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Week one of Nehass hearing concludes to his wrist to restrict arm movement, Graham said. They would only talk through the hatch in the door. he first week of a The goal was to eventually hearing into the have him without shackles Whitehorse Corand interacting with other rectional Centre’s inmates in the secure living treatment of Michael Nehass unit. Graham testified that did wrapped up in Yukon Supreme eventually happen. She said Court yesterday. she stopped working with NeA second week of testihass some time after that. mony is planned for the end When asked if she had of February. If needed, more concerns about Nehass being time has been scheduled later housed in the secure living in the year. unit, Graham said she “would Nehass alleges his treatlike to see him succeed. But ment in the Yukon’s only jail wouldn’t say I had concerns.� has violated his rights. He The majority of yesterday’s wants the judge to take that court time was taken up by into consideration before sen- videos of the incident in Janutencing him for crimes he was ary 2014 when Nehass was convicted of in May. brought, without any clothes, Nehass has been held in from his segregation cell to a jail since December 2011. It’s video court appearance. clear that the majority of that The first video – apparently time has been away from the from inside Nehass’s cell – general population, either was not shown to the public in segregation or in the jail’s gallery. Nehass has testified secure living unit. that he was not wearing any But so far, no one has been clothes when the guards, in called to give any detailed their riot gear, came to get evidence or timeline about the him. conditions Nehass has been Nehass and his lawyer did living in while in either of agree to show the public other those units. clips. Most are very short and Nehass’s lawyer, Sarah don’t include sound. Rauch, told judge Scott They show clips of Nehass Brooker she had subpoenaed being brought from his cell, the jail’s deputy superintendown hallways and into an dent Geoff Wooding to appear elevator before arriving in the this week, but was told he had room set up for him to take retired. Rauch said she would part in court proceedings over like him to testify in person, video. with all of Nehass’s records. Nehass has guards at his Brooker agreed that Woodarms and legs and is being ing’s testimony is important carried face down. and re-subpeoned him for In most of the clips shown when the hearing continues. in court it appears a beige One corrections officer did towel was draped over Netestify. Sarah Graham testified hass’s lower half. In other she worked with Nehass as a clips, the quality of the video programs officer over “a few makes it hard to say for cermonths.� tain. Sometime around FebruNone of the guards present ary 2015 she took pictures, at that morning has testified. Nehass’s request, of abrasions In the video room, a staand scar tissue on his ankles. tionary camera shows three, Nehass has said that’s from sometimes four, guards pinthe shackles he was forced to ning Nehass to the ground wear for long periods of time. while others stand at the door. When she first started Only one of the videos working with Nehass he was played in court had sound. It required to wear shackles as is from a hand-held camera well as “belly chains� attached recording the incident. Ashley Joannou News Reporter
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It mostly shows Nehass in the video room as well as a few moments before. He is moaning at times, but also angry. “You have no right to treat me like this!â€? he shouts at the guards. He yells that he has only had “maybe 60â€? showers in two years. “I have the right to fresh air, I have the right to phone calls‌ What you’re doing to me is hell.â€? When not yelling about the way he is being treated, Nehass launches into his conspiracy theory, which he believes is the reason he’s being kept behind bars. He insists that he has been sterilized. Inside the video room, the voice of Yukon Justice Leigh Gower can be heard over Nehass. Gower was presiding over the hearing. Gower repeatedly asks Nehass, who is still pinned to the ground, to stop talking while Nehass continues to insist that he is a sovereign individual protected by UN law. Eventually the judge consults with the guards and they move Nehass from the ground to a chair. “Cover up my penis so they don’t see it on camera,â€? Nehass says. A guard tells the judge he is putting his hand in front of the camera. After Nehass is placed in the chair he continues to talk about his theories. Gower steps in and orders Nehass be assessed to see if he is fit to stand trial. That assessment did happen and at first Nehass was found unfit. That decision was later overturned by the Yukon Review Board. On the stand, prosecutor Eric Marcoux suggested that guards had in fact offered to give Nehass something to wear, but he refused. Nehass denied that. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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Liard First Nation members decry resource pact with Yukon government Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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group of concerned Liard First Nation members are speaking out against their council’s lack of consultation prior to signing a resource agreement with the Yukon government last week. “People are really upset about that signing,” said Alfred Chief, spokesperson for Kaska Concerned about Land Protection and Good Government. “It came as a total surprise to everybody.” The agreement in question, signed between the Yukon government and the Kaska Nation, sets out a plan for negotiating resource management and economic development on Kaska territory. The chiefs of the Ross River Dena Council and the Liard First Nation have both signed, as has the chairperson of the Kaska Dena Council, which represents the Kaska in B.C. The agreement also includes a payment of $500,000 to the Liard First Nation for “community wellness and capacity development.” Chief said it’s another decision in a series of many that was made without consulting Liard First Nation members. Two of the First Nation’s four councillors have resigned and have yet to be replaced, he said. Chief said he wonders if it’s legal for the First Nation to make important decisions in that situation.
Moreover, no regular council meetings or general assemblies have been held since Chief Daniel Morris was elected in Dec. 2013, he said. There is even talk of a lawsuit against the First Nation. “If the band office can sue the government for not consulting it, I’d like to think the band members can sue the band office and the government for not consulting,” he said. The First Nation has been under third-party management since Aug. 2014. That’s when Ottawa appointed a manager to straighten out the First Nation’s financial mess. As of late 2014 the First Nation still owed Aboriginal Affairs over $400,000. It has yet to provide its financial statements for 2014-15, which it was supposed to do by last summer. The Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada describes the measure as a last resort, to be taken as a temporary measure to ensure the continued delivery of programs and services to the community. But 18 months later, chief and council have yet to cooperate with the third-party manager and some services have ceased altogether, Chief said. Even the band office hasn’t re-opened. “The third-party manager has taken over the health department so some arrangements have been made to send people out for treatment,” he said. “But other than that, it’s same old. Some elders aren’t getting
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Liard First Nation elder Alfred Chief, spokesperson for Kaska Concerned about Land Protection and Good Government, says the recent signing of a resource agreement between the Kaska Nation and the Yukon government came as a surprise. their usual quotas of wood while others are running out of oil. “And houses aren’t being repaired like they should be.” Rick Massie, a spokesperson with Aboriginal Affairs, said the third-party manager would
continue to work with Liard First Nation’s chief and council to manage funding that comes in from other sources, such as resource agreements with the territorial government. When asked to explain why
the Yukon government had given the First Nation the funding, a spokesperson for the aboriginal relations branch said the government would continue its relationship with the Liard First Nation “even though it’s working through an issue with the Government of Canada.” “The Yukon government is not part of any discussions or decisions related to the third party management and it does not affect any financial arrangements between Yukon government and Liard First Nation,” said ShariLynn MacLellan. Chief said his group, which has about 20 members, was created last year “to give people a voice.” It’s concerned about where that money will ultimately end up. “We’re worried it might end up in his (Morris’s) pocket,” he said. “There’s no transparency for how any money is being spent.” Morris did not respond to a request for comment. Doug Eyford, the Yukon government’s chief negotiator, said last week the Yukon government would monitor how the money is being spent. The agreement forbids the Kaska from using any of the funding for litigation purposes. Chief said he’d like to see an early election called so that a new government can cooperate with the third-party manager and “get people back to work.” Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
Supreme Court to settle spat over contentious Dome Road placer claims Maura Forrest News Reporter
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dispute between two owners of a set of controversial placer mining claims in Dawson City was heard in Yukon Supreme Court this week. Darrell Carey and Rod Adams want to dissolve their company, 47162 Yukon Inc. But they both want to keep some or all of the 25 claims they purchased together on the east side of the Dome Road in 2013. Carey and Adams haven’t mined the claims since 2013 because of a disagreement over how the mine should be run. On Thursday, the court heard that Adams wants the 25 claims to be put up for a sealed-bid auction, meaning both he and Carey would put forward bids without knowing how much the other had bid. The bids would each have to be at least $500,000, which is what the claims were worth in 2013.
“They haven’t increased in value in that time,” Adams’ lawyer, Meagan Hannam, told Justice Ron Veale. But Carey hasn’t agreed to a sealed-bid auction, because he believes he doesn’t stand a chance of winning the claims. “He knows that Rod Adams is a much wealthier man than he is,” Carey’s representative, Barry Ernewein, told the court. “And he knows he’ll get outbid.” Instead, Carey wants to split the 25 claims with Adams. He’s proposing a split that would leave him with 16 claims and Adams with nine. The claims he wants to keep are adjacent to his existing Slinky mine claims. The claims he’s proposing to give to Adams are in two separate blocks along a creek bed further east of the Dome Road. There is also some readyto-sluice ground on the claims Carey wants to keep, but he’s proposing to split that with Adams as well. Though Carey would end up
with the majority of the claims if his plan were adopted, he said that many of them are already mined out. “I’m just trying to make it easy for everybody, that’s all,” he told the court. But Hannam said Adams isn’t interested in splitting the claims. “We received a letter proposing this about a month ago, and we declined it,” she explained. One of the issues is that much of the area hasn’t been properly sampled for gold. That makes it difficult to know which claims are most valuable. “Splitting them in half doesn’t ensure that each stakeholder gets equal value,” Hannam argued. She also expressed doubt that Carey actually would split the ready-to-sluice ground with Adams. Hannam argued that a sealed-bid auction would be fairer because it would ensure that both men “receive value” from the claims. If Adams jacks
up his bid to be sure he outbids Carey, she pointed out, then Carey gets a larger windfall. “At the end, everyone comes out with value from this process,” she said. “It’s just a question of what form it takes.” During the hearing, Veale said that standard practice would be to put the claims up for sealed bids. But he seemed to acknowledge that Carey and Adams are not on the same financial footing. “I guess the evidence is that having the sealed bid gives Mr. Adams a distinct advantage,” he said. He referred to Carey as the miner and Adams as the “money man” in the joint operation. Ernewein stressed that point, suggesting that Adams doesn’t really have an interest in mining, while Carey has done it all his life. Carey also made an emotional appeal to Veale. “I just always wanted to be a miner,” he said. “I started when I was younger, and I hope I can finish when I’m
older.” Hannam stressed the importance of reaching a resolution quickly, if either party hopes to mine the claims this season. She said it’s already unclear whether that will be possible. These 25 placer claims made news last December, when it came to light that Carey had applied for a 10-year permit to mine the claims, raising concerns among some Dawson residents. Shortly after that, Adams informed the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board that he didn’t support the application, which brought the process to a halt. At the time, Adams said he hadn’t known about Carey’s application until he saw it in the news. Both men plan to mine the Dawson claims if they retain ownership. Veale will deliver his decision at 3 p.m. on Friday. Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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presented to the Yukon government during its upcoming spring session of the legislative assembly. After that, it’ll have to be sent to lmost 50 years since it launched a contest to design Ottawa – in English and in Latin – for final approval, he added. the Yukon’s territorial flag, Participants need to remember the Whitehorse Branch of the Royal the search is for a motto, and not a Canadian Legion is now looking for slogan, Grossinger said. the perfect motto. Slogans are usually simpler The contest, announced last and catchier than mottos. They’re week, encourages Yukoners past normally used by companies to and present to come up with a phrase that reflects the beliefs and help attract loyal customers or by religious organizations to attract spirit of the territory. members. It’s part of the legion’s plan to Yukon Tourism’s slogan, for commemorate Canada’s 150th example, is “Come to my Yukon – anniversary next year, said legion we’ll light the way.” vice-president Red Grossinger. Mottos, on the other hand, “We’re looking for a motto that reflect a belief or ideal and help to is identifiable with the Yukon, descriptive and reflective of what the motivate people. British Columbia’s motto, Splenterritory is like,” he said. “It also has to be original, mean- dor Sine Occasu, means “splendor without diminishment,” and refers ingful and inspirational.” to the idea of the sun never setting The contest is open for the entire month of February. Grossinger over the British Empire. “Hopefully people will underhopes the winning motto can be Myles Dolphin
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Plans for Casino mega-mine under criticism Maura Forrest News Reporter
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he Yukon government, several First Nations and various federal departments are expressing concerns about plans for the Casino project, which would be the largest mine in the territory’s history. Many of the criticisms focus on the proposed mine’s tailings pond, which would be permanent after the mine’s closure and would require ongoing management. The comments have been submitted to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board in response to a supplementary information report provided by Casino Mining Corporation. That report was submitted in December. The various parties say the mining company still hasn’t provided enough information about the project to allow it to move forward for environmental assessment. In its comments, Yukon’s Department of Energy, Mines and Resources says the mining company hasn’t done enough to analyze potential impacts of a tailings dam failure, or to examine alternatives to a tailings pond. “The tailings management facility proposed by Casino Mining Corporation will create a longterm liability for Yukon,� it states. “There is no profit to be generated from the Casino site after closure, but only ongoing costs to be incurred forever. These ongoing costs are not insignificant, and amount to over a million dollars a year. “Apart from the financial liability, there is an environmental liability. Failure of the tailings management facility, even if the probability of failure is extremely low, would result in significant and potentially irreversible impacts to the environment.�
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The Casino site is seen from the air in 2015. The Yukon government and several First Nations are voicing concerns about the potential mine’s tailings pond. Environment Yukon also requested more information about potential impacts on wildlife, especially caribou. Tr’ondek Hwech’in and Selkirk First Nation echoed the Yukon government’s concerns about the tailings dam in their comments. “(A) continuing concern is that of the design of the tailings impoundment, which was developed in 2012 and hasn’t changed since originally presented in the project proposal of 2014,� according to the report from Tr’ondek Hwech’in. Both First Nations recommended that the mining company do more to analyze alternatives, like drying the tailings instead of keeping them in a pond. For their part, Little Salmon Carmacks and White River First Nations both stressed the need for traditional land use studies
specific to individual First Nations. “Much of the information used by the proponent... is generalized and non-specific information about the practices of First Nations.... This is contrary to industry best practices which require First Nation-specific studies,� reads the report submitted by White River First Nation. White River First Nation’s representatives also commented that the mining company has not provided any funding to help the First Nation review the proposal. “This continues to cause White River First Nation significant concern as it cannot conduct an adequate review of the proposal without funding.� Natural Resources Canada and Fisheries and Oceans Canada have also submitted comments. And the Canadian Northern
Economic Development Agency has issued a letter concluding that “as is outlined in more detail in the federal departments’ specific submissions... the federal view is that sufficiency of information remains a problem at this stage of the assessment.� This is the second time YESAB has asked Casino Mining Corporation to provide additional information about the project, and the second time that First Nations and government departments have found the company’s response inadequate. The company first submitted its proposal for the Casino project in January 2014. But YESAB spokesperson Rob Yeomans said that’s not uncommon for a project of this size. “I think for us it’s a very large project, the largest in Yukon’s history. So to that end, we’ve been
asking for quite a bit of information and detail.� He added that the company has been “very responsive� to YESAB’s information requests. “I think in this case, the proponent’s worked with us fairly well.� Keith Maguire, a development assessment process manager with the government’s executive council office, agreed. “Each time we review it, there are fewer and fewer outstanding issues. Things are coming to a place where we’re comfortable coming to a screening.� But Lewis Rifkind of the Yukon Conservation Society said he thinks it’s unusual to see government departments voicing such serious concerns about a project at this stage. He suspects they’re reacting to the 2014 Mount Polley disaster, when an Imperial Metals tailings dam burst and released 25 million cubic metres of contaminated water and mining waste into B.C. waterways. “Suddenly there’s an awareness that ... these large-scale tailings dams, maybe it’s not the way to go.� Rifkind called the tailings dam a “show-stopper� for the Casino project – a single issue that could set back the entire development. “The questions being raised are big, project-killing questions,� he said. “Is this going to stand up?� YESAB will make its decision about the supplementary information report on Feb. 19. It can decide to put out a third request for more information from the company, or it can move the project forward for environmental assessment. Paul West-Sells, president of Western Copper and Gold, the company that owns the Casino project, declined to comment on the process before YESAB has made its decision. Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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n Saturday the 11-member Aarafat family ended their long journey from Syria to their new home in Whitehorse. The arrival of the territory’s first family of refugees from the war-torn country serves as a reminder of a few things. First, their arrival wouldn’t have been possible without the selfless work done of the volunteers with Yukon Cares, who have sponsored the family. The group has so far raised $63,800, while the Yukon government has promised to commit another $18,500. This money will help the family get by during their first year – as privately sponsored refugees, they don’t receive government support. The Aarafat’s sponsors are also responsible for finding the family a place to live, helping place their children in school, helping the adults find jobs and otherwise help them integrate into the community. The family members currently speak little English and find themselves in a culture and climate that’s wildly different from what they are accustomed. It’s a tribute to the generosity of Yukoners that many residents are eager to provide this help. That’s notwithstanding the disingenuous grumbling you hear from some quarters about how we should focus our efforts on helping poor Canadians, rather than take in more needy. Based on this reasoning, we suppose Canadians should, as a rule, refuse to help anyone from outside our borders. For if the greatest refugee crisis that Europe has faced since the Second World War doesn’t justify a collective response by the world’s developed countries, what, pray tell, does? Also, call it a hunch, but the characters who make these remarks do not sound like they are terribly devoted to righting the Yukon’s wrongs in the first place – whereas many involved with Yukon Cares are easily recognized as already being deeply involved in other charitable work. So this is not an either-or proposition. The arrival of the Aarafats also serves as a reminder of the many things Yukoners take for granted, by virtue of having won the genetic lottery and being born in one of the most peaceful and prosperous countries in the world. For all of our territory’s problems – which we spend a great amount of ink in this newspaper dwelling upon – they are mere trifles compared to the hellish conditions that Syrians have had to endure over the past five years. It all began when the Arab Spring reached Syria, and large numbers of residents decided to stand up against their dictator and demand the sort of democratic rights that Canadians so often take for granted. The country’s president, Bashar al-Asad, responded with a brutal crackdown, and Syria was soon engulfed in an all-out civil war. Imagine living in a country in which its leader uses its air force to rain crude barrel bombs upon the population, reducing major cities to rubble. Or where the government has repeatedly used chemical weapons on its own civilians, despite Barack Obama’s hollow warnings that doing so would cross a “red line.� Or where starvation has lately been
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Syrian citizens gather at the scene where twin bombs exploded at a government-run security checkpoint in the Homs province of Syria on Tuesday. used as a weapon by pro-government forces against entire towns, with ghastly results. Syria’s civil war has also created a power vacuum into which the Islamic State has stepped, eager to impose its demented, bloodthirsty interpretation of its religion onto an already terrorized populace. This all helps explain why so many Syrians have been willing to risk their lives by fleeing to neighbouring countries on rickety boats, frequently with tragic results. The conflict has now claimed more than 250,000 lives. Twelve million Syrians – that’s half the country – are homeless. And the reality is that countries like Canada have stood by and watched Syria burn. Many in the western world felt the last thing their countries needed was to become bogged down in another Middle Eastern military intervention. But sitting on our hands has not been without consequence, either. There has been one good reason to be wary of providing weapons to Asad’s allies – some are Islamic extremists who may turn those same weapons against our soldiers in the future. But Western leaders could have listened to the pleas of Syrian moderates and enforced a no-fly zone to ensure Asad’s airforce remained grounded. We didn’t, largely because Asad’s ally, Russia’s Vladimir Putin,
didn’t like the idea. Now, an emboldened Russia is flying its own sorties in Syria, and while it insists it is focussed on attacking terrorists, it also seems content to bomb anyone fighting Asad. It’s conceivable that greater efforts by the West a few years ago could have strengthened the hands of those seeking to topple the dictator. But now, with Russia’s help, anti-government forces are being trampled and Asad now has the upper hand. The situation in Syria is fiendishly complicated, with some commentators reckoning that the country has become engulfed in a proxy war between a dozen other countries, driven by rivalries between Sunni and Shia factions within Islam, struggles between the United States and Russia, and more. Asad and the Islamic State are fighting one another, and yet Asad also depends on the Islamic terrorists – for as long as they pose a credible threat, some will view him as the lesser of evils. It is, in short, a great big mess – and one that the world, including Canada, sat and watched happen. We can’t undo that now. But helping a few Syrian families who have managed to escape start new lives seems to be, if anything, a minimal expression of human decency. (JT)
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Bumpy ride in the markets than driving the Alaska Highway. Back in 2011, this hit 128. Last Friday it was 41. In other words, $100 invested in this index back in 2011 by Keith would now be worth $32. Your best investment might Halliday be the crumpled U.S. dollar bills you forgot in the bottom UKONOMIST of your beach bag after your last trip to Hawaii. They’re up 40 per cent over the last three he markets have been years. as bumpy as the Alaska No one likes to log onto Highway around Burwash over the last few months. their savings fund account and Investors have had that feeling see these kinds of numbers. But it’s important to keep this in their stomachs that you get when you hit a frost heave and kind of event in perspective. If wonder if your axles will still be you’re a long-term investor, in attached when the truck lands. a few years you probably won’t More recently in this month, even remember this month. Looking at the charts going the charts look like that long back to the 1970s, there are seemingly endless downhill lots of up and downs that were after Steamboat Mountain. painful at the time but didn’t Toronto’s S&P/TSX cominterfere with long-term value posite index was over 15,500 in April. It closed at 12,822 last creation. Remember when the ToronFriday. That’s a drop of nearly to market fell 20 per cent from 20 per cent, enough to turn April to September 2011? dreams of early retirement Exactly. into fears that you’ll eventually It had recovered the drop by be googling the seniors emearly 2014. ployment program at Krusty Of course, there is no guarBurger. Meanwhile, in New York, the antee the same thing will happen this time. But the episode S&P 500 index was over 2,100 is a reminder that probably in April and finished last week every pothole does not warrant at 1,940. That’s almost 10 per cent. The fact that this is a less a radical change in your investment strategy. severe sell-off than Toronto I spoke to one Whitehorse isn’t much of a consolation. saver who happened to meet But these are just potholes with her investment advisor compared to the TSX global on one of the worst days in mining index, whose chart January. After reviewing the looks more like base-jumping
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I would once again like to thank Yukon News for sending Tom Patrick all the way to Carcross to cover our Judo tournament. We greatly appreciate the time, energy and expense that Yukon News puts into our community. Many of us don’t get into Whitehorse on a regular basis so we look forward to receiving the free Yukon News paper that is delivered to our post office. Yukon News is definitely a “community newspaper!” Beverly James Carcross recreation director
Is Yukon’s oil-and-gas drill waste being properly tested? Open letter to the Yukon government: The Earth’s crust has naturally occurring radioactive materials, typically called NORM (naturally occurring radioactive materials). Drilling associated with oil-andgas exploration and development is known to concentrate and enhance radioactive materials, creating TENORM, the acronym for: technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials. TENORM are important to you and me because they can contaminate the environment
and pose risks to human, animal and environmental health. By risks, I am referring to the replacement of calcium in bones, changes to DNA and cancer. Over 200 tonnes of drill waste from 2013 oil-and-gas exploration activity in the Eagle Plains area was brought to the Arctic Backhoe Treatment Facility in Whitehorse. The big question is: was it properly tested for radioactive materials according to industry best practices? TENORM best practices have been identified by the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers. Other jurisdictions in Canada have procedures and facilities to deal with the radioactive materials in drill cuttings, produced water, sludge and drilling mud. What does Yukon have? In the case of radioactive materials, what you don’t know can hurt you. Companies don’t volunteer to conduct best practices; they only have to follow the law of the jurisdiction they are in. It’s up to governments to lead, with legislation and regulations to set and enforce best practice standards. The Yukon Party’s leadership on oil and gas is questionable, and the management of the 2013 drill waste may be a cautionary tale. Was the appropriate testing done on the over 200 tonnes of drill waste already disposed of
carnage, she bought preferred shares in one of the big banks and some units in a low-fee market-tracking index fund. Within a week she was up 12 per cent. The point here is not actually that she cleverly timed the drop. Despite the stories you hear, this is actually extremely difficult to do. Plenty of pros have lost millions trying. What is more important is that she has some long-term investment goals and a sensible set of relatively low-risk investments. This is not trying to buy Amazon on the drops and sell on the hops. She always invests in her RSP and simply had the good fortune to pick up a few bargains this year. So what are the kind of sound investment principles a person should keep in mind? First of all, if you are going to need the money in the next year or two, you probably shouldn’t be in the stock market. If you are saving up to make a down payment, pay for university or similar big ticket items, you don’t want to have 20 per cent of your savings vaporize just before you have to write the cheque. Cash, conservatively-managed money market funds or GICs are the things to think about. But suppose you have a longer time horizon, such as saving for retirement or starting a Registered Educated Savings Plan for your newborn child. In this case, and assum-
ing you’ve paid off any major debts, the stock market can make a lot of sense. Over the long run it tends to have higher returns than bonds or cash. That’s a long run trend, and there’s always a risk that the next few years will be different. Cash may seem safer, but keep in mind most cash investments these days pay less than the rate of inflation. This slowly saps the purchasing power of your savings instead of growing it. You should speak to your advisor about how to complement equity investments with the suitable long-term bonds and cash. But equity will likely make up a big portion of your nest egg if you’re investing for the long term. You have lots of choices here, probably too many choices. I try to ignore people talking about making big wins in tech stocks or junior mining companies. Being a boring investor is good in my books. I like low-fee index funds and boring blue-chip dividend stocks. Keeping an eye on fees is important. Consider the difference between a mutual fund that charges a two per cent annual fee versus a mutual fund such as SPY, which tracks the S&P 500 index and only charges 0.09 per cent. If you invest $1,000 in each, and say both average a six per cent gain per year over 25 years, then the mutual fund will give you
$2,666 while SPY would yield $4,202. That shows you much the fees add up over the years. Of course, the mutual fund’s marketing department would point out that they have a lot of smart people trying to beat the market. But you might ask them how many mutual funds consistently out-perform the market in the long run. As for the stocks, you can do worse than owning a boring old bank or telephone company. The dividends are often in the decidedly unspectacular 2-4 per cent range. But no matter what bumps in the road the stock market hits, the cellphone towers and bank branches keep pumping out the profits for you (barring what economists call a “black swan” event). These are still riskier than cash, but a lot safer than this week’s Internet sensation. So what should you do? Well, first of all do your research and get advice from someone you trust and who knows what they’re doing. Keep saving steadily and surely for the future. And it might even be a good idea to check your online account balance less often.
near Whitehorse? Samples must be tested for alpha and beta emissions in order to get proper measurements of Radium 226 and Radium 228. Dear Yukon government: Can you demonstrate to Yukoners that TENORM are properly tested, transported and disposed of? The health of workers handling drill waste, and the future generations of folks and critters living downstream of drill waste disposal are relying on your leadership.
below the threshold to pose any risk to humans or the environment. Technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials (TENORM), as mentioned in some correspondence, is another category of radioactive material that is more commonly associated with operations that concentrate NORM, which can occur in association with oiland-gas production. Such activities are not presently occurring in the territory. Yukon Geological Survey has readings from over 2,000 outcrops near to and in similar formations as Northern Cross Yukon’s drilling operation taken with a radiation measuring gamma meter. These measurements indicate that NORM, which are most commonly associated with shales, are in such a low concentration that additional testing prior to transport and disposal is
not necessary. If, in a case where NORM were evident in a higher concentration, officials would ensure that all regulatory measures and testing would apply. The Yukon government has been diligent in providing data, sharing regulatory information, providing information on guidelines for NORM management, and demonstrating how geologists test for radiation to inquiring citizens. All of these efforts have been to show that our geological research and regulations exist to prevent inappropriate exposure to unsafe material and that the drilling waste in question poses minimal risk to people and the environment.
Tory Russell Whitehorse
Drilling waste poses very little risk Yukon government’s response: The Yukon government agrees with citizens’ concerns that the risk associated with naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) encountered in oil-andgas operations must be evaluated, and where appropriate, tested, transported and disposed, based on this risk. NORM are regulated by several Yukon government departments with the explicit purpose of protecting people, workers and the environment. The concentration of NORM that could occur in drilling waste from Northern Cross Yukon’s operations is thought to be far
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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TORONTO ust days after arriving at a refugee camp in southeastern Turkey, Dilaver Omar and his family were taken in by locals who helped them adjust to their new life away from home. A year and a half later, as Omar, his wife Dilsah Sahin and two of their children prepared to come to Canada through the government sponsorship program, they were told a family would be waiting in their new country to show them the lay of the land, he said through an interpreter. Instead, the couple and their children – 11-year-old son Beyez and 19-year-old daughter Hozana – have spent the last few weeks in a north Toronto hotel that has become a de facto settlement for hundreds of government-sponsored Syrian refugees who have yet to find more permanent homes. Eager to start their new lives and see their children back in school after a two-year hiatus, the parents said they long to move out of the crowded hotel. “All I do is dream about having a home,� said Omar, 45, noting the constant bustle of the building has grown to be “too much.� On a recent afternoon, dozens of people milled about the lobby, intercepting busy-looking settlement workers while young boys kicked a soccer ball in a corner. Children ran down the halls pushing toy shopping carts or strollers, while three young girls dressed in matching pink coats and boots played with the guest phone. When they first arrived at the Toronto Airport Plaza Hotel – the family shares adjoining rooms, each just large enough for two queen-size beds and a few suitcases – other refugees warned of long processing delays, Sahin, 44, said in Arabic. Settlement staff are doing what they can, she said, but it would be so much easier with a local family to show them the way. Nour Daoud of COSTI Immigration Services, who is handling the family’s file, said the intake and orientation process can take some time. Families might miss an appointment for a health card while out looking for a home, she said. Housing is by far the biggest hurdle, she said, since many landlords require refugees to have someone co-sign their lease. And without an address, parents can’t get their children in school. But to her knowledge, no one has stayed in the hotel longer than a month, Daoud said. More than 15,300 Syrians
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Syrian Kurdish refugees Dilaver Omar, centre, sits with his wife Dilsah Sahin, left, and their 11-year-old son Beyez Omar in their room at a Toronto hotel on January 29 as they wait to be housed in permanent accommodation. have arrived in Canada since the Liberals came to power, of which 8,859 are government-assisted, 5,426 privately sponsored and 1,081 a blend of the two programs. The influx has forced agencies in three cities to request a break in the action so they can hire extra staff and find permanent homes for those who have already arrived before any more are cleared to come to Canada. The federal government has said the flow will not be slowing down, but refugees already in Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa have been staying in hotels for longer than expected. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne suggested private sponsors could temporarily house government-sponsored refugees currently living in hotels. But Ottawa found too many flaws in the proposal, saying the federal government has a duty of care over government-sponsored refugees, and that refugees shouldn’t have to move to one home, only to move again soon after. Humaira Khan, who runs Partners in Humanity, said sponsorship groups like hers don’t want to replace government efforts to help refugees, just supplement them. The Toronto-area realtor has been helping families at the Plaza hotel find rental homes while waiting for the refugees her group is sponsoring to arrive. “These people need us now,� she said. “They’re desperate.� Just this week, Khan helped a family of nine sign a one-year lease on a townhouse in Missis-
sauga, west of Toronto. Locating a home large enough for the couple and their seven kids – aged 4 to 14 – that was also within their limited budget was difficult, and took several visits over the last few weeks, she said. She even managed to find a race car bed for one of the boys, who had raved about the novelty item, she said. Seeing his face light up at the sight of his new bed was “a fairy tale,� Khan said. Two more families, one with five children and one with eight, are also house-hunting with Khan’s help, she said. Once they have settled in their new places, Khan said she hopes to arrange at-home English classes for the mothers, who may not be able to attend otherwise. A sponsorship group formed of co-workers at the Lough Barnes Consulting Group has been waiting for months to be assigned a family, and has already figured out who will pick them up at the airport, stock the fridge and handle everything else that will come along with the mammoth task of settlement. In the meantime, however, they are flexible with helping whoever is in need, said Steve Lough, the company’s managing director. He said they trust those in charge to know whether it’s best to stick to the different refugee streams or to start some crosspollination. “They’re all in need. If they can come faster government sponsored, if we can get them settled faster with private, what difference does it make?� he said.
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Leaders seek funds for Syria, elusive stability for region includes all Syrians in the country, even those who came before 2011; the U.N. refugee agency Associated Press says it has registered 630,000 LONDON Syrian refugees in Jordan. “We are doing our best ritish Prime Minister Daagainst very difficult odds,” the vid Cameron urged world king said, but added: “We have leaders on Thursday to reached our limit.” dig deep to help millions of “Our country will continue to victims of Syria’s civil war – even do what we can do to help those as diplomatic efforts to end the in need, but it cannot be at the conflict stuttered and stalled. expense of our own people’s Pledges of billions of dolwelfare.” lars in aid at an international The meeting opened hours donors’ conference in London came as military bombardments after the latest U.N.-led bid to in Syria intensified and tentative start peace talks in Geneva was suspended for three weeks – a peace talks in Geneva were on sign of major difficulties. The hold. faltering peace process increas“After almost five years of es pressure on donor countries fighting, it’s pretty incredible that as we come here in London to commit long-term aid to the victims of the five-year civil war. in 2016 the situation on the The U.N. and regional counground is actually worse,” U.S. tries say they need $9 billion in Secretary of State John Kerry assistance for 2016 alone, as the told delegates from some 70 situation in the region deteriocountries. rates, The one-day meeting, held Conference co-host Britain under tight security near the has pledged 1.2 billion pounds British Parliament, is aimed at ($1.75 billion) in new aid begathering donations and agreetween now and 2020, and the ing on plans for economic and educational projects to help the U.S. committed $900 million to bring total U.S. humanitarian 4.6 million Syrians who have spending on the five-year war to sought refuge in neighbour$5.1 billion. ing countries including Jordan, Germany, which has taken in Lebanon and Turkey. Europe’s largest share of miJordan’s King Abdullah said grants – more than 1 million last his country could not sustain year, including almost 430,000 unaided the burden of what he Syrians – said it would give said was almost 1.3 million Syr2.3 billion euros ($2.5 billion) ian refugees, a fifth of Jordan’s population. The Jordanian figure through 2018 to help Syrian Jill Lawless & Bradley Klapper
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British Prime Minister David Cameron, right, listens as German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during the ‘Supporting Syria and the Region’ conference in London on Thursday. refugees. Previous aid conferences for Syria have repeatedly fallen short. Last year’s, in Kuwait, raised just half its $7 billion target, forcing cuts to programs such as refugee food aid. But this year’s organizers – Britain, Germany, Norway, Kuwait and the U.N. – hope that finding jobs and schools for refugees can foster stability and keep displaced Syrians in the Middle East, slowing the chaotic migration of refugees to Europe. “If ever there was a moment to take a new approach to the humanitarian crisis in Syria surely it is now,” Cameron told delegates. “After years of conflict we are witnessing a desperate movement of humanity as hundreds of thousands of Syrians fear they
have no alternative than to put their lives in the hands of evil people-smugglers in search of a future.” Aid workers warn of a “lost generation” of Syrians if the 700,000 Syrian refugee children who are not attending school are not given an education. Education campaigner Malala Yusafzai and 17-year-old Syrian refugee Mezon al-Melihan met with Cameron and other leaders to press for $1.4 billion for education for children in Syria and its neighbours. “Without education, who will bring peace?” al-Melihan said. The politicians, diplomats and aid groups will also seek ways of getting more humanitarian aid to suffering civilians inside Syria, and discuss plans to create economic incentives
for countries that are under the strain of housing millions of newcomers. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said “the situation in Syria is as close to hell as we are likely to find on this earth” – and the international organization has been unable to deliver aid to hundreds of thousands of Syrians in besieged communities. Neither the Syrian government nor rebel groups were due to attend the conference. Syrian government forces, backed by Russian airstrikes, have increased the pace of attacks on opposition forces in recent days, as the Geneva peace talks faltered. The U.N.’s Ban told the conference it was “deeply disturbing that the initial steps of the talks have been undermined by the continuous lack of sufficient humanitarian access, and by a sudden increase of aerial bombing and military activities within Syria.” He said that “the coming days should be used to get back to the table, not to secure more gains on the battlefield.” Russia is represented at the conference by Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko. He tweeted Wednesday that it was hard to discuss aid to Syria without its government present. Kerry blamed Syria’s government and Russia for the peace talks stalling. Kerry said he spoke by telephone with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Thursday, and the two agreed to continue discussing “how to implement the cease-fire.” Russia’s foreign ministry said Kerry and Lavrov also agreed to try to ensure the pause in the Geneva talks was a short as possible.
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Move to proportional rep might require constitutional amendment: Senate expert ister and, if a coalition collapses, when to dissolve Parliament. And, Joyal noted, any change to the Governor General’s powOTTAWA ers would require a constitutional he federal Liberal governamendment approved by all 10 ment was warned Wednesday provinces. that its plans to overhaul “Anyone who will look into, seriCanada’s electoral system could ously, to really implement proporwind up plunging the country into tional representation … we have to constitutional wrangling – a spectre review those things, those powers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has because otherwise we will discover vowed to avoid. suddenly that we have created a Sen. Serge Joyal, an independent nightmare and we won’t know how Liberal and acknowledged constitu- to address it,” Joyal told an open tional authority, said adopting some caucus meeting held by indepenform of proportional representation dent Liberal senators to hear from could make majority governments experts on electoral reform. less likely and require two or more Joyal noted that an attempt to parties to come together to form form a Liberal-NDP coalition govless stable minority or coalition ernment in 2008 led to a “crisis” in governments. which then-prime minister Stephen That in turn could necessitate Harper persuaded the Governor clarification of the Governor GenGeneral to prorogue Parliament to eral’s prerogative to decide which avoid defeat of his minority Conserparty leader becomes prime minvative government. The propriety of Joan Bryden
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party’s share of the vote is more accurately reflected in its share of the seats in the legislature. Trudeau has promised that last fall’s election will be the last conducted under FPTP. His government is preparing to create an all-party committee to examine alternatives, including PR and ranked ballots. Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef said Wednesday that the government has no intention of reopening the Constitution, that whatever it does on electoral reform will be “within the constitutional framework.” The Liberal Senate caucus also heard from former chief electoral officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley, who said electoral reform is long overdue. FPTP made sense early in Canada’s history when there were only two main parties and one of them emerged from elections with more than 50 per cent of the vote, Kingsley said. But it no longer makes sense when there are five or more parties vying for election, all but guaranteeing none will gain
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TORONTO he gruelling cross-examination of a woman allegedly assaulted by Jian Ghomeshi drew cringes of discomfort this week as her credibility was battered by the former broadcaster’s lawyer, but advocates for survivors of sexual violence say the intense courtroom proceedings are typical of such cases. Ghomeshi, once a dazzlingly popular CBC Radio host, went on trial Monday for four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking. He has pleaded not guilty and spent the first two days of his trial closely watching his lawyer, Marie Henein, as she ripped into the first woman to testify against him. “What you’ll see in this court case is a reflection of what survivors go through any time they go to court,” said Nicole Pietsch, Coordinator of the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres. “Any time I’ve ever accompanied survivors to court, they’ve faced a cross-examination that made them feel like they were telling a lie, that people didn’t believe them, that they had messed up and they weren’t being a good witness.” The woman testifying against Ghomeshi described him as a flirtatious charmer who suddenly turned violent during two alleged incidents in December 2002 and January 2003. During the first incident, the woman – who cannot be identified – said Ghomeshi suddenly yanked her hair while they were sharing a “sensuous” kiss. In the second incident in his home, she testified, he once again abruptly pulled her hair while they were kissing and this time started punching her in the head. The trial first heard that the woman didn’t contact Ghomeshi after the alleged assaults, save for
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them – the accused often don’t take the stand to face similar scrutiny. But Ghomeshi’s trial does however shine a spotlight for the public on the challenges of prosecuting such cases, she said. “People believe if it really happened, our criminal justice system will rise that reality to the surface,” Pietsch said. “This is a system based on evidence and the testimony of witnesses. Often that evidence and testimony isn’t enough to see a reasonable conviction, and that’s not the same thing as saying it didn’t happen.” As Ghomeshi’s trial continues to unfold, another observer warns that it could discourage victims of sexual assault from coming forward. “There’s a whole community of women who feel violated by the publicity around this trial who have had their own experiences of sexual assault,” said Amanda Dale, executive director of the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic, which supports women survivors of violence. As interest in the trial shows no sign of flagging, Dale urged those following the case to view it with understanding. “I want people to remember that this is not entertainment television,” she said. “This is people’s lives shattered by experiences that they’re trying to have the common good weigh in on.”
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hen news broke of the death of legendary musician David Bowie last month, tributes poured in from all over. Social media feeds filled up with stories and links to people’s most beloved Bowie tunes. “When Bowie dies, your mom’s talking about it, your aunt, that guy that you don’t really like anymore... Everyone was like, ‘I love Bowie. Here’s my favourite song,’� said Darren Susin. That’s bound to happen when a music legend, with a career that spanned more than five decades, dies. “For days and days it was just people linking YouTube clips of their favourite Bowie
songs and you just realize the extent of the breadth of the work,� said Mike Millar. “There’s just so many good songs.� On Saturday, Yukoners will dust off their favourite sparkle wig, channel their inner Labyrinth character or spaceman far above the moon, and honour Bowie at a tribute night at the Jarvis Street Saloon. It’s been dubbed “Let’s Dance.� Susin, Millar and Bailey Staffen began organizing the concert within 24 hours of news breaking that Bowie had died of cancer. All proceeds from Saturday’s event will be going to the Canadian Cancer Society. Seven groups from around the Yukon ranging from rock band Speed Control, to the electronic stylings of Andrew G. Smith, to the Whitehorse Pop Choir, are preparing their
favourite Bowie songs in their own style. Many have rearranged their schedules to take part in the event, Millar said. “What’s kind of neat about this is that there’s a lot of collaboration between artists. So they’ll play separately but then a lot of people are also playing together in different iterations of bands,� Staffen said. Apparently Yukon artists are big fans of Bowie. The organizers say they’ve had to turn people away who wanted to participate. Saturday night will include about 20 songs. The night will wrap up with an all-bands version of 1977’s Heroes. But other than that, everyone is tight-lipped about what’s on the playlist. “It’s an embarrassment of riches and its really difficult to narrow it down to just a few songs,� said Millar, who will
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Bowie prints made by Vancouver artist Andrea Hooge will be on sale during the event. also be performing. This isn’t the first time a tribute night like this has been organized in Whitehorse. Millar and Staffen met for the first time in 2014 when she helped organize a Nirvana tribute night to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of lead singer Kurt Cobain. “If the Nirvana Night in 2014 is any indication, it’s going to be something really special,� Millar said. “Not just your average musicians, these are pretty special performers.� Staffen said tribute nights like these are a chance for people to reminisce and enjoy
good music that means something to them. “You know, when you can sing the lyrics back to the bands on stage it’s something that people really love.� Along with the concert, a handful of Bowie prints created by Vancouver artist Andrea Hooge will also be on sale that night. The doors open at 8 p.m. and the show starts at 9:30. Tickets are $10 and are only being sold at the door. More information about the show can be found on Facebook. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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Canadian Press NEW DELHI hinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has recreated the famous image of drowned Syrian child Alan Kurdi by staging a photo of himself lying face down on a beach in Greece. The photo last year of the drowned boy lying on a Turkish beach triggered international outrage as people saw the helpless toddler as the devastating human face of the refugee crisis in Europe. The three-year-old’s aunt and uncle live in Canada. Ai posed last week on a pebbly beach on Lesbos island for the picture for one of India’s largest English-language news magazines, India Today. Rohit Chawla, the magazine’s photographer and visual director, travelled to Lesbos to take the picture. The photograph was displayed at an art fair in New Delhi over the weekend and many visitors took pictures of it. In addition to the international outrage it caused, Kurdi’s death and the photo of the three-year-old on the beach had a special impact in Canada. His death came during the country’s federal election and – when it was learned his family had pinpointed Canada as a potential place of refuge – it turned refugee policy into a campaign issue, spurring debate on whether Canada was
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet on stage in squalid migrant camp in France the displaced camp residents of the sprawling camp. Joe Murphy, one of Good Chance’s artistic directors, said CALAIS, FRANCE Hamlet’s message resonates in his, above all, to the grimness of Calais. thine own self be “Hamlet is about a man who true.â€? is confused, in doubt, who is The words from Shakecontemplating life, who is conspeare’s Hamlet rang out on the templating death, who is in the most unlikely stage this week, middle of a decision ‌ And this a squalid migrant camp in the is the situation and the realnorthern French port of Calais, ity for many young men in the known locally as the “jungle.â€? camp,â€? he said. The audience of migrants “There are many young kids from the Middle East to Africa here without their families and would almost certainly have they are experiencing exactly preferred to see London’s rewhat this play is about,â€? Murnowned Globe theatre company phy said, referring to Hamlet perform the Bard’s famous play whose father was killed. in his native country on the othMost of the people in the er side of the English Channel. audience appeared unfamilYet, up to 300 people buniar with Shakespeare and the powerful story of the Danish dled against the cold wind to prince, but they cheered and watch the outdoor show on a laughed as the actors braved the wooden stage beside the small cold, too, for the performance. Good Chance theatre, set up Synopses were handed out in last fall to help fill the void for English and a handful of other languages, including Farsi and Pashtun. Some in the crowd were schooled in Shakespeare, however, and happy to see a stage performance of what they had only read. “Shakespeare, he’s a great author,â€? said Filmon Kidane, a 27-year-old Eritrean who said Elaine Ganley
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an increasingly difficult task as authorities step up security around the port and the Eurotunnel. The Globe included refugee camps on its world tour after being unable to take Hamlet to Syria, a country in the midst of a civil war. Instead, it brought the performance to a huge refugee camp in Jordan that houses Syrians. Millions of people have fled Syria and many are among the more than 4,000 living in Calais.
“Refugee camps have become part of the tour,� Thomas Bird, the Globe’s executive producer, said in an interview with The Associated Press. “There’s a lot of boredom here as well as a lot of need, and so we can give two hours of entertainment,� Bird said. Bird said the company tried to provide an experience that wouldn’t require any previous knowledge about Shakespeare, adding that Hamlet “is a very adaptable piece of work.�
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LIFE McDiarmid recounts his fifth South Pole trek
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Whitehorse’s Devon McDiarmid recently guided a group sucessfully to the South Pole – then kite-skied 1,200 kilometres back to the coast. It usually takes three or four full days to purchase and reNews Reporter package food into lightweight bags, he explains, to reduce hile many of us gorged weight and the amount of garon delicious food on bage left on Antarctica. Christmas Day, WhiteMcDiarmid said he tailors his horse’s Devon McDiarmid was menu so it includes about 5,000 enjoying a modest meal more calories per person per day. than 5,000 kilometres away from Another logistical task is makcivilization. ing sure they have all the right Stew, bread and cake were on gear before they board a monster the menu for McDiarmid and his Russian cargo jet for four and three clients, who were resting a half hours, the last leg of the at Thiels Corner, an important journey. refueling station located halfway “It’s basically a flying tractor,” between their route from the McDiarmid said. Antarctic coast to the South Pole. Once they’ve reached Union The 41-year-old was leading Glacier Camp, they collect more his fifth ski expedition to the gear for the trip, including shovsouthernmost place on Earth, his els, tents, fuel, sleds, crevasse ninth time on the continent over- rescue gear and first aid kits. all. Bad weather had delayed the They meet with doctors to 900-kilometre trip by about 20 learn about potential injuries days. But as luck would have it, such as dehydration, exhaustion their timing couldn’t have been and frostbite. any better. They also meet with a com“It was just a coincidence that munications officer who makes we arrived there on Christmas sure everyone has the right radio Day,” he said. equipment and each other’s “The guys all thought I’d numbers, in case of an emerplanned it.” gency. It was a nice change from food McDiarmid meets with an the group would normally eat: operations manager to go over granola bars, dried fruit, dried the route and determine where meats, nuts, cheese and crackers. re-supplies will take place. Dinners consisted of freeze-dried “It’s a ton of logistics and that’s meals. the biggest part of my job,” McFood is actually a big part of Diarmid said. the preparation for an expedition “When a lot of clients hear on Antarctica, McDiarmid said. ‘guide’ they think I’ll be out there Working for Antarctic Logistics entertaining and telling jokes. and Expeditions, McDiarmid But I’m very clear about that meets with his clients in Punta from the beginning. Arenas, Chile, to prepare for the “I’m there for safety and trip. logistics.” Myles Dolphin
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McDiarmid’s group celebrates at the South Pole. While his trek to the South Pole was relatively uneventful, he said, his return trip was a lot more challenging. He and his British friend, Stew Edge, kite-skied back to the coast – a distance of 1,200 kilometres – over nine and a half days. It’s basically the same activity as kite-surfing on water, McDiarmid explains, except with skis. Kites with extra long lines are also used so they can reach higher altitudes and catch smoother winds, he added. The pair were going an average of 20 kilometres an hour “when things were good,” but much faster during certain portions. Challenges included varying
winds, ground conditions and visibility, McDiarmid said. “The high winds had carved the snow to look like frozen waves,” he added. “Those varied from a few inches high to chest height. It’s extremely rough ground. “I’ve skied that route five times, which one other person has done more often than me, but it blew me away how challenging it was.” Falling on the waves was like “hitting concrete with a bunch of speed bumps.” Edge had to stop almost every hour because his knees were hurting so badly, McDiarmid said. On the last day, they complet-
ed the loop by traveling 18 hours until they reached Hercules Inlet, a coastal area not far from Union Glacier Camp. Back in Vancouver, McDiarmid said he doesn’t know where his next adventure will be. But that doesn’t bother him too much right now. “The expeditions take so much out of you,” he said. “I’d like to return to Antarctica next year and work as the South Pole camp manager, which is what I did last year. I love it down there. “Right now I have no plans and I’m fine with that. There’s more to life than just this.” Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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‘Bigger than thou’: Awestruck snowmobilers won’t stop after 5 avalanche deaths climbed aboard her machine and returned to the backcountry Canadian Press wilderness. She unfastened a yellow plasMCBRIDE, B.C. tic lily from her backpack and he day after a colosplanted the flower in pristine sal avalanche killed five snow to pay her respects. snowmobilers in eastern British Columbia, Thea Pelletier “I had a moment. It was
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12 survivors from the snow. “They were just debriefing over a beer.� But the couple still chose to head out the next morning on the mountain where the tragedy occurred. Pelletier admitted feeling trepidation, but was confident they took proper precautions. She checked the avalanche danger rating, hung an SOS beacon from her neck, and carried a probe and shovel. “I guess I’m a risk-taker. But you have to take calculated risks,� she said. Though she and her husband steered well clear of the avalanche site, from one vista they could still see vast cracks where snow bowls had been disturbed. “You’ve got to go through a lot of sketchy areas to where those guys ended up,� she said. Pelletier was nowhere near the victims the day they died, but said she had often witnessed “showboating and a lot of testosterone� displayed in the maledominated sport. “When you go in big groups, I think there’s a mentality of oneupping each other,� she said. “We saw (the avalanche area) and said, ‘Why would you ever go up there?�’ Rock Major, from Saskatoon, said he wasn’t influenced by the fatalities because “I’m smarter than those guys. “You don’t go out climbing the mountain at once. Some people go there and they don’t belong there,� he said. “You ride like your weakest rider, is No. 1.� His friend Shawn Rudolph said he wasn’t thinking about the deaths, either. “You keep it in the back of your mind, but you don’t really think about it because it’ll just affect the way you treat the hill, and get into a spot where you’re gun-shy and nervous.� Search and rescue manager Rod Whelpton, who helped in the response, noted the deep snow made for an unpredictable situation. However Friday’s deaths would not necessarily be a future deterrent, he said. “I believe some people will be changed and other people will continue on,� he said. A warning sign posted at the parking lot declared the hazard level was “considerable,� falling mid-way on the risk scale. On the outskirts of town, a bed-and-breakfast owner said the community was not surprised by occasional fatalities. “That sort of stuff comes with the territory. It happens,� said the owner, who declined to be named. “It’s like, you go out on the highway right now and you get hit by a semi-truck. It’s very sad, but it’s just reality.�
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US historian looks at wartime plot as possible cause of 1916 Parliament fire when they met. A saboteur could time the moment of the attack Canadian Press by adjusting the thickness of the OTTAWA disc. Such bombs were used by n American historian German agents throughout the thinks it’s possible that war, including at a major fire on German agents touched the Black Tom Island munitions off the fire which destroyed the depot in New York harbour in Centre Block of Parliament in the summer of 1916. The United 1916, in the middle of the First States would declare war against World War. Germany a year later. Heribert von Feilitzsch has The fire that broke out in the spent countless hours piecing reading room of the Centre Block together the covert activities of in 1916 began on a desk shelf. MP German agents working in the Francis Glass, who discovered United States during the war – the fire, said afterwards he didn’t including plots against Canada. smell smoke initially, but noticed The historian and businessa sudden feeling of heat. He man hit a gold mine when he called for a caretaker to bring an found 68 boxes of old financial files at the U.S. National Archives, extinguisher. “As I could see it, he had not records of people the Germans even time to operate it, for the inpaid to carry out sabotage misstant he held it in position he was sions around North America. shot back – the flame enveloped Was Canada’s Parliament one him,” Glass told an inquiry. of those targets? The 100th an“(The smoke) was bright niversary of the devastating fire red – I took it for fire – in fact my was marked Wednesday in the impression was it seemed as if House of Commons, with the reading of the names of the seven the smoke turned to fire almost instantly.” people who died in the blaze. Of course, the reading room Von Feilitzsch hasn’t come was also filled with newspaup with a definitive answer as pers and MPs and visitors often to whether German saboteurs ignored the rule not to smoke were responsible. But he points there. The room’s ventilation and out that two other major plots on Canada were planned and the its oiled pine walls also helped spread the flames. descriptions of the fire itself still But von Feilitzsch, author of hold valuable clues. “There’s a lot of circumstantial evidence and if we could link that to the profile of a pencil-bomb attack, then it would be a pretty tight story,” he said from Amissville, Virginia. A pencil bomb was a cigarsized, lead cylinder which held two chemical compounds separated by a copper disc. The two compounds would eat away at the disc and burst into flame Jennifer Ditchburn
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the book The Secret War on the United States in 1915, notes that during the war there was a standing order to attack Canada. “That order was known to many Germans even along the border and so forth. The Germans were recruiting GermanAmericans and German-Canadians to do that,” he said. “That order is well known, to blow up installations in Canada.” Records and interviews from the time have revealed that two co-ordinated plots had been planned by German agents in the U.S. – one on the Welland Canal, and another around the Valcartier military base near Quebec City. Neither mission actually materialized. Capt. Hans Boehm and Alfred Fritzen had been assigned to the northern border of the United States and were involved in the abandoned Canadian plots. Boehm, a top agent, disappeared back to Germany in February 1916. “Both of them were dispatched to Canada before, both of them were active in February, both of them had connections and money from the intelligence department of the German army in New York,” said Von Feilitzsch. The rebuilt Centre Block reopened four years later in 1920. The inquiry set up to find an-
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Solar: A brilliant way to get energy storing the sun’s energy improving, that could climb to 20 per cent by 2027, an Oxford University study found. About 90 per cent of currently by David installed solar capacity uses crystalline silicon wafer-based Suzuki photovoltaic cells. As Phys. org notes, they’re non-toxic, CIENCE abundant and reliable, but the ATTERS wafers are thick and rigid and somewhat expensive to manuxcept for nuclear and facture. Many newer-technology geothermal, all energy we use comes from the sun in cells are smaller, less rigid and one form or another. As sunlight often more affordable, but they can come with other problems. reaches the Earth’s surface, it powers heat transfers that move Some use materials that “involve rare and/or toxic metals.” air and ocean currents, used for The website notes that wind and tidal power. The sun promising “third generation” evaporates water, contributing developments include “thin-film to the hydrologic cycle that fills solar photovoltaic employing reservoirs for hydroelectricity. Even fossil fuels – coal, oil and dye-sensitized, organic, quantum dot or perovskite solar cells gas – are forms of solar energy, and novel combinations of semicreated when, hundreds of milconductor materials, as well as lions of years ago, plants abconcentrators.” Technology is sorbed and converted sunlight also being developed to mimic through photosynthesis, then photosynthesis, converting retained that energy when they died, decayed and became com- sunlight to electrons with nanotechnology and light-absorbing pacted and buried deep in the compounds and delivering the Earth, along with the animals that ate them. Wood, peat, dung electrical energy “to customized and other plant-based fuels are a catalysts that convert water and CO2 into oxygen and chemical less concentrated form. fuels.” Artificial photosynthesis Most people think of solar is also being studied as a way to energy in its direct form, capture and convert CO2 emisharnessed in a variety of ways sions to generate fuels, plastics, from the sun’s rays as they hit drugs and other products! Earth. Technologies range from Solar cell placement raises windows and water tanks placed interesting possibilities as well, strategically to make use of the including paving roads, parking sun’s energy, to photovoltaic lots and bike lanes with durable cells (or solar panels), to large panels that not only generate mirrors that concentrate solar power but also melt ice and heat to boil water and drive snow. Some experts predict solar turbines. technology could make the need Unlike fossil fuels, or uranfor baseload power and even ium-dependent nuclear power, transmission grids obsolete. As the energy source is free, inSteve Holliday, CEO of National exhaustible and non-polluting, Grid, which operates gas and with no troublesome byproducts power transmission networks like radioisotopes or carbon diin the U.K. and northeastern oxide. It can be used for a variety U.S., said, “From a consumer’s of applications, from providing point of view, baseload is what I power for a single streetlight to am producing myself. The solar generating electricity for a home on my rooftop, my heat pump – to keeping satellites and factorthat’s the baseload.” ies going. Solar is viable and affordSolar also has disadvantages. able enough (especially with tax Without energy-storage systems, credits in jurisdictions includit only works when the sun ing the U.S.) that it can be easily shines, and it can be costly. Solar installed on rooftops to generinstallations to provide power ate electricity for homes, public for large areas can take up a lot institutions and businesses. It’s of space, and some technologies becoming an increasingly imrely on rare materials that must portant part of the energy mix, be mined, with environmental especially as transmission-grid consequences. and storage-system technologies Because of rapid technobecome more sophisticated and logical advances, falling prices efficient. and the many advantages of Every hour, the sun bathes solar power, it’s become one of the Earth with enough energy to the fastest-growing sources of supply our needs for more than renewable energy worldwide, a year. There’s no reason we can’t with installed capacity growing harness more of it to cut back on on average 43 per cent a year polluting, climate-altering fossil since 2000, according to the fuels. World Economic Forum. Still, as David Suzuki is a scientist, broadan MIT reports points out, solar caster, author and co-founder of was only generating about one the David Suzuki Foundation. per cent of global electricity in Written with contributions from 2015. With costs dropping by David Suzuki Foundation Senior about 10 per cent a year, and Editor Ian Hanington. Learn technologies for harnessing and more at www.davidsuzuki.org.
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Cook Inlet Basin amplifies earthquake shaking center. That happened during the 7.1 earthquake, with people in Anchorage reporting greater shaking than some people on the eastern Kenai Peninsula. In summer 2015, seismologist Doug Christensen led a team in installing seismic stations that are by chance in a shotgun pattern around the epicenter of the 7.1 earthquake. Christensen and others for years wanted a line of stations directly above the boundary where the Pacific Plate is grinding beneath the North American Plate. Christensen, Tape and others will not be able to read the recent dramatic data from the new network until they service them and download information next summer. They were just happy to get them installed,
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and they are smiling at having placed instruments right on top of the largest earthquakes ever to shake Cook Inlet Basin. “We’re lucky to be able to preserve a record of basin shaking during this quake and its aftershocks,” Tape said. videos: Carl Tape’s simulations of the seismic waves of the January 24, 2016 magnitude 7.1 earthquake. He made them using the high-performance computing cluster at the Geophysical Institute’s Research Computing Systems group. Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.
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A frame from Tape’s simulations of the 7.1 earthquake that shows the shape of Cook Inlet Basin and the dramatic shaking within. Mat-Su valley. It consists of a deep bowl filled with mud and loose rock. The town of Nikiski, for example, rests on a fourmile-deep unstable bed of mud mixed with rock. Beneath that is a foundation of 65-million year old rock. The shape and structure of Cook Inlet Basin is no secret. Geologists have mapped its depths since before the 1950s, when drilling began for oil and gas. Tape and fellow seismolo-
gists find the petroleum maps intriguing, but they are more interested in the plate of Earth’s crust that lies beneath. Scientists think it might be 30 miles thick there, but no one knows. They do know that basins are places that trap earthquake waves, slowing them down and splashing them into each other like water in a bathtub. Some places within the basin shake more and shake longer than others even though they are farther from an earthquake’s epi-
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The quilt of many names squares on this side that fill the four quadrants formed by the cross. Sewn on each square, in red thread, is a name. There are 506 in all. Most of the names are written by Michael diagonally, although the names in the squares around its perimeter Gates run perpendicular to the length of the quilt. The pattern created ISTORY by the placement of these autoUNTER graphed squares was purposeful and symmetrical. ome objects have symbolic Despite its modest construcand emotional value that is tion, it is an object of great power far more powerful than their and contains many memories from physical nature. a little-known, but important part Such is the case with a quilt, of Yukon history that was at once which I had the privilege of viewboth noble yet tragic. ing last Monday. The quilt, object It was created by devotion to number 72.1.39f, and information about its origins and content, were duty and the nimble fingers of the Martha Munger Black chapter of bought out for me to examine by the IODE (Imperial Order, DaughColleen Dirmeitis of the MacBride ters of the Empire) in Dawson City. Museum. Its creation began in October of The quilt is made of plain and serviceable white cloth. It is slightly 1916 when several yards of material were given to Martha Black, wife faded, wrinkled and smudged. of Commissioner George Black, There is a stain that appears as though coffee or tea may have been before she left Dawson City with her husband. He and 90 other men spilled upon it at some time in the were going to volunteer to fight in distant past. the war raging in Europe. One side consists of 316 small On board the steamer Casca, as squares of coarse white cloth sewn it laboured upriver to Whitehorse, together. Turn it over, and you many of the men helped Mrs. Black will find a large red cross stitched tear the fabric into small squares, into the fabric that runs the entire which they signed. The autolength of 231 centimetres and graphed squares were sent back across the width of 190 centimeto Dawson, where the ladies of tres. There are 192 more cloth
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Colleen Dirmeitis, left, and Rose Mary Fordyce of the MacBride Museum hold up a quilt upon which are stitched the names of more than 500 men and women who volunteered for service during World War I. the IODE tirelessly sewed over the names with red thread, then carefully stitched them together with blue and white cross-stitches. The work of sewing in the autographs and stitching together of the squares took the ladies, who were constantly organizing fund-raising events for the war effort, 18 months to complete. By March of 1918, the quilt was ready to be raffled off. A thousand tickets were sold at 25 cents each, to people from as far away as New Zealand; a quarter of them were purchased by the volunteers, with Mrs. Black buying a large number of the tickets herself. The draw was made the evening of March 15 during a patriotic bonspiel at the Dawson Amateur Athletic Association building. Little Mary Ross, the daughter of Reverend and Mrs. Ross, drew the ticket. The winning number was 173, and the lucky ticket-holder was ‌. Mrs. George Black. The quilt was bundled up and quickly mailed off
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to Mrs. Black in London, England. She kept the quilt with her for many years, finally giving it to her son Lyman, when he married in 1930. Lyman died in a car accident in 1937, and presumably, sometime after that, it was returned to his mother. It appears that it later came into the possession of the IODE again, and from them to the museum. George and Martha Black’s names appear on the quilt in a large square, right in the centre. Joe Boyle’s name is on the quilt too, as is that of Robert Service. Boyle and Service were too old to be accepted into the army, but Service volunteered for the American Ambulance Service, which inspired him to write a best-selling book of poetry about the war. Boyle volunteered to go to Russia during the tumultuous times of the Russian Revolution. He became a national hero in Romania and was awarded medals by four nations, though not by his native Canada. Also sewn onto a square is the name of Jim Christie, who in 1909, fought hand to hand with a grizzly bear, and survived the attack to become a war hero. Frank Berton signed a square. After the war, he returned to the Yukon and fathered Pierre, who became one of the most prominent Canadian authors of the twentieth
century. There are four nurses named on the quilt. One, Marie Thompson, was the daughter of a doctor practising in Dawson City. She was 29 years of age when she enlisted in London, in 1916, and had already been in France for the American Ambulance Corps for eight months, where she has been in charge of a ward. While not actively engaged in combat, she would have seen the horrifying effects of bullets, shrapnel and gas. Jimmy Matthews was a student of the Dawson high school when he enlisted, having just turned 16 years of age. Only 159 centimetres in height, he had to stand up one step in order to be shoulder to shoulder with his taller classmates when they were photographed in front of the school. When he reached Victoria, he was almost rejected by the army on account of vision problems. But George Black arranged for a surgeon to operate on his eyes and correct the condition. Matthews suffered a head wound August 28, 1918, and was admitted to hospital near Etaples, France. Morris Anthony caught a sniper’s bullet to the throat near Vimy in 1917. He recovered, but his war was over, and he was sent home. More than 30 names on the quilt were fatalities. Hugh MacDonald, son of a First Nation mother and a missionary father, died in February of 1919. Angus McKellar was a former Mountie who came to the Yukon before the gold rush. Charlie O’Brien, the son of Dawson City brewery king Thomas W. O’Brien, joined up fresh out of high school. Both were killed on August 10, 1918, when a shell hit their armoured car. These were people who were committed to duty in the service of their country. Many of them were wounded; some never came back to the Yukon, while others remain buried in the cemeteries of France and Belgium. By this quilt we remember them all. 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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The Canol Heritage Trail was a family affair we went back to work in, year after year,” he adds. The original Canol Pipeline Project began shortly after the Japanese ravaged the U.S. Pacific by Erling fleet at Pearl Harbor in December Friis-Baastad 1941. Japanese Imperial forces subsequently occupied four islands in the Aleutian chain and looked OUR UKON poised to invade mainland Alaska and move south into Canada and the lower U.S. hen he makes his presenThose charged with North tations in the Yukon later America’s defence turned to celebthis month, geographer rity Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur StePeter Kershaw plans to lead his audiences through the marvels and fansson for advice. What resources would be available to support an sorrows along the Canol Heritage effort against the Japanese war Trail, which runs from Norman machine in the Canadian North? Wells through the Mackenzie Stefansson suggested the refinery at Mountains to the Yukon border. Norman Wells and the vast pool of Kershaw, retired from the Unioil that lay beneath it. versity of Alberta’s department of The U.S. and Canada moved earth and atmospheric sciences, quickly on the explorer’s suggeshas been undertaking research in the alpine reaches along the beauti- tion. Haste led to waste. Inadequate ful, damaged, 372-kilometre trail for pipe led to spills. The landscape was marred by helter-skelter gravel pits more than 40 years. and abandoned industrial gear. “So what I’d like to do for the The overall Canol Project Yukon presentation is sort of move fi nancial cost – including the main people along the route as if they pipeline, spur lines, landing strips were hiking from south to north, and the refinery in Whitehorse – toward Mile Zero and talk about was greater than the cost of the what they see as they move along, Alaska Highway, says Kershaw. The and then try to incorporate some debate continues as to whether the of the science we’ve done over the project was in fact worth it. The years,” he says. U.S. government even launched an That “we” includes his wife official investigation of the by-then Linda Kershaw. The renowned botanist and prolific author of such dubious project shortly before the popular wilderness guides as Edible end of the war, he adds. While Kershaw’s speciality is and Medicinal Plants of the Rockies disturbance ecology and permahas shared her plant knowledge, and the joys and rigours of the trail, frost landforms, the research and his upcoming presentations cover with her husband from 1974 on. a broader area intellectually, he The Kershaw boys grew up along says. Along with his wife’s botanithe trail and learned many of the skills they now employ in their adult cal work, and his own geographical observations, Kershaw has explored lives in outdoors-oriented profesthe Canol-related archives of many sions and recreation. other fields, including history, arThe Kershaws have written a guide book that will be the basis for cheology and hard-rock geology. “And a student of mine a few the presentation, tentatively titled Environment and Change Along the years back did detailed work on tree rings, so was able to expand the Canol Heritage Trail. Peter realized period that we’re discussing back just what a family affair the guide into the 1700s,” he adds. book has been. “The authors could “I’m looking at soils. I’m looking be listed as Kershaw, Kershaw, at microclimates. I’m looking at Kershaw, Kershaw and Kershaw glacial history….” – Kershaw to the fifth power,” he How did Kershaw end up devotmarvels. ing so much of his professional life “It’s a spectacular area with all to the Canol Project? sorts of challenges, logistically and When he finished his bachelor’s intellectually – a very special area
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Left: Then – Peter and Linda Kershaw astride a telephone pole on the Plains of Abraham, 1978. Right: Now – Peter and Linda Kershaw shelter from the rain during a lunch break on the Canol Heritage Trail, 2013. degree work at the University of Waterloo in 1973, he encountered a scientist who planned to map the North with the help of early satellite imagery. The scientist was constructing a surficial geomorphological map on a scale of 1 to 1 million, which included all the Yukon, a couple of degrees of Alaska and an eastern line up to the Beaufort Sea and the Mackenzie Delta. Kershaw laughs when considering the scope of those ambitions and how far satellite technology has come since then. “He drove all of the roads that he could access that summer and I sat in the back seat and helped with logistics,” he says. Eventually, the two researchers arrived on the MacTung mining property near Macmillan Pass and the Yukon/N.W.T. border and Kershaw had a life-changing chat with the mine manager. “He was very encouraging and said, ‘If you want to come back here and study permafrost and landforms and vegetation, we’d love to see you.’” Kershaw returned to Waterloo in the fall of ’73 and registered as a graduate student. The next summer found him (with Linda this time) back in the Canol wilderness. “We both really fell in love with the area. There were caribou, moose, grizzly bears… all sorts of wildlife. “And the landscape is just magical: rock glaciers, ice glaciers, patterns on the ground caused by permafrost. And very interesting plants, plants that aren’t common
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in southern Ontario.” After completing his thesis on local wonders – and the landscape’s susceptibility to anthropomorphic disturbance – Kershaw received a call from a senior professor who was intrigued by what he’d heard of Kershaw’s maps. One thing led to another and Kershaw found himself working on his PhD under the direction of Professor Don Gill of the University of Alberta. For years, winters and summers, through blizzards and bugs, the Kershaws explored the alpine sections of the Canol Heritage Trail. Their last field season there was 2013. Is the region recovering from its wartime traumas? Kershaw takes a long pause. “The observations are, well, educational,” he says. “Recovery rates
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SPORTS AND RECREATION Long-time gymnastics coach steps down
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Kimberly Jones is the new head coach for Whitehorse’s Polarettes Gymnastics Club.
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hile her gymnasts were twirling on the bars and flying off the vault, Catherine O’Donovan was doing emotional somersaults at a meet last weekend. After more than three decades with Whitehorse’s Polarettes
Gymnastics Club, O’Donovan has participated at her final competition as head coach. “It was a bit of an emotional meet for me,” said O’Donovan. “I’ve been with the club for 31 years and it was my last meet as Polarettes head coach. I’ll be coaching hopefully until March or April, but I have (incoming head coach Kimberly Jones) training under me and will be
passing the baton on to her. “I’ll be having a baby the next time the kids compete and moving down to Abbotsford, (B.C.)” O’Donovan began coaching at the club 22 years ago at the age of 12 and has been head coach since 2011. In that time she coached Yukon gymnasts at three Arctic Winter Games, two Canada Winter Games and one Western Canada Summer Games.
There have been plenty of high points along the way. “Becoming head coach and really running a program I thought the community wanted. I really focused on making the club reach the community’s needs,” said O’Donovan. “Getting gymnastics out there and getting the schools to use us a lot more, helping with the sports school program, are all big highlights. And representing Yukon at many Canada Winter Games and Arctic Winter Games would be huge highlights. “I’m a very proud Yukoner and I think the best thing I’ve got out of this is a great relationship with a whole lot of wonderful kids.” Kimberly Jones has big shoes to fill as the new head coach, but seems up to the task. The Level 3 certified coach is coming in from the Calgary Gymnastics Centre where she was women’s developmental director and national novice coach for more than three years. “I’m still familiarizing myself with Whitehorse, the gym and all the athletes, but it’s been really good, I’m really enjoying it,” said Jones. “I’m coming from a very large club that focuses mainly on high performance gymnastics, so it’s a big change from me, a big change in culture. But I’m really enjoying it and I think the athletes here are working very hard for me and we’re all getting along. I think this club has a lot to offer and they are offering a lot and I’m excited to be working here.” “I liked her right away. I think she’s going to be an excellent addition to the club … and the club is really lucky to have found her,” said O’Donovan. Last weekend’s meet – Winterfest in Coquitlam, B.C. – was O’Donovan’s last as head coach, but the Polarettes club’s first of the season. Polarettes’ Anna Gishler competed in Junior Olympic (JO) Level 6 for gymnasts born 19992003.
Gishler placed ninth allaround out of 12, and third for those born in 2003. She took ninth on the bars and floor, and tied the first place finisher for seventh on the beam. “Beam isn’t usually her best event – she’s more of a bars girl – so that was a really good success,” said O’Donovan. “Overall she had a really solid meet and I saw a big improvement from previous competitions.” Teammate Sasha Kozmen placed ninth all-around out of 12, fifth for her age, in JO 6 2005-2007. Kozmen, who was the youngest on the team at the meet, claimed ninth in vault, bars and floor. “She needs to work on her performance aspect, but I think she came out and gave really solid routines and did everything we asked of her,” said O’Donovan. Polarettes’ Hailey Sherman finished sixth out of seven in JO 7 2002-2005. It was her first time competing in Level 7. “She has fresh routines and new skills she needs to polish a bit,” said O’Donovan. “She had a really good meet, she just needs some time at that level to improve on it.” Whitehorse’s Bianca BerkoMalvaso was also in a new division, two levels up from her last competition. She placed sixth on bars en route to seventh out of seven all-around in JO 8. “She had a bit of a rough day,” said O’Donovan. “Bianca is usually a very solid competitor, but nerves got the best of her this meet and she fell on three of the four events, which isn’t typical of her, and I think that shook her confidence a little bit. But she competed on beam last and managed to get her confidence back and stayed on the beam, which helped her finish on a positive note.” Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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17 nations represented in Yukon Arctic Ultra
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Racers in the 2016 Yukon Arctic Ultra head down the frozen Yukon River following the start of the race on Thursday. Seventeen countries are represented in this year’s race. Tom Patrick News Reporter
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our continents and 17 nations are represented in the “coldest and toughest� winter ultra this week. A total of 71 racers left the start line in the 13th annual Yukon Arctic Ultra on Thursday in Whitehorse’s Shipyard’s Park. In the field are 19 Whitehorse participants spread over the three race distances – marathon, 100-mile and the 300-mile all the way to Pelly Crossing. “This is a record field of entrance for a year we don’t have the 400-mile (division to Dawson City),� said organizer Robert Pollhammer. “Every two years we have a race that goes all the way to Dawson, then we typically have 80 to 90 people. The other years we usually have less, so this is a really good turnout.� Of the 19 Whitehorse racers, 14 entered the marathon, three the 100-mile, and just one – Jessie Thomson-Gladish – in the 300-mile division. Thomson-Gladish completed the trek all the way to Dawson last year, placing fourth and was the top Canadian. “There’s something special about the trail and to be honest, I got totally hooked on it last
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Whitehorse’s Jessie Thomson-Gladish, front, sets out on her 300mile journey to Pelly Crossing. year,� she said. “Yukon is special to me. If it was somewhere else in the world, I might not do it twice, but since it’s here it’s an easy way to see a lot of terrain and meet some cool people.� This year Thomson-Gladish, 30, is on a two-person team with England’s Julie Pritchard. They are The ‘J’ Team. “We met last year on the trail and ended up finishing together,� said Thomson-Gladish. “We’ve been in contact together the whole year and decided to
be a team for this year. So we’re going to be traveling together the whole way and camping together.� Besides Canada and England, represented this year are Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, Italy, U.S., France, Denmark, Poland, Spain, Australia, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Wales, and Guernsey, a small island nation located in the English Channel. The field includes one crosscountry skier, four on fat-tire mountain bikes and the rest –
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Marathon distance runners pass by a cliff. including all the Yukoners – on foot. It was a warmer start than in recent years, with temperatures around minus-10 at the start line Thursday. “It’s not so cold,� said Pollhammer. “Yes, we have prob-
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Over 100 Yukoners preregistered for 55+ Games
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t looks like more than 100 athletes will represent Yukon for a second time in a row at this summer’s Canada 55+ Games. At last count, 103 potential competitors have submitted an “I Might Go” form for the biennial national event this August in Brampton, Ont. “The ‘I Might Go’ forms will cutoff on the 26th of this month and by that time we hope to have pretty close to 120,” said Hank Leenders, president of ElderActive Recreation Association that oversees the team. Yukon sent a team of 134 to the 2014 Games in Strathcona County, Alta. – a record for the territory. Team Yukon placed third in medals and pocketed the Spirit of the Games award. “I doubt very much we’ll reach (134) because this year it’s in Brampton, which is so much farther and the expense is quite a bit more,” said Leenders. About 50 potential team mem-
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bers took part in the annual Winter Tournament last weekend at the Canada Games Centre, hosted by ElderActive, which has over 500 members. The event featured carpet bowling and floor shuffleboard. The Knight Shufflers (Edna Knight, David Knight and Red Hall) placed first in the shuffleboard competition. The Shuf-
flers (Cookie Morgan and Peggy Duncan) placed second and Team Dolly (Dolly Marchewa and Gunter Balsam) third. Faro Wits (Michelle Vainio, Marilyn Boyle, Doris Unruhn and Sally Baker) rolled to first in carpet bowling. Tom’s Torpedoes (Tom Parlee, Heather McGeachy, Elaine Hanulik and Loretta Warnsby) took second. The Tagish Trumpet-
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ers (Peter Hamm, Renee Smith, Lois Taylor and Claude Dastous) tied for third with Team Lister (Ron Lister, Reuben Fendrick, Dale Roddy and Jean Webster). Yukon might be represented in a new sport at the Games in Brampton. It’s pickleball, a sport growing in popularity in the U.S. that is sort of between tennis and table tennis. Pickleball is played with large wooden paddles on a small tennis-like court with a wiffle ball. “They’ve cut out cycling,
so people have had to look for something else,” said Leenders. “They’re introducing (pickleball) in this Games. They’ve set it up at the Canada Games Centre for us. There are very few people playing it to see if they like it, but I think we might have a couple of participants in that.” “I Might Go” forms can be found at www.elderactive.ca and must be submitted by Feb. 26. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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NBA greats Barkley, Smith laud Toronto as all star game host city Kenny Smith said the game will help boost basketball north of the ount Hall of Famer Charles U.S. border and showcase the city to players, league executives and Barkley among those who fans. think Toronto is an ideal “What happens when you have place for the NBA all-star game. the all-star game there is you have Barkley, on a conference call a celebration of all the best playwith fellow stars-turned-television ers, the best talent,� said Smith. analysts Shaquille O’Neal and “So all of a sudden they get to be Kenny Smith on Thursday, called in a city for more than 24 hours himself “a big Toronto fan.� “Canadian basketball’s on a roll and get to see the excitement. “You saw it in Toronto last year right now,� said Barkley. “Look at when they were making a playoff the NBA draft the last couple of run. There are a bunch of basketyears. ball fans in Canada that now have “I go there every summer. I the opportunity to get seen. have a bunch of friends up there. “I don’t know if it has the I think it’s one of the best kept impact of the Dream Team (U.S. secrets in the world.� Olympic basketball team) going The NBA all-star game will be overseas, but it has the Dream held Feb. 14 at the Air Canada Centre, the first time it is to be played outside the United States. Barkley, the former league most valuable player who played in 11 all-star games, said Toronto fans showed how wild they can get during the Blue Jays’ run to the Major League Baseball playoffs last season. “I think it will be great to shine the light on that city,� he said. Former Houston Rockets star Canadian Press
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Denver (North Carolina) is backing Panthers, not Broncos in Super Bowl namesake. But there are a couple Carolina’s NFC championship win against Arizona, while roadof connections: North Carolina’s side tents are popping up selling Denver was renamed after ColoPanthers flags, shirts and other rado’s capital in 1873 as Colorado here are hardly any Bronmerchandise. was being considered for admiscos fans these days in The Denver Fire Department Denver – not Denver, North sion to the union, according to bought into the buzz by making a the 2010 edition of The North Carolina, that is. wager with its Colorado counterCarolina Gazetteer. Instead, this unincorporated part on the game. The loser must And at East Lincoln High in town about a half-hour from town, the school’s Mustangs mas- fly the winning team’s flag behind Charlotte is full of Carolina Panone of its trucks for a week. thers fans. And with the Panthers cot looks a lot like the Denver Chief Jay Flynn cut himself off Broncos logo. facing the Denver Broncos in when saying which truck would But make no mistake: This Sunday’s Super Bowl, the town is fly a Broncos flag if the Panthers enjoying some extra attention as Denver is a Panthers town. lose. “These last two weeks, if the self-described “Denver of the “Well, we’re not going to be you’ve got a hat on, it makes East.� fl ying the flag because we’re everyone perk up and make sure “It’s pretty cool, especially it’s not the Broncos, to make sure pretty confident the Panthers will being a small town and all of a it’s East Lincoln,� said Mike Byus, win,� he said. sudden that little small town Two time zones away, fire ofEast Lincoln’s football and golf is getting reporters and (beficials in Denver, Colorado had coach. ing) recognized for having the no hesitation in accepting the Bryant said his Sports Page name Denver,� restaurant owner challenge. Food & Spirits in Denver hosted Michael Bryant said in a phone “Oh heavens no,� department a near-capacity 250 people for interview with The Associated Press. “Because just about everywhere you go, you say you’re A Society to Promote Peacemaking from Denver and you’ve got to explain where because people automatically assume you’re WEDNESDAY from Colorado.� February 17, 2016 The Lincoln County town Noon-1:00 pm near Lake Norman is a fraction OnBoard Boardroom of the size of the Denver of the 303A Hawkins Street West, with 2010 U.S. Census data listing a population of about 18,000 for its zip code compared to around 600,000 for its larger Aaron Beard
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Sudoku Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.
FRIDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
To solve Kakuro, you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares. The clues are the numbers in the white circles that give the sum of the solution numbers: above the line are across clues and below the line are down clues and below the line are down clues. Thus, a clue of 3 will produce a solution of 2 and 1 and a 5 will produce 4 and 1, or 2 and 3, but of course, which squares they go in will depend on the solution of a clue in the other direction. No difit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. © 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.
WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: to give notice of : announce.
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CLUES ACROSS 1. Powder mineral 5. Ten million (in India) 10. Culture medium and a gelling agent 14. Cain and __ 15. Bullfighting maneuvers 16. Baseball’s Ruth 17. Venice beach 18. Infirm due to old age 19. Attentiveness 20. Mortify 22. Whale (Norwegian) 23. Family Bufonidae 24. “A Passage to India” author 27. Ocean 30. Dad’s partner CLUES DOWN 1. W. Samoan monetary unit 2. Baby’s feeding apparel 3. Queen of Sparta 4. Shut 5. Certified public accountant 6. Payment for release 7. Red twig dogwood 8. Basked in 9. Midway between E and SE 10. A way to detest 11. Mother of Cronus 12. In bed 13. Bolsheviks 21. Farro wheat 23. CNN’s Turner
31. Owned 32. Swiss river 35. Female golf star Gibson 37. Base 38. A way to summons 39. Acquit 40. Male parent 41. Brendan Francis __, author 42. Rattan 43. Aromatic hot beverage 44. Inflorescence 45. Former CIA 46. Make lace 47. Airborne (abbr.) 48. Thieving bird
49. H. Potter’s creator 52. Frequency 55. Nothing 56. More lucid 60. Riding mount 61. Deducted container weight 63. Molten rock 64. In this place 65. Ancient upright stone slab bearing markings 66. Rumanian Mures River city 67. Mentioned before 68. An heir (civil law) 69. Without (French)
25. Farmers of America 26. Small amount 27. __ and Venzetti 28. Hers in Spanish 29. Belongs to sun god 32. Expressed pleasure 33. Small terrestrial lizard 34. Regenerate 36. Own (Scottish) 37. The cry made by sheep 38. Chest muscle (slang) 40. Explode 41. Notice 43. Pitch 44. Run due to the batter
46. Fight referee declares 47. Alternate forms of a gene 49. Shifted in sailing 50. One who cables 51. Elaborate celebrations 52. Expresses pleasure 53. Carbamide 54. Persian in Afghanistan 57. 1st capital of Japan 58. Welsh for John 59. Radioactivity units 61. Tanzanian shilling 62. Hyrax
Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: former.
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Executive Director (Term Full Time – 3 years) OPEN TO THE PUBLIC CHIEF AND COUNCIL POSTING DATE: JANUARY 18, 2016 SALARY: LEVEL 13 STEP 1 ($118,999.87 ANNUALLY) CLOSING DATE 4:00PM (PST): FEBRUARY 12, 2016 Reporting to Chief and Council, the Executive Director is responsible for leading, planning, managing and implementing Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in programs, services and policies and legislation. The position is also responsible for the provision of administrative expertise and overall direction to Directors including but not limited to Finance and Capital, Heritage, Tr’inke Zho Daycare, Human Resources Education & Training, Natural Resources, Administration, (Communications, Implementation), Housing and Infrastructure and Health & Social. The position is responsible for monitoring and ensuring that Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in programs remain within established budgets by maintaining a close working relationship with the Departmental Directors and Chief and Council. The position is also responsible for effective liaison, on behalf of Chief and Council, with officials of the Federal, Territorial, Provincial Governments and other agencies in support of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in strategic plans, goals and objectives. If this opportunity interests you, please submit a cover letter & resume clearly demonstrating the qualifications below, as selection for further consideration will be based solely on the information you provide: Essentials r Degree in Public Administration, Business Administration, or transferable degree or equivalent of a minimum of 4 years of experience working with First Nations governments at a senior level; r Sound knowledge of TH social structure, traditions, language and cultural values preferred; r Sound knowledge of government program requirements and specifically, First Nation government program requirements preferred; r Understanding or knowledge of TH Final and Self Government Agreements; r Experience with staff supervision and general management; r Knowledge of Federal and Territorial Government programs, regulations and procedures; r Good knowledge of funding agencies and associated requirements; r Experience conducting or participating in negotiations; r Financial management skills; r Ability to plan, direct, develop, implement and evaluate programs, policies and procedures; r Experience in conflict management, mediation and problem solving; r Experience working at the senior management or executive level including the ability to direct, supervise and evaluate the performance of all levels of personnel; r Ability to manage budgets; r Ability to lead, direct and manage program and policy development and delivery; r Strong decision making and problem solving skills working within tight timelines; r Ability to manage high levels of stress effectively; r Well-developed organizational and time management skills; r Computer literate. Excellent communication skills, both oral and written; r Ability to maintain discretion, tact, diplomacy, compassion and good judgment at all times under demanding circumstances and in a dynamic working environment; r Ability to resolve conflicts and foster unity; r Ability to make difficult decisions exercising cultural sensitivity; r Ability to work effectively as part of a management team in a leadership role; r Ability to establish and maintain professional working relationships with staff, citizens, general public; r Ability to provide strong leadership and motivate people; r Ability to work flexible hours. Conditions of Employment r Mandatory confidentiality is a condition of employment for all Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in personnel. Failure to meet this requirement could result in dismissal; r Ability to maintain confidentiality; r Criminal Record Check including finger print checks; r Valid Class 5 Driver’s License with clear Driver’s abstract; r Attendance at the General Assemblies is a requirement of this position.
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Wage commensurate with level Closing date: Friday, March 4, 2016. NAKWAYE KU CHILD CARE Box 2799,Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5K4 E-mail: nakwayeku@yukoncollege.yk.ca | Fax: 668-8890 (Attn: Daycare)
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VUNTUT GWITCHIN FIRST NATION Old Crow, Yukon FINANCE DEPARTMENT
An Experience in Canada’s True North
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE THE JOB Reporting to the Chief, this position is responsible for the administration of the consolidated revenue fund, the integrity of the financial reporting system of Vuntut Gwitchin Government and ensuring that the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation operates within the approved annual budget. This position oversees development and implementation of financial internal control policies and procedures to ensure Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation assets are safeguarded and provides support to departments in managing budgets. This position also serves as a member of the Management Committee and the senior management team. THE CANDIDATE The ideal candidate will hold a degree in either Finance or Business Administration or a professional accounting designation with at least seven years relevant work experience at a senior management level. Substantial knowledge (both in depth and breadth) of accounting practices in both the public and private sectors is required as well as several years experience in a supervisory role. Strong interpersonal, mediation, analytical and written communication skills are a must. Knowledge of Yukon First Nations and their government systems is an asset. A detailed job description is available at our website: http://www.vgfn.ca/ employment Visit: www.oldcrow.ca to learn more about our community. PAY RANGE $88,133 - $114,573 plus an excellent benefits package. CLOSING DATE: February 21, 2016
A detailed job description is available upon request. A detailed job description is available upon request For more information, contact Human Resources Phone: (867) 993-7100 – EX: 112 or 126 Fax: (867) 993-6553 Email: hrjobs@trondek.ca Mail: Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Government, P.O. Box 599, Dawson City, Yukon, Y0B 1G0
We thank all applicants, but only those selected for further consideration will be contacted. “To work together, to speak with one voice and to serve Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Citizens in the pursuit of a strong, healthy, and united future.”
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
We thank all applicants but only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Please forward your covering letter and resume, preferably by email, to: RE: VGFN - Resume Crowe MacKay LLP Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors Suite 200-303 Strickland St Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9 Whitehorse.Resume@CroweMacKay.ca
We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, rifles & ammo. G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL HONEYWELL OIL-FILLED heater, good cond, $25. 334-8318 Native Brain-Tanned MOOSE HIDES At Reasonable Prices Tanned beaver & other furs also available. Phone (780) 355-3557 or (780) 461-9677 or write: Lodge Fur & Hides Box 87, Faust, AB. T0G-0X0 PORTABLE TESTING sluice, new Honda 3” pump with hoses & ventury suction, all new, view 49 Redwood Street, Porter Creek. 633-6553 STAINLESS STEEL commercial kitchen sink, 50" x 25" x15" deep, $200. Call 633-4375 SILVER PENDANT with French lily, $99; Book, Part of the Land, Part of the Water, $99. 633-2236 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 CRAFTSMAN II snowblower, 31”, 11hp, good shape, $525 obo. 667-6649 1 1/2” Homelite water pump, hardly used, view at 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek. 633-6553 3 TON chain hoist, never used, view at 49 Redwood Street, Porter Creek. 633-6553 TOOLS, VARIOUS carpenter & mechanical, some power tools, view at 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek. 633-6553 COIN OPERATED washer and dryer in good condition, $400. Call 633-4375 AUBE ELECTRONIC Thermostat model no. TH 115-A-120S, up to 2000W 120V- 16.7A, 7 days programmable, new in box, good for baseboard heater, $20 each. Call 335-6886 aft 6pm LED POT lights 9W, & LED square ceiling lights 25W, very powerful, equivalent to 60W & 100W, easy DIY, no accessories required, $15 & $30. Call 335-6886 aft 6pm NATURAL SLATE stone for fire place, over 50 sq ft available, easy DIY project, $10 per sq ft. Call 335-6886 aft 6pm FUR JACKETS, Mink size med, Rabbit brown/white mix size lg, both waist length, lined, gorgeous, new over $2,500, asking $500 obo ea. 867-689-5907 downtown THICK CARPET, 8ʼx5.5ʼ, vintage floral design, burgundy, beige, green, exc shape, was $250, asking $50. 633-2236 WESTERN PLATFORM scale, 3000kg, like new. 633-2211 FREE: LARGE selection of Readerʼs Digest hard cover. 633-2768 GIRLʼS LARGE or ladiesʼ small high-end quality blue snow pants, 3 pockets, double lined, never been worn, 1/2 price @ $60. 633-2293 YUKON SOURDOUGH Rendezvous 1988 print by Cris Caldwell, #3 of 500, $100. 633-2236 ONE STACK of well-dried pine firewood. 15" stove length. Approx 9'*8'*4', $490. Can deliver to Marsh Lake, Whse area. 334-7364 TWO FEATHER down blankets, single, exc shape, $50 ea. 633-2236
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SONY A7S ILCE-7S, Mirrorless Camera, 12.2MP full-frame, ISO 50-409600, full HD video, S-log2, 4K video via HDMI, 4 batteries, 2 chargers, original box/manual, mint condition, battery grip VG-C1EM, $1,650. 667-6472
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HUSQUVARNA 61 Chainsaw with 20" bar, near new chain, air cleaner, ignition switch & brake band, $290 obo. 668-5644 PHOTO ART supplies, unused, perfect condition, mats, backer boards, wood & alum frames, kits, glass, plastic sleeves, worth over $1,100, asking $550 obo. 667-2389 for inventory list PHOTO ART equipment, used, Rotatrim M-50 print cutter, $100; Leitz 4602 Tiltall tripod, missing one pan control, $50. 667-2389
Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782
✔ 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
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
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EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery • Dry accurate cords • Clean shavings available • VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise. ORDER NOW 456-7432
IPHONE 4S Bell/Virgin, also Telus 16GB, both in good condition, $140 firm. 334-6087
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
FENDER CHAMP 25 guitar amp, $250. 336-0783
CJʼS FIREWOOD Cut to length. $220 per cord. Contact Bill at 867-335-4065
ACOUSTIC & hollow body electric guitars, very good cond, low & high end guitars. 332-1360 ANNIVERSARY EDITION VOX AC15 amplifier, tubes, reverb, vibrato, Celestion Greenback speaker, red, new, $1,000. 332-0067
DONʼS FIREWOOD Forestry Permit #2015 FWL 027-02 •Junction Beetle Kill •Stockpiled in Whitehorse •Quick Daily Deliveries Social Services •$240/Cord City Limits Phone 393-4397
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SPLIT FIREWOOD 16” lengths 3-cord loads $220/cord Delivered in city limits 333-5174
WINCHESTER MODEL 37 16-gauge single shot shotgun, vg cond, $250. 633-2443
Guns & Bows
LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL
DOMINION ARMS 16-gauge single shot shotgun, new in box, unfired, blued, hardwood stock, $150. 633-2443
RUGER MODEL 77, 270 Winchester cal, as new, only fired 10 rounds, green/brown laminated stock, c/w Ruger scope rings, $800 obo. 335-4749 or 668-4726
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ANDYʼS 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
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CDMA PHONE, new in box, Samsung Ace i325 World Edition, works good in rural settings, c/w all accessories, $60. 334-6087
PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com
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
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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 FOX LAKE FIREWOOD •Stove ready, delivered •Clean, hot burn •$220 per cord Call 334-3979 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 FIREWOOD FOR SALE Beetle-killed pine, dry Stored in Whitehorse Call for prices 867-689-5797
ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEE
Interest in Request for Proposals The Kwanlin Dün First Nation (KDFN) is seeking expressions of interest from qualified firms to act as Administrative Trustee for its trust.
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VUNTUT GWITCHIN FIRST NATION Old Crow, Yukon FINANCE DEPARTMENT
An Experience in Canada’s True North
MANAGER OF FINANCE THE JOB Reporting to the Director of Finance, this position is responsible for the dayto-day management of the finance department. This includes maintenance of the general ledger, and supervision of three clerks; accounts receivable, accounts payable/payroll, and general finance. THE CANDIDATE The ideal candidate will hold a degree in Accounting or Business Administration and is pursuing an accounting designation with at least three years experience working through a full cycle of accounting functions in an organization including supervision of staff. Experience working with computerized accounting systems such as ACCPAC and Payroll Software such as Easy pay and associated payroll reporting requirements. Previous experience in a First Nation community is an asset. A diploma in accounting with over six years relevant experience will also be considered. A detailed job description is available at our website: http://www.vgfn.ca/ employment Visit: www.oldcrow.ca to learn more about our community. PAY RANGE $69,114 - $82,937 per annum plus an excellent benefits package
Please contact us by email estelle.lavis@kdfn.net or by phone (867) 633-7871 by Monday, February 15 of your interest.
CLOSING DATE: February 21, 2016
Interested firms only will be provided with the full request for proposal package to be submitted to KDFN at a later date for review, evaluation and appointment of the successful bidder.
Please forward your covering letter and resume, preferably by email, to:
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We thank all applicants but only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
RE: VGFN - Resumes Crowe MacKay LLP Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors Suite 200 – 303 Strickland St Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9 Whitehorse.Resume@CroweMacKay.ca
Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.
Expression of Interest: Casual Coordinator, Centre for Trades, Technology and Mining (CNIM) Continuing Education Courses Casual Instructor, Pipe Trades
Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Casual Position: From March 1, 2016 to June 30th, 2016 Based on 75 hours bi-weekly Salary: $33.52 to $37.71 per hour Initial Review Date: February 15, 2016 Competition No.: 16.11
School of Continuing Education & Training (SCET) Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Casual Position to June 30th, 2016 Hours - varies Salary: 27.85 per hour Initial Review Date: February 15, 2016 Competition No.: 16.12
Expression of Interest for: Housing Maintenance Instructor(s) Casual, Temporary Hire Housing Maintenance Program
School of Community Education and Development Ross River Community Campus From: February 15 to June 30th, 2016 Initial Review Date: February 10, 2016 Competition No.: 16.13
Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
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BROWNING LEVER action, 22 LR caliber, vg cond, $600 obo. 668-4726 or 335-4749 RUGER 77-22, as new, 22 LR caliber, $900 obo. 668-4726 or 335-4749 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
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YUKON NEWS 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 44 MAGNUM and .44 special brass, once-fired, large quantity, call to discuss price. 633-2443 6.5 X 55 ammunition, hunting and military, about 80 rounds, $100. 633-2443
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
FIFTY-FOUR ROUNDS of 7.62 x 54 Privi Partizan brand hunting ammunition + six fired cases for $65.00 or trade for same number of .270 Win or .303 Br. rounds. 633-2443
RUGER BISLEY 45 Long colt single action, like new, $1000. Must have restricted license. 336-0783 RUGER REDHAWK 44 magnum dual action, like new. Must have restricted license, $1000. 336-0783
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Executive Director F I R E WE E D C O M M U N I T Y M A R K E T S O C I ET Y
Service Station/Propane Attendant The Applicant must be able to work weekends and evenings. Driver’s License & Propane Certification is required. Wage is $12.50 - $15.00 / hour depending on experience. Group Insurance Benefits available. Drop resume off at 107 Industrial Road Attn: Cal Murdoch or email to Cal@yukontire.com
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.
Qualifications and complete job description can be found at
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One (1) Full time and two (2) Auxiliary On-Call Youth Center Workers – Haines Junction closing February 15, 2016 @ 4:30 pm (Competition #16-17-005)
Request for Interest Individuals to provide a variety of programs and services with youth at the Sam Williams Youth Centre closing February 15, 2015 @ 4:30 pm CAFN’s HR Preferential Hire Policy will apply. For more info and a complete job description please check the CAFN website at http://www.cafn.ca/jobs.html or contact below. Submit current resumes to: CAFN Human Resources Department Fax :(867) 634-2108 bjackson@cafn.ca 867.634.4244 or sbreithaupt@cafn.ca 867.456.6882
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Fireweed Community Market Society, permanent part-time. For full details see our posting on YuWIN or visit www.fireweedmarket.ca
WANTED: ANY kind of curtains, free, will pick up. 633-2236 WANTED: ANY type 5/16" thick hardwood or cork tongue-and-groove flooring remnants. Need at least 50 sq ft. 867-821-4299
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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.
How to Apply: Please submit your cover letter and resume electronically to fireweedED2016@yahoo.ca OR in hard copy to the Fireweed Community Market Office, 21 Waterfront Place Whitehorse, Y1A 6V1 BY 5PM FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19TH. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.
One (1) Term position Education Support Worker – Haines Junction closing February 12, 2016 @ 4:30 pm (Competition #16-17-004)
WANTED: ENOUGH brick for a 4x8 sheet of plywood. 335-5059
Permanent, Part-time. $27.75/hour 20hrs/week
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WANTED: SOMEONE to do a professional install of wood stove. Call 668-6481
WANTED: SKIDOO Alpine double track to use as a school project. 667-6127 evenings
HELP WANTED Integra Tire Whitehorse requires a full time permanent
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2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart 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. SEE KIJIJI FOR MORE INFO. Bright yellow! $8,000 obo.
Call or Text 867-335-7997
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.
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
Phone days 867-667-6315 • Fax 867-668-6977 Email: irving@northwestel.net
2003 MITSUBISHI Lancer, $1,500. Al @ 333-1482
2011 TOYOTA Corolla, sport model, 49,000 kms, auto, extended warranty to Mar 31, 2021 or 120,000 kms. 633-5943 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 2007 VW Passat 2L Turbo Wagon. 156,000km, pwr, leather, full service, recent engine work, runs great, $7,000. 334-5297 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
2000 VW Golf 2.0 L gas engine, 4-dr auto, heated seats, new transmission, recent work done, serviced, c/w mechanical inspection, $4,500 obo. 334-5297 1999 TOYOTA Sienna, well maintained, new windshield, front brakes, CV boots & summer tires, $3,500 obo. 633-5943 1997 FORD Contour V6, blue, 150,000 kms, very clean, imitation leather interior, sunroof, new tires, runs great, $2,000. 335-1088 1989 CHRYSLER, good engine, new battery & muffler, needs tranny work, engine also fits Chrysler mini-van. 335-7208
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY – maternity leave
Conservation Programs and Communications Coordinator 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 chapter’s involvement with CPAWS National programs. Position:
One year maternity leave (starting in April 2016) 30 hours/week Compensation: $24–$27/hr (commensurate on experience) 4 weeks vacation Please visit www.cpawsyukon.org for the detailed job description with qualifications 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 Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
The law firm of Austring, Fendrick & Fairman in Whitehorse Yukon requires a:
CORPORATE CLERK WAGE RANGE $34,960 – $46,615
Working in the Corporate Law Department under the Corporate Legal Assistant, some of the duties would include preparing and filing documents with Corporate Affairs, closing files, handling requests from clients and lawyers on corporate matters, and other routine duties. This position would also perform receptionist duties as needed including answering phones and greeting clients. Experience with Microsoft Word and Outlook; good keyboarding skills; ability to perform tasks accurately and in a timely fashion; work under pressure and in a professional manner. Corporate experience is not required but previous experience in a professional office would be an asset. Candidate will be required to become a Notary Public within 6 months of hire. A criminal record check is required for this position. Bring your resume and cover letter to our office by 5:00 p.m. Friday, February 12th, 2016 at 3081 3rd Aveue, Whitehorse, attention to Greg LeBlanc, Manager. No phone calls please and only those candidates selected for interview will be contacted.
1986 OLDS Ciera, 4 door sedan, vg shape, 77,000 kms, new battery, remote start, safety, $2,000. Call 633-4311
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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 2010 JEEP Patriot, only 80,000kms, $7,500. Al @ 333-1482 2009 GMC 1 ton with flat original box, winch, performance package, lift kit, new tires, $33,500. Call 334-4134 2008 C H E V R O L E T Tahoe 4X4, 184,000kms, must be seen to be appreciated. 336-2982 2008 FORD F450 super duty XL, regular cab, long box, dump body, dually, diesel, 2wd, 76,844.8 kms, 2,240 hours on engine. 333-1058
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2007 CHEV 2500HD crew cab 4X4, great unit, many options, trailer tow, fully serviced, new brakes & battery. 633-4311
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2007 CHEVROLET Equinox LT, 4dr, AWD fuel efficient 3.4l V6, remote start, leather heated seats, sunroof, new studded tires, just turned 200km almost all hwy, nice cond, $6900. 334-8084
ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away” Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail glacierviewcabins@gmail.com www.glacierviewcabins.ca
2005 TOYOTA Tundra SR5, TRD, off-road access cab, 175,000 kms, clean, good cond, 4.7L V8, remote start, AC, 6-disc changer, power windows/locks, tow package, box liner, canopy, $11,000 obo. 335-0451
KIDS KREATE, free family art class at the Yukon Arts Centre, February 21 from 1–4pm, lace stencils. Registration not required. Call 393-7109 for more information
2003 GMC Jimmy, 212,000kms, clean, good running cond, new front end, brakes, fuel pump etc, 4WD is smooth, $3,600. 633-4590 2002 MAZDA p/u B2300, $2,000. Al @ 333-1482 1996 PLYMOUTH Voyager van, vg condition, clean and smooth, 280,000km, tinted windows, $2,200 obo. 322-1476 1995 DODGE 5.9L, Super Cab, DSL, auto, 12-valve 4X4, Hirise canopy, 3/4 ton, Hankook tires, 284,000 kms, $4,000. Gus @ 393-4796 1992 FORD Ranger 4X4 p/u, $500. Al @ 333-1482 1971 GMC 1 ton Chev, 350 engine, standard, 2 door, can put a 12ʼ deck on it, dually, great fixer up truck, any reasonable offer accepted. 334-1343 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
2012 YAMAHA Venture GT, electric start, reverse, heated handle bars front & back, only 669kms, $8,500. 456-7157
PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 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
4 MOTOMASTER AW all seasons, P185/70 R14, like new, w/rims, 5-stud. 867-862-7047
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 WANTED: WHEELCHAIR for larger dog or just wheels for hip & back support. Call Jola at 334-8795
Motorcycles & Snowmobiles TAITʼS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg JO'S SMALL ENGINE REPAIR •Repairs to snowmobiles, snowblowers , chainsaws, outboards, lawnmowers and more. •Shop rate $70 per hour, •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 2012 POLARIS Switchback Assault, mint condition, 6 hours running time, $8,000 obo. Andy at 335-0844
CHILKOOT TRAIL/LOG Cabin: Non-motorized weekend: Feb 19-21. Other weekends & weekdays: Multi-Use. For info: 867-667-3910
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SHARE THE Love: Little Footprints Big Steps Gala community event. Morgan Wienberg sharing photos & stories; Yukon youth musicians performing; silent auction. Feb 13. Tickets $25 tax receipt. 334-3928
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WHITEHORSE G E N E R A L Hospital Women's Auxiliary monthly meeting Monday February 8th, 7:30pm, at WGH. New members welcome. Info: 667-2087
Sunday, S d June J 26th • 1 pm Nakwataku Potlatch House, 35 McIntyre Dr. There are many people Who come and go in our lives A few touch us in ways That change us forever, Making us better For knowing them.
Love, Bea, Jason, Jeff and families
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 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. SLIDE INTO German, free lessons every Saturday from 10am-11am. Join us at the Birch & Bear. Info Renate @ 334-6948
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Verna Loreen Westman
Died peacefully at Whitehorse General Hospital surrounded by friends and family. Many thanks to Dr. Anderson and the wonderful and caring staff of the surgical ward.
On February 20, 1918, the world met Verna Loreen Westman (nee Buck).
Friends are invited to gather at the Masonic Hall 1501 Dogwood Street, Porter Creek Friday, February 5th, 4:00 - 8:00 PM No service by his Request.
“Her smiles, her sweet and charming way, Turn clouds to sunshine, night and day.�
In lieu of flowers, donations to Cancer Society or Princeton United Church would be appreciated.
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 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. 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. 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 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
With her family at her side, Verna peacefully passed on January 18th, 2016. Pre-deceased by loving husband Russell and son Chuck. Survived by her sons Wayne (Gladys) and Grant (Loretta). Verna was cherished by her grandchildren Joanne (Colin and children Maggie and Austin), Trisha (Lawrence and children Kai, Quinton and Jarett), Steven (Angela and children Jessica and Nicole), Julie (Mike and children Alexandra and Jack), Lisa (JosÊ and children Isabela and Erik), Samantha (Joshua) and Jessica. Predeceased by parents Charles and Pearl Buck of Keg Lane and siblings Roscoe, Carl, Ernest, Melbourne, Robert and Margaret Stewart. Verna’s love of life brought a sparkle to those who crossed her path. She didn’t stray far from Keg Lane, raising her family and working in Princeton. Her life story was an adventure: many bike rides to her 27 year career at the Frank Cowan Company; thousands of legendary pies and goodies; decades of honing her green thumb; intrepid camping trips; many piano melodies and twirls on the dance floor.
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.
THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. Group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info/register call Joanne 668-7713
December 2, 1922 - January 29, 2016
In memory of the beautiful, enduring spirit of
YRTA (YUKON Retired Teachers) Breakfast on Tuesday Feb 9th, 9:30am, at 506 Main St. Grill. All welcome. Info: 667-2644
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
July 29, 1970 - January 29, 2016
It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Derek Ward on Friday, January 29, 2016 in Atlin, B.C. Derek was born on July 29, 1970 in Watson Lake, Yukon, the oldest son of Vera Boya (Kaska) and John D. Ward (Taku River Tlingit), and lived in Atlin since 1990. Derek will be remembered for his big heart, generous nature, sense of humor and for being a very hard worker. Derek was a kind, caring individual and was always willing to lend a hand. Derek is survived by his mother, Vera Boya, father, John D. Ward, siblings Denelle, David, Shawana and Kyle, as well as partner of sixteen years, Linda McGill. Derek will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Funeral service will be in Atlin on Saturday February 6, 2016 at the Atlin Rec Centre at 2pm. A potlatch at the Rec Centre will immediately follow the burial. All are welcome to attend. We encourage people to wear green and blue Derek’s favourite colours.
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
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
Fritz John Donnessey July , ď™„ď™Œď™„ď™Š – January ď™…ď™…, ď™…ď™ƒď™„6 It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our Father, Husband, Grandfather and Great Grandfather on January 22, 2016. We would like to thank all those who helped and supported our family in many ways this past week. Your prayers, cards, calls, donations meant so much to us at this diďŹƒcult time. He was laid to rest on January 29, 2016 at Lucky Lake cemetery. Dad is survived by his wife, Clara, 8 children and numerous grandchildren and relatives from Alaska, NWT and BC.
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. QUEER YUKON: upcoming events for the LGBTQ community and allies, Out North, Yukon Pride and more! www.queeryukon.com YUKON REGISTERED Music Teachers Association annual recital at Riverdale Baptist Church, Sunday February 7, 3pm. Family $25, adults $10, student/children $5. GROWERS OF Organic Food YukonGoOFY AGM Wednesday, March 2nd, 5pm at Whitehorse Library. TAKHINI HOT Springs Open House at the Gold Rush Inn Monday February 8th at 7pm. Come find out about our current projects and future plans, investment opportunities and more FAT-TIRE BIKE Loppet 1st Annual on Saturday, February 13th at Marsh Lake Community Centre, go to Icycle Sport or www.marshlakecommunitycentre.com for more info and to register or call 660-4999
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KLUANE QUILTER'S Guild is bringing award winning quilter Elaine Quehl to Whitehorse. Registration for workshops from April 6-7, and 8-10 is open - all levels. Call Wendy at 633-5191 kluaneguild@gmail.com.
LONG AGO Yukon Annual Meeting and behind-the-scenes laboratory tour at Archaeology & Paleontology at 133 Industrial Road, Tuesday February 16, 5pm-7pm. www.facebook.com/LongAgoYukon CHRONOLOGY OF Extinction & Human Entrance into the New World, Long Ago. Yukon SKYPE lecture Dr. Thomas Stafford Jr., Beringia Centre Saturday, February 13, 1pm. www.facebook.com/LongAgoYukon MARSH LAKE Ski Loppet 22nd Annual on Saturday, February 13th, go to Icycle Sport, Coast Mtn, Mt. Mac or www.marshlakecommunitycentre.com for more info and to register or call 660-4999.
BUSY BEAVERS Pruning, Hauling, and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 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 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 ELECTRICIAN •Licensed •General Handyman Services •Light Carpentry, Drywall, etc •Free Estimates •10% Seniorʼs Discount 334-0974
YDEC SPEAKER Series. Eleanor Millard will speak on her experiences as an election observer in El Salvador Wednesday February 17th. 7:00pm at Association franco-yukonnaise, 302 Strickland Street YDEC SPEAKER Series. Raquel De Queiroz and Kirsten Bradley from Yukon Cares will speak on Syrian Refugee sponsorship Thursday February 11th, 7:00pm at Association franco-yukonnaise, 302 Strickland Street
Services BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta. Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc. Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050 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
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 EXPERT CARPENTRY •All types of projects •Commercial & residential •New construction & renovations •Interior & exterior •Fine finishing 334-5231
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PUBLIC TENDER STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT (SOA) FOR THE SUPPLY OF WHELEN LIGHTING PRODUCTS AND AUDIBLE WARNING DEVICES 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 Jenny Richards at jenny.richards@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/
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
REQUEST FOR TENDER
Staff Scheduling Software
Disposal of Transit Buses
RFP 2016-BTS0001
RFT 2016-OPS0002
Closing February 19, 2016 at 4:00 pm.
Open until all buses disposed.
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SURVEY NOTICE Section 87(1) Quartz Mining Act Situated in the Watson Lake Mining District in Quad 105 I/11 near Don Creek, Yukon 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. The plan of survey can be viewed at the office of the Mining Recorder, Watson Lake, Yukon.
Highways and Public Works
In Loving Memory of
Thomas Patrick
BROWN
JUNE 10TH, 1971 - FEBRUARY 5TH, 2006
We were blessed to have you for 34 years. Hearing your laughter, jokes and stories and our time together. ‘till we meet again... Love, Dad, Mom, brother Darrell, aunties, uncles, & cousins
Bruce James Smith F U N E R A L S E RV IC E S
November 9, 1966-January 29, 2016 It is with great sadness in our hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved Bruce. At this time his mother; Shirley Smith, father Donnie Sam and grandmother Annie Smith; along with his brothers Brian, Keith, Kevin, Tim and sister Desiree, invite you to his funeral service. It was Bruce's wish that there be no Potlatch to follow.
Monday, February, 8th, 2016 at the Nakwata'ku Potlatch House at 1pm Bruce will be laid to rest at Lake Lebarge Cemetery
PUBLIC TENDER STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT (S) (SOA) FOR RENTAL VEHICLES FOR GOVERNMENT OF YUKON, TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING 2016/17 Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 29, 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 Jenny Richards at jenny.richards@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/
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Dated at Whitehorse, Yukon this 12th day of January, 2016 Gabriel Aucoin Underhill Geomatics Ltd. Agent for Selwyn Chihong Mining Ltd. 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
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
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
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TCM MAID SERVICE Reliable, Thorough & Professional Reasonable Rates References available 336-8555
Territorial Court of Yukon
Water Sampling and Monitoring Program RFT 2016-WWS0001 Closing February 17, 2016 at 2:00 pm. For details visit whitehorse.ca/procurement
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Notice to Shayne Arthur Beck and Antonia Lafferty of an appointment at 2:00pm Friday, February 19th, 2016 located at the Territorial Court of Yukon, The Law Courts, 2134 Second Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon.
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
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
IN THE MATTER OF THE LANDLORD AND TENAT ACT R.S.Y.T. 2002; CHAPTER 131 AND AMMENDMENTS THERETO
REQUEST FOR TENDER
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
POTENTIAL ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF DEVELOPING SHALE OIL AND GAS RESOURCES IN YUKON’S LIARD BASIN Project Description: The Department of Economic Development is seeking an analysis of the potential economic impacts of developing shale oil and gas resources in Yukon’s Liard Basin. Key areas of interest include an examination of marketable shale resources; estimation of costs associated with development, operation and regulation; and estimation of economic impacts associated with shale gas development. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 29, 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 Jamie Coles at jamie.coles@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/
Economic Development
Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number Numéro de la demande
PM16-005
PM15-068
Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire
Glenn Hartley
TIC Exploration Ltd.
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Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu
East Fork Swamp Creek Tributary of Scottie Creek Gladstone, Cyr Creeks & Unnamed Tributaries Tributary of Gladstone Lakes
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.
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Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise
Placer
Placer
Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h
March 2, 2016
March 2, 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.
Lost & Found LOST: BLUE woman's leather wallet on Sunday January 24, from the downtown area. No questions asked, just want my ID back. 668-6658
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL MODULAR PORTABLE CLASSROOM Project Description: Modular classroom for Ecole Emilie Tremblay. 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 Shannon Trott at shannon.trott@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/
LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 LOST: TELUS Cartel Idol 3 cell phone w/case on Jan 22 on Main St. If found please leave message at 332-0320 for Kathy. Reward offered 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.
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PUBLIC TENDER STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT (S) (SOA) FOR RENTAL VEHICLES FOR GOVERNMENT OF YUKON, FLEET VEHICLE AGENCY 2016 Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 29, 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 Jenny Richards at jenny.richards@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/
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 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 HAY FOR SALE •Dry bales kept under a shelter •Great quality hay 60-70 lb bales, $10 633-4496 or mikeandastra@me.com HAY FOR SALE Small square brome bales, $12. Call 668-2407
Baby & Child Items CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903
Furniture LARGE DARK wood office desk w/matching credenza, good cond, 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek. 633-6553 CLASSIC SOLID wood bedroom dresser and drawers, 69” long w/large mirror, 9 drawers, will forward picture, $375. 633-3113 SERTA ICOMFORT Memory Foam mattress & frame, double. Allergic to foam, used once. Paid $1500, asking $1000 firm. 332-3058 3-PERSON SOFA, suede finish, sage green, very comfortable, in exc condition, $140. 668-6303, after 6pm
Stand out from the crowd and be seen! Advertise your business in the Yukon News. Phone: 867-667-6283 Fax: 867-667-3755
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BUNK BEDS Lifetime Warranty Yukon Made! Yukon Owned! Eco Friendly 1-800-Bunkbed
Friday, February 5, 2016 KING SIZE steel HD bed frame w/wheels & head/foot board supports, exc cond, $75 obo. 633-4656 CORNER CABINET, cherry wood, 2 shelves w/bottom cupboards, would hold 30” TV, 3ʼWx5ʼHx18”D, exc cond, $195. 633-4656 TEAL SOFA & love seat, comfortable, good condition, $200. 668-3973
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Personals SYLVIE AND REID Itʼs on! Are you ready? Await further developments. TOMI
DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office
VINTAGE KITCHEN chairs (2), upholstered seats, $70 pr. firm; Maple rocking chair, $80 firm. 311B Hanson St. after 7pm USED TABLE & chairs, $50; solid oak with tinted glass coffee table incl end tables, $200; new ceiling fans w. lights, $50 ea. 332-1360 EXTRA LONG twin Sealy mattress, box spring & metal frame. Exc shape, c/w sheets, mattress protector, bed skirt & blanket. $200. 335-5185
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS DESIGN, INSTALL AND COMMISSION WAN OPTIMIZATION FOR YUKON SCHOOLS 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 Shannon Trott at shannon.trott@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/
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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
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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
Garage Sales 509 WOOD Street, downtown, Saturday February 6, 10am-3pm, inside yard sale, moving, odds & ends
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/
LAND LOTTERY Dawson City and Haines Junction
The Yukon Fish and Wildlife Enhancement Trust is a public registered charity with the objective to: “restore, enhance and protect fish and wildlife populations and their habitat in the Yukon, so as to achieve the objectives of Chapter 16 (Fish and Wildlife) of the Umbrella Final Agreement including initiating, sponsoring, funding, directing and carrying out measures to achieve those objectives”. The Trust is accepting project proposal submissions that meet the Trust’s objective and are prepared according to the Trust Proposal Guidelines, which may be obtained at http://yfwet.ca/. Requests up to a maximum of $15,000 are encouraged, however, any amount may be considered.
DEADLINE: Proposals submitted electronically by 4:00 p.m. March 1st, 2016. For more information or to submit a proposal - email: info@yfwet.ca Trust’s Mailing Address: P.O. Box 31022, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5P7 Physical Address: 409 Black Street, Whitehorse, YT. Phone: Dennis Zimmermann, Trust Manager at (867) 335-9422 ___________________________________________________________________________________ Crossword:
WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB February 2, 2016 1st - Lorraine Hoyt & Davina Harker 2nd - Jan Ogilvy & Darwin Wreggitt 3rd - Bob Walsh & Bill Grandy We play every Tuesday at 7:00 pm at the Golden Age Society. New players are welcome. For more information call 633-5352 or email nmcgowan@klondiker.co
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The Trust is looking for Lake Trout projects! The Trust anticipates focusing some of the funding for 2016-17 on projects that assist in rebuilding Yukon’s Lake Trout stocks. __________________________________________________________________________________ As a registered charity we welcome all donations. The Trust shall provide donors with a charitable tax receipt, recognition on our website and on our widely distributed free calendar. 100% of donation dollars are spent directly on fish and wildlife projects.
Energy, Mines and Resources, Land Management Branch is holding a land lottery for: • One country residential and five residential lots in Dawson City • 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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