete document package may be obtained by contacting the Yukon Outfitters Association, Executive Director, Darren Parsons, by phone (867) 6684118 or email info@yukonoutfitters.net.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

YUKON NEWS Sports Equipment

FREE: WEIDER step exerciser. 667-2601 GIRLS FIGURE skates, size 6, $15, Graf 370 Supra hockey skate, size 2.5, $15, Easton Synergy hockey pants, XL, $15, snowboarding helmet, small, $15, CCM Vector hockey helmet w/cage, youth, $15. 456-7758

Livestock HAY FOR SALE Dry bales kept under a shelter Great quality, $12/bale.

633-4496 or astra@northwestel.net

HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Dev & Louise Hurlburt Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix Small square & round bales Discounts for field pick up or delivery Straw bales also for sale 335-5192 • 668-7218 QUALITY YUKON MEAT Dev & Louise Hurlburt Grain-finished Hereford beef Domestic wild boar Order now for guaranteed delivery Payment plan available Samples on request 668-7218 335-5192 FARMING EQUIPMENT for sale in excellent condition, John Deere 4030 tractor, Case mower/conditioner, Case in line baler, Sitex hay rake and much more. Call for details 336-8850

For more information or to submit a proposal - email: info@yfwet.ca The Trust’s Mailing Address: P.O. Box 31022, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5P7 Physical Address: 409 Black Street, Whitehorse, YT. Phone: (867) 335-9422

As a registered charity we welcome all donations. The Trust shall provide donors with a charitable tax receipt, recognition on our website and on our widely distributed free calendar. 100% of donation dollars are spent directly on fish and wildlife projects.

YUKON LAND USE PLANNING COUNCIL REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST for the Provision of Legal Services The Yukon Land Use Planning Council (the Council) is requesting expressions of interest from a person or firm for the provision of on call, as needed legal support. The Council is an advisory body established under the Umbrella Final Agreement. The Council makes recommendations to Government and Yukon First Nations regarding regional planning and assists regional commissions with their planning and assists regional commissions with their planning processes.

The Council requests legal services for work in the areas of : t Land and Resource Law t Yukon First Nation Self Government and Final Agreements t Aboriginal Treaty Agreements t Constitutional Law The Council’s applicable legislation and Policies and Procedures may be obtained at the Council’s website (www.planyukon.ca) or at the Council’s office.

Please submit by 1:00 pm February 19th, 2015 an expression of interest identifying your experience and background in these areas, strategies for avoiding conflicts of interest, a schedule of rates and the person or persons involved with the Council’s file. The lowest rates will not necessarily be accepted. All expressions much be in writing and delivered: By personal delivery to 201-307 Jarvis St. Whitehorse, Yukon, or By mail – 201-307 Jarvis St. Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2H3, or By fax – (867) 667-4624, or By electronic mail – ron@planyukon.ca All inquiries: Ron Cruikshank, Director, YLUPC (867) 667-7397

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Sealed proposals, addressed to the City Engineer, in an envelope plainly marked “Proposal for Consultant Services for the Design and Construction Supervision of the City Of Whitehorse 2015 Operations Building Project” will be received at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2, before 4:00:00 p.m. Local Time on Monday 16 March, 2015.

Complete terms of reference for the proposed consultant services may be obtained, after 1:00 pm on Monday 9 February 2015, from City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2.

The City of Whitehorse invites proposals from consultants to provide the architectural and engineering consulting teams necessary to complete the conceptual, schematic, and detailed designs, and construction administration and supervision for the 2015 Operations Building Project.

All proposals shall be “EVALUATED IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY OF WHITEHORSE”.

All enquiries to: Wayne H. Tuck, P. Eng. City Engineer Ph (867) 668-8306 Fax (867) 668-8386 wayne.tuck@whitehorse.ca

www.whitehorse.ca

MUST SELL, oak rocking chair, new double bed, new TV stand, newer Sony flat screen TV, new Shaw satellite receiver. 335-8915 OFFICE FURNITURE, desks, filing cabinets, desk chairs, all in good condition. Stop by #101, 2131-2nd Ave between 1-5pm or call 456-3100

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CONSULTANT SERVICES FOR THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION OF THE CITY OF WHITEHORSE 2015 OPERATIONS BUILDING

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The Yukon Fish and Wildlife Enhancement Trust is a public registered charity with the objective to:

The Trust is accepting project proposal submissions that meet the Trust’s objective and are prepared according to the Trust Proposal Guidelines, which may be obtained at http://yfwet.ca/. Requests up to a maximum of $15,000 are encouraged, however, any amount may be considered. Proposals must be submitted electronically no later than 4:00 p.m. on March 1st, 2015.

BROME HAY BALES 55 lb bales No rain, no weeds Nice leafy hay $12.00 each $10.00 per bale for orders over 100 bales 456-2035

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Call for Proposals “restore, enhance and protect fish and wildlife populations and their habitat in the Yukon, so as to achieve the objectives of Chapter 16 (Fish and Wildlife) of the Umbrella Final Agreement including initiating, sponsoring, funding, directing and carrying out measures to achieve those objectives”.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Baby & Child Items CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903

Yukon College Tender yukoncollege.yk.ca

Stipulated Price Tender General Contractor Services CNIM Building Construction Yukon College

DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office 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 WHITEHORSE CURLING Club January cash calendar winners: $750, Glenella Hill; $100, Teresa Banks; $50, Grant Abbott, Arnold Hedstrom, Andrew Copp; $25, Peggy Melhoff, Eunice Horte, Sonne Ristau, Jason Epp, Brian Langevin, Melanie Magnuson, Ashley Cashin, Kathy John, David Johnson, Douglas Berg, Chris Bookless, Pat Banks, Annie Hotte, Jessica Docherty, Christie Garbett, Heather Burrell, Griffin Beaudry, Joe Stockton, Ray Mikkelsen, Janine Arey, Ryker Long, Gord Williams, Thomas Scoffin, Florence Kushniruk, Lacey Odiase, Philip Christensen WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB February 10, 2015 1st - Mark Davey & Bill Curtis 2nd - Bill Grandy & Bob Walsh 3rd - Jan Ogilvy & Darwin Wreggitt We play every Tuesday at 7:00 pm at the Golden Age Society.

New players are welcome.

For more information call 633-5352 or email nmcgowan@klondiker.co

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Closes: NOON PST, February 18, 2015.

Yukon College is inviting stipulated price bids for General Contractor services for the construction of the Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining (CNIM) Building on the Ayamdigut Campus site in Whitehorse, Yukon.

The project includes the acceptance of an existing foundation, and owner supplied pre-engineered steel frame (Butler package) for the shop portion; and then completion of the full foundation work, provision of building materials, and construction of the complete building. Bidders must agree to adhere to a cash flow requirement of $4,500,000 to be spent on the project by March 31, 2016.

Sealed tenders, completed in conformance with the contract documents provided will be received up to NOON local time, February 18, 2015 at:

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Yukon College – Procurement and Contracts Office PO Box 2799 500 College Drive Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 5K4 Contract documents will be available on the Merx site at https://www.merx.com .

Any questions to be directed to purchasing@yukoncollege.yk.ca.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2015 SEEKING JODY Miller, born April 2, 1965.

His ex-wife and skating partner is looking to re-connect. No financial or ulterior motives.

Please contact Jacquie at 604-240-5266.

Thank you.

INVITATION TO TENDER

PUBLIC TENDER

2015 Robert Campbell Bridge Repairs

Land Act:

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Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land Take notice that the Government of Yukon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Highways and Public Works from Whitehorse, Yukon, has applied to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), Smithers, for a Temporary Permit for IndustrialMiscellaneous purposes situated on Provincial Crown land located ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN LAND IN THE VICINITY OF PARTRIGE CREEK, CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 34.560 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS, by Partridge Creek, BC. The Lands File for this application is 6408786. Written comments concerning this application should be directed to the Skeena Stikine Land OfďŹ cer, MFLNRO,at Bag 6000 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3333 Tatlow Road Smithers, BC V0J 2N0. Comments will be received

by MFLNRO up to March 10, 2015. 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.

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STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT (SOA) FOR RENTAL VEHICLES FOR YUKON GOVERNMENT Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 5, 2015. 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.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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

PUBLIC TENDER AIR CHARTER SERVICES FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE - CIRCUIT COURT TO VARIOUS YUKON COMMUNITIES Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 3, 2015. 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 Wayne Beauchemin at (867) 667-8039.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

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Chair, ClassificaĆ&#x;on Appeal Board The Classifica on unit of the Public Service Commission is seeking experienced local arbitrators to serve as Chair of Yukon Governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Classifica on Appeal Board.

Interested individuals must have knowledge of administra ve law and the principles of natural jus ce, as well as experience conduc ng arbitra on hearings.

As the Chair of the Classifica on Appeal Board, you will hear and decide on disputes between the employer (represented by Classifica on unit staďŹ&#x20AC;) and appellants (Yukon government employees, in most cases represented by the Public Service Alliance of Canada) concerning the classifica on level of posi ons.

In addi on to providing your creden als as they relate to the above, please also provide copies of 2 or 3 decisions that you have wri en and disclose any conflict or percep on of conflict regarding this posi on.

The Yukon government uses a point ra ng plan to classify most of its jobs. It assesses the knowledge, skills, mental demands, accountability and working condi ons that are required of a job. This assessment results in a classifica on level which in turn determines the applicable salary range.

More informa on can be found on our website: h p://www.psc.gov.yk.ca/employeeinfo/classifica on.html

Alterna vely, if you have other qualifica ons and experience that would make you a good fit for this role please submit your par culars for our considera on.

To obtain more informa on about this opportunity, please contact Janis Meger at 667-5958 or Tammy Rolls at 6675637.

We will provide training on the classifica on plan and the legisla ve framework for classifica on appeals to selected individuals.

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You know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good night when you wind up your day with everything you need.

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Phone: 867-667-6283

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Project Description: The Yukon Government is seeking a provider of alcohol and drug counselling services for offenders at Whitehorse Correctional Centre and on community supervision.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 26, 2015. 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 Leah White at (867) 667-5483.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 12, 2015. 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 Mike Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor at (867) 6673553.

This project is being funded under the Build Canada Fund Initiative The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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

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