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Northern Cross sees big setback Assessors have sent the company’s plans to pump oil and gas from Eagle Plains back to square one.

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he City of Whitehorse and the Kwanlin Dun First Nation are working together to create a comprehensive action plan in the hopes of ending homelessness in the territory.

Mayor Dan Curtis, Chief Doris Bill and Premier Darrell Pasloski were at city hall yesterday morning to make the announcement.

Few details about the action plan were made available, however. Curtis said it would likely be produced in the upcoming fiscal year but did not provide a specific date as to when that would happen, nor when the plan would be implemented.

The announcement is the next step in the Vulnerable People at Risk initiative, which began last April when almost 300 people attended a forum at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre to brainstorm ways to address the issues facing the city’s most vulnerable people.

It continued in September when some of the city’s business leaders, including representatives from the Westmark Hotel

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and the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce, brainstormed ideas on how they could help.

In mid-September, both Curtis and Bill made a plea for assistance from the Yukon government to step in and help create affordable and sustainable housing in the territory. “I’m pretty exasperated,�

Curtis said at the time. “We need some affordable housing in the short-term. All we can do is keep on saying the situation is dire, it hasn’t gone away, it’s just not affordable.�

At yesterday’s announcement, Pasloski said the territorial government would help fund the action plan, as well as a youth forum to be held in the near future. “Poverty and homelessness are complex issues that cannot be resolved by any one government or agency alone,� he said.

He also mentioned the government was doing its part by investing $21 million to build a new detox and inpatient drug and alcohol treatment centre in downtown Whitehorse.

It is also partnering with the Ta’an Kwach’an Council and its business arm to build affordable housing units in the Whistle

Bend subdivision.

The three governments will also work in partnership to try and attract some much-needed infrastructure funds from the federal government.

Curtis said he and Bill were in Ottawa recently and they managed to speak with Amarjeet Sohi, the federal minister of infrastructure and communities.

Bill said she extended an invitation for Sohi to visit the territory and see first-hand what Whitehorse’s infrastructure and affordable housing issues are.

Another project planned for the near future is a point-intime count to be held over a 24-hour period during the week of April 11. It will count homeless individuals as well as those who are at risk of becoming homeless.

The information will be used to inform the development and future evaluation of the action plan. The count is one of the recommendations made during the business roundtable session in September.

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he Yukon government is contributing $450,000 towards the planning and design of a major expansion at the MacBride Museum of Yukon History.

The work will affect the rear portion of the log-front centennial building, which doesn’t have the same construction standard as the front portion, explained MacBride executive director Patricia Cunning.

It’s likely the rear portion will be torn down and rebuilt entirely, she said, which would also give the museum more space for new exhibits and displays. “Everything here is full, in-

cluding our storage space,� she said. “We can’t do any more exhibits or expand our programming.�

The funds will go towards the costs of engineering, architectural design, site preparing and planning.

The expansion would allow the museum to tell more of the territory’s stories, especially ones that focus on mining, Cunning said.

Many of the museum’s objects can’t be put on display because there simply is no room for them. “We also want to work on cultural stories,� she said. “And over the past eight to 10 years we’ve done a lot of sport partnership stories but there is no permanent home for those.�

Keith Halliday, chair of

MacBride, said the expansion would help fulfill the museum’s core mandate of promoting Yukon history.

The new addition will also be built to modern construction standards, which means it will be carbon-emission free, he added.

It’s still too early to set a timeline for the construction of the new addition. But Halliday said there would be an emphasis on “maximizing local employment� during the construction phase.

Established in 1950, the museum was moved to the centennial building from the telegraph office in 1967. The rear portion was added five years later.

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Northern Cross to start from scratch and that the proponent was able to provide us with all the information that they possibly could,” Smith said. orthern Cross’s Eagle Sometimes, he said, the Plain oil-and-gas baseline information about project has been sent possible impacts just doesn’t back to the drawing board after exist for certain regions.

Yukon’s assessment board was “Is that entirely the propounable to determine how exnent’s responsibility, or is that ploratory drilling would affect the resource manager’s responthe Porcupine caribou herd. sibility?”

The project proposal was YESAB’s report refers to the first submitted to the Yukon North Yukon Regional Land Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Board Use Plan, which recommends in 2014. further investigation of the In a report released earlier impacts of disturbances on this week, YESAB decided that caribou in the region. “These it was “unable to predict how priorities have not been adthe Porcupine caribou herd dressed,” reads the report. will interact with the projJulie Stinson, acting director ect and as such is unable to of the development assessdetermine the significance of ment branch of the executive adverse sociocultural effects council office, said it can be related to the access to and difficult for the government to use of the Porcupine caribou Ian Stewart/Yukon News collect baseline data in remote herd.” regions.

A Northern Cross site in Eagle Plains in 2013. Yukon’s assessment board was not able to determine “At this point, the assess“There’s a limited amount how the Porcupine caribou herd would be affected by the project’s exploratory drilling. ment is terminated and ... the of money for research and govball is back in Northern Cross’s ed by that.”

He could only think of two metres in Nacho Nyak Dun and ernment needs to determine court as to what they wish to Thompson said he doesn’t other occasions when this has Vuntut Gwitchin traditional where that is best spent.” do,” said Tim Smith, YESAB’s yet know what the company’s happened. One was the Yukon territories.

She suggested that propoexecutive director. next steps will be, or if it will Queen II riverboat service op“We just don’t know enough nents will sometimes partner This was the outcome of a resubmit at all. erated by Holland America be- in that part of the territory with governments to do the nearly two-year long assessExecutive committee tween Dawson City and Eagle, about that herd,” Smith said. research that’s needed. ment process that could have screening is essentially a more Alaska. In 2012, the company But the decision raises an But Sebastian Jones of the ended with YESAB deciding to rigorous review of a proposal. decided to pull the boat out important question: if baseline Yukon Conservation Society approve or reject the project.

It’s reserved for larger projects of operation, partly because data about the caribou herd said he thinks YESAB’s deciInstead, it chose to refer the with more serious potential it saw no end to the YESAB was missing, why was the projsion could sound a death knell project for executive commitimpacts, like the proposed Ca- review process in sight. ect assessed in the first place? for this project. In the time it tee screening. Basically, that sino mine. First Nations conStill, Smith said the deciBefore YESAB accepts a would take to get the project means it’s sent Northern Cross sultation is required, and more sion was necessary in this case, project for environmental through another assessment, back to the very beginning of government departments are because of the possible threat assessment, it goes through he said, he thinks Canada will the process. The company can called on to provide feedback. to the Porcupine caribou herd an adequacy review process. have developed a more cohernow choose to resubmit the Once a project proposal and the First Nations that deThat’s when the assessment ent climate policy that may same proposal or to modify it. is submitted, YESAB has 16 pend on it. board can ask a proponent for render this project obsolete.

“We’re stunned,” said David months to complete the as“The stakes are pretty high information it’s lacking.

“I’ll never be happy to see Thompson, CEO of Northern sessment, according to new when we’re talking about a way In this case, YESAB sent this project go ahead,” he said.

Cross. “I’m absolutely stunned. timelines recently set out by of life,” he explained.

Northern Cross four separate “I think there’s a possibility We participated in an assessBill S-6.

Northern Cross had proinformation requests, but ment program for an explorathat the Chinese (company) But it’s unusual to have a posed to drill 20 wells for the project was then deemed tion project for almost two project get all the way through oil-and-gas exploration in the adequate. which owns this company will years. Our expectation was that an assessment process only to Eagle Plain basin in northern “Certainly, we felt we had just decide to cut its losses.” we would complete a review be sent back for re-evaluation, Yukon. The area would have the detailed information necContact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com process. We’re very disappoint- according to Smith. stretched over 700 square kilo- essary to examine the project Maura Forrest News Reporter

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Fixing Dawson City’s sewage plant could prove pricey Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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t could cost millions of dollars to fix the problems with the Dawson wastewater treatment plant, according to one assessment report.

An engineer’s report from last September suggests the Yukon government needs to conduct a comprehensive review of different ways to fix the plant, which has so far been unable to meet the terms of its water licence in the summer.

“If left unresolved, the plant will continue to be non-compliant during the months of June to September,” according to the report from Stantec Consulting.

The report does not pinpoint exactly what’s preventing the plant from meeting water quality tests. But it does note all the work that has been done to try and get the treat-

ment stage to work properly.

“However, after three consecutive summers of poor TSS (total suspended solids) reduction performance, it is time to examine more substantial process modifications.”

The Stantec report suggests two options. The first would be to add a third step in the filtration process. Including an extra step would mean expanding the building so that there’s more space and adding more pumps.

It would cost “in the range of $5 to $8 million, but would ensure compliance with the water licence.”

A second option is to replace a piece of equipment known as a flotation clarifier. It helps separate sewage sludge from the water using air, so the waste can be skimmed off the top. The government could swap out that equipment for a more compact solids sepa-

ration process using membranes, the report says.

The change would cost between $7 and $10 million.

“The above suggestions are only a few of the potential options that could be implemented at the facility in order to allow the plant to consistently meet the terms of the water licence,” the report says.

“It is recommended that a comprehensive review be conducted to determine what the best, and most economically sustainable option would be for the enhancement of the plant.”

The Department of Community Services did not answer questions about whether a review like this is underway in time for today’s deadline.

The department is hiring a cost consultant to review the project and break down how money is being spent.

The plant was first opened

in the autumn of 2012. The contractor, Corix, was supposed to hand over the operation to Dawson within a year.

But the plant has not been meeting its water licence requirements and Corix has continued to run the facility.

This week, the Department of Community Services and Dawson announced the plant was too expensive and unreliable for the municipality to take over.

Right now it costs Community Services $94,000 a month to run. In February 2015 the plant finally had three consecutive months of clean tests.

That triggered Corix’s warranty on the equipment. The warranty expires this time next year.

Community Services has said the flow metre that measures the volume in the plant has been replaced. Valves that were the incorrect type for the

plant are also being replaced.

All of those changes are covered under the warranty.

It’s not clear whether the changes proposed by Stantec would void the warranty with Corix. The Department of Highways and Public Works, which signed off on the $25-million project, and Community Services have both so far refused to make the contract public.

“We have a duty to maintain confidentiality of any personal or confidential information, so we ask that you submit an (access-to-information) request,” community services spokesperson Bonnie Venton Ross said in an email.

“This will ensure that we can process your request most appropriately and maintain the necessary standards of confidentiality if they apply.”

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Capturing the northern light Maura Forrest News Reporter

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new research project in Whitehorse is aiming to shed light on how different solar panels work in northern climates.

Solvest, a Yukon-based solar company, has partnered with the Cold Climate Innovation Centre at Yukon College and Triniti Technology, a local technology solutions company, to install a three-kilowatt solar array at the YuKonstruct makerspace in Whitehorse.

The array includes four different types of solar panel modules. Data will be collected from each of the modules to determine which technology works best at producing electricity in different conditions.

Ben Power, co-founder of Solvest, said solar technology is typically tested in places like

California, Arizona or Spain.

“The problem with that is the solar conditions in those areas are quite different to what we experience up north,” he explained, referring to the dark northern winters and the long arc the sun makes across the sky in summertime.

Stephen Mooney, director of Cold Climate Innovation, agreed that there has been little in-situ testing of solar technology in the North.

“We’ve never had four (technologies) in the exact same test, same area, that close together.”

The four panel types are called monocrystalline, polycrystalline, bi-facial monocrystalline and thin film.

“Almost all solar installations in the Yukon are done with polycrystalline to date,” Power said. “But that may not be the most efficient for the Yukon.”

Joel Krahn/Yukon News He explained that monocrys- Four different types of solar panels have been installed at YuKonstruct in Whitehorse to see which

technology works best in the Yukon. talline panels produce more power per square foot, and may be better in cloudy conditions, which Whitehorse has been experiencing more of in recent years. The downside is they’re more expensive.

Bi-facial panels are pricier still, but they have crystals on each side, meaning both faces of the panel can absorb light.

Power said that could be useful during Yukon winters, because snow often acts like a mirror beneath solar panels, reflecting sunlight up onto the underside of the panel. And bi-facial panels may also do better at

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Thin film panels are the cheapest of the lot, Power explained, but they’re also the least efficient. They might be a good option for someone living on a country residential lot with some extra space, he said.

Solvest has now installed 12 modules at the YuKonstruct compound in Whitehorse, where they’ll help supply some of the makerspace’s electricity demand. Data are being collected from each module to see how the different panels perform, particularly in low light and cloudy conditions.

Mooney said they’ll run the project for at least a year, though the data will be analyzed starting this spring.

The output of each of the panel types can be tracked in real time at www.yukonsolarresearch.ca.

The project has a price tag of about $22,000. Cold Climate Innovation and Triniti Technology are each paying half the cost.

Mooney said he hopes the project will help Yukoners figure out what type of solar technology might work for them, depending on how much

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electricity they want to produce and how much space they have.

Power said the project will help his company offer the right technology to each of its clients. And he hopes it will spur some renewed interest in renewable power.

“There’s a lot of misconceptions about solar,” he said. “A number of these conceptions I think can be at least partially addressed.”

He pointed out that the cost of solar panels has declined in recent years, and that solar power systems are long-lived.

He said they sometimes come with 25-year warranties.

But residential solar power is still a niche market in the Yukon. Shane Andre, director of the energy branch with the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, said there are currently just 17 solar systems connected to the grid as part of the territory’s microgeneration program. There are off-grid households with solar panels as well, but those are harder to count. Andre said the installation costs are still the biggest obstacle for many people.

“These systems have decreased in price a lot over the years,” he said. “But it’s still a significant investment.”

He said it takes an average of 25 years for people to pay off the cost of the panels.

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Beaver Creek school council resigns, citing stafďŹ ng issues building maintenance issues or administrative duties.

They’re also dealing with some students who have learning disll four members of the abilities, she added.

Beaver Creek school council Last fall, she pushed for more have resigned in protest, staffing at the school but was saying that students at Nelnah ignored by the department, she Bessie John School are not being said. given the support they need.

She ended up pulling her The K-9 school in the small children from the school for the community is down to six stufirst time in October in favour of dents from 12 after two families homeschooling them. pulled their children out of the Then, there was a staffing school in January. change at the school and a glimOne family is even moving out mer of hope, she added. of Beaver Creek because of the But the situation failed to imissue. prove and she pulled her children Shasta McNamara and her a second time last month. husband have lived in Beaver “They even sent someone from Creek with their two children for the department to Beaver Creek the past two years. to see how things were going, and She said they were told about he admitted he’d never seen so problems at the school from the many learning gaps,� she said. start.

McNamara and her husband “We heard they were using are moving to Nova Scotia before iPads with non-educational the end of the school year. games, giving the children unThey’re not the first to leave healthy snacks and not letting the community because of the them out for recess,� she said. school, she said. “It was a free for all. My husTristian Nieman, another forband went to a few meetings and mer council member, had three asked why the children weren’t children enrolled at the school. receiving education according to When her daughter first enthe curriculum. tered the school about five years “It was brought to the attenago, Nieman noticed her daughtion of the superintendent but ter’s behaviour went downhill. nothing was done about it.� “It was being affected by being There are two staff positions at in the same class as teenagers,� the school, one principal/teacher she said. and one education assistant. “I brought it up and said it was McNamara, a former school important for them to be split council member, said staff are up. But I was told we didn’t have over-worked and often have to enough students to have a second deal with other tasks such as teacher.�

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Air quality monitors installed around Whitehorse Air quality monitors have been installed across Whitehorse to measure the amount of

particulate matter during the winter and summer seasons.

The Yukon government set up the monitors in partnership with Health Canada and the City of Whitehorse last Novem-

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Education Minister Doug Graham said staffing the Nelnah Bessie John School in Beaver Creek has been a challenge in the past.

Nieman’s son entered kindergarten last fall. She pulled both her children from the school because she felt they weren’t getting a proper education. “If they’re in Grade 3, they’re doing Grade 1 work,� she said. “My daughter now struggles with math and reading. There isn’t

enough staff in the school.�

Tired of being ignored by the department, both Nieman and McNamara approached the Yukon child and youth advocate last month with their concerns.

Soon after logging their complaints, an extra teacher was dispatched to Beaver Creek on a

ber.

The one-year study will look at the effect of wood smoke in the winter as well as potential forest fires in the summer, according to Janine Kostelnik, an

environmental protection analyst with Environment Yukon.

The data will be sent back to Health Canada over the course of the year, Kostelnik said.

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temporary basis.

But Nieman said that she and her husband have “lost complete faith� in the Department of Education, and they won’t be enrolling their kids in public school ever again.

Kate Todd, former chair of the council, said the issues have been ongoing for years.

She said she met with the school’s superintendant, Penny Prysnuk, last fall to request extra staffing at the school. “I pleaded,� Todd said. “My goodness, all of a sudden in January they can give us extra staffing. It’s unfortunate timing – why couldn’t we have had this in September? “It’s too little, too late for some children who have aged out of the system.�

The council members’ resignations were meant to send a message to the department, she said. “We felt inconsequential but by resigning we become important,� she said.

Education Minister Doug Graham said there have been difficulties with staffing in Beaver Creek in the past.

He hopes to get the school council back together again, he added, so the department can hire on a more permanent basis.

The department is also looking at putting together a working group made up of school council members from rural communities.

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ormer journalist Richard Mostyn has announced he is seeking the Liberal nomination for Whitehorse West.

Mostyn will campaign against accessibility advocate Ramesh Ferris in the first official nomination race of this election season.

In the last few years, Mostyn has served on the federal and territorial Liberal Party executives.

Now, he said, he’s ready to throw his hat in the ring.

“I’m at a point in my life where I have the time to commit to this role,” he said. “My children are grown and a good portion of my adult life has been spent listening to people and championing their interests.”

Mostyn originally joined the Liberal Party in the mid-1980s, but let his membership lapse when he became a journalist.

He then spent 22 years at the Yukon News, between 1989 and 2011, first as a reporter and then as editor. He renewed his party membership after leaving the newspaper in 2012. He now works as a spokesperson for the Yukon Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board.

During his time as editor of the News, Mostyn was known for his strongly worded editorials, and was often critical of the Yukon Party government. The day before

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Former journalist Richard Mostyn announced Tuesday his candidacy for the Liberal Party in Whitehorse West.

Ramesh Ferris is also seeking the Liberal nomination in that riding. the 2006 territorial election, he ran a front-page editorial that concluded: “We prefer to imagine tomorrow without the Yukon Party at the helm, for the benefit of all Yukoners, not just a select few.”

In 2003, he broke the bombshell story that then-premier Dennis Fentie had spent time in

prison for dealing heroin in his 20s.

But Mostyn kept his opinions to himself during his campaign announcement on Thursday afternoon, making only vague noises about his interest in education and the economy.

Still, he said he stands by much of what he’s written in the

past.

“I’ve conducted myself in a public forum for almost 25 years,” he said. “There’s an awful lot of material there. A lot of it I’m very proud of, and a lot of it tells people who I am and what I believe.”

If elected, he doesn’t think he’ll find it difficult to work alongside those he’s publicly criticized.

“I worked as a journalist in a small town for more than two decades. In that time I have criticized politicians of all stripes,” he said. “And after the fact, I have always walked up to those people and shaken their hands. ... I have a good working relationship across party boundaries, throughout the territory.”

Mostyn has lived in Whitehorse West since 1997. He said he briefly considered running in a different riding to avoid campaigning against Ferris, who announced his campaign last month, but decided against it.

“In the end, I decided that this is where I live and this is where I’ve wanted to run for quite some time now.”

The winner of the nomination may end up running against deputy premier Elaine Taylor, who was first elected in 2002. In 2011, Taylor was re-elected with 58 per cent of the vote. She has not yet confirmed whether she’ll run again.

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

Former principal eyes a political future a tight riding in the past. During the 2011 election Laxton won News Reporter the seat with 39 per cent of the ballots. About 70 votes sepaormer elementary school rated Laxton from the person in principal Pat Berrel anthird place. nounced yesterday he Berrel is familiar with the wants to be the NDP’s MLA for riding. In 2006 he was campaign Porter Creek Centre. manager for Archie Lang, who The riding is currently held won the seat for the Yukon Party. by the Yukon Party’s David LaxBerrel makes no apologies for ton. Berrel is the first to express his changing allegiances. interest in representing the “My big thing was social riding for the NDP. Rod Taylor programs, and they actually did is seeking the Liberals’ nominaa lot of good things for social tion for the riding. programs. I know because I was Berrel spent 17 years as the working with NGOs, and there principal of Whitehorse Elemenwas money flowing, and certary School before retiring. tainly it shifted after that.”

He said he wants to improve Berrel has been on the PerJoel Krahn/Yukon News the relationship between the sons with Disabilities Advisory City of Whitehorse and the terPat Berrel, a former Whitehorse Elementary School principal, Committee for the City of Whiteritorial government to help with announced Thursday he will seek the NDP nomination for horse. He has been a director issues like affordable housing.

Porter Creek Centre in the upcoming territorial election. with the learning disabilities “Some of the issues are the organization, LDAY, as well as Where we would target French piece of the Yukon economy, city’s issues, some are the jurisChallenge and the Yukon Assopeople, using the same flight.” diction of the territorial govern- Berrel said.

Getting from France to Frank- ciation for Community Living.

Along that line, he’d like to ment. The more that we can get He said his focus, no matsee the territory expand its mar- furt is an easy trip for Europeans a partnership, the better that who would then be able to hop keting efforts to France. would be,” he said. ter what political party he’s on the Condor flight, he said.

It’s unique for a small popuAs an educator, Berrel said involved with, has always been “And we have a French comlation like the Yukon to offer he’d like to see the McIntyre on social programs and social munity here, AFY, that actua direct flight to Europe like Creek area and surrounding justice. ally has a tourist department Condor Airlines’ flight between trails get spruced up and beNo date has been set for the and (that helps with) creating Whitehorse and Frankfurt, he come an educational resource next territorial election. Premier a partnership there and have for students and teachers to use. said.

Darrell Pasloski must call it by them help us create some good “One of the things we could The area could also become a this fall. do, again creating partnerships, publicity for tourism in France.” tourist attraction, he said.

Contact Ashley Joannou at Porter Creek Centre has been is look at France as a target.

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new team altogether. I’ll probably be leaving here with 13 dogs too; I don’t think there’s anyone I’ll be dropping.�

In the last two days the other four Yukon teams have either improved or maintained their positions in the standings.

Whitehorse’s Yuka Honda has moved up from 10th to eighth; Mendenhall’s Luc Tweddell moved up a spot to 14th; Whitehorse’s Rob Cooke and Mendenhall’s Gaetan Pierrard have maintained 17th and 18th, respectively, in the current field of 21.

The race, which began Saturday in Fairbanks, saw its second scratch Friday morning. Hank DeBruin of Haliburton, Ont. called it quits in Eagle, Alaska, citing the morale and health of his team.

DeBruin was the only other Canadian in the race other than the five Yukoners.

The 2016 champion could arrive at the finish in Whitehorse as early as Sunday, said organizers. “Thanks to all the volunteers and race officials out there and veterinarians. They are all doing a great job helping us get down the trail,� added Sass.

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Quest Sass fell from his sled just before the final checkpoint of the race, had to withdraw and forfeit the Dawson gold.

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Moore – the 2013 and 2014 Quest champ from Two Rivers – left Dawson two hours behind Sass and had 2012 champ Hugh Neff of Tok, Alaska hot on his heels en route to Scroggie Creek.

Fourth place’s Matt Hall of Two Rivers left Dawson at 5 a.m., about two and a half hours ahead of 10 Mile’s Ed Hopkins – the leading Whitney McLaren/Yukon Quest Yukon musher.

Wednesday. Sass left Dawson “It’s been going pretty good.

I’ve been doing my thing out there, trying to be patient and wait for ride. I really didn’t have any probthe opportunities to show up,â€? said lems ‌ This year has been much Hopkins in Dawson. “I’m just godifferent. I’ve had to work hard ing to run the same pace, schedule keeping the dogs hydrated, keepI drew out and we’ll just see what ing them fed, keeping them happy happens.â€? on the trail. But they’ve done “My dogs got pretty sick when excellent and I’m very proud of the we were leaving Circle, (Alaska,) dog team.â€? and had some pretty bad diarrhea For the third year in a row, Sass and weren’t eating well,â€? he added. was the first to Dawson at midday “Just around the Fortymile Mile on Wednesday. He was presented River they started turning around with four ounces of gold he’ll get to ‌ So I came in here with them keep if he finishes the race, which already bouncing up, so after 36 is far from a certainty. In the 2014 hours they’ll seem like a whole

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o matter how much potpourriscented aerosol the Yukon Party sprays into the air, it’s hard to hide the underlying stink that wafts from Dawson City’s problem-prone sewage treatment plant.

The good news, as presented in a news release on Tuesday, is that Dawson City’s municipal government needn’t worry about operating the plant itself in the foreseeable future. The release takes pains to avoid dwelling on the reasons for such an arrangement – namely, this “complex and significant piece of infrastructure,� which carries a $25-million price tag, looks like it may never work as promised, and has so far cost wildly more than expected to operate.

The government initially expected the plant would cost $280,000 to operate annually. It now looks like it will cost more than $1 million. That’s nearly a four-fold increase.

These costs are expected to come down somewhat if the government is able to operate the plant directly, rather than having to bring in out-of-territory consultants to run the thing as now. But it seems clear the plant will become one more burden that the government will have to pay for in the years to come, at a time when generous financial transfers from Ottawa no longer look like a sure thing.

The other big concern is that the treatment plant flunked its water quality tests for the past three consecutive summers, and it looks like it may continue to do so unless it receives pricey upgrades to provide an additional level of treatment. How pricey?

Try between $5 million to $10 million. That’s the conclusion, anyhow, of an engineering report prepared by Stantec in Sept. 2015. It concludes that the sort of fine-tune fiddling done to date is unlikely to make the plant work properly during peak periods.

Put these worries together, and it’s no surprise that the City of Dawson pushed the territory to commit that it wouldn’t hand the facility over to the municipality until the treatment plant worked as promised.

The government deserves some credit for making good on that pledge. But, considering how it’s the territory that oversaw the creation of this boondoggle, it only stands to reason that it must now own the mess.

Some big questions remain. As things stand the public only has the fuzziest notion of what has gone wrong inside the plant. Given that the plant first opened back in the autumn of 2012, and the government took the initiative of making this week’s announcement, you would think some sort of cogent explanation would be forthcoming.

It hasn’t been.

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course is available to the government if the plant still doesn’t work as promised by the time its warranty expires one year from now.

Does the government get its money back?

Does this all end in another drawn out court case? At this late date, is the government even able to sue? So far, the government won’t say. Corix, the company that built the plant, isn’t talking either, and is referring all questions back to the government.

The treatment plant has a source of controversy since its inception. Rather than build a conventional lagoon, Corix proposed a “deep-shaft� scheme, which involves storing sewage in underground tanks, where the muck is stirred and mixed with oxygen to encourage bacteria to break down the waste. Naysayers noted there are not many examples of this technology being used in a cold, northern climate.

A local firm that lost the bid for the contract also accused the government of foul play. The territory’s bid-challenge committee ultimately found the contract had been awarded properly, but it did express concern that the government and municipal officials involved “appeared to lack the necessary depth of technical expertise.� As well, “there was the appearance that the evaluation committee relied too heavily on only a single technical advisor,� and “there should have been more ‘voting’ evaluators with a technical background specific to the project.�

At the time, territorial officials brushed off these criticisms. But it won’t be so easy

to do that now, given how things have gone.

Some say that Dawsonites share blame for this mess, since residents voted in a March 2008 referendum against a government plan to build a sewage lagoon near the town’s entrance. But why must we be constrained by just these two possibilities – that Dawson City must either have a lagoon located at a site that some residents complained was too near First Nation housing and the underground water supply, or a fancy facility that may not actually ever work properly? Did the government really exhaust all other possibilities? A lagoon in another location, say?

Officials who gave the sewage plant the green light did so under pressure, knowing that they had already blown multiple deadlines set by the courts since the federal government first fined Dawson City for dumping roughly-screened sewage into the Yukon River back in March 2003. But given how much time had passed since this initial reprimand, surely the government should have had enough time to craft a plan that worked better than it does.

Of course, there’s no turning back the clock now. But a government interested in learning from its mistakes would conduct a thorough review to understand how to avoid making such a big mess next time around. And a government interested in being forthright with the public would be sharing a lot more information about what went wrong and what comes next.

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Introducing the Yukon Swingometer Again splitting the undecided according how the decided responded, the Liberal leader scored 40 per cent, the NDP leader 35 per cent and the Yukon

by Keith Party leader 20 per cent. Keen readers will have noted that the Halliday Liberal leader scored worse in the Datapath leadership poll than his UKONOMIST party did in the Main Street poll, while the reverse is true for the NDP and Yukon Party leaders. ored of Donald Trump Keep in mind that the two and Bernie “Feel the Bern” polls used different methodoloSanders? Time to get gies and are only roughly comexcited about the 2016 Yukon election, which has to happen by parable.

Polling has a chequered hisOctober at the latest. tory in the Yukon. Was the sample Two recent polls have the Yukon’s political class chattering. An size sufficient? The sample truly random? Was the outcome Outside polling firm called Main weighted properly by race, genStreet recently asked Yukoners which candidate they would sup- der, age and region? Did it factor in likely voters? Plus, the fact that port if the election were held on the two polls were so different the day of the poll. The Liberals gives us another reason to be got 22 per cent, the NDP 11 per cautious. cent and the Yukon Party 6 per So let’s look at the election cent, with a whopping 61 per another way: the Swingometer. cent undecided.

Assuming the undecided split It’s an old BBC election-night the same way as the decided, this gimmick. In the age before computer graphics it involved a giant would give the Liberals a commanding victory with 56 per cent arrow that swung between the parties, simulating the impact on of the vote while the NDP would the number of seats if the vote in get 28 per cent and the Yukon Party 15 per cent. But with almost each riding changed in line with two-thirds of respondents unde- national trends. If Labour lost by cided, the election would appear less than two per cent in 50 seats last time, then a uniform swing of very much still up for grabs.

2 per cent would add 50 seats to Meanwhile, back in December, Marsh Lake’s Datapath asked their current tally.

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I resurrected the Swingometer analysis for the Yukon. In the last election, the Yukon Party won 11 seats with 40 per cent of the vote. The NDP won six seats with 33 per cent and the Liberals two seats with 25 per cent. (To keep it simple in the analysis below, I’m treating Old Crow like a Liberal “win” and not taking into account that Darius Elias later switched to the Yukon Party.)

First, let’s look at the Liberals since they “won” both the recent polls. To get to 10 seats and a majority, they would need at least an 11 per cent swing towards the Liberals. This simulates the Liberal vote going up 11 per cent in all ridings, and includes the simplifying assumption that the new Liberal votes come equally from the other two parties.

This outcome would have the Liberals repeating their 2011 wins in Old Crow and Klondike. They would also have to drive their red snowmobile onto the lawns of the incumbents in, listed from smallest swing to biggest, Porter Creek South and Centre, Riverdale North, Kluane, Copperbelt North, Riverdale South, Mayo Tatchun and Watson Lake.

This would require the Liberals to defeat the Yukon Party’s Currie Dixon and Scott Kent, as well as NDPers Jan Stick and Jim Tredger.

One interesting point is that if, for riding-specific reasons, they miss any of the 10 most likely Liberal seats under the Swingometer method, the next few seats look quite challenging. The Liberals lost the next three likely seats by more than 20 points last time, to Lois Moorcroft, Kate White and Darrell Pasloski.

So what does the NDP path to victory look like? As you would expect from a party that came in second last time, their path is shorter and only requires them to knock off four Yukon Party incumbents. This requires only a six-point swing, with the Yukon Party and Liberals down three points each. The four incumbents most at risk are Patti McLeod in Watson Lake, Scott Kent in Riverdale North, Dave Laxton in Porter Creek Centre and Wade Istchenko in Kluane.

Another point of swing would also give Mountainview to the NDP, but after that it gets harder.

They would need 12 points to win in Pelly-Nisutlin.

As for the Yukon Party, they of course only need to hold onto the seats they have now. Their backup seat is Copperbelt South, which they lost by just a handful of votes to Lois Moorcroft and the NDP in 2011. Riverdale South

would be next, requiring a fivepoint swing to the Yukon Party.

Are these scenarios actually going to happen? Certainly not exactly. Electoral reality is a lot messier than the Swingometer.

What the Swingometer shows us is that the Yukon Party has a well-entrenched base. Even with a swing of 10 points against them, they would still hold four seats.

The NDP need only a relatively small improvement over their 2011 results to win. The Liberals have a longer path to victory but, as the federal Liberals showed, winning from a starting point of third place is not impossible.

If either of the recent polls turn out to be accurate, this could happen.

The biggest question marks are the seats that change colour most often in the Swingometer scenarios. These include Copperbelt South, Porter Creek South, Watson Lake, Kluane and Riverdale North. The candidates in these ridings will face the toughest battles door-to-door, but will know that if they win they are probably going to be on the government side of the next legislature.

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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Federal, Ontario ministers lower expectations for climate negotiations months; that’s not going to happen in a week or two.�

Canadian Press Trudeau’s promise to convene a fi rst ministers meeting to work OTTAWA out a climate plan within 90 days he federal and Ontario of December’s Paris climate conenvironment ministers say ference set high expectations. a highly anticipated meet“Central to this would be the ing next month between Prime creation of national emissionsMinister Justin Trudeau and the reduction targets,� said the premiers isn’t likely to conclude Liberal election platform. in a new climate plan for the But Murray said a meeting two country. weeks ago of the provincial and Federal Environment Minterritorial environment ministers ister Catherine McKenna said Wednesday that a pan-Canadian and McKenna directed officials to spend the next six months esclimate strategy is going to take tablishing a common framework time and next month’s meeting is designed to lay the foundation of key elements that all parties agree upon, as well as a list of isfor that plan. sues that still need to be resolved.

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and how common carbon pricing can be approached, given the various models already established by provinces including British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba. “I don’t think the pan-Canadian framework will be ready

by March. I don’t think anyone imagined that,� said Murray. “The previous government in 10 years couldn’t produce a paragraph, never mind a framework, so there’s a lot of work going on.�

The Prime Minister’s Office said Wednesday that Trudeau will meet the premiers on March 3 in Vancouver, one day after he meets First Nations, Inuit and Metis leaders in the same city and delivers a keynote address to a clean-tech conference.

McKenna told the Federation of Canadian Municipalities in a speech Wednesday that next month’s meeting will “build the foundation of a pan-Canadian plan.�

Speaking to reporters afterwards, she said the government wasn’t going to throw out an emissions target without a plan to meet it. “That will take a bit of time,

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McKenna has said the Conservative target is a “floor.� But she has also conceded the country is currently not anywhere close to being on track to meet the existing national emissions target. “We currently do have a target, but the plan is to sit down with the provinces and territories and actually discuss how are we going to reduce emissions across a variety of sectors,� McKenna said Wednesday. “That’s what we’re going to do and after we’ve done the hard work then we will be able to say what a new target will look like.�

Murray says the recent environment ministers meeting in Ottawa agreed that setting a new national target is not currently the priority.

“The sense among all the ministers is let’s actually get everything else sorted out before we start setting targets,� he said. “Getting this together is going to take a while.�

Nonetheless, Murray said there’s a great deal of optimism among the country’s environment ministers, who have been working together on a national energy and climate strategy in the absence of an active federal government partner for several years. “Most of the authority for climate change,� actually rests with the provinces anyway, he said, citing things such as building standards and transportation. “Now we’re able to look at other options as a result of the change in the federal government.�

Murray, a former Winnipeg mayor, says he’s been attending municipal and provincial conferences for many years and he’s never seen the level of casual, informal and collaborative planning that’s going on among the various jurisdictions. “I think the next few years are going to see major progress,� he said. “We’re not putting up fights.

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Federal shortfalls could total $90 billion over Liberals’ first mandate: bank study stimulus.

The report, released WednesCanadian Press day, offers a look at the degree OTTAWA of pre-budget fiscal pressure on the new government, which faces he country’s dampened the dilemma of juggling election economic prospects could put the Liberal government vows with the reality of the fading on pace for $90 billion in deficits economy. The Liberals’ first budover its four-year mandate, a new get is expected late next month.

“Repeated downgrades to the report says.

Research by the National Bank national growth outlook have … dealt a heavy blow to the federal of Canada predicts the public budget balance,” wrote Warren books will sink deeper into the Lovely, the bank’s managing dired due to the combination of rector of public sector research. a hobbled economy and Liberal promises of billions in fiscal To help illustrate the impact of Andy Blatchford

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lowered expectations, Lovely said if the bank’s worsening economic forecasts eventually unfold, then Ottawa could lose $50 billion in revenue over the next four years.

He said the current environment of lower-than-expected interest rates will help offset the cost “a bit.”

His $90-billion shortfall figure also accounts for Liberal electoral commitments, which he says amounted to $38 billion in new spending over four years.

The Liberals have promised to run deficits in the coming years in order to help them spend $17.4 billion over their first mandate on infrastructure projects.

They predict the plan to create jobs and generate economic growth.

Since coming to power, however, the Liberals have shied away from their election vow to keep annual deficits under $10 billion as the economy continues to falter amid falling commodity prices.

The Liberals have also promised to balance the budget in the fourth year of their mandate – a goal Lovely says will be difficult to accomplish without tax hikes or spending cuts.

In a December interview, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted his pledge to balance the books in four years was “very” cast in stone. Trudeau also said he would live up to the other fiscal “anchor” of lowering the debt-to-GDP ratio in every year of its mandate.

Balancing the books will be a tougher task than lowering the debt-to-GDP ratio, which represents a government’s capacity to pay back debt. Experts say by targeting debt-to-GDP, the Liberals can produce annual deficits of up to $25 billion in the coming years and still lower the ratio as long as the economy grows at a decent pace.

In his analysis, however, Lovely said at a certain point Ottawa may be forced to provide

less fiscal stimulus to meet its debt-to-GDP goal.

He called such a scenario “unsavoury” because, like many experts, he argues the struggling economy needs a healthy dose of stimulus, as long as spending is done in a fiscally responsible manner.

Lovely estimates Ottawa’s bottom line for 2016-17 has deteriorated by $15 billion compared to projections in last April’s budget, delivered under the former Conservative government.

That figure has slipped about $9 billion since November alone, he added.

“We haven’t exactly staunched the bleeding; if anything, it’s continuing to pool up,” Lovely wrote.

In releasing his fiscal update in November, Finance Minister Bill Morneau acknowledged that the poor economic situation meant the government’s bottom line over its mandate was poised to be billions lower per year than outlined in last April’s budget.

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MAJOR SPONSORS Government of YukonDepartment of Tourism & Culture, City of Whitehorse, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Society SPONSORS Jim Zheng Cultural Fund, Tippy Mah, Shirley Chua-Tan SUPPORTERS Ivy Chan, Northern Lights School of Dance, Tai Chi Yukon, Vision Express Optical Ltd. DOOR PRIZE DONATIONS NorthwesTel, Royal Bank of Canada, Sun Life Financial, Asahiya Japanese Restaurant, Chop Suey Restaurant, Green Garden Restaurant, Golden Sakura Japanese Restaurant, Lucky Stars Chinese Restaurant, North Dragon Restaurant, Second Show Kids Consignment PERFORMANCE DIRECTOR Grace Morgan EVENT ART DESIGNER Andrew Lin ASSOCIATION PHOTOGRAPHER Andrew Lin MASTERS OF CEREMONY Charmaine Cheung & Odin Verhees STAGE MANAGER Richard Li

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Experts say socialization can affect how women deal with sexual assault Sheryl Ubelacker Canadian Press

TORONTO he Jian Ghomeshi sexual assault trial has focused a lens on the conduct of the three women complainants in the case who continued to have contact with the disgraced broadcaster in the aftermath of the alleged incidents.

But experts say the behaviour isn’t all that uncommon and speaks to how individuals come to terms with traumatic events as well as broader issues of female socialization.

“I think it’s really important to know that people who have not had a shocking or traumatic experience are actually not good at predicting how they would react to such a situation,” said Charlene Senn, a social psychologist at the University of Windsor who specializes in gender studies.

Reactions to trauma vary greatly, as does the time it takes to fully process and work through the emotions linked to the event, she suggested.

“There really is no right way to respond or one way of responding.”

Three women, including “Trailer Park Boys” actress Lucy DeCoutere, have alleged that in separate incidents in 2002 and 2003, Ghomeshi

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During cross-examination by his lawyer, all three admitted to having contact with him following the alleged attacks.

DeCoutere even sent him a fawning email and expressed regret that she hadn’t had sex with him just hours after he allegedly choked and slapped her, court heard. A third complainant testified that she saw Ghomeshi again, and masturbated him, in a subsequent encounter days after he allegedly attacked her.

Ghomeshi has pleaded not guilty to four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking. The 48-year-old former host of CBC Radio’s “Q” acknowledged in 2014 that he engaged in rough sex acts, but said it was consensual.

Data suggests about 70 per cent of sexual assaults occur in someone’s home and involve a person known to the victim. They are often related to social occasions like parties, dates or a gathering of friends.

“All of those things about the context and the person set up a situation in which danger and fear are completely unexpected,” said Senn.

“So it’s not when you’re walking through the underground parking lot, as women have been taught to, with your keys in your hand and at the ready …. This is the opposite of preparation. This is where all of those preparatory kinds of feelings and thoughts are totally submerged because they should not be needed.”

When a sexual assault occurs, often the immediate reaction is to try to make sense of what happened, explained Senn.

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themselves in that shock situation,� she said. “And many of their following behaviours and thoughts are trying to get clarity or trying to understand it. “So things that might look nonsensical to an outsider make sense within that moment and within the time period afterward when you’re trying to make sense of it.�

Toronto clinical psychologist Lori Haskell said anyone who experiences a sudden sexual assault can experience what’s called “cognitive dissonance� if their previous knowledge of their attacker does not mesh with the reality of such assaultive behaviour. “Initially, people can’t really integrate the reality that someone they care about and feel attracted to has just created a physical threat,� she said.

Haskell believes that many women, in large part because of

societal expectations, also worry about displeasing or losing a romantic partner, which takes “a higher psychological priority than acknowledging their own sense of discomfort and anger and violation.� “I think that’s deeply ingrained in women’s socialization.�

Such gender-based psychological underpinnings often mean that women will be “nice� in situations of conflict, added Senn, often putting the other person’s feelings first and valuing and prioritizing the relationship over their own safety. “It’s really important for heterosexual women to have relationships with men, particularly romantic and sexual relationships,� she said. “That is valued in the culture, and young women are taught that that is a very important thing in their lives.�

Catherine, who asked to be

identified only by her first name, knows how powerful a motivator that can be.

At age 16, Catherine was at home alone with a boy from school she’d been dating for few months, when he suddenly dropped his pants and forced her to perform oral sex – an act of unexpected violence that left the sexually inexperienced girl not only sickened and angry, but also confused and traumatized.

Yet after the incident, she continued to go out with the older teen, who was part of her circle of friends at school, even had sex with him a couple of years later before he went off to university and subsequently moved overseas. “He would always call me and I would just acquiesce to his wishes; I didn’t factor myself in,� said Catherine, now in her early 40s. “I did have good times. He was funny, he made me laugh. So those

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times kind of overpowered me. I guess I was looking for that kind of happiness in my life, so I hung onto his good qualities and they were able to put aside the ugly nastiness of what I had experienced with him.�

About 10 years ago, Catherine ran into her high school boyfriend when he briefly returned to Toronto for a vacation. “We really hit it off.

I thought, ‘OK, maybe he’s grown up.�’ He sent her a plane ticket so she could visit him overseas, and after a couple of months they had decided to make it a permanent arrangement. She returned home, quit her job and packed up her life. “I did what I did when I was a kid. I just went with it.�

But when she returned, Catherine discovered he was involved with another woman, and his behaviour towards her had become

somewhat abusive.

In the years since, she has come to learn through therapy that by continuing to connect with him after the sexual assault as a teen, she was trying to “right the wrongs in my life� through a psychological process called “traumatic re-enactment.� “I didn’t have all the necessary tools to make sense of it,� she said. “I realize I was doing the traumatic re-enactment to get a different outcome, to elicit a different response so I could come away from the experience feeling better – but it backfired.�

Catherine is not surprised to hear of other women reacting in a similar manner as she did towards her attacker. “My experience ‌ forever changed me. And I’m still unravelling all the pieces and putting them in order.â€?

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Tom Mulcair shoulders blame for campaign in letter to New Democrat supporters

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OTTAWA DP Leader Tom Mulcair has written a personal letter to supporters taking full responsibility for the dismal results of the October election campaign and saying he could have done better.

The note follows the release of an interim report from a post-mortem working group which says the campaign failed to resound with voters.

Mulcair, who has been peppered with questions about his own political future after the Oct. 19 vote, said the report provides a convincing summary of some of the specific lapses in the campaign’s preparation and execution.

“I agree with the overarching assessment that our campaign came up short,” he said. “As leader, I take full responsibility for these shortcomings. I could have done a better job.”

Rebecca Blaikie, the party’s president who is leading the election post-mortem, told party faithful on Tuesday that many believe the NDP present-

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NDP Leader Tom Mulcair speaks to supporters on election night, Oct. 19, 2015 in Montreal. ed “cautious change” as opposed to “real change” that the Liberals claimed to offer.

They feel the campaign lacked a strong, simple narrative that made it more difficult to present a co-ordinated national campaign, she added.

A full report is expected to be released in March, just ahead of the party’s April convention in Edmonton, where Mulcair will face a review to determine his future as leader.

Mulcair maintains he is committed to staying at the helm and that he will make the changes needed to ensure the

mistakes of the last campaign are never repeated.

As the party continues to soul-search, there are several thorny questions that need to be addressed.

For example, how did the party go into the election with its highest seat count in history, as well as richer coffers than ever before, and walk away with only 44 seats?

One concern is that the party spent far too much energy trying to avoid mistakes in the lead-up to the election, Mulcair said in his Wednesday letter.

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rectly to that sense of cautiousness that is referred to in the interim report,” Mulcair said. “We must embrace a more proactive approach, one where caucus members are invited to initiate projects that help us reach out to the people we represent.”

Mulcair also acknowledged the party’s balanced budget pledge was a problem during the campaign – a change from a televised interview on Tuesday, in which he would not concede this was a mistake.

“We are addressing the important observation from the interim report that the campaign lacked an overarching narrative that could easily communicate our progressive proposals,” he said. “This became apparent when our commitment to balancing the budget overshadowed our social democratic economic vision.”

Despite the disappointment, confidence in the NDP’s core social democratic values remains rock-solid, Mulcair wrote.

“I am inspired by that confidence and resolved to better articulate our vision and communicate it more effectively to all Canadians,” he said.

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Russia proposes March 1 ceaseďŹ re in Syria; US wants it now opposition forces could suffer irreversible losses in northern and southern Syria before the Associated Press ceasefire ever takes hold.

The officials said the U.S. MUNICH counterproposal is simple: A ussia has proposed a ceasefire that is effective imMarch 1 ceasefire in Syria, mediately and is accompanied U.S. officials say, but by full humanitarian access to Washington believes Moscow Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s besieged civilian centres. is giving itself and the Syrian Secretary of State John government three weeks to try Kerry, who arrived in Germany to crush moderate rebel groups.

Wednesday, had talks planned The United States has counlate in the evening with U.N. tered with demands for the peace envoy Staffan de Mistura fighting to stop immediately, and Adel al-Jubeir, the foreign the officials said Wednesday. minister of Saudi Arabia, a key Peace talks are supposed to backer of Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rebel groups. resume by Feb. 25.

The Obama administration The talk of new ceasefire has been trying for months to plans comes as the U.S., Russia clinch a ceasefire and pave the and more than a dozen other way for a transition government countries meet in Munich to try in Syria that would allow parties to halt five years of civil war in to the conflict to concentrate the Arab country. The conflict on defeating the threat posed has killed more than a quarterby the Islamic State and the almillion people, created Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Qaida-linked Nusra Front. biggest refugee crisis since But after having long deWorld War II and allowed the Is- manded Assadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ouster, the shift lamic State to carve out its own in the U.S. focus to combatterritory across parts of Syria ing terrorism has resulted in a and neighbouring Iraq. confusing mix of priorities and Russia says it is supporting a layered strategy in Syria that Syrian President Bashar Assadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s few understand, and even fewer government as part of a counsee working. Beyond Russia, terterrorism campaign. But the the administration has often West says the majority of its struggled to keep its own allies strikes are targeting moderate such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia groups that are opposed to Asin line. sad and the Islamic State. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will approach this The most recent Russianmeeting in Munich with great backed offensive, near Aleppo, hopes that this will be a telling prompted opposition groups moment,â&#x20AC;? Kerry said Tuesday to walk out of peace talks last in Washington. His peace push month in Geneva, while forcing coincides with Defence Secretens of thousands of civilians to tary Ash Carterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attendance at flee toward the Turkish border. a gathering in Brussels to hash The U.S. officials werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t auout military options with NATO thorized to speak publicly about partners. private diplomatic discussions Brett McGurk, the Obama in the run-up to the Munich administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s point-man for conference and demanded ano- defeating the Islamic State, said nymity. One said the U.S. canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aleppo offensive was having the perverse effect of accept Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offer because Matthew Lee And Bradley Klapper

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helping the extremists by drawing local fighters away from the battle against IS and to the war against Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing is directly enabling ISIL,â&#x20AC;? McGurk told the House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington.

But the panelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top Democrat echoed some of the frustration of his Republican colleagues with the larger U.S. strategy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It seems as if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re only halfheartedly going after ISIS, and halfheartedly helping the (rebel) Free Syria Army and others on the ground,â&#x20AC;? said Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y. He urged a â&#x20AC;&#x153;robust campaign, not a tentative one, not one that seems like weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dragging ourselves in â&#x20AC;Ś to destroy ISIS and get rid of Assad.â&#x20AC;?

Kerry emphasized Tuesday that U.S. officials â&#x20AC;&#x153;are not blind to what is happening.â&#x20AC;? He said the Aleppo battle makes it â&#x20AC;&#x153;much more difficult to be able to come to the table and to be able to have a serious conversation.â&#x20AC;?

But the U.S. has staked its hopes for an end to the fiveyear civil war in Syria on the peace talks and Assadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eventual departure, saying the American public has no appetite for a military solution.

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Economist delivers potential solutions to Canada Post’s troubles in new study prices which are in line with the cost of production,” said De Canadian Press Donder, who is with the Toulouse CALGARY School of Economics in France and has researched postal sysnew study is delivering tems elsewhere in the world. some potential solutions “And so if you sell different to Canada Post’s woes, inproducts and one product costs cluding a recommendation that postage rates should be higher in twice as much, there is no reason why the price of this product rural areas than urban ones. should be the same. The price The paper by the School of should be twice as much as the Public Policy at the University of other product.”

Calgary paints a grim picture for Although De Donder said the Crown corporation under the status quo: the number of letters Canada Post should have more power over pricing, he’s not addelivered dropped by nearly a vocating for unfettered freedom quarter between 2006 and 2013 either. He said there should be an and is expected to keep falling. independent regulator to impose The rise in parcels sent to online caps on prices, so that the cost shoppers hasn’t been enough to to consumers doesn’t get so out offset the decline. of hand that they stop using the Meanwhile, the number of mail service. addresses in Canada is rising by As for how well that proposal nearly a quarter million a year.

Canada Post charges the same would go over in rural Canada, De Donder said sees two scenariprices to all customers, even though delivery in urban areas is os unfolding.

One is that people who choose cheapest. to live in less populated parts Philippe De Donder, the study’s author, said that results in of the country accept that they should bear some of the addi“cross subsidies” – urban households essentially shouldering the tional costs for mail delivery. Or, the government can make those cost delivering to rural areas. customers whole through tax re“We think that for a market bates or some other mechanism. to work well, you need to have Lauren Krugel

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“This way, it’s very, very transparent. What economists don’t like about playing with prices to redistribute is it’s totally not transparent at all,” said De Donder.

De Donder said that while immediate privatization to Canada’s postal service may not be the solution, he recommends introducing more free-market competition in the sorting and transportation of mail.

In 2013, Canada Post announced plans to phase out door-to-door delivery in a bid to cut costs and install community mailboxes instead. Shortly after taking power in October, the Liberal government put that process on hold, meaning some households have seen their service unchanged while others have made the switch.

In his paper, De Donder said one scenario could be an extra fee for door-to-door service.

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Concerns raised over LNG proposal over predicted greenhouse gas emissions alone would produce 5.28 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, Canadian Press while upstream activities would contribute an additional 6.5 milVANCOUVER lion to 8.7 million tonnes. Those anadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environmental relevels represent an overall increase view body says greenhouse in provincial emissions of 8.5 per gas emissions from a procent and between 10 and 14 per posed liquefied natural gas facility cent respectively, the document on British Columbiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s north coast concludes. pose a significant ecological threat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The upstream greenhouse gas The Canadian Environmental emissions â&#x20AC;Ś can be characterized Assessment Agency released its similarly to the direct emissions: draft environmental assessment high in magnitude, continuous, report this week for Pacific Northirreversible and global in extent,â&#x20AC;?

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Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s review agency is soliciting public feedback before submitting its draft assessment to the federal government. Cabinet is expected to decide whether to approve the project by the end of March.

In November 2014, B.C. issued an environmental review certificate for Pacific NorthWestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initiative, which is backed by Malaysiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stateowned energy giant Petronas.

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because it shows fish habitat isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t at risk, adding heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already received feedback from First Nations who say the document has changed their perception of the project.

Speaking to reporters in Victoria, he said the province is working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in other areas, which has been relayed to the federal government. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So when I met with the minister last week in Ottawa I just reminded him that if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to look at our standards in (greenhouse gas) give us credit for what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re already doing,â&#x20AC;? Coleman added.

The Lax Kwâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;alaams First Nation has been outspoken in its opposition to the proposal. A spokeswoman said its members were still reviewing the draft review before commenting publicly.

Royal Dutch Shell announced earlier this month it was postponing its final decision on whether to invest in the coastal mega-project amidst plummeting global energy prices.

Pacific NorthWest LNG spokesman Spencer Sproule thanked the federal government in a statement and said the company would review the draft report. â&#x20AC;&#x153;PNW LNG is committed to building and operating a worldclass LNG facility in an environmentally sustainable manner that

First Nations and residents in the region can be proud of,â&#x20AC;? Sproule wrote.

The projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main sticking point up until now has been over its possible impact on the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s salmon population, with some aboriginal groups in the region voicing strong protest.

The Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition expressed its disappointment with the review, adding that the â&#x20AC;&#x153;incredibly superficialâ&#x20AC;? report omitted key, peerreviewed science. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Given the scientifically established importance of Flora Bank to Skeena salmon, to say that this project will not have significant adverse impacts on salmon is completely incorrect and shows us once again that the CEAA process is broken,â&#x20AC;? said Greg Horne in a statement.

The facility would be located at the mouth of the Skeena River, which is considered vital to the ecosystem of B.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second-largest salmon-bearing waterway.

But the federal review concluded that by taking appropriate mitigation measures, the construction and operation of the facility wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t significantly affect either marine or freshwater fish habitat.

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Cosmic breakthrough: scientists detect gravitational ripples that Einstein predicted Seth Borenstein Associated Press

WASHINGTON n an announcement that electrified the world of astronomy, scientists said Thursday that they have finally detected gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago.

Some scientists likened the breakthrough to the moment Galileo took up a telescope to look at the planets.

The discovery of these waves, created by violent collisions in the universe, excites astronomers because it opens the door to a new way of observing the cosmos.

For them, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like turning a silent movie into a talkie because these waves are the soundtrack of the cosmos. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Until this moment we had our eyes on the sky and we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hear the music,â&#x20AC;? said Columbia University astrophysicist Szabolcs Marka, a member of the discovery team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The skies will never be the same.â&#x20AC;?

An all-star international team of astrophysicists used a newly upgraded and excruciatingly sensitive $1.1 billion instrument known as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, to detect a gravitational wave from the distant crash of two black holes, one of the ways these ripples are created.

To make sense of the raw data, the scientists translated the wave into sound. At a news conference, they played what they called a â&#x20AC;&#x153;chirpâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the signal they heard on Sept. 14. It was barely perceptible even when enhanced.

Some physicists said the finding is as big a deal as the 2012 discovery of the subatomic Higgs boson, sometimes called the

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;God particle.â&#x20AC;? Some said this is bigger. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really comparable only to Galileo taking up the telescope and looking at the planets,â&#x20AC;? said Penn State physics theorist Abhay Ashtekar, who wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t part of the discovery team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our understanding of the heavens changed dramatically.â&#x20AC;?

Gravitational waves, first theorized by Albert Einstein in 1916 as part of his theory of general relativity, are extraordinarily faint ripples in space-time, the hardto-fathom fourth dimension that combines time with the familiar up, down, left and right. When massive but compact objects like black holes or neutron stars collide, they send gravity ripples across the universe.

Scientists found indirect proof of the existence of gravitational waves in the 1970s â&#x20AC;&#x201C; computations that showed they ever so slightly changed the orbits of two colliding stars â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and the work was honoured as part of the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics. But Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announcement was a direct detection of a gravitational wave.

And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s considered a big difference. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one thing to know soundwaves exist, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another to actually hear Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fifth Symphony,â&#x20AC;? said Marc Kamionkowsi, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University who wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t part of the discovery team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In this case weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re actually getting to hear black holes merging.â&#x20AC;?

Gravitational waves are the â&#x20AC;&#x153;soundtrack of the universe,â&#x20AC;? said team member Chad Hanna of Pennsylvania State University.

Detecting gravitational waves is so difficult that when Einstein first theorized about them, he figured scientists would never be able to hear them. Einstein later

doubted himself and even questioned in the 1930s whether they really do exist, but by the 1960s scientists had concluded they probably do, Ashtekar said.

In 1979, the National Science Foundation decided to give money to the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to come up with a way to detect the waves.

Twenty years later, they started building two LIGO detectors in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana, and they were turned on in 2001. But after years with no luck, scientists realized they had to build a more advanced detection system, which was turned on last September.

Andrew Harnik/AP â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is truly a scientific Audience members look at monitors displaying data which moonshot and we did it. We scientists say is proof of Albert Einsteinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prediction of gravitational landed on the moon,â&#x20AC;? said David ripples on Thursday at the National Press Club in Washington.

Reitze, LIGOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive director.

The new LIGO in some frequencies is three times more sensitive than the old one and is able to detect ripples at lower frequencies that the old one couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. And more upgrades are planned.

Sensitivity is crucial because the stretching and squeezing of space-time by these gravitational waves is incredibly tiny. Essentially, LIGO detects waves that stretch and squeeze the entire Milky Way galaxy â&#x20AC;&#x153;by the width of your thumb,â&#x20AC;? Hanna said.

Each LIGO has two giant perpendicular arms more than two miles long. A laser beam is split and travels both arms, bouncing off mirrors to return to the armsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; intersection. Gravitational waves stretch the arms to create an incredibly tiny mismatch â&#x20AC;&#x201C; smaller than a subatomic particle â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and LIGO detects that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are fairly certain that we PHONE: FAX: 667-2823 will find more and more signals,â&#x20AC;?

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Canadians edge toward room temperature superconductors A loop of superconducting wire would be able to carry an electriCanadian Press cal pulse around and around WATERLOO, ONT. indefinitely with no additional energy source. anadian scientists have Superconductors, already made an important adused in devices such as MRI vance that could one day machines, could also usher in lead to a science-fiction world of levitating trains and batteries a new generation of everything from superfast computers to that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lose their juice sitting ultra-efficient wind turbines. But in the drawer. first, scientists have to crack the â&#x20AC;&#x153;People might have these temperature problem. things in their homes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; levitatEven a so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;highing devices, ultra-efficient power transmission â&#x20AC;Ś these technolo- temperature superconductorâ&#x20AC;? gies exist,â&#x20AC;? said David Hawthorn operates at -110 C â&#x20AC;&#x201C; achievable in a lab, but not in everyday from the University of Waterloo situations. A room temperature in Ontario.

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Those X-rays found electrons in the atoms of those crystals form patterns that may ultimately be related to how much superconductivity the crystals are capable of achieving. The patterns appear to be a key characteristic to this family of materials. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That clearly has bearing on the big questions of superconductivity and how we might achieve a higher temperature superconductor,â&#x20AC;? said Hawthorn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we could figure out a way to control it in some fashion, by engineering a particular crystal or particular pressure to the ma-

terial, that might give us a knob to tune the strength of superconductivity and ultimately lead to a higher temperature superconductor.â&#x20AC;?

Hawthorn said the study, published in the journal Science, also suggests those electron patterns and how they form or break up could shed light on basic questions of how materials behave. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We spend a lot of our time thinking about what would be the theory, the key ingredients that are going to describe whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening in these materials. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That ends up being a tremendously challenging problem and a Nobel Prize-worthy problem. If somebody was able to come up with a theory for this problem, that is a Nobel Prize.â&#x20AC;?

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Breaking trail for the Yukon Quest

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A Canadian Ranger clears a fallen tree from the Yukon Quest trail near Carmacks on January 27.

Joel Krahn News Reporter

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ith many of the Yukon Quest mushers checking in at Dawson over the past few days, the trails on the Canadian side of the course are starting to see their first bit of action.

The 800 kilometres of Canadian trail leads through pine forests, over windswept mountains and across frozen rivers. Every inch of it needed to be scoured before the 23 mushers from this year’s race travel across it.

Creating a smooth trail from Fairbanks through to Whitehorse takes a lot of manpower, and fulfilling that task each year are the territory’s Canadian Rangers.

This year, 120 Rangers from 11 communities across the Yukon (including Atlin) were out in full force wielding machetes and chainsaws, working to make the Canadian half of the epic race trail log-free and dog-friendly.

Overseeing this vast operation is Major Craig Volstad, the commanding officer of the 1st Canadian Ranger Patrol Group.

Based in Yellowknife, Maj. Volstad is in charge of all Rangers north of 60, and recently came west to the Yukon to help with operation Tay Naydan, a training exercise that dovetails into the clearing of the Quest trail.

“This year we’re quite excited about it because it’s our largest training event in Yukon in many years,” Maj. Volstad said. “And to combine it with the Yukon Quest has great synergy.”

Pelly Crossing was the base camp for Operation Tay Naydan and saw Rangers practise marksmanship, search and rescue techniques and first aid. Rangers from Watson Lake to Dawson City and everywhere in between made the trek to Pelly Crossing last weekend.

While en route, Rangers coming in from outlying communities made the first pass at clearing this year’s Quest trail, and while

doing so, practised survival skills by winter camping along the way, said Maj. Volstad.

“To be a Ranger you have to be good on the land and able to survive on the land.”

Maj. Volstad recalls during last year’s exercise the temperature dropping to bone-chilling levels while out on the trail.

“When I was out there I think it was between minus 40 and minus 45 – without windchill,” he said.

This year, the weather was a bit more co-operative.

To get the trail into shape for the race, the first pass sees Rangers on snowmobiles trample any brush that has clogged the way since last year. Fallen trees are the biggest challenge for the teams, says Maj. Volstad. Rangers carry machetes and small chainsaws to take out the larger obstacles blocking the path.

It takes about three days for Rangers coming from Dawson and Whitehorse to make their way to Pelly Crossing, roughly

halfway between the two. A second pass is done when crews return from Pelly Crossing, and the final check is done just ahead of the first mushers.

A crucial part of the effort is former Quest musher and current Canadian Ranger John “Mitch” Mitchell. Before the Rangers were involved with trail-clearing for the race, Mitchell had been volunteering with the Quest for several years to help get the route in order each season. When preparing for a training exercise with the Rangers in 1991, Mitchell suggested the two endeavours be merged.

Now, two decades later, Mitchell has vast experience coordinating the teams of Rangers that fan out over the trail. He sets the timeline for the operation and shuffles around crews as necessary, depending on the state of the path.

Warm weather and a lack of snowfall across the territory have prompted concerns over the quality of the trail, he said, and

some smaller deviations needed to be made. For instance, jumble ice downriver from Dawson combined with little snow meant an alternate route had to be found.

“Although we can get the trail through there, it’s too dangerous for dogs,” Mitchell said. “The last thing we want is for a dog to break a leg.”

“The only thing constant about the trail is change,” he said.

Having the substantial muscle of the Rangers behind the immense task of clearing an 800-kilometre path through remote Yukon bush is welcomed

by Quest organizers, but it’s also an important event circled on the calendars of Ranger brass.

“This is something that we’ve been doing for over 30 years,” says Maj. Volstad. “(There is) a huge sense of pride that the Canadian Rangers are contributing to such an important event to this region of the country.”

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‘When fairy tale falls apart:’ Couples’ status varies by relationship, region Melanie Patten Canadian Press

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ne marriage expert has a decidedly anti-cupid message for long-term lovers this Valentine’s season: rein in the wooing.

Amid the red roses, candlelit dinners and declarations of love, all couples – particularly those who aren’t legally married – are being advised to make time to talk about what happens if things go south.

Elizabeth Abbott, author of A History of Marriage, says couples become so seduced by love itself, they forget there’s more to a successful relationship and some of it is, well, unromantic.

“It’s real life. It’s living together, it’s having a job, it’s spending money,” says Abbott, a historian and senior research associate at the University of Toronto.

“A little less romance, please.”

In no situation is that more important than in common-law marriages – especially if the love affair ends or if one person dies.

John-Paul Boyd, executive director of the Calgary-based Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family, says many people in common-law relationships are unaware of their rights and entitlements or lack thereof.

That’s despite Statistics Canada

figures that show the number of common-law relationships grew at a rate more than four times that of married couples between 2006 and 2011.

“I think people should have the right to have the relationship that they want. The problem is that people are, as I learned from being a family law lawyer, woefully ignorant of their rights under the law,” says Boyd, adding that married couples can be equally nescient.

Part of the trouble is a lack of consistency. Laws governing common-law relationships differ across the country in both the length of time two partners must cohabitate before they are considered common law and what partners are entitled to in the event of a breakup or death.

Division of property laws, in particular, “are a disaster,” says Boyd.

“In Alberta, for example, you only have rights if you sign an agreement as an Adult Interdependent Partnership. … Only married people have any presumptive rights.”

Common-law standing in Ontario entitles partners to claim spousal support but not property.

Unmarried partners in Nova Scotia can claim spousal support once they’ve been in a common-law relationship for two years. However, partners living together in a

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tal status,” she says. “We never even checked into it.”

Retired legal aid lawyer Kathy Briand knows just how badly things can go. She represented a Nova Scotia woman in a Charter challenge that took the issue all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Briand’s client, Susan Walsh, lived common-law with her partner, Wayne Bona, for 10 years until 1995 and wanted half the family assets when the relationship went bust. Walsh argued the province’s Matrimonial Property Act violated her equality rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by treating her relationship differently.

“It was an absolutely traditional Hurst Gannon Photography/CP marriage,” says Briand. “It was Maurice Robichaud and Patricia Galbraith embrace at their fairly long-standing except for the wedding in the summer of 2015. certificate. She did everything that conjugal relationship can also file a value in traditional marriage, point- an ordinary wife would do that would entitle her.”

Domestic Partnership Declaration, ing to the hard-fought battle to alIn December 2002, the high low same-sex couples to marry. But which provides many of the same court ruled 8-1 that Nova Scotia’s she says there are several reasons rights as for married couples. law, which requires divorcing couwhy partners still choose to live Even the term “common law” ples to evenly split assets, shouldn’t common-law, including a chance isn’t recognized in all provinces.

Quebec, despite having the highest to test-drive a lifelong commitment ensnare common-law couples. The that doesn’t end in a pricey divorce. case, which drew national headnumber of common-law relationlines, spurred Nova Scotia to pass In Quebec, she speculates it’s an ships in Canada, does not grant domestic partnership legislation. act of rebellion against the Roman any of the same rights to what it Fourteen years later, Briand says calls “de facto spouses” as it does to Catholic Church. not nearly enough has been done For Maurice Robichaud and married couples.

Pat Galbraith of Fredericton, it was to protect common-law partners.

A man in Carbonear, N.L., told “No one gives a thought to what simply a matter of life getting in the CBC last fall he was being prewill happen when all that fairy tale the way. Robichaud popped the vented from making medical decistuff falls apart,” she says. sions on behalf of his common-law question to his now-wife after five Both Boyd and Briand say it’s years of dating but it took another wife, who has dementia. Despite important for partners to protect 16 before they made it official. The 30 years together, David Sellers couple says they spent two decades themselves, whether by getting said his partner’s nursing home wouldn’t even allow him to take her watching their children from previ- hitched or signing a legal docuous relationships grow up together ment. Even married couples can off the property. benefit from a pre-nuptial agreeand bond.

Boyd ranks British Columbia ment.

The couple had a will in place as the most common-law-friendly “Nobody balks about buying province. Since 2013, couples living but Galbraith admits they didn’t give much thought to the potential insurance, but it’s just not romantic common law for two years have to talk about pre-marriage agreeconsequences of their commonthe same rights as their married ments,” says Briand, before adding law status. counterparts. If the relationship “Maybe we’re naive but because with a chuckle: “But it’s way easier falls apart, partners are entitled to to do when you both still love each we’d been together for so long, we half of shared debts and assets.

Abbott says it’s clear there is still assumed that we would have mari- other.”

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Love and marriage â&#x20AC;Ś and money: the do and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ts of joint bank accounts spouse has their money and then you have joint money.â&#x20AC;?

Canadian Press The money for the joint account could come equally from OTTAWA both partners or split in whatever alentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day may have way they decide is fair. people thinking about their â&#x20AC;&#x153;It could be based on the relationships and where income that everyone is bringing they are going. to the table,â&#x20AC;? he said.

And if the heart turns to takBut the key, Stayzer says, is ing it further, that may mean the that couples talk openly about marrying of finances. money because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the top For some couples, it will be reasons why they argue. when they move in together and â&#x20AC;&#x153;By having the discussion and begin sharing big expenses like setting ground rules and underrent. For others, it may be when standing how each other likes to they tie the knot or buy a house operate will help remove some of together. the stigma around it,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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THE ARTS Bringing the Yukon Quest to the small screen Maura Forrest News Reporter

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hen Normand Casavant was young, his father wouldn’t let him have a dog. He asked, but his dad just wasn’t interested.

“When you’re older,” his father told him, “you can have as many dogs as you want.”

Those words were prescient.

As it turns out, Casavant now keeps about 35 dogs, give or take.

The veteran Yukon Quest musher tells his childhood story in the opening minutes of Mushers: Conquering the Yukon Quest, a new documentary series from Vancouver-based Red Letter Films. Filmmaker Greg Nosaty will be screening the eight-episode series next week at the Old Fire Hall in Whitehorse.

The series follows the 2015 Yukon Quest from Whitehorse to Fairbanks, Alaska, and features Casavant and several other top mushers, including Allen Moore, Hugh Neff, Matt Hall and Brent Sass.

But it’s not just a story about the race. Nosaty spent weeks beforehand with Casavant and several other mushers, filming the training and preparation they put into the 1,600-kilometre Quest each year.

Nosaty said he wants to raise the profile of dogsledding, which he believes is misunderstood.

“If you look online, there’s sort of a lot of negativity around the sport,” he said, referring to accusations that mushers whip and starve their dogs.

Nosaty aims to change that.

He said the biggest surprise for him in filming the documentary was the strength of the bond between mushers and their dogs.

“Those animals will go 24 hours a day. They are such well-treated, well-respected creatures,” he said. “That’s what I hope the audience gets to see a glimpse of and help shatter the myth that these creatures are mistreated.”

Last year, the Red Letter film crews followed the Yukon Quest racers over the entire route, travelling in a converted school bus equipped with bunkbeds and cooking facilities.

Despite his enthusiasm for the story, Nosaty said the documentary was a “nightmare” to film. Initially, he said, the board of directors was reluctant to let him film at all.

“They were skeptical about me coming up and doing a sensationalized kind of show,” he explained.

Even after receiving permission, he was still heavily restricted in what he could film.

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Musher Normand Casavant and filmmaker Greg Nosaty on the trail during the 2015 Yukon Quest.

Nosaty and his colleagues filmed a documentary of the race and will be screening the eight-part series at the Old Fire Hall in Whitehorse next week.

He wasn’t allowed to be on a snowmobile behind the dogs, because then he’d be chasing them. He wasn’t allowed to be in front, because then he’d be leading. And he couldn’t easily travel alongside them, because there’s only the one trail.

Though he has a drone mounted with a camera, he couldn’t fly it above the dogs for fear of frightening them.

He even tried attaching GoPro cameras to the sleds, but they would often fall off, and their batteries would die within minutes in the intense cold.

Instead, he had to set up his cameras at strategic points along the route, where he could film the mushers passing by. He also filmed them arriving at and leaving from the checkpoints, and interviewed them at various stops along the way.

But the biggest challenge was putting together a compelling narrative about a race that

Submitted Photo/Alistair Maitland

Nosaty films during a Quest musher’s meeting. doesn’t look much like a race at all. Nosaty said many people who’ve never seen the Quest don’t have any idea what it’s actually like.

“They imagine two sled dog teams sort of neck and neck, giving her and crossing the finish line. This is a race in slow motion, almost. It’s a

race against time, it’s a race to survive.”

But it’s also a race where a musher might not see anyone else for hundreds of kilometres. That’s not always the kind of thing that makes for good TV. Still, Nosaty said there were dramatic moments from last year’s Quest. The final stretch, for instance, was a thrilling race between Sass and Moore, with Sass starting two minutes behind Moore and passing him just before a road crossing in Two Rivers, Alaska.

Footage of the race is also interspersed with the mushers’ stories from previous Quests, and information about the history of the sport.

Casavant, who finished sixth in last year’s Quest, told the News he participated in the documentary to generate more interest in dogsledding.

“It’s a little-known sport.

We don’t have a lot of money invested in this world. We’re professional athletes, and it’s very difficult to find money and sponsors, for example,” he said. “I’d like to see more businesses help the Yukon Quest and also the mushers by sponsoring them. That would be great, because most mushers are not rich.”

Casavant has raced in five years of the Yukon Quest, though he’s taking this year off to set up a dogsledding school, CasAventures, in Quebec. He hopes to return to the Quest next year, and maybe to bring some other Quebec mushers with him. He said racing is his passion.

“Doing the Yukon Quest, doing long-distance races, it gives you the chance to learn a huge amount. You rub shoulders with the best mushers in the world,” he said. “It gives you the possibility to surpass yourself. It gives you the possibility to visit the Yukon and Alaska in isolated areas that are incredibly beautiful.”

A French version of the documentary series is set to air on Canal D, starting in late March.

But the English premiere of the series will take place right here in Whitehorse next week.

“Even for people who have been avidly watching 32 years of the Yukon Quest, they will see things in this that they’ve never seen before,” Nosaty said. “They’ll get insight from listening to (the mushers) talking about what it’s like to live that life, live that dream.”

The series will be screened in two parts at the Old Fire Hall on Feb. 16 and 17, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., followed by a Q&A session with Nosaty and any of the mushers who’ve crossed the finish line of this year’s Yukon Quest. Admission is free.

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

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Nations, Metis and Inuit. They inEquipped with a flashlight, face clude Willie Dunn, Willie Thrasher, mask and old compact car, the John Angaiak and Lloyd Cheechoo.

41-year-old DJ from Richmond “These artists were fairly marHill, Ont., has scoured everything ginalized outside of their native from flea markets to dusty barns communities where they were in Hutterite communities and an celebrated,” said Howes. abandoned hair salon – all in the “So I started reaching out to the name of highlighting important artists, first and foremost to thank fringe artists and learning about them for their music, which had Canada’s history. affected me deeply, and then to His tireless work has resulted in ask for context: ‘How were these his first Grammy Award nominarecords made? Tell me more about tion for best historical album for your life.”’

Native North America (Vol. 1): The project, which also has Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Country deluxe sets with archival photos, 1966-1985. He’s nominated as the is intended to bridge generations, compilation producer alongside cultures and “eras of technology Greg Mindorff, the mastering from the analogue into the digital engineer. age.”

Howes said he’s thrilled the “The vinyl records themselves Grammys are giving the artists a were pressed in such small nummoment to finally shine, noting bers, they’re literally extinct today such a category doesn’t exist at the and could be lost forever,” said Juno Awards in Canada.

Howes.

“The Canadian music business “People have thrown them in is a little bit behind the times, I the garbage and disposed of them feel, unfortunately, in that capacover the years, or they have a lot ity,” said Howes. of scratches and what have you.

“I hope that things like this can So we wanted to digitize them and help to raise awareness because preserve them for future generathere’s more than enough Canadi- tions so they can know a little bit an music that’s brought back every about what was going on in those year through reissues by compadays.” nies around the world.”

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ers know that some of these artists are still alive and very active in music. And his efforts worked.

Since the album came out a year ago, some of the artists have received concert bookings and been on CBC Radio’s “q” program.

The album has also been profiled in Rolling Stone magazine, Mojo magazine and the Guardian newspaper.

“But it’s been more of a struggle in Canada and unfortunately the Juno Awards do not have a category that can recognize such talent,” said Howes.

Howes said when he discusses the issue with people in the industry, they posit that there aren’t enough projects to merit such an award here.

And yet at this year’s Grammys, there’s also another historical album with Canadians behind it.

The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11, featuring music of Bob Dylan and Toronto’s the Band, was co-produced by Jan Haust and co-engineered by Peter Moore, both of Toronto.

Howes said he’d like to collaborate with the Junos, the CBC and Library and Archives Canada to help preserve material that “people in future generations should know about.”

“If the stories aren’t documented, if the music isn’t digitized, it could be lost forever and I think that would be a crime.”

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Canadian music journalist/historian Kevin Howes’ album, Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk, Rock, And Country 1966-1985, is nominated for a Grammy for best historical album.

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Seeing grizzlies feeding on Nations and environmensalmon as the fish make their tal groups to protect much of the Great Bear Rainforest should way up the coastal streams and be celebrated. The deal makes al- rivers of B.C. and Alaska is magnificent. These large brown bears most 85 per cent of the forested with their characteristic hump land base in this massive region and silver-tipped fur scoop salon B.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coast off limits to logmon from the river in an age-old ging. Forestry in the remaining interplay between ocean, river, 15 per cent will follow â&#x20AC;&#x153;lighterfish, bear, bird and forest. The touchâ&#x20AC;? practices, called â&#x20AC;&#x153;ecosyssalmon bring nutrients from the tem-based managementâ&#x20AC;?. Most ocean. The bears eat salmon and importantly, First Nations will drag the carcasses into the forest, have greater decision-making providing food for other animals, authority over industrial devellike eagles, and fertilizer for the opment on their lands.

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Government justifies allowing this practice by arguing the hunt is well-managed and that grizzlies are plentiful, with only a small number killed each year by hunters. Even if that were true â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a poor excuse for an inhumane practice.

Studies confirm earlier research by the David Suzuki Foundation showing the hunt is not sustainable. A peer-reviewed report by Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria and Raincoast Conservation Foundation scientists in the journal PLOS ONE analyzed the provincial governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own data and concluded too many grizzlies are being killed in B.C. They found overkilling of grizzly bears by humans is common and that annual hunting mortality limits set by government are too risky.

Grizzlies reproduce slowly, generally having one or two cubs every three or more years. They also face threats from habitat loss, damage and fragmentation; cascading effects of salmon collapse and climate change; and death from poaching, vehicle and train collisions and the inevitable adverse impacts of careless human behaviour. Grizzlies have already been eliminated or are currently threatened in 18 per cent of the province, including the Lower Mainland and most of the Interior.

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tronger winds and thinner ice are forcing Alaska polar bears to work harder to remain in Alaska, according to scientists who have studied increased movements of both sea ice and bears.

“There’s an energetic cost to stay in Alaska,” said David Douglas of the U.S. Geological Survey Science Center.

He and others compared wanderings of polar bears from two periods and found the bears now need to capture and eat as many as four additional seals each year to overcome faster-moving ice and stay in areas they prefer.

“That may not seem like a lot, but keep in mind that’s at a time when their habitat to hunt seals is shrinking,” he said.

While studying the movements of satellite-collared female polar bears (collars don’t fit on males because their necks are larger than their heads), Douglas and his colleagues also looked at ice drift off the northern and northwestern coasts of Alaska.

“Not only is the ice pack thinner and more responsive to wind forcing, there’s an increase in wind forcing as well,” he said.

“The ice is drifting faster under the feet of polar bears in the Beaufort/Chukchi (sea) region.”

The ice moves an average of 4 to 5 kilometers each day north of Alaska. If a bear off the coast near Point Hope stood still on a raft of sea ice, within a few months it would be off the northern coast of Russia, Douglas said.

Polar bears can survive anywhere they find food, but they seem to prefer the area in which

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A polar bear photographed north of Alaska in 2014. they were born. Bears appear to be working harder off the coast of Alaska than they did 20 years ago.

“To remain in Alaska, they have to compensate for a faster moving treadmill,” Douglas said.

“They either need to walk faster or for more hours in the day.”

Merav Ben-David of the University of Wyoming calculated the extra energy polar bears used in the period of 1999 to 2013 compared to 1987 to 1998.

The earlier period was a time with both more and thicker sea ice. She specializes in animal physiology and created a model based on the oxygen consumed by captive polar bears walking a treadmill.

Ben-David figured lone polar bears might need to eat one extra seal per year. Adult seals can weigh 100 pounds. Mother bears with young need as many as four

extra seals each year to compensate for faster ice. Bears hunt by crouching at the seals’ breathing holes in the sea ice, a shrinking platform that may disappear in summers by mid-century.

“Not only do you have more seals to consume, you have less time to do it in,” said Ben-David, a former University of Alaska researcher. “The cubs just don’t make it. Together with their mothers they are moving more and they’re getting less food.”

Southern Beaufort Sea bears are showing signs of stress, Douglas said, with a decreasing population, while Chukchi Sea bears appear to be in good shape.

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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Adventures in archival speed dating

by Michael Gates

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sat at my table waiting for the meetings to begin. The glockenspiel chimed, and my first encounter began. This wasn’t speed dating, although I and seven others would have only a few minutes to make a good impression before the chimes sounded again. Then people would to move to another table.

It was an event held at the Yukon Archives last week called “Archives a la Carte.” Reference archivist Chelsea Jeffery organized it, with a lot of support from the archives staff.

FOYAS, the Friends of the Yukon Archives Society, also participated.

The following day, Jeffery explained that the event was inspired by similar events that are held in libraries around the world, called “talking books.” These affairs employ people with special knowledge and experiences who volunteer to participate.

Members of the public can come to the event, and “sign out” one of these participants as they would a book, but instead of reading, as would normally occur, they engage in a conversation with them.

In the case of “Archives a la Carte,” eight individuals volunteered to participate. Half of these were donors who had given personal collections of photographs and other documents to the archives.

The other half were people who had made use of the extensive collections housed in their collections.

Each of the participants was given a table, upon which were placed some of the photos or documents they had donated, or samples of

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Surrounded by photos and other items related to aviation, Bob Cameron answered questions about how the collections at the Yukon Archives helped him write his book about Yukon aviation. the records that they used for their research. In my case, I asked for some of the documents that I used to write the manuscript for my next book about the Yukon during World War I – namely an album of photos from the war, a special edition of the Dawson Daily News that was filled with articles about Yukoners in World War I, and some government files outlining the gritty details and correspondence regarding the war.

The first group arrived at my table. They were full of questions and quickly engaged in conversation about the documents that were displayed, and asked what stories they told. They examined pages of the newspaper, and the photographs in the album; this was a good way to expose them to inter-

esting documents that they might not otherwise have known about.

According to Jeffery, the archives are not easy places in which to browse. The items are only accessible through finding aids and a descriptive database, and are brought out from the vault only when requested. An evening a la carte provided an opportunity for guests to see the documents first hand and learn all about them.

I agree. The Yukon Archives contains the collective memory of the territory, as captured in countless letters, documents, photographs, maps, movies, corporate and government records. But such treasures are usually carefully shelved in storage and only come to the reading room when requested, which made this event a rare opportunity to view some of the treasures held in the vault.

According to Jeffery, the evening was a success, and I agree. It could be too small (not enough guests) or it could be too large (too many guests), but it turned out to be just right, like the porridge in the childhood fable about Goldilocks and the three bears.

More than 50 people turned out.

They were given eight choices but

only opportunities to visit three of the tables. They had 15 minutes to talk to the person and examine the collection laid out before the chimes signaled that it was time to move to the next table.

Before the event began, Diane Chisholm, the president of FOYAS, made welcoming remarks and then introduced Elaine Taylor, the Yukon’s minister for tourism and culture. After acknowledging the archives and its important role, Taylor ignited an enthusiastic response from the guests by announcing that $6.2 million had been allocated to the construction of an expansion of the storage vault that houses the territory’s treasures.

After this, the visits began. The most popular tables seemed to be those occupied by Pearl Keenan, and Goodrun Sparling. Keenan, a First Nation elder who grew up in and around Teslin, shared stories about some of the photos she had donated to the archives. Sparling, who was born and raised in the Yukon, shared memories of living in early Whitehorse where her parents operated the Regina Hotel. She was surrounded by photographs and samples of guest registers from the hotel dating back to 1949-52.

Pat Ellis had samples of documents that helped her to write her popular book The Squatters of Downtown Whitehorse. The book was launched at the MacBride Museum back in late November.

Leighann Chalykoff from MacBride, with whom Pat collaborated on the project, was there to help out.

Daniel Janke screened his sevenminute film, River, and answered questions after the film ended. The discussion revealed what the river means to various people, and how that meaning has changed over time.

Nicole Bauberger shared records that she had donated to the archives from her time as a young artist in Peterborough, Ontario.

Jeffery stated that this collection has not yet been processed, but served as an opportunity to talk about how records are organized and handled in an archive. Various members of the archives staff were also on hand through the evening and to answer questions about how the documents were organized and cared for.

Bob Cameron donated flight log books to the archives, along with photographs relating to aviation in the Yukon. These documents helped him compile his impressive book on the history of Yukon aviation, Yukon Wings.

Finally, Bob Sagar was there to talk about his research. Using White Pass and Yukon Route sternwheeler log books, he was able to reconstruct a picture of weather conditions in the Yukon going back a century.

With opportunities to talk to only three of the eight participants, guests were left thirsting for more.

Most remained after the event to share in the delicacies laid out for them to eat while they engaged in lively conversation for another hour or so.

I enjoyed the event and hardly noticed the passage of time. I hope that they plan another such event in the future, so that I can attend as a guest and sample some of the tasty choices on the historical menu for myself.

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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372.17

1023

2008Y0011

296

Y14-05031070090 WITHAM, BERNADETTE ETZEL GRIZZLY VALLEY

Y15-07011023060 UPTON, CARL DONJEK NR SILVER CITY

2007-0102

852

115G/01

Y28-05030041010 BRAIS, PAUL JOSEPH DEEP CREEK

20941

41

2002Y0046

356.75

35.67

392.42

Y28-05030044080 GOSTEL, STANLEY KARL AUGUST DEEP CREEK

20941

44

2000Y0826

645.15

64.51

709.66

Y28-05030073020 OLSON, JOEL DAVID DEEP CREEK

49629

73

84Y465

361.57

36.15

397.72

646.39

Y28-05031000080 BREWSTER, DONALD MURRAY & ANGELA CHRISTINE KM 223.4, KLONDIKE HIGHWAY - DEEP CREEK

51596

105E/03

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94Y779

566.50

56.65

623.15

37.21

409.38

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2013-0077

105E/03

1101

2014Y0631

2,915.76

291.57

3,207.33

321.92

32.19

354.11

Y46-10000161090 HEYDORF, MICHAEL THOMAS HENDERSON CORNER

93-17

16-1

2010Y0345

155.78

25.00

180.78

2003Y1283

1,467.53

146.75

1,614.28

Y46-10000162080 HEYDORF, MICHAEL THOMAS HENDERSON CORNER

93-17

16-2

2010Y0343

795.73

79.57

875.30

Y15-07020296070 PETERSON, JONATHON & LEXOW, MATTHIAS KM 1654 ALASKA HIGHWAY

27978

Y15-09011088060 AMBROSE, JAMES DENNIS & MERVEL MARY 10 KM NORTH CARMACKS

99-0146

115I/01

1088

2000Y0113

110.65

25.00

135.65

Y46-10000182040 HEYDORF, MICHAEL THOMAS HENDERSON CORNER

93-103

18-2

2001Y0020

265.89

26.58

292.47

Y15-15121000000 DE REPENTIGNY, HALIN & GUIMOND, QUINN DAVID 60 MILE RIVER

95-120

115O/12

1000

2013Y0307

110.65

25.00

135.65

Y46-10000192020 LILLEY, JUDITH MARIE HENDERSON CORNER

95-64

19-2

2009Y0282

232.14

25.00

257.14

16

75Y96

110.65

25.00

135.65

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75.57

831.35

1010

98Y699

110.65

25.00

135.65

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2014Y0219

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2014Y0392

745.63

74.56

820.19

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2014Y0677

110.65

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135.65

852

Y15-15145051640 PRINGLE, JOHN BONANZA TOWNSITE

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Y16-03081010070 VIDMAR, FRANZ NEAR COAL CREEK

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56420

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2000Y0695

627.05

62.70

689.75

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56420

46

2014Y0534

695.62

69.56

765.18

Y46-41910001060 SPRIGGS, DUNCAN WEST DAWSON - SUNNYDALE

2014-0042

Y19-04081023080 NIETZOLD, REINHARD, & PASCAL, & ALEXANDER TAGISH ESTATES

85196

105D/08

1023

98Y790

394.96

39.49

434.45

Y55-00000075040 COULAS, COLETTE A ROSS RIVER

29803

75

2005Y0260

314.99

31.49

346.48

Y19-04081037020 PENNER, MYRON & SHELLEY TAGISH ESTATES

85196

105D/08

1037

2013Y1117

7,941.97

794.20

8,736.17

Y55-00000192020 COULAS, COLETTE A ROSS RIVER

43548

192

99Y433

110.65

25.00

135.65

Y19-04081071000 O'FARRELL DAVID & REGGIE KAYE TAGISH ESTATES

94-46

105D/08

1071

94Y594

5,219.00

521.90

5,740.90

Y60-20001084000 BJORKMAN, RALPH EVERETT UPPER LIARD

97-76

105A/02

1084

2002Y0250

217.66

25.00

242.66

Y19-04081084050 TURNER, CHARLES D & MARY KATHLEEN TAGISH ESTATES

95-07

105D/08

1084

2010Y0288

808.95

80.89

889.84

2001-0047

105A/02

1099 & LSE

2015Y0299

467.88

46.78

514.66

Y19-04084260120 HOTTE, OWEN & DARLA SIX MILE RIVER

21066

PT 2, S 1/2 OF LOT 260

99Y248

173.13

25.00

198.13

51200

095D/01

1000 & PCL

2012Y1217

290.51

29.05

319.56

Y19-04085085060 BROWN, REGAN GALICIA TAGISH BEACH

2007-0073

85A

2012Y0641

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116C/08

804

1,367.48

136.74

1,504.22

Y60-20001099030 ELLIS, CLIFFORD B & ROWLANDS, ROSEMARY & WALKER, ELIZABETH ANN UPPER LIARD Y95-04011000090 O'FARRELL, DAVID & REGGIE TOOBALLY LAKE

2009-0048

FINAL TOTAL

Dated this 12th day of February, 2016 Paul Moore, Collector of Taxes

116B/03

1052

116B/03

$50,542.84 $5,173.83 $55,716.67

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Joint Whitehorse-Yellowknife squad surprises teams at Tier 1 tourney Tom Patrick News Reporter

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embers of rival territorial rep hockey teams joined forces last week.

Top players from the Whitehorse Mustangs and Yellowknife Wolfpack teamed up for some AAA level hockey at the Dallas Saunders Memorial Tier 1 Bantam Tournament in Abbotsford.

They surprised some people, said Whitehorse’s Carl Burgess, assistant coach/manager of the team.

“We know we were scouted to come in at the bottom of the tournament,” said Burgess. “The expectation was this team was a quaint opportunity for northerners, but they really made a dent in it and turn some heads.”

“It was so successful, we’re going to look if this is a program we can expand,” he added.

The Whitehorse-Yellowknife high performance team tied for third out of 12 teams at the premier tournament that included hockey academy and U.S. teams.

They lost a tight semifinal to the eventual gold medal winning team.

“It’s a new thing. There have been very few of these joint tournament teams,” said Burgess.

“You can put them together on a temporary basis and there have been very few of them. It was a little more work to put together than we had expected, but it was well worth it.

“The kids performed outstanding together.”

The North of 60 elite squad featured eight skaters and two goalies from Yellowknife and eight skaters from Whitehorse.

The coaching staff was also mixed with Whitehorse’s Martin Lawrie as head coach and Yellowknife’s Brad Anstey as an assistant coach. (Burgess coached the defence and Anstey the forwards.)

All the forward lines were mixed, as were the defensive pairs.

“It was cool. They put the team together and we had two practices – one of Thursday, one on Friday – and it seemed like we clicked right away,” said centre Bryce Anderson of Whitehorse.

“We knew where each other was on the ice and as the tournament went on we just got better and better.”

There were some hatchets buried leading up to the tournament. For the last three seasons the Mustangs and Wolfpack, which are both Tier 3 teams, have faced each other in numerous tournaments and exhibition series. The rivalry extends into the Arctic Winter Games and the Canada Winter Games in the form of Yukon versus N.W.T.

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Whitehorse-Yellowknife’s Connor Flemming puts a shot on net against Hollyburn goalie Sam Matrick during the Dallas Saunders Memorial Bantam Tournament in Abbotsford, B.C. on Saturday. The northern team placed third in the Tier 1 tournament.

“When you’re on the ice (against) them you think of them as enemies, but once you get to know the guys you really start bonding with them,” said Anderson. “It’ll be a lot different game next time we play them.”

Anderson, who was playing between Yellowknife wingers Connor Flemming and Austin Daniels, had plenty of success with his new line. He logged four goals in a 6-4 win over West Vancouver’s Hollyburn Huskeys in the round robin and was a primary scorer throughout the tournament.

“I have to give some credit to my linemates, they were working hard all weekend,” said Anderson. “They got me the puck in good spots so I was able to finish on a lot of chances and do the same for them.”

The Whitehorse-Yellowknife team opened with a 5-5 tie against the Wild from Delta Hockey Academy.

Following the win over Hollyburn they downed the Coquitlam Chiefs 6-3 to place third in their pool.

The mixed team then beat Delta a 5-3 loss to reach the semifinal where they lost 5-3 to the Prince George Cougars, who sealed the deal with an emptynetter.

The joint team wouldn’t have

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A Hollyburn player attempts to score on Yellowknife’s Liam Tereposky. been at the tournament if not for the Whitehorse club. Last season’s Bantam Mustangs team garnered attention beating Tier 1 teams during the season and was granted a spot at the tournament. While they didn’t make the playoffs in Abbotsford, they did prove to organizers there are some top-level players up north.

(The Bantam Mustangs went on to become the first Yukon rep team ever to win gold at the B.C. Hockey Championships last

March.)

“The tournament organizers said that the kids did so well – they represented Yukon and Whitehorse so well – Abbotsford gave us an open invitation,” said Burgess.

“Last year’s bantam team had a special level of depth and players that we usually don’t see.

Every year in the small market of northern teams there’s always a handful of players who can play at a top-tier level, but not

always a full team with the depth required for six to eight two-hour games in a weekend.”

While proving the North has hockey skills is all fine and dandy, premier tournaments like the Dallas Saunders provide an opportunity for players to showcase their skills in front of scouts. There could be as many as two-dozen scouts for leagues like the WHL and BCHL in the stands for any given game, said Burgess. Players were required to submit information packages for scouts.

“A handful of the boys got invites and notice from junior A teams,” said Burgess. “For most of the team it was their first time playing AAA hockey.”

“You know they’re there, but you don’t really want to get that into your head,” said Anderson.

“You just go out there and focus on doing whatever you can for the team.”

While just under half the players were from Whitehorse, the joint team ended up donning Team Yukon jerseys on the ice.

You have to wear something, said Burgess. “We were going to wear our Yukon jerseys with the big ‘Y’ – the closest we could get for standing for Yukon and Yellowknife at the same time.”

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Yukon skiers race at giant eastern championships She then sped to gold in the pen female 15-kilometre classic mass News Reporter start with a time of 46:54.48.

Midget male skier Nichollis he Yukon Ski Team brought a Schmidt was Yukon’s other twobig team to a giant champitime medalist. Schmidt was the onship last week. only on the team to make the Eight-teen skiers – a big team by podium in the sprint races on Feb. Yukon standards – competed at the 5, placing second in the three-kiloEastern Canadian Cross Country Ski metre free for skiers born in 2001.

Championships near Ottawa.

He then picked up a gold in the The championship, held at the five-kilometre free (2001) on SaturNakkertok ski club, was the largest day and 11th – fourth for his age – Haywood NorAm event ever, with in the six-kilometre classic Sunday. just under 800 skiers on the trails.

Hannah Deuling added a third If the huge turnout was probmedal for Yukon Saturday with lematical enough, “they had rain silver in the Junior B female fiveand freezing rain the week before, kilometre free (1999). Deuling also so it made it a bit challenging snow placed fifth in the Junior B female conditions for all the teams,” said three-kilometre sprint (1999), one Yukon Ski Team head coach Alain spot ahead of teammate Mira MaMasson. son, and 11th in the junior female The Yukon team collected six 10-kilometre classic Saturday – medals, including two from Dahria fourth for her age.

Beatty, a member of the national Yukon’s Knute Johnsgaard team. was twice edged off the podium Beatty, 21, won silver in the open with fourth-place finishes, before women 10-kilometre free last Satsnatching up a bronze. The national urday, just 9.1 seconds behind the team skier placed third in the open men 20-kilometre classic mass gold medalist.

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Yukon Ski Team’s Dahria Beatty races at the Eastern Canadian Cross Country Ski Championships outside of Ottawa last weekend. Beatty won two of Yukon’s six medals at the championship. start race on Sunday. He finished in 53:05.7, just 13.46 seconds back from the winner.

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metre free and sixth in the 15-kilometre classic in open women.

Yukon’s Simon Cash placed fourth in the sprints and ninth in the 7.5-kilometre free in the junior B (1998) race, and fifth in the junior men 15-kilometre classic.

Racing in open men, Yukon’s Colin Abbott placed ninth in the sprint, sixth in the free race and ninth in the classic race.

Whitehorse’s Caelan McLean placed 25th overall – fourth for his age – in the open men 20-kilometre classic mass start.

Other top Yukon results include: Michael Kischuck fifth in the junior B 7.5-kilometre free (1999); Mira Mason sixth in the junior B female three-kilometre free (1999) and Amanda Thomson sixth and Regan Fuerstner 10th in the same race for 1998; Alexis Gee 10th in the junior B female three-kilometre free (1998); and Hannah Jirousek 17th – 10th for 2000 – in the juvenile female 7.5km classic.

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The Whitehorse team clipped some wings to open the tournament, downing the Squamish Eagles 8-3 and the Langley Eagles 6-3. They then sent the Powell River Regals packing with a 7-2 win.

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Seth Sheardown-Waugh then an assist in the game and Power Tom Patrick got the shutout. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was quite a game.

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After posting a huge comePower stopped all three shootsaid Johnstone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were Down 5-1 with just 10 minback in Salmon Arm earlier this ers at the other end for the win. quite a few teams equal to us utes left in regulation, Whiteseason, the Whitehorse squad â&#x20AC;&#x153;We showed a little resilience we played off of well. Right horse came back to defeat the did it again â&#x20AC;&#x201C; this time in a playoff game â&#x20AC;&#x201C; at the Squamish Oceanside Generals 6-5 in a shootout.

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Arctic Edge collects seven medals at B.C. coast regionals Tom Patrick News Reporter

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ith figure skating cut from next month’s Arctic Winter Games in Greenland, Arctic Edge Skating Club decided to travel elsewhere.

The Whitehorse club instead sent 11 skaters to the B.C. Coast Region Championships (a.k.a.

WinterSkate) in Chilliwack, B.C. over the weekend.

“This was our Arctic (Winter Games),” said Arctic Edge coach Michelle Semaschuk. “This was our team event because (figure skating) was pulled from Greenland … We were one of the sports that were pulled out, so we received some funding from Sport Yukon to take the kids to travel out and experience something that would be similar.”

The Yukon team collected seven medals at regionals, including four gold.

It was a memorable trip for

Arctic Edge’s Adrian Lau. Not only was it his first trip to an Outside competition, he won gold in the STAR 4 U13 boys. His participation also marked the first time in five years a male figure skater from Arctic Edge travelled Outside to compete.

“It was the first time Adrian had traveled out to a competition, so that was a big highlight,” said Semaschuk.

“He had a great time. Unfortunately there was only one skater in his event, which was him. There was supposed to be another, but he pulled out at the last minute.

“He landed an axel for the first time in competition there, so that was very exciting.”

Arctic Edge’s Chloe VanLankveld collected gold in introductory interpretive and fifth in STAR 4 U10 girls.

Teammate Lenneah Timmermans claimed gold in STAR 4 13-and-over girls.

Skating in pre-novice U16

ladies, Mikayla Kramer placed second in her free and fourth in her short out of 15 skaters. She also won gold in gold interpretive.

Bronwyn Hays picked up a silver in introductory interpretive and finished ninth in STAR 5 U13 girls.

Mikayla McCain skated away with a bronze in STAR 4 U13.

Tessa Moore picked up a bronze in bronze interpretive and notched 12th out of 24 in pre-juvenile ladies.

Alissa Russell took fourth out of 24 skaters in pre-juvenile U13 ladies and ninth in bronze interpretive.

Jamie Nickel skated to fifth in bronze interpretive and sixth in STAR 5 U13 girls.

Sarah Milton placed sixth in STAR 4 13-and-over girls.

Meghan Birmingham notched 10th in bronze interpretive and 11th in senior bronze women.

“Whether it was in their in-

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Arctic Edge Skating Club’s Adrian Lau competes at the Yukon Figure Skating Championships in November. Lau was one of 11 Yukon skaters to compete at the B.C. Coast Region Championships over the weekend in Chilliwack. terpretive or their free, everyone had something positive that happened for them this weekend,” said Semaschuk.

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he Vanier Crusaders won their semifinal handily and ran away with it in the final.

The team looks to be on the verge of winning a fifth-straight senior-boys Yukon title.

Maintaining the dynasty isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keeping Crusaders co-captain RJ Siosan up at night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No pressure,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just going to stay focused, play defence and play our game.â&#x20AC;?

The Crusaders defended their Whitehorse high school title with an 89-50 win over the Porter Creek Rams in the Super Hoops final at Porter Creek Secondary School on Tuesday.

The Crusaders took a little time to find their momentum in the final, trading early baskets for half the first quarter. They broke it open with a seven-point run for a 20-9 lead, capped with a hookshot from guard Ian New. Vanier finished the half up by 20 and the third quarter up by 43. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tonight I thought our defence was phenomenal. That was our number one focus,â&#x20AC;? said Crusaders head coach Sean McCarron. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We played well on offence. We practised for an hour before the game, running through our offence.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re feeling great,â&#x20AC;? said Siosan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At first we were down for a bit and then we picked it up and everyone was in flow then.â&#x20AC;?

Crusaders All-Star David Mindanao led the team with 26 points while Siosan â&#x20AC;&#x201C; another AllStar â&#x20AC;&#x201C; put 21 on the board, despite a sprained finger on his shooting hand.

Point guard New registered 17 points in the final and was named league MVP. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our point, so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of pressure on him to run the offence and to create for guys like RJ,â&#x20AC;? said McCarron. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He plays both ends of the floor. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great defender and obviously scores and assists â&#x20AC;&#x201C; creates a lot for our offence.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good player, like the best on our team,â&#x20AC;? said Siosan.

Porter Creekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Evan Milenk and Christian Ouimet scored 18 and 10 points, respectively, in the final and were named All-Stars.

The Rams and the Crusaders both finished with 3-1 records in the Super Hoops regular season, but the Rams got the bye to the

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he Porter Creek Rams don’t scare easy. They remain unflappable even when trailing for three quarters of play.

After playing catch-up for most of the game, the Rams snuck ahead in the fourth to defeat the F.H. Collins Warriors 52-47 in the senior girls Super Hoops final on Tuesday at Porter Creek Secondary School.

“My ladies are really good at maintaining, so even when we are down they hold the fort and keep their spirits high,” said Rams head coach Nicole Cross. “They give their best effort regardless, that’s what makes them a great team.”

Down 27-19 to start the second half, the Rams went on an eightpoint run to catch the Warriors at 29-29 on an offensive rebound and basket by Kennedy Cairns.

The Rams finally took the lead at 41-40 early in the fourth on a basket

by Kennedy, assisted with a bounce pass from Line Jensen. Jensen then picked up a loose ball and ran it down court to make it 43-40. Porter Creek’s Kataya Ulrich then sunk a jumper to expand the lead to five and there was no turning back.

Kennedy controlled the boards, led her team with 16 points in the final and was named league MVP. “She’s always good at the rebounds and gets her shots in,” said Rams All-Star Emily Mervyn. “She just tries hard. She’s tall, so that helps.”

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Left: Porter Creek Rams’ Kennedy Cairns goes up for two during the Super Hoops final at Porter Creek Secondary School on Tuesday. The Rams defeated the F.H. Collins Warriors 52-47. Right: Warriors All-Star Jayden Demchuk gets tripped up.

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court,” said Cross. “She’ll play anywhere you ask her to play and she’ll play to her full max potential every time.”

Rams All-Star Thea Carey put 14 on the board and Ulrich eight, including her team’s final five of the game.

Warriors All-Star Jayden Demchuk led her team with 15 and teammate Jetta Bilsky, who was also named an All-Star, had 14 in the final.

The Rams earned a bye into the Whitehorse senior high school final

with a 3-1 regular season record. The Warriors reached the final with a 73-33 semifinal win over third place’s Vanier Crusaders on Monday.

“They are the hardest team to play, so it’s a really tight match when we play them,” added Mervyn of the Warriors. “It’s really good to know we won this game.”

Crusaders Mary-Anne Portea and Jane Lyon were also named All-Stars.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

Experiential Programs for the 2016/17 School Year Are you interested in learning more about the experiential programming available for Grade 9 – 12 students at Wood Street Centre.

If so, we invite your family to attend an information meeting on Thursday, February 25 at 6:30 pm at 411 Wood St. Teachers will be on-hand to answer any questions you may have about the ACES, FACES, CHAOS, ES, MAD, OPES or PASE. Applications will be available at this meeting, at your school or at www.yesnet.yk.ca/woodstreet.

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Volleyball Yukon introduces U13 league long way off still, but we wanted to get kids excited about volleyball, and all that it has to offer.

We will concentrate on intensive training in a few years. We are just trying to build our base.â&#x20AC;?

The new program currently has 55 players taking part in two two-hour training sessions a week followed by co-ed play on Sundays at the Canada Games

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Chloe Sembsmoen takes part in Volleyball Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new under-13 co-ed league at the Canada Games Centre on Sunday. The program, which is the first of its kind in Yukon, currently has 55 players enrolled.

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olleyball Yukon is already planning for the 2021 Canada Summer Games.

The sportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s governing body has introduced a new program for players under 13 years of age â&#x20AC;&#x201C; players who could represent Yukon at the 2021 Games in

Ontario. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing, really. There are a lot of young athletes that are passionate about volleyball, and are keen to get better,â&#x20AC;? said Volleyball Yukon president Peter Grundmanis. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have decided to invest time and effort into these players because they are the age group eligible to represent Yukon at the 2021 Canada Winter Games. We know it is a

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Centre. The players are split into seven co-ed teams for noncompetitive play with parent volunteers reffing, coaching and score-keeping.

Volleyball Yukon plans to send three girls teams and two boys team to the U13 B.C. Volleyball Championships in May. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about winning, at this point,â&#x20AC;? said Grundmanis. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are

sending equal teams, and getting equal playing time. We want all the players to experience a large tournament and enjoy the atmosphere. Hopefully they will want to continue playing.â&#x20AC;?

More information can be found at www.volleyballyukon. com.

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To solve Kakuro, you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares. The clues are the numbers in the white circles that give the sum of the solution numbers: above the line are across clues and below the line are down clues and below the line are down clues.

Thus, a clue of 3 will produce a solution of 2 and 1 and a 5 will produce 4 and 1, or 2 and 3, but of course, which squares they go in will depend on the solution of a clue in the other direction.

No difit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. © 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: to cause to seem inferior : disparage.

Puzzle A

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WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: a formal decision given by a court.

Puzzle B CLUES ACROSS 1. Schilling (abbr.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Miscellaneous for Sale 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 MENʼS BLACK shoes, sz 9, new, $15.

334-8318 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 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 NATURAL SLATE stone for fire place, over 50 sq ft available, easy DIY project, $10 per sq ft. Call 335-6886 aft 6pm

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PlbfeËj 2001 Ford F-450 Flat-deck Truck 7.3 Diesel 5-speed Manual Trans, 180,000 Kms, 13-foot Deck with Haydraulic Tailgate & Hinged Side Racks

$11,975.00 | TEL 336-2029

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

Phone days 867-667-6315 • Fax 867-668-6977 Email: irving@northwestel.net

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 GIRLʼS LARGE or ladiesʼ small high-end quality blue snow pants, 3 pockets, double lined, never been worn, 1/2 price @ $60.

633-2293 FREE: LARGE selection of Readerʼs Digest hard cover. 633-2768 YUKON SOURDOUGH Rendezvous 1988 print by Cris Caldwell, #3 of 500, $100.

633-2236 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 TWO FEATHER down blankets, single, exc shape, $50 ea. 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 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 WALL HEATER, new, used lightly for 1 month, 1500 W, built-in thermostat, c/w remote, good for heating L/R or bedroom.

456-4459.

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 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 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

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Employment Opportunities

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.

Casual Instructor, Pipe Trades

Centre for Trades, Technology and Mining (CNIM) 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

Expression of Interest: Casual Coordinator, Continuing Education Courses 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 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, Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca

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SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE LISTINGS: Northwestel Inc. ➥ CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

City of Whitehorse ➥ NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR

Tr’ondek Hwech’in Government ➥ COMMUNITY SUPPORT OUTREACH WORKER

Yukon Inn ➥ FRONT DESK AGENT

Alexco Environmental Group Inc. ➥ CARE & MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT OPERATOR

Yukon Hospital Corporation ➥ COOK

Truenorth Respiratory Therapy Services ➥ RECEPTIONIST

Northern Safety Network Yukon ➥ ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Yukon Gardens ➥ NURSERY FRONT END GARDEN CENTRE ATTENDANT

Burnt Toast Cafe ➥ SERVER

MORE @ yuwin.ca

Developing the North Cobalt Construction is looking for people to join our 2016 road construction team; work will commence April 1st and continue until freeze up. Candidates MUST be experienced in road construction. Work is out of town in a camp situation with room and board supplied. Wages are above Government rate for the right candidates.

These are not rotation type jobs, successful candidates are required to work up to three weeks at a time with 3 or 4 days off.

ROAD CONSTRUCTION FOREMAN

Must have at least 5 years in a supervisory role in Road Construction. Successful candidate with be well versed in all aspects of Road Construction, including multiplate and culvert installations. Should be well versed and be able to operate any piece of equipment. Must be very safety conscious, lead safety meeting and keep good written records. Must be highly motivated and production oriented. Top wages and plenty of overtime for the successful candidate.

HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC

Must be experienced on Cat, Hitachi, Volvo and Kenworth Trucks, including Dozers, off-highway Rock Trucks, Graders, Excavators, Vibratory Packers, and Tractor with Belly Dump Trailers. Top wages and plenty of overtime for the successful candidate.

SERVICE PERSON/LUBRICANT TECHNICIAN

Duties include fuelling and greasing large fleet of heavy equipment, assisting Mechanics and doing scheduled oil changes and servicing. Must be experienced with Cat, Hitachi, Volvo, and highway tractor/trailers.

ROAD CONSTRUCTION OPERATORS

Must have a minimum of 3 years on road building projects. Must have the ability to read and build to grade stakes while maintaining a high rate of production. The following positions are available: t Dozer operators t Finish Grader Operators t Finish Excavator operators

TRUCK DRIVERS

Only experienced operators will be considered, the following positions are available: t Articulated Rock Truck Drivers t 100 ton Rock Truck Drivers t 50 Ton Rock Truck Drivers t Class 1 Belly Dump and Water Truck Drivers

PACKER OPERATORS LABOURERS

t with culvert, multiplate, MSE wall and road construction experience

SURVEYORS

Must be fully experienced in Road construction layout and staking with GPS system.

CAMP INSTALLER AND MAINTENANCE MAN

Must be experienced in camp set up, carpentry, electrical and plumbing. Candidate will install camps and perform maintenance duties to keep camp up and running efficiently.

FIRST AID

Level 3 industrial First Aiders with Highway Construction Experience. BC/YT TCP training will be considered an asset.

Please send Resumes to jobs@cobaltconstruction.ca, stop by the main office located on the Alaska Highway just north of Porter Creek, or fax 867-668-7762.

For more information about us and the work we do, please visit our website

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Nakwaye Ku Child Care at Yukon College

Executive Director F IR E WEED COMMUN I TY M ARKET SO CI ETY

Early Childhood Educator CASUAL POSITION

Permanent, Part-time. $27.75/hour 20hrs/week

Wage commensurate with level

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.

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 HUSQUVARNA 61 Chainsaw with 20" bar, near new chain, air cleaner, ignition switch & brake band, $290 obo. 668-5644 PHOTO ART equipment, used, Rotatrim M-50 print cutter, $100; Leitz 4602 Tiltall tripod, missing one pan control, $50. 667-2389

Closing date: Friday, March 4, 2016.

BLOOD GLUCOSE test strips, 48 strips, $30, brand is One Touch. 456-4459

NAKWAYE KU CHILD CARE Box 2799,Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5K4 E-mail: nakwayeku@yukoncollege.yk.ca | Fax: 668-8890 (Attn: Daycare)

COLEMAN ON-DEMAND portable hot water heater, $125 obo. 334-6600

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.

Sanchez Cantina is taking applications for the following PART-TIME POSITIONS:

Qualifications and complete job description can be found at

www.fireweedmarket.ca 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.

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BISSELL LITTLE Green spot & stain remover machine, new, $40; Bissell 3-in-1 vac, new, $25. 311B Hanson St. after 6pm WANTED TO buy: Travel book Nicaragua, ie Lonely planet. 204-880-7245

Musical Instruments PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com

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HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. Store (867) 633-3276

HELP WANTED Service Station/Propane Attendant

✔ 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

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.

Cheque, Cash

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.

Integra Tire Whitehorse requires a full time permanent

Drop resume off at 107 Industrial Road Attn: Cal Murdoch or email to Cal@yukontire.com

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.

Community Services

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

Pool Managers

Please submit your resumé and a copy of your current certifications by March 1, 2016 to: Marie Cairns Government of Yukon Sport & Recreation Branch C-10 PO Box 2703 Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2C6 FAX: (867) 393-6416 E-mail: marie.cairns@gov.yk.ca

Pool Manager Applicants must possess the following current awards or certifications: National Lifeguard Service, Water Safety Instructor, Lifesaving Society Instructor, Pool Operator Level I, CPR “C” and Standard First Aid or Aquatic Emergency Care. Certification in Pool Operators II, Aquatic Emergency Care Instructor/ Examiner, Water Instructor Trainer and NLS Instructor/Examiner would be an asset.

Wages range from $20-24/hour and many communities offer extra benefits, such as accommodations and a travel subsidy.

Lifeguards / Instructors Minimum qualifications for a Lifeguard/Instructor are a current National Lifeguard Service Award, Red Cross Water Safety Instructor, CPR “C” and Standard First Aid or Aquatic Emergency Care.

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

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

The successful candidate will have sales experience – preferably in the advertising or retail industry. The ability to build relationships with clients and offer superior customer service is a must. The winning candidate will be a team player and will also be called upon to grow the account list with an aggressive cold calling mandate.

The ability to work in an extremely fast paced environment with a positive attitude is a must.

We offer a great working environment with a competitive base salary coupled with a strong benefit package.

Black Press has more than 170 community newspapers across Canada and the United States and for the proven candidate the opportunities are endless.

Please submit your resume with a cover letter to Mike Thomas Publisher, Yukon News, 211 Wood Street, Whitehorse, Y.T. Y1A 2E4 or email to mthomas@yukon-news.com

S.A. vouchers accepted.

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

Contact Bill at 867-335-4065 FIRE-KILLED SPRUCE FIREWOOD Very dry, clean burning $250/cord 16”x 3-cord load Larger loads available $200/cord if you cut & haul from my yard in town 333-5174 DJG CONTRACTING •Delivering logging truck loads •Single/multiple cord loads Call David at 867-332-8327 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 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 FOX LAKE FIREWOOD •Stove ready, delivered •Clean, hot burn •$220 per cord Call 334-3979

No phone calls please.

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FIREWOOD FOR SALE Beetle-killed pine, dry Stored in Whitehorse Call for prices 867-689-5797

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WANTED: WOMEN who have had C-sections at least 6 months ago to participate in Osteopathic study. Participants will receive free treatments. Treatment can have multiple benefits to overall health. 336-0252

FIREWOOD FOR SALE Approx 20 cord Logging truck loads Will sort big or small $150 per cord + GST Call 867-335-0894 or 867-335-1088

Cars

SPLIT FIREWOOD 16â&#x20AC;? lengths 3-cord loads $220/cord Delivered in city limits 333-5174

2001 VW Golf 2L gas engine, auto trans newly replaced, heated seats, power everything, serviced for winter, good rubber, 170,000km c/w mechanical inspection, $4,500 obo. 335-0884

2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart

Guns & Bows LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY â&#x20AC;˘ SELL 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 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 RUGER REDHAWK 44 magnum dual action, like new. Must have restricted license, $1000. 336-0783 RUGER BISLEY 45 Long colt single action, like new, $1000. Must have restricted license. 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 KEL TEC Sub2000 in 9mm with custom picatinny rail and aftermarket sights $850; restricted HK416 in 22lr. with two extra mags and hard case, $850. Must have PAL. 335-7154

2003 MITSUBISHI Lancer, $1,500. Al @ 333-1482

MicMac USED VEHICLE SPECIALS!!

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

2007 Toyota Tacoma X-Runner

Call or Text 867-335-7997 2011 TOYOTA Corolla, sport model, 49,000 kms, auto, extended warranty to Mar 31, 2021 or 120,000 kms. 633-5943 2008 SATURN Vue for sale, new winter tires, excellent condition, well maintained, $8,000. Call 587-335-3057 for more info.

1999 TOYOTA Tercel, manual, well maintained, good tires, $1,000. 335-4334 1999 TOYOTA Sienna, well maintained, new windshield, front brakes, CV boots & summer tires, $3,500 obo. 633-5943

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We Sell Trucks!

1994 FORD Escort 4-dr station wagon, approx 210,000 km, manual, runs great, c/w 3 full sets of tires all mounted on rims, $1,000 obo. 333-0484

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2013 FORD F-150 crew cab, low kms, 60,000, on V6 eco boost engine, automatic, 4x4, transferable warranty, excellent condition, $35,000. 334-4616 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 2002 MAZDA p/u B2300, $2,000. 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

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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 2008 PONTIAC Torrent, low kms, 2 sets of tires, auto start, very clean, $10,800.

335-1572 2008 TUNDRA SR5, double cab, long box, 147,000km, over load springs, 3â&#x20AC;? lift racks & rails, new Duratrac tires, remote start, box liner, winch bumper, $16,800 obo. 335-5718 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 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 2003 GMC Jimmy, 212,000kms, clean, good running cond, new front end, brakes, fuel pump etc, 4WD is smooth, $3,600. 633-4590 1995 NISSAN Pathfinder, V6, auto, 4X4, approx 168,000kms, $1,500 obo. 334-6600

Overnight live-in care required for 73 year old woman with dementia.

2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid LE STOCK # 7007

21,290

$

2010 Nissan Altima 3.5 SR 6 SPD

NOW REDUCED TO $8,350.00

2005 Mercedes-Benz C-240

STOCK # 7724A

19,435

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

4-door Sedan 248,649 km.

Loaded, all options, new snow tires.

2013 Toyota Tundra LTD Double Cab

Wanted

1998 HONDA Accord, very clean, new windshield & winter tires, command start, electric sunroof, heated seats, must be seen, $3,000. 334-8347

Trucks

2.4L Mivec 5 speed manual transmission.

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

SEE KIJIJI FOR MORE INFO. Bright yellow! $8,000 obo.

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

Kindly email resumes to yukon.se80@gmail.com Call 333-9966 with any questions.

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WANTED: SOMEONE to do a professional install of wood stove. Call 668-6481 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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WHITEHORSE MONEY MART 2190 Second Avenue 867-668-6930 Open 7 Days A Week

Wages: to be discussed.

Apply in person, email or fax with resume and cover letter, Attn: Deanna.

No phone calls please.

Closing date for this position: February 22, 2016 2093 Second Ave, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1B5 eyes@northernlightsoptometry.ca

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YUKON NEWS 1995 DODGE 5.9L, Super Cab, DSL, auto, 12-valve 2-wheel drive, Hirise canopy, 3/4 ton diesel, Hankook tires, 284,000 kms, $4,000. Gus @ 393-4796

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have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL

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1993 CHEVY Silverado 4X4 half-ton, needs some work such as new transmission, about 300,000kms, good for rebuild or for parts, make an offer. 393-2630 1992 FORD Ranger 4X4 p/u, $500. Al @ 333-1482

Auto Parts & Accessories

JO'S SMALL ENGINE REPAIR â&#x20AC;˘Repairs to snowmobiles, snowblowers , chainsaws, outboards, lawnmowers and more. â&#x20AC;˘Shop rate $70 per hour, â&#x20AC;˘Lawnmowers and chainsaws $60 per hour.

Call Steve @ 633-6314 or 334-1628

Pets CANINES & COMPANY Dog Obedience School Puppy training classes: March 1 Basic obedience class: March 1 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

TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles

Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 DB TURBO for Cummins common rail, modified turbo to support 500 hp plus.

633-6502 TINTED DRIVERĘźS side canopy window for 8Ęź canopy, $75. 867-821-5199 HONDA 4-BOLT aluminum wheels with P185/65 R15 tires, tires are all season & in good shape, $400 obo. 334-6600

TAITĘźS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles

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2012 YAMAHA Venture GT, electric start, reverse, heated handle bars front & back, only 669kms, $8,500. 456-7157

1995 YAMAHA Enticer 11 410, long track, reverse, hand warmers, runs great, $1,400 obo. 633-6502 1985 HONDA Big Red 250 E 3-wheeler, good shape, new battery, nice machine, $1,250 obo. 333-9084

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

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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

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

Heavy Equipment

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.

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

Both for rent, weekly or monthly.

Call Kevin at 633-5274 2008 KUBOTA L39 backhoe, very clean, $36,000. 334-8446 HEAVY DUTY 120 barrel water tank on skids, man door, no fuel in for long period of time. 334-9636

Campers & Trailers TAITĘźS TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers For sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon EQUIPMENT TILT trailer. Tilt deck, (steel mesh), 14'5". Front deck (wood) 6'8". Width 8'3". Tires LT225-75R16, 8 stud. Dual axle.

333-1058 20Ęź TILT deck car hauler, 4,800lb axles, $3,000. 668-2804

Coming Events ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS â&#x20AC;&#x153;your quiet get awayâ&#x20AC;?

Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail glacierviewcabins@gmail.com www.glacierviewcabins.ca AL-ANON MEETINGS, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someoneĘźs drinking?

Wednesday 12Noon @ Anglican Church, 4th & Elliott, back door, Friday 7pm Lutheran Church, 4th & Strickland, beginnerĘźs meeting, Friday 8pm Lutheran Church regular meeting KIDS KREATE, free family art class at the Yukon Arts Centre, February 21 from 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4pm, lace stencils. Registration not required. Call 393-7109 for more information HORAIRE PISTE Chilkoot/Log Cabin: Multi-usage sauf du 19 au 21 fevrier: activities non motorisees. 867-667-3910 CHILKOOT TRAIL/LOG Cabin: Non-motorized weekend: Feb 19-21. Other weekends & weekdays: Multi-Use. For info: 867-667-3910 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 CANCER SUPPORT Group Appreciation for Life, past or present, Yukon peopleĘźs gathering. Meetings are Feb 15, 6pm, and March 16, 7pm, Whitehorse Public Library. Contact Dawn 335-0009 THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. Group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info/register call Joanne 668-7713 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 SLIDE INTO German, free lessons every Saturday from 10am-11am. Join us at the Birch & Bear. Info Renate @ 334-6948 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.

COMMUNITY MIDWIFERY Association Yukon Annual General Meeting Monday, February 29 from 6pm-8pm at the Whitehorse Public Library Meeting Room 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 GROWERS OF Organic Food YukonGoOFY AGM Wednesday, March 2nd, 5pm at Whitehorse Library.

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.

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 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 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 QUEER YUKON: upcoming events for the LGBTQ community and allies, Out North, Yukon Pride and more! www.queeryukon.com HEALING TOUCH Yukon Association AGM, Thursday Feb 25, 5:30 pm at 412 Cook Street. Members and newcomers welcome.

Email jenniferg@northwestel.net for info.

PORTER CREEK Secondary School Council is holding it's Regular Council Meeting February 10, 2016 at 6:30pm in the School Library. Everyone is welcome.

KLUANE MTN Bluegrass Festival June 10-12; check out the 2016 lineup at yukonbluegrass.com. Get your tickets online, or at Dean's Strings, Whitehorse, or Kluane Machine, Haines Junction CARMACKS CURLING Club 44th Annual Bonspiel, Carmacks, Yukon, February 19 to 21. Banquet and live band Saturday, $200 entry fee. Call 867-863-6134 to enter PLEASE JOIN the effort to support Yukon potter Lynne Sofiak while she recovers from treatment for cancer. Make a donation at: https://www.gofundme.com/8vk256e4 STORYWEAVING THEATRE Workshop with Yvette Nolan & Michelle Olson. Presented by Gwaandak Theatre with YAC, KIAC, DZCC. All levels welcome, February 21, Odd Fellows Hall, Dawson City. Register at 393-2676 COFFEE HOUSE Saturday March 5, featuring: Katie Avery + the Open Stage, help set up 6pm, + open stage sign-up, 7:30pm show, $5, bsmt United Church, 6th + Main, 633-4255 FREE BOARD Game Drop-In @ Whitehorse Public Library Meeting Room, Saturday February 20th, 12-5pm. Games provided, all are welcome. Hosted by the Yukon Comic Culture Society.

More info: info@yukomicon.com

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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Country Residential Snow Plowingâ&#x20AC;?

All Subdivisions & acreages off Mayo Rd, MacPherson, Hidden Valley, Pilot Mountain & Hot Springs Rd. Honest & Prompt Service Call 667-4981 or 334-6369 LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 TLC Continuing Care & Homecare Services Certified, licensed, bondable, safe, reliable Works with all ages Certified nursing home attendant Also available for escort services to appointments and shopping 334-7405 EXPERT CARPENTRY â&#x20AC;˘All types of projects â&#x20AC;˘Commercial & residential â&#x20AC;˘New construction & renovations â&#x20AC;˘Interior & exterior â&#x20AC;˘Fine finishing 334-5231 ELECTRICIAN â&#x20AC;˘Licensed â&#x20AC;˘General Handyman Services â&#x20AC;˘Light Carpentry, Drywall, etc â&#x20AC;˘Free Estimates â&#x20AC;˘10% SeniorĘźs Discount 334-0974 JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER/PAINTER 30 years experience Commercial-Residential â&#x20AC;˘Renovations â&#x20AC;˘Repairs â&#x20AC;˘Kitchens â&#x20AC;˘Bathrooms â&#x20AC;˘Drywall Tiles â&#x20AC;˘Decks â&#x20AC;˘Fine Finishing and Painting No job too small Local references available Phone 393-4937 bradmre@gmail.com

Lost & Found 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 FOUND: SINGLE band wedding ring found at Motor Vehicles during the week of January 25-29, 2016. Please contact Robb at 667-8224 to identify.

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

In Memory

Dr. Frank J.W. Timmermans 1945-2003

Carpe Diem

BUSY BEAVERS Pruning, Hauling, and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755

Jim Stuart has gone fishing. It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to a wonderful man.

Jim was born June 29, 1924 in Edmonton, son of Alex and Isabel Stuart from Glasgow, Scotland.

He follows his brother Alex and leaves behind his sister Isabel and her family, his loving wife of 68 years, Helen, and their three children Darol, Patricia and Charles, six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Jim was buried in a private ceremony on February 3, 2016.

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In Our Hearts We thought of you today, But that is nothing new.

We thought about you yesterday, And days before that too.

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Forever in our hearts, Carol, Dean, Emily, Taylor, Ian & Kaelyx

John Cormac Coldwell

April 19, 1953 - February 8, 2016 After a long illness, Cormac passed on February 8, 2016 in Vernon, British Columbia. Cormac was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon but spent most of his adult life in the Vancouver area and Vernon.

Cormac was pre-deceased by his mother Emily (Pat), father John (Jack), brother Brian, as well as his canine pals Armand and Solomon.

Cormac is survived by his life partner and soulmate, Kim MacLean, and leaves behind his brothers Dennis, Michael (Carol), and Danny (Kelly), his sister Janet (Walter), and many nieces and nephews.

A Celebration of Life service will be held at a later date.

Patricia Lynne (Swanson) Perry JULY 7, 1947 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; NOVEMBER 18, 2015 JU With deep sadness and heavy hearts, we announce the sudden passing of our beloved Pat, of Faro.

Pat, a true Yukoner, was born in Whitehorse General Hospital. Pat was predeceased by her father George Swanson. She leaves to mourn, h loving husband, Robert (Bert) of 45 years, her Fa son Hunter Perry, Whitehorse. Mother, Faro, Laur Swanson, brothers Greg, David (Anne-Marie), Laura O all of Ontario.

Sister Gloria Brons, Edmonton, AB. Aunt, Shirley Keobke (Bucky), Whitehorse, Uncles Merlyn Lawrence, Edmonton, AB and Bill Lawrence, Cypress, Brother-in-law Jim Perry ( Lorraine) Abbotsford, BC, and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Family and close friends will gather this summer at Patâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favourite camping spot to say our final goodbyes. Always in our hearts.

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LOST: SET of keys on Saturday, January 30 on 4th Ave near Sport Yukon bldg, Ford car key plus other. 334-2345

LOST: IN Watson Lake, blue nose, red nose pit bull, fixed female, Dog Tag #158, last seen on the Alaska Highway in Watson Lake on January 29. 334-6486

FOUND: KEYS at Whitehorse Liquor Store, GMC key with other keys on yellow tag.

Text 334-0121

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LOW COST MINI STORAGE ■ ■

Now 2 locations: Porter Creek & Kulan.

Onsite & offsite steel containers available for rent or sale.

Phone 633-2594 Fax 633-3915

Friday, February 12, 2016

YUKON NEWS

OFFICE LOCATED BESIDE KLONDIKE WELDING, 15 MacDONALD RD., PORTER CREEK, info@lowcostministorage.ca

Request for Proposal Yukon Employees’ Union (YEU) seeks

Professional Janitorial Services for cleaning of approx. 9500 sq feet, office & meeting space.

Please contact lhureau@yeu.ca for more detail and to submit a proposal before 5pm Friday March 4, 2016.

BRAEBURN LAKE CHRISTIAN CAMP now accepting resumes for Director and Assistant Director for 2016 camp season. Honorarium.

Deadline Feb 29 and April 1, respectively. www.braeburncamp.ca Questions, job descriptions and resumes to stellamartin1981@hotmail.com 668-4629

Supply of Bucket Truck

EXTRA LONG twin Sealy mattress, box spring & metal frame. Exc shape, c/w sheets, mattress protector, bed skirt & blanket. $200. 335-5185 TEAL SOFA & love seat, comfortable, good condition, $200. 668-3973

HAY FOR SALE •Dry bales kept under a shelter •Great quality hay 60-70 lb bales, $10 633-4496 or mikeandastra@me.com

BUNK BEDS Lifetime Warranty Yukon Made! Yukon Owned!

Eco Friendly 1-800-Bunkbed

Looking for NEW Business / Clients?

SINGLE ROW, 3-pt hitch mounted transplanter, will transplant veg plugs, blocks & cells, $500 obo. Call 332-0343

VINTAGE KITCHEN chairs (2), upholstered seats, $70 pr. firm; Maple rocking chair, $80 firm. 311B Hanson St. after 7pm

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MASSEY FERGUSON 4 furrow mouldboard plough, 4 x 14" bodies, good straight plough, 3 point hitch, needs 50hp+ to pull, $1,000 obo. Call 332-0343

6 CHAIRS, 1 table, 64"x41" w/3 9” leaf extensions, table has ink stains but otherwise exc cond, $700. 456-4926

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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 CAR (TODDLER) bed, exc condition, $60 obo. 393-2630 1-PC BOYʼS snowsuit, size 3T, Molehill brand, used twice, paid $120, asking $40.

393-2630 HIGH CHAIR, excellent condition, $20.

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REQUEST FOR QUOTATION RFQ 2016-002

SERTA ICOMFORT Memory Foam mattress & frame, double. Allergic to foam, used once.

Paid $1500, asking $1000 firm. 332-3058

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

Business Opportunities

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

6 CHAIRS, 1 table, solid ash, table 40"x40" w/2 12" leaf extensions, 2-piece hutch w/wine rack, $700. 456-4926 SOFA, SUEDE-FINISH, sage green, seats 3, very comfortable & firm, exc cond, $120.

668-6303 after 6pm or lv msg OFFICE FURNITURE incl lots of cabinets, 2 desks, credenza, misc, good cond, priced to sell. 334-2345

Personals DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office

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

FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community?

Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime.

Info: RCMP 867-667-5555

Yukon Energy Corporation is seeking fixed price quotations for the supply of a transmission and distribution bucket truck complete with a di-electrically insulated articulating boom, double personnel bucket, minimum working height of 60 feet, material handling capacity of at least 2,000 lbs. and utility boxes on the body of the truck.

Sealed bids, clearly marked “RFQ 2016-002 SUPPLY OF BUCKET TRUCK” will be received up to 4:00:00 p.m. Yukon Time, Wednesday, February 24th, 2016, at the Corporation’s main office building, #2 Miles Canyon Road, Whitehorse, Yukon.

To obtain a Request for Quotation package contact Lynda Harlow at 867-393-5302 or at lynda.harlow@yec.yk.ca.

REQUEST FOR TENDER

REQUEST FOR TENDER

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

2016-2019 Mosquito Control Program

Recycling Operations at the City Waste Management Facility

Annual Inspection of the City's Radio and Microwave Network

RFT 2016-WWS0003

RFP 2016-BTS0002

Closing February 25, 2016 at 4:00 pm.

Closing March 10, 2016 at 2:00 pm PST.

For details visit whitehorse.ca/procurement

For details visit whitehorse.ca/procurement

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RFT 2016-WWS0002 Closing March 4, 2016 at 3:00 pm PST. For more details visit whitehorse.ca/procurement

www.whitehorse.ca Request For Proposal

Kluane Community Development Corporation (KCDC) Tourism Strategic Plan Project Description: The Tourism Strategic Plan will assist KCDC in developing future business opportunities for the Kluane First Nation Government and community citizens. The goal of such strategic planning is to develop a comprehensive, complementary approach to the effective management and strategic development of community resources related to tourism, culture, and recreation. 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 by emailing your request to gm@kluanecorp.ca or by downloading the documents at: www.kfn.ca.

Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number Numéro de la demande

PM15-052

PM15-065

Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise

Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h

Tana Kimberly Creek, Contracting Ltd. Tributary of Jarvis River

Placer

March 9, 2016

Six Above Pup & Groundwater, Tributary of Hunker Creek

Placer

March 9, 2016

Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire

Richard Dassylva

Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu

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.

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.

Friday, February 12, 2016 WHITEHORSE CURLING Club cash calendar winners for January: $750, George Arcand; $100, Dan Miller; $50, Gwen Hogan, George Arcand, Matt Johnson, Gordon Starko; $25, Juanita Gibbons, James Yeulet, Sandra Schwartz, Brian Bowen, Fred Walatka, Karen Copp, Walter Nehring, Jackie Dobush, Julian & Marlene Pasichnyk, Laura Orviss (Benjamin), Brian McGovern, Malcolm Cashin, John Yeulet, Odessa Epp, Miranda Colbert, A.L. Dublenko, Sonia Watson, Clint & Jodie Sikkes, Krista Funk, Gaetane Poulin, Ellen Johnson, Patricia Daws, Della Crookshanks, Joanne Organ, David Johnson

YUKON NEWS

Garage Sales 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.

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Notice of Request for Proposals

Sudoku:

Phase 1 (Design & Costing) of Design Build Process for an 8-unit Community Based Housing Project DAWSON CITY

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

Daisy Helen GIESLER, of Whitehorse, Yukon, Deceased, who died on November 23, 2015, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executor at the address shown below, before the 29th day of February, 2016, after which date the Executor will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which they have notice.

AND FURTHER, all persons who are indebted to the Estate are required to make payment to the Estate at the address below.

BY Allen Giesler c/o Lackowicz & Hoffman Suite 300, 204 Black Street Whitehorse, Y.T. Y1A 2M9 Tel: (867) 668-5252 Fax: (867) 668-5251

PUBLIC TENDER NORTH REGION SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF CAMPGROUND FIREWOOD Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 2, 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 Lolita Hughes at lolita.hughes@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/

Environment

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS SECURITY PATROL SERVICES YUKON HOUSING UNITS WHITEHORSE YUKON

Kakuro:

To receive the full RFP document, please contact: Evelyn Pollock, Across the River Consulting, Project RFP Manager acrosstheriver.evelyn@gmail.com or 867-993-2306 The deadline for receipt of proposals is February 29, 2016, 4:00 PM Proposed Project Start Date: March 7, 2016 Project Completion Date: May 16, 2016 Price Ceiling: $35,000 (inclusive of GST)

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.

Crossword:

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/

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.

Word Scramble A: Derogate B: judgment C:Megillah

The plan of survey can be viewed at the office of the Mining Recorder, Watson Lake, Yukon.

Dated at Whitehorse, Yukon this 12th day of January, 2016 Gabriel Aucoin Underhill Geomatics Ltd. Agent for Selwyn Chihong Mining Ltd.

2016-2017 Call for Proposals 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.

GO DIGITAL INCREASE YOUR REACH

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. __________________________________________________________________________________

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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.

Call the advertising team at 667-6285.

SURVEY NOTICE Section 87(1) Quartz Mining Act Situated in the Watson Lake Mining District in Quad 105 I/11 near Don Creek, Yukon

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 ___________________________________________________________________________________

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Further information about Klondike Development Organization and our project can be found at: http://www. klondikedevelopment.com

02.12.2016

NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of

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SCHEDULE A Lot Quad 1 105 I/11 2 105 I/11 3 105 I/11 4 105 I/11 5 105 I/11 6 105 I/11 7 105 I/11 8 105 I/11 9 105 I/11 10 105 I/11 11 105 I/11 12 105 I/11 13 105 I/11 14 105 I/11 15 105 I/11 16 105 I/11 17 105 I/11 18 105 I/11 19 105 I/11 20 105 I/11 21 105 I/11 22 105 I/11 23 105 I/11 24 105 I/11 25 105 I/11 26 105 I/11 27 105 I/11 28 105 I/11 29 105 I/11 30 105 I/11 31 105 I/11 32 105 I/11 33 105 I/11 34 105 I/11 35 105 I/11 36 105 I/11 37 105 I/11

Name Nod 1 Nod 2 Nod 3 Nod 4 Nod 5 Nod 6 Nod 7 Nod 8 Nod 9 Nod 10 Nod 11 Nod 12 Nod 13 Nod 14 Nod 16 Nod 18 Nod 20 Nod 22 Nod 29 Nod 30 Nod 31 Nod 32 Nod 33 Nod 34 Nod 35 Nod 36 Nod 37 Nod 38 Nod 39 Nod 40 Nod 41 Nod 42 Nod 43 Nod 44 Nod 45 Nod 46 Nod 47

Grant No. YB49365 YB49366 YB49367 YB49368 YB49369 YB49370 YB49371 YB49372 YB49373 YB49374 YB49375 YB49376 YB49377 YB49378 YB49380 YB49382 YB49384 YB49386 YB49393 YB49394 YB49395 YB49396 YB49397 YB49398 YB49399 YB49400 YB49401 YB49402 YB49403 YB49404 YB49405 YB49406 YB49407 YB49408 YB49409 YB49410 YB49411

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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