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Photographer Joel Krahn’s photo essay of the Ha Kus Teyea celebration in Teslin has been nominated for a Ma Murray Community Newspaper Award. The News gathered 11 nominations for its writing, photography, cartoons and general excellence. In two other categories, Yukon News photos will be going News Reporter up against each other for top honours. he Yukon News has reKrahn’s photo of northern ceived 11 nominations lights at a December bonfire this year for the BC and Yukon has been nominated for best Community Newspaper Ascolour feature photo. So has sociation’s Ma Murray awards. a photo by Tom Patrick of two That includes a nomination for grizzly bear cubs playing by overall excellence in the news- the side of the highway. paper’s circulation class. Krahn and local photograPhotography received the pher Peter Mather are each bulk of the News’ nominations nominated in the photo essay this year. Staff photographer category. Mather’s nominated Joel Krahn has earned four work was taken at the Inuvialunods for his work. it traditional summer gatherKrahn’s photo of Elmer ing place of Shingle Point on David Jackson, a student being the Beaufort Sea. Krahn’s are a trained in traditional snowshoe series of photos from the The making, is up for an award for Ha Kus Teyea celebration in best portrait. His photo of a Teslin. family grieving over the unPatrick also earned a nomisolved murder of their father in nation for his sports photo of the McIntyre subdivision has two racers taken up through been nominated for best spot a control point at the Yukon news photo. Orienteering Championship. Ashley Joannou
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Pasloski says feds won’t impose carbon tax on Yukon Maura Forrest News Reporter
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remier Darrell Pasloski said he’s pleased with the outcome of this week’s first ministers meeting in Vancouver, claiming that “we’ll be able to move forward and not implement a tax that will really make everything cost more.” Pasloski joined Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall last week in voicing his opposition to a national price on carbon. He said a carbon tax would increase the cost of living in the Yukon, which is already an expensive place to live. “I’m pleased that through these meetings, that the prime minister and the other premiers were able to recognize the unique circumstances that exist in the Arctic and sub-Arctic,” Pasloski told the News from Vancouver. It’s not clear exactly what the first ministers meeting will mean for carbon pricing. On Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers signed an agreement on clean growth and climate change that recognizes the importance of carbon pricing, but doesn’t make any firm commitments to a national carbon price. Instead, the country’s leaders have committed to transition to a low-carbon economy using a range of measures, “including carbon pricing mechanisms, adapted to each province’s and territory’s specific circumstances, in particular the realities of Canada’s indigenous peoples and Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.”
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks with Canada’s premiers, including Yukon’s Darrell Pasloski, to a news conference during the First Ministers Meeting in Vancouver on Thursday. The vague language marks a change from reports earlier in the week that suggested Trudeau was ready to impose a national price on carbon if the premiers couldn’t agree. Pasloski didn’t say what he would do if the federal government does decide to impose a carbon tax. But he seemed fairly confident on Thursday that that won’t happen, re-tweeting a comment from Wall that “there will be no nat’l carbon tax.” The premier also released a joint
statement with the other territorial premiers on Wednesday. Neither Nunavut Premier Peter Taptuna or Northwest Territories Premier Bob McLeod explicitly mentioned a carbon tax, but Taptuna did say that “Northern Canada’s combined greenhouse-gas emissions are minute.” Both he and McLeod stressed the need for climate-change adaptation in the North. In Vancouver, Canada’s premiers also agreed to create working groups in four areas: clean technol-
ogy, innovation and jobs; carbon pricing; mitigation; and adaptation and resilience. The groups will make recommendations to the first ministers by October 2016, when they will develop a “pan-Canadian framework on clean growth and climate change.” In the meantime, the federal government has also committed to investments in green infrastructure, greenhouse-gas emission reductions and “clean energy solutions to help get indigenous, remote and northern communities off diesel.”
Pasloski said he will focus on retrofits to residential, commercial and industrial buildings that will reduce fuel use. Kluane First Nation Chief Mathieya Alatini, who was in Vancouver on Wednesday, said she was pleased with what she heard from the premiers. “There was a real willingness from every premier to work with First Nation governments to address the problem and to work together,” she said. She agreed with Pasloski that a carbon tax isn’t the best solution for the Yukon. “For us, a lot of fuel comes from B.C., which already has a carbon tax on it,” she said. “You get a lot more bang for your buck if you look at tax incentives.” Alatini said she’s excited about announcements from Trudeau this week that his government is committing $125 million for two new clean technology funds and $75 million for climate-change initiatives in communities. The Kluane First Nation has moved forward with plans to build three wind turbines, and has also drilled a geothermal well intended to heat the local greenhouse and water treatment facility. Alatini hopes the community will be eligible for some of the new funding. “I’m on it,” she said. “It’s incentivizing becoming green. I think we’re a lot better off if we do that type of solution versus taxing people.” Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
Nehass loses another lawyer, now representing himself Ashley Joannou News Reporter
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ichael Nehass has represented himself for the last few days of his court hearing over his treatment at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre. The hearing is scheduled to wrap up today. Earlier this week Nehass’s lawyer, Sarah Rauch, said she could no longer represent him. Nehass has repeatedly said he wanted to fire Rauch. On Wednesday Rauch told Yukon Supreme Court Justice Scott Brooker that ethically she could not continue to represent him. The legal code of ethics says she has to withdraw as counsel if her client fires her, Rauch told the court. She is the fourth lawyer that has represented Nehass since he was arrested in December 2011. Rauch also told the judge she was not comfortable being made amicus in this case either. An amicus is a lawyer appointed by the court to make sure a person’s rights are being protected when they are
self-represented. She suggested if an amicus is appointed it should be someone without a previous relationship with Nehass. For now, Nehass is on his own to argue that his time at the WCC – where he has mostly been locked away from other inmates – violated his rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This includes the time he was carried, without any clothes on, to a court-ordered video appearance in front of a judge. Nehass has also complained about being kept in shackles in jail for long periods of time causing abrasions on his body. Testimony from jail staff on the issue has varied. The court heard from one person who was concerned enough to write a report. Another has testified he was told Nehass had tightened the shackles himself to cause the marks. On Wednesday guard Tyler McConnell said he’d seen Nehass tighten the shackles above abrasions that were already on his ankles, presumably to stop them from sliding down back into place.
Other accusations include that Nehass was forced to wear restraints even when inside his cell. Multiple guards have testified to never seeing that happen. But one former guard told the court there were times Nehass was forced to wear restraints for several days. Multiple guards who were on duty while Nehass was brought to the video court appearance without any clothes on in January 2014 also testified. The judge had ordered Nehass appear, the court heard. Correctional officer Geoffrey Callahan testified he was asked to assemble a use-of-force team after Nehass refused to go. Callahan said after he approached the cell Nehass jumped out of bed naked. The court heard the audio of that interaction recorded on a hand-held video camera. The video was played for the judge at an earlier hearing but had not been made public. In the audio, a clearly agitated Nehass can be heard saying, “You’re going to take me down naked?” The guard says no, they want
Nehass dressed. After Nehass refuses multiple orders to turn around and co-operate, the guards come in. Callahan testified that after a brief struggle the guards were able to get Nehass to the ground in handcuffs and shackles. The court has seen clips of him being carried by guards out of his cell, down hallways and into the room where the video appearance was to take place. In those clips it appears he has a towel draped over his lower half. About four months after the incident, not long after it became national news, investigators with the jail’s Investigations and Standards Office, or ISO, were brought in to look at what happened. Investigator Kurt Bringsli told the court his office made nine recommendations to the jail to change procedural steps, like creating new, more detailed forms. They found, after reviewing reports and videos of the incident, that the use of force was reasonable considering the circumstances. Bringsli admitted that Nehass was never interviewed as part of the
investigation. He testified that it is not in accordance with policy for inmates to be carried by their shackles the way Nehass was, but that mistake was not enough to qualify as unreasonable force, he said. Bringsli said the ISO was only made aware of what happened in May of that year. Nehass, on the other hand, insists he himself had made a complaint to the ISO much earlier. It’s not clear yet what being selfrepresented will mean for Nehass going forward. He is being assessed for a possible dangerous or longterm offender designation. Both of those labels could have an impact on Nehass’s punishment when he is finally sentenced for the crimes that landed him there in 2011. At the most extreme end, a dangerous offender designation could mean he is jailed indefinitely. The complex legal arguments about whether he deserves the label will have to happen in front of the judge. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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Yukon slips in mining survey standings decisions. Analysts then combined the mineral potential and policy perceptions to calculate the ukon’s reputation as an overall investment attractiveattractive location for ness of each jurisdiction. mining investment has This year’s top spot went to suffered in the last year, acWestern Australia, with Sascording to an annual survey of katchewan in second place. mining companies. Yukon was ranked third among The Fraser Institute’s 2015 Canadian jurisdictions, after survey ranked the Yukon 12th out of 109 jurisdictions around Saskatchewan and Quebec. The Argentinian province the world in terms of its abilof La Rioja finished at the very ity to encourage investment. bottom of the list, replacing That’s down from sixth place out of 122 jurisdictions in 2014. Venezuela, which ranked last in 2014. This year’s survey was Taylor Jackson, a policy anacompleted by 449 individuals lyst with the Fraser Institute, working in mineral explorasaid Yukon’s performance is tion, producing mines and “not bad overall.� consulting companies. The Yukon placed fourth for respondents, who were mostly its mineral potential, which presidents, vice-presidents Jackson called a “top perforand managers, were asked to mance.� Still, that’s down from rate the mineral potential of first place in 2014. jurisdictions they were familBut the territory fared worse iar with. They were also asked in policy perceptions, placing how each of 15 policy factors influenced their investment 39th in the world. Its policy Maura Forrest News Reporter
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ranking has been dropping steadily since 2012, when it landed in 13th place. “For the Yukon, I think there should be a little bit of concern,� Jackson said. “Are they missing out on opportunities for exploration and investment in the territory?� Survey respondents were asked to rate the jurisdictions according to 15 policy criteria, including environmental regulations, regulatory duplication, taxation, land claims and trade barriers. For Yukon, Jackson said, “there are two areas that really stand out ... and that’s uncertainty from protected areas and uncertainty on disputed land claims.� The territory placed near the bottom of the list for both those criteria, landing in 99th place out of 109 for uncertainty around land claims. Yukon also fared poorly in terms of the quality of its infrastructure, ending up in 81st place. But Jackson said that’s a harder obstacle to overcome in
Canada’s North. “This is something that comes up that really does separate the territories from the provinces,� he said. The report doesn’t specify which land claims and protected areas have caused the uncertainty. But it does include comments from a couple of respondents. “A mine was initially permitted to extract ore from one deposit; subsequent discoveries meant that permits had to be amended to accommodate additional mining,� reads one comment from the president of an exploration company. “Each amendment took several years, longer than the mine-life of the new deposits being permitted for mining.� The vice-president of an exploration company also criticized the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board, writing that “These boards often outsource expertise to consulting firms to advise the board on the adequacy of proponent
submissions, and the information requests and demands from these consultants and the board are strangling the industry at what should be a planning level study.� YESAB has recently come under fire for referring two major projects, Northern Cross and Casino, to higher levels of assessment. Critics have said the board is understaffed and inefficient. But in the category most likely to reflect those criticisms, regulatory duplication and inconsistencies, the Yukon didn’t score as badly, landing in 36th place. Still, Yukon was ranked third in Canada in terms of room for improvement, behind the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The territory was ranked first in the world for investment attractiveness in 2011 and 2012, but dropped to eighth place in 2013.
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community by David Frost to have the chief and council ousted is what prompted the call for an election, according to the release. “Vuntut Gwitchin Chief and Council accepted the petition that was delivered to our office on Feb. 29, 2016,� reads the release. “We would like to reassure our citizens that we take your concerns seriously.� Earlier this week, Frost told the CBC he started the petition
because of a “loss in confidence and good standing� in the First Nation’s leadership. The transition for the new chief and council will take place from May 9 to 27. The current chief, Roger Kyikavichik, was elected in Nov. 2014. He’s been charged with sexual assault for a crime that is alleged to have happened in the fall of 2014. Frost said that his petition wasn’t related to the incident.
The Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in Old Crow has called an election for Monday, May 2. The First Nation will elect one chief and four council members, according to a news release issued this morning. A petition circulating in the
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Karlo Krauzig seeks Liberal nomination future and I share a lot of that vision for the Yukon.� News Reporter Krauzig described himself as a “serial entrepreneur.� Over the he owner of Yukon Shine years, he’s owned a pet store and Distillery has put his name worked in real estate development. forward for the Liberals in About eight years ago, he opened Porter Creek Centre. Yukon Shine Distillery, which proKarlo Krauzig said he plans duces vodka and gin. to seek the nomination out of In 2012, Krauzig made a succoncern for the Yukon’s economic cessful appearance on the CBC future. reality show Dragon’s Den to try “I just feel that the Yukon’s beand expand his business. Today, come kind of stagnant in the past he’s planning a trip to a major food few years, when it comes to busishow in Japan, in the hopes of findness,� he said during an announceing an international market for his ment on Thursday. “And I think that spirits. the government should be doing a During his announcement, little bit more, maybe a lot more, to Krauzig said he’s been a strong help support Yukon businesses.� advocate for changing Yukon liquor Krauzig said there’s potential laws for the last 20 years. He said for a manufacturing industry in that Yukon breweries and distillthe Yukon, and he criticized the eries have a hard time competing government for investing too heavwith B.C. producers, for instance. ily in mining instead of renewable That’s because a B.C. craft desigenergy. nation allows local distilleries to “Perhaps there should have keep 100 per cent of the proceeds been some foresight into spending from tasting room sales and to sell that money into something that directly to restaurants. might be a little bit longer-term, Krauzig said he raised the issue something a little bit more renewwith the Yukon government a year able, something that isn’t commodago, but never heard anything ity-driven,� he said. back. Born and raised in the Yukon, “I think that it’s just a small part Krauzig described himself as a of what the Yukon needs to look “longtime Liberal supporter.� He at as far as business,� he said. “We said he went door-to-door with need to look at what’s working Liberal MP Larry Bagnell during his outside of the Yukon, and we have election campaign, and found the to expand on that.� experience eye-opening. Bagnell Krauzig also waded into the carthen put him in touch with Yukon bon tax debate, which has been a Liberal Leader Sandy Silver. contentious issue across Canada as “We discussed what the Liberals the premiers met with Prime Minare going to try and achieve in the ister Justin Trudeau this week to Maura Forrest
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he Yukon government has announced it will provide the Community Midwifery Association of Yukon with $15,000 to hold an educational symposium in late April. The symposium is supposed to help a working group make recommendations to the government about how to regulate and fund midwifery in the territory. Kathleen Cranfield, the association’s president, said funding midwifery services in the Yukon is all about giving women more choice. “It would allow midwives to collaborate with other health-care providers and consult with physicians as needed,” she said. “It would allow women that choice of birthplace.” Cranfield said experts from other jurisdictions will speak at the symposium, including Diane Rach, president of the College of Alberta Midwives, and a representative of the National Aboriginal Council of Midwives. The attendees will then break out into smaller groups to discuss possible regulations and models of care. She said the working group hopes to send its recommendations to the government sometime this summer. Cranfield said the lack of regulation in the Yukon limits the services midwives can provide to expectant mothers. Currently, midwives don’t have
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hospital privileges in the territory, which means they can’t deliver a baby if the mother chooses or needs to go to a hospital during labour. “We’re not a recognized profession, so we have no responsibility,” Cranfield said. “So when I go in (to a hospital), I’m simply a friend.” And because there’s no government funding for midwives, mothers have to pay out of pocket for their services. In May 2015, Health Minister Mike Nixon committed to form this working group to study midwifery regulations across Canada. Cranfield said the results of that review show that the Yukon and
Prince Edward Island are the only jurisdictions in Canada without any regulations or funding. She said there used to be less public interest in midwifery in the Yukon than there is today. “Our jurisdiction is different,” she said. “The population is small, the birth rate is low.” She pointed out that most Yukon communities outside Whitehorse have very small populations. In the Northwest Territories, she said, Fort Smith and Hay River have their own midwives. But they have populations two and three times the size of Dawson City, the Yukon’s secondlargest community. “So there’s enough births in the
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Kathleen Cranfield, president of the Community Association of Midwives Yukon, says new funding would allow the midwives to collaborate with physicians and other health-care providers.
year to support a birthing initiative,” Cranfield explained. She also noted that the Yukon is the only territory without any First Nations midwives. But in the last year, Cranfield said, the interest in midwifery services has grown in the Yukon. She said 130 people signed up to the midwifery association during the maternity and baby fair that was part of the Rendezvous Festival last weekend. That’s up from 16 members one year ago. “I think people have a genuine interest,” she said. “I think it’s men and women alike, I think it’s grandmothers, I think it’s women of child-bearing age and past. “There was just so much obvious support.” Cranfield said she thinks it would be possible for the Yukon to regulate and fund midwifery within the next year and a half to two years. “I don’t understand why it would have to be any longer than that,” she said. “We’re not reinventing the wheel here.” Department of Health and Social Services spokesperson Pat Living said that timeframe is reasonable “if their recommendations are accepted and if the government agrees to proceed.” But she said it’s hard to say what effect this year’s election might have on the process.
Dawson City miner has been granted the right to buy out his former partner for placer claims on the east side of the Dome Road in Dawson City. The ownership dispute between Darrell Carey and Rod Adams came down to who was willing to pony up the most cash for the 25 claims in question. Yukon Supreme Court Justice Ron Veale opened the sealed bids in court Thursday. Carey had the highest bid of $752,200, while Adams bid $716,000.
Since he won, Carey now has 10 days to finalize the deal. He’ll get the claims and Adams will get half of the $752,200. Bids had to be at least $500,000, the value of the claims back in 2013. Carey’s representative had originally argued against just selling the claims to the highest bidder. He said that would be unfair because Adams is “a much wealthier man than (Carey) is” and would almost certainly outbid him. But Veale decided earlier this year to go with sealed bids. The judge called that process “a wellestablished principle in business law.” Outside court, Carey said he was able to pull together loans from
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Yukon celebrates completion of its swath of the Trans Canada Trail tion. Every year, he estimates that he travels about 5,500 kilometres News Reporter on his snowmobile, from Braehe Yukon is being touted as burn all the way down to Annie the third Canadian jurisdic- Lake Road. Cox, 74, groomed tion to complete its section trails for the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club before switchof the Trans Canada Trail. The achievement was marked ing over to maintaining the Trans last weekend as part of the Yukon Canada Trail in 2000. Last year, he was one of six Sourdough Rendezvous Festival. Canadians to be featured in an ad “Today’s milestone celebration in the Yukon is another important campaign for the Trans Canada step toward the trail achieving full Trail. The series of six short videos were produced to mark National connection in time for the 150th Volunteer Week in April . anniversary of Confederation in On a typical day, Cox will take 2017,” said Melanie Joly, Canada’s off from his home in Porter Creek heritage minister. riding his Skandic super-wideThe final section of the trail, track snowmobile and pulling a behind the Crestview subdivision, was actually completed last Mogul Master trail groomer. He also brings an axe and a summer. small folding saw for any branchThe Klondike Snowmobile es hanging over the trail. Association maintains about 165 “I enjoy it out there,” he said. kilometres of the trail in the Yu“You’re in the elements kon, both in Whitehorse and on and you get to see the weather the Dawson Overland Trail. changing. I’ve seen a fair share of That includes cutting down willow trees and alders with hand wildlife on the trail, too, including tools in the summer time, as well wolves, black bears and coyotes.” One of his favourite spots is as placing and replacing signs partway up Mount McIntyre, along the trail. When connecting where there is a nice viewpoint. existing trails, they sometimes He likes to park his snowmohave to widen the track or install bile, dig out his coffee cup and water crossings. just let his mind wander, he said. In the winter, volunteers use Cox said he doesn’t plan on their snowmobiles to pack the stopping any time soon, despite snow down with groomers. putting in six to 12 hours of work Harris Cox is a member of the Klondike Snowmobile Associaevery time he goes out. Myles Dolphin
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Harris Cox is one of the members of the Klondike Snowmobile Association that helps maintain the recently-completed Yukon portion of the Trans Canada Trail. “I’ll groom the trails ‘till hell freezes over,” he said, “and then I’ll groom there, too.” In the Yukon, the Trans Canada Trail is said to extend over more than 1,600 kilometres, although it is almost entirely comprised of pre-existing roads and trails. It follows the Alaska Highway across the border with British Columbia toward Watson Lake, explained KSA president Mark Daniels. From there, it goes up to Jake’s Corner, then down the Tag-
ish Road to Carcross. It follows the South Klondike Highway up to the Carcross cutoff, where it reconnects with the Alaska Highway. Near the Mary Lake subdivision it goes off the highway before it joins up with the Copper Haul Road, the “main line” of the Trans Canada Trail in Whitehorse. Then, it links with the North Klondike Highway to the Takhini Hot Springs Road and the Takhini River Road until it goes up to
Braeburn via the Dawson Overland Trail. Finally, it connects to the corner of the Dempster Highway, which is considered part of the trail, and stretches all the way up to the border with the Northwest Territories. The Klondike Snowmobile Association receives a stipend from the City of Whitehorse to maintain a few local trails, including the connector trail between Crestview and Porter Creek, Daniels said. But it doesn’t receive any funding to maintain the Trans Canada Trail, beyond the dues collected from its members every year. “Some local businesses help us with donations of fuel or they help us maintain and fix our equipment,” Daniels said. “We also want people to know that we’re not just a snowmobile organization. We’re a multi-use trail organization, so you don’t need to have a snowmobile to be a member.” The Trans Canada Trail celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2012. When completed, the trail will stretch nearly 24,000 kilometres from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Arctic oceans, linking Canadians in over 1,000 communities. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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thank for helping to allow once-vanquished preventable diseases to once again resurging today. The chief opponents of fluoridation were once right-wing crackpots who reckoned that fluoridation was a communist plot to make the populace more docile. Nowadays, many of the fluoride fighters hold progressive political views. It’s not without irony that many in this camp have no trouble believing the complicated research that underpins the science of climate change, but are quick to throw themselves into mental contortions to reject the widespread scientific consensus that practices like vaccination and fluoridation are safe. As with those who believe that climate change is an elaborate hoax, if you are intent on believing fluoridation is terrible, it’s easy to find some web sites – invariably peddling specious, anti-scientific claims – to support your views. But an expert panel convened by Health Canada concluded in 2008 that there is no real controversy over the safety of adding minute amounts of fluoride to drinking water. Nor is there anything unnatural about finding fluoride in drinking water – it continues to naturally occur in the stuff that White-
horse residents drink, just not at the optimal amounts to best strengthen tooth enamel. In terms of its modest expense – about $1 per resident annually – fluoridation is a remarkably cost-effective public health measure. While fluoridation benefits everyone, it particularly helps poor families, as the turmoil of poverty usually brings with it poor diets and poor dental hygiene. Those who insist that using fluoride should be a purely individual choice ignore those rather obvious realities. If we are going to set public policy according to conspiracy theories, could we at least be consistent about it? Let Mayor Dan Curtis write to the U.S. government and demand an explanation about the real reason why the Twin Towers fell. Ask them, while we’re at it, to come clean about faking the moon landing. Show us that crash-landed UFO we know you’re hiding. And so on. Maybe we could build a monument to one of these loony ideas. We could help pay for it with the money we’ve saved that could have been put towards helping protect children’s teeth. (JT)
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eople often mock economists for confirming the obvious, usually late and with too much detail. So I’m pleased to report that Statistics Canada can confirm that yes, things are getting more expensive at the grocery store. In their February data, they report that food was up four per cent in January compared to a year earlier. This is on average across the country and was double the inflation rate of two per cent in general. Fresh fruit was up 12.9 per cent and fresh vegetables were up 18.2 per cent, both affected by the lower loonie since that makes foreign food more expensive. The broccoli, cauliflower, celery and peppers sub-category rose particularly quickly at 22.7 per cent. Meanwhile, the sugar and confectionery sub-category actually got cheaper. So did processed meat. If one of your kids tells you
that this data suggests you should substitute away from broccoli to chocolate and baloney for dinner, you’ll know you have a budding economist at the table. You can retort that they can start walking to the grocery store to help you shop, since driving there also got more expensive. Gasoline was up 2.1 per cent over the period, although it is still around 25 per cent cheaper than it was during the 2011-14 period before oil prices started to go down. In terms of product categories, inflation was also above the national average over the last year in the “recreation, education and reading” category (2.2 per cent) as well as booze and tobacco (3.1 per cent). The only major category that actually went down in price was clothing and footwear (-0.3 per cent) The good news is that inflation in Whitehorse is lower than the national average by a small amount. In fact, since Statistics Canada started its current inflation index in 2002, only B.C. has had lower inflation than Whitehorse (Statistics Canada reports only for Whitehorse and not the whole Yukon). A basket of goods that cost $100 in 2002 would now cost $124.10 in Whitehorse, versus an average of $126.80 across Canada.
Inflation can be an insidious force. Not only does it sometimes do things like discourage eating broccoli and reading, but it also affects people in ways that seem unfair. It can be a real challenge for people that have non-government jobs without cost-of-living protection, or retirees on fixed incomes. At least two per cent is relatively better than the 1970s and 1980s when rates ranged from four to 12 per cent. The low interest rates we have seen since the financial crisis have created a class of inflation victims that don’t get much attention. These are the savers, whether they are people close to retirement or First Nations with endowments from their self-government agreements. Older Yukoners nearing retirement might be wise to avoid the risks of today’s topsy-turvy stock markets, yet putting money in the bank at 0.5 per cent interest is a sure way to lose purchasing power when inflation is four times higher. Ditto for a First Nation fund manager trying to be prudent with her people’s investment portfolio. Things could get even worse for savers. Citigroup, a major international bank, recently put out a report that Canada may be among a small group of countries to follow Japan, Sweden and
Denmark into having negative interest rates. This means, believe it or not, that you might have to pay your bank to hold onto your money for you. So what does all this mean for Yukoners? Unfortunately, there are no easy answers. It is a terrible idea to stop eating fresh fruit and vegetables just because Statistics Canada put out another depressing report on inflation. But you may be able to save a few bucks by buying smarter. Websites like Mr. Money Moustache enjoy figuring out how you can get the most nutrition per dollar. He even makes his own breakfast cereal. It may be an obvious point (although I often forget it when in a hurry at the grocery store), but keep an eye on your purchases and steer around the old favourites that have spiked in price. Mr. Money Moustache has a nice set of rules. If a food is expensive, skip it this week. If average price, buy enough until your next grocery shopping trip. If a staple like rolled oats is drastically underpriced, buy a “near-infinite amount” limited only by the shelf-life of the food. Solving the saving problem is harder. Money market funds tend to yield less than one per cent. Even locking your money in a five-year guaranteed investment
certificate will only get you 1.5 per cent these days, which guarantees eroded purchasing power if inflation stays around two per cent. Unfortunately, higher-yielding alternatives such as dividend stocks or corporate bonds all involve more risk, sometimes a lot more risk. This is something to discuss carefully with a trusted financial advisor. Perhaps hardest of all is getting a raise to cover the rising cost of living, if your work contract doesn’t already include such a provision. The Yukon economy is in a funk, so bosses are not very receptive to being asked for raises these days. On the other hand, quite a few studies show that many people don’t ask for raises often enough. Sadly, inflation is just one of those things like taxes that we just have to manage. Just be thankful you don’t live in Argentina, where inflation is so high and poorly reported that the new president has declared a “statistical emergency.” 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 or Twitter @hallidaykeith
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First ministers’ climate deal easy to mock, harder to dismiss ans will look at it and say, they got together, they made progress, it’s a start.” The 14 first ministers overVANCOUVER came some deep divisions f 80 per cent of life is just over carbon pricing to find a showing up, in politics the workable solution that satisfied total is probably closer to 90. all parties – at least until four Canada’s first ministers working groups make public emerged from two days of talks their deliberations next Octothis week with an agreement on ber. a plan to develop a framework A pan-Canadian policy plan for climate policy action. is promised for early 2017. It would be easy to mock. It’s not the shining new But serious observers who Canadian target for reducstudy the difficult politics and ing greenhouse gas emissions policy of climate change believe promised by Trudeau during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last fall’s election campaign, nor and the provincial and terthe finished carbon blueprint ritorial leaders did more than that was supposed to be drafted just show up at the Vancouver within 90 days of the December Convention Centre. climate summit in Paris. “Maybe the most significant But the eight-page Vancouver thing is, for the first time since Declaration stuffed with comI’ve been premier, and for the mon recognition of issues may first time in 10 years – I guaranjust loosen the policy gridlock tee – premiers have sat around that’s bedevilled Canadian clithe table with the national mate action for 25 years. government and talked about “Form follows function,” climate change,” B.C. Premier said Celine Bak, the whip-smart Christy Clark said after the dust president of clean tech investsettled Thursday. ment tracker Analytica Advisors. “This is not the end. I underShe cited the inclusion of stand that. But I hope Canadifederal and provincial finance Bruce Cheadle Canadian Press
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ministers, who will receive the report on carbon pricing mechanisms, the role of economic development ministers in clean-tech economic growth and competitiveness, and the promised public reporting of the working groups. “It may not be obvious how well thought out this plan was,” said Bak. The plan is one part. Provincial buy-in is another. The lubricant may be federal deficit spending. “The federal budget is going to be a very key moment to see how much resources are put on the table,” Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger told an evening panel late Thursday at the adjacent Globe clean-tech conference. The declaration leads to next month’s federal budget leads to next year’s policy plan leads to next decade’s carbon reductions. The global scale, decadeslong gestation period, diffuse impacts and baked-in economic underpinnings of the climate change problem all serve to make it an extremely difficult
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public policy issue for politicians tied to four-year electoral cycles. As Perry Belgarde, national chief the Assembly of First Nations observed in Vancouver this week: “We have to start making decisions that will affect seven generations down the road.” Yet most of the media attention focused on the passing (and disputed) economic impacts of carbon pricing in the short term. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne appeared to set the agenda back to square one when she framed the leaders conference as a discussion over whether climate change is really a pressing policy challenge. “If we’ve had the initial discussion about agreeing on what the problem is, and agreeing on the magnitude of the problem, then we’ll be able to move to, ‘Well, how are we actually going to do this?’ ‘‘ Wynne told reporters earlier this week. But the political cajoling may obscure all that actually is happening on the climate front. Canada recently has witnessed oil producers combining their innovation efforts under COSIA, Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance, to share environmental technologies. When Alberta Premier Rachel Notely introduced a carbon tax and hard caps on oil sands emissions late last year, she was flanked by executives of four
major oil companies. Canada’s stock exchanges have more clean tech companies listed on them than any other stock exchange in the world. “We are a great mash-up here of the leadership it’s going to take” to address climate change, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson told the Globe delegates to open the convention, with Trudeau in attendance. Probably the most remarkable aspect of this week’s talks was the loose media access – a stark contrast to the highly controlled events typical under the previous Harper government. Reporters freely wandered the halls of the convention centre, mingling among premiers as they casually greeted visiting indigenous leaders. The atmosphere gave at least the appearance of candour. Holding the first ministers meeting adjacent to the Globe clean tech conference, where some 2,000 delegates from more than 50 countries enthused about the opportunities of the coming energy revolution, also helped fan a feeling of optimism too often absent from climate negotiations. From the indigenous leaders who were invited to speak with the first ministers on Wednesday to the environmental groups who hawkishly eyed the final communique, the refrain was the same. It’s a start. They showed up.
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First oil flows from Alaska reserve set aside in ‘23 permits to do the development, to complete the development,” Associated Press Jim Brodie, the capital projects manager for ConocoPhillips in NUIQSUT, ALASKA the reserve, said of the $1 billion ising from the edgeless, project earlier this month after wind-scoured, snowreporters toured the North Slope covered tundra on Alaska’s facility last month. “It’s a sizable North Slope lies a million-pound investment.” drilling rig pulling the first comThe project included a 6-mile mercial oil from a reserve set gravel road, four bridges over aside nearly a century ago. channels of the Colville River, inConocoPhillips is the first cluding one 1,400 foot-expanse, oil company to draw crude 32 miles of pipelines, and miles from the National Petroleum of communications and electriReserve-Alaska, an area the size cal infrastructure that tie the field of Indiana which President Warback to the main Alpine facilities. ren G. Harding dedicated as an Oil that is being brought up goes emergency oil supply for the U.S. back to Alpine for processing, Navy in 1923. and then is sent 800 miles down Getting to this point took the trans-Alaska pipeline for compromises with Alaska Natives shipment out of Valdez. while keeping environmental The oil is being drilled on concerns in mind. The Bureau of surface land which is owned by Land Management, which conKuukpik Corp., an Alaska Native trols the reserve, in 2013 identivillage corporation for the nearby fied 12 million acres that could community of Nuiqsut, located be available for development about 25 miles south of the Arctic while setting aside 11 million Ocean, or 625 miles north of acres to protect wild animals and Anchorage. grazing lands. Village residents who live a The drilling rig first began subsistence lifestyle objected to pulling up oil in October, and at the original plans for one of the peak production will produce bridges over the Colville River to 16,000 barrels a day from the the oilfield, worried that it might Colville-Delta 5 field, or as it’s interfere with fishing access. more commonly known, CD5. It Brodie said ConocoPhillips also will serve as a launch pad for pulled its permit package to another nearby fields in Alaska’s come up with an alternate plan, Arctic. working “with the community The Colville-Delta 5 field itself and the elders and established is an extension of the Conocoa new location for the Nigliq Phillips’ Alpine field, located Channel Bridge, which caused a about five miles to the east. reroute of the road and it was at “We’ve spent more than a considerable expense to Conocodozen years trying to achieve the Phillips but at the same time we Mark Thiessen
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A million-pound drilling rig looms in the distance at the CD5 drilling site on Alaska’s North Slope. got the support from the community and it enabled the project to move forward.” The Inupiat village agreed with the new plan and now welcome the financial opportunities that oil brings to the native community in terms of taxes and jobs.
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sure that it’s a win-win,” said Isaac Nukapigak, president of Kuukpik Corp. Development in the petroleum reserve hasn’t drawn the usual protests from environmental groups. Nicole Whittington-Evans, Alaska regional director for The Wilderness Society, said her group has been mostly concerned with how the development will proceed: Will it involve roads or not? How far westward will the sprawl continue? “Those are the types of things that we’re concerned about right now, and we have focused on trying to ensure that the least environmentally damaging developments move forward,” she said. ConocoPhillips continues preparations to drill in the more ingloriously named Greater Mooses Tooth 1 despite oil prices being in the tank. First oil from there could be as soon as December 2018, and could produce 30,000 barrels a day at peak production. Steve Thatcher, ConocoPhillips’ Alpine operations manager, said oil prices are cyclical and will rebound. “For these kinds of projects, if we can invest in them now, it makes a lot of sense for when the oil price is the other extreme,” he said.
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Can Canada meet its current 2030 climate target? Four experts chart a path for Canada right now to meet its 2030 targets,� she said. “Solar, wind, energy efficiencies – these technologies already exist. Where a breakthrough in technology could really help our transition to clean energy is a breakthrough in large storage (of electricity).� Major lifestyle changes won’t be necessary, while faster commutes, cleaner air and healthier buildings will result, she says. “This is not about sacrifice. This is about building lives that are going to be better.�
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OTTAWA f there is one constant in Canada’s two-decade track record of international climate diplomacy, it is a repeated failure to make good on its collective commitments. So as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sat down with premiers this week in Vancouver to discuss climate policy, Canadians could have been forgiven if they were a little jaundiced. Environment Canada’s own projections show the country is far from being on track to meet its 2030 carbon reduction target, set last May by the former Conservative government and described as a “floor� by Catherine McKenna, the new Liberal environment minister. With the country’s political leaders seemingly poised to embark on an ambitious new round of climate collaboration, The Canadian Press asked four climate and energy experts whether Canada’s current 2030 target of reducing emissions 30 per cent below 2005 levels is achievable – and if so, how. They include: an advocate for clean energy technology; a former senior federal civil servant who has held top roles with the Canadian Gas Association and the Canadian Electricity Association; an academic who pioneered carbon price modelling in Canada; and a former climate policy
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government crackdown on specific emitters. “If we acted immediately and effectively, it would not be that costly to achieve the target,� said Jaccard. “But climate targets are always difficult politically, because climate policies are always politically unacceptable.� That’s because there’s little political upside in asking constituents to make immediate sacrifices for gains that are beyond the election-cycle horizon. Jaccard, an economist who’s been doing carbon price modelling for three decades, recently caused a stir with an article advocating government regulation – with all its hidden costs – over direct carbon levies, due to the practical political realities. A pure carbon price model would need to incrementally impose a levy of $160 per tonne by 2030 to hit Canada’s emissions target, he argues. Governments can move much faster through regulation, he said, even though a specific crackdown on emissions may impose higher costs for those involved. In B.C., where the government forced a switch from electricity made from natural gas to a new system using wood waste, Jaccard figures the implicit cost is $110 per tonne of emissions – much higher than the province’s explicit carbon tax of $30 per tonne. Jaccard believes well-designed regulations, while less efficient than carbon pricing, can avoid the inefficiencies of government picking technology winners and
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target� but says it is achievable. He sees a market-based solution that allows business to figure out the best way. “The key tool is putting a price on carbon,� says Cameron. “If you have a price and people know what the price is going to be and know that it’s going to escalate at a fairly predictable rate, that gives the most opportunities to respond in the most efficient way.� Cameron says the lower-end scenarios for reaching the 2030 target involve a price on carbon of about $100 a tonne. By contrast, he calculates Ontario’s phase-out of coal-fired Mark Cameron, executive director, electricity generation had an Canadians for Clean Prosperity implicit cost of about $150 per Cameron, a former policy ad- tonne. viser in Stephen Harper’s office, “It’s going to require a carbon calls Canada’s current 2030 reprice that starts at around $30 duction goal “a very demanding and ramps up fairly continually,� losers. A well-designed, government-mandated zero-emission generation policy, for example, shouldn’t care whether the solutions are nuclear, wind, solar, or coal scrubbed by carbon capture and storage. All that matters are the emissions, said Jaccard. And while acknowledging, almost in passing, that things like zero-emission vehicles are already on North America’s roads, Jaccard won’t pitch a particular technology path to cutting emission to reach the 2030 target. “You’re pushing on all fronts incrementally.�
said Cameron. “It can’t be done with just a few tax credits for sealing your windows or buying an electric car. It’s going to require a lot more than that.� Keeping the carbon levy revenue neutral by rebating it to the public through the tax system will be the key to political acceptance, he said, citing the B.C. model. He’s not sold on zero-emission vehicle regulations, such as those in California, or federal fuel efficiency regulations, which may simply redistribute fleet emissions around the country. “The low-hanging fruit is consumer-based emissions for gasoline, electricity, home heating,� said Cameron, and price signals will drive those changes. “The transition is not going to happen overnight. It’s going to happen over a generation.�
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THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! To our Volunteers: Judges: • Ashton Drew • Candice Cockney • Claudia Riveros • Colin Hickman • Denise Gordon • Diane Gunter • Ellen Johnson • Fritz Mueller • Hilary Scholten • James Mooney • Jennifer Staniforth • Kate White • JP Pinard • Kim Hickman • Kirsten Burrows • Lisa Kanary • Lisa Mahon • Lorraine Wright
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Lynne Morris Maria Leung Mark Hill Maxine White Meagan Grabowski Michael Dougherty Misha Donohoe Niels Jacobsen Phil Borgel Randy Lamb René Lapierre Rob Florkiewicz Sally Wright Sam Skinner Sean Hopkins Sharon Choy Susan Moorhead Mooney Wade Hann
Photographer: Bruce Barrett Student Program: Ernie Prokopchuk, Katie Aitken, Tara Stehelin Master of Ceremonies: Sandi Coleman
The 2016 Regional Science Fair Committee would like to thank the following people and organizations for their generous support. To our Award Presenters:
• Hon. Doug Phillips, Commissioner of Yukon • Hon. Larry Bagnell, MP • Dean Margaret Dumkee, Applied Science and Management, Yukon College
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Yukon Commissioner’s Office Yukon Department of Education Yukon Department of Energy, Mines & Resources Yukon College Science Adventures Science Fair Foundation of BC Association of Professional Engineers of Yukon The BC Potato and Vegetable Growers’ Association BC Association of Physics Teachers BC Science Teachers Association Canadian Land Reclamation Association, BC Chapter Federation of BC Naturalists Heart & Stroke Foundation of BC & Yukon Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology Workers Compensation Board of BC Genome British Columbia
COMPLETE RESULTS: www.scienceadventures.ca
Concession: U Kon Echelon Bike Club Organizing Committee: David Michayluk, Heather Dundas, Jenna Frerot, Joel Cubley, Liz Woods, Melissa Halpenny, Mitch Bruce, Ryan Sikkes, Tanya Lewis, Tim Topper
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participated in local school fairs and the Regional Science Fair. Apologies to anyone missed.
WINNERS Representing Yukon/Stikine at Canada-Wide Science Fair in May 2016 in Montreal, Quebec: Rémie Cherepak James Storey Seth Bennett Commissioner’s Award Best of Fair: Rémie Cherepak Students Choice Award: Bruce Porter
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PM intends to steer clear of a contentious topic during U.S. visit: Donald Trump on the polarizing figure in the U.S. presidential race, should he Canadian Press choose to do so. A joint news conference WASHINGTON with President Barack Obama rime Minister Justin is planned next Thursday, with Trudeau intends to avoid commenting during his up- a luncheon at the State Department to follow. Trudeau will also coming U.S. trip on the hottest make a toast at a state dinner topic in American politics: the presidential candidacy of Donald and address a Trump-abhorring audience at a gathering of proTrump. “The prime minister feels very gressive think tanks. He has, in the past, subtly strongly about this – he doesn’t expressed his misgivings about get involved in domestic poliTrump’s policies. Asked last year tics,” said one Canadian official. “His visit to another country is about the idea of suspending Muslim travel, Trudeau said not an opportunity to do that.” he didn’t want to comment on There would be ample opAmerican politics, but stands portunity during his three-day against the politics of fear, divistate visit to Washington next week for Trudeau to comment sion, intolerance and hatred. Alexander Panetta
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Now the prospect of a Trump presidential nomination is a real topic in Washington, with the city’s Republican establishment in full-blown panic mode and the party divided. Trump’s latest primary wins reportedly even drove a 350-per-cent spike in Google searches about moving to Canada. U.S. media will inevitably draw contrasts between the foreign leader who welcomes Syrian refugees at the airport and their own presidential contender, who in addition to blocking Muslim travellers wants to send back refugees. Those media comparisons have already started. The Washington Post has run a couple of items this week including a piece titled, “The many ways Canada’s Trudeau is the anti-Trump.” It posted videos emphasizing the almost comically stark differences between them. In one clip, Trudeau wears a pink T-shirt and speaks against bullying, and in another refers to himself as a feminist. The Trump clips, by contrast, show him talking about wanting to punch a protester in the face, and another clip shows debate moderator Megyn Kelly mentioning the times he’s called women
“fat pig,” “dog” and “slob.” “The prime minister will always state his values,” said the Canadian official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss advance details of the trip. “But he’s not interested in stirring up domestic politics.” Trudeau offered a hint this week of the approach he intends to take in Washington, telling a Vancouver radio host that it’s important to him and to the Canadian economy that he get along with whoever’s elected president. A former Obama White House official was adamant: Trudeau is better off steering clear of the Trump minefield. Brett Bruen said it’s not only acceptable but even welcome for Trudeau to discuss his own values, and on refugees perhaps try stirring the conscience of potentially like-minded Americans. But Bruen, the former White House director of global engagement, also said it would be a bad idea for the neighbour to butt into the messy argument within America’s political household. A simple rule of thumb? Talk about ideas – not people. “It gets Canada, it gets the prime minister, entangled in the U.S. political process – which
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right now is so fraught with obstacles that even Americans have a hard time navigating through it. I think you want to stay above that fray,” said Bruen, who now advises clients at his firm, Global Situation Room. ‘’You don’t want political problems to spill over into business issues and the co-operation between governments, and certainly into the perception Americans have of Canada as a neutral neighbour.” Several Canadian ex-ambassadors to the U.S. offer similar guidance. “My strong advice to him would be to stay away from it,” said Derek Burney. “The media will want him to say that Donald Trump poses a threat to humanity…. It’s not for him. It’s not for a Canadian prime minister to inject himself into a debate as heated as this one.” Burney said he recalled American officials getting annoyed when their Canadian counterparts would go to Washington and grandstand for audiences back home. Talking about refugees is different, Burney said – because it’s actually a file the two countries are working on.
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The art of migration: Whitehorse artist focuses on shifting species Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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hen the Arctic tern makes a pit stop in Whitehorse on its way to its breeding grounds, it’s just a blip in the longest migration of any animal in the world. The four-ounce bird, characterized by its orange-red bill and forked tail, follows a zigzagging route more than 70,000 kilometres between the poles every year. The globetrotter is one of the species featured in Linda Leon’s new painting exhibit, Leap of Faith, which focuses on migratory birds and fish. “It’s amazing how the whole planet is constantly on the move and you’re barely aware of it because we don’t pay attention,” she said. Leon said the Arctic tern’s appearance always reminds her of Salvador Dali’s work, especially because he often painted birds with long wings and tails. “I always thought they looked like a bird Dali would enjoy painting,” she said, “because their tail feathers swoop and they have long, elegant, pointy wings.” Leon has often used animals as the subject of her paintings. In the past she’s painted foxes, grouse and bears. But this time it was the impressive process of migration undertaken by certain species, including salmon and trumpeter swans, that inspired her. Each spring, about 10 per cent of North America’s trumpeter swans stop at M’Clintock Bay in Marsh Lake during their migration. Open water is the key for these returning birds, which can’t land on hard ground because they’re too heavy. When the birds arrive in March, most Yukon rivers and lakes are locked under ice, as explained on the Environment Yukon website. But at M’Clintock Bay they find shallow, open water filled with much-needed food. Warmer water from the bottom of Marsh Lake is forced to the surface, keeping the bay ice-free in all but the coldest months. Leon said it’s amazing how, when the birds leave in early May, they know there will be open water at their next destination. “Someone told me they get it wrong, sometimes,” she said with a laugh.
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The show runs Friday until March 27. Leon’s exhibit also features Lapland longspurs, a small bird known for travelling in flocks of hundreds. Unfortunately, they have a tendency to do this just as you’re driving by with your car, which often results in a few
collisions, Leon said. One day, Leon was coming back to Whitehorse from Faro after the annual crane and sheep viewing festival. They were accompanied by Helmut Grunberg, a passionate birder and one of the founders
of the Yukon Bird Club. “We hit one of them and it was stuck in the front grille,” Leon said. “Helmut carefully pried it out because he would stuff it and mount it on a stick to use as an educational tool for
people. Their hind claws are very long and they really look like spurs.” Living close to the Whitehorse Rapids Dam, Leon also enjoys watching and painting salmon, which take part in one of nature’s most impressive migratory journeys. Each year, the Yukon River’s chinook salmon embark on the longest freshwater salmon migration in the world. They enter from the Bering Sea into Alaskan waterways and make their way to the spawning grounds on the border of B.C. and Yukon, travelling more than 3,000 kilometres. “I also go to the fish ladder at the end of every summer to watch them,” Leon said. “They’ve been a part of human history for so long. That any of these creatures make it to their destination is a miracle.” Leap of Faith opens on Friday, March 4 at the Yukon Artists at Work gallery. It runs until March 27. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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tence: “The enchantment of Canadian Indian tribes. The confident attitude of the British aristocracy.� It went on to describe the line as a “captivating play on contrasts: an ode to America’s native tribes meets the noble spirit of Old Europe.� In an official mea culpa addressed to the “indigenous peoples of Canada,� the duo wrote that the collection was intended to “pay homage� to their beauty and strength. “We are sad that our collection, which was meant to be a celebration of cultures, might have caused hurt through our
inappropriate use of words,� the Catens said in the statement. “Our intentions were in good faith but we now understand how this terminology is offensive. We are truly sorry, and apologize for the disrespect this may have caused. “We can only hope that by making this mistake we have brought attention to this issue, and learn together more about our country’s history. We will continue this journey, learning and educating ourselves about the diversity of the indigenous cultures of Canada: First Nations, Inuit and Metis.�
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International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on March 8th, is a time to recognize the economic, political and social achievements of women. It is also an opportunity to recognize gaps that still exist and work towards continued change. While progress is still needed, we have much to celebrate in Yukon, including one of the smallest gender wage gaps in the country, a recent declaration from all levels of government to reduce violence against Indigenous women and girls, and innovative community initiatives such as the Together for Safety protocol, A Safe Place, and the creation of a Women’s Legal Advocate. I encourage everyone to take part in the various events being held throughout the territory and to celebrate the many achievements of the women and girls in your life. As part of this year’s campaign, I also encourage Yukoners to think about how they can support gender equality in their own lives and consider making a pledge at
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Going Kondo: How I decluttered the Marie Kondo way cation, used Ace bandages and unclaimed toothbrushes, or in Associated Press consolidating half-empty boxes of Band-Aids. NEW YORK Those baby steps strengtheading Marie Kondo’s bestened my discard muscle. Next I selling books about declutsaid goodbye to fragrances and tering is intimidating. I lipsticks I never use. have a complicated relationship In cleaning out, I unearthed a with many of my possessions: cache of skin creams and cleanssouvenirs from favourite places, ers that I like. I now keep some gifts from loved ones. Even if I handy for daily use, and store never use them, how could I part others in a beautifully decorated with them? And how could I face gift box I’d been reluctant to my overflowing cupboards and part with. Keeping and using the scary closets? box this way fit several Kondo But I got over my fears. Ultiprinciples. mately, Kondo’s books, The LifeFirst, she says, “Everything Changing Magic of Tidying Up you own wants to be of use to and Spark Joy, are not so much you.” about throwing things out as they Second, she says, don’t buy are about “choosing what we storage containers. Instead, use want to keep,” as Kondo puts it. things you already own: shoeHere’s what it felt like going boxes, stationery boxes, decoraKondo. tive bowls. Third, Kondo is no minimalThe bathroom was easy ist. “Adorn your home with the Kondo says sentimental things things you love,” she urges. My should be left for last. So I started pretty box now brightens a shelf. with the most unsentimental Folding is also critical. Kondo place: the bathroom. There’s no says every foldable object has its emotion in tossing expired medi- own “sweet spot … a folded state Beth J. Harpaz
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Marie Kondo works at a client’s home to clear away everything that is unneeded and fails to “spark joy,” in Tokyo, Japan. employed her ritual: “Take each item in one’s hand and ask: ‘Does this spark joy?’ If it does, keep it. If not, dispose of it.” As I proceeded, I contemplated the gift-givers’ kindness. Sort by category “You don’t need to feel guilty for parting with a gift,” Kondo writes. Don’t clean shelves and drawers one by one, Kondo says. “Just thank it for the joy it gave Instead, sort by category to “com- you when you first received it.” Along the way, I found things pare items that are similar in design, making it easier to decide I love, like a carved wooden whether you want to keep them.” dish I now use to display fruit. I hesitated over my mom’s ornate, In the kitchen, I surveyed all silver-plated sugar-and-creamer, the bakeware at once, shedding excess cookie cutters and muffin which I’ll never use. But I cleaned the tarnish off and a friend tins. A dozen random mugs and pronounced them “shabby chic.” two teapots were given away. I They now decorate a windowsill. counted a dozen vases and kept As Kondo says, “If you have four. I was stunned to find nearly items that you love even though 40 portable water bottles tucked they seem useless, please give in cupboards; I kept two. them a turn in the spotlight.” I also stacked items by shape, as Kondo suggests, transforming Tackling clothes cluttered shelves. I dumped all my clothes on Then I gathered decorative platters and bowls, many of them my bed and dove in. Some didn’t gifts that weren’t to my taste, and fit, or were stained or damaged.
that best suits that item.” I’m still working on folding the bathroom towels just right, but after studying her techniques, I get the origami-like art of folding shirts.
Some were gifts, or I’d bought them on vacation. I sent the rejects off with Kondo’s blessing: “Thank you for giving me joy when I bought you,” or “Thank you for teaching me what doesn’t suit me.” “By acknowledging their contribution and letting them go with gratitude, you will be able to truly put the things you own, and your life, in order,” she writes. Kondo is fine with keeping things you don’t use, as long as “you can say without a doubt, ‘I really like this!”’ So I kept the flowered confection of a hat I bought in England, although I’ll never wear it. She also says nothing is too special for everyday wear. So now I wear a favourite black velvet top to work.
Scary places, beautiful spaces I have a dark, scary closet under the ceiling that I’ve been throwing stuff into for 20 years. Kondo emboldened my excavation. Crumbling 1970s luggage? Out! Subzero military boots bought secondhand for a winter trip to Alaska? Donated to the Salvation Army. My outdoorsy son’s camping equipment stayed, but Kondo’s folding techniques helped reduce the space needed for his weatherproof clothing and bedding. Once again, forgotten treasures emerged: artwork from Morocco, a carved wooden bowl that belonged to my late motherin-law. Both are now on display. “By the time you finish, you’ll see something you love everywhere you look,” Kondo writes. And that’s her real genius: “You are not choosing what to discard but rather what to keep.”
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Reconnecting with Our Past… Reaffirming Our Future When: Friday, March 11th – Saturday, March 12th 9:00am-4:00pm Where: Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre (KDCC) ** With Dr. Lee Brown and Mark Wedge **
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Kwanlin Dün Voices Kwanlin Dün First Nation is seeking interested citizens to sit on the following school councils:
Kwanlin Dün citizens would you like to have a say on what happens at local schools? Please consider being involved on a school council, you do not need to have a child attending the school. Meetings are once a month and you will receive an honorarium.
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Sharing our stories and journeys Healing within the TKC community Creating a community plan for TKC’s future and vision Empowering youth involvement This two-day session will include a Community Feast.
Citizens who attend each session will receive an honorarium and will be entered into a draw too win prizes including (2) AIR NORTH RETURN TICKETS! ~All citizens are invited to attend, especially youth and elders~
Please contact Shawna Smith for more information or for a registration form 867-334-8946 or ssmith@taan.ca.
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Subway to ensure ‘footlongs’ measure up after lawsuit
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NEW YORK ubway customers can finally rest assured that their “Footlong� sandwiches will be as long as promised. A judge last week granted final approval to a settlement of a classaction suit filed against Subway after an Australian teenager in 2013 posted an image of his sandwich on Facebook that was only 11 inches. The image garnered international media attention, with The New York Post writing that it found four out of seven Footlongs it purchased in New York “measured only 11 or 11.5 inches.� A judge had given preliminary approval in October to a settlement between Subway’s parent company Doctor’s Associates and plaintiffs’ attorneys. Final approval was granted on Feb. 25. As part of the settlement, Subway agreed to institute practices for at least four years to ensure its bread is at least 12 inches long. The judge approved $520,000 in attorney fees and $500 for each of the 10 individuals who were representatives of the class, but no monetary claims were awarded to potential members of the class. “It was difficult to prove monetary damages, because everybody ate the evidence,� said Thomas Zimmerman, who was co-lead attorney for the class. Zimmerman said the attorney fees are being split among 10 law firms. Subway said in a statement that it was pleased the judge found no wrongdoing on its part. “This allows us to move forward, without distractions, on our goal to provide great tasting sandwiches and salads, made exactly as each guest likes. We have already taken steps to ensure each guest receives the Footlong or six-inch sandwich they order,� the statement said. Lynn Adelman, a judge for the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin, wrote in the final approval that the plaintiffs’ attorneys realized their claims “were quite weak� after an initial mediation session. Instead of
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Nine-year-old Dawson City student raises money for soccer balls in Nicaragua Maura Forrest News Reporter
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n September 13, Teagan Ewing turned nine. She invited her friends over for a birthday party, but she told them not to bring her any presents. This was not a typical birthday. Teagan and her mother, Lynette Peterson, had had an idea. Instead of asking for presents, Teagan asked her friends to donate money for a good cause. And she’s now sent that money – all $410 – to a family friend in Nicaragua, who’s using it to buy soccer balls for kids at local schools. Most of the money came from her friends, Teagan said, but she also had a little help from her family. “My grandpa gave me lots of money, too.” Teagan, who lives in Dawson City, said she got the idea from one of her friends, who’d recently donated birthday money to the Humane Society. Peterson said they started off thinking they’d make a
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Left: Nine-year-old Teagan Ewing asked for money in lieu of presents for her last birthday. She sent the $410 she collected to a family friend in Nicaragua to buy soccer balls for schools. Right: Students in Nicaragua show their thanks to Teagan. donation to a local cause, but eventually started looking at possibilities outside Canada. That’s when Lisa Moore, a friend who lives in Whitehorse in the summer and teaches in Nicaragua through the winter, offered to help out. “That just sounded like a
better idea than handing it to a foundation,” Peterson said, explaining that she wanted to be sure she knew where all of the money went. Peterson said her daughter chose soccer balls because the sport is her “big love right now.” She’s been playing for about
four years, since kindergarten. So they sent the money to Moore, who used it to buy 14 soccer balls. Peterson had hoped for more, but Nicaragua uses the American dollar, so they were hit pretty hard by the exchange rate. Now, Moore is in the process
of handing out the balls to local schools. “She’s just randomly picking the less-funded schools,” Peterson explained. As of this week, she’d distributed at least seven balls. Peterson said the students range in age from young children to teenagers, and the staff usually get the kids together in a big group when Moore stops by. “She said they’ve been very excited to see (the soccer balls), which made her really emotional a few times,” Peterson said. Moore has also been sending Teagan and her mom photos of the students in Nicaragua, so they can see how the donation is paying off. Teagan said she’d probably like to do the same thing again, when she turns 10 this September. She said she doesn’t mind taking a pass on presents. “Because it felt kind of good for other kids to be happy,” she said, “and have the things they want.” Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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Will cap-and-trade slow climate change? by David Suzuki
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he principle that polluters should pay for the waste they create has led many experts to urge governments to put a price on carbon emissions. One method is the sometimes controversial cap-and-trade. Quebec, California and the European Union have already adopted capand-trade, and Ontario will join Quebec and California’s system in January 2017. But is it a good way to address climate change? The program sets an overall limit – a cap – on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions a province can emit. It then tells polluters, such as heavy industry and electricity generators, how many tonnes of carbon each can release. For every tonne, polluters need a permit or “allowance.” So, if a company’s annual limit is 25,000 tonnes, it would require 25,000 allowances. If a company exceeds its limit, it can purchase additional allowances from another firm that, because of its greater efficiency, has more allowances than it needs. This is the “trade” part of the equation. Although an individual company can exceed its greenhouse gas limit by purchasing credits, the province as a whole can’t. The overall limit is reduced every year, so if the law is followed, cap-andtrade guarantees annual emissions reductions. The declining cap is the system’s great strength and the way it protects the environment.
How effective is it? Although the answer isn’t straightforward, there’s evidence cap-and-trade played a key role in reducing acid rain in the United States. The 1990 Clean Air Act allowed power plants to buy and sell the right to emit sulphur dioxide. Since then, U.S. sulphur dioxide concentrations have gone down by more than 75 per cent. As Nobel Prizewinning economist Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times, “Acid rain did not disappear as a problem, but it was significantly mitigated.” Despite this and other successes, some experts are skeptical, arguing that cap-and-trade amounts to little more than a cash grab by government, a tax in everything but name. Others say it’s a mistake to expect climate change can be addressed through markets, when the problem actually requires changing our entire approach to economics, with a commitment to a steadystate economy and an end to the commodification of nature. Some experts have also noted that the emissions reductions it brings are often modest. A 2015 paper in Canadian Public Policy claimed Quebec’s system “is still too weak to meaningfully address the environmental imperatives as outlined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2014 Fifth Assessment Synthesis Report, in which fully eliminating carbon emissions is the benchmark for long-term policy goals.” From 2013 to 2014, California’s allowance cap went from 162.8 to 159.7 megatonnes, a drop of less than two per cent. Ontario’s proposed legislation indicates its program will have some great strengths and a number of shortcomings. It will likely have wide coverage, applying limits on most of the province’s emissions, including those from
transportation fuels. (California’s system did not initially include these fuels.) Ontario is expected to reduce emissions by over four per cent a year – about twice the initial rate of California – and generate $1.9 billion annually from the plan. That money will be invested in “green” projects throughout the province with the goal of reducing carbon emissions even further. Ontario’s proposal to give away many allowances to big emitters is less encouraging. The government says it will eventually phase out this free disbursement, but in the meantime millions of dollars in government revenue that could be used to support renewable energy and public transit will be lost. To keep the bulk of fossil fuels in the ground – as scientific evidence says we must – we need a variety of strategies. Cap-andtrade helps reduce emissions and generates billions of dollars for other strategies to address climate change. It also embodies the polluter pays principle. But it’s not enough on its own. The David Suzuki Foundation and others have long argued that provinces and the federal government should put a price on carbon, through carbon taxes, cap-and-trade or a combination of both. The urgent need to address global warming means provinces that have adopted capand-trade need to strengthen it by ensuring emissions drop faster and polluters pay a price that truly reflects the damage caused by carbon pollution. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Climate Change and Transportation Policy Analyst Gideon Forman. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.
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Electors can be added to the List of Electors during the enumeration, revision period or when they vote. Electors who are added at the time of voting must provide identification. A preliminary list of acceptable identification includes: UÊÊÊ" iÊ« iViÊ vÊ} ÛiÀ i Ì issued identification with the elector’s name and current residential or mailing address, ÃÕV Ê>ÃÊ> Ê"«iÀ>Ì À½ÃÊ À ÛiÀ½Ã®Ê Licence or Certificate of Indian Status Card OR UÊÊÊ/Ü Ê` VÕ i ÌÃÊÌ >ÌÊà ÜÊÌ iÊ elector’s name; at least one with the elector’s current address, such as a utility bill or lease agreement OR UÊÊÊ Ê`iV >À>Ì ]Êà } i`ÊLÞÊÌ iÊ elector, with the elector’s name and current address More information about acceptable identification is available on our website at
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The accelerated loss of ice in several forms is a well-documented story of change in Alaska.
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by Ned Rozell
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n anticipation of an arctic science conference happening next month in Fairbanks, an editor asked me to write a column on climate change in the north. I told her climate stability would be the bigger story, since basswood trees used to grow in Fairbanks and redwoods once dropped their cones into the Porcupine River. Climate is always changing. But we have gotten much better at measuring those changes. We people and our scientific instruments have now occupied the top of the globe for long enough to record what has happened during the last few decades. Long-term data sets have some punch. I asked people smarter than me for their all-star northern sets of data: Enduring observations of emotion-free instruments set out to record what is happening. Here are a few, each related to things frozen: Sea ice: The 1979 launch of satellites that could transmit reliable pictures of Earth allowed us to look at the ice floating on the Arctic Ocean. While 36 years isn’t very long, it has been enough to
show that the white toupee of ice on top of the world is thinning and shrinking. Ice that reflected sunlight like a mirror is now dark water that absorbs heat. Because sea ice has not been fusing itself to Alaska’s northern coastline as it once was, Barrow has become more like Norway. Every October there since 2001 has been much warmer than the years when sea ice formed earlier and stayed later. And the ocean sucking all that heat isn’t just showing local effects. Scientists are blaming wacky weather events all over the globe on waning northern sea ice. Permafrost: Ground that became frozen during a colder period and has remained that way through the heat of at least two summers (sometimes thousands of summers). The earth deep beneath our feet doesn’t react to a warm summer or a snowless winter with human alarm. It calmly transitions, after years of warm or cold temperatures. It shows a trend. That’s why it was surprising to see a longtime permafrost scientist at a major conference in December saying he has changed his mind regarding the coldest permafrost in Alaska, beneath the North Slope. “Now, I can’t say that near-surface permafrost is safe (from thawing) during this century,” Vladimir Romanovsky said. “I used to say it was OK for this century.” What’s the big deal if permafrost thaws? Not only would some of the North Slope sink as much as 20 feet (and not in an orderly fashion), but the warmth would awaken soil mi-
crobes. Those hungry organisms will feast on prehistoric plant and animal remains and belch out molecules of greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane. Glaciers: Alaska’s thousands of glaciers are the resting place of snows that fell yesterday and many years ago. Those ribbons of ice worm along in trenches between mountains all over Alaska. Almost all of them are shrinking fast. After a few decades of continued study, glaciologists say this: During the last 20 years or so, Alaska’s glaciers melted as much as all of Antarctica’s glaciers (Antarctica is as large as eight Alaskas). Alaska glaciers added one-third as much water to the ocean as did Greenland’s ice sheet from 2005 to 2010. This is despite Alaska’s ice having 1/20th the area of Greenland’s. UAF’s Chris Larsen and many colleagues have made these calculations by measuring glaciers each year with instruments mounted on aircraft and satellites. Alaska’s extreme weight loss is showing up as sea spray in a storm topping a levee in New Orleans. These examples are among the best documented and most dramatic examples of measured change in the north. As one of the experts said, “there are dozens more.” 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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The mystery of the Orpheum Theatre unravelling by Michael Gates
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ave you heard of “ear worms” – the musical kind? Well I had an historical “ear worm,” a few days ago, and much as I wanted to finish planned work, the “worm” got in the way. New York City filmmaker Bill Morrison posed an innocent enough question about the Orpheum Theatre in Dawson City. It makes sense – he is creating a documentary about the Dawson Film Find – the cache of silent movies uncovered there in 1978. We know that in August of 1914, there were three theatres showing films in Dawson City. Without radio, television or the Internet, moving pictures – even silent ones – were the hottest ticket in town. All the theatres were filled to capacity. So what about the Orpheum Theatre? When I first arrived in Dawson City, there was an Orpheum Theatre. I watched the latest James Bond movie in the theatre in 1978. Sadly, a year later, the theatre was inundated during the spring flood, and it never showed another reel of film. Fred and Palma Berger were the owners/operators at the time, and they did not receive enough compensation to buy new seats, let alone do all the necessary work to re-open. But that theatre was not the same one that sported the decorative arch atop its clapboard facade back in the early 1900s. It could proudly boast of two tiers of boxes, a balcony and comfortable seats. The orchestra was Dawson’s finest. What happened to the original, and when was its replacement constructed? Nobody could remember for sure. Bill had been told that it was somewhere in the mid-1940s, but that was about all he knew. My wife Kathy decided to help. Her search in the Dawson News
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The Orpheum Theatre was a significant feature of Dawson City’s main avenue. It could boast two tiers of box seats, a balcony, and the best orchestra in town. started in 1940 and quickly pinned down the date of the fire to May 22, 1940. The building was entirely engulfed, and several adjacent businesses succumbed to the flames as well. The fire started just before midnight, and by morning, the theatre and the neighbouring Yukonia Hotel were in ruins. George Black, our Member of Parliament, was in Dawson at the time and captured the fire on movie film, in colour. Coverage in the Dawson News charged that arson was involved. “Pyromaniac Thought to be in Dawson,” shouted the headline in the News a week later, by which time H.E. Peters’ building at the corner of Queen Street and Second avenue had burned, and the back of the newspaper office had also been gutted by flames. Oil-soaked rags were found in the old post office building at King Street and Third Avenue, as well as in a building behind the undertaker’s parlour on Second avenue. Both of these buildings have
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survived and are now maintained by Parks Canada. Harry Gleaves, the owner of the theatre (as well as the Arcade Cafe) had the Orpheum rebuilt. He sent the theatre manager to Vancouver to order new equipment and hired Bert Bratsberg to supervise the reconstruction. According to the News, Gleaves hauled the dirt from the charred remains of the theatre by wheelbarrow to a sluice box at the foot of King Street, which produced several nuggets and plenty of colours. “Klondike” Kate Matson was in town at the time and panned a quantity of dirt given her by Gleaves. The dirt came from the area of the stage where she had once performed forty years earlier. In a few minutes, she had panned out more than half an ounce of gold! She laughingly told the News that it could have been some of the gold thrown at her by the miners when she had graced its stage many years before.
The Orpheum was rebuilt by the end of the summer of 1940, and announced the screening of The Prisoner of Zenda in the September 17 edition of the News. Harry Gleaves continued to operate the theatre until the early 1950s. He had been in business on Front Street for more than 40 years by the time he sold it. According to Ben Warnsby, it was purchased by Chuck and Tommy Gray, who then sold it to Len Millar. Millar sold it to Warnsby and his business partner, Mike Stutter. Warnsby eventually sold his share in the business to Stutter, who sold it to Fred and Palma Berger in 1966. They operated the theatre until 1979. The Orpheum Theatre had gone full circle since it beginnings. It rose, in February of 1900, from the ashes of the Horseshoe Saloon which had been destroyed by fire the previous November. Gussie Lamore graced the stage of the Orpheum. Swiftwater Bill, in a fit of jealousy, bought up the entire
supply of eggs in Dawson because they were Gussie’s favourite food. In one version of the story, he cooked them and fed them to the dogs. Beatrice Lorne, the “Australian Nightingale,” sang on its stage. Klondike Kate Rockwell performed there too, while her boyfriend Alexander Pantages managed the theatre, promoted boxing and wrestling matches on its stage and screened the latest craze, moving pictures. Pantages left the Klondike in 1902 and established a chain of theatres all along the west coast that made him a millionaire. Office space had been rented out in the building from the start. Its main tenants were law firms and investment brokers. Fire struck in October of 1903, but that damage was quickly repaired for $5,000. The roof of the theatre collapsed from too much snow in February of 1904, but was quickly repaired for $500. The showing of films in the Orpheum appears to have come to an end during World War I. With the rapidly shrinking population, Dawson could no longer support three theatres. After the war “Apple” Jimmy Oglow operated his confectionery store in the front of the main floor of the Orpheum until it was destroyed by the fire in May of 1940. After the Dawson Amateur Athletic Association burned down in 1937, the Orpheum may have been put back into service as the local movie theatre, but movies were certainly being screened there before the 1940 fire. All of this investigation, of course, only leads to more questions – and more research. When, for instance, through its history, were movies shown in the Orpheum? As you can see, a simple question took me on an unexpected journey into the past to learn the mysteries of the Orpheum Theatre. I am not finished yet! 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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A baby’s diaper bag belongs to the parent the baby has custody over most of its belongings, it is not technically his or her bag. Unless you plan on giving the bag to the baby when you outgrow the need, Miss Manners thinks the monogram should be the parent’s.
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MANNERS DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is there a proper monogram to place on a diaper bag? Should it be the mother’s or the baby’s monogram? GENTLE READER: Even though
DEAR MISS MANNERS: My younger brother is 14 years old, and several years ago he came out as gay to the family, to some other relatives and to some friends. He has told us that it’s no one else’s business unless he makes it their business. My brother is a 10 out of 10.
He gets more than his fair share of attention from both girls and boys. My problem is the girls who come to me and ask if my brother is dating, seeing someone, has a girlfriend, is available or are they his type? Questions from the boys range from, is it true my brother is gay? Or they tell me they are gay and ask if my brother is gay, seeing someone, has a boyfriend or girlfriend. My brother has made it clear it’s not up to me to out him. I love him and don’t want to upset him, but I’m at a loss for answers. GENTLE READER: But you don’t
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owe them answers. Miss Manners suggests your politely pointing out that you are his sibling, not his social secretary. DEAR MISS MANNERS: What is the polite way to respond when asked if you are attending an event to which you were not invited? For example: An old college friend of mine is getting married this year. A separate mutual friend asked whether I would be attending the bridal shower. I was not invited to the bridal shower. I am not surprised that I did not receive an invitation since
we have not spoken in years. I did not want to respond, “No, I’m not attending because I was not invited� because I am afraid it sounds bitter, which I’m not at all! For future reference, what is the appropriate response? GENTLE READER: “No, I’m afraid we haven’t seen each other for a long time,� said pleasantly and with no animosity. If you are genuinely curious about the event and can inquire about it in a similarly unbiased fashion, then Miss Manners will allow you to pursue the subject, but otherwise change it.
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Whitehorse boxers deliver KOs en route to silver in Alberta Tom Patrick News Reporter
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wo Yukon boxers will remember their first bouts for long time. Their opponents might not remember them too well. Whitehorse’s Brittni Waddington and Dave Quesnel logged knockout wins in their first career fights at Alberta Golden Gloves in Stony Plain over the weekend. They both left with silver medals following losses in the gold medal matches. Just having Waddington enter the ring was a win for Boxing Yukon. “She’s the first female boxer we’ve had in over 10 years to actually compete,” said Boxing Yukon head coach Jess Staffen. “Maybe 15 years, now that I think about it.” “They both had spectacular first matches,” he added. “In the gold medal matches they lost to boxers with a bit more experience. But great, great fights for both of them.” Waddington, 23, won her silver in the women’s 60-kilogram weight class. She defeated Ashley Dyer of Spruce Grove, Alta. by knockout in the second round of her first fight. “It was a hard fight though,” said Waddington. “I was really nervous going into it, but I felt like I did everything I could up to that point. Dave and I both trained really hard and ate really good for a few months. We cut the weight and fasted and everything. It all ended up paying off for that fight for sure.” Waddington lost the gold medal bout to Calgary’s Jessica Sparrow. The fight was called in the third round due to a bad nosebleed, possibly an aftereffect from her first fight in which she also had a nosebleed, said Waddington. Her 1-1 amateur record was achieved after taking up the sport less than half a year ago. “I obviously wanted to win both (fights), but winning one is good for now,” said Waddington. “I heard about it through my mom – she was coming here for the workout – and I was just tagging along. And I ended up wanting to know more about the boxing side of it,” she added. “Jess asked me if I’d be interested in competing. I didn’t think much about it at first, but once I felt myself getting better and stronger, I thought, ‘Why not?’ “I’ve basically fallen in love with it.” Quesnel, 26, also won his first fight in the second round – by technical knockout. He claimed silver in the 81-kilogram weight class. “I’m happy with a silver. Obviously I would have liked to come
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Whitehorse boxer Dave Quesnel trains at Peak Fitness on Wednesday. Quesnel and Whitehorse’s Brittni Waddington logged knockouts on their way to silver medals at Alberta Golden Gloves in Stony Plain last weekend. home with a gold, but for my first two fights, there’s nothing worth complaining about,” said Quesnel. “I got to experience all of it: I got to experience a TKO in the second and to go all three rounds in the second fight. So I got to experience how tired you feel after a whole bout and I know a fight should never be left in the judges’ hands.” Quesnel beat Cody Banner of Grande Prairie, Alta. by TKO for his first career win. He then lost by split decision to Philipp Enderoff from Blue Ridge, Alta., after going the distance. “The first fight I got hit maybe two or three times. The second fight was more technical,” said Quesnel with a bit of a shiner under his right eye. “Both of us had TKO’d our opponents the day before, so it was the best against the best and it came down to the judges’ call.” “I’m happy with how everything turned out and excited to move forward – excited for my next fight,” he added. It might not be long before the two fighters are back in the ring. Both Waddington and Quesnel hope to fight at next year’s nationals, which would require them each to have a total of 10 sanctioned bouts under their belt. Eight fights in 12 months is a lot for any fighter, but they seem
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Silver medalist Brittni Waddington shadow boxes. determined. “Just keep getting fights, keep learning,” said Quesnel. “Jess can move me forward as far as I can and I might go to nationals next year ... Same with Brittni.”
Quesnel has been training “off and on for three years, but I’ve been taking it a lot more seriously since I got to the Yukon. I’ve been away living in Alberta for about five years and I just moved back on
Halloween.” While Quesnel has advanced his boxing skills since moving back to Whitehorse, Waddington is considering a move away to elevate hers. This weekend Waddington will begin an 11-day training and nutrition program at Club de Boxe de L’est (East Boxing Club) in Montreal, Que. The club is home to 2015 Pan American Championships gold medalist Caroline Veyre, who is also the Canadian women’s champ in the same weight class at Waddington. “They invited me to come stay in their gym for a trial period to see if I have potential to do well in boxing,” said Waddington. “If they think I should pursue boxing more seriously I was considering moving down there.” Boxing Yukon, which currently has about 50 members, has seen a resurgence of competitive boxers over the last few years. Yukoners won a total of six medals at two separate Alberta Bronze Gloves tournaments last year alone. “We’re getting a really good reputation down south for bringing down quality boxers,” said Staffen. “Good boxers, too. None of them fight dirty; they are all nice, clean, polite boxers.” Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Murray, Hynes boost Canadian team at junior/U23 worlds
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016 Solar PV: Latest Developments from an Energy Forum in Switzerland Keep up to date on this emerging technology, what you can do now and implications for Yukon. See how contractors in Europe have integrated solar PV into their buildings. Speaker: Doug MacLean. Doug is a professional engineer with a Masters degree and a Technical Consultant with Energy Solutions Centre, Yukon Government. He has been involved in energy research and development for over 30 years.
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Yukon Ski Team’s Kendra Murray races at the Haywood NorAm junior and U23 world trials in Thunder Bay, Ont., in January. Murray and fellow Whitehorse skier Natalie Hynes competed at the FIS Nordic World Junior/U23 Ski Championships last week in Romania. claimed 47th in the 1.3-kilometre free sprint on Feb. 22. News Reporter “I think the most memorable for me is the 10-kilometre classic or an eighth year in a row race – it was the race I was most Yukoners skied for Canada at looking forward to, but the day of the FIS Nordic World Junior/ the race was anything but ideal U23 Ski Championships and as conditions,” said Murray. “The usual they were among the leaders snow was super slushy, and it on the team. was very sunny and warm so the Yukon Ski Team’s Natalie Hynes race was definitely a challenge! and Kendra Murray both placed However, the most memorable second out of Canadians in races thing about the race was that I had at the championships last week in the chance to ski with many of the Rasnov, Romania. other girls on course … and skied “Going to the championships a lap with one of the fastest girls was an incredible experience I out there, which was pretty cool!” will never forget,” said Hynes in Hynes, who skied in the junior an email to the News. “Right from division, finished with her best the start all the way through to the result. She placed 56th in the last day when the team split up to 10-kilometre free at 27:08.1 on go home, I was having an amazFeb. 25 and was second on Canaing time … Having the chance to dian team. represent Canada for the chamShe also placed 58th in the fivepionships was inspiring! Even if kilometre classic – placing third I was not having a perfect day or out of four on the Canadian team if I was not feeling good, simply – on Feb. 23 and 70th in the sprint reminding myself I was wearing on Feb. 22. the Canadian jacket was enough Surprisingly, the race that to put a smile on my face.” stands out in her mind was the “I am happy with the effort one without a finish. I put in as I was sick before the “The relay race definitely championships and was not feelstands out for me the most being 100 per cent during the races,” cause it’s just such a fun atmosaid Murray in an email. “I feel I sphere!” said Hynes. “It was the did the best with how I was feeling only mass start of the series of at the time. I am not thrilled with races so it was interesting to get my results, but sometimes things to ski closely with other athletes do not go as planned, and you from around the world. Unfortuhave to work with what is given to nately, two of the girls who were you at the time!” supposed to race on the Canada Murray, who was racing in U23, relay team were sick so we didn’t placed 43rd in the 10-kilometre end up having a full team. Luckily classic with a time of 34:16.9 on the first leg skier and I were still Feb. 23. She then took 45th in allowed to do our part of the relay. the 10-kilometre free at 26:35.7 Although it was kind of sad not to on Feb. 25. She was second out have anybody to hand off to once of four Canadians in both disI had finished, I am still glad I had the opportunity to race.” tance races. The 22-year-old also Tom Patrick
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Last week marked Hynes’ first world championship. Hynes, who will race for Yukon at the Arctic Winter Games next week in Greenland, is eligible to compete at two more world championships in the junior division. “We’ve only had a handful of athletes who have been able to qualify that young,” said Yukon Ski Team head coach Alain Masson in a recent interview. “It’s unusual; it doesn’t happen too often.” Murray skied for Canada at the 2013 Winter World University Games in Italy. She has also raced for Canada at three Junior World Orienteering Championships. Murray won a bronze and Hynes placed eighth in the 7.5-kilometre classic at the 2015 Canada Winter Games just over a year ago in Prince George, B.C. They both skied on Yukon’s bronze winning 4x3.75-kilometre relay team at the Games. “I went to world juniors with a very open mind about what it would be like. I knew from the beginning that results weren’t my focus, but the most important part was to just enjoy myself and learn along the way,” said Hynes. “All I was really hoping for from the races was to gain valuable racing experience and to have fun! I certainly did this! Even if I was much closer to the back than when I am in Canada, I loved every second of it.” “I would just like to thank everyone here at home for the support I have received!” said Murray. “It is such an amazing feeling to know that a whole community is behind you and is wishing you all the best.” Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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speedskating meet in Calgary asked the Whitehorse Rapids Speed Skating Club a question and they answered “yes� with their performances. Yukon skaters won four medals at the RU Fast meet at Calgary’s Olympic Oval over the weekend. The team of eight also notched 24 personal best times at the meet. Marsh Lake’s Lucas TaggartCox was one two gold medals winners on the Rapids team, placing first in the competitive L2T Division 1. Taggart-Cox won both the 400-metre (45.560) and 500-metre (58.219) with personal best times, and also placed third in the 1,500-metre and fourth in the 200-metre. Brother Micah Taggart-Cox posted personal best times in all four distances to pocket silver in the T2T-13 category, which put him fourth overall among the T2T boys. The 14-year-old placed second in the 1,500-metre, cutting 12 seconds off his time. Whitehorse’s Tristan Muir had a similar weekend. The
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Whitehorse Rapids Speed Skating Club’s Michael Ritchie races at the RU Fast meet last weekend at Calgary’s Olympic Oval. The Yukon team won four medals. 13-year-old also PB’d in each race en route to silver in his T2T-12 category.
Whitehorse’s Andy Muir added a fourth medal with a gold in the masters division.
Twelve-year-old Caius Taggart-Cox decided to take on some older competition in
Calgary. Caius raced up an age level and placed third in the 1,500-metre in T2T and placed second overall out of the three L2T competitors with three personal best times. Haines Junctions Michael Ritchie, 15, placed fourth out of seven skaters in his T2T-15 category. “It was a fun race, very competitive, and I felt back in a good head space after a crash in an earlier race,� said Ritchie in a news release. The Rapids club was represented by two skaters racing their first meet out of the territory in the younger L2T division. Whitehorse’s Anders Petersson registered all personal best times on his way to fourth in the L2T Division 4, likely slipping from a medal spot with a fall in the 400-metre. Whitehorse’s Lisa Freeman also logged all PBs and finished two spots behind Petersson in sixth. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Mustangs, Wolfpack draw in heated series in Yellowknife
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Yukon Mustangs forward Matthew Butler gets the better of a collision with the Yellowknife Wolfpack’s Josh Beland during an exhibition game between the two rep team in Yellowknife on Saturday. Both teams finished the three-game series 1-1-1. (series) like this than at provincials. So we’re hoping the way News Reporter they responded after we had a talk with them after the second he Yukon Midget Musgame, they’ll take all that into tangs and the Yellowprovincials … Control their knife Wolfpack collected emotions and keep an even matching 1-1-1 records and a keel.” whole lot of penalty minutes The two northern teams tied over the weekend. 1-1 in the first game with MusThe two U-18 rep teams tangs forward Mathew Cooper both finished with a win, a loss logging a power-play goal. and a tie in a heated threeThe Yukon team then fell 5-0 game series in Yellowknife, in the second game that saw N.W.T. both teams dealt 10 penalties It was an instance of “miseach. guided testosterone,” said Mus“They all played hard, wanttangs head coach Kerry Pettitt. ed to win. Talking to the coach The fact the series was the of the other team, it was much Midget Mustangs’ first road the same, his team lost focus,” trip of the season might have said Pettitt. “We obviously lost had something to do with it, he it more. We didn’t pay attention added. in our end very well. We had a “That could be part of why lot of mistakes and they scored the emotion got out of hand is on them. the boys haven’t played enough “The other two games were of that brand of hockey,” said close because both teams played responsibly.” Pettitt. “But better here in a Tom Patrick
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The Mustangs bounced back with a 3-1 win over the WolfWalter Strong/Northern News Service pack to end the series. Yukon Mustangs forward Spencer Lessard, right, holds his ground forward Matthew Braga sniped in front of the Wolfpack goal despite shoves from Wolfpack two power-play goals and fordefender Casey McMullen. ward Ryan Troke also scored. “His team was planning a Cooper helped with two assists tion the Mustangs will face trip into Alberta, so we both before competing at the B.C. and teammates Matthew Butler agreed that it would be a perHockey Championships in the and Caleb Marsh also notched fect time for a tune-up. We get Sunshine Coast, March 13-17. assists. Mustangs goalie Roy to test our team structure and Pettitt and Wolfpack head Sinclair-Eckert was in net for the special teams to see how coach Mike Aumond figured the win. we’re doing,” said Pettitt. both teams would benefit beThe road trip to Yellowknife Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com was the last Outside competifore hitting the road.
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Price, who gave up only three goals in six games in the Sochi Olympics two years ago as Canada clinched gold, was named along with the Washington Capitals’ Braden Holtby and Corey Crawford of the Chicago Blackhawks. Although Canada’s general manager Doug Armstrong indicated Wednesday that Price was the top pick to assume the No. 1 spot in goal, the reigning Hart and Vezina Trophy winner was quick to point out the goaltending depth of the Canadian team. ``We want to win that tournament, and that’s the only thing that matters,’’ he said. ``I want to play, obviously, but I really want to win as well, so I hope I get that opportunity, but we have three guys who know how to play goal pretty well.’’ Holtby said he was eager to see Price back even if it could mean losing an opportunity to be the starter in the World Cup. ``I don’t like seeing guys struggle with injuries, especially (as) he’s in the prime of his career,’’ he told reporters Wednesday. ``He’s going to do a lot more for our sport on the ice than he is off. I hope he recovers quick for his sake and for the game’s sake.’’
Each team has big decision left before World Cup months away, and while the initial 16-man rosters are out, Associated Press each team has at least one major issue to figure out before WASHINGTON finalizing rosters June 1. ven though the NHL and A look at each team’s biggest NHLPA haven’t decided decision: whether to go to the 2018 United States: What kind of Olympics, they’ve decided to team will coach John Tortorella stage another World Cup of have? Shot blocking and strinHockey in 2020. Before it hapgent defence doesn’t fit with the pens in 2016, players seem to be American talent pool, but the on board. goaltending is certainly there. “You’re going to have the best Canada: With Carey Price’s players there and you’re going injury situation, is he the goalie to have the NHL style of playing or is Braden Holtby? “I’d like to and a smaller rink, too,” Swedsee Carey back and playing,” ish centre Nicklas Backstrom Holtby said. “I don’t like seesaid. “Everything is going to ing guys struggle with injuries, be NHL-like. Some people are especially he’s in the prime of maybe saying it’s going to be his career. He’s going to do a lot the greatest tournament of all more for our sport on the ice time.” than he is off.” Count Chicago Blackhawks Team North America: Deep winger Patrick Kane as one of at centre, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins those people. would be a major boost. His “It might be the best hockey general manager with the Edever played,” Kane said. “Conmonton Oilers, Peter Chiarelli, sidering players are going to wants to make sure he’s healthy have a couple months off, before adding him to the roster. you’re going to come in, have a Team Europe: Is GM Miroweek to get ready for the tourslav Satan feeling lucky? Adding nament and guys will be flying, Latvian Zemgus Girgensons or coming right off the summer.” Dane Nikolaj Ehlers might be a The World Cup is still six risk or it could put Team Europe Stephen Whyno
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in contention. Sweden: The deepest blue line in the tournament already features two-time Norris Trophy winner Erik Karlsson, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Victor Hedman, Anton Stralman, Niklas Hjalmarsson and Niklas Kronwall and there’s only one spot left. Does that go to the Dallas Stars’ John Klingberg or a more established but less dynamic player like Alexander Edler or Johnny Oduya. Russia: The first 16 players named to the roster are all from the NHL, so how much KHL representation will there be – beyond perhaps Alexander Radulov and Ilya Kovalchuk? “I’m not the coach,” Alex Ovechkin said. “You should ask him.” Finland: Teemu Selanne is gone, and Finland needs a new face for a best-on-best tournament. Lauri Marjamaki has to pick a new leader beyond goaltender Tuukka Rask. Czech Republic: This is more of Jaromir Jagr’s decision than the national federation’s. Jagr is 44 and if he wants to play at the World Cup, he will, or else the Czechs will have to move on.
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Sudoku Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.
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To solve Kakuro, you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares. The clues are the numbers in the white circles that give the sum of the solution numbers: above the line are across clues and below the line are down clues and below the line are down clues. Thus, a clue of 3 will produce a solution of 2 and 1 and a 5 will produce 4 and 1, or 2 and 3, but of course, which squares they go in will depend on the solution of a clue in the other direction. No difit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. © 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.
WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: to cause to emerge : discharge.
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WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: cowboy.
Puzzle B CLUES ACROSS 1. Computer screen material 4. Doctors’ group 7. Last month (abbr.) 10. Walked along 12. Without (French) 14. Swedish shag rug 15. Extinct flightless birds 17. Showing sound judgment 18. Hungarian Violinist Leopold 19. Stone of W. Ireland 22. Appeared to be true 23. Feet of two syllables
24. Point that is one point E of SE 25. Foray 26. Anno Domini 27. Doctor of Nursing 28. ___ ‘n Boots 30. Southern California Assoc. of Government 32. Sight & sound information 33. Pa’s partner 34. Cozy 36. Measurement unit
39. Acute abdominal pain 41. Zigzag skiing 43. Study of unorthodox psych. 46. Epochs 47. Pintado 48. Palm starches 50. Br. Univ. river 51. A minute amount (Scott) 52. Fr. military cap 53. Helps little firms 54. Perceive with the eyes 55. Woman making her debut
16. Brazillian ballroom dances 18. Fleet 20. Recompenses (archaic) 21. Swiss river 28. The visual percept of a region 29. Soft palate flaps 30. Mediterranean ricegrass 31. Panama and Suez 34. Egyptian beetle jewel 35. W. Virginia town 37. Loose outer garment
38. Took more than your share 40. Hyperbolic cosecant 41. Young pig 42. A nearsighted person 43. Two large muscles of the chest 44. Affirmatives 45. Algonquian people of Central Canada 49. A person’s brother or sister
CLUES DOWN 1. Confined condition, abbr. 2. Lots of crocodiles 3. Alt. spelling of 15 Across 4. Elected Syrian Pres. 1971 5. Low volcanic crater 6. The Piano actress Paquin 7. A severe thrashing 8. Protective fold for vision 9. Am. releif organization 11. The recipient of funds 13. A tractor-trailer
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WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: minority.
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OFFICE OR retail space, Ogilvie St, 1,350 sq ft, wheelchair access, leasehold improvements, move in time, kitchenette. 667-7144
LARGE SINGLE car garage, Copper Ridge, insulated, 20 shelves, carpenterĘźs work table, good for storage, can be heated, refs required, 668-2889 after 5pm
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LARGE 2-BDRM apt, 40 mins south of Whitehorse, available March 1, $800/mon incl hydro. 867-821-3739 BRIGHT OFFICE/STUDIO Space Available 1,300 sq. ft. 129 Copper Road. Space includes Kitchen area with stove & fridge. 667-2614 Ask for Brenda or Michelle totalfire@northwestel.net
ROOMMATE FOR nice house in Riverdale, available March 1, must be friendly & tidy, responsible tenant, N/P, $700/mon all inclusive + dd. Call or text 581-994-4565. 1-BDRM, COPPER Ridge, private washroom, refs reqĘźd, N/S, $500/mon includes all utilities. 336-1406
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QUIET CABIN, 1/2 acre lot, Tagish Rd, no power, water or neighbours, wood heat, pet ok, $300/mon. 867-399-3920 LARGE 2-BDRM bsmt suite, Granger, big kitchen, stainless steel appliances, large fenced yard, shared washer/dryer, ample parking space, rerliable tenant, N/S, no parties, refs & dd reqĘźd, $1400/mon inclusive. 336-3751 2-BDRM LOWER suite, Porter Creek, open, bright, incl washer/dryer, dishwasher, cable & internet, $1,500/mon neg with lease. 335-3660
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Be a part of one of Canada’s most dynamic environmental and socio-economic assessment processes; working with an energe c, progressive organiza on. We are commi ed to the well-being of our employees and encourage their personal and professional development. Our commitment is to be an impar al, effec ve and efficient organiza on that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.
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FURNISHED ROOM Porter Creek trailer, close to bus stop & mall, clean bright home. $400/mon + utils. Contact Telek @ 335-4501 or thesnarkhunter@hotmail.com 2-BDRM DUPLEX, Hillcrest, freshly painted interior, heat, Satellite, hot water incl, avail mid-March, N/P, N/S, $1,450/mon. Robinmoyen@hotmail.com 1-BDRM SUITE, Granger, sunny, parking, private entrance, new paint & renoʼd, furnished, avail March 1, N/P, N/S. 668-4205 ROOM AVAILABLE, downtown, avail April 1, $800 all inclusive. Call or text 334-3549 2-BDRM BSMT suite, Riverdale, N/S, N/P, refs & dd reqʼd, avail April 1, $1,000/mon utils incl. 334-3234
Job descrip ons are available at the Teslin Designated Office, 8 McLeary Street in Teslin, YESAB Head Office, Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street in Whitehorse or on our website at www.yesab.ca.
For our Head Office: ASSESSMENT OFFICER Full-Ɵme – One year term
WANTED: SHARED office space or small office for 1 day/week for medical business, manual lymph drainage, orthotics, compression segments. Phone 867-322-2630 or sangerer@northwestel.net RETIRED, MIDDLE-AGED guy looking for cabin. Basic hydro preferred, pets, road access. Location not an issue. Prefer out of town. Wanted May 1st. 778-631-2068
Wage commensurate with level NAKWAYE KU CHILD CARE Box 2799,Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5K4 E-mail: nakwayeku@yukoncollege.yk.ca | Fax: 668-8890 (Attn: Daycare)
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5 ACRES on Annie Lake Road with power, driveway, great building sites, mountain views, km 7.8, $145,000. 393-3311 TESLIN-1.5 HR from Whse, 4 bdrm w/shop/garage on 0.18 acre. Newer home with well. Easy lake access, $354,000. 333-4778 4 ACRES, commercial/residential, Lt 1026 Nygren sub. Haines Junction mountain view, cleared meadows, driveway, house/shop pad, power along prop line, water@ approx 60ʼ, $52,000 or w/3 bed mobile $60k. 334-6065 1.5 BDRM trailer, new deck, click flooring, garden, near green belt/trails, $25,000. 668-5188 before 4, lv msg
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board Information and Communications Specialist The Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board (Board) is hiring an energetic, highly self-motivated individual to fill the position of Information and Communications Specialist for a 0.8 position (approximately 4 days per week). This is a permanent position and includes an attractive benefits package. Reporting to the Executive Director, this position is responsible for information management and communications to assist the Board in fulfilling its mandate and objectives, which includes territorial, national and international issues relating to the management of Yukon’s fish, wildlife and their habitats. This position will support the Board in making recommendations to the appropriate Ministers, Yukon First Nations and Renewable Resources Councils on all matters related to fish and wildlife management, including legislation, regulations, policy, planning, research and programs. Priority Skills and Qualifications:
A job descrip on is available at the YESAB Head Office, Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse or on our website at www.yesab.ca.
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Located in Teslin, this posi on reports to the Manager, Designated Office and is responsible for assis ng in conduc ng environmental and socio-economic assessment of projects. This includes iden fying project effects and mi ga on measures for adverse effects, determining the significance of any residual effects and developing recommenda ons. The annual salary range for this posi on is $67,987.78 - $78,384.94 based on 75 hours biweekly.
1-BDRM SUITE, Copper Ridge, full bath, full kitchen, beautiful location, access to greenbelt, N/S, N/P, $1,000/mon + utils & dd. 334-9230
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ONE ROOM cabin, Wolf Creek North, has all amenities, full kitchen, full bath & on water delivery, N/S, N/P, $900/mon + utils & dd. 334-9230 to view
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Excellent communication skills, both oral and written; Knowledge of the mandate and responsibilities of the Board Strong information management and analysis skills; Knowledge of the Umbrella Final Agreement, specifically Chapter 16; Developing, analyzing, implementing communication/media strategy Excellent computer literacy; Website management, updating, maintenance and training. Strong project management skills; Good interpersonal and presentation skills; Knowledge of fish and wildlife management planning processes; Knowledge of the preparation and planning of public reviews, hearings, meetings or other events; Administering the production of public information materials including reports, printed materials, educational brochures etc. Knowledge of Yukon environmental, land claims, and resource issues; Knowledge of resource management principles and practices; Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously;
To view the full job description, please visit our website: www.yfwmb.ca Closing date: March 25th, 2016 Applications may be submitted in person, by mail, or email to: Graham Van Tighem, Executive Director Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board (In person) #409 Black Street (2nd däna Näye Ventures Building) (Mail to) P.O. Box 31104 Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 5P7 Phone: 867-667-5835 executivedirector@yfwmb.ca
NEED AN APPRAISAL IN ATLIN? I am trying to arrange one and am looking for other parties to share the cost of the appraiser's travel from Terrace, BC. Approximate timeframe is summer of 2016. Please contact Steve Robertson at (867) 667-4586.
Help Wanted HELP WANTED NOC 6731 Housekeeping Room Attendant Qualifications: Relevant hotel certification preferred. Applicants with relevant experience preferred Hours: 40 hours/week Wage: $15.50/hr Duties: Make beds, change sheets, distribute clean towels & toiletries Dust furniture, vacuum carpets. Clean hotel rooms/public areas Attend to guest requests for extra supplies hr@elitehotel.ca Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd. 206 Jarvis St Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2H1 LEAD CSR NOC#6551 $13 up to $17 per hour 40 per week Duties: to provide wide range of cash based products and services Email taunya.hirschl@moneymartdr.com LIVE-IN CAREGIVER required to provide home & personal care to elderly woman in Pelly Crossing. Home Care Certificate or equivalent experience required. Contact Adam: 867-689-4892 mvanbibber@shaw.ca THE CLAIM CAFE requires a senior baker. Two years commercial food experience is necessary. Passion for food and baking schooling are pluses. Apply with resume to 305 Strickland Street or info@theclaim.ca FULL-TIME DENTAL ASSISTANT REQUIRED for busy dental practice. Experience an asset (CDA I/II), but would train the right applicant. Please apply with resume to Whitehorse Dental Clinic, 406 Lambert Street or fax resume to 667-4488. Email questions or resume to jdo899@gmail.com
Friday, March 4, 2016 DENTAL HYGIENIST required at busy dental practice. Full-time/part-time (flexible hours). Please apply with resume to: Whitehorse Dental Clinic, 406 Lambert St. (behind Medicine Chest Pharmacy) Attn: Dr. Colin Nash. Please email any questions to: whitehorsedental@northwestel.net The Kluane Dana Shaw Corporation is accepting applications for two (2) full-time employment positions: Administrative Coordinator and Finance Manager. Closing Date: March 31, 2016. For complete details please email gclark@kluanecorp.ca HOUSE CLEANING REQUIRED with laundry and care for pets. 5 days a week 3 hours per day Starting April 1 $20/hour 5 minutes drive from downtown. Please text (no calls) 1-867-336-4112 THE YUKON HORSE AND RIDER ASSOCIATION is accepting proposals for the paid position of “Show Manager” for the July 9 and 10, 2016, horse show. For information, or to submit a proposal, contact Elsie Wain at yukonmorgans@gmail.com. Proposals will be accepted until Friday, March 18, 2016.
Miscellaneous for Sale 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 ASSORTED TOOLS, hand, power, woodworking & mechanical, vg cond, 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek. 633-6553 ART PRINTS, Robert Bateman, End of Season Grizzly, Jim Robb, Caribou Crossing, Full Moon In The Klondike, all signed by artists w/glass & frames, 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek. 633-6553 Native Brain-Tanned MOOSE HIDES At Reasonable Prices Tanned beaver & other furs also available. Phone (780) 355-3557 or (780) 461-9677 or write: Lodge Fur & Hides Box 87, Faust, AB. T0G-0X0 PORTABLE TESTING sluice, new Honda 3” pump with hoses & ventury suction, all new, view 49 Redwood Street, Porter Creek. 633-6553 STAINLESS STEEL commercial kitchen sink, 50" x 25" x15" deep, $200. Call 633-4375 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 MENʼS BLACK shoes, sz 9, like new, $15. 334-8318 3 TON chain hoist, never used, view at 49 Redwood Street, Porter Creek. 633-6553 YUKON SOURDOUGH Rendezvous 1988 print by Cris Caldwell, hand-signed. 633-2236 10” ORION telescope, exc cond, c/w carry bag, $200 obo. 334-4910 LAMINATE FLOORING to cover 24x24 area, still in box from the store. Price reduced. 867-399-4002 LAKE LABERGE campground, Lot 21, lots of outdoor gear, March 25 to 28. 633-2236 WANTED: VHS Anne of Green Gables movies. 633-2236 1995 ARCTIC Cat snowmobile, good cond, serious inquiries only, $600 obo. 667-6207 20 BRADFORD Exchange collector plates includes Norman Rockwell, Louis Dali Limoges, Grimms Fairy Tales, The Canterbury Tales, all in excellent condition, $10 each obo. 332-9012 9”X32” METAL lathe, c/w 1/2” drill chuck, 3 jaw chuck, 4 jaw chuck, face plate, steady rest, live centre, dead centre, some tooling, exc cond, $1,500. 456-2130 ERZGEBIRGE SPIELUHR Komm Lieber Mai, new in box, was $200, asking $99, new in box. 633-2236
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Part Time, Term Health Mar. 10, 2016 Level 6 - $36.32 to $44.03 per hour
Please email: meganf@skillscanada.com for a detailed job description. APPLY VIA EMAIL BY MARCH 9TH, 2016.
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Executive Director The Klondike Visitors Association (KVA) in Dawson City, Yukon is seeking an Executive Director. Candidates should have a degree in business administration or significant work experience in a management capacity of a multi-faceted organization. The duties include management of a Tourism Destination Marketing Organization and overseeing its business operations, including Diamond Tooth Gerties Casino, with an overall organization budget approaching $3M. Candidates should have: • Experience working in a not-for-profit organization with a board of directors • Experience handling contract administration and industrial relations management in an organization with 7 year round employees and 60+ seasonal employees • Business operational skills with demonstrated management skills and the ability to interpret financial reports • Exceptional interpersonal and communication abilities Salary & Benefits: Compensation is commensurate with qualifications and KVA policy Competition Closes: Friday March 11, 2016 at 5 pm (pst) A detailed job description is available upon request. For further information, or to submit a résumé, please contact: Brian Stethem: Chair, Klondike Visitors Association at bstethem@northwestel.net
Ta’an Kwäch’än Council 117 Industrial Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2T8 Telephone: 867.668.3613 Facsimile: 867.667.4295
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Manager Lands, Resources and Heritage Regular Full Time TKC wage scale Level 9 As the Manager you will be accountable to the Executive Director to plan, develop, implement and review laws, regulations, policies and standards specific to lands, water, resources (mineral, forest, etcetera), the flora and fauna and human activities. This requires analysing self-government powers in the context of tri-party legislative requirements. As well, this position is responsible for ensuring that Ta’an Kwäch’än Council government initiatives and policies are developed pursuant to the TKC Final Agreement, TKC Constitution and meet approval by the Councils. To access the job description please call Human Resources Department or contact by e-mail rkufeldt@taan.ca Closing date: Monday, March 7, 2016. As per policy, preference will be given to TKC citizens who self- declare in their cover letter and/or résumé Please submit a cover letter and résumé to: Human Resources Department
Email: human.resources@taan.ca
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
SENIOR POLICY & PLANNING ADVISOR JOB DESCRIPTION: provide policy and planning advice and assistance to the Yukon Land Use Planning Council with respect to the implementation of Chapter 11 (Land Use Planning) of the Umbrella Final Agreement and the Yukon First Nation Final Agreements. Advise the Planning Director and the Council with respect to First Nation governments’ land and resource-use management interests. Prepare written and oral briefings, reports and correspondence. Participate in community engagement sessions and make presentations to the Council, First Nations, government and the public. QUALIFICATION: Demonstrated experience in providing land use and resource management planning and policy development. Proven skills in: 1) developing or implementing First Nation Land Claim Agreements; 2) conflict resolution; 3) communication and consultation; 4) researching land management and planning related topics. A valid Yukon Driver’s License is a pre-requisite, as travel to Yukon communities will be required. Minimum of Grade 12 education or work experience equivalent required. A more detailed list of Qualifications and the Job Description is available upon request. The salary range is $65,653 to $80,972 with an employee benefit package. Please submit a covering letter with resume and three references before the closing date of March 24, 2016 to: Ron Cruikshank, Director Yukon Land Use Planning Council 201 – 307 Jarvis St., Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2H3 Tel: (867) 667-7397 | Fax: (867) 667-4624 The YLUPC acknowledges Clause 22.4.0 of the Umbrella Final Agreement, Employment Opportunities for Yukon First Nation individuals. YLUPC thanks all who apply and advises that only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
Yukon Women’s Transition Home Society
MANAGER OF KAUSHEE’S PLACE The Yukon Women’s Transition Home Society is a non-profit Society that offers shelter, support, advocacy and referral to women and their children fleeing violence. We are looking for a Manager of Kaushee’s Place to cover a maternity leave for approximately 9 months with the possibility an extension. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of our Society, ability to apply Response Based Practice and experience managing staff in a unionized work environment. If you understand the dynamics of violence against women, have 5 years supervisory experience and are able to manage a 24 hour facility, proven ability to manage a budget, good communication and interpersonal skills, effective problem solving skills and ability to handle crisis and have a feminist analysis then we want to hear from you. Wages as per the Collective Agreement, the successful candidate will be required to be on-call and work outside of regular hours. Please send resume and cover letter by 9 am March 21, 2016 to: Barbara McInerney, Executive Director Box 31392 Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 6K8 Or email edywth@northwestel.net Job description available upon request by email or call 633-7722
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HOMELITE 1 1/2 outlet gas water pump, view at 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek.
ElderActive Recreation Association (ERA) Permanent/Part-time position 20 hrs/week Wage $18 to $22/hr, DOE
PROPANE FORCED air, propane heater, 35,000 BTUs, view at 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek.
The Coordinator will receive direction from the Board of Directors and will be responsible for all aspects of organizing and promoting existing and researching new programs.
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Qualifications: The applicant must be able to communicate well both orally and in writing, have good organizational skills and be a self-starter; must have a solid working knowledge of Word, Excel and Outlook. Applicants must have a minimum grade 12 education, preferably with some coursework in computer programs and experience in the nonprofit recreation field. A complete job description can be obtained by emailing elderactive@sportyukon.com.
ELECTRIC RANGE with convection oven to give away, works fine. 633-2837
Please submit your cover letter and resume electronically, by March 11, or in person to the ERA office (Tuesday to Friday 9:00 to 1:00) in the Sport Yukon building: 4061 – 4th Avenue, Whitehorse, YT.
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Northland Mobile Park ➥ OFFICE MANAGER
City of Whitehorse ➥ ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST ➥ CASUAL/TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS
Kluane Drilling Ltd. ➥ SENIOR DIAMOND DRILLER
Tr’ondek Hwech’in Governement ➥ AUXILIARY/ ON-CALL PROGRAM YOUTH LEADER Better Bodies Cross Training Center ➥ PERSONAL TRAINER G & P Steakhouse ➥ EXPERIENCED SERVER
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PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com
100 LB propane bottles, $50 per bottle. 332-7797
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Days Inn Whitehorse ➥ HOUSEKEEPER Konde Cab Ltd. ➥ TAXI DRIVERS
IBANEZ HOLLOW body electric guitar, birdʼs eye maple body , like new, $800. Godin electric plus acoustic guitar, built in one, c/w hard case shell, made in Montreal, $1,200. 332-1360
FRIDGE WITH large freezer space, view at 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek
Computers & Accessories
IPHONE 5 Bell 16gb, comes from nonsmoker home, great shape, c/w charger & headphones, $250. More info call 335-2092
Firewood 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
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
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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THOMASʼ FIREWOOD From Fox Lake •Long, hot burn •$220 per cord Call 334-3979 DONʼS FIREWOOD •Year-Round Harvester/Supply •Junction Beetle Kill •Daily Deliveries from Whitehorse •Competitive Pricing Phone 393-4397 firewooddon@outlook.com
Guns & Bows LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL WINCHESTER MODEL 37 16-gauge single shot shotgun, vg cond, $250. 633-2443 WEATHERBY 20 gauge semi auto, Uplander, shortened version for women or youth, c/w full case of ammo, choke tubes, must have FAC, $700 obo. 333-0866 RUGER 77-22, as new, 22 LR caliber, $900 obo. 668-4726 or 335-4749 BROWNING LEVER action, 22 LR caliber, vg cond, $500 obo. 668-4726 or 335-4749 RUGER REDHAWK 44 magnum stainless steel, like new, one box fired through it, $1000. 336-0783
WHITEHORSE RIFLE & Pistol Club is having a restricted firearm safety course on Sunday, March 6. Be there by 8:30am. Call 633-2488
Employment Opportunity
Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Casual Position Salary - $25.94 per hour Duration: March 14th, 2016 to September 2, 2016 (Part-time from March 14, 2016 to May 1, 2016 & full-time from May 2, 2016 to September 2, 2016) Competition# 16.16 Initial Review date: March 7, 2016
Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782
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
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Coordinator, Summer Camps School of Continuing Education & Training
Store (867) 633-3276
BACH TRUMPET, used one season in HS, band. Paid $675, asking $500 firm. 332-7797
Bubbles Daycare ➥ CHILDCARE WORKER
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.
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RUGER M77 Varmint, 22-250, 2 sets of rings, good cond, accurate, $800 obo. 332-2352
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY SELKIRK FIRST NATION Selkirk First Nation is a culturally oriented traditional community located in Pelly Crossing Yukon. It is a perfect place for someone who enjoys the outdoors whether on the river in the summer or by snowmobile in the winter. A short three hour drive from Whitehorse, it is the best of both worlds with access to the wilderness and the services of Yukon’s capital. Employees work 35 hours per week and enjoy a comprehensive leave and benefit package. The First Nation is currently looking to fill the following key position: Director Human Resources – Salary Negotiable – depending on experience Reporting to the Senior Director Operations, this position is responsible for the management and administration of the HR department, and for providing senior level human resource service and advice. Activities include development and implementation of policies, procedures, tools and processes, organizational design reviews, staff relations, salary and benefits administration, recruitment and retention, position creation, review and classification, occupational health and safety, and staff training. For more information including required qualifications and job descriptions, contact Denise L Norman at normand@selkirkfn.com or by calling 867-334-2555. Please submit all applications via email to the same address. Selkirk First Nation hiring policies will apply. CLOSING DATE: MARCH 7, 2016 Please be advised that the primary method of communications with applicants will be by email, and only those who are being considered will be contacted.
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RUGER BISLEY 45 Long Colt, like new, 2 boxes fired through, $1,000. 336-0783 SMITH & Wesson 500 magnum, 8 3/8 barrel, 1 box, 20 rounds fired through, like new, $1,500. 336-0783 HUNTER ARMS “The Fulton” model, 12 gauge sxs shotgun, 2 3/4” chambers, good solid gun built by same company that made L.C. Smith guns, $400. 633-2443 NON-RESTRICTED PAL course March 19, 20. Presented by Whitehorse Rifle and Pistol Club. For info call 667-6728 or 334-1688
Wanted WANTED: WEIGHT bench with weights, cheap. 689-8676 WANTED: FREE-STANDING bathtub, small. 633-2236 WANTED: LARGE picnic cooler, Coleman or other in good clean condition for back of truck. 667-4526 lv msg WANTED: SOMEONE who can help cleaning a straight chimney at Lake Laberge. 633-2236 THOMSON CENTRE is recruiting two volunteers for our small in-house store, Monday or Friday, 12:00 to 2:30. Must be detail-oriented and comfortable handling cash. Please call Kathy 393-8629
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YUKON NEWS 1999 FORD F-250 Super Duty. Automatic V10 Triton engine, new windshield, brakes, battery & starter. Front & rear receivers, 5th wheel ready $6,000. 332-3040
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Call or Text 867-335-7997 2013 NISSAN Murano, fully loaded, leather, heated seats, AWD, exc cond, still under warranty, $23,500 obo. Must sell. 334-6799 2009 NISSAN Altima 4-dr, 2.5s, air, cruise, tilt, cloth, custom wheels & winters, $6,500. 333-0186 2008 TOYOTA Corolla, manual, all season and winter studded tires, 187,500km, great condition, good on fuel, $6,200. 333-4014 2003 CHEVROLET Cavalier 5-speed manual 2.2L DOCH Ecotech engine, p/l,p/w, a/c,abs, remote start, aftermarket sound system, sunroof. new windshield, brakes & wheel bearings. In great shape, 210,000 kms. 332-3040 2002 GMC Envoy, automatic, 4x4, fully loaded, new brakes in fall, new transmission 2 years ago, regular maintenance, 380,000 km, excellent condition, $3,900. 334-3710 1997 FORD Contour V6, blue, 150,000 kms, very clean, imitation leather interior, sunroof, new tires, runs great, $1,800. 335-1088 1996 OLDSMOBILE Cutlass Supreme, exc cond, 190,000kms, $1,900. 332-9975 1958 FORD Edsel, Pacer, orig cond, some rust, runs well, has inspection, c/w some parts & manual, $4,700 obo. 867-399-3920
Trucks
1997 GMC C-2500 4X4, ext cab, 350/auto trans, $3,500 obo. 334-4687 1996 PLYMOUTH Voyager van, vg condition, clean and smooth, 280,000km, tinted windows, $2,200 obo. 322-1476 1995 DODGE 5.9L, Super Cab, DSL, auto, 12-valve 2-wheel drive, Hirise canopy, 3/4 ton diesel, Hankook tires, 284,000 kms, new rad, fuel pump, 2 new batteries, water pump, thermostat, synthetic oil and more, $4,000. Gus @ 393-4796 1991 FORD Explorer, grey, 4WD, A/C, P/W, P/L, air, sunroof, 4-dr, new winter tires, battery, alternator, brakes, $1,500. 334-2862 1976 CHEVY wheelchair school bus, 25ĘźL, no seats, compact side-mount wheelchair lift, vg multi-purpose vehicle, automatic trans. 334-8083
Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box
FULL BOX aluminum canopy w/4 side cabinets & lift hatchback, $400. 332-7797 3 TIRES, almost new, LT 245/75 R16, $100 for all. 334-7405 BLACK RAIDER canopy for long box truck. It currently sits on a 2008 Ram 3500. Both locks work perfectly, no leaks, $1450 obo. 332-6868 MOTOMASER TOTAL Terrain light truck tires, winter rated, studs in 60% cond, tread in 60% cond, 225/75 R16, Haines Jct, $100/all or $120 delĘźd to Whitehorse. 867-634-2501
Pets MISSING: ON North Alaska Highway, male neutered cat, black & white, long fur, 4 white paws, answers to Tuck or Bert. If found contact Mae Baechur shelter
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TWO YEAR old Havanese cross, spayed female, all shots up to date. Free to good home, kennel inclĘźd. 660-5858
2012 GMC Sierra, 2500 HD, single cab, long box, 4WD, diesel, $29,000 obo. 332-1939 2011 RAM SLT 1500, Hemi, quad cab, 123,000km, $22,500. 333-0186 2007 GMC 3500 HD, CC, LB, 4X4, 6.0L, 6-spd auto/man, all records etc, $12,000. 333-0186 2006 TOYOTA Tacoma TRD offroad, auto trans, exc shape, well mantained, 206,000km tunnel cover, undercoating, DVD player, GPS, A/C, new windshield, brakes & suspension, $14,200 obo. 336-3470 2005 F350 Turbo diesel 1-ton, 4x4, white, crew cab, 420,000 kms, runs good, new batteries & alternator. Tires 80% winters, great work truck, $6,900 obo. 335-1088
The following insurance salvage is up for bids. Salvage vehicles may have signiďŹ cant collision damages. Listed salvage is currently located at Irving Collision Repairs. GST will be added to all bids. It is offered on an “as is, where isâ€? basis. The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted. Bids close at 6:00 p.m. Monday, March 14, 2016. Contact Irving Collision Repairs (867-667-6315) for viewing appointment & information. MAKE Dodge Toyota Kia Buick Toyota Chrysler
Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100
We Sell Trucks! 2015 GMC SLT 3500HD, dual 4x4, crewcab diesel, black, 81,000km, $51,000. 633-4375
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Spay or Neuter Your Dog You may qualify to have one family dog spayed or neutered for FREE or at a reduced amount if you fall into one of the following categories:
1. You live in an outlying Yukon community 2. You qualify as having a low income (Whitehorse included) 3. Your local First Nation, town or village council has agreed to cost share with Humane Society Yukon
FREE TO go home, 8 year old husky, neutered male. Retired sled dog . Needs lots of space to run. Friendly. 332-3711
1973 ALPINE doubletrack, 640 engine w/electric start & reverse, c/w two spare engines, $1,450 obo. 867-399-3920
DOG WALKER available. For reasonably well trained dog. Tuesday and Thursday mornings - 10:30 to 11:30. No charge. E-mail: vaughan@northwestel.net
2 HARLEY Davidson skidoos, 1973/1974, one running, other good for parts, $950 obo for both. 867-399-3920
DOG MISSING from Judas Creek Dr February 24. Her name is Chummy, she's black & white w/blue eyes. She was limping. We miss her terribly. 334-2419
Motorcycles & Snowmobiles TAITĘźS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com RONĘźS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVĘźs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg
2009 M1000 Arctic Cat 163" track, 2 1/4" paddles, 170 hrs, 2nd owner. Well maintained, exc cond. Must sell, $5000, obo. 867-821-3323 2008 SKIDOO 600 RS race sled, only 640 miles, runs perfect, 121� track, 1/3/4 lugs, $4,000 obo. 336-3470
Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 HONDA OUTBOARD, 20hp short shaft, rope start, less than 20 hrs, like new, $2,500. 336-8938
Heavy Equipment
2004 ARCTIC Cat, Mountain Cat, 800 cc, series M1, 151� track, vg cond, well maintained, $3,200 obo. 633-5825 JO'S SMALL ENGINE REPAIR •Repairs to snowmobiles, snowblowers , chainsaws, outboards, lawnmowers and more. •Shop rate $70 per hour, •Lawnmowers and chainsaws $60 per hour. Call Steve @ 633-6314 or 334-1628 RECREATIONAL POWERSPORTS AND MARINE (RPM) REPAIRS Service, repair and installations for snowmobiles, ATVs, motorcycles, chainsaws, marine and more Qualified and experienced mechanic Great rates! Call Patrick at 335-4181
GOLD WASH Plant, 36ʟ long, 48� diameter, is on a 53ʟ triaxle high-boy, c/w extras, $95,000, open to offers. 780-916-4247 lv msg SMALLER SET of rolls, powered by two 20 horse electric motors, 440 power, $2,000. 633-4606 COMPLETE PIONEER crusher, belt power units, rolls & jaw crusher unit, feeder unit, $6,000. 633-4606 WANTED: KOMATSU or Hitachi 200 to 300 & 350 to 450 size hydraulic excavators. Mid-life hours preferable. jonathanganter@hotmail.com. 780-289-4989
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
For more information contact Linda Priestley at 1-867-633-6019 or email linda.priestly@humanesocietyyukon.ca
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UTILITY TRAILER, has drop down ramp, high sides and back. View at 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek
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Spillar 2012 KX450F motor bike, new rear tire & sprockets, very low hours, $5,800 obo. 334-6857 M8 ARCTIC Cat snow machine, 162� track, new skidplate & other accessories, only 1,200 miles, great cond, $4,200. 660-5545 1996 SKI-DOO MX Renegade 500 touring, 2-up seat, spare skis, $1,875 obo. 334-4687
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ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away� Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail glacierviewcabins@gmail.com www.glacierviewcabins.ca HOSPICE YUKON: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to all those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis, M-F 11:30-3PM. 667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net
AL-ANON MEETINGS, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someoneʟs drinking? Wednesday 12Noon @ Anglican Church, 4th & Elliott, back door, Friday 7pm Lutheran Church, 4th & Strickland, beginnerʟs meeting, Friday 8pm Lutheran Church regular meeting KIDS KREATE, free family art class at the Yukon Arts Centre, March 13, 1–4pm, crafting effigies for Burning Away the Winter Blues Parade. Call 393-7109 for more information CHILKOOT TRAIL/LOG Cabin: Non-motorized weekend: March 11-13. Other weekends & weekdays: Multi-Use. For info: 867-667-3910 HORAIRE PISTE Chilkoot/Log Cabin: Multi-usage sauf du 11 au 13 mars: activities non motorisees. 867-667-3910 CANCER SUPPORT Group Appreciation for Life, past or present, Yukon peopleʟs gathering. Meetings are Feb 15, 6pm, and March 16, 7pm, Whitehorse Public Library. Contact Dawn 335-0009 WOMENS CLOTHING SALE Sunday, March 13 1pm-5pm Fundraiser Event Proceeds used for community outreach projects SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 1609 Birch St. (Basement) QUEER YUKON: upcoming events for the LGBTQ community and allies, Out North, Yukon Pride and more! www.queeryukon.com 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 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 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 SWAZILAND EDUCATIONAL Trust Society spaghetti dinner fundraiser, March 5, Hellaby Hall. Dinner 5-6:30pm, loonie auction 6:30pm. Tickets $12. Proceeds to educate children in Africa. Reserve tickets: 633-2580 or 334-4473 PORTER CREEK Community Association meeting Monday, March 7th, 5:15 pm, Guild Hall. All Welcome. Come show your support. Info 633-4829 YUKON MULTIPLE Sclerosis Association invites you to come meet the board, share your ideas and have a coffee on us. March 12th 2016 at 2pm Starbucks across from Walmart MS SOCIETY of Canada is hosting a community consultation in Yukon on March 5, 2016, at the Kwanlin Dunn Cultural Centre, 10:30am-1:30pm. This will include a presentation, then looking for feedback/input. THE RIGHTEOUS Wrath of Dene-Yeniseian Eagle-Slayer: Asian-Athabaskan Cultural Ties in Myth and Lore , Long Ago Yukon SKYPE lecturer Dr. Joseph A.P. Wilson, Beringia Centre Saturday, March 5, 1 p.m. www.facebook.com/LongAgoYukon
Margaret Kathleen Johnson
June 9, 1944 February 23, 2016
Buddy
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On February 23 we lost our beloved Mother in a tragic accident. She was well known to many around town as she has lived here since 1968. People would always know her by sight if not by name. She will be remembered for her kindness and compassion, her generosity, creativity and sharp British wit. What she will be remembered for most was her unwavering strength and resilience.
And more... Come for a visit and meet your next furry family member!
Maggie loved her children, Patrick and Shannon, and her Grandchildren, Bailey (8) and Brody (4) more than anything. She always had a photo album ready to show what a proud Nana she was. We had the best Mother and Nana that anyone could hope to have.
RUNNING AT LARGE... If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382
A Celebration of life will be held at Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre, Grey Mountain Room, on Saturday March 5th at 2pm.
Willow
Bears
If your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 Tlingit Street.
Pets will be posted on the Pet Report for two weeks. Please let us know after that time if you need them re-posted.
You can also check out our award winning website at:
WWW.HUMANESOCIETYYUKON.CA
This will be a celebration for an amazing woman and we welcome anyone with a story or memory about their time with Maggie to share it with us. We would like to thank all our friends and the community for the overwhelming and generous amount of support that we have received during this difďŹ cult time. Patrick & Shannon Johnson
Friday, March 4, 2016
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WHITEHORSE CONCERTS presents RonĂŠe Boyce, solo piano at The Yukon Arts Centre on Saturday, March 5. Concert begins at 8:00 pm. steve@whitehorseconcerts.com SERIES OF 7 Gospel Services, High Country Inn boardroom. March 6 & 13, 3:30 pm. March 2 & 9, 7:30 pm. March 4 &11, 7:30 pm. Arnold Blondke & Michael Moulson. 403-336-2428 SATURDAY SALSA Dancing, 8:00pm to 11pm. Lessons at 8pm, Saturday April 2nd, Bd Party Room, use the door behind Epic Pizza, Leaping Feats studio, 38 Lewes Boulevard. COFFEE HOUSE Saturday March 5, 2016, 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 DIRECT A Play In A Day Theatre Workshop with Director Clare Preuss. Presented by Gwaandak Theatre with YAC. March 13. YAC Studio. Register: 393-2676 or event@gwaandaktheatre.ca INTĘźL FOLK Fest, 30th Annual, Skagway, Friday April 15, 7pm AK time, EagleĘźs Hall, on Broadway at 6th. Skagwayartscouncil.blogspot.com, 907-983-3222, bring Passport. YUKON RESIDENTIAL Landlord Association Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at Whitehorse Public Library meeting room. 6:00 pm. All landlords encouraged to attend.
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FREE BOARD Game Drop-In @ Whitehorse Public Library Meeting Room, Saturday March 5th, 12-5pm. Games provided, all are welcome. Hosted by the Yukon Comic Culture Society. More info: info@yukomicon.com SUNDOGS TOASTMASTERS 35th Anniversary, calling past members, planning a reunion/fun night late March. Whether short/ long term member, let us know if you might be interested, herbeeking@hotmail.com 204-880-7245 JAZZ ON the Wing, March 6. New York City vocalist & pianist Champian Fulton Quartet. Tickets yukontickets.com, Yukon Arts Centre Box Office 667-8574 or Arts Underground YUKON P R O S P E C T O R S Association March 8th, 7 pm, monthly meeting is 2nd Tuesday of each month at Yukon Chamber of Mines 3rd and Strickland St: Check out www. yukonprospectors .ca GIRLS & Trans Club, Thursdays at 3:30, meet for fun, food and feminism. Free! Victoria Faulkner WomenĘźs Centre, 503 Hanson. Info: vfwcgirlsclub@northwestel.net or 667-2693 AGM NOTICE for Predators, Dog Puller Sport Athletic League, Sunday April 17th 1-3 pm at the Whitehorse Public library. General Membership fees $25.00 also due at this time. yukon.predators@gmail.com TUCHONI HERITAGE Society founding meeting on Friday May 6 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Place TBA. Contact Ned Ebbs. BCNU
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PLUMBING AND HEATING MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS YUKON HOUSING UNITS WHITEHORSE AREA, YUKON
ELECTRICAL MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS YUKON HOUSING UNITS WHITEHORSE AREA, YUKON
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 15, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 15, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 15, 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 Robert Janits at robert.janits@gov.yk.ca.
Documents may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Robert Janits at robert.janits@gov.yk.ca.
If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Robert Janits at robert.janits@gov.yk.ca.
All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review.
All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review.
The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.
The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.
The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.
View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
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All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review.
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Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Vivian Harris
(Kelly)
April 10, 1924 – February 27, 2016
Vivian Rosemary Harris was born April 10, 1924 in Dawson City to parents Gerald Kelly & Rose Page. Vivian passed away on February 27, 2016 in Whitehorse. Vivian is predeceased by her loving husband William Lyle Harris, father Gerald Kelly, mother Rose Page, sisters Gloria, Joy, and Ilene, and brother Ken. Vivian is survived by her daughter Kay Miller, grandsons Billy and Charlie, and many nieces and nephews. “My boat finally come in.� At Vivian’s request a Celebration of Life will not be held.
Cress Linus Lundstrom June 14, 1943 – February 29, 2016
Cress Lundstrom passed away peacefully at Copper Ridge Place on Monday, February 29, 2016 after a long struggle with dementia. Cress will be dearly missed by his family, Darla, Taliah, Erik and Amiee, his extended family, and his many friends. Cress was an intelligent, compassionate man who loved God and life. His joy was found in nature, music, ďŹ shing, writing, photography, and his family and friends.
Application Number NumĂŠro de la demande
Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire
Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu
Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise
Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h
MS15-094
Minto Exploration Ltd
Big Creek/Minto Creek, Trib. of Yukon River
Miscellaneous
March 15, 2016
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 indiquÊe sur le prÊsent 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 secrÊtariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.
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YK-AK COFFEE House Saturday April 16, 2016. To get on Open Stage call 633-4580, bring potluck 4:30pm, help set-up 5:30pm, 7:00pm show, $5 United Church bsmt, 6th + Main.
WHITEHORSE CURLING Club International Bonspiel. Get your team registered, $240 entry fee. Great prizes, food & entertainment. March 24-27, 2016. Contact Whitehorse Curling Club at 667-2875
SAY GOODBYE to winter, welcome spring with Burning Away the Winter Blues. On March 19th join a torch-lit procession at 9:00pm at the S.S. Klondike to a huge bonfire, where you can burn your blues away! Substance-free event
OPENING DOORS from Yukon to Cote d'Azur features 15 modelling clay paintings of scenery from Yukon and Southern France. Enjoy lunch and art at the Hilltop Bistro! www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/pages/hilltop_bistro FRESH ROASTED Writing from 1-3 pm Sunday, March 6 at Bean North Cafe, km 9.6 Hot Springs Road. 633-3566
PUBLIC TENDER PAINTING SERVICES YUKON HOUSING UNITS WHITEHORSE, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 15, 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 Lester Balsillie at lester.balsillie@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a 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/
Friday, March 4, 2016
YUKON NEWS SUGARING OFF Brunch, March 13th, 10am-1pm, Centre de la francophonie, 302 Strickland. French-Canadian specialities served with pure maple syrup. $15 adult, $35 family of 4. Tickets at the door. fondation.afy.yk.ca WHITEHORSE G E N E R A L Hospital Women's Auxiliary monthly meeting Monday March 14th, 7:30 p.m. at WGH. New members welcome. Info: 667-2087 HABITAT-FOR HUMANITYʼS next regular monthly meeting is Tuesday, March 8 at 7 pm, at the Waterfront Station. All are welcome. 456-4349 or info@habitatyukon.org
PUBLIC TENDER
PUBLIC TENDER
HOME RELOCATION AND UPGRADES DAWSON CITY
EXTERIOR BUILDING UPGRADE AND SITE DRAINAGE MAYO
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 16, 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 Bob Kostelnik at Robert.Kostelnik@gov.yk.ca.
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 31, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.
YRTA (YUKON Retired Teachers) Breakfast, Tuesday March 8th, 9:30 a.m. at 506 Main Street Grill. All welcome. Info: 667-2644 ART OPENING and Celebration for International Womenʼs Day, Les Femmeuses 2016 Stories of Friendships, 5pm-7pm, March 8, Centre de la francophonie, 302 Strickland St. Whitehorse. Info: lesessentielles.ca YUKON PARTY Mountainview Riding Assoc. AGM on Wednesday, March 16, 6-7pm, Whitehorse Public Library Meeting Room. Info @ 667-2917
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The Yukon Horse and Rider Association is accepting proposals for the paid position of
Show Manager for the July 9 & 10, 2016 horse show. For information or to submit a proposal, contact Elsie Wain at: yukonmorgans@gmail.com RFPs will be accepted until Friday, March 18, 2016.
Documents may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Bob Kostelnik at Robert.Kostelnik@gov.yk.ca.
All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review.
All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review.
The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.
The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.
View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
PUBLIC TENDER
COPPER RIDGE Place is looking for volunteers to share time with seniors. Catherine 393-7508
PROCUREMENT OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE NOW Two HD 2WD Flat Decks
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 6, 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 Bill Stanley at bill.stanley@gov.yk.ca. Funding is provided by the United States Government through the Shakwak Agreement. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. Bidders and/or Proponents are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
Highways and Public Works
Highway Tractor RFT 2016-OPS0007
Land Act: Notice of Application Take notice that Northwest Tel Inc. from Whitehorse, YT, have applied to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), Smithers, for a Licence of Occupation Communication Site situated on Provincial Crown land located ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN LAND IN THE VICINITY OF TUTSHI RIVER, CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 0.02 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS, Fraser, BC.. The Lands File for this application is 6408894. Written comments concerning this application should be directed to the Skeena Stikine Land Officer, MFLNRO,at Bag 6000 – 3333 Tatlow Road Smithers, BC V0J 2N0. Comments will be received by MFLNRO up to March 16, 2016. MFLNRO may not be able to consider comments received after this date. Please visit the website at http://www.arfd.gov. bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/index.jsp for more information. Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be considered part of the public record. For information, contact the Freedom of Information Advisor at Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations’ Office in Smithers.
ART EXHIBITION, "Leap of Faith" by Linda Leon, March 4th to 28th. Yukon Artists at Work Gallery, 4129 4th Ave. Opening Reception: March 4th, 5-8pm. SLIDESHOW & Stories: The Story of the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve, Haines, Alaska with Joe Ordonez, Sunday Mar 6, 11am, Whitehorse Library. Free. PATH TO Peace in Middle East: Building Unity across Cultural and Religious Divides. 2016 Development and Peace Solidarity Speaker Hussein Itani from Lebanon. United Church 7pm, Wednesday, March 9. All Welcome YUKON WHOLISTIC Health Network AGM is Tuesday, March 15 at 6pm at the Whitehorse Public Library meeting room
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 BUSY BEAVERS Pruning, Hauling, and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755
RFT 2016-OPS0006 SHAKWAK HIGHWAY PROJECT HIGHWAY RESTORATION AND BITUMINOUS SURFACE TREATMENT, KM 1710 TO KM 1755 ALASKA HIGHWAY YUKON 2016-2017
SALSA YUKON'S Latin Dance Classes, beginner and intermediate Salsa, Bachata, starts April 1st 2016. salsayukon@gmail.com for info
Tilt Deck Trailer RFQ 2016-OPS0001 Ride-On Mower RFQ 2016-OPS0002 Reversible Plate Compactor RFQ 2016-OPS0003 All above opportunities close March 23, 2016. Utility Tractor RFT 2016-OPS0008 Two 4WD Flat Decks RFT 2016-OPS0009 HD 4WD With Service Body RFT 2016-OPS0010 HD 4WD Flat Deck RFT 2016-OPS0011 4WD Flat Deck With Crane
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 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 •All types of projects •Commercial & residential •New construction & renovations •Interior & exterior •Fine finishing 334-5231 JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER/PAINTER 30 years experience Commercial-Residential •Renovations •Repairs •Kitchens •Bathrooms •Drywall Tiles •Decks •Fine Finishing and Painting No job too small Local references available Phone 393-4937 bradmre@gmail.com THOMASʼ ROOFING 15 Years Experience 334-3979
Lost & Found LOST: KEYS with small silver pen knife on key chain with pig pendant, silver, reward. Call 667-4759 or 633-4949
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LOST: LADIESʼ watch, Bering make, made in Denmark, on February 24 in downtown Whitehorse. If found please call Virginia at 633-3388
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FOUND: WOMEN'S prescription glasses on weekend in Takhini East. 668-3313
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LOST: DOG from Judas Creek Dr February 24. Her name is Chummy, she's black & white w/blue eyes. She was limping. We miss her terribly. 334-2419 LOST: WHITE Iphone 5 either inside or outside the Canada Games Centre on February 27th. Possibly outside of Mt. McIntyre as well. Call 335-4498
Friday, March 4, 2016
BRAEBURN LAKE CHRISTIAN CAMP now accepting resumes for an Assistant Director for 2016 camp season. Honorarium. Deadline April 1. www.braeburncamp.ca Questions, job descriptions and resumes to stellamartin1981@hotmail.com 668-4629 Skagway Tour Business for Sale Garden City Glassworks, Blown Glass Studios, Gift Shop, Cruise Tour Contracts Unique Opportunity Retiring, motivated to sell Our tours rated #1 in Customer Satisfaction. Potential for growth Turn key operation Allows off season travel, beach time or time for glass production. Located Jewell Gardens jewellgardens.com, Call/text Charlotte 907 612-0115 jewellgardens@yahoo.com
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Sports Equipment ROSSIGNOL SKIS & poles, sz 7 ski boots, new, good for -30, $200 for all. 334-7405 DOWNHILL ROSSIGNOL skis with bindings, $40. 633-6711 after 4:30
Livestock HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix No weeds or sticks Small squares 60 lbs plus 4 ft x 5 ft rounds 800 lb Free delivery for larger orders Straw square bales available 335-5192 • 668-7218 QUALITY YUKON MEAT No hormones, steroids or additives Grass raised grain finished. Hereford beef - $5.50/lb Domestic wild boar - $7/lb Order now for guaranteed spring or fall delivery. Whole, half or custom order. Samples available 668-7218 • 335-5192 HAY & STRAW FOR SALE Excellent quality hay Timothy/grass mix 60+lb $14.50 Alfalfa/grass mix 60+lb $15.50 Straw bales (baled in spring - not prime) $5 Nielsen Farms Maureen 333-0615
Baby & Child Items CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903
Furniture LARGE DARK wood office desk w/matching credenza, 2 metal file cabinets, 1 drawer type, 1 shelf type, 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 DOUBLE BED, exc cond, mattress, box spring & metal frame, $150. 633-6711 after 4:30pm SOLID WOOD table with four chairs, folds for storage, $100. 335-5192 or 668-7218 FRENCH PROVINCIAL girl's desk w/chair. Solid wood but well worn, $70. 633-6711 after 4:30 pm
DYNASTY COUCH & chair, good shape, $175; coffee table w/2 end tables, like new, $150; Oak coffee table w/tinted glass & 2 end tables, $150; 2 ceiling fans w/lights, $50 ea. 332-1360
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS
WOOD DRESSER, excellent shape, $100; black dresser, $50; two kid's desks, good shape, $50 each. 335-5192 or 668-7218
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
BEDROOM SUITE, queen size bed, mattress & boxspring, 5-drawer dresser w/mirror, 2 night tables; Dining room suite, table w/extension, 6 chairs, sideboard; corner cabinet; 2 5X7 rugs. 667-4803 3 BOOKCASES, DVD cabinet, 3 mantel clocks, lamps, keyboard. 667-4803 IVAR SHELVING, solid pine. 2 sections 35 x 19 5/8 x 70/ 1/2 and 35 x 19 5/8 x 29. 10 shelves plus 35” storage cabinet, $200. 668-6147 HOUSE FULL of furniture, all must go. View at 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek. BUNK BEDS Lifetime Warranty Yukon Made! Yukon Owned! Eco Friendly 1-800-Bunkbed
Personals DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm 404A Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB March 1, 2016 1st - Bill Grandy & Bob Walsh 2nd - Chic Callas & Bill Curtis 3rd - Jan Ogilvy & Darwin Wreggitt We play every Tuesday at 7:00 pm at the Golden Age Society. New players are welcome. For more information call 633-5352 or email nmcgowan@klondiker.co
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PUBLIC TENDER
OLD FASHIONED wood style cookstove, runs on propane, 6 burner with oven, green in color, $3,750. 335-5192 or 668-7218 IVORY LEATHER sofa & love seat. Small imperfection in the sofa but otherwise in exc cond. Paid over $5000 for both, asking $1900. Will sell separately. 334-6541
Deceased of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, who died on January 5, 2016.
SHINGLE ROOF REPLACEMENTS TESLIN
All persons having claims against the above-mentioned Estate are requested to file a claim, supported by Statutory Declaration, with Anna J. Pugh, on or before March 18, 2016, after which date the Estate will be distributed having reference only to claims which have been so filed.
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 24, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.
All persons indebted to the Estate are requested to make immediate payment to:
Documents may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Laura Vanderkley at laura.vanderkley@gov.yk.ca.
AUSTRING, FENDRICK & FAIRMAN Attention: Anna J. Pugh Barristers and Solicitors 3081 Third Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4Z7
All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review.
View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
Puzzle Page Answer Guide
Closing March 24, 2016 at 3:00 pm PST. For details visit whitehorse.ca/procurement
www.whitehorse.ca
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.
Dated at Whitehorse, Yukon this 12th day of January, 2016 Gabriel Aucoin Underhill Geomatics Ltd. Agent for Selwyn Chihong Mining Ltd.
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If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Gerri Thomas at Gerri.Thomas@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review.
View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
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The plan of survey can be viewed at the office of the Mining Recorder, Watson Lake, Yukon.
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The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.
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Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 17, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.
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The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.
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