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former jail guard accused of trying to smuggle drugs into the Whitehorse Correctional Centre told the RCMP he was overwhelmed with bills at the time of his arrest.

The 100-minute-long video of Michael Gaber’s interrogation was played in Yukon Supreme Court this week.

Gaber was arrested on Boxing Day 2013 after his superiors at the jail found pills in his pockets.

He is charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking.

This week’s trial has focused on the 59 white pills. An expert with a Health Canada lab in British Columbia spent all day Thursday testifying that the pills were methylphenidate, the generic name for Ritalin.

Meanwhile, Gaber’s lawyer, David Tarnow, has tried to punch holes in the science that identified the drug. The defence only plans to call one witness, also an expert, who is expected to spend all day today on the stand.

Back on the day of his arrest, Gaber was questioned in an interrogation room.

From the very beginning, the officer said, his main concern is “why� Gaber chose to do this.

Gaber said it was just about the money. He doesn’t lead an extravagant life, he told the officer, but bills were piling up. “It was just one of those things, financial stuff,� he said.

At some points in the interview, which is often garbled on the recording, Gaber volunteered information. He said he was feeling pressure from the inmates inside to bring in contraband and eventually caved.

He said he started out with tobacco and then other packages.

He insisted he didn’t know what the pills were.

Gaber was originally also charged with trying to bring marijuana in the jail. The judge threw out the marijuana staff allegedly found in his car, lambasting the facility for violating Gaber’s rights during the investigation.

The interrogating officer asked him about the possibility

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A former Whitehorse Correctional Centre guard accused of smuggling drugs into the facility was on trial this week. weapons were smuggled without his knowledge, but Gaber said he didn’t think so.

Who paid Gaber to bring in the contraband is still unknown.

The officer repeatedly pressed him for names but he refused.

Gaber told the officer being questioned by jail staff was scary enough to make him want to stop even if he hadn’t been arrested.

It was almost a relief, he said, to have been caught.

After watching the video Wednesday, Thursday’s testimony had little to do with Gaber himself and was instead focused on science.

For the entire day, expert Sarita Jaswal testified about how the Health Canada lab where she works tests and identifies unknown drugs.

She said the lab is nationally certified and follows strict protocols when it comes to testing the substances and managing its equipment.

It’s about more than what something physically looks like, she said. A pill is crushed and then, through various tests, the lab is able to look at the construction of its molecules, she said.

Through multiple tests, she was able to certify that the pill was methylphenidate, she testified.

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During cross examination, she acknowledged that she only tested one pill and could not say anything about the other 58 that were found on Gaber.

The defence’s expert has been allowed to watch the entire proceeding before getting on the stand today.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

Correction Last Friday’s editorial included incorrect amounts for diversion credits paid by the Yukon government and city to recycling processors.

According to the Department of Community Services, the territory expects to pay a total of $489,000 to both processors for diverting 3,800 tonnes of waste in 2015. However, Raven Recycling hasn’t charged for its work in the last quarter, and it expects that will raise the territory’s total to $512,000 for that period.

The city estimates it will pay $250,738 in diversion credits for 2015.

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Government unveils design for Whistle Bend care facility Maura Forrest News Reporter

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he Yukon government has unveiled its design for the Whistle Bend continuing care centre, and it’s working hard to prove that the facility will be a home – not a warehouse.

Premier Darrell Pasloski and Health Minister Mike Nixon were on hand to reveal computer renderings and a digital flythrough of the 150-bed centre at a meeting on Thursday.

“This facility will be a beautiful home for all its residents and a beautiful addition to the growing neighbourhood of Whistle Bend, a place where so many people are choosing to call home,” Pasloski said.

The centre will include seven residential units on three levels, which the architects are calling “houses.”

Most of the houses will be divided into two wings, each with 12 rooms. One house will have just 12 beds, for people with mental health concerns. Another will have 12 palliative care hospice rooms and six acute care rooms.

There will also be 12 small dining rooms, instead of one large dining area.

The centre will be divided into these smaller sections to give the facility a more intimate feeling, explained Derek Crawford, one of the architects.

“No large rooms, no big cafeteria-type spaces, but smaller spaces that provide the social experience that really does make it feel that (the residents are) home,” he said. “And the whole idea is that this is not just replicating home, this is their home.

They will adopt this as their home.”

The seven houses will connect to one end of the main entrance building, called the village centre.

That building will contain various facilities, including a hairdressing salon, an arts and

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The 150-bed centre will have three floors and multiple wings.

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Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski unveils plans for the new Whistle Bend continuing care centre on Thursday. crafts centre, a therapeutic gym, a medical examination room, a bistro and a First Nations healing room.

The facility has been designed so that a second 150-bed complex could connect to the far end of the village centre, as a mirror image of the first.

The centre will also include family gathering rooms with kitchenettes, so that visiting families can cook meals with their loved ones. There will be a suite available for family members who need to stay at the centre overnight, and all of the rooms will be large enough for a sleep chair for visiting friends or family.

Each wing will also have an outside garden area.

“We’re delighted that the design supports the smaller dining room, living room spaces,” said Nancy Kidd, director of the

Whistle Bend centre. “Because that’s really evidence-informed practice. The smaller setting is just so much nicer.”

The bedrooms will also be larger than those in any of the existing continuing care centres, she said.

Marilyn Hubley, who attended the meeting on Thursday, said she thinks the centre will be a “beautiful, beautiful home.”

“I want a room eventually up there,” she said. “I’m looking forward to moving in – not too soon.”

Hubley used to work as a manager at Copper Ridge Place and Macaulay Lodge, and has recently retired.

She said she’s heard criticism about the location of the Whistle Bend facility. The Yukon Liberals and New Democrats have raised concerns about the centre being built in a subdivision that’s

still sparsely occupied. The City of Whitehorse had issued 147 occupancy approvals for the Whistle Bend subdivision by the end of 2015. With an average of 2.5 residents per household, that amounts to about 370 residents.

And an access-to-information request revealed last summer that a high-ranking health official had warned that building the facility in Whistle Bend would be a “nightmare.”

But Hubley said she’s heard it all before.

“I was around in 2002 when they opened up Copper Ridge Place, and it was the same thing.

People were so upset about the location. After a couple of years, people loved it because Copper Ridge (Place) became a part of that community.”

Still, NDP Opposition Leader Liz Hanson isn’t convinced.

“The scale of this will be quite sobering to a lot of people,” she said. “What we’re doing is we’re creating a very large institution.

You can’t disguise an institution that’s three storeys tall... as anything other than an institution.”

Hanson said she’s not sure the government ever seriously considered any alternatives to a single, large facility.

“We don’t even know what options they have considered,” she said. “You just don’t get carte blanche to say, ‘We spend your money however we want to.’”

But Kidd said that with nearly 90 seniors currently on the wait list for a bed, there’s no question

that this facility is needed. “The number of seniors (in the Yukon) will double in the next 10 years,” she said. “Now, not all of those seniors are going to require care.

But more and more of them will.”

The current cost of the project is estimated at $147 million, down slightly from the original planning estimate of $158 million. That includes construction, infrastructure and move-in costs.

Construction is expected to start in April and to be complete

by Jan. 5, 2018. The centre is expected to open in the spring of 2018.

Last December, the construction contract was awarded to PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc., the same company that is working on the Whitehorse General Hospital expansion.

PCL is based in Richmond, B.C., but operations manager Wayne Bilawchuk said he plans to hire “as much of the local trades and workforce as possible.”

He said he’s already hired some local firms, including Associated Engineering and Kobayashi + Zedda Architects.

He added that the PCL team members will be relocating to Whitehorse with their families for the duration of the project.

Staffing numbers for the new facility have yet to be determined, though Pasloski said there will be “significant job opportunities” when the centre nears completion.

Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com

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his week’s Mineral Exploration Roundup conference in Vancouver saw the Yukon government make a host of spending promises for the mining sector.

But most of them are not as new as they might appear.

The commitments started rolling out on Monday, when the government pledged $900,000 to the Yukon Mining Alliance for promotional activities over the next three years.

The mining alliance, which represents the territory’s mining companies, will be throwing in an additional $100,000.

John McConnell, chair of the

alliance and CEO of Victoria Gold, said part of the money will be used to support the annual investors’ tour of mining properties in the Yukon.

He said those tours have a direct impact on investment in the territory. For instance, he explained, Wellgreen Platinum received a $10-million investment in the fall from an investor who’d been on the tour.

But the $1-million announcement is not a new commitment.

It’s simply a continuation of a funding arrangement that’s been in place for several years.

“This funding actually is part of a process that we’ve been engaged with YMA on over the past three years or so,” explained Stephen Rose, assistant deputy minister

with the Department of Economic Development.

Similarly, a commitment to fund the Yukon Chamber of Mines’ communication plan, released on Tuesday, is also a continuation of an existing program. The government first provided $150,000 for development of the chamber’s “Our Yukon” campaign in the 2014-15 fiscal year. Now, it’s promised the chamber another $450,000 to implement the plan over the next three years, beginning in 2015-16.

Samson Hartland, executive director of the chamber of mines, said the money will be used to further educate Yukoners about the history and value of Yukon’s mining industry. He’d like to install interpretive panels on local trails

that describe points of interest from Yukon’s past.

“Hopefully, folks... will understand what benefits the industry provides,” he said.

The government also re-announced that it’s extending funding for the Yukon mineral exploration program with a $1.4-million commitment for the 2016 field season. That announcement was originally made during the Yukon Geoscience Forum in November 2015.

There was at least one new funding announcement that came out of this week’s conference, however.

The Yukon government says it’s asking the federal government for help to upgrade the Goldfield, Casino, Freegold and Nahanni

Range roads. The upgrades would give the mining industry easier access in the Dawson and Nahanni Range areas.

Mines Minister Scott Kent told the News that the full project would likely cost around $300 million.

He pointed to a recent report from the National Aboriginal Economic Development Board, which found that a “significant infrastructure deficit” is impeding new economic development in the North.

“Any investments in infrastructure... are good and there’s solid payback,” Kent said. “They’re good projects for the Yukon, but they’re also good projects for Canada.”

Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com

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he Yukon government wants to tear down one of Faro’s largest and longeststanding abandoned buildings.

The Chateau Jomini, a fourbuilding complex once used as housing for miners, may be demolished this summer.

But before that can happen, the government wants to ensure it has the support of Faro’s municipal council, which is still on the fence about what to do with the buildings.

In a letter to Faro mayor Jack Bowers on Dec. 11, Highways and Public Works Minister Scott Kent said the demolition is long overdue. “These buildings are now long past any useful life and have become a potential safety hazard,� he wrote. “I hope that it will come as positive news that Highways and Public Works has completed an assessment of the Chateau Jomini complex in preparation to remove all hazardous materials and demolish the buildings in the summer of 2016.�

The Cyprus Anvil Mining Company built the complex in the late 1970s after it had established operations at the nearby Faro Mine.

But the company was forced to suspend its operations indefinitely when world prices for metals plummeted in 1982.

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Faro’s Chateau Jomini, an old housing complex for miners, may be demolished this summer. ings, as well as the parcel of land, in the late 1980s.

Since then, Chateau Jomini has been subject to much debate.

Located just across from the town’s visitor centre, the building was named after Harry Jomini, a civil engineer with the mining company.

Vandalism was once a problem so the building’s windows were covered with plywood.

In the early 1990s there were plans to convert the buildings into office space for Yukon College’s Faro campus, as well as for government employees, but a change in government prevented that from happening, Bowers said.

The idea of turning it into a corrections centre was also kicked around.

Today, some members of council still feel the buildings can be given a second life. “It was fairly well constructed and we know the foundation is solid,� Bowers said. “We want to be sure there are no other options, other than demolition, before we formally agree.�

There are a few concerns about what demolition would entail.

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might not be enough space to handle the demolition of the Chateau Jomini as well as other abandoned buildings in Faro, Bowers said. “We wouldn’t want the demolition debris to go into the residential landfill either,� he added. “But we don’t want to see it left undeveloped and unattended for several more years.�

Ian Dunlop, Faro’s chief administrative officer, said another hurdle for any alternative to demolition would be the cost to bring the building back to life.

Some members of council have expressed an interest in exploring the idea of using Chateau Jomini to house workers involved in the anticipated Faro Mine rehabilitation project, he added, instead of building a camp at the site. The Yukon government plans to build new containment dams at the site over the next few years but nothing has been confirmed, Dunlop said.

Bowers said he’s drafting a response to Kent this week.

Chateau Jomini is just one of many abandoned buildings in Faro, where the population has dropped from its peak of about 2,100 in 1982 to about 400 today.

Dunlop said there are approximately 37 properties, encompassing about 180 units, which have been left vacant by Faro Real Estate Ltd. The town is slowly working towards gaining ownership of these buildings, he added.

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Yukon recreation group wins Arctic Inspiration Prize communities, so the quality of recreation services can be spotty.

Providing training opportunities across the North should help he Recreation and Parks Asbuild a support network among sociation of the Yukon and its partners in the Northwest recreation leaders in different Territories and Nunavut have won communities, she said.

She added that leaders often the 2015 Arctic Inspiration Prize. have to go Outside for training, They plan to use the $600,000 instead of being able to stay in award to launch a tri-territorial their communities. training project for recreation “Then the learnings often leaders across the North, includin the South aren’t really that ing coaches, camp counsellors relevant for communities in the and youth leaders. They will also North.� be working with a social enterOlympic cyclist Zach Bell prise called Campus for Communominated the training project for nities of the Future. the Arctic Inspiration Prize after “We’re pretty excited. It’s a hearing about it last summer. pretty big deal,� said Anne Mor“I understand how much of an gan, executive director of RPAY. impact it can have, particularly in “It’s something we’ve worked on for a long time now, speaking with small, northern communities,� he said. community leaders and trying to Bell said his success stems from figure out what support they need the training he had growing up in to be good recreation leaders in Watson Lake. their communities.� “I saw this program as an Morgan said there’s a lot of opportunity for people to create turnover among coaches and other leaders in remote northern that stable programming in every Maura Forrest News Reporter

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First Nations, Yukon government agree to mining protocol

work together to review miningrelated legislation and to resolve issues that arise due to mining activity on settlement land or The Yukon government and traditional territory. self-governing First Nations have Together, they may recomsigned an agreement to improve mend changes to legislation, communication around mining in policy or regulations. the Yukon. “I think it’s more of a positive They have also established a step,�

Grand Chief Ruth Massie of regular working group and a work the Council of Yukon First Nations plan to help guide discussions.

The agreement was announced told the News on Thursday. “We’ve been telling the government all at the 2016 Mineral Exploration Roundup in Vancouver this week. along, it’s all about the communication. They need to know what “This protocol can lead us to a our position is, we need to know new and more productive way of what their position is.� engaging on mining-related iniMassie said the protocol will tiatives,� Premier Darrell Pasloski help ensure that First Nations are said in a news release. kept in the loop on any changes According to the protocol, the government and First Nations will that may affect their land.

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The Recreation and Parks Association of the Yukon, along with its partners in the N.W.T. and Nunavut, have won $600,000 from the Arctic Inspiration Prize. region of the North.�

Morgan said the program will address 13 competencies, including risk management, financial planning and quality programming.

She said the risk-management

portion will focus on helping leaders to develop activities that are safe and accessible to everyone in the community. The financial planning portion will include how to budget and write proposals. “As we move along, we’ll de-

That hasn’t always been the case, she said, referring to changes made to consultation requirements for low-level mineral exploration in 2014.

When the Yukon government first announced the proposed changes, it suggested that First Nations would be notified of all such activity. The plan was later scaled back to include only certain areas of the territory. First Nations complained that they weren’t given enough time to review those changes.

But Massie is optimistic that this protocol may signal better days ahead. “It engages everybody, all the parties, to be involved in potential projects.�

She said it will also help industry understand how to comply with First Nation agreements.

The protocol has been some time in the making, however.

Pasloski signed it back in August 2015. The chiefs of most selfgoverning First Nations signed on gradually between August and the end of October.

Ta’an Kwach’an Council Chief Kristina Kane is still in the process of signing. And Carcross/Tagish Chief Danny Cresswell has not signed, but his First Nation will

velop curriculum and workshops and training,� she explained.

Since winning the award on Wednesday, the group has already met for a planning meeting. Its next steps are to rework the budget and put together a work plan, Morgan said.

The Arctic Inspiration Prize is awarded annually to organizations working on projects to improve life in the Canadian Arctic.

The prize is usually worth $1 million, but it was bumped to $1.5 million last year, thanks to increased support from partners.

This year’s award was divided between the tri-territorial training project and two other recipients.

Better Hearing for Northern Youth won $300,000 to improve the lives of youth with hearing loss in the Qikiqtani (Baffin) region of Nunavut. And Qaggiq: Nurturing the Arctic Performing Arts won $600,000 to develop the skills of northern performing artists.

Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com

participate in the working group as an observer. “Some of them signed it a little bit reluctantly,� Massie said, owing to concerns that the government doesn’t always “walk their talk.�

Still, she said, the protocol may help prevent future lawsuits between First Nations and the Yukon government. “We didn’t negotiate our (final) agreements to be in court.�

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Yukon government still waiting for names of students impacted by B.C. data breach it requested that B.C. provide all the Yukon student data that may have been compromised.

That hasn’t happened yet. he Yukon government “Once we receive this data, still doesn’t know exwe will review it and complete actly who in the territhe risk assessment with the tory was affected by a Office of the Yukon Ombudsman massive privacy breach in B.C. & Information Privacy Commisannounced four months ago. sioner,� the statement said.

B.C.’s privacy commissioner “We can then determine adreleased a report yesterday ditional safeguards that could be scolding the province’s Ministry of Education for multiple lapses put in place. We will also notify individuals who have been imthat led to a backup external pacted by the data breach.� hard drive being lost.

When it comes to Yukon Information on 3.4 million people, including approximately records, the drive has names, 8,000 Yukoners, was on the drive. genders, birthdates, postal codes Elizabeth Denham found that and personal education numbers for all Yukon kindergarten data had been transferred onto to Grade 12 students from 1991 the unencrypted hard drive, to 2009. which was against policy. As The drive also contains stuwell, the ministry failed to record the existence of the hard drive or dent exam and course information for the Yukon from 1991 to store it in a proper facility.

2008. That particular file identiIn a statement yesterday, fies students by number.

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The Department of Health and Social Services launched a new website last week that allows users to peruse the reports for over 300 establishments in the territory.

But it only posts infractions that have been committed, without going into detail.

Josh Paton, who owns Epic Pizza, said that could be misleading to the public.

During a routine inspection of the restaurant on Oct. 6 last year, the inspector noted “toxic and poisonous substances need to be stored separately from food preparation and storage areas.�

Paton said someone left bottles of Windex and oven cleaner

tant component,� she said. “Yukon public bodies are not there yet. Many of them don’t have privacy policies and procedures.�

Unlike in B.C., where the privacy commission was able to launch her own independent investigations, McLeod-MacKay’s office is only a tool departments can call on for help if they want.

If she could launch her own investigation she would, she said.

She cautions Yukoners to be aware that their information has gone missing. Someone could use that “sort of general information to try and convince a victim to reveal more private information. “If you don’t know who you’re talking to, whether it be online or on the telephone, do not give out information.�

Anyone looking for more information on the breach can call the B.C. hotline at 1-604660-2421.

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on top of a freezer, nowhere near any food.

Although that was a mistake, it would have been nice to have that detail on the website, he said. “How would you understand what the inspector means by that?� he added. “And how would the public know? It doesn’t really tell the whole story.�

As it stands, complete reports – ones that contain the inspector’s handwritten comments – are only available through access to information and protection of privacy requests.

There are no plans to post the full reports on the website, according to Marcelle Dube, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Services.

That’s because the details of the infractions are meant to inform the business owners, not the public, she said.

The idea behind only posting infractions is to try and keep things simple, she added.

The software used by inspectors allows them to publish the entire list of inspection items, but some of those do not apply to all facilities. “That means a lot of space is wasted on things that don’t apply to either a food, or a personal services facility,� she said. “We decided, in the interest of efficiency and ease of access, to only publish the pertinent items that were not in compliance, since this information is in the public interest.�

Dube said this is in line with other jurisdictions across Canada.

But in the Northwest Territories, for example, health inspection reports are scanned in full and uploaded to a website as PDF files.

In Alberta, only infractions are posted but additional details about them are included.

On the Yukon’s website, a disclaimer at the bottom of every report cautions users against

“interpreting the status of a particular facility based on a single inspection report.�

Dube said she encourages users to visit the department’s website to learn more about the infractions and what they mean.

They can also call the department to speak with an Environmental Health Officer to learn more about food safety requirements.

But Paton said he would still prefer to see full reports online. “It looks better for a restaurant owner when you’re doing a good job and you can look at the 99 items out of 100 that were positive,� he said. “The department’s end goal was to become more transparent but hopefully they realize this isn’t the way to go.�

The health inspection website can be accessed through www.hss.gov.yk.ca.

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“beginning a review of all of our information sharing agreements with B.C., with input from the Yukon Information and Privacy Commissioner� and “conducting privacy impact assessments for our internal data collection and storage in order to revise policies as needed.�

Arnold was not available for an interview in time for today’s paper.

Yukon’s privacy commissioner, Diane McLeod-McKay, said it’s important the Yukon government put clauses in contracts that allow the territory to evaluate whether or not the other jurisdictions holding Yukon data are in compliance with their data protection rules.

She said she didn’t know whether the Yukon Department of Education’s contracts have a clause like that. “It’s really important that public bodies do have effective privacy management programs in place. As part of that contract management is a really impor-

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he Yukon Partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much-ballyhooed agreement with the Kaska on resource issues should be treated as a qualified success by at least one measure: it should ensure that one of the Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most litigious First Nations wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lob any more court cases the governing partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way before the next territorial election.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thanks to more than $3 million being dribbled out by the territory over the next year.

One catch to these payments is that they could stop if a new lawsuit arises.

The agreement clearly fits into a broader strategy launched by the Yukon Party, to sign conciliatory-sounding agreements with the territoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Nations in an effort to remediate the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s badly tarnished image when it comes to cooperating with aboriginal leaders on resource matters. Whether this deal and others like it allow the Yukon Party to wash the stink off itself may hinge on whether these agreements actually achieve something concrete, beyond quieting the chiefs until Yukoners have gone to the polls.

That may not be so easy. Similar agreements have been signed with the Kaska before, with little in the end to show. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a stretch to call the new document an agreement on much of anything, beyond a willingness to sit in the same room and talk. Heck, the two parties canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even agree on whose rules should govern resource extraction on Kaska land.

Political wrangling within the Kaska is often inscrutable to outsiders at the best of times, and remains particularly opaque at the moment.

Last year, the Kaska announced they planned to craft their own resource laws governing their territory. To this, Pasloski promptly stuck his foot in his mouth by observing that First Nations under the thumb of the Indian Act arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t considered able to pass their own laws, which many took to be tantamount to saying that the Kaska didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a real government.

Just what has happened to plans for these much-touted resource laws, nobody now seems able to say.

That may be explained, in part, by what is politely called the Liard First Nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;capacity issues.â&#x20AC;? The First Nation has in recent years

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been vocal about how it is under-equipped to scrutinize mining plans being pushed through Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environmental review pipeline.

The situation seems to have only gotten worse since the First Nation fell under thirdparty management since autumn of 2014, leaving a federally appointed consultant in charge of its books to help repay more than $700,000 owed to Ottawa. LFN later sacked its lands manager in early 2015, citing its ongoing cash squeeze. If the situation has improved since then, nobody at the First Nation, or at Aboriginal Affairs, is saying.

Then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the matter of the chief, Daniel Morris. Where he stands on resource extraction â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or pretty much anything else â&#x20AC;&#x201C; remains a mystery to the general public, as heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hardly said a word to reporters since he ran for office more than two years ago. At the time he seemed keen to avoid having to address on the campaign trail his sordid history of having brutally assaulted his wife more than a decade earlier, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s continued to keep his head down since winning office. If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surprising that he seems to have offered a comment at this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announcement, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perhaps explained by how the event took place in faraway Vancouver.

Put together the First Nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shaky financial footing and its particularly divisive leadership, and it may seem like a tough time to unite residents on the merits of opening up their homeland to greater resource extraction.

The Yukon Party has, in recent years, been particularly boosterish about seeing more oil

and gas work done in the Liard Basin. These efforts have only been modestly more successful than the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aim to open up the Peel watershed to development â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which is to say, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been entirely counterproductive.

When it came to light last May that the LFNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leadership and the Yukon government had begun talks about the possibility of hydraulic fracturing occurring in the basin, a group of First Nation residents protested in front of the legislature, complaining their leadership had left them in the dark on the subject. It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help that not long before then, a government official accidentally emailed a reporter details of the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans to warm the public to the idea of allowing fracking. Needless to say, thanks to the well-organized efforts of fracking opponents, the practice is now considered politically toxic in the Yukon, and even if it were not, todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big slump in oil and gas prices have taken any such plans off the table for the immediate future.

None of this changes the fact that the Kaska are among the poorest Yukon First Nations, despite sitting on a wealth of precious metals and oil and gas. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entirely conceivable that some well-managed mining or oil-and-gas projects could bring badly-needed jobs and money to the region, without despoiling the environment.

But it seems unlikely the region will undergo any big transformation anytime soon, under the remaining terms of either of this chief or this premier. (JT)

The recommendations coming out of the truth and reconciliation commission are meant to be recognized, and this tribunal ruling is welcome.

Some hard facts: this case was in court for nine years, 168,000 children in the system at that time, and First Nation children now comprise 48 per cent of those in the system.

This is one area of a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. There are many more: education, medicine, diet, housing, dysfunctional families and clean water are all known to affect a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well being.

These are unacceptable statistics in a country

where very young people are taking their lives.

Seems things are changing a bit, though.

This is a good day for the children, they have been recognized by a human rights tribunal to have equal value.

Gunalchis (thank you in Tlingit language) to Cindy Blackstock, Assembly of First Nations and all the support in the background for the children.

LETTERS Blackstock deserves praise The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled the Canadian government is discriminatory in its funding of child welfare services to some children in Canada.

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he Minto copper mine’s announcement of reduced mining activity in 2016 and a temporary closure in 2017 brought more bad news to an already battered Yukon mining sector.

Capstone, Minto’s owner, put out its “2016 Operating and Capital Guidance” for investors. First, underground mining will be “paused” sometime in the first three months of this year. Surface mining will continue until August 2016 in the Minto North pit. The mill will keep going until stockpiles are used up in mid-2017.

As these milestones pass, an increasing number of Yukon and fly-in workers at Minto will be laid off.

Capstone’s stock price has been trading around 30¢ since the announcement. That’s down from a 52-week high of $1.71 and far below the heady days of 2011 when the stock traded at over $4.

Interestingly, Capstone forecasts that Minto’s all-in cost in 2016 will be US$1.30-1.40 per pound.

That’s lower than their other two mines, and comfortably below even US$2 copper.

So, why close your lowest-cost mine? It’s because the low costs are thanks to the rich Minto North deposit. Minto’s other deposits are less economic. The mine told the Yukon News that its cost per pound last year, before Minto North was fully operational, was in the US$2.40 per pound range.

So when Minto North runs out, the mine’s cost per pound will go up. Too bad Minto North isn’t a lot bigger.

Capstone is also cutting operational costs and capital budgets.

Over one-fifth of head office jobs have been eliminated and the company promises “strict capital management” to investors. This

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Aerial view of the Minto mine site. means no major investments in the Yukon in the near future to develop new ore bodies as Minto North is depleted.

Capstone says that re-opening Minto after that depends on “a number of factors, most notably an improvement in the copper market outlook.”

A quick look at a chart of historical copper prices shows the problem Minto is facing. Over the last five years, copper has been on a steady downward trajectory.

In 2011, it averaged US$4.00 per pound. It has been lower every year since then, averaging US$2.50 in 2015. That’s a 40 per cent drop.

The falling Canadian dollar took some of the sting out of this. Copper was C$4.12 per pound in 2011 using that year’s average exchange rate. In 2015, it was C$3.32, which was a relatively less painful 20 per cent drop.

However, 2016 isn’t looking great so far. The average price for the first three weeks of the year was US$2.02. Even though the Canadian dollar has fallen further, this still worked out to only C$2.86 at

last Friday’s exchange rate.

The only good news is that we haven’t hit 2003’s price of just 81 US cents.

The outlook is highly uncertain. A lot depends on which way the Chinese economy goes. Neil Hume, the Financial Times’ commodities editor, reviewed the supply and demand trends last month.

The upshot is that some big new copper mines launched during the boom years will be coming on stream in the next few years, which will put downward pressure on prices.

Going out five to 10 years, however, the picture looks more positive. This is because it seems to be getting harder to find and develop big copper mines. By the end of the next decade, some large existing mines will likely be hitting the end of their lives. A decade is a long time for Yukoners to wait for job opportunities, however.

Unfortunately, we are soon going to get a refresher course in how many ways the mining industry contributes to the Yukon economy.

The ripple effects will be wide-

spread.

The Selkirk First Nation gets two kinds of royalties from Minto, a share of production (or net smelter return for the cognoscenti) and a profit-based royalty. The latter was $5.9 million at its peak in 2009.

Temporarily closed mines don’t tend to pay royalties.

The Yukon government will lose corporate and personal income taxes as well as fuel taxes. Yukon Energy will lose a big customer, leaving the rest of us to cover its fixed costs.

Air North will also lose a steady flow of fly-in/fly-out workers. Yukoners often complain about such non-tax-paying interlopers, but at least they contributed to keeping Air North flying. Local hotels, restaurants and retailers will also share the pain.

I will be curious to see what happens to enrolment in the mining training courses at Yukon College. Politicians have made a big deal about boosting training so Yukoners can take advantage of opportunities created by the mining industry. This is a good thing.

But prospective students can be forgiven for wondering what kind of jobs await them at the end of their program when so many experienced Yukon miners are already unemployed.

An economic slowdown can be a good time to go back to school for some upgrading. Students might want to think about programs with broader ranges of job options. For example, the College’s heavy equipment technician program positions students for jobs in and outside the mining industry.

Its underground mining operations course is more specific, although it offers great learning at the University of Alaska’s Delta mine training centre.

There’s not much most of us can do other than watch the copper price.

the bar was set so high by those that demanded a referendum that failure was almost a guarantee. It is no coincidence that those insisting on a referendum are almost universally opposed to proportional representation.

However, something like eight times now, municipally or provincially here in Canada, the voting system has been changed without a referendum.

Consider that more than 90 countries around the planet use some form of proportional representation. And how many brought in their change with a referendum? Exactly two – Switzerland in 1918, and New Zealand in 1996.

So the insistence by those that wish to profit in the future with

complete power on a minority of votes that a referendum is a prerequisite to electoral change is a specious claim. In fact, because the current system effectively denies more than half of us our Charter right of equal representation, it would be discriminatory and undemocratic.

In a recent article in The Tyee by Fair Voting BC president Anthony Hodgson, he asks the reader to consider: “Would any of us now claim that men ever had the right to decide if women should be granted the vote? Or that whites ever had the right to determine if First Nations or those of Asian origin should be allowed to vote?” Of course not.

These rights were enacted into legislation, not via referendum,

but as a governmental duty.

When so many of us are discriminated against by the denial of our Charter right of equal and effective representation, those that prefer to benefit from this discrimination do not have the right to stand in the way.

When three parties with electoral reform as a major part of their

platform received more than 60 per cent of the popular vote, the government was given a mandate to reform our voting system to make every vote count. The people have spoken. And government has the duty to act upon the will of the people.

Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels. He won this year’s Ma Murray award for best columnist.

You can follow him on Channel 9’s Yukonomist show.

LETTERS No referendum needed on electoral reform The election for the first time ever of a federal party that has committed to electoral reform – perhaps the most significant move to fulfilling our Charter right of effective and equal representation – seems to have ignited the firepower of those that would prefer to benefit from the discriminatory nature of our present system.

The claim that any change to our electoral system requires a referendum is not supported by previous electoral changes, nationally or internationally.

Yes, four referendums have been held in Canada, and four times they have failed to produce a change. But in those four cases,

Jim Borisenko Tagish Lake

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MONTREAL hree of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest airlines are allowing passengers to change bookings to destinations in Central and South America as well as parts of the Caribbean amid concern over the Zika virus.

The move by the Canadian carriers comes after several global airlines, including United Airlines and American Airlines in the U.S., announced they were offering refunds to passengers concerned about the virus, believed capable of causing serious birth defects.

The Public Health Agency of Canada has warned pregnant women to take precautions against mosquito bites when travelling to areas in Central and South America where there have been Zika outbreaks.

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can change or cancel a booking prior to travelling to infected areas. No medical notes are required. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are not going to ask someone to prove they are pregnant or planning on becoming pregnant,â&#x20AC;? spokeswoman Lauren Stewart wrote in an email.

The Calgary-based carrier said refunds will be given in the form of future travel credit.

The operator of Air Transat

says pregnant passengers with a medical note and companions in their immediate family can reschedule or change destinations if they were booked to fly to countries that have been listed by the Pan American Health Organization as having the virus.

The company is not offering refunds and changes are only permitted for those staying in the same hotel room.

Air Canada is allowing woman and their travel companions to change bookings or receive a refund. The policy applies to those scheduled to travel on a flight operated by the carrier between Jan. 28 and June 26 with a ticket issued no later than Jan. 26.

The airline says customers will need to provide a doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note that says they are at risk if travelling to Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadaloupe, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Saint-Martin, Suriname, U.S. Virgin Islands and Venezuela. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The decision to provide a woman with a certificate that she should not travel is at the discretion of her health-care professional,â&#x20AC;? said Air Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s travel advisory.

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KEISH ELDER'S RECOGNITION AWARDS

The Skookum Jim â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keishâ&#x20AC;? Elder's Recognition Awards were established in 1996 to honor and recognize First Nation Elders who have made signiďŹ cant or outstanding contribution to life in communities. Two awards of $250.00 each will be presented at the Skookum Jim Folklore Show, which will be hosted on Saturday, February 27, 2016 at the Yukon Arts Centre.

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HOW ARE NOMINATIONS MADE? Nomination must be made by two people and should be typed or hand written including as much information as possible, describing fully the nominee's contribution and their impact on life in the Elder's respective community/communities.

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HOW ARE NOMINEE'S SELECTED? Nominations are reviewed and selected by the Skookum Jim Trust Fund Committee.

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School in northern Saskatchewan may reopen with security after mass shooting that the school division is working out with the comCanadian Press munity is what presence, what LA LOCHE, SASK. level of security, does the community want? What do the he northern Saskatchewan school where a mass parents want?”

The school has been closed shooting occurred won’t since four people were killed in open for at least another week La Loche last week. and, when it does, it may have RCMP have said a suspect security. fi rst shot dead two teens at a The Northern Lights School home before killing two staff Division has told parents that and wounding seven others at classes at the La Loche Comthe high school. munity School won’t resume Teacher’s aide Marie Janfor seven to 10 days, Donna Johnson of the Education Min- vier, 21, died at the school and Adam Wood, a 35-year-old istry said Wednesday. teacher from Ontario, died The division is willing to soon after in hospital. The put security in the school, she bodies of brothers Drayden said, but first wants to discuss Fontaine, 13, and Dayne Fondetails with the community taine, 17, were discovered in and the RCMP. the house.

“The school division is A health official said four prepared to add security to the of the wounded remain in a school by placing someone Saskatoon hospital, but no ininside who will build relationships with staff and students to formation on their conditions has been released. add a sense of security to the With initial forensic work at high school,” Johnson said. the two crime scenes com“It could be a school repleted, RCMP officers are also source officer. It could be an RCMP officer. The question starting to leave the commuChris Purdy

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“The investigation for the most part is winding down,” said Supt. Grant St. Germaine.

“Our major crimes unit has departed” though he said there is still an increased police presence.

A 17-year-old boy, who can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, has been charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder.

Friends have said he was an outcast at home and a victim of bullying at school.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to visit La Loche on Friday.

The isolated Dene town of about 3,000 people has high suicide and crime rates and residents there don’t have many opportunities.

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Interim mayor Kevin Janvier and others have suggested that the school needs to be torn down and rebuilt before the community can move forward.

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Johnson said there are about 350 students enrolled in the high school. When the shooting happened shortly after lunch Friday, there were about 150 kids inside because many had finished writing final exams in the morning. No other tests or classes were scheduled that afternoon.

When the school does reopen, Johnson added, highschool classes may be moved to other locations.

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Fill child welfare funding gap, advocates urge Ottawa after landmark decision has meant some children have been unfairly denied benefits.

Canadian Press The federal government failed to provide the same level of child OTTAWA welfare services that the provinces t will take a lot more than just provided off-reserve, the tribunal lip service to put right the years of systemic discrimination and noted. As a result, countless First underfunding endured by First Na- Nations children have ended up tions children, an emotional group in foster care, away from their families. of indigenous advocates said this “By analogy, it is like adding week as their nine-year battle with support pillars to a house that has Ottawa culminated in a landmark a weak foundation in an attempt to human rights decision. straighten and support the house,” Money – specifically, at least the tribunal said. $200 million more a year in child “At some point, the foundation welfare funding in order to close needs to be fixed or, ultimately, the the fiscal gap – would be a good house will fall down.” first start, said Cindy Blackstock, Race and ethnic origin have the social worker whose tireless also been factors, perpetuatcrusade is at the heart of the ruling the historical disadvantage ing. and trauma suffered by Canada’s “Why did we have to bring the Aboriginal Peoples as a result of government of Canada to court to get them to treat First Nations chil- the residential school system, the dren fairly – little kids?” Blackstock tribunal concluded.

Blackstock, the executive direcasked during an emotional news tor of the First Nations Child and conference on Tuesday not far Family Caring Society of Canada, from Parliament Hill. brought the original 2007 com“Why would it ever be OK to plaint to the tribunal, along with give a child less than other chilthe Assembly of First Nations. dren?”

Federal funding for child The long-awaited ruling from welfare is between 22 and 38.5 per the Canadian Human Rights cent less than what has typically Tribunal found that children in been provided at the provincial First Nations communities have level, she added. long suffered adverse effects as a The ramifications of Tuesday’s result of the way federal services decision were etched on the face of are delivered on reserve. In some Charlie Angus, the NDP’s indigcases, government involvement Kristy Kirkup

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Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde speaks about the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal regarding discrimination against First Nations children in care during a news conference in Ottawa on Tuesday. enous affairs critic and a northern Ontario MP who knows all too well the tragic legacy of underfunded child welfare in aboriginal communities.

“I was in one of my communities just recently and all the teachers kept leaving the classroom because we had a child on a suicide watch and there was no money,” Angus said, fighting back tears.

“They fired the child welfare workers at the height of a suicide epidemic in James Bay – 89 kids, and they fired the child welfare workers to save both the province

and the feds money. That’s what it looks like on the ground.”

The Liberal government’s forthcoming federal budget, expected next month, needs to contain significant, tangible financial commitments in order to address the ongoing crisis flagged in the decision, he added.

The government will review the lengthy decision, but it’s unlikely there will be any cause to seek judicial review of the ruling, Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said Tuesday during question period.

Wilson-Raybould and Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett stopped short of providing a dollar figure on how much the government is willing to provide to address the disparity.

“We know we are going to have to significantly increase the dollars that are available for child welfare programs,” Bennett acknowledged.

Wilson-Raybould, a former B.C. regional chief with the Assembly of First Nations, said the tribunal’s decision is “about equity.”

“This is a good day,” she said, citing the now-familiar Liberal commitment to reset the relationship between the federal government and Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples.

“This is about ensuring that there is equal investment, and it is not just in terms of money, it is in terms of outcomes – that we create the space in this country for every child to be able to succeed,” Wilson-Raybould said.

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New resource reviews to look at upstream greenhouse gas emissions McKenna said the goal is to make major resource project decisions based on scientific evidence, but political and ecoOTTAWA nomic imperatives will clearly be he Liberal government part of the deliberations. has added two new review “The government of Canada mechanisms to how major is free to establish its own review new pipeline proposals are asand its own criteria for those sessed, but Natural Resources reviews in whatever context it Minister Jim Carr says approval chooses,” Carr responded when or rejection ultimately will come asked how the various reviews down to a judgment call by mechanisms will be weighed and cabinet. assessed.

Carr and Environment “And the cabinet ultimately Minister Catherine McKenna will decide – weighing all the announced Wednesday that all factors that are important to resource projects – and specifidetermine the national interest cally the hotly contested Trans for these major projects.”

Mountain and Energy East The changes are an interim pipelines – will be assessed in step while the government works part on the greenhouse gas emis- out a new project review process sions produced “upstream” in the after consulting Canadians, a extraction and processing of the process McKenna said could take oil they propose to carry. years.

The government will also apThe temporary measures will point a ministerial adviser who apply to all project assessments, will consult with indigenous including liquefied natural gas communities along the proposed terminals and mining proposals. pipeline routes.

But the immediate impact will The new reviews will be be on two contentious pipecarried out apart from and in line projects that are currently addition to deliberations by the dominating headlines: Kinder National Energy Board, which Morgan’s proposal to twin the under the previous Conservative Trans Mountain oil pipeline in government was given the power B.C. and TransCanada’s Energy to do environmental assessments East project from Alberta to New and public consultations under Brunswick. circumscribed timelines.

NEB hearings on the Trans “We believe it is important Mountain project are almost over and, in fact, essential to rebuild and the government is extendCanadians’ trust in our environing the deadline for a decision by mental assessment processes,” four months, pushing it to next McKenna said at a news conferDecember. ence.

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Alberta has already taken steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with a new climate strategy introduced last fall, she added. That process will cap oilsands emissions, phase out coal-fired electricity generation, and impose a broad-based carbon tax.

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said Conservative energy critic Candice Bergen, adding it sends a discouraging signal to investors. “This another layer, another process.”

In Edmonton, Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips said the province is behind any process that improves public confidence and bolsters the chances of pipelines getting built.

“Of course we are not interested in unnecessary delays, but the fact of the matter is that we have inherited a (review process) situation that didn’t have the confidence of Canadians,” Phillips said.

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TransCanada spokesman Mark Cooper said the company needs time to digest the new rules.

“We support a strong and clear regulatory framework that helps Canadians see our commitment to building and operating oil and gas pipelines in the safest and most environmentally sound way possible,” he said in an emailed statement.

“TransCanada operates in a highly regulated industry. We will continue to work with all levels of government and our regulators to ensure the continued safe and environmentally sound transportation of our natural resources to market.”

Tim McMillan of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said the industry organization welcomes the Liberal move to clarify the transition rules, but remains concerned about further delays and duplication built into the review process.

“Getting our product to market in a timely fashion is and has been a challenge,” said McMillan.

Environmental groups, which have said Canada can approve no new pipelines if it is serious about meeting its international climate change commitments, applauded Wednesday’s changes – even though the Liberals insist they’re committed to getting Alberta and Saskatchewan crude to tidewater for export.

Conservative MPs were not impressed.

“This is not good news for the natural resources sector,”

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Baloney meter: Who is to blame for the soaring price of cauliflower?

New Democrats said in their release last week.

It cited a Statistics Canada report that inflation was at its highest level in over a year, with the cost of fresh produce increasing by 13.3 per cent in December compared with the previous year.

“The upcoming budget will be an opportunity for the Liberals to take concrete action to reduce inequality,” NDP finance critic Guy Caron was quoted as saying.

“It’s completely unacceptable that families can no longer afford fresh vegetables.”

How accurate were the New Jim Bronskill Democrat MP’s claims?

Canadian Press Spoiler alert: The Canadian OTTAWA Press Baloney Meter is a dispas“Cauliflower should not be a lux- sionate examination of political statements culminating in a ury item.” – NDP press release, ranking of accuracy on a scale of Jan. 22, 2016. “no baloney” to “full of baloney.”

This one earns a rating of long with many other “some baloney” – the statement fruits and vegetables, is partly accurate but important cauliflower had become details are missing. “inexplicably expensive” amid Here’s why: reports that shoppers were paying as much as $8 a head, the The facts

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Over 850,000 Canadians visit a food bank each month, so many are indeed struggling to put basic, nutritious food on the table.

The price of cauliflower did jump to eye-popping highs in December, but merchants blamed the rapidly sinking dollar – which made imports more expensive – and a drought in California.

Those factors – especially the dollar – also contributed to a substantial overall rise in the cost of fruit and veggies last year. However, projections for 2016 by the Food Institute at the University of Guelph suggest the increases will be more modest – between two and four per cent for vegetables and 2.5 to 4.5 per cent for fruit and nuts.

In addition, the new Liberal government has promised a national policy on food “that promotes healthy living and safe food by putting more healthy, high-quality food, produced by Canadian ranchers and farmers, on the tables of families across the country.”

Caron acknowledged in an interview that the cost of fruit and vegetables was beyond “control of the government.” But he said the Liberals must be part of the solution by helping lowerincome people afford food basics through tax cuts, and by working towards “food security” by encouraging more locally grown produce.

“I think the first step is actually to acknowledge there’s a problem,” he said.

The experts Kevin Grier, an agriculture and food market analyst in Guelph, Ont., said he believes the exchange rate is key to fruit and vegetable costs. “It really is not any more complicated than

that.”

The low Canadian dollar is overpowering other factors such as global commodity prices and competition at the retail level, he added.

“When people talk about the government doing something – like what?” he said. “We have in Canada probably the most efficient food system in the world.

It’s affordable by any global standards.”

Even if Canadians had the technical capacity to grow more produce year-round, that would not necessarily translate into more affordable prices, he added.

“Why in the world would (a Canadian grower) sell for any less than the product coming in could go for?” Grier asked. “It just doesn’t make any sense.”

Consumers now expect to walk into a grocery store any time of year and find the fruit and vegetables they want, said Ron Lemaire, president of the Canadian Produce Marketing Association.

But climate and currency fluctuations can play havoc with those expectations. “Sometimes there just isn’t a product available, and that’s where you see significant price changes.”

Lemaire stressed there is always an affordable alternative product, though he admits it may be something shoppers shy away from because it is unfamiliar or they don’t know how to cook it.

Canadians will always rely on a “global food model,” he argued, but, at the same time, he advocates more access to locally grown produce, fostered through new technology and innovation.

Diana Bronson, executive director of Food Secure Canada, said a long-term perspective is

The verdict Caron and the NDP make valid points about the rising cost of fruit and vegetables, the ability of lower-income Canadians to pay for them, and Canada’s vulnerability to sudden spikes in the price of certain imported vegetables.

But holding up cauliflower as a poster vegetable for the phenomenon was somewhat misleading, given the temporary influence of the dollar and climate.

In addition, there is no guarantee that, even if cauliflower were grown in winterized warehouses in downtown Montreal, the price would have been more reasonable for Canadian shoppers.

For these reasons, the party’s claim contains “some baloney.”

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key in a country with aging farmers and no real plan to encourage local food production.

“We need more diversity in our farming system. And we need to be able to satisfy that appetite for local food,” she said.

“There’s four million Canadians living in food insecurity. In a land as abundant and as rich as Canada in resources, that’s an unbelievable figure. And food banks are not the answer to solving that problem.”

Ensuring more of the food we eat is grown closer to home would make Canada less vulnerable to the currency fluctuations that suddenly drive up the cost of imports, she said.

Bronson said she hopes the coming Liberal food policy will help spur the next generation of Canadian farmers and foster the sort of small-scale, organic production many want.

“That doesn’t buy you a cauliflower at $1.99 in a quick fix,” she allows.

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Drop off your entry by February 19, 2016 at the YHMA office in the Donnenworth House on Third Avenue in Whitehorse or mail it to YHMA at 3126 Third Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1E7.

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Do you know someone who has made significant contributions to the conservation and celebration of the Yukon’s heritage?

The YHMA presents awards to individuals, organizations and businesses which have made a special contribution to the conservation or interpretation of some aspect of Yukon’s heritage. The 32nd annual Yukon Heritage Awards will be held in conjunction with a celebration of Heritage Day on Tuesday, February 16, 2016, 6-8pm at the Yukon Archives.

The Call for Nominations for the 2015 Awards is now open!

The DEADLINE to submit a nomination is Friday, February 5, 2016.

Visit www.heritageyukon.ca/programs/heritage-awards for more information and a copy of the nomination package.

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Falling crude prices not reďŹ&#x201A;ected at the pump as low dollar, reďŹ ners take cut December when crude averaged US$37.21 a barrel. But in Canadian Press February 2009, when oil sold for US$39.09 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; close to $2 more than CALGARY last monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s price â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the average ow oil prices are hamprice for gas was 85 cents a litre. mering Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resource â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re being taken to the economy but drivers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cleaners considering how low seeing the silver lining of equally a barrel of oil costs these days,â&#x20AC;? low prices at the pump. said Alan Mauch in Vancouver, In its latest monetary policy where gas is still averaging over a report this week, the Bank of dollar a litre even as it hovers beCanada pointed out that oil pric- low 70 cents in parts of Alberta, es have dropped about 75 per as he filled his tank this week. cent from their peak in June 2014 â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the oil companies are but that gasoline prices have not taking advantage of what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re fallen â&#x20AC;&#x153;as much as the reduction used to as far as pricing is conin crude oil prices would suggest, cerned and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to milk based on historical experience.â&#x20AC;? it for as long as they can.â&#x20AC;?

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dollar, higher margins at refiners and increased taxes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The biggest factor right now is exchange rates; it makes a huge difference in the product prices we pay,â&#x20AC;? said Jason Parent, vice president of consulting at the Kent Group which provides data to the petroleum sector.

He said gasoline prices in Canada need to be hiked to be competitive with U.S. markets to compensate for the low loonie, which has been bobbing above and below 70 cents in recent days.

Dan McTeague, a gas analyst at Gasbuddy.com, says drivers would be paying far less per litre if the Canadian dollar was at par. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The weakness in the loonie accounts for over 12 cents a litre in lost purchasing power for motorists,â&#x20AC;? said McTeague.

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Vehicles line up for gas at 81.9 cents per litre, in Mississauga, Ont., on Jan. 20.

And while prices havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dropped as much as drivers would like, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still taking advantage of cheaper gas and driving more. That has led to more demand for gasoline and, in turn, allowed refiners to charge more. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Refineries have increased their margins,â&#x20AC;? said McTeague. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wholesalers are making a significantly greater amount of money than they were in the past.â&#x20AC;?

Margins and costs vary widely across Canada and are vulnerable to regional bottlenecks. The prairies were hit with a price spike last summer when a major Midwest refinery went offline in the U.S., while Vancouver has recently been hit with higher prices because of refinery issues on the West Coast. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Refined products are very separate commodities from crude oil; they each have their own kind of supply-and-demand fundamentals,â&#x20AC;? said Parent.

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16 cents a litre in Toronto in January 2015, but by the end of the year they were at almost 26 cents a litre. In Vancouver, margins increased from 23 cents to 38 cents over the year, while all regions saw significantly higher peaks in the summer driving season.

The other factor keeping gas prices from following crude is increased taxes, both through green initiatives and straight revenue-boosting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Taxes play a much greater role than what we would normally assume,â&#x20AC;? said McTeague. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have increased pretty much right across the country since 2008, and dramatically so.â&#x20AC;?

Vancouver drivers pay about 48 cents a litre in taxes, which is about 10 cents higher than early 2009 thanks in part to the 6.7-cent-per-litre carbon tax.

Montreal drivers pay about the same tax and have seen a similar increase.

Toronto drivers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t burdened with the city taxes charged in Vancouver and Montreal, but have still seen taxes go up about 8.5 cents a litre since 2009 to average 37 cents a litre, which includes a 10 cent federal tax, a 14.7 cent provincial tax, plus the HST.

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Analysts cast doubt on telecoms’ claim low loonie connected to price hike But some believe consumers are being hoodwinked into beCanadian Press lieving the loonie is responsible for higher cellphone plans and TORONTO suggest, in fact, it’s a desire for eople hunting for new higher profits. cellphone plans can expect “It’s a little suspicious that to pay a little more each these big, sophisticated, publicly month if they sign up with one traded companies that are in the of Canada’s biggest three wirebusiness of, you know, managless providers – Telus, Rogers ing their risk and maximizing and Bell recently announced profit are blaming something price hikes while pointing an that they likely foresaw on a accusatory finger at the low price increase, across the board, Canadian dollar. in a relatively short amount of But some analysts are skeptitime,” said Geoff White, external cal, noting the big telecoms counsel to the Public Interest tend to have methods to protect Advocacy Centre. themselves from foreign curAll three companies engage rency fluctuations. in foreign exchange hedging “If the exchange rate is such programs, he said, based on an a big deal, how come we didn’t analysis of their 2014 annual see lower prices when the dollar statements and most recent went up?” said David Christothird-quarter reports. pher, an OpenMedia spokes“It’s like paying premiums man. to lock in a certain foreign New customers signing exchange rate in the future so monthly contracts with Bell, that you’re guaranteed you’ll be Rogers or Telus now pay $5 paying a certain amount,” said more. Each company also lowWhite. ered savings by between $10 and It’s impossible to know exactly $15 for customers who already how successful those initiatives own a device. have been based on the informaTelus raised prices partly tion in those reports, he said, but because it has to pay more for “it looks like they’ve been able to network components thanks to do it quite effectively.” the weaker loonie, said Emily But Grant says that when the Harner, a company spokeswom- loonie is forecast to remain low an. She also pointed to the need compared to the U.S. dollar for a to spend millions of dollars anlonger time frame, “the currency nually to keep up with customer swap options are more limited” demand for wireless data. and expensive.

The other two companies “The cost of these hedges have echoed concerns over has also increased dramatically the economy. For months, the with the decline in the dollar,” loonie has been trading below 80 said Jason Laszlo, a Bell spokescents US, and has been hovering man. Telus and Rogers did not around 70 cents in the past few respond to questions about weeks. foreign currency protection.

The companies could have The companies could have raised prices to make up for the opted to lay off workers or extra cost of doing business. accept lower profits until the They pay for nearly all of their loonie recovers, Grant added. infrastructure costs in either Instead, they chose to pass U.S. dollars or the euro, said Iain the cost on to consumers in a Grant, the managing director of move that likely benefits the SeaBoard Research, a technology company’s bottom line. research and strategy consulting “Higher prices make for hapcompany. pier financial analysts, which Aleksandra Sagan

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usually translate to higher share prices,” said Grant.

These simultaneous price hikes fit a pattern that Canadians have grown accustomed to, said Christopher, regardless of where the dollar stands. The trio

of telecoms similarly increased prices for monthly plans for new customers over a two-month span in 2014.

The three big wireless providers can get away with such increases because there’s a lack

of competition in most provinces and territories, he said.

In Quebec, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, where a fourth carrier operates, the companies are not implementing the price increases.

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Liberals vow ‘instant action’ as audit cites poor tracking of pipeline safety reassure pipeline skeptics.

The audit checked 49 pipeline Canadian Press approval conditions and found 24 in which key documentation was OTTAWA missing, inaccurate or lacked an he Liberal government is analysis or conclusion. promising “instant action” “These are conditions the NEB by the National Energy Board sets for pipeline approvals and it’s and a new environmental review their job to make sure those condiprocess within days in the face of a tions are complied with. That is damning audit that found the armstheir job,” Gelfand said at a news length board fails to properly track conference. pipeline approval conditions or fol“My job is to provide you with low up on compliance problems. information on how well they’re Natural Resources Minister Jim doing their job. And I would say, for Carr has been under heavy opposi- now, with a 50 per cent success rate, tion fire in the House of Commons well, those are the facts and now it’s for two straight days with stalled up to Canadians, its up to members pipeline megaprojects threatening of Parliament, to decide what the to divide the country along regional next steps should be.” lines.

Asked whether the energy A report tabled Tuesday by feder- board’s failure to track compliance al environment commissioner Julie equates to a failure of enforcement, Gelfand only added to the barrage.

Gelfand responded: “That’s a great Gelfand’s audit determined the question.”

Calgary-based NEB isn’t adequately NEB chairman Peter Watson checking to ensure that some issued a release stating the board 73,000 kilometres of existing oil and “absolutely enforces and monitors gas pipelines being run by about all companies’ compliance with 100 companies are operating safely. pipeline approval conditions,” The report landed as Prime Min- while promising to follow all Gelister Justin Trudeau was in Montreal fand’s audit recommendations. meeting Mayor Denis Coderre, who The audit spilled into Parlialed a coalition of Montreal-area ment’s daily question period, where municipal leaders last week in opCarr told the Commons he’d spoken posing the proposed Energy East with the NEB chair and was assured pipeline project over what they see “there will be instant action. In fact, as environmental concerns. it started actually quite some time Gelfand’s report will do little to ago.”

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New Democrats demanded to know whether the Liberals would make good on a campaign promise to force pipeline projects that are currently under NEB review to undergo a more rigorous environmental assessment, but government ministers dodged a direct response.

Carr did affirm that an announcement of a transitional review process is imminent: “I can now say it will be in a number of days.”

And Environment Minister Catherine McKenna assured the House that project assessments will begin to take into account climate change impacts.

NDP critic Nathan Cullen said the NEB audit calls into question the whole system, leaving Canadians with no confidence that conditions set by the board in order for a pipeline to safely proceed will actually be checked.

Last week, municipal leaders from more than 80 Montreal-area communities publicly opposed TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline, which proposes to carry Alberta and Saskatchewan bitumen to ports and refineries in New Brunswick.

Their opposition set off a firestorm in western Canada, which has seen sharp opposition to all new or expanded pipeline routes to tidewater.

Trudeau emerged from Tuesday’s meeting with Coderre to say

energy companies will get a chance to prove to cities and towns across the country that a project is in their best interests under a revamped review process.

The audit report from the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development notes that federally regulated pipelines moved about $162 billion worth of oil and gas in 2014 to Canadian and international markets. It also observes

that several proposed new pipelines, if all approved, would nearly double existing pipeline capacity by 2020, while investing about $25 billion in project development.

Gelfand’s report says the energy board needs to do more to recruit and retain specialists – a task that may be made easier given current massive job losses in the oil and gas sector due to plunging world oil prices.

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Future oil prices, pipelines have little impact on emissions, NEB report says emerge in Canada today,â&#x20AC;? he continued, though he did not specify what they were.

Watson said making long-term energy projections can be more difficult as the federal government begins to form policies following the climate change talks in Paris, where it committed to keep global warming below two degrees C. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too early to really understand how much of an impact that will have,â&#x20AC;? Watson said.

Possible changes in policy abroad can also impact the projections.

The board plans to update the report this fall to reflect new policy developments.

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t was an evening of firsts. Canadian premiere of Fiona Sprott’s Often I Find That I Am Naked, directed by Eva Hamburg. First production by Whitehorse’s new Larrikin Entertainment group. First show in the new theatre space at Heart of Riverdale.

It’s great to have even more community theatre in our community.

And it really does take a community to put on community theatre. I counted 53 businesses and individuals who contributed everything from marketing savvy to the lumber for the theatre renovations and the muscle to build it.

The new theatre is intimate and works well for a production like Naked. According to one of the volunteers who built it, the space was designed so the seating and floor can be easily adapted to host dance and other kinds of productions. The building hosts Epic Pizza too, so it’s perfectly set up to take someone special out for dinner and a show.

Naked has lots of adult scenes, providing an excellent excuse for leaving the kids at home.

Naked is a snappy three-character play which Sprott, Hamburg and leading lady Kath McCallum originally collaborated on in Australia.

McCallum plays Jezebel, a woman who is successful in everything except the dating scene. In case you’re wondering how the Australian dating scene translates to the Yukon, it seemed to resonate with the Yukon singles I spoke to. There’s a reason for the saying that in the Yukon “the odds are good but the goods are odd.”

McCallum delivers some very funny lines and establishes a strong presence on the stage. It can’t be easy “breaking the fourth wall” and talking about sex directly to an audience that is so close to the action, not to mention being composed of people you probably run into at the supermarket. McCallum does a great job holding the play together.

Douglas Mayr plays “The Many Hims.” This is the succession of dismal dating prospects that rotate through Jezebel’s life. Mayr swaps shirts, glasses and hairstyles at a dizzying pace as he plays the various misfits that online dating algorithms throw Jezebel’s way. You’ll particularly enjoy his cringe-worthy forensic anthropologist as he inches down the couch towards McCallum, as well as the latter’s attempts to escape.

Jeremiah Kitchen, a young Yukon actor who works primarily in Toronto these days, plays the third man.

At first he was firmly in the background as a bartender for Jezebel and one of the Many Hims. But then he stole a few scenes taking on an array of roles even more dizzying than Mayr’s. It turns out he plays a highly memorable crotch-sniffing dog with an interest in Jezebel at a

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Above: Often I Find That I am Naked is the first production by the newly-formed Larrikin Entertainment group. Left to right: Eva Hamburg, director; Kath McCallum as Jezebel; and Jeremiah Kitchen. Not pictured is Douglas Mayr. cocktail party, as well as at various times her mother and her psychiatrist.

The dialogue is crisp and punchy, supplemented by some revealing text message exchanges projected on the wall (which reminded me of how the texts show up on the screen in House of Cards).

Given the topic, don’t be surprised by some direct language that will remind you more of a cable drama rather than staid network television. In fact, the dialogue is even more powerful in live theatre than it would be on the screen. The same is true for the play’s most awkward and thought-provoking scenes.

The forensic anthropologist just wouldn’t be the same in only two dimensions.

After the play, it was easy for this reviewer to make a verdict: you should definitely go see Naked. It’s playing until Feb. 20, Tuesday to Saturday at 8 p.m. at Heart of Riverdale. Tickets are $25 and you can get them online, at Dean’s Strings and Music, or at the door.

Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels. He won this year’s Ma Murray award for best columnist. You can follow him on Channel 9’s Yukonomist show.

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Right: McCallum plays Jezebel, a woman who is successful in everything except the dating scene.

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Pope Francis answers questions from children in new book are people who have hate in their hearts. There are people who are Associated Press interested only in money and would sell everything for it. They would NEW YORK even sell other people,” he wrote. ear Pope Francis,” More to Mohammed’s point, 10-year-old Mohammed Francis answered: “No, when the begins, “Will the world time comes, the world will not be be again as it was in the past?” as it was. It will be far better than it Signed “Respectfully yours,” the was in the past.” boy wrote from a Jesuit-run school Once the pope agreed to particifor refugee children in Syria and pate in the project, Loyola reached was treated to a long and personal out to priests and lay people around answer from the pope himself. So the world to connect the publisher were 29 other children who posed with children to write the letters. questions to Francis in letters from The 30 kids in the book range in around the globe for a new book age from 6 to 13. In all, about 250 poignantly illustrated with their letters were received in 14 lanown artwork. guages from 26 countries around The book, Dear Pope Francis, the globe. The pope wound up is out March 1 from Loyola Press with about 50 letters from which to in Chicago. It’s a project that likely choose. wouldn’t have materialized without “He loved the project right from the help of Father Antonio Spadaro, the beginning,” McGrath said. “He a Jesuit like the pope and the direc- has this great affection for children, tor of La Civilta Cattolica, a Roman who have a great affection for him.

Catholic journal published in Rome. He was surprised at the depth of the Tom McGrath of the Jesuitquestions.” founded publishing house coThere was no condensing or edited the book with Spadaro after editing of the pope’s responses. In a reaching out to the priest for help.

90-minute session with Spadaro last Spadaro brought about 50 letters August in Rome, Francis responded with questions to the pope so he verbally in a mixture of Italian and could select 30. Spadaro sat with Spanish. Spadaro served as tranthe pope as he responded to each. scriber in addition to connecting Francis often complimented the Loyola Press with the Vatican. artwork of the children.

“These are the pope’s exact “He knows Pope Francis very words,” McGrath said. “At one point well,” McGrath said of Spadaro. “We he mentioned, ‘These are tough.’ tried to make it as easy for the pope He realized that he owed the kids a as possible.” deeper answer than right off the top The pope’s response to Moham- of his head.” med spoke in part of suffering and Loyola will publish the book in the people who inflict it: English and Spanish. As an interna“There are those who manufactional Jesuit project, it will also be ture weapons so that people fight published simultaneously around the world, including in Brazil, Indoeach other and wage war. There

parents from China, Ireland, Argentina, India, Canada, Kenya, Singapore, Australia, the United States and the Philippines.

Mohammed will not be among them, but 8-year-old Natasha from Kenya will make the trip to Rome.

She asked the pope in her letter: “I would like to know more about Jesus Christ. How did he walk on water?”

The pope’s response?

“You have to imagine Jesus walking naturally, normally. He did not fly over the water or turn somersaults while swimming,” he wrote.

“He walked as you walk! … Jesus is God, and so he can do anything!”

While one child wanted to know why parents fight and another why the pope wears such a tall hat, 7-year-old William of the United States asked: “If you could do one miracle what would it be?”

“Dear William,” the pope said. “I would heal children. I’ve never been able to understand why children suffer. It’s a mystery to me. I don’t have an explanation.”

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Pope Francis looks over a binder of questions and illustrations from children around the world at the Vatican. nesia, Slovenia, Mexico and India.

Arrangements were still being made but Loyola Press plans to bring 10 of the children included in the book to Rome to meet the pope in person, hopefully in February

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“The pope is eager to meet them,” McGrath said. “He was quick to say he would like to make that happen.”

They’ll be travelling with their

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‘It lit my kid’s face on fire:’ Calls for ban on selling e-cigarettes to minors Pictures of the youth show blackened skin, lacerations and Canadian Press burns on his face.

Greer said the model of elecEDMONTON tronic cigarette his son purchased he father of a southern on his own is as large as a cigar and Alberta teen says his son is is popular because of the amount of recovering from burns, brovapour it produces. ken teeth and other injuries after The device his son used is called an electronic cigarette blew up in a Wotofo Phantom, he said. The his face. company’s website says it is manuPerry Greer says his son Ty, 16, factured in China. was using the device in a car last The manufacturer and its Canaweek in Lethbridge when the edian distributor were not immedicigarette exploded. ately available for comment.

“It lit my kid’s face on fire, Greer said governments should busted two teeth out,” Greer said not allow minors to buy such Wednesday. “It burned the back of devices. his throat, burned his tongue very “I would like to see these unbadly. If he wasn’t wearing glasses, regulated ones possibly banned,” he possibly could have lost his Greer said. “It is horrific to see your eyes.” kid with his face so burnt.”

Greer said the family raced Ty Alberta, Saskatchewan and to hospital. He remembers hugNewfoundland and Labrador ging his son as he writhed in agony are the only provinces that have waiting for a dose of morphine to not banned the sale of electronic kick in. cigarettes to minors, according to “He wanted to die. That is how the Non-Smokers Rights Associamuch pain he was in.” tion. Alberta leaves the decision to Greer doesn’t know why the municipalities. device exploded.

Les Hagen of the group Action “He pushed the button and blew on Smoking and Health said what in, and then you wait a couple of happened to Ty Greer is another seconds, and then you puff on it. reason why e-cigarettes need to be It was about two inches from his regulated federally and provincially. mouth and it just blew apart.”

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Alberta Health Minister Sarah Hoffman said a federal-provincial working group is looking at research into e-cigarette safety and whether it helps people quit smoking.

“This situation has clearly taken a toll on this young man and his family and is an unfortunate reminder that Canada needs to address the lack of research and regulations of e-cigarettes,” Hoffman said in a statement.

“As Alberta’s health minister, I will be following up with my ministry for an update of where we are at here in Alberta as well as the national level and when we can look at next steps.”

Last March, the federal Standing Committee on Health issued a report that recommends funding in-

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Perry Greer says his son Ty was using an e-cigarette in a car last week in Lethbridge when the device exploded. dependent research into the health effects of electronic cigarettes and the need to regulate them.

The report calls for rules that would prohibit their sale to anyone under 18.

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Walter Zimmer, Ty’s uncle, said it is time for action.

“They are dangerous,” he said.

“This young guy is going to be scarred for life.”

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She said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not enough for companies to give consumers the option to turn on security and privacy measures, because many customers donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the time or the know-how to dig through the options of every device they own.

And the responsibility of companies to secure their products has never been more urgent, she said, as computers and networks are increasingly invading the home in cars, refrigerators, wearable devices and even baby monitors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The minute someone outside has eyes through these webcams into these networks, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to see and know everything,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Abhay Raman, a cyber security expert at EY, said some companies cut corners on security in order to make things cheaper for the customer and make it easier for different devices to communicate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Designing specifically for various security levels gets more complicated, more involved, with more testing,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Programmers take the easy route in enabling as many features as you can.â&#x20AC;?

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Larger companies such as Microsoft, Apple and Facebook have worked to build privacy features such as two-factor authentication into their offerings, he said, yet the bottom line is still a driver for some companies to skimp on security.

Stephen Cobb, a senior researcher at IT security company ESET, said public awareness of security and privacy of connected devices jumped after the well-publicized hack of a Jeep Cherokee in 2015 in which two security researchers demonstrated they could remotely control the vehicle.

That vulnerability was fixed by Fiat Chrysler America after a 1.4 million-vehicle recall, but Cobb said it was inevitable that more security issues will come to the fore as more devices are connected to the Internet.

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worse, he said, is that while auto companies have procedures in place to contact customers and deal with defective products, digital equipment manufacturers often have no idea who is buying and using their products. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most people havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ever updated their router or updated the firmware on their webcam,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t 1984, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the world in 2016. Shodan, a search engine that indexes computers and devices rather than information, now allows users to pull screenshots from nanny cams, security cameras and other connected devices around the world that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask for a username or password.

Those screenshots are connected to an IP address, a unique identifier for each Internet connection

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Anne Cavoukian, former Ontario privacy commissioner and now the executive director of the Privacy and Big Data Institute at Ryerson University, said she was appalled when she saw the Shodan webcam search in action.

Yet, she said, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only a symptom of the wider problem with the so-called Internet of Things, where many webcams and other connected devices such as wearables, TVs and thermostats ship with a low level of security â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and some with none at all. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It allows people to steal glimpses of personal spaces in peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homes, places of work, or inside a hospital â&#x20AC;&#x201C; our most private spaces,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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hen an American high school student made national headlines in 2014 for posing with his cat for his senior yearbook portrait, it gave Ryan Sikkes an idea.

The image of Draven Rodriguez and his cat, Mr. Bigglesworth – accompanied by blue and pink lasers – went viral. It inspired Sikkes to bring his Calico Redox to school a few days later, for the same purpose.

The end result is nothing short of hilarity. It features both Sikkes and his cat, straight-faced and looking directly into the camera.

“That picture has gotten a lot of mileage,” Sikkes said.

It’s a testament to the Vanier Catholic Secondary School principal’s sense of humour, one part of his personality that helps him and his staff get through tough times.

“I’m the first guy to laugh at myself,” he said.

“I spend a lot of my days problem-solving and troubleshooting by myself and with my staff. In those frustrations, seeing the humour is what helps keep us energized through it.”

The Learning Partnership recently named Sikkes one of Canada’s top 40 principals.

But it’s not the first award Sikkes has won as an educator. In 2008, the Canadian Association of Principals named him the Distinguished VicePrincipal of the Year.

Sikkes is humble when it comes to speaking about his accomplishments. He credits his staff for a lot of the success at Vanier.

“I’m really honoured to be recognized for a lot of the things that go on here, but it’s not me that does most of the work,” he said. “There is such a committed, hardworking and passionate staff here who do the heavy lifting.”

Sikkes’s career path at Vanier has stretched over a decade. He taught mathematics, chemistry and general science at the school before he began his role as vice-principal in 2006.

As his family grew, he decided he needed something “a little more 9-to-5” so he took a job as director of human resources at the Yukon Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board in 2011.

“That really was the only reason I left,” he said.

In his absence, Vanier experienced some rocky times. Vanier’s former principal, Ed Frison, was transferred out of the school by the Yukon’s Department of Education in March 2013. Frison had come under fire from students and parents during a controversy over the school’s use of a same-sex policy document written by former Whitehorse bishop Gary Gordon.

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Vanier Catholic Secondary School principal Ryan Sikkes has been recognized as one of Canada’s top 40 teachers by the Learning Partnership.

The document, which leaned heavily on Catholic doctrine, called homosexuality a “disorder” and an “intrinsic moral evil.” It also forbade students from forming a gaystraight alliance at the school.

After the Vanier controversy broke, it revealed other deep-seated fractures within the school. Some teachers and students complained that Frison and Gordon were taking the school in an overly conservative direction, to the detriment of students’ academic focus.

When Sikkes returned to Vanier in Aug. 2013 to take on the role of principal, he said he approached the issues the same way he deals with any problem a student might have.

“You focus on the positive and you support that,” he said.

“When I came back, I came back to a school that has a core of incredibly committed and passionate educators who wanted to form good relationships with students.

And that’s what we went and did.”

The transition back to Vanier couldn’t have been possible without the support of his staff, who understood that Sikkes wouldn’t be able to make it to “every basketball game or concert,” he said.

It also wouldn’t have been possible without the help from his wife.

“I have the most supportive spouse, there’s no way I could be the principal that I want to be without her walking alongside me every day.”

Sikkes is also known as someone who encourages new initiatives.

In 2008, the primary basis for his award was the Root of Empathy program he started at the school. It helped teens look at situations from different perspectives, to better understand how their actions affect other people.

Last year, a Filipino teacher at Vanier asked Sikkes whether the school could celebrate her country’s independence day in June. “All I did was say yes and sign a few cheques, but the actual work, that’s all done by other people,” he said.

More recently, a group of Filipino students approached Sikkes with an interesting idea for the school’s curriculum.

They proposed to create a specific course that would help them, and anyone else who was interested at the school, learn more about their country, its history and culture. After spending the spring and fall designing the course, it was approved by the Department of Education for credit.

Yesterday was the first day it was officially offered.

Sikkes estimates that about one-third of the student population – about 115 students – are now firstor second-generation immigrants from the Philippines. When he started as vice-principal in 2006, there were about 20.

“We’re trying as hard as we can to make as many opportunities for our students to integrate with each other,” he said.

The outstanding principals are nominated by their peers and chosen by a national selection committee.

Akela Peoples, president and CEO of The Learning Partnership, said the principals are recognized using the following criteria: leadership and student achievement, leadership and innovation, instructional leadership, professional learning teams, partnerships with families and communities, personal growth initiatives and corresponding letters of support.

In Sikkes’s case it was Edith Elder, chair of the Vanier Catholic Secondary School Council, who nominated him.

“He’s described as a master teacher and someone who excels in terms of being a role model,” Peoples said.

“Also as someone who mentors and supports both teachers and

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Sikkes poses with his pet cat. students. He even interviews prospective students and their parents to give them a better understanding of Vanier’s programming.

“I’ve been reading these letters for a number of years and I don’t think I’ve ever read that before.”

The 40 principals will be recognized at the annual Canada’s Outstanding Principals gala on Feb. 23 at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto.

They’ll also take part in a fiveday leadership program at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

Last year’s Yukon winner was Watson Lake Secondary School principal Jean MacLean.

Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com

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One residentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thoughts on a failed bid to resettle Newfoundland community tion rather than the 90 per cent required under the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Community Relocation Policy to sanction a move.

LITTLE BAY ISLANDS, N.L. Jerry Weir, who was born and esidents of a small comraised in Little Bay Islands and munity in northern spent 30 years teaching at the Newfoundland will be local school, says he was stunned staying put for now after a vote by the outcome that would have on resettlement failed by the been different if one more person thinnest of margins to secure the had voted in favour of resettleneeded majority. ment.

Municipal Affairs Minister The 60-year-old retiree says Eddie Joyce said out of the 95 he voted in favour of relocation residents eligible to vote on the because there are no stores, busiresettlement of Little Bay Islands, nesses or young people left in the 10 voted to remain in the remote community that was founded in community.

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Weir said the average household would have gotten $250,000 from the province to move, and without the money, most residents canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to relocate on their own.

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JW: This is a beautiful island community â&#x20AC;&#x201C; one of the prettiest youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find anywhere, but the population is so low now that we have no services hereâ&#x20AC;Śthe school is hanging by a thread, it has two kids, the teacher doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live here, he commutes by ferry every day from Springdale which means he gets here at 9:45 in the morning so classes donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t start until an hour later than they normally wouldâ&#x20AC;Ś.There are no social activities, there are no groups or organizations. The fire department is hanging by a thread with only a few members. The residents in town are mostly seniors.

CP: It sounds a little bit like a ghost town.

JW: It does and here this winter when you can drive around this island which would take all of 10 minutes, and not see a creature stirring not even a mouse as the Christmas story goes, but you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pass cars, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pass people walking, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even see a cat walking on the road for the most part. Even the cats have gotten out. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very sad.

CP: Soâ&#x20AC;Śwhat happened to Little Bay Islands?

JW: There was no industry here.

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JW: I work part-time, but if I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t my day would be to get up around the house, help with household duties and help my wife do the things at home and that would be it. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nowhere to go, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing to do, there are no organizations and I am an individual who was always involved in volunteer work and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing here anymore.

CP: What about shops and businesses?

JW: There are no shops, not even a corner grocery store.

We have to leave by ferry and drive for an hour to Springdale and be gone all day and pick up groceries and come back at a cost of approximately $100 to go and do that if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy anything.

CP: What has it been like to watch this happen to your town?

JW: It has withered and died and it is now decayed, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the situation we are in. It is very sad and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sad to think that the little town that was home and always will be home, that was so vibrant and was so beneficial to all Newfoundlanders up and down the northeast coast because the businesses that were here in the day supplied everything regarding the fishery and to see now that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to nothing.

CP: It looks like a beautiful spot.

JW: It is a beautiful spot unrivalled by none, but that is still the case but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sad to say the beauty doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provide a good place to live for anyone these days.

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ing and the crab plant, there was nothing to keep young people hereâ&#x20AC;Ś.They attended university or college and there was nothing for them to come back here to so they went on and found jobs elsewhere. So as sad as it is, any parent wants the best for their children and the best wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t to come back here.

So what do you make of the fact that 10 out of 95 of you voted not to move?

I cannot believe that 10 people out of 95 are able to hold the other 85 of us hostage in this community, with the majority being seniors and the majority of them who worked in the fishery all their life and being seasonal workers, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the income to back them up to move on their own.

Do you know who voted to stay?

No one knows who voted for or who voted against because that was never released by government, but of course you live in the town and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a small place and you hear people say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well I hope this donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go throughâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I hope it do go through,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; so you do have ideas of which way they votedâ&#x20AC;Ś.Everyone has their suspicions.

Has it caused any friction or tension in town?

Yes, to a certain degree thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some ill feelingsâ&#x20AC;Ś because when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re living in a place like we are right now with no services and no social life and no organizations what is there?

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A century ago, a savvy political campaign won women the right to vote Jennifer Ditchburn Canadian Press

OTTAWA â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were young and vigorous and full of ambition. We would rewrite our history. We would copy no other country. We would be ourselves, and proud of it.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Nellie McClung.

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t was the kind of savvy political strategy that politicians and lobbyists attempt to craft today: Stitch together a coalition of supporters from diverse communities, secure financial backers, mount a successful ad campaign, and earn some positive media coverage.

A group of women in Manitoba used it to win the right to vote a century ago.

The province was the first place in Canada to bring in womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suffrage, on Jan. 28, 1916. That triggered a wave of changes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; first in Western Canada and finally at the federal level in 1919. Indigenous people, it should be noted, did not get the vote federally until 1960.

The Manitoba movement was complex.

There were people who supported temperance, and the havoc they believed alcohol was wreaking on families. There were many journalists â&#x20AC;&#x201C; members of the Canadian Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Press Club.

Some unions supported womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suffrage, as did powerful farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; groups.

Members of the Political Equality League, which included such notable members as Nellie McClung, Cora Hind and Lillian Beynon Thomas, as well as male supporters, helped recruit and rally those disparate voices with speeches, meetings and articles in the papers. They had paid organizers, and launched a major publicity blitz at the Winnipeg Stampede in 1913. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always said that if (Beynon Thomas) had been running things today, she would have been running a strategy group that planned elections, because she was the plotter of the whole thing,â&#x20AC;? said Linda McDowell, a retired Manitoba history teacher and expert on womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suffrage.

Businesswoman Martha Jane Hample, who would go on to become a member of the provincial legislature, helped bankroll the activities of the league. Outside

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Lillian Beynon Thomas (back left), Winona Dixon (back right), Dr. Mary Crawford (front left) and Amelia Burrito (front left) who presented the final petition for womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suffrage on December 23, 1915 to the Manitoba Legislature.

Winnipeg, there were other hives of suffragist activity in Gimli and in the Roaring River district. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rural women in Manitoba by 1916 had telephones, good train service and good mail service, and people like Nellie McClung â&#x20AC;Ś travelled to all these places; every little town had an auditorium or an opera house,â&#x20AC;? said McDowell. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Really, there was a big network, and they had a lot of support.â&#x20AC;?

Social media and viral videos didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exist, of course, but in 1914 the women created major buzz with a provocative play at the Walker Theatre in Winnipeg. Their mock Parliament parodied the intransigence of Manitoba Premier Rodmond Roblin, and imagined a parallel world where women were in power. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Politics unsettles men and unsettled men means unsettled bills, broken furniture, broken vows and divorceâ&#x20AC;Ś. Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s place is on the farm,â&#x20AC;? McClung told the crowd, playing the role of Roblin.

Roblinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government fell the following year amid scandal, and the new Liberal government finally extended the vote to women in 1916.

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Paris changed everything, so why are we still talking pipelines?

by David Suzuki

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ith the December Paris climate agreement, leaders and experts from around the world showed they overwhelmingly accept that human-caused climate change is real and, because the world has continued to increase fossil fuel use, the need to curb and reduce emissions is urgent.

In light of this, I don’t get the current brouhaha over Kinder Morgan, Keystone XL, Northern Gateway or the Energy East pipelines.

Why are politicians contemplating spending billions on pipelines when the Paris commitment means 75 to 80 per cent of known fossil fuel deposits must be left in the ground?

Didn’t our prime minister, with provincial and territorial premiers, mayors and representatives from non-profit organizations, parade before the media to announce Canada now takes climate change seriously? I joined millions of Canadians who felt an oppres-

sive weight had lifted and cheered mightily to hear that our country committed to keeping emissions at levels that would ensure the world doesn’t heat by more than 1.5 C by the end of this century. With the global average temperature already one degree higher than pre-industrial levels, a half a degree more leaves no room for business as usual.

The former government’s drive to make Canada a petro superpower distorted the Canadian economy into greater fossil fuel dependence, with catastrophic consequences when the price of oil collapsed. The lesson should have been learned long ago: Heavy dependence on a single revenue stream like fish, trees, wheat, minerals or even one factory or industry is hazardous if that source suffers a reversal in fortune like resource depletion, unanticipated cost fluctuations or stiff competition.

Coal stocks have already sunk to the floor, so why is there talk of building or expanding coal terminals? Low oil prices have pushed oilsands bitumen toward unprofitability, so why the discussion of expanding this carbon-intensive industry? Fracking is unbelievably unsustainable because of the immense amounts of water used in the process, seismic destabilization and escape of hyper-warming

methane from wells. Exploration for new oil deposits – especially in hazardous areas like the deep ocean, the Arctic and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other critical wildlife habitat – should stop immediately.

Pipeline arguments are especially discouraging, with people claiming Quebec is working against the interests of Alberta and Canada because the leadership of the Montreal Metropolitan Community – representing 82 municipalities and nearly half the province’s population – voted overwhelmingly to reject the proposed Energy East pipeline project, which would carry 1.1 million barrels of oilsands bitumen and other oil products from Alberta to refineries and ports in the east. Some have thrown out the anti-democratic and, frankly, anti-Canadian notion that because Quebec has received equalization payments it should shut up about pipeline projects.

National unity is about steering Canada onto a sustainable track and looking out for the interests of all Canadians. Continuing to build fossil fuel infrastructure and locking ourselves into a future of increasing global warming isn’t the way to go about it. Shifting to a 21st century clean-energy economy would create more jobs, unity and prosperity – across Canada and not just in one region – than continuing to rely on

a polluting, climate-altering sunset industry. Leaders in Quebec should be commended for taking a strong stand for the environment and climate – and for all of Canada.

The Paris target means we have to rethink everything. Energy is at the heart of modern society, but we have to get off fossil fuels. Should we expand airports when aircraft are the most energy-intensive ways to travel? Why build massive bridges and tunnels when we must transport goods and people differently? The global system in which food travels thousands of kilometres from where it’s grown to where it’s consumed makes no sense in a carbon-constrained

world. Agriculture must become more local, so the Peace Valley must serve as the breadbasket of the North rather than a flooded area behind a dam.

The urgency of the need for change demands that we rethink our entire energy potential and the way we live. It makes no sense to continue acting as if we’ve got all the time in the world to get off the path that created the crisis in the first place. That’s the challenge, and for our politicians, it’s a huge task as well as a great opportunity.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and cofounder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

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The case for rallying around sea ice carbon dioxide levels back to 350 parts per million from the current 401 parts per million as measured at Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii.

Tremblay mentioned the recent United Nations Paris meeting on climate change as an encouraging sign, though he thinks the action will happen at more nimble state, community and personal levels.

The trio of scientists echoed others at the giant meeting who expressed hope that people are paying attention to the unprecedented level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Those are people who might be convinced that keeping ice on top of the world is important for humans as well as polar bears and walrus.

“I think we can turn the corner,” Pfirman said. “I think people will notice the value of the Arctic . . . We can innovate our way out of this.”

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he ice floating on top of the world covers pretty much the entire Arctic Ocean in midwinter. By late summer it shrinks to half that much. If trends continue, by mid-century the summer ice may take up less space than Japan.

As the Arctic Ocean becomes more blue, it absorbs much of the sun’s heat that it once reflected with great efficiency. This warmer ocean would quicken the melt of the Greenland ice cap, which would lead to sea level rise. It might encourage wacky weather patterns all over the globe.

Since satellites first allowed us to watch sea ice in the late 1970s, the jigsaw puzzle has shrunk as the years have passed, with a low point reached in late summer 2012. Some scientists thought that year might have been a tipping point from which the ice would not recover.

But the ice is perhaps more resilient than that. Some researchers suggest northern sea ice can bounce back and continue its role as refrigerator of the world.

Stephanie Pfirman of Columbia University shared a vision for restoring sea ice at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco last month. More than 20,000 scientists attend the weeklong meeting.

“Some models say the Arctic Ocean will be almost ice free (during summer) as soon as 2030 to 2040,” she said in San Francisco. “But it could return. When the Arctic cools, the ice will return.”

But with record levels of heattrapping carbon dioxide in our atmosphere and a steady climb in world temperatures, how could the Arctic get colder?

“If you take the CO2 out of the

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Sea ice floating off the coast north of Barrow. atmosphere, the ice will come back,” said Pfirman’s colleague Robert Newton, a geochemist at Columbia.

What will it take to lower carbon dioxide levels?

“To get the ice back before it’s gone completely, we definitely need decarbonization and CO2 removal,” Pfirman said, referring to political and mechanical solutions for reducing emissions or pulling carbon out of the air.

Newton said he thinks the world will come around to the preservation of a white Arctic when climate change makes it clear there is no other option.

“I grew up in the Cold War – a time when people worried about mutually assured (nuclear) destruction,” he said. “And we didn’t go there. I think this is going to be something like that.

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History vs. Hollywood

by Michael Gates

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rompted by a recent article in the Brandon Sun written by Suyoko Tsukamoto, I went to see The Revenant. The article compared the grizzly bear attack in the film with one that happened to Yukon hunter, trapper and outdoorsman Jim Christie in 1909.

Christie farmed in Carman, Manitoba, before coming to the Klondike. Despite his age (he was nearing 50) Christie later enlisted in World War I and became a legendary soldier. I’ll return to Christie in a moment.

I have had a hard time dealing with Hollywood renderings of Canadian stories, particularly stories related to the Yukon.

Especially things historical.

Typical Hollywood characterization of Canada can be quite deplorable.

Take for instance an episode of a television series called JAG in which a whistleblower in the American diplomatic service was punished for leaking information about an American submarine that sank in Russian waters. When he was reassigned to Guyana as punishment, a

friend commented that it could have been worse – they could have sent him to …Canada!

I look for historical inaccuracies in film and television. In a recent episode of Murdoch Mysteries, Murdoch’s wife is seen working in the morgue; in the background, you can see their son merrily bouncing up and down in his jolly jumper while she dissects.

I checked out the Jolly Jumper. According to the corporate website, the device was invented in 1910 in Canada by Susan Olivia Poole for her infant son Joseph.

According to the company’s website, “She made the harness or saddle from a cloth diaper and a blacksmith created a soft-action steel spring. An axe handle was used for the spreader bar.” She made more of them for her other children and grandchildren, and in 1948, the Jolly Jumper was ready for mass production. 1948 is outside the time range of this television series, and I did not see an axe handle in the Jolly Jumper employed by Dr. Ogden.

I also found laughable the portrayal of the Klondike in a Jack London program about a man who was coming to the Klondike to sell eggs. The closer he got to Dawson City, the smaller the Yukon River became, until he arrives at the gold rush town, and wades across the Yukon River in his rubber boots!

Pierre Berton mocked Hol-

lywood’s portrayal of Canada, Canadians, and our history in his excellent book Hollywood’s Canada. There and in other articles, he describes how the plot to the television series Klondike (based on his classic book of the same name) was influenced more by budget, sponsors’ pressures, and a stilted preconception of what the public wants to see on television than it was by historical fact.

The most disturbing violation of historical accuracy in recent times was the embarrassing Klondike mini-series on the Discovery Channel that made many in the Yukon laugh.

Full of gunfights and stacks of bodies typical of a Hollywood Western, it did not live up to its billing of “historical accuracy.”

So it was with much caution that I purchased my tickets to see The Revenant. The mauling of back woodsman Hugh Glass (portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio) by the grizzly bear comes early in the film. I found it both graphic and compelling.

At one point, the camera comes in close as the hulking beast sniffs around DiCaprio’s head, and the lens is even fogged by the animal’s breath.

This portrayal actually gave me shivers as I flashed back to a trip I took 40 years ago to the abandoned weather station at Snag, not far from Beaver Creek. I woke up in my tent one morning to the sound of a bear pawing at something on the ground just outside the tent

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“Grizzly Bear” Jim Christie had an encounter with a bear almost identical to that portrayed in the film, The Revenant. Christie survived the attack and despite his advanced age (he was nearly 50 when he enlisted), became a legend during World War I. and sniffing on the other side of the flimsy nylon film. He was inches away from me, and I lay motionless in my sleeping bag, too terrified to even breathe.

Fortunately for me, the bear wandered off, but the sound of the bear sniffing at DiCaprio in the theatre brought me back to that frightening moment.

Back to Jim Christie whose mauling in 1909 was similar to the movie portrayal in more than a couple of ways. Christie was terribly injured by his bear attack, and he too managed to shoot the angry beast, killing it before it killed him.

It took him two months to recover enough to return to Dawson from Lansing Post on the Stewart River. He then had to travel to Victoria for reconstructive surgery on his jaw so that he could eat solid food again. Christie was forever after known as “Grizzly Bear” Christie.

In another scene in the movie, Glass plummets over a cliff astride a horse, and then, to keep from freezing, removes the entrails from the dead animal, and crawls into the body cavity in order to retain his body heat.

Something similar actually happened in Alaska to Fannie Quigley, a former Dawson resident who shot a grizzly and skinned it out. When it started to snow and there was not enough light to make it back to camp that night, she wrapped herself in the greasy, blood-stained bear hide to keep warm until morning.

Since “The Revenant” was said to be based upon an actual even from South Dakota in 1822, I searched for more information on the Internet, but found conflicting accounts of what actually happened to Hugh Glass. It would take someone better versed in American history than me to ferret out the truth. I suspect there may not be enough details to resolve the events surrounding Glass’s bear encounter and we will never know what actually happened.

So the only thing that really puzzled me in the film was how Di Caprio was able to fire two shots from his flintlock pistol without stopping to reload.

One critic writing for the London Telegraph lamented the fact that the director doesn’t insert enough reality, complaining that we don’t see DiCaprio “use the toilet,” (although two of the other characters were seen urinating realistically enough in the early part of the film). Seeing DiCaprio hunched over doing his business was more realism than I would want to see in this, or any other film.

The Revenant captured more than enough realism, and as for historical accuracy? I decided to put that aside for one evening and simply enjoy the outstanding cinematography and the stunning scenery.

Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. He is currently writing as book on the Yukon in World War I. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net

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Potluck dinner doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t include bringing entertainment

by Judith Martin

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MANNERS DEAR MISS MANNERS: A coworker invited me to her home for a potluck dinner and a payper-view fight. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never been interested in ultimate fighting, but I happily engaged with the hosts and other guests before and after the fight.

During the fight itself, I sat quietly on a lounge chair and read a book on my e-reader. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure whether anyone noticed, or if anyone else was engaged in anything beyond eating and spectating.

My husband says it was rude to read during the fight. I say that I was sitting in the back using a nonlighted screen (so screen brightness wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have distracted others) and so therefore my behavior was fine. What do you think?

GENTLE READER: That your husband was correct. Whether or not you were caught, Miss Manners assures you that pulling out your own entertainment communicates to your hosts that you find theirs

boring.

If you were invited to dinner and found the conversation not to your liking, would you do the same?

You were invited to watch the fight and, as you accepted, it would have been polite at least to make the pretense of being interested in it. Or you could have found other ways to occupy yourself, perhaps freeing the hosts to watch by asking to help replenish drinks and snacks. The effect should be of looking after other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entertainment, not exclusively your own.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I realize there are numerous ways to communicate besides personal phone calls, email, or what certain persons like to call â&#x20AC;&#x153;snail mail.â&#x20AC;?

What are your thoughts on sending a text message as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;thank youâ&#x20AC;? for a holiday gift even though the sender does not necessarily know whether the recipient actually uses text messaging?

I am not a young person, and I do not use text messages to communicate. In fact, I am recently retired (a fact the sender does know).

This year, in response to a gift sent to a family, I heard nothing for quite awhile until one day my cellphone made a â&#x20AC;&#x153;funnyâ&#x20AC;? noise. After poking around with it, I discovered that there was, in fact, a text message that read something like ... â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thank you for the package.â&#x20AC;? It was

not signed and did not describe what was in the package.

Since I had sent several such â&#x20AC;&#x153;packages,â&#x20AC;? it took me a while to realize who sent the text (process of elimination: I heard from all others by phone or snail mail).

Can you enlighten me on the etiquette of this type of thank-you â&#x20AC;&#x153;noteâ&#x20AC;??

GENTLE READER: You hardly require Miss Manners to tell you how thoughtless and perfunctory this form of thanks was.

Even among regular texters, that is much too informal a means of conveying thanks. And to refer to a present merely as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;packageâ&#x20AC;? would be insulting even if handwritten on linen paper.

Perhaps she can enlighten you about the subtext. Her interpretation of that is that these people are far too busy to bother with receiving presents.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was out for drinks with a friend who works in the same industry as I do. I was telling her about my transition out of my last job and how difficult is was because my boss didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want me to leave. I was sharing that my former boss made me an outrageous offer to stay and that I politely declined, saying that it was time for me to move on.

My friend looked puzzled and shocked. After a moment or two,

she leaned in and said that she was told by my former boss that I had been let go for â&#x20AC;&#x153;strategic reasons.â&#x20AC;?

I have a wonderful new job that I love, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m generally liked and respected by my colleagues and peers, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not terribly worried that this rumor will be believed, but I am pretty angry that she would go around spreading it. My husband thinks I should say something to her because she is trying to ruin my reputation. What should I do?

GENTLE READER: Are you quite sure this remark wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t made out of exasperation at your saying how valued you are?

In any case, that is the way Miss Manners recommends your telling the story to your former co-workers, with whom you seem to keep in touch. A story ridiculing oneself gets around more than a complaint.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A co-worker I am also close friends with is a wonderful employee and an amazing mother, but she quite often â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with no warning â&#x20AC;&#x201D; shows up to work with one or more of her kids. This is usually because they are out of school with colds or fevers, or sometimes just because.

We work with a lot of valuable electrical equipment and have a consistent flow of clients and â&#x20AC;&#x153;fansâ&#x20AC;? who come in. She keeps her kids here in a room with her that is

communal to the other employees, who have their own families theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying not to get sick. Her kids also show up in pictures later wearing/using very expensive pieces of equipment from their time here.

They are very well-behaved children and have never caused a problem, although they do sidetrack her from other tasks and chat a lot with other workers while theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at the office. I respect my co-worker so much and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to come across like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m judging or instructing her as a parent, but some things are just unnecessary, inconvenient and inappropriate for a professional setting.

GENTLE READER: You are understandably confused. Your co-worker is your friend. Your potential clients are fans. And you are unsure whether you are giving parental or professional advice.

But your co-worker/friend is equally confused. She does not know if she is at work or at home.

Sick people do not belong in an office, nor should professional equipment be used as toys.

Miss Manners advises you to refer the matter to the person you have forgotten to mention but who has the most interest in a resolution: the boss. The idea is not to tattle or complain, but to express sympathy and suggest leniency in allowing parents to meet emergencies.

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Sima surpasses 1,000 season passes, pays back loan

Joel Krahn/Yukon News

Skiers and snowboarders ride the chairlift at Whitehorse’s Mount Sima ski resort earlier this month. The Friends of Mount Sima Society has repaid an $18,000 loan from Softball Yukon. and we went to the community, the territorial government News Reporter and others, and one of the ount Sima has a prob- ones that stepped up first to help us was Softball Yukon in lem. So many people are visiting the ski re- a way I think was completely sort its parking lot has become unprecedented in the territory in offering support from one too small. sport group to another,” said “It’s a good problem to past FMSS president Laurie have,” quips George Arcand, Henderson. executive director of Softball “The chairlift uses a lot of Yukon. power, the buildings take a lot In his tone is a tinge of pride of power, and we were asked – and for good reason. If not for Softball Yukon, Whitehorse by ATCO Electric to make an $18,000 deposit for two years, might not have a ski resort, no so we did approach Softball less one experiencing a third Yukon to use some of their successful season. funds as a loan.

In the fall of 2013 Sima was “Today we give that money on the brink of collapse when back because our accounts are Softball Yukon came to its rescue with a gift of $20,000 and a all in good standing.”

Softball Yukon stepped up loan of $18,000. to the plate after a plea by Due in part to a record FMSS for financial assistance amount of season passes sold to the City of Whitehorse was this year – over 1,000 – the Friends of Mount Sima Society rejected in September of 2013.

In fact, Softball Yukon offered a (FMSS), a non-profit group loan for as much as $50,000 to that oversees operations, was FMSS, interest free. able to pay back that loan this “We said, ‘We can’t let the week. hill die. We’re going to lose “In 2013 it looked like this hill was going to close for good, three sports, which are all in Tom Patrick

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Games, and give kids a viable thing to do,’” said Arcand, referring to snowboarding, alpine and freestyle skiing, which are included in the Canada Winter Games.

Softball Yukon plans to use the returned loan to upgrade the bathrooms at Whitehorse’s Pepsi Softball Centre, said Arcand. The organization will play host to the 2016 Senior Men’s and Women’s Canadian Slo-Pitch Championships this summer and the ISF Men’s World Championship in the summer of 2017.

“Our primary fundraiser is radio bingo,” said Arcand. “We asked permission of (consumer and corporate affairs) to allow us to use the proceeds for the loan. You can’t do whatever you want with money you make from a bingo.

“The pockets are not that deep anymore. That was way back then. We’ve done a lot of work on the ballpark since.”

Sima has seen growth on a number of fronts. The resort sold just over 200 season passes the season before its near

collapse, and then over 700 for 2013/14 over 800 for 2014/15.

The resort, which is open weekly Friday to Sunday, will see between 600-750 visitors on a really good day and about 400-450 on an average day.

That’s about five per cent more visitors than last year, which has led to an eight per cent revenue increase at the concession stand and a three per cent increase in the lounge.

Helping boost numbers was an early start for the resort, this year opening mid November – weeks earlier than usual.

“According to people who have been here longer than I have, that’s also a record,” said Sima general manager Cindy Chandler.

Sima had extra motivation to get the show on the road early this season. Thanks to a contribution of $160,000 from the Yukon government, Sima hosted a number of elite ski and snowboard teams for preseason training including Canada Snowboard’s parasnowboard team, B.C.’s Panorama Provincial Ski Team and

two others.

“That was really a tremendous success for us,” said Chandler. “We had over 100 athletes and then our local athletes with freestyle, alpine and snowboard were involved in that as well. It was great for the kids to come out and train with the others.”

Will any be back next year?

“All of them,” said Chandler.

“Verbally they’ve all committed and we’re just doing a memorandum of understanding with the Panorama race team. They want to fit us into their fiveyear training plan.”

The Yukon government money was used for snowmaking equipment (snow guns), safety equipment (alpine ski safety nets) and operating costs.

In another instance of one sport group helping another, the two purchased snow guns are currently at Mount McIntyre to help the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club get set to host the national championships in March.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Left: Whitehorse’s Knute Johnsgaard races at an FIS World Cup on Saturday in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic. Johnsgaard helped Canada’s relay team place ninth on Sunday. Above: Dahria Beatty races towards a 57th place finish in the women’s 10-kilometre free on Saturday. results so far this year for Canada on the World Cup.” Beatty and Johnsgaard have returned to Canada, but Nishikawa is currently training with the American team in Norway and will next race the epic 30-kilometre Holmenkollen FIS event on Feb. 7.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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great race on the sprint day. It gives me a lot of hope for the future knowing that I came so close to qualifying for the heats,” said Beatty. “To have another Canada teammate (Maya Macisaac-Jones) finish 31st that day is great encouragement for us both. Our 31st and 32nd in the sprint are the top women’s

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The previous weekend, at a World Cup in Slovenia, JohnsNews Reporter gaard placed 54th in a sprint and helped the Canadian team hitehorse’s Knute to 16th in a sprint relay.

Johnsgaard admits he Just competing in the didn’t have his best women’s relay was a win for races at the FIS World Cup the Canada. With Whitehorse’s Emlast couple of weekends, but he ily Nishikawa and Darhia Beatty certainly made his mark. bringing the women’s team to The 23-year-old helped Canfive, Canada competed in the ada place ninth in the 4x7.5women’s relay for the first time kilometre relay for the national in eight years, taking 12th out of team’s second best ever result in 13 in the 4x5-kilometre relay. a World Cup, on Sunday in Nove For the first half of the seaMesto, Czech Republic. son Nishikawa was Canada’s “These were my first ever only female skier on the World European World Cups so it Cup circuit. was great to finally get to race “The past few weekends against the best,” said Johnshave been really fun to have gaard in an email to the News. “I four more female teammates,” was racing super fast the week said Nishikawa, 26. “It was great before the World Cups in the that we could get a relay team OPA (European Continental in Nove Mesto. It was the first Cup) races but unfortunately female World Cup relay team for my shape kind of wore off Canada in many years. It was before I got to race on the World a great experience for us, and Cup. It was an awesome oppor- we are excited to build off this tunity nonetheless, and I had momentum. I did the first leg of some respectable results, most the relay and had a great race. It notably the relay where we was fun to be in the mass start, finished ahead of some pretty and push hard for five kilomestrong nations like Sweden and tres. I learned a lot, it was a real Finland.” ‘elbows out’ aggressive race.”

Johnsgaard, along with CanaNishikawa skied to 44th out dian World Cup veterans Devon of 62 in the 10-kilometre free at Kershaw and Len Valjas and 27:30.2 and was Canada’s top Sochi Olympian Graeme Killick, finisher Saturday. came in at 1:09:44.1, just 1:15.1 Beatty, 21, was a minute and behind gold-winning Norway. a half behind Nishikawa and On Saturday Johnsgaard placed 57th in Saturday’s 10-kiplaced 76th out of 84 in the lometre. men’s 15-kilometre free with a “I caught a small cold leading into Nove Mesto so neither the time of 39:18.2.

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10-kilometre skate or the relay were my best races,” said Beatty.

“It was still wonderful to be a part of the first women’s relay team on the World Cup in eight years. I am looking forward to many more relays in full health and improving on our 12th place result.”

The previous weekend in Slovenia Beatty produced a 32nd-place finish in a sprint race, missing the heats by just 0.8 seconds.

“In Planica, Slovenia I was fully healthy and I had a really

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Carcross hosts fourth annual judo tourney

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Hiroshikai’s Kenai Bryden throws Northern Lights’ Damon Tonner during the Hiroshikai Judo Tournament on Saturday in Carcross. Four Yukon clubs competed at the fourth annual tournament.

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our years after judo returned to Carcross, the annual Hiroshikai Judo Tournament is still going strong.

Three Whitehorse clubs – Golden Horn (GHJ), Northern Light (NLJ) and Shiroumakai Judo Club (SHK) – were represented at the tournament hosted by Hiroshikai at the Ghuch Tla Community School on Saturday.

Of the roughly 45 judokas

who participated, only one came away with two gold medals.

Jayden Iskra of Shiroumakai pulled off the feat.

“He’s a committed student who shows up, pays attention and is attentive,” said Shiroumakai sensei Aaron Jensen.

“Competitively, he’s got determination and grit.”

The 11-year-old green belt took gold in the male under-13 35-kilo division, defeating teammate Brennen Little in the final.

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“He’s what I call a ‘keener’ because he studies,” said Jensen. “One of the gold medals was in judo knowledge, so they need to know all the terminology and be able to answer specific questions on the study of judo.”

Shiroumakai will host the next Yukon tournament on Feb. 20.

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Northern Lights’ Wiktoria Losinska looks up to Hiroshikai’s Kenai Bryden as she is held down.

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Results Mix U10 – 24kg 1st Seth Smith (HRK) 2nd Laurick Corriveau (HRK) 3rd Annabelle Bellencourt (HRK) Female U10 – 26kg 1st Anneke Aasman (NLJ) 2nd Lia Hinchey (NLJ) 3rd Sapphira Oettli (NLJ) Mix open 1st Rowan Kingston (SHK) 2nd Cassi Jensen (SHK) 3rd Scottie Shepherd (HRK) Male U10 – 40kg 1st Alex Penner (HRK) 2nd Samuel Bradet (SHK) 3rd Benjamin MacLeod (NLJ) Mix U10 – 29kg 1st Kenai Bryden (HRK) 2nd Wiktoria Losinska (NJL) 3rd Damon Tonner (NLJ)

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Norther Lights’ Sapphira Oettli throws her opponent to the mat.

2nd Brennen Little (SHK) 3rd Dalton Penner (HRK)

2nd Jonathan Racine (NLJ) 3rd Eban Basnett (SHK)

Mix U10 – 46kg 1st Ella Hotte (GHJ) 2nd Samuel Bradet (SHK) 3rd Alex Penner (HRK)

Female U14 – 52kg 1st Cassi Jensen (SHK) 2nd Emersyne Sias (SHK)

Mix U11 – 32kg 1st Jaymi Hinchey (NLJ) 2nd Arthur Losinski (NLJ) 3rd Anya Bellon (GHJ)

Beginner knowledge 1st Benjamin MacLeod (NLJ) 2nd Anneke Aasman (NLJ) 3rd Laurick Corriveau (HRK)

Male U12 – 42kg 1st Gabriel Racine (NLJ) 2nd Christopher Cooper (NLJ)

Intermediate knowledge 1st Emersyne Sias (SHK) 2nd Jaymi Hinchey (NLJ) 3rd Lia Hinchey (NLJ)

Male U12/U14 open 1st Brennen Little (SHK) 2nd Eban Basnett (SHK) 3rd Gabriel Racine (NLJ)

Male U12 – 35kg 1st Dawson Penner (HRK) 2nd Dalton Penner (HRK) 3rd Artur Losinski (NLJ)

Male U13 – 35kg 1st Jayden Iskra (SHK)

Male U14 – 45kg 1st Daniel Tonner (SHK)

Advanced knowledge 1st Jayden Iskra (SHK) 2nd Daniel Tonner (SHK) 2nd Wyatt Burnett (SHK) 3rd Rowan Kingston (SHK)

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Puzzle B CLUES ACROSS 1. Schilling (abbr.)

4. Macaws 7. __ Ling, So. Chinese mountains 10. Glower 12. Short for tachometer 14. Indicates near 15. Finger millets 17. Upon 18. American Religious Identification Survey (abbr.)

19. Best Picture 2011 22. Ali Baba’s opening word

23. Swedish river 24. Plural of 34 across 25. Prejudice 26. -__, denotes past 27. Public promotion of a product 28. Freedom from difficulty 30. The underside of the foot 32. Not capitals (abbr.)

33. “Can’t Touch This” artist __ Hammer 34. Self-immolation by fire ritual 36. Lodging establishment 39. Impressive in size or scope

40. Uncoordinated 42. Sin city 46. Off-Broadway theater award 47. Data transmission speed measure 48. A man who is older than yourself 50. Cambodian monetary unit 51. Grey Sea Eagle 52. Ramblin’ Wreck of Ga. ___ 53. Electroencephalogram 54. Opposite of beginning 55. Tao (alt.)

16. Glides over ice 18. 2005 album by Kate Bush 20. CONHCO containing compound 21. Post office mail compartment (abbr.)

28. Of time passing by 29. Physically energetic 30. Struck with a heavy blow 31. A musical interval of eight tones 34. Member of U.S. Navy 35. Decorate a cake with frosting 36. Involving the use of hands

37. Glorify and praise 38. With covers 41. Cecums 42. Cease to have 43. Knight or Dame award (abbr.)

44. Swiss river 45. Crotalaria juncea 49. The 17th Greek letter

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: slang a long involved story or account.

CLUES DOWN 1. Single Lens Reflex 2. Layers of paint 3. Famous recluse Howard 4. Repents 5. Resounded 6. In a way, behaves 7. Music sung in open air 8. Vertexes 9. Birthplace of Constantine 11. City of Elbquelle sculpture 13. A vast multitude

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DOWNTOWN OFFICE space, great location, approx 1500 sq ft, reasonable rent, triple net.

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Champagne and Aishihik First Nation is seeking expressions of interest and the submission of Proposals of professional qualifications for the position of:

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Champagne and Aishihik First Nations is seeking an individual or a Firm to provide Chief Financial Officer Services. This is a contract that provides strategic and tactical financial advice as they relate to budget management, cost benefit analysis, forecasting needs and reporting obligations. This contract will provide financial management and operational support to the government.

The Chief Financial Officer will report directly to the Chief and assist the Executive Director on financial structures and functions and provides recommendations of financial systems to increase effectiveness and to maximize efficiencies.

Contract to March 31, 2016 with possibility of extension.

Travel to administration offices in Haines Junction will be required.

Location: Whitehorse, Yukon Closing date for proposals February 8, 2016 For questions, further information or to submit Proposals please contact: Fran Asp, CAFN Human Resources Department Fax: (867)667-6202 867-456-6880 fasp@cafn.ca

4-5 week day nights needed. This is an ideal placement for a student taking either, The Health Care Aide or The Practical Nurse Program. Any other qualified and compassionate candidates are encouraged to apply.

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Heritage Sites Officer This is a regular full time employment opportunity.

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In pursuit of our Vision, The Teslin Tlingit Council is mandated to cooperatively continue to preserve and develop social, economic, political and cultural wellbeing of the Teslin Tlingit First Nation, to maintain our pride and independence based on trust and to conserve the wildlife, fish, their habitat and our traditional territory for the well-being of future generations.

Under the direction of the Heritage Director, this position is responsible for managing historical and cultural land based resources in Teslin Tlingit Council (TTC) traditional territory. 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 successful candidate shall have post-secondary education and/or extensive experience in Cultural Resource Management or related field such as Anthropology, Archaeology, Conservation or Museum Studies; or an equivalent level of education and experience may be considered. The successful candidate shall have knowledge of TTC Final Agreement, particularly Chapter 13 (Heritage); social structure, Tlingit clan system and the social conditions and social dynamics prevailing in the community. The successful candidate shall have knowledge of Yukon First Nation Government (land claim & self-government agreements, TTC Constitution) and social issues affecting First Nations, strong written and oral communications skillsand sound computing skills, including word processing, databases, and mapping For a detailed job description or more info please call 867.390.2532 ext 316.

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Real Estate

$125,000 FOR 18% share in cooperative housing on 20 acres, 340 sq ft private space with full bathroom & many shared spaces, 30 min. drive to Whitehorse. 332-5832

BEAUTIFUL 5-BDRM, 2-bath house, Copper Ridge, large lot, 2 door heated garage plus 14x20 shop, hot tub, raised garden bed, $509,000. Call 334-4134

Help Wanted HELP WANTED Hotel Front Desk Clerk NOC #6525 Qualifications: Completion of college program in front desk operations or hotel management required.

Applicants with relevant experience preferred Hours: 40 hours per week Wage: $15/hr Duties: •Register arriving guests, assign rooms •Answer telephone enquiries •Compile and check daily records Contact: HR Manager hr@elitehotel.ca Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd. 206 Jarvis St Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A-2H1 TRI OMNI PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Requires Light Duty Cleaner NOC #6661 Minimum 6 months experience Own transportation required Contact: Dean Philpott Box 31386, Whitehorse, YT Y1A-6K8 email: admin@triomni.ca 867-668-6900 Fax: 867-456-4847 NAZARENE DAYCARE is seeking to hire a supported childcare worker full-time. Must have all government requirements. Call Clayton @ 633-5520 or apply online @ www.nazarenedaycare.org.

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The Yukon News, a twice-weekly award-winning newspaper has an outstanding opportunity for a full-time sales person.

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G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY â&#x20AC;˘ SELL HONEYWELL OIL-FILLED heater, good cond, $25. 334-8318

Integra Tire Whitehorse requires a full time permanent

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Native Brain-Tanned MOOSE HIDES At Reasonable Prices Tanned beaver & other furs also available.

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Permanent, Part-time. $27.75/hour 20hrs/week The Position The Fireweed Community Market Society is a strong and diverse community of Yukon farmers, artists, food producers & crafts people dedicated to the promotion of Yukon products.

The Executive Director is responsible for the successful management of the Society, its business & community projects according to the priorities set by the Board of Directors.

Qualifications and complete job description can be found at

www.fireweedmarket.ca How to Apply: Please submit your cover letter and resume electronically to ďŹ reweedED2016@yahoo.ca OR in hard copy to the Fireweed Community Market OfďŹ ce, 21 Waterfront Place Whitehorse, Y1A 6V1 BY 5PM FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19TH. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

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WHEELCHAIR ELECTRIC lift for mini van or full size van, worth $10,000, asking $5,000 obo. 333-2857 Canvas Tents and Wood Stoves Lowest Prices in Canada Tents will ship by Greyhound from Castlegar, B.C. Canvas Tent Shop, www.Canvastentshop.ca 1-800-234-1150 Call for Prices IRONMAN INFRARED fir carbon tech 4-person sauna, built in CD player w/radio, lights, timer, vent, must pick up, 57 x 57 & 75â&#x20AC;? high, $2,000. 633-3959

CPAWS Yukon is one of 13 Chapters of the Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society (CPAWS). The Yukon Chapter was founded in 1993 by a group of Yukon citizens committed to the protection of our natural systems. Currently our major focus is protecting the Peel River Watershed in central Yukon.

As part of the CPAWS team, the Conservation Programs and Communications Coordinator reports to the Executive Director. The position coordinates critical aspects of the Peel legal and public campaign including an ongoing communications and social media strategy, event and meeting coordination. Contributes to select environmental policy issues and coordinates the Yukon chapterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s involvement with CPAWS National programs.

5 ONE-WAY segments Air North from Inuvik, Whitehorse or Old Crow, 2 passengers, to Vancouver or Ottawa, $1,500, save GST. Travel must be completed by April 30.

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AURORA HORIZON Pass 5 segments Whitehorse-Ottawa return, advantages, reserve up to 2 hours ahead, cost $1,500, save the GST, great for spring break.

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Resumes and cover letters must be received by 4pm Wednesday, February 17th Email to ltaylor@cpawsyukon.org or fax to 867-393-8081 For additional info. contact Lisa at 867-393-8080 ext 5

CRAFTSMAN II snowblower, 31â&#x20AC;?, 11hp, good shape, $525 obo. 667-6649

One year maternity leave (starting in April 2016) 30 hours/week Compensation: $24â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$27/hr (commensurate on experience) 4 weeks vacation

SPECIALIZED CLEANER Full time Monday-Friday, 40 hours a week. Must have experience in a Auto Body Repair Shop doing polishing and final detailing/clean up for delivery, some paint preparation as well. Experience in yard management and organizing vehicles is needed. Must have a polite, courteous demeanor, and good communication skills when dealing with customers and co-workers. Job entails heavy lifting and strenuous work, so it is necessary to be in good physical condition. Must be willing to work in dusty, noisy body shop environment and have a great work ethic. Other duties include shop custodial work as well as shuttling customers and delivery of vehicles, a drivers license with clean abstract is required.

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SGA Coordinator â&#x20AC;&#x201C; February 1-25, 2016 Reporting to the Executive Director, this position is responsible for coordinating, communicating and facilitating the Special General Assembly of Taâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;an Kwächâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;än Council.

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As per policy, preference will be given to those TKC Citizens who self-declare 0LEASE E MAIL YOUR INTEREST AND OR MENU BY January 29, 2016 to Bobbie +UFELDT AT RKUFELDT TAAN CA OR DROP OFF AT THE 4A AN +WĂ&#x2039;CH Ă&#x2039;N #OUNCIL &RONT $ESK

Resolution Health Support Worker/ Truth and Reconciliation Coordinator Closing Date: Location: Hours: Salary:

Until filled Whitehorse 37.5 hours per week full time 7A

Job Summary: Under the direction of the Director of Health and Social Development, the incumbent is responsible for collaborating with other governments (Yukon, Federal and First Nation) to assist in the strategic development of Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action, framework development and implementation. The position also requires to provide frontline emotional support to Indian Residential School claimants for the Yukon Region. The services of the support worker will include, but will not be limited to, providing a variety of frontline safety supports and coordination services directly to claimants. These services will be available before, during and after the claims process. By providing support and/or obtaining legal assistance for the claimants; assists claimants to understand his/her rights and responsibilities in the process; network and relationship building with private and government agencies, First Nations and lawyers. Responds to problems and special needs caused by communication barriers which exist between First Nation claimants and the judicial system. Maintains daily, weekly and monthly statistical forms; daily records and logs; monthly reports; and filing system for the program and ensure that all such records are kept accurate, up-to date and in strictest confidence. The position will also assist in supporting individuals that are learning about the Indian Residential School experience. The individual has to be an Indian Residential School former student or an intergenerational survivor.

Additional Information: Only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted. Yukon First Nations preferential hiring policy is applicable and must be clearly identified on application.

For further information and job description, please contact Renie Bruton at 867-393-9200 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)393-9200 Fax: (867)668-6577 E-mail: renie.bruton@cyfn.net

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YUKON NEWS TOOLS, VARIOUS carpenter & mechanical, some power tools, view at 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek. 633-6553

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3 TON chain hoist, never used, view at 49 Redwood Street, Porter Creek. 633-6553 WOMENS CLOTHING SALE Sunday, January 31st 11am - 3 pm Fundraiser Event Proceeds used for community outreach projects SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 1609 Birch St. (Basement)

SAME-DAY

TAX…INREFUNDS CASH!

Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782

Electrical Appliances

✔ Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed ✔ Everything over 8" split ✔ Prices as low as $245 per cord ✔ Single and emergency half cord deliveries ✔ Scheduled or next day delivery

KENMORE ENERGY Saver dishwasher, good working condition, free. 668-6446 or 336-1406 after 3pm ELECTRIC RANGE, Kenmore, flat glass top, clean condition, $100. 633-2837 WOOD-CABINET INFRARED heater, black.

Watts 1,500, like new, $80. 668-6303 after 7 pm BISSELL FULL Revolution System, extends dual suction power, powerful upright reduces to portable canister, press to detach. Extra roller. Works fine, $75 obo. Priced for quick sale, Hoge/4th. 867-689-5907

TVs & Stereos 27” CURTIS TV, older style, exc cond w/remote, $100 obo; Sylvania 19” older style TV, exc cond w/remote, $50 obo. 633-4656

Computers & Accessories CDMA PHONE, new in box, Samsung Ace i325 World Edition, works good in rural settings, c/w all accessories, $60. 334-6087

WHERE DO I GET THE NEWS?

IPHONE 4S Bell/Virgin, also Telus 16GB, both in good condition, $140 firm. 334-6087

Musical Instruments

The Yukon News is available at these wonderful stores in Whitehorse:

PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com 2005 GIBSON Les Paul studio guitar & case, vg cond, $1,350 obo. 332-0067

HILLCREST

PORTER CREEK

RIVERDALE:

Airport Chalet Airport Snacks & Gifts

Coyote Video Goody’s Gas Green Garden Restaurant Heather’s Haven Super A Porter Creek Trails North

38 Famous Video Super A Riverdale Tempo Gas Bar

Bernie’s Race-Trac Gas Bigway Foods

HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. Store (867) 633-3276

COIN OPERATED washer and dryer in good condition, $400. Call 633-4375

WHITEHORSE MONEY MART 2190 Second Avenue 867-668-6930 Open 7 Days A Week

GRANGER

Firewood

ACOUSTIC & hollow body electric guitars, very good cond, low & high end guitars.

332-1360 FENDER CHAMP 25 guitar amp, $250.

336-0783 ANNIVERSARY EDITION VOX AC15 amplifier, tubes, reverb, vibrato, Celestion Greenback speaker, red, new, $1,000. 332-0067

MasterCard

Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.

FRANKʼS FIREWOOD •Top quality, stacked cords for best value •8 foot & stove length •1/2 cord, single cord & multiple cords •Also offering rough cut lumber Phone 334-8960 CJʼS FIREWOOD Cut to length. $220 per cord.

Contact Bill at 867-335-4065 FIRE-KILLED SPRUCE FIREWOOD Very dry, clean burning $250/cord 16”x 3-cord load Larger loads available $200/cord if you cut & haul from my yard in town 333-5174 DJG CONTRACTING •Delivering logging truck loads •Single/multiple cord loads Call David at 867-332-8327 DRY STANDING FIREWOOD $220 - $250/cord depending on length 7 cord loads of 13ʼ, $200/cord Pick up in Haines Junction, $120/cord *Clean limbed *No rot, no green •20 years service in Yukon 334-9464 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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THE YUKON NEWS IS ALSO AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE IN ALL YUKON COMMUNITIES AND ATLIN, B.C.

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Professional Baker

café & food co.

Great opportunity for growth.

Experience required.

Salary depending on experience.

Formerly the Chocolate Claim

Apply in person @ 305 Strickland Street with resume or by email to info@theclaim.ca

SALVAGE SALE The following insurance salvage is up for bids. Salvage vehicles may have significant collision damages. Listed salvage is currently located at Irving Collision Repairs. GST will be added to all bids. It is offered on an “as is, where is” basis. The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted. Bids close at 6:00 p.m.

Monday, February 1, 2016. Contact Irving Collision Repairs (867-667-6315) for viewing appointment & information.

YEAR 2006 2005 2014 2003 2009 2007 2003 2003

MAKE Hyundai Nissan Toyota Nissan Dodge Subaru Toyota Buick

MODEL Accent Altima Rav4 Sentra Journey Forester Corolla Century

FILE NUMBER BRANDING 1006790 Salvage 997845 Salvage 993458 Salvage 949274 Salvage 981485 Salvage 996952 Non-Repairs 1002994 Salvage 9972191 Salvage

Friday, January 29, 2016 DONĘźS FIREWOOD Forestry Permit #2015 FWL 027-02 â&#x20AC;˘Junction Beetle Kill â&#x20AC;˘Stockpiled in Whitehorse â&#x20AC;˘Quick Daily Deliveries Social Services â&#x20AC;˘$240/Cord City Limits Phone 393-4397 ANDYĘźS FIREWOOD SERVICE Quality standing dry Haines Junction Full stacked, measured cords Scheduled deliveries Serving Yukoners for over 15 years Satisfaction guaranteed $245/cord 667-6429 msg or 335-0932

YUKON NEWS COPPER RIDGE Place is looking for volunteers to share time with seniors by assisting with bus trips. Please phone Catherine at 393-7508

2010 SUBARU Forester 2.5X Limited, exc cond, low km's at 58,000, everything works great, no issues, new battery, brakes, recent oil change, winter/summer tires. 335-0554

WANTED: ENOUGH brick for a 4x8 sheet of plywood. 335-5059

2005 FORD Taurus, 99,960kms, super clean, great family car, seats 6, new studded tires on aluminum wheels, $4,900 obo. Call or text 334-6709

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Fireweed Community Market Society, permanent part-time.

For full details see our posting on YuWIN or visit www.fireweedmarket.ca WANTED: SKIDOO Alpine double track to use as a school project. 667-6127 evenings

2008 SATURN Vue, new winter tires, excellent interior/exterior condition, well maintained. 336-2982 for more info

Cars

2007 SUBARU Impreza 2.5i w/5-spd manual & AWD, 114,000kms, good condition, c/w extra set of wheels, $9,200. 633-6799

FOX LAKE FIREWOOD â&#x20AC;˘Stove ready, delivered â&#x20AC;˘Clean, hot burn â&#x20AC;˘$220 per cord Call 334-3979 FIREWOOD FOR SALE Beetle-killed pine, dry Stored in Whitehorse Call for prices 867-689-5797 FIREWOOD FOR SALE Logging truck loads Approx 20 cord loads Beetle kill, tree length $3,150 within Whitehorse area Will deliver to communities within Yukon Territory and Atlin, BC Call 867-335-0894 or 867-335-1088 SPLIT FIREWOOD 16â&#x20AC;? lengths 3-cord loads $220/cord Delivered in city limits 333-5174

Guns & Bows LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY â&#x20AC;˘ SELL

2007 VW Passat 2L Turbo Wagon.

156,000km, pwr, leather, full service, recent engine work, runs great, $7,000. 334-5297

RUGER MODEL 77, 270 Winchester cal, as new, only fired 10 rounds, green/brown laminated stock, c/w Ruger scope rings, $900 obo. 335-4749 or 668-4726 WANTED: 45-70 rifle, Marlin or Henry. Call 668-7691 STAINLESS BROWNING Buckmark .22 semi-auto, exc cond, c/w extra mag, carry case, NcSTAR reflex sight & original iron sights, restricted PAL required, $500.

336-4124 SPRINGFIELD XDM semi-auto .45 ACP, exc, cond, c/w full range kit, carry case, 5 mags, factory ammo for sale at 2/3 original price, restricted PAL required, $1,000.

336-4124 SMITH & Wesson 460 XVR revolver, only 4 boxes shot through it, $1,500. 336-0783 SMITH & Wesson 500 magnum, only 2 boxes shot through it, $1,500. 336-0783 6.5 X 55 ammunition, hunting and military, about 80 rounds, $100. 633-2443 44 MAGNUM and .44 special brass, once-fired, large quantity, call to discuss price. 633-2443

Wanted VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for Copper Ridge Place store. No cash register experience required. One shift/week, Mon, Wed, or Fri, 12:00-2:30pm. Phone Catherine at 393-7508

1999 TOYOTA Sienna, well maintained, new windshield, front brakes, CV boots & summer tires, $3,500 obo. 633-5943

2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart

2001 FORD Taurus 4-dr, V8 auto, 4 new snow tires, $1,995. 336-2029

2.4L Mivec 5 speed manual transmission.

Power everything, A/C, aftermarket stereo & headlights, front strut tower bar, tinted windows, carbon fiber spoiler. Comes with winter tires on aluminum rims. Very clean.

NEW... brakes, timing belt, all pulleys, water pump & coolant. Transmission serviced, oil & filter changed. 170,000k No leaks anywhere. Bright yellow! $8,000 obo.

1997 FORD Contour V6, blue, 150,000 kms, very clean, imitation leather interior, sunroof, new tires, runs great, $2,000. 335-1088

1986 OLDS Ciera, 4 door sedan, vg shape, 77,000 kms, new battery, remote start, safety, $2,000. Call 633-4311

2012 CHEV Orlando LT, 40,000kms, excellent condition, clean, grey, up to 7 passengers, winter/summer tires, regularly maintained, extended warranty until October 2018, $16,500. 333-0072 after 5pm 2010 FORD Fusion, 92,000kms w/leather heated power seats both driver & passenger.

2 sets of tires, new battery. Blue tooth audio streaming, $10,000 obo, quick sale.

335-0545

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2005 Mercedes-Benz C-240 4-door Sedan 248,649 km.

Loaded, all options, new snow tires. $11,966 tel. 336-2029

We Sell Trucks!

2012 NISSAN Murano, Platinum Edition, fully loaded, nav system, new summer/winter tires on rims, heated front & back leather seats, AWD, ext warranty, exc cond, $29,500 obo. 334-6759

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2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid LE

2008 C H E V R O L E T Tahoe 4X4, 184,000kms, must be seen to be appreciated, $14,000 obo. 336-2982

STOCK # 7007

21,290

$

2008 FORD F-450, 50 XL, regular cab, long box dump body, dually diesel, 2WD, Marlene @ 333-1058 after 6pm

2010 Nissan Altima 3.5 SR 6 SPD STOCK # 7724A

2007 CHEV 2500HD crew cab 4X4, great unit, many options, trailer tow, fully serviced, new brakes & battery. 633-4311

19,435

$

2013 Toyota Tundra LTD Double Cab

2007 FORD F250 pick-up, V8 auto, Posi-track, $4,900. 336-2029

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2007 Toyota Tacoma X-Runner

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USED VEHICLE SPECIALS!!

2011 Kia Sorento LX V6 # 7596A....................................... $20,695 2014 Ford Fiesta Titanium # 7710B................................... $16,895 2012 Ford Transit Connect Wagon XLT # 7791A ...............$19,435 2013 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Limited # 7795A.............$44,199 2011 Chevrolet Silverado 3500HD LT # 7825A ................. $30,495 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee # 7824A ................................. $28,695 2013 Ford Escape SE 1.6L ECO # 7745A.......................... $22,900

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1989 CHRYSLER, good engine, new battery & muffler, needs tranny work, engine also fits Chrysler mini-van. 335-7208

Call or Text 867-335-7997

DOMINION ARMS 16-gauge single shot shotgun, new in box, unfired, blued, hardwood stock, $150. 633-2443 WINCHESTER MODEL 37 16-gauge single shot shotgun, vg cond, $250. 633-2443

2014 CHEVROLET Cruze LT, loaded, 1.4 ltr turbo auto, white/blk interior, 10,623km, shows like new, $12,000. 668-7455

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2003 GMC Jimmy, 212,000kms, clean, good running cond, new front end, brakes, fuel pump etc, 4WD is smooth, $3,600. 633-4590 2003 GMC Sierra, 4x4, running boards and tunnel cover. Approx 270,000 km, hwy miles.

Parked for half the month, well cared for.

Call/text Naomi 334-5249. shawn_triplett87@live.ca

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A loving wife, mother, sister and grandmother.

You are missed by so many family and friends.

We all Love you

and you will be forever in our hearts.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER,

Anne Nevin

who passed away on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016 at age 87.

We express our sincere appreciation to the nurses and staff at Copper Ridge Place who tended for her, cared for her and loved her. They will miss her sass and humor as much as we will. Thanks Mom, for reminding us of how life can be so rich and full of ďŹ&#x201A;avor.

You gave us and taught us LOVE. Thanks to all the wonderful folks who made her life so happy by sharing her table, scrabble games, smiles and nods. God Bless you.

Her heart of gold stopped beating.

Hard working hands at rest.

God broke our hearts, to prove to us, He only takes the best.

When we are sad and lonely, And everything goes wrong.

We seem to hear you whisper. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cheer up and carry on.â&#x20AC;?

Each time we see your photo.

You seem to smile and say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cry. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m only sleeping.â&#x20AC;?

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Funeral Services will be held on SATURDAY, JAN 30, 2016 AT 11:00 AM AT THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS 108 WICKSTROM ROAD IN WHITEHORSE. Arrangements made by Heritage North Funeral Home

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YUKON NEWS 1996 PLYMOUTH Voyager van, vg condition, clean and smooth, 280,000km, tinted windows, $2,200 obo. 322-1476 1971 GMC 1 ton Chev, 350 engine, standard, 2 door, can put a 12Ęź deck on it, dually, great fixer up truck, any reasonable offer accepted. 334-1343

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Help control the pet overpopulation problem

have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL

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1953 F100, project truck, Mustang front and 4-link rear, air ride, lots of parts, needs assembly, best offer. 667-4540 WANTED: '70-'72 GMC or Chevy 4WD, preferably 3/4 ton, in good driving condition, if partially or fully restored may be interested, V-8 engine & automatic preferred. 689-5818

Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 ARE MAX truck cap, fits Toyota Tundra, walk-in back door, back lifts up, roof racks, screen-vented sliding side windows, glass sliding front window, carpeted interior, $3,500 new, asking $1,500. 334-1636

TAITĘźS 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 RONĘźS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVĘźs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg JO'S SMALL ENGINE REPAIR â&#x20AC;˘Repairs to snowmobiles, snowblowers , chainsaws, outboards, lawnmowers and more. â&#x20AC;˘Shop rate $70 per hour, â&#x20AC;˘Lawnmowers and chainsaws $60 per hour.

Call Steve @ 633-6314 or 334-1628 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

4 WINTER Nokian extra load, 195/65R 15 RX, like new, $130 ea or $480 for set.

867-862-7047

HARDTOP CARTOP carrier, takes at least 100lb load, weather & ultra ray proof, safety latches, spring loaded hinges, mounting hooks, 14 cu ft, $100 obo. 867-689-5907 downtown

2012 SKIDOO Free Ride rotec, 800 e-tec, revXP, 137" track, $9,000. 335-6458 SNOWMOBILE LIFT from Princess Auto, keeps track off ground, new in box, paid over $80, asking $60. newellrt@yahoo.ca 2012 POLARIS Switchback Assault, mint condition, 6 hours running time, $8,000 obo.

Andy at 335-0844

Marine

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles 2013 SKANDIC Wide-track 600 E-TEC, full under-body skid plate, front bush bumper & rear HD bumper, good cold-weather start, exc cond, $11,000. Frank 390-2075

GOLD PLANT Trommel, 36Ęź long, 48â&#x20AC;? diameter, is on a 53Ęź triaxle high-boy, c/w extras, $105,000 obo + applicable taxes.

780-916-4247 lv msg WATER TRUCK, 1984 W900 and 4000 gal tank Bowie pump, fire hose manifold, new tires, certified, $22,200. Can be leased.

335-5192 SKIDDER 550 Timberjack, fresh motor, has 4000L water tank, large winch, full blade, $20,000. Can be leased. 335-5192 2009 BOBCAT CT 440, 44hp tractor w/backhoe & many other attachments, $25,000.

Can be leased. 335-5192 CATERPILLAR D6N, c/w 6-way blade and winch or ripper. About 6,300 hours, in like new condition. $105,000 fob Edmonton. jonathanganter@hotmail.com 780-289-4989 FORD 2000 tractor, c/w front-end loader, disc, plow, snow plow, 3 pt. hitch & PTO, like new tires, new seat, $8,500 obo. 633-2218

Campers & Trailers

Pets

CANINES & COMPANY Dog Obedience School Puppy training classes: March 9 Basic obedience class: March 9 Private Lessons Come When Called & Street Manners www.caninesandcompany.ca 333-0505

Heavy Equipment

FOR RENT Clark C25 indoor forklift, 4,500 lb capacity, 15Ęź lift & side shift; Hyster 4,000 lb power jack, 27â&#x20AC;?X48â&#x20AC;? forks.

Both for rent, weekly or monthly.

Call Kevin at 633-5274

4 MOTOMASTER AW all seasons, P185/70 R14, like new, w/rims, 5-stud. 867-862-7047

MISSING: ON North Alaska Highway, male neutered cat, black & white, long fur, 4 white paws, answers to Tuck or Bert. If found contact Mae Baechur shelter

1984 ZETA 24' Hard Top, 350/260 leg, 15hp kicker, dingy, barbecue, galley, head, canvas enclosure, GPS chart plotter fishfinder, radio, sleeps 5, tandem trailer, rough water boat, bottom paint, many extras, reasonable offers. 332-1374

PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467

TAITĘźS TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers For sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon

Coming Events FEAR OF public speaking? Fine tune your presentation skills? Toastmasters Open House Thursday February 4, 7pm-8:30pm, Main Library, snacks/bev. All welcome to observe. 204-880-7245 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 DEMENTIA INFORMATION session. Overview of types, symptoms, interventions and self-care. Saturday, January 30th, 10am 12:30 at Whitehorse United Church. Beverages and snacks provided. Info: Laura 393-7516

RUNNING AT LARGE...

If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

KIDS KREATE, free family art class at the Yukon Arts Centre, February 21 from 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4pm, lace stencils. Registration not required. Call 393-7109 for more information CHILKOOT TRAIL/LOG Cabin: Non-motorized weekend: Jan 8-10 & 29-31. Other weekends & weekdays: Multi-Use. For info: 867-667-3910

Holly

Buddy

Sweet Pea

Pet of the Week!

Ricco

Pandin

Diga

And more...

Bears

Dragon

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.

Come for a visit and meet your next furry family member!

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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Items can be dropped off at the Shelter during operating hours.

SHARE THE LOVE Feb 13. Gala event supporting Little Footprints Big Steps work in Haiti. Morgan Wienberg will be sharing, youth musicians, silent auction. Tickets Deans Music & Strings or 334-3928.

COFFEE HOUSE Sat. Feb 6. Featuring: Yk Women in Music + the Open Stage. Help set up 6pm + open stage sign-up, 7:30pm show. $5 bsmt United Church, 6th+ Main. 633-4255

Come on down & visit with ALL OF US at the shelter.

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HORAIRE PISTE Chilkoot/Log Cabin: Multi-usage sauf du 8 au 10 et du 29 au 31 janvier. activities non motorisees.

867-667-3910

Bluegrass Festival, Passes ($140) and on sale at Dean's Kluane Machine, and online:

VOLUNTEERING WITH Yukon Distress & Support Line @ Many Rivers. Interested in supporting the community through confidential telephone counselling? If so, email at ydsl@manyrivers.yk.ca to find out more.

633-6019 126 Tlingit Street

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MENTAL HEALTH Caregiver Support Group for those caring or supporting a friend or family member with a mental illness, third Thursday each month. 7-9pm #4 Hospital Road, 1st floor. Call 667-8346 THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. Group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info/register call Joanne 668-7713

Friday, January 29, 2016 YUKON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY SOCIETY announces Yukon IT Student Scholarship.

If you are 25 or under, and a Yukon resident attending a college, university or tech institute studying in the IT field, you may qualify for a scholarship of up to $1,000.

See our web page at www.yitis.ca/blog.

Or contact info@yitis.ca.

CANCER SUPPORT Group Appreciation for Life, past or present, Yukon peopleĘźs gathering. Next meeting is Feb 15, 6pm, Whitehorse Public Library. Contact Dawn 335-0009 ALL-CITY BAND presents Dessert & Dance featuring the Big Band & All-City Jazz Band, Saturday, February 13, 7pm, Mt. McIntyre Rec Centre. Home-baked desserts.

667-8044, ext 251, for more info 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 ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS â&#x20AC;&#x153;your quiet get awayâ&#x20AC;?

Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail glacierviewcabins@gmail.com www.glacierviewcabins.ca

CELEBRATE!

YUKON NEWS TODDLER STORY TIME: Wednesdays until Wed Mar 2 from 10:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11:30 a.m., 2 & 4 yrs. of age & caregiver, Whitehorse Public Library. Free drop-in BABY STORY TIME: Mondays until Feb 29, 10:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11:30 a.m., ages 6 - 24 months & caregiver, Whitehorse Public Library. Free drop-in THE SPACE Wants You, dance improvisation workshop with local artist Aimee Dawn Robinson. Part of Gwaandak TheatreĘźs Ensemble Theatre Training Series. All levels welcome. Feb. 1, 6-8:30pm, YAC Studio.

Register at 393-2676

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LA NOCTURNE, during the night of January 30 to 31, Yukon ĘťfaunaĘź of artists will light up Whitehorse with their works, opening doors to their most secret studios. 867-668-2663 | nocturne.afy.yk.ca

YDEC SPEAKER Series. Gwynne Dyer speaking on his latest book "Don't Panic" Isis, Terror, and today's Middle East. Thursday February 4th. 7:30pm, Yukon Arts Centre. Tickets from Yukon Arts Centre

FREE BOARD game Drop-In @ Titan Gaming, 10-305 Main St, Saturday January 30th, 12-5pm. Games provided, all are welcome.

Hosted by the Yukon Comic Culture Society.

More info: info@yukomicon.com

3RD ANNUAL Indoor Community Garage Sale. Hosted by Zero Waste Yukon & North Star Mini Storage. Saturday February 13th at Canada Games Centre. Sign up at 633-5402, $30 per booth.

BURNOUT TO Boundaries, free 6-session support group for adult women/men, Many Rivers, Fridays 11am-12:30pm, Feb. 12, 19, March 4, 18, April 1, 8. Call to register, space is limited. Kim 667-2970.

ACTIVE TRAILS Whitehorse Association Meeting Tuesday February 9, 7pm, Sport Yukon Boardroom #1. Agenda topic: Chadburn Lake Park Management Plan. All welcome. Info: www.activetwa.org.

SLIDE INTO German, free lessons every Saturday from 10am-11am. Join us at the Birch & Bear. Info Renate @ 334-6948

HAMLET OF Mount Lorne Local Advisory Council meeting February 2, 2016 at Mount Lorne Community Center, 7pm. Agenda on web site

JACK HULLAND School Council is holding it's regular council meeting, Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 7:00pm in the School Library. Everyone is welcome

THE ROTARY Music Festival invites Yukon youth aged 5 to 18 to create an artwork for its program cover. Check out the rules at www.rmfestival.ca. Deadline: February 1, 2016

ANNUAL GENERAL Meeting Whitehorse Rifle & PIstol Club. Sunday January 31, 2016. Meeting starts at 2 pm. Doors open at noon. Location: Clubhouse Grey Mountain Road.

SUMMER SALSA Dancing Party, 9:15pm to 12:30am. Free dance lessons at 9:15pm.

Saturday, January 30th at The Wheelhouse Restaurant, 2237 2nd Ave. salsayukon@gmail.com

F.H. COLLINS School Council regular meeting is being held at 6:30p.m. on Wednesday, February 3, 2016. Everyone welcome

HABITAT-FOR-HUMANITYĘźS NEW ĘťBrick for BrickĘź campaign; Kids need a solid foundation to grow and they need stability. Find out more at: www.habitat.ca/brickforbrick

TAGISH NATION Connections Gathering.

Come and bring your family history, share stories. Potluck meal. Whitehorse Public Library meeting room Saturday, February 6, 12:30pm-3:30pm. Call 689-9760 for more details

VOCAL JAZZ in the Hall. Lucie Desaulniers with a stellar 8 piece group, Strictly Bossa, delightful to your ears. Thursday, February 4th, 7pm, Old Fire Hall. Sponsored by Jazz Yukon.

TRIO LUCIE D + Karen Graves & Lonnie Powell Jazz House Concert Saturday, February 6th at 7:30pm, 12 Alsek. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. kimhdsn@gmail

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL RFP 2016-001 Whitehorse Hydro Control PLC Replacement

Yukon Energy Corporation is seeking proposals from qualiďŹ ed consultants/contractors to provide software conversion services to modernize the 18 year old Modicon Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) control system at the Corporationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s P125 hydro plant in Whitehorse, Yukon. The scope of the work includes the following: 9 Recommending new PLC CPU

SURVEY NOTICE Section 87(1) Quartz Mining Act

9 Recommending redundant PLC power supply 9 ,+3#/1'+% -/,%/ *0 1, +'15 /,

Situated in the Watson Lake Mining District in Quad 105 I/11 near Don Creek, Yukon

9 Commissioning support

Take notice that a survey has been made of the following mineral claims shown in Schedule A under instructions from the Surveyor General, and that at the termination of sixty days from the date of this notice the said survey shall be accepted as defining absolutely the boundaries of the said claims, unless in the meantime it is protested as provided in Section 75 of the Quartz Mining Act.

Sealed bids, clearly marked â&#x20AC;&#x153;RFP 2016-001: WHITEHORSE HYDRO CONTROL PLC REPLACEMENTâ&#x20AC;? will be received up to 4:00:00 p.m. Yukon time, Friday, February 19th, 2016, at the Corporationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main ofďŹ ce building, #2 Miles Canyon Road, Whitehorse, Yukon.

The plan of survey can be viewed at the office of the Mining Recorder, Watson Lake, Yukon.

To obtain a Request for Proposal package contact Matthew Sills at Yukon Energy Corporation, 867-393-5335 or e-mail at matthew.sills@yec.yk.ca.

Dated at Whitehorse, Yukon this 12th day of January, 2016 Gabriel Aucoin Underhill Geomatics Ltd. Agent for Selwyn Chihong Mining Ltd.

Births!

Birthdays!

Weddings!

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1 column x 3 inches Wed - $ s &RI $35.10

2 columns x 2 inches Wed - $ s &RI $46.80

2 columns x 3 inches Wed - $ s &RI $70.20

2 columns x 4 inches Wed - $ s &RI $93.60

Phone: 867-667-6285

211 Wood Street, Whitehorse

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SCHEDULE A Lot Quad 1 105 I/11 2 105 I/11 3 105 I/11 4 105 I/11 5 105 I/11 6 105 I/11 7 105 I/11 8 105 I/11 9 105 I/11 10 105 I/11 11 105 I/11 12 105 I/11 13 105 I/11 14 105 I/11 15 105 I/11 16 105 I/11 17 105 I/11 18 105 I/11 19 105 I/11 20 105 I/11 21 105 I/11 22 105 I/11 23 105 I/11 24 105 I/11 25 105 I/11 26 105 I/11 27 105 I/11 28 105 I/11 29 105 I/11 30 105 I/11 31 105 I/11 32 105 I/11 33 105 I/11 34 105 I/11 35 105 I/11 36 105 I/11 37 105 I/11

Name Nod 1 Nod 2 Nod 3 Nod 4 Nod 5 Nod 6 Nod 7 Nod 8 Nod 9 Nod 10 Nod 11 Nod 12 Nod 13 Nod 14 Nod 16 Nod 18 Nod 20 Nod 22 Nod 29 Nod 30 Nod 31 Nod 32 Nod 33 Nod 34 Nod 35 Nod 36 Nod 37 Nod 38 Nod 39 Nod 40 Nod 41 Nod 42 Nod 43 Nod 44 Nod 45 Nod 46 Nod 47

Grant No. YB49365 YB49366 YB49367 YB49368 YB49369 YB49370 YB49371 YB49372 YB49373 YB49374 YB49375 YB49376 YB49377 YB49378 YB49380 YB49382 YB49384 YB49386 YB49393 YB49394 YB49395 YB49396 YB49397 YB49398 YB49399 YB49400 YB49401 YB49402 YB49403 YB49404 YB49405 YB49406 YB49407 YB49408 YB49409 YB49410 YB49411

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SCHEDULE A Lot Quad 38 105 I/11 39 105 I/11 40 105 I/11 41 105 I/11 42 105 I/11 43 105 I/11 44 105 I/11 45 105 I/11 46 105 I/11 47 105 I/11 48 105 I/11 49 105 I/11 50 105 I/11 51 105 I/11 52 105 I/11 53 105 I/11 54 105 I/11 55 105 I/11 56 105 I/11 57 105 I/11 58 105 I/11 59 105 I/11 60 105 I/11 61 105 I/11 62 105 I/11 63 105 I/11 64 105 I/11 65 105 I/11 66 105 I/11 67 105 I/11 68 105 I/11 69 105 I/11 70 105 I/11 71 105 I/11 72 105 I/11 73 105 I/11 74 105 I/11

LAND LOTTERY Name Nod 48 Nod 49 Nod 50 Nod 51 Nod 52 Nod 53 Nod 54 Nod 77 Nod 78 Nod 79 Nod 80 Nod 81 Nod 82 Nod 85 Nod 86 Nod 83F Nod 84F Nod 87F Nod 108F Nod 107F Nod 90F Nod 91F Nod 92F Nod 93F Nod 94F Nod 95F Nod 96F Nod 97F Nod 103F Nod 104F Nod 101F Nod 102F Nod 98F Nod 99F Nod 100F Nod 105F Nod 106F

Grant No. YB49412 YB49413 YB49414 YB49415 YB49416 YB49417 YB49418 YC74017 YC74018 YC74051 YC74052 YC74053 YC74054 YC74025 YC74026 YC74055 YC74056 YC74057 YF47356 YF47355 YF47338 YF47339 YF47340 YF47341 YF47342 YF47343 YF47344 YF47345 YF47351 YF47352 YF47349 YF47350 YF47346 YF47347 YF47348 YF47353 YF47354

Dawson City and Haines Junction Energy, Mines and Resources, Land Management Branch is holding a land lottery for: â&#x20AC;˘ One country residential and five residential lots in Dawson City â&#x20AC;˘ One residential lot in Haines Junction Information packages and application forms are available at the EMR District offices in Dawson City and Haines Junction; from the Land Management Branch, 3rd Floor, Room 320 Elijah Smith Building, 300 Main Street, Whitehorse, Yukon; or online at: www.emr.gov.yk.ca/lands Deadline is before 4:30 p.m., Thursday, February 25, 2016.

Lottery Applications for the Haines Junction lot must be received in Whitehorse before the deadline. Applications for the Dawson lots must be received in Whitehorse or Dawson City before the deadline.

Lottery Draw: All applications will be drawn in the Dawson City Council Chambers at 12:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 1, 2016.

Applicants and the general public are welcome to attend the draw. All successful applicants will be notified the next day.

For more information contact the Land Management Branch at (867) 667-5215 or Toll-free 1-800-661-0408 local 5215

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PUBLIC TENDER PURCHASE OF ONE (1) WOOD CHIPPER AND TWO (2) ROOT GRAPPLES FOR A S590 BOBCAT Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 18, 2016. 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 Jo-Anne Tingley at joanne.tingley@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

Friday, January 29, 2016

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PUBLIC TENDER CHAMPAGNE SOLID WASTE FACILITY MAINTENANCE Project Description: To provide equipment to maintain the Solid Waste Facility at Champagne Solid Waste Facility Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 11, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Darrin Fredrickson at darrin.fredrickson@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

ELIJAH SMITH School Council is holding it's regular council meeting, Tuesday, February 2, 2016, at 6:30pm, in the School Library.

Everyone is welcome COMMUNITY MIDWIFERY Association Yukon Annual General Meeting Monday, February 29 from 6pm-8pm at the Whitehorse Public Library Meeting Room

THE DIOCESE of Whitehorse welcomes all to the Installation Mass of Bishop-Elect Hector Vila on Sunday February 7th at 10 a.m.

Vanier Catholic Secondary School, 16 Duke Rd

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

WOMENS CLOTHING SALE Sunday, January 31st 11am - 3 pm Fundraiser Event Proceeds used for community outreach projects SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 1609 Birch St. (Basement)

TCM MAID SERVICE Reliable, Thorough & Professional Reasonable Rates References available 336-8555

INTRODUCTION TO Haven Approach.

Learn to be more aware, relational, curious and self-responsible Friday evening, Saturday & Sunday, February 12, 13, & 14 in Whitehorse. Gisela at 335-4150 for info U16 STRIKERS soccer team bottle drive fundraiser Sunday February 7, 10am-2pm in Porter Creek to lessen cost of travel to Greenland for Arctic Winter Games in March.

Thanks for your support.

GO DIGITAL

Services BUSY BEAVERS Pruning, Hauling, and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 TLC Continuing Care & Homecare Services Certified, licensed, bondable, safe, reliable Works with all ages Certified nursing home attendant Also available for escort services to appointments and shopping 334-7405 LITTLE DUTCH CLEANING LADY •Retired Nurse •Light duty nursing •Household cleaning •Assist with shopping Contact Ineke.p@hotmail.com Phone 867-334-3043 Also on Facebook ELECTRICIAN •Licensed •General Handyman Services •Light Carpentry, Drywall, etc •Free Estimates •10% Seniorʼs Discount 334-0974

INCREASE YOUR REACH to your customers by advertising online at

PASCAL REGINE PAINTING PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Interior-Exterior Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Small drywall repair Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

Call the Yukon News advertising team at 667-6285.

LOW COST MINI STORAGE

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

ADMINISTRATION OF YUKON RECYCLING CLUB 2016-2018 MARKETING AGENCY OF RECORD

Project Description: Administration of the Yukon Recycling Club for 2016 – 2018; a program which includes soliciting suppliers, club membership registration, and bookkeeping, Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 11, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Darrin Fredrickson at darrin.fredrickson@gov.yk.ca.

Project Description: The Department of Tourism and Culture (Tourism Yukon) is seeking a Marketing Agency of Record Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 25, 2016. 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 robin.anderson@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

Community Services

Tourism and Culture

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Now 2 locations: Porter Creek & Kulan.

Onsite & offsite steel containers available for rent or sale.

Phone 633-2594 Fax 633-3915

OFFICE LOCATED BESIDE KLONDIKE WELDING, 15 MacDONALD RD., PORTER CREEK, info@lowcostministorage.ca

Available for Lease Restaurant Space The Na-Cho Nyak Dun Development Corporation (NNDDC) is seeking Expressions of Interest for the lease of NNDDC Restaurant located on Front Street in Mayo, Yukon. ࡄ ࡄ ࡄ

Available in March or April Private residence included $2,500 per month

Expressions of Interests will be accepted up to the 12th of February 2016.

Proposals should include: ࡄ Resume ࡄ Operational plan ࡄ Proposed Menu for breakfast, lunch, and dinner Submit proposals to: Na-Cho Nyak Dun Development Corporation Suite 2 - 4230 – 4th Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1K1 or email coo@nnddc.ca 867- 456-4340

IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowing” All Subdivisions & acreages off Mayo Rd, MacPherson, Hidden Valley, Pilot Mountain & Hot Springs Rd. Honest & Prompt Service Call 667-4981 or 334-6369 EXPERT CARPENTRY •All types of projects •Commercial & residential •New construction & renovations •Interior & exterior •Fine finishing 334-5231 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

Lost & Found MISSING: ON North Alaska Highway, male neutered cat, black & white, long fur, 4 white paws, answers to Tuck or Bert. If found contact Mae Baechur shelter LOST: SMALL L-G camera in strawberry pouch on January 18 between 6th & 9th Streets. Call T&M Hotel at 668-7644 or leave it there.

LOST: BLUE woman's leather wallet on Sunday January 24, from the downtown area. No questions asked, just want my ID back. 668-6658

Good Night!

Wind up your day with everything you need.

867-667-6283

PUBLIC TENDER REPAIR OF WATER DELIVERY TRUCK, ROSS RIVER Project Description: Minor and Major Repairs to the Ross River Water Delivery Truck.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 10, 2016. 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 rob.anderson@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

Community Services

Friday, January 29, 2016

BRAEBURN LAKE CHRISTIAN CAMP now accepting resumes for Director and Assistant Director for 2016 camp season. Honorarium.

Deadline Feb 29 and April 1, respectively. www.braeburncamp.ca Questions, job descriptions and resumes to stellamartin1981@hotmail.com 668-4629

Looking for NEW Business / Clients?

Advertise in The Yukon News Classifieds!

Take Advantage of our 6 month Deal...

Advertise for 5 Months and

Get 1 MONTH OF FREE ADVERTISING Book Your Ad Today!

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Sports Equipment FREE MOTION 955R elliptical, purchased new in 2015, used less than 5 hours, $750 obo.. 633-5804

HAY FOR SALE •Dry bales kept under a shelter •Great quality hay 60-70 lb bales, $10 633-4496 or mikeandastra@me.com QUALITY YUKON MEAT No hormones, steroids or additives Grass raised grain finished.

Hereford beef - $5.50/lb Domestic wild boar - $7/lb Order now for guaranteed spring or fall delivery.

Whole, half or custom order.

Samples available 668-7218 • 335-5192

KING SIZE steel HD bed frame w/wheels & head/foot board supports, exc cond, $75 obo. 633-4656

Personals CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community?

Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime.

Info: RCMP 867-667-5555 DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office

For Sale

Livestock

2010 Polaris IQ Widetrak

HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix No weeds or sticks Small squares 60 lbs plus 4 ft x 5 ft rounds 800 lb Free delivery for larger orders Straw square bales available 335-5192 • 668-7218

The unit has approximately 3,200 kms, and is for sale on an as is, where is basis, with no warranty provided.

The unit was recently serviced at Checkered Flag.

PUBLIC TENDER HEATING FUEL FOR OLD CROW Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 22, 2016. 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 Jo-Anne Tingley at joanne.tingley@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

Highways and Public Works

Bids will be accepted at purchasing@yukoncollege. yk.ca by Noon, February 5th.

The successful bidder must pay cash, or certified cheque at the College by February 10th and remove the unit by February 19th.

The College reserves the right to not accept any bid.

Viewing can be arranged by calling 668-8760.

REQUEST FOR QUOTATION

RFQ 2016-PKT0001

WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB January 26, 2016 1st - Bill Curtis & Chic Callas 2nd - Mark Davey & Chris Bookless 3rd - Cheryl Ming & Stan Marinoske 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

USED TABLE & chairs, $50; solid oak with tinted glass coffee table incl end tables, $200; new ceiling fans w. lights, $50 ea.

332-1360

ROSS RIVER WATER TREATMENT FACILITY - OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE

Supply and Delivery of Turf Grass Fertilizer

FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office

CORNER CABINET, cherry wood, 2 shelves w/bottom cupboards, would hold 30” TV, 3ʼWx5ʼHx18”D, exc cond, $195. 633-4656

HAY FOR SALE Small square brome bales, $12.

Call 668-2407

PUBLIC TENDER

SERTA ICOMFORT Memory Foam mattress & frame, double. Allergic to foam, used once.

Paid $1500, asking $1000 firm. 332-3058

CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903

3-PERSON SOFA, suede finish, sage green, very comfortable, in exc condition, $140.

668-6303, after 6pm

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LARGE DARK wood office desk w/matching credenza, good cond, 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek. 633-6553

Baby & Child Items

Furniture

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Closing February 25, 2016 at 4:00 pm Visit whitehorse.ca/ procurement for details

www.whitehorse.ca NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS SECURITY PATROL SERVICES YUKON HOUSING UNITS WHITEHORSE YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 24, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Kimberley Sharp at kimberley.sharp@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 10, 2016. 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 rob.anderson@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

Heather Lynn Klassen, of Whitehorse, Yukon, Deceased, who died on November 18, 2015, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executor at the address shown below, before the 1st day of February, 2016, after which date the Executor will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which they have notice.

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AND FURTHER, all persons who are indebted to the Estate are required to make payment to the Estate at the address below.

BY: Geraldine Van Bibber c/o Lackowicz & Hoffman Suite 300, 204 Black Street Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2M9 Tel: (867) 668-5252 Fax: (867) 668-5251

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Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number Numéro de la demande

Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire

PM15-090

535969 Yukon Inc.

PM15-083

Andre Fournier

Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu

Eldorado & Bonanza Creeks, Tributary of Klondike River and Bonanza Creek Rude Creek, Tributary of Dip Creek

Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice.

Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.

Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise

Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h

Placer

February 24, 2016

Placer

February 24, 2016

Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis.

Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.

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Word Scramble A: Derogate B: judgment C:Megillah

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