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Yukon hopes federal infrastructure dollars will pay for mining roads Selwyn and Coffee haven’t started the environmental assessNews Reporter ment process yet. And Casino was recently referred to the Yukon Enhe Yukon government is vironmental and Socio-economic hoping Ottawa will pay Assessment Board’s highest level $250 million toward road of review, partly due to concerns upgrades that would benefit three about the size of its proposed tailpossible major mines in the terriings pond. tory – Coffee, Selwyn and Casino. Still, Nixon said this is the right The funding application is time to get ahead of the curve. the largest of a number of new “This is about the long-term infrastructure projects the Yukon future development,� he said. “If is submitting to the New Building those projects ever did come to Canada Fund, according to Allan Nixon, assistant deputy minister of fruition ... you’re going to need infrastructure to support them.� Highways and Public Works. He also stressed that the roads According to last week’s federal won’t just benefit those three budget, which focused heavily on mines. The Goldfield Roads, infrastructure, money from the for instance, provide access for fund is going to be paid out more the placer mining industry. And quickly than was planned under Golden Predator’s 3 Aces project is the previous Harper government. located along the Nahanni Range And Yukon is hoping to cash in. Road. The mining road application, Nixon said the government’s called the Yukon Resource Gateschedule for the project is only way Project, would see the Yukon tentative. He said no work will government pitch in $112 million happen on the roads that will and industry contribute another mainly service the big mines – the $109 million toward roadwork in Casino Road, for instance – until the Dawson and Nahanni ranges. those projects have YESAB apConstruction would happen proval. gradually, from 2017 to 2024, acThere’s no timeline for when cording to the application. It would begin on the Goldfield the federal government will make a decision on Yukon’s application, Roads, a group of interconnected roads south of Dawson that access Nixon said. But he’s hoping for an agreement-in-principle by the end Kaminak’s Coffee mine site. Upgrades to the Freegold Road, which of the summer. “We’re pretty confident that travels northwest out of Carmacks toward the Casino site, would start we’ve built a good business case,� in 2018, as would construction of a he said. “I’m feeling as confident as I can be, understanding that there’s bypass road around Carmacks. Upgrades to the Nahanni Range a huge demand on federal funding and nothing’s guaranteed.� Road are slated to start around But Lewis Rifkind of the Yukon the same time. That road extends from the Campbell Highway north Conservation Society questioned whether Yukon should be spendof Watson Lake to the Northwest ing so much public money on Territories border, and provides roads that are largely meant to access to the Selwyn mine site in serve a few potential mines. Howard’s Pass. “Why are tax dollars being The last pieces of the project are used to subsidize these roads?� he the reconstruction of the Casino Road, which connects the Freegold asked. “Why isn’t all the funding coming from industry?� Road directly to the Casino site, Samson Hartland, executive and the construction of a 52-kilometre connector road between the director of the Yukon Chamber of Coffee and Casino mines. The con- Mines, argued there’s a “shared nector wouldn’t be built until 2022, benefit� to be gained from this project. He was part of a delegation according to the application. from the Yukon government and The government estimates the project will create 2,645 jobs in Yu- the mining industry that recently kon and 1,939 jobs Outside. It also met with federal officials in Ottawa predicts a $483 million increase to to discuss this and other projects. Canada’s GDP from the roadwork. “I think it was very, very valuOf course, the project depends able time invested when we went,� on the three mines being aphe said. proved, which isn’t a sure thing. But the biggest knock against Maura Forrest
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Backcountry skiers survive White Pass avalanche yet to see a full-blown warm up we are predicting a widespread News Reporter and varied array of avalanche problems this week including aul Goulet recalls how he cornice failures, surface-layer slid over 200 metres down avalanches, and failure on deeper Log Cabin mountain in a persistent weak layers,” it said. giant river of ice and snow, after Seven of them left at about being hit by two successive ava7 a.m. on Wednesday morning. lanches. Heading up the mountain, Gou“It felt like you were coming let said there were a few times over the top of a rollercoaster,” when he felt vulnerable. he said. “I just tried to keep my “At one point Gaetan and I felt hands in front of me and swim like we were a bit too far left of up to the surface.” Back at home in Ottawa with a the mountain,” he said. “And we broken fibula and a bruised back, were about 15 feet too far to the left when the first avalanche hit.” Goulet was in good spirits. It was 9:16 a.m. when that He and his friend Gaetan happened. One of Goulet’s Martel survived an avalanche friends had a watch and looked that was rated 2.5 out of 5 by the at it right away, knowing there is Canadian Avalanche Associaa limited amount of time to find tion. That’s somewhere between a person buried in an avalanche. potentially burying, injuring or Goulet had just taken a pickilling a person, and burying a ture of his friend a few seconds car or a small building. earlier, and was facing downhill Goulet was in the Whitehorse to enjoy the view when the avaarea last week to take part in a lanche hit. few backcountry ski trips with “I almost get a chill thinking some close friends. about it, because I just heard my Last weekend, they skied at friend yell “avalanche” and my the Haines Pass for a few days before heading to the White Pass friend Gaetan went sweeping by me,” Goulet said. area on Tuesday evening. “I didn’t hear it, it was silent. I But that day, Avalanche Canada sent out a news release warn- dove on top, pointing downhill, and tried swimming on top of it.” ing recreational backcountry When it stopped, Goulet was skiers to be ready for increased sitting up in the snow but his legs avalanche hazard. “Given that many slopes have were trapped. Then, he saw the Myles Dolphin
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COs investigate abandoned caribou Yukon conservation officers are investigating after three caribou were found wasted this week near the Dempster Highway. On March 29 someone found two shot and abandoned bull caribou near Kilometre 191, just south of Engineer Creek. The carcasses were left about 130 metres west of the highway. A third caribou was reported shot and abandoned at Kilometre 208, said conservation officer Shawn Hughes. Officers haven’t been out to confirm the third kill themselves but have seen pictures, he said. It is an offence under the Yukon Wildlife Act to abandon an animal and waste edible meat. Warm weather and scavengers make it difficult to tell how long the caribou had been dead, Hughes said. The best guess is that they were killed sometime in the last week, possibly over the Easter weekend, he said. The animals all belonged to the Porcupine herd. The licensed hunt for the caribou is closed, but they can still be taken through subsistence hunting by Yukon First Nations. “We’re looking for either witness information from anyone that saw anybody hunting in those areas or near those areas. Even vehicle descriptions would be helpful,” Hughes said. He also encouraged whoever killed the animals to come forward. “Anyone that was hunting there, we’re hoping that they’ll come forward and talk to us and explain what happened or what might have
happened,” he said. “It’s not always as cut and dry as people think when we discover these types of things.” This is the start of the caribou’s spring migration to their northern calving grounds, Hughes said. Hughes said the majority of the hunters in the area are respectful, responsible and ethical. “It’s unfortunate when we have these few incidents of bad scenarios like this with hunters that are not showing those qualities. It gives hunters in general kind of a bad name.” Anyone with information about the dead caribou is being asked to call the TIPP line at 1-800-661-0525 or Dawson City district conservation office at 867-993-5492.
moment of deja vu,” he said. “We were waiting for another one to come around the corner and we couldn’t see our friends.” But a few of his friends, one an avid skydiver and another an experienced river guide, were soon on site and helped both Goulet and Martel out of the snow. As soon as Goulet was out, he fell backwards and exhaled, he said. “I was exhausted from digging myself out.” Not being able to walk, he went down the mountain on his stomach, a technique his kids once showed him, he said. That evening, after a visit to the Whitehorse General HospiSubmitted Photo/Paul Goulet tal and dinner, Goulet and his friends celebrated by singing Gaetan Martel, left, and Paul Goulet, moments after the second karaoke at the 202 Motor Inn avalanche hit them on Log Cabin mountain. until 2 a.m. second wall of snow come down. first 30 seconds, we were going Goulet was wearing a Super“It was a pretty intense experi- about 20 kilometres per hour, man T-shirt and someone at the but for about 10 seconds we were bar asked him what had hapence,” he said. going about 90 kilometres per Someone with Avalanche pened to his leg. hour,” he said. Canada estimated the second “I was caught in an avalanche Goulet’s ski got caught a rock avalanche at about 200 to 250 today and broke it,” he told the and it twisted his leg around, metres wide, and about 450 meperson. breaking his fibula near his ankle. tres long, Goulet said. He says he heard the response: He also suffered a serious knee Because Martel’s GPS was “Dude, that’s crazy that you sursprain. turned on, they know exactly vived. Good on you guys. But you He said he got scared when he know, if you had been wearing a how far down they tumbled. was sitting in the snow at the end Batman shirt, you wouldn’t have They slid about 150 metres at of the second avalanche, antician average of 46 kilometres per broken your leg.” pating a third one. hour. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com “I was facing uphill and had a “I have a feeling that for the
its temporary repairs are completed next month. Andco Enterprises Ltd. won the contract for the temporary repairs for about $46,000. The Yukon government closed the bridge back in October following a safety inspection on Oct. 20. An engineer with Wood Research and Development Inc., Dan Tingley, carried out a more detailed inspection from Oct. 28-31. According to Tingley’s final report, the bridge’s towers and suspension cables were in good condition but parts of the main wood structures had deteriorated. Of the 21 crossbeams on the bridge, 11 have significant decay. The use of heavy solids in the paint that was applied to the beams (Ashley Joannou) has accelerated the decay because it traps moisture inside the wood, Miles Canyon bridge preventing evaporation, explained to reopen this spring Paul Murchison with the Department of Highways and Public Repairs to the Miles Canyon Works at a briefing in December. suspension bridge are ahead of The bridge won’t be painted this schedule and the popular tourist time, Macgillivray said, and will attraction should be re-opened by have the same appearance as when the beginning of May, rather than it was originally built. this summer. The stringers, which run underTemporary repairs are schedneath the bridge and connect to uled to begin next week, accordthe deck, are also in various stages ing to Jennifer Macgillivray with of decay. the Department of Community Pictures in the report showed Services. That will include replacing some beams that had partially rotted. Some were cracked and had large of the decaying crossbeams that run across the bottom of the bridge. pieces that had broken off. “It is recommended that the More permanent work will bridge remain closed until the take place in the fall, she added, to replace the rest of the aging timbers above repairs are completed,” Tingley wrote in his report’s concluon the bridge. sion. “This will allow the bridge to “Immediate works to prevent spend more time open and less snow build up induced failure or time under repair,” she said. Macgillivray said there’s no safe- failure under a trespass load might ty risk to opening the bridge after be considered.”
meet stakeholder needs.” Additionally, it would host information sessions to help businesses become more familiar with the federal government’s job bank. In January, the Yukon Department of Education faced criticism for cutting the funding to YuWin. The department’s advanced education branch had been funding the website for the past four years. But that agreement officially ended yesterday. At the time, Education Minister Doug Graham said the decision to cut YuWin’s funding was made after an evaluation of the website was Talks underway to keep completed last year. popular Yukon job site open Up until 2014, YuWin seemed like a better option for the departThe Yukon government and the ment, employers and job-seekers, Yukon Work Information Network, better known as YuWin, are discuss- he said. But the results indicated the deing a proposed funding agreement partment should favour the federal that would allow the website to government’s job bank. continue serving the territory’s job Graham said the job bank webseekers. site has a number of features that However, if a deal is reached, the website would serve a different YuWin doesn’t offer, such as allowing job-seekers to create a profile purpose than it currently does. while they’re looking for a job and As it stands, the popular job attempting to match employers board posts several new positions with job-seekers who have the skills across the territory each day. That they’re looking for. would continue until March 31, Rick Karp, vice-chair of YuWin’s 2017 to allow time for employers to board of directors, said the website transition to the Canada Job Bank. was “absolutely critical” to the But YuWin would also turn Yukon’s business community. its focus to becoming a service “We have small businesses here provider with an aim to strengthenand in fact, 83 per cent of them ing relationships among small and have eight or less employees,” he medium businesses, the Departsaid at the time. ment of Education and the Yukon “For a lot of these businesses labour market, according to a news it’s tough to post on a national job release yesterday. bank. They need something that YuWin would also liaise with gets posted locally, is user-friendly Yukon businesses to “increase the and quick.” understanding of, and access to, programs and services designed to (Myles Dolphin)
After repairs are completed in the fall, the bridge should have a lifespan of about 50 years, Macgillivray said. Built in 1922 as a tourist attraction, the 130-foot long bridge was rebuilt in the early 1970s. Following an inspection in 2008, the towers were rebuilt and new concrete footings were poured, according to the Yukon government. Work on the bridge was last done in 2010-11, when the timber towers were refurbished and replaced. New concrete footings were also installed under the towers. (Myles Dolphin)
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Margaret Commodore became minister of health and human News Reporter resources, to the recognition of same-sex parents on Yukon he Yukon Women’s Direcbirth certificates in 2014. torate has launched a new Jennifer England, director of website it hopes will be a the Women’s Directorate, said one-stop shop for information she thinks the website is oneabout gender equality in the of-a-kind in the way it presents territory. data from different sources The new “Indicators of Yualongside personal stories. kon Gender Equality” website “I think the opportunity for has compiled statistics on the the website is to provide the status of women in the territory, information to policy-makers,” including information about she said. “We’re providing a tool economic equality, education for those policy analysts and and poverty. decision-makers ... to be able to But it also shines a light on say ‘OK, here’s what’s going on.’” some of the territory’s trailblazThe data are grouped into 10 ers, including former Yukon categories, from employment to MP Audrey McLaughlin, wheel- child care to violence and safety. chair athlete Jessica Frotten England said one of the and social justice advocate Judi figures that stood out to her is Johnny. that the Yukon’s wage gap has Each of those women renarrowed dramatically. corded stories about their work In 2014, Yukon women and the history of women in the earned 95.4 per cent of men’s territory, which are posted on hourly wages for the same work, the website. compared to 84 per cent in “We had to fight the Cauca1997. In Canada overall, that figsian point of view and say ‘We ure was just 86 per cent in 2014. are feminists,’” said Johnny, a England thinks that might First Nations woman, in a rebe because the Yukon governcording about the early days of ment is the territory’s largest feminism. “We have a different employer, and the government culture. We have a different val- is committed to pay equity. ue system. ... It was kind of exWomen also currently make citing to see that these women up 32 per cent of MLAs elected could protest the government. to Yukon’s legislative assembly, That in itself was liberating.” the largest percentage in the The website also includes a territory’s history. The data also show that timeline of milestones for genmedian income of aboriginal der equality in the Yukon. They women in the territory was 25 range from the naming of Yukon’s first indigenous woman to per cent higher than that of cabinet in 1985, when NDP MLA aboriginal men in 2010. England said it’s hard to know exactly Friday, April 1 thru why that is, but she has an idea. Thursday, April 7 “My hunch at this point … is that it’s linked to higher rates of Whitehorse Yukon Cinema Whi8thorse post-secondary educational at304 Wood Street Ph: 668-6644 tainment by aboriginal women,” she said. But in other areas, women still face significant obstacles. In 2011, the median income of Yukon women was $37,700, compared to $45,270 for men. (G) Nightly 6:30 & 9:15 PM Women also led almost all the single-parent families in the Yukon, and completed much more unpaid housework, child (G) Nightly 7:00 & 9:30 PM care and senior care than men. Whitehorse Qwanlin Cinema And almost 30 per cent of First Corner of 4th & Cook Ph: 668-6644 Nations women in the territory experienced food insecurity beMaura Forrest
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ave-On-Foods is coming to Whitehorse. The B.C.-based grocery chain held a ground-breaking ceremony Wednesday on the site for the new store at the corner of Chilkoot Way and Quartz Road. Construction is expected to start later this year with the store opening in the summer of 2017. “As a Western Canadian retailer we believe that we have what it takes to be really homegrown,� said company president Darrell Jones. “We have one simple goal, to be the best place to shop.� The plans are to build a 42,000-square-foot grocery store, along with a 12,000-square-foot wholesale store to sell to the public in bulk. Jones said he expects the project to create about 100 construction jobs and more than 100 positions once the stores are up and running. “We see this as a huge opportunity for our membership,� said Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce president Rick Karp. “We see this as a huge opportunity for the people of Whitehorse, for employment, for contracts. We’ve got building that’s going to happen. Whitehorse is growing again.� Whitehorse mayor Dan Curtis said he’s confident the new store is going to be successful. “That’s not to say that the businesses that are here right now aren’t doing a great job. The competition makes us stronger, it gives us choice, and I’m just ecstatic to see us grow like we have.� Dreams for that piece of downtown land have gone unfulfilled for years. Land-
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Save-On-Foods president Darrell Jones shakes hands with Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce president Rick Karp on Wednesday. The B.C.-based grocery store chain announced it will be opening a new store in Whitehorse in 2017. mark Cinemas once touted the location as the future site for a new mulitiplex in town. In 2009 those plans were quietly suspended. Late last year Angus Properties Ltd. sold the land to the Jim Pattison Group, which owns Save-On-Foods. “The site had plans with Landmark Cinemas of Canada to develop a new movie theatre. As many years have passed without construction moving forward a mutually agreed on decision was accepted to terminate the lease and subsequently hand the property back to the landlord,� Angus Properties said in a statement
welcoming Save-On-Foods to the neighbourhood. The grocery store is not the only thing being built on that spot. The former Ricki’s All Day Grill will have to be torn down to make way for the new construction. A new Ricki’s will be built on a different corner of the property, Jones said. Save-On-Foods will be the third major grocery retailer to set up shop in Whitehorse, along with the Real Canadian Superstore and Wykes’ Your Independent Grocer. If everything goes as planned, it will fit squarely in the middle in terms of size
– bigger than Independent’s 33,000 square feet but smaller than the 90,000 square feet taken up by Superstore. Jones contends that a community the size of Whitehorse could easily support four large grocery stores. “This is not really at all an over-stored community. Very actually under-stored for the size of the community.� The company is aware of the difficulties when it comes to shipping fresh produce north of 60 and making sure it stays fresh by the time it arrives, Jones said. They just opened a halfmillion square foot warehouse
in Edmonton to hold fresh produce, he said. “We know it’s a challenge, we’re used to it. We deliver to Fort Nelson, Fort St. John, Fort McMurray, so northern stores are not anything new to us. We welcome the opportunity.� The store will have designated shelves to sell locally grown food and locally made products, Jones said. “We want all the local suppliers that make and produce things, please let them know that we’re here. We want their products, we want them to come tell us what they have, and we want to stock them in our store.� It appears Whitehorse will also be channelling a bit of its inner Vancouver with this new construction. Once the grocery store is built there will be two Starbucks nearly next door to each other. The Save-On-Foods will include a Starbucks inside. Angus Properties, which owns and operates the Chilkoot Centre on the next lot over, said the Starbucks in that mall will remain up and running. “Currently a drive-thru Starbucks located at the Chilkoot Centre just across the street does exist and will remain serving as a destination location, while the Starbucks inside the new grocery anchor will be enjoyed by shoppers as a convenience,� Angus’s statement said. Jones said officials with Save-On-Foods will be back in Whitehorse this summer to talk to the community about what it would like to see in the new grocery store. In the fall they’ll start recruiting new employees, he said. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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esearchers have found that a new DNA technology is an effective tool for finding which Yukon waterways contain chinook salmon. Their results show that environmental DNA, or eDNA, is 95 per cent accurate in detecting the presence of the fish. Environmental DNA refers to the genetic material left behind by organisms in a body of water, including in mucus, urine and feces. It typically lasts in the water for about three weeks, and it can give scientists a record of what’s living in the water without actually having to find the animals themselves. To figure out whether chinook salmon are living in a particular river, for instance, researchers just need to collect a single water sample and send it to a lab for analysis. This technology has been proven elsewhere, and on other species. But this is the first time it’s been tested on chinook salmon in the Yukon. Last summer, the Yukon Research Centre partnered with environmental consulting company Hemmera to collect water samples containing eDNA from 30 sites around the Teslin, Takhini and Nisutlin rivers and Kusawa Lake. Chinook salmon were already known to live at most of those sites. The goal of this study, said project coordinator Kirstin Damude, was to show that eDNA could reliably confirm what scientists already know. “The results were 94.9 per cent accurate in detecting true positives,� she said, meaning that chinook salmon DNA was found in almost every site where it was expected.
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Water samples for eDNA analysis are collected in a stream in southern Yukon in August. The salmon had not previously been found in Kusawa Lake, however. Damude said samples taken from the lake did not contain chinook DNA, which seems to support the idea that salmon travel up the Takhini River, but not right into the lake. The researchers also tested the accuracy of the technology by taking samples from both sides of natural barriers in the water. As expected, chinook DNA was found below the barriers, but not above them where salmon cannot pass. Aside from being the first eDNA test for Yukon’s chinook salmon, this experiment was unique in one other way. “As we talked more and more to people who have used eDNA technology, we realized that this is the first test that has used
eDNA in high-volume waterways,� Damude said. The fact that the technique works in large rivers bodes well for the future of eDNA technology in the territory. Damude says it could be used to develop maps of chinook salmon in Yukon waterways. But eDNA has limitations, too. For one thing, it can only provide information about whether a species is present or absent. It can’t tell scientists or management officials anything about the size of the population. It also doesn’t reveal anything about the fish, like their age, sex or which stock they belong to. During a public session about the project last fall, Dennis Zimmermann, executive director of the Yukon Salmon
Sub-Committee, had some doubts about the technology. “I want to make sure it’s being used to solve a problem, as opposed to just creating more data,� he said at the time. But Damude says it will be up to government and industry to come up with questions that eDNA can answer. The water samples collected last summer were also tested for bull trout DNA, a species at risk in the Yukon. Damude said none of the samples tested positive, but none of the sample waterways was known bull trout habitat. She said the next step will be to test waterways that are known to contain bull trout, to test the accuracy of eDNA technology for that species.
The season’s end has been Warm weather prompts early recorded since 1995. Before this closure of Klondike ice road
the rest of the Yukon. Yesterday temperatures in the Klondike hit 14.2 degrees Celsius according to Environment Canada. The normal high for this time of year is three degrees. The ice bridge across the Yukon River connects people
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Yukon tourism commercials will continue to air across Canada tently applied,� said Rich Thompson, chair of the Yukon Chamber of News Reporter Commerce. “Repetition, frequency, these ommercials promoting the are important concepts in advertisYukon will continue to aping and a two-year program does pear on TV screens in key something, a five-year program Canadian tourism markets for at does a lot more.� least the next three years. Tourism director Pierre Germain The Department of Tourism and said the commercials are aimed at Culture announced Tuesday that Canadians. They air in key markets it was earmarking $900,000 a year in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton for the next three years to keep the and Toronto. Yukon Now marketing campaign Now is a good time to encourgoing. age Canadians to visit the Yukon, The majority of the campaign he said. In 2017, celebrations are is focused on six TV commercials, each encouraging visitors to “come planned for both Canada’s 150th birthday and the 75th anniversary to my Yukon.� Two of the commerof the Alaska Highway. That, comcials show Yukoners doing winter bined with the low Canadian dollar, activities and four promote the means Canadians are likely to want summer. to “stay home and want to see their In March, the four summer commercials aired nationally on 11 own backyard,� he said. “So we think we can take advanconventional channels including tage of that by letting them know CTV, Global and CBC, and on 18 that the Yukon exists and welcomspecialty channels including BBC Canada, the Discovery Channel and ing them to come to my Yukon.� The commercials were launched National Geographic Canada. in February 2015. The year before, They’ve aired more than 1,000 times with an estimated 100 million the Yukon government and the views, according to the department. Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency gave $3.6 The summer commercials million dollars to market the Yukon finished airing in March, and will to visitors. be aired again starting in FebruAt the time it was the largest ary 2017. The winter commercials investment ever made in Yukon will go back into circulation this tourism. September. From Feb. 1 to March 22 of this “Everybody knows that adveryear there were more than 74,000 tising only works when it’s consisAshley Joannou
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Rich Thompson, chair of the Yukon Chamber of Commerce, speaks during an annoucement at the Yukon Visitor Information Centre on Tuesday. visits to the Travel Yukon website, which is about a five per cent increase over the same period in 2015, said tourism minister Elaine Taylor. “With the first two years of Yukon Now showing promising results we are really keen to build on this
momentum,� she said. Thompson said the territory has been suffering from a few years of recession, adding there have been challenges particularly in the resource sector. “There’s never been a more important time for tourism to be
properly and fully supported and that’s exactly what’s happening with this program.� He said when governments make this kind of investment, companies are more likely to be comfortable spending cash of their own. “Industry needs to see that the government is serious about destination marketing and that we can expect consistent demand in the tourism industry in the territory.� In 2015, arrivals to the Yukon by plane were up two per cent compared to 2014, Germain said. That’s an increase of about 3,000 arrivals. The Beringia Centre, Kluane National Park and the various Yukon Visitor Centres all saw more visitors as well, he said. Neil Hartling, a former chair of the Tourism Association of the Yukon, said this summer is also looking promising. “These ads will bring more money to the Yukon economy, plain and simple. Now more than ever the Yukon needs the economic punch from tourism. The industry has shown it punches above its weight when given the opportunity.� The territorial government is hoping the federal government will match this latest investment. No news has come from Ottawa about that yet. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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t’s a stroke of good luck that the new Liberal regime in Ottawa has a deep desire to throw money at green infrastructure projects, at a time when it would be prudent for the Yukon to confront its looming shortfall of renewable electricity. Naturally enough, our Yukon Party government is taking advantage of this opportunity by‌ asking Ottawa for hundreds of millions of dollars to build new mining roads. Hmm. This pitch seems particularly tone-deaf, given how the Liberals have indicated that they’re looking for projects that benefit the environment. Yet this plan, grandly titled the Yukon Resource Gateway Project, is the focus our government has decided to take during face-to-face meetings with their federal counterparts. Meanwhile, if documents obtained by the News are any indication, it doesn’t look like any significant green energy product is on the territory’s list of infrastructure priorities, and Yukon Energy concedes it doesn’t have any shovel-ready plans on hand. This is a striking departure from the approach taken by a previous Yukon Party regime the last time our federal legislators disgorged money from a green infrastructure fund to help give the economy a boost. That time around, we ended up securing $71 million to help expand the Mayo hydro-electric dam. Admittedly, this project didn’t offer great value for money, adding 10 megawatts at a cost of $120 million, but that never seems to matter much when you are largely spending someone else’s money. On the upside, at least we had something to show from the federal spending spree. Today, in contrast, it looks like the Yukon lacks plans for any renewable energy project ready to take advantage of the current pool of federal funds. It needn’t be this way. A forward-looking government would have asked Yukon Energy to ensure it had such a plan on hand – particularly once the big-spending Liberals won office in the autumn. The closest thing to a shovel-ready project that Yukon Energy has is a potential 10-megawatt wind farm that the utility has mulled for the past five years. Unlike a big new hydro project, which would take at least a decade to build, a wind farm could be quickly built and easily expanded. Wind power tends to be fairly pricey, but previous studies conducted by Yukon Energy have suggested a wind farm would produce cheaper electricity than the expansion of the Mayo dam did. (There’s no price estimate for the current project, but earlier plans for a wind farm twice as big were expected to cost $100 million five years ago.) Still, Yukon Energy officials have said before that a federal contribution would probably be needed for this project to make financial sense. It’s a shame these plans are not a little further along. Yukon Energy is currently
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much-ballyhooed Next Generation Hydro project began. Indeed, it’s pretty much the first point that the consultants hired to quarterback the project made to the public. Part of the project’s aim was to warm up First Nations to the idea of becoming business partners with an equity stake in a new hydro project, but worries about the impacts carried the day during public meetings. That’s not to say that some lessons haven’t been learned from the $2-million exercise. One is that it probably doesn’t make sense to connect our stranded electrical grid to British Columbia. Such a transmission line could help justify a big new hydro project, as any surplus power could be sold to our southern neighbours. But a business study conducted on this possibility concluded it would end up becoming a money pit. Another conclusion is that a big hydro project may not even be the right solution for the territory’s energy needs. An evaluation concluded that a suite of smaller renewable projects would be nearly as costeffective. So, in a strange way, the territory’s big exercise in justifying big hydro ended up actually supporting the contention of conservationists that the territory doesn’t actually need a new dam. Despite this, Cathers maintains the government thinks the environmental impacts of many small energy projects would collectively outweigh one big one. Cabinet now hopes to soften up First Nations through more talks, and if need be revisit other potential sites that didn’t make the shortlist. Well, good luck with that. There’s real value in having a long-range energy plan. But if it hinges on the Yukon Party’s ability to play nicely with First Nations, we’d probably be far better off concentrating on something that could actually be accomplished, like putting a few new windmills in the ground. (JT)
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‘Feeling the Bern’ in Alaska to speak to local aboriginal and other community groups by video conference. The best the Clinton campaign could do was a robo-call to by Keith Alaska from husband Bill. Bernie also got a lot of press Halliday just before the vote by coming out against the proposed Pebble UKONOMIST mega-mine near Dillingham, which he announced after his wife’s video conference with the ernie Sanders hit Hillary local community. Clinton’s previClinton like an avalanche ously announced opposition to in Alaska last weekend, winning 81 percent to 19 percent the mine got buried in the hubbub over Jane Sanders’ visit. in the state’s Democratic cauOf course, Alaska doesn’t cuses. Bernie won all 40 districts have many delegates. After last convincingly, and gets 13 Alaskan Saturday’s voting, Hillary was delegates while Hillary gets just still ahead 277 elected delegates three. according to CNN (not counting Hillary can’t seem to connect so-called super-delegates, who with Alaska Democrats. They are strongly pro-Hillary). So it voted 75-25 for Barack Obama in would take 28 more states like 2008. Hillary must be annoyed Alaska for Bernie to catch up on that she went to all those Arctic elected delegates. Council meetings and said the And Alaska isn’t much of a right things about the North factor in presidential contests. while she was Obama’s secretary Not only is it small, but it is of state, and then did even worse reliably Republican. Since the in her second run in Alaska. state entered the union, it has Neither candidate visited the voted Democrat for president 49th state, but Bernie’s wife Jane only once. That was for Lyndon dropped in just before the voting Johnson against Barry Goldwato visit Anchorage. She was also ter, probably the most alarming supposed to visit First Alaskans Republican candidate prior to eiin Dillingham, but bad weather ther Donald Trump or Ted Cruz. scotched the flight and she had Meanwhile, on the Repub-
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lican side, Ted Cruz won by a few points several weeks ago. However, based on complicated party rules, he ended up splitting the Republican delegates 50-50 with Donald Trump. I don’t know where they stand on the Pebble Mine, but Alaskan conservatives must have been pleased to hear Trump promising to slash funding for the federal Environmental Protection Agency if elected. What explains the success of the ultra-liberal Sanders, ultraconservative Cruz and ultrapopulist Trump? Yukonomist’s Alaskan political correspondent described the state as a “weird combination” of “redneck Republican” and “socialist” Alaskans. As for Hillary, she is perceived to have “so much baggage.” Despite being small, Alaska had its day in the spotlight of the national primaries; I saw the Alaskan results announced on CNN. Say what you will about the American system, but it gives some voice to smaller states. Since we don’t get to vote directly for prime minister, the closest thing we have to the U.S. primaries is the periodic party leader selection processes. The processes for the current NDP and Liberal leaders and the upcoming Conservative supremo
are based on the concept of “one member-one vote” on a single day, not delegates selected at different times across the country (although the Canadian parties have used similar systems in the past). I don’t recall a single drop of national media ink getting spilled about the Yukon’s influence on the selection of the NDP or Liberal leader, and we will probably be ignored in the Conservative race too. Another interesting comparison between Yukon and Alaska politics has to do with how liberal Alaska Democrats would fit in nicely here. While Bernie is considered a bit of a Don Quixote in Alaska for advocating universal health-care and free university education, in the Yukon this is mainstream stuff. All three of the territorial parties believe in universal healthcare and the Yukon Grant. If Jane Sanders visited Whitehorse, she might be impressed to find out that the Yukon Grant is more than annual tuition at UBC for an arts or science degree and almost covers tuition at University of Alaska Fairbanks (where Yukon students pay the same as Alaskans). Bernie’s stance against the Pebble Mine might seem to put
him on the “Save the Peel” side of the Yukon political spectrum, but don’t judge too soon. We’ll see if any of our political parties support our equivalent projects, Casino and Selwyn, once Yukoners find out how big those mines and their impacts are. In fact, maybe we should invite Alaskans to move here. I know one who did after George W. Bush got re-elected. Over 10,000 Alaskans caucused for Bernie or Hillary, and it would only take a small percentage to replace the 95 Yukoners who moved away last quarter according to Statistics Canada. Alaska is one of our few sources of immigrants who arrive already knowing how to dress for Forty Below and start a snowmobile, although the current Canadian immigration points system doesn’t give any credit for those skills. The timing might even work for Bernie, himself. If he loses to Hillary, he could always run here territorially. There will be two openings for party leader after the Yukon’s 2016 election. 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 the Ma Murray award for best columnist in 2015.
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“It’s really about power system integration and energy storage, flywheels and things like that.� Holdmann notes that Alaska’s de-regulated utility structure – there are 92 different utilities in the state – and very low subsidy rates have contributed to a flexible system highly motivated to find savings. “There’s huge drive from the communities themselves to switch over to renewable resources,� she said. “At a macro level, we’re still using a lot of diesel fuel.� The Liberal federal budget delivered last week committed $10.7 million over two years specifically for renewable energy projects in indigenous and northern communities that are off the grid and reliant on diesel power. That’s in addition to a $2.24-billion, five-year green infrastructure fund for First Nations communities. The non-governmental groups will convene this fall in Iqaluit to invite local input into their assessment of the viability of renewable energy systems. As Crowley puts it, “the stars appear to be aligning on getting renewable energy in the Canadian Arctic.�
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Key Trudeau promise to help jobless youth left out of federal budget employment rate for youth aged 15 to 24 was 13.3 per cent, compared Canadian Press to an overall jobless rate of 7.3 per OTTAWA cent. Trudeau`s promise would have notable Liberal election also provided financial relief for pledge designed to encourpotential bosses by waiving the EI age employers to hire young contributions. people failed to make the cut in last The Liberals estimated employweek’s federal budget. ers would have saved $80 million Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this year, $80 million in 2017 and vowed during last year’s campaign $60 million in 2018. to offer a 12-month holiday on Dan Kelly, president and CEO of employment insurance premiums the Canadian Federation of Indeto employers who give permanent pendent Business, said Tuesday his jobs to people aged 18-24. membership was very supportive of The promise, announced in September by Trudeau himself, was the promise of EI relief. “That was one thing that busisupposed to come into force this ness owners really liked,” said Kelly, year and extend through 2017 and who was also deeply disappointed 2018 – but it didn’t receive a menthe Liberals “deferred” another of tion in the budget. their pledges to continue reducing During the campaign, Trudeau noted that the Chretien Liberals did the small business tax rate beyond 2016. something similar in the late 1990s “That was the second element “to tremendously positive effect.” of their platform that we applauded “We saw the number of young and they scrapped that, too.” people’s jobs spike during those Federation members liked the years,” Trudeau said during a camprevious edition of the EI-holiday paign stop in Burnaby, B.C. program in the 1990s, Kelly added. “That’s exactly what we need “Not only was that a promise right now, given the extremely high to small-business owners … but it unemployment rates for youth.” Last month, the country’s unwas a promise to young people,” he Andy Blatchford
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get contained significant changes that will increase student grants. “We look at those measures as being important,” Morneau told reporters in St-Valentin, Que. He was also asked if the decision to omit the EI-related measure was a permanent move. “We’ll be announcing more once we come back with that strategy.”
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McCallum to increase intake of privately sponsored Syrian refugees day by easing restrictions on the private sponsorship of Syrian Canadian Press refugees – a decision that will OTTAWA add thousands to the number of refugees arriving this year. mmigration Minister John The Immigration Department McCallum reacted to a suswill now process all the private tained public outcry ThursStephanie Levitz
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unteers to hang on until later in 2017 is going to be a challenge, he added. “These are people who were responding to a crisis. You just can’t go back to the same standard of processing in a crisis situation,” Goodspeed said. “The government is coming to that understanding gradually.” McCallum said the refugee program has to be managed in a responsible way. In recent years, the government has placed a cap on the number of refugee sponsorship applications it would accept in order to bring down existing wait times. It’s currently taking more than six years, for example, to process an application for someone currently in a refugee camp in Kenya. The global cap on applications for this year is 10,500, but those for Syrians submitted prior to Thursday will no longer count towards that total. The department will also do its best to ensure processing the Syrian cases won’t mean further delays for refugees from elsewhere, McCallum said. One of the reasons a decision was made to admit at least 17,800 privately sponsored refugees this year was to bring down existing backlogs, noted Brian Dyck, the head of the sponsorship agreement association that oversees private sponsorship of refugees. He said he welcomes the changes to Syrian applications, but also the continued commitment to helping refugees from elsewhere get to Canada faster. “I think that we are seeing a significant increase in commitment to humanitarian immigration and a willingness to work with the community,” Dyck said. “While I think some remain frustrated with the pace, I see things moving in the right direction.” The government has also committed to bringing in a maximum of 24,600 governmentassisted refugees, though that ceiling could also be exceeded, since the Liberals committed to resettling 25,000 government assisted Syrians by the end of 2016.
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Fracking, not water disposal, behind earthquakes: study pinned the blame convincingly on fracking and not disposal, Canadian Press Eaton said. “There are more earthquakes EDMONTON in Western Canada that are more ew research suggests that related to hydraulic fracturing hydraulic fracking of oil than waste-water injection by a and gas wells is behind factor of about two.” earthquakes caused by humans Eaton said the situation is in Western Canada. reversed in the United States, A study, published Tuesday where waste-water disposal is by a group of top Canadian considered to be behind most researchers, says problems in human-caused seismic activity. Alberta and British Columbia That doesn’t mean that a aren’t being caused by injecting lot of wells cause earthquakes. waste water underground. It’s Eaton calculates that about 0.3 a major step in understanding seismic events that have already per cent of fracked wells create led to changed regulations in Al- problems. But there are enough wells berta and caused public concern drilled for even that tiny fraction in both provinces. to be a concern. “It’s critical that we get to a “Even at 0.3 per cent, because complete scientific understandof the very large number of ing of the issue,” said David hydraulically fractured wells, it Eaton, a University of Calgary still represents an issue that is of geophysicist and a co-author of high priority to address scientifithe study. cally,” said Eaton. Fracking involves pumping Alberta’s energy regulator has high-pressure fluids underalready changed regulations for ground to create tiny cracks in rock to release natural gas or oil. the industry as a result of the Fox Creek earthquakes. Eaton said Scientists had previously concluded that oilpatch activity can regulators in British Columbia are also considering changes. cause earthquakes by making it “The regulators have been easier for faults in underground rock to slip, but they didn’t know quite responsive.” Eaton suggested his findings whether the Canadian quakes raise questions about how well were caused by fracking or by the geology of heavily fracked the disposal of waste water by oilfields in Alberta and British injecting it back underground. Public interest has been high, Columbia is understood. “The occurrences in Canada especially after a tremblor in have come as a surprise – in January shook pictures on the some cases to industry – bewalls of homes in Fox Creek, Alta., a community in the centre cause there was a belief that all of the Duvernay oil and gas field. the potential faults had been identified,” he said. “One of the Measuring between 4.2 and 4.8 things we’re actively researching on the Richter scale, the quake is to find new and better ways to was the largest of hundreds of similar shakers around the com- identify these features. “We’re looking for the signamunity since 2013. ture of critically stressed faults Eaton and his colleagues in new and different ways.” began with a database of more Scientists are aware of the than 12,000 fracked and disposal pressure they face getting the wells drilled between 1985 and 2015. They cross-referenced that issue right, Eaton said. “There’s a mixture of science with another database of seismic and the whole social-political events over that time. A complex statistical analysis aspect of this.” Bob Weber
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Ash coats village areas near erupting Alaska volcano Dan Joling Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA village not far from an erupting Alaska volcano urged residents to stay indoors after the mountain rained down ash, coating ground areas and turning some rooftops and car windows black. The volcano kept pumping out new ash Tuesday that could threaten aircraft, but it came in smaller amounts at lower heights, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory. Pavlof Volcano, 625 miles southwest of Anchorage on the Alaska Peninsula, erupted Sunday. The initial eruption continued for about 17 hours and put out an ash cloud that reached 37,000 feet. U.S. Geological Survey geologist Kristi Wallace said there were reports of a significant ash fall in Nelson Lagoon, a village of 39 people about 55 miles northeast of the volcano. Residents reported one-eighth to two-thirds of an inch of ash. Cpl. Barrett Taylor, a village public safety officer in Nelson Lagoon, saw ash falling early Monday. “It was raining ash for a little bit,� Taylor said. “It turned everything black, the rooftops, the fuel tanks, homes.� The ash was worse Tuesday, he said, because wind coming
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nvironmentalists say talks on creating a third national marine conservation area are being held up over Arctic offshore energy exploration permits that may not legally exist. “Looking at the permits, it looks like the rights expired in 1979,� said Alex Speers-Roesch of Greenpeace. The federal government has been trying for years to protect the waters of Lancaster Sound, the eastern gate of the Northwest Passage and home to a wealth of Arctic seabirds and mammals. The effort is strongly supported by Inuit hunters and land-claim groups. Drawing the exact boundaries of the area, off the north coast of Nunavut’s Baffin Island, has been
at least partly held up over 30 exploration permits issued in the early 1970s to Shell. Ottawa, under the previous Conservative administration, argued to keep the permits outside the area, but Inuit and environmental groups wanted the protected area to include them and block industry activity. Shell wants compensation for any rights it loses. Researchers have now found those permits may not be valid. “Exploration rights are supposed to not last longer than nine years,� said Speers-Roesch. “When we were looking at the existing exploration rights in the Arctic, the Shell permits stood out because they’ve been around for decades.� An access-to-information search by Greenpeace found no evidence the permits had
“It doesn’t look to me like these permits were properly maintained.� Exploration permits are designed to encourage companies to get on the property and work, he said. “No one would contemplate an exploration permit should be held forever.� Shell did not respond to a request for comment. According to notes from a consultation meeting on LanDaniella Beccaria/seattlepi.com/CP/AP caster Sound held in May 2014, An oil drilling rig arrives aboard a transport ship at sunrise on April Shell downplayed the value of 17, 2015 in Port Angeles, Wash. the permits and called a federal study into their possible oil and ever been renewed. Nor could tem, that there was no record of gas reserves “highly optimistic.� Indigenous and Northern Affairs renewal. But a spokesman pointThe notes say the area won’t be ed out there’s no legal requireCanada, the responsible departa priority for Shell for at least 15 ment that “permits be stamped ment. years. for renewal purposes.� However, The department acknowlBut at the same meeting Shell the department must let comedged to Parvati.org, a Canadian insisted on conducting seismic panies know when permits are environmental group dedicated tests on its permit areas before it about to expire – and there’s no to preserving the Arctic ecosyswould consider swapping them. record of that happening either. Inuit are unlikely to agree. “The validity of the Shell In 2010, land-claims groups permits is indeed a legal question went to court to force a German and not simply a ‘clerical issue,�’ research vessel with plans to Michel Chenier wrote to Parvati. conduct tests in Lancaster Sound org researcher Erin Ryder. to turn around mid-voyage. Chenier argued the permits Another court battle is ongoing are valid because both the comover seismic testing off Baffin’s pany and the government have east coast. acted as if they were. Chris Debicki of Oceans North “Both industry and governCanada called the uncertainty ment have continuously treated a chance to move ahead on the the 30 Shell permits as being creation of the protected area. valid and subsisting from the original date of issue to the pres- He said all other companies that have held exploration permits ent and will continue to do so in from the 1970s and 1980s have the future.� either relinquished them or alNigel Bankes, a professor of lowed them to lapse. resource law at the University of “It would be an opportunity to Calgary who’s familiar with the expand the Marine Conservation issue, said: “I don’t think that’s Area,� he said. “It’s not an approgood enough.� He points out Canada’s regula- priate place to consider drilling.� Ottawa has currently protory regime has changed twice tected less than one per cent of since the permits were granted and there’s no evidence they were Canada’s marine areas. The goal by 2020 is 10 per cent. kept up to date.
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LIFE Just call him the cannabis counsellor
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Michael Dobson attends a marijuana rally in Vancouver in May last year. Dobson hopes to help Yukoners through the process of getting medical marijuana through their doctors. Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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or years, Michael Dobson has navigated the smoky waters of Canada’s medical marijuana system. The 30-year-old Yukoner suffers from grand mal epileptic seizures, which can feature a loss of consciousness and violent muscle contractions. Grand mal seizures are caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Dobson smokes medical marijuana with high levels of cannabidiol, or CBD, to help slow down the synapses in his brain. It used to be a lot simpler for Dobson to get access to the drug that makes his life more tolerable. Canadians have had the right to access medical marijuana with the support of their physicians since 2001. Under the old system, called the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations, individuals like Dobson had three options to get their hands on a legal supply of the drug. They could apply to access Health Canada’s supply, apply for a personal-use production licence or outsource the production to a third party.
Dobson, a medical marijuana patient since 2007, used to grow his own in Pelly Crossing. On average it would cost him $40 to grow one ounce, or about $1.42 per gram, not including electricity. But as of April 1, 2014, the Harper government repealed the old regulations and introduced its own, called The Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations. In a letter to medical marijuana clients, a spokesperson for Health Canada’s Bureau of Medical Cannabis explained the old system was “widely open to abuse” and that home production presented fire and toxic mould hazards. The only way to access medical marijuana today is through Health Canada and its licenced producers, of which there are 30 across the country but none in the territories. The prices vary between $5 and $15 per gram but some producers charge as much as $20, Dobson said. The limit on how much marijuana a person could get per month was also decreased to 150 grams, down from 900. Dobson said he needs about 90 grams per month but knows people who need a lot more,
making it too expensive for them to afford. Patients are also required to go through a physician to obtain a “prescription,” which is then taken to a producer. These days, Dobson is offering advice through his Facebook page, the Yukon Medical Cannabis Association, to people who want to approach their doctors about obtaining medical marijuana. One big obstacle is that most doctors in the territory, the gatekeepers of the drug, aren’t sympathetic to it, Dobson said. “A lot of people come back to me and say that,” he said. “I’m trying to open doors and counsel people on how to speak to their doctors about it. There are quite a few people (in the Yukon) who can benefit from medical marijuana. “To be able to speak to a doctor about it, however, you really need to be prepared.” Dobson, talking about his own experiences, said he had to explain to his doctor how much he was using, what strain of marijuana it was and its potency, among many other things. “You have to have your bases covered so that you can have an open discussion with your doc-
tor.” Last month, a federal court judge ruled that sick Canadians have the right to grow their own medical marijuana, striking down the ban that was introduced two years ago. The decision forces the federal government to rewrite the rules for medical pot. Last week, Ottawa announced that it wasn’t going to appeal the decision, and would come up with new regulations by the end of the summer. Commercial producers ship dried marijuana and, more recently, cannabis oils to roughly 30,000 patients in Canada, according to an article in the Globe and Mail last month. The same article states a recent Health Canada survey found there are roughly 500,000 medical cannabis users in Canada over the age of 25, most of whom are not purchasing from licenced commercial producers. Dobson is hoping he’ll be able to grow his own once again in the near future. He said the marijuana he has received from producers in Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta isn’t usually very good. “Their prices are OK but the quality isn’t the best,” he said. “It isn’t strong enough and
at times, it tastes mouldy. By the time it arrives in the Yukon its moisture content has gone down to almost nothing and its medicinal properties have also gone down.” Dobson, as well as a few others, have tried unsuccessfully to open dispensaries in the Yukon over the years. He said he’s optimistic about that happening in the future, given the Trudeau government’s promise to legalize, regulate and restrict access to marijuana. But he’d like the conversation to shift away from the government’s agencies and towards “the people on the ground.” In February, a Liberal Senate forum on the legalization of marijuana featured a panel made up of senior policy advisors, physicians, lawyers and representatives from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. “It was very unconducive to the legalization movement,” Dobson said. “We’re the ones that get to deal with this on a daily basis. We get the benefits of this right away.” Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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TRAINING PROGRAMS Self-Regulation for Our Clients & Ourselves
Explores self-regulation and co-regulation, the relationship between trauma and self-regulation, and provides strategies and tools for self-regulation and working with others. April 14 & 15 9:00 am to 4:30 pm CRN: 20699 $350 + gst Location: Yukon College Rm T1023 Instructor: Linda Lamers, Stacey Burnard
FASD Informed Support
A new, interactive program that provides practical suggestions for effectively supporting daily challenges faced by individuals with FASD. April 26 & 27 9:00 am to 4:30 pm (Apr 26); 9:00 am to 12 noon (Apr 27) CRN: 20778 $90 + gst Location: Yukon College Rm C1511 Instructor: FASSY
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Provides practical help for caregivers seeking to prevent the immediate risk of suicide. May 11 & 12 9:00 am to 4:30 pm CRN: 30052 $400 + gst Location: Yukon College Rm A2204 Instructor: Angela Neufeld, Margot Neely
Orientation to Nonviolent Communication (NVC) A starting point for learning about NVC, this workshop explores fundamental principles and approaches to NVC through structured NEW activities and real life situations. May 24 CRN: 30067 Location: Yukon College Rm A2402
9:00 am to 4:30 pm $175 + gst Instructor: Mark Nelson
Next Steps – Moving to Collaboration and Action
This course builds on Nonviolent Communication fundamental principles and practices and focuses on their application in work NEW and family relationships. PREREQUISITE: Completion of the 1-day Orientation to Nonviolent Communication workshop or 2-day Introduction to Nonviolent Communication workshop May 25 & 26 9:00 am to 4:30 pm CRN: 30078 $350 + gst Location: Yukon College Rm A2402 Instructor: Mark Nelson, Mitch Miyagawa
Grief and the Frontline Professions
Many jobs that involve supporting and caring for people also often involve loss and grief. This course examines grief, skills and resources for supporting others, and tools for stress reduction and balance. May 25 & 26 9:00 am to 4:30 pm CRN: 30068 $325 + gst Location: Vista Outdoor Learning Centre Instructors: Hospice Yukon
Mental Health First Aid for Northern Peoples
Addresses mental health, mental health problems, and mental health first aid for substance, mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders. May 25, 26 & 27 8:30 am to 4:30 pm CRN: 30062 $250 + gst Location: Yukon College Rm C1440 Instructor: Angela Neufeld
Yukon First Nations 101 - Online
Developed in partnership by Yukon College, 14 Yukon First Nations and CYFN, this course includes: regional cultural competency, linguistic groups, traditional territories, impacts of contact and colonization, historical events, Yukon Agreements, and Yukon First Nations today –culture and values. Self-study Continuous intake CRN: 20613 $89.99 + gst
Also coming up later this spring . . . t Residential Schools Awareness t Trauma Training t Self-Regulation through EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Registration: Please call Admissions to register at 867.668.8710 and quote the Course Registration Number (CRN) listed above. Withdrawal Policy: Please notify the Admissions Office, in person or by telephone, five business days prior to the course start date to allow for a refund. If you withdraw fewer than five business days before the start of a course, you will forfeit the course fee. For more information on the Northern Institute of Social Justice and courses offered: Visit our website: yukoncollege.yk.ca/programs/info/nisj Call: 867.456.8589 Email: nisj@yukoncollege.yk.ca
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MIAMI fter a few weeks of working out at CrossFit, Charles Banfield says his back hurt constantly and his joints felt terrible. The 47-yearold’s aches and pains were so bad, he initially blamed his bed and purchased a new mattress. After feeling a searing pain during a particularly grueling exercise, the Los Angeles-based CEO of an event planning company learned he’d torn his Achilles tendon. “You miss one step and you could really hurt yourself,” Banfield said. Though there have not yet been in-depth studies, some chiropractors, doctors and trainers say stories like Banfield’s have become more frequent with the increasing popularity of high-intensity interval training espoused by CrossFit and other similar hybrid workout gyms. Such workouts include highimpact moves like jumping onto platforms and are performed during a shorter period of time, often without a break to maximize benefits, but some experts say they strain participants’ bodies beyond what they’re meant to endure as they sling sledgehammers over their shoulders and perfect headstand pushups. The notion that people are overdoing it has spawned an offshoot industry aimed at delivering lower-impact exercise or to help those recovering from injuries to continue breaking a sweat but without exacerbating their problems. Many people who do the high-intensity workouts aren’t adequately conditioned for such rigorous workouts, or have back and spine conditions that could worsen, said Marc Umlas, chief of orthopedic surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, who said his office has seen an increase in injuries from workouts at CrossFit and similar programs. “They plunge headfirst into a high intensity workout and they get injured,” Umlas said. Torn tendons and ligaments are a common result, he added. “Every CrossFit athlete that I see as patients, they have something going on as a result of being in CrossFit,” said Dr. Tyler Kallenbach, a Los Angelesbased chiropractor who noted knee and shoulder injuries like torn rotator cuffs are common. He estimated 60 per cent of his patients at one point were seeking treatment from CrossFit
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Most CrossFit and similar high intensity workouts are not meant for average gym-goers, said Jorden Gold, who founded Stretch Zone. workouts, where Kallenbach says overtraining is common. “I’ve got a guy in here who needs his shoulder repaired, a girl who keeps throwing her back out repeatedly. It’s always something with them,” he said. A spokesman for CrossFit says its likely more doctors are seeing injured CrossFitters but only because so many people are doing CrossFit – not because it’s a more dangerous workout. The brand has over 13,000 locations worldwide. A training program that’s completely safe would be ineffective, company spokesman Russell Berger said. CrossFit is known for varied workouts that include gymnastics-style moves like handstands and pull-ups, weightlifting, burpees, running and jumping onto platforms, performed at relatively high intensity. “There’s this view in the fitness industry that they treat safety as the golden calf, that the most important variable in training is safety and that’s just honestly not true. CrossFit is relatively safe and is as safe as anything else you could be doing,” he said. Although strength training while injured may seem counterintuitive, experts say it’s the best way to heal. “Stretching can be complementary to a rehab program, but the focus is usually on the strengthening. Often what we’re trying to do is create a balance between strength and flexibility,” said Dr. Kelly McInnis, a sports medicine physiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital who is a consultant for the New England Patriots and the Boston Red Sox. Most CrossFit and similar high intensity workouts are not meant for average gym-goers, said Jorden Gold, who founded Stretch Zone, which has 33 locations in Florida and three other
states. During the 30-minute sessions, therapists use bolsters and belts to stretch clients on a table from angles that are nearly impossible to stretch on one’s own. Unlike massage, clients are clothed and are stretched in a room with several others. “The majority have no business being there in the first place. … It’s Olympic training,” said Gold. “It’s probably only (suitable for) a very, very small per cent that go.” Los Angeles-based trainer Lauren Roxburgh has created an entire workout around the foam roller, a narrow tube often relegated to post-workout stretching, which she says can smooth out connective tissue, stimulate the lymphatic system and deliver highly effective core strengthening. Roxburgh noticed many clients struggling with injuries from high-intensity workouts and an obsession with training harder and longer. “In our lifestyle it’s been very much about the doing. … It’s all about pushing through, doing, doing, doing, and it hasn’t been enough about the yin, which is the being, being in the moment, being present in our bodies,” she said. At LIT Method, a Los Angeles studio that specializes in low-impact workouts for those who are injured, clients rotate between cardio sessions on rowing machines and strength training using resistance bands. Sessions always end with foam rolling and participants’ injuries are written on the side of their rower. “Eighty-five to 90 per cent of our clients are coming in with some sort of injury and they don’t want to get hurt anymore,” said LIT Method co-founder Justin Norris. He said classes sell out a week in advance: “There was a huge, huge need for this.”
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Five tough impaired driving sentences handed down across Canada after the car landed upside down in a stream. He had been out on bail on an earlier charge of impaired driving when he went on what a court called a “reckless escapade” with his friends near Sarnia, Ont. TEN YEARS: A New Brunswick man was sentenced to 10 years in prison and banned from driving for life in connection with a drunk driving crash in April 2013 that killed a mother of two. Boyd Reginald Atkinson had pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death and impaired driving causing bodily harm. He crossed more than two lanes of traffic before
hitting the woman’s vehicle headon. He had four previous alcoholrelated offences. TEN YEARS: A Halifax man was sentenced to 10 years for drunk driving causing death in August 2015 after a crash in which his speeding vehicle collided headon with a taxi. Drew William MacPherson was found guilty of killing a Halifax senior, who was a passenger in the cab, in the Sept. 2011 crash. MacPherson, who represented himself at his trial and sentencing hearing, maintained his innocence and had asked for a prison term of four to six years.
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Jennifer Neville-Lake cries as she shows photographs of her three children and father who were killed in a horrific crash by drunk driver Marco Muzzo at the courthouse in Newmarket, Ont., on Tuesday. was out with her dog on her 47th Canadian Press birthday. Walsh kept driving after TORONTO the collision and was arrested less than 10 kilometres away after n Ontario judge sentenced a driving into a ditch. It was his 29-year-old man to 10 years 19th impaired driving conviction. in prison on Tuesday in a horTWENTY YEARS: An Alberta rific drunk driving crash north of Toronto that killed three children judge sentenced a man to 20 years and six months behind bars and their grandfather. Marco in 2008 for a drunk driving crash Muzzo had faced the possibility that killed a young mother and of life in prison after pleading her three little girls. The judge guilty to four counts of impaired also declared Raymond Yellowkdriving causing death and two of nee a long-term offender and said impaired driving causing bodily for the first time that drunk drivharm. ing causing death was a “serious Here are a five other tough sentences that have been handed personal injury offence” which down in impaired driving cases in meant those convicted of the offence could not apply to serve recent years. their sentences in the communLIFE IN PRISON: A Quebec ity, under house arrest. Yellowkjudge handed a life sentence to nee pleaded guilty to 10 charges an “incorrigible” repeat drunk in connection with the January driver in 2009, but refused to give the man dangerous offender 2006 collision, which took place the day he had been released status as Crown prosecutors had wanted. Roger Walsh had pleaded from jail after serving a sentence guilty to running into Anee Khud- for uttering threats. TWELVE YEARS: An Ontario averdian in October 2008 after a judge sentenced an unlicensed night of heavy drinking. Khudaverdian, who used a wheelchair, drunk driver to 12 years in prison
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Tributes pour in for ex-minister Jean Lapierre after his death in plane crash away just a few days earlier. The Quebec coroner’s office Canadian Press identified the deceased on Tuesday night as Lapierre, his spouse MONTREAL Nicole Beaulieu, his brothers ormer federal cabinet Marc and Louis, his sister Marminister Jean Lapierre, who tine Lapierre, and crew members went on to become a highly Pascal Gosselin and Fabrice visible and respected political Labourel. pundit on national issues, was Former prime minister Paul remembered Tuesday as a great Martin, who brought Lapierre communicator who “really unback from political exile after derstood the country.� taking over the Liberal leadership Lapierre, 59, his wife, his two in 2003, said he would remember brothers and one of his sisters his ex-colleague as a “great friend were among seven people who who had deep insights.� died when their plane crashed as “We’re talking about someit headed to the Iles-de-la-Made- body who really understood the leine, where his father had passed country, who understood what Giuseppe Valiante
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TRAINING PROGRAMS Nonviolent Communication Offerings Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a world-renowned, proven process that fosters collaboration, mutual acceptance, and support; it is used in organizations, schools, businesses, mediation, negotiations, and families. These workshops benefit anyone interested in responding with more clarity and calm with clients, co-workers and family.
Orientation to Nonviolent Communication This course explores the fundamental principles of NVC (underlying needs, self-responsibility, emotional intelligence) and important approaches (empathy, clear requests). Through structured activities and using real situations, you will begin to: t Shift from judgments, blame and anger toward curiosity and mutual understanding t Understand the disconnection of win-lose, right-wrong communication t Take responsibility for your speech and actions with more selfcompassion t Express your needs without blame and criticism May 24 9:00 am to 4:30 pm CRN: 30067 $175 + gst Yukon College, Rm C2402 Next Steps – Moving to Collaboration and Action This course builds on NVC fundamental practices and principles and their application in relationships at work and home. We will focus on strategies, the potential for more co-operation and collaboration through NVC tools, and ways to stop using reward, punishment and “power over� to get things done. Through role-play and real-life examples, you will begin to learn to: t Make clear, doable requests vs. demands t Create and sustain agreements based in needs, not expectation t Feel empowered even when hearing a “no� t Share power through partnership Prerequisite: The 1-day Orientation to Nonviolent Communication, or 2-day Introduction to Nonviolent Communication May 25 & 26 CRN: 30078 Yukon College, Rm C2402
9:00 am to 4:30 pm $350 + gst
Registration: Please call Admissions to register at 867.668.8710 and quote the Course Registration Number (CRN) listed above. Withdrawal Policy: Please notify the Admissions Office, in person or by telephone, five business days prior to the course start date to allow for a refund. If you withdraw fewer than five business days before the start of a course, you will forfeit the course fee. For more information on the Northern Institute of Social Justice and courses offered: Visit our website: yukoncollege.yk.ca/programs/info/nisj Call: 867.456.8589 Email: nisj@yukoncollege.yk.ca
the political process is all about,� said Martin, who made Lapierre his Quebec lieutenant. “A lot of people comment on the political process. Jean Lapierre lived it and knew it. But also, he was a wonderful person. And I think I’ll remember him as a wonderful person.� The fluently bilingual Lapierre was much sought-after as a political commentator in English and French. While he worked primarily for the TVA television network, he could be seen and heard on various other news outlets throughout the province. “We have lost today not just a colleague, but also a passionate man who influenced all of Quebec with his rigour and his analytical skills,� said Pierre Dion, president and CEO of Quebecor Inc., which owns TVA. Lapierre was elected to the Commons as a Liberal in 1979, representing the Quebec riding of Shefford. He briefly served as youth and amateur sports minister in John Turner’s shortlived government in 1984. At that time, he was just 28, the youngest cabinet minister ever appointed to that point. He co-chaired Martin’s campaign for the Liberal leadership in 1990, during which Lapierre became increasingly heated in his denunciations of the frontrunner, Jean Chretien, and his opposition to the Meech Lake constitutional accord. The moment Chretien was announced the winner at Calgary’s Saddledome, Lapierre and fellow Quebec Liberal MP Gilles Rocheleau stomped out of the convention centre and quit the Liberal party. They later became founding members of the separatist Bloc Quebecois, although Lapierre later said he was never
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Jean Lapierre, accompanied by his wife Nicole Beaulieu, arrives at a news conference in Montreal in 2004 to announce he will run for the Liberal nomination in the Montreal riding of Outremont. really a sovereigntist. Former Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe said he spoke to Lapierre as recently as Monday and recalled his ex-colleague as “combative, passionate and generous.� “He certainly had the best network of contacts you can imagine in Quebec,� Duceppe said. “In all sectors, business, labour. He knew everybody.� Lapierre quit federal politics in 1992 but returned after Martin became Liberal leader in late 2003. He served as transport minister between 2004 and ‘06. Lapierre left politics in 2007 and soon became a popular on-air personality, drawing from his long list of sources in both federal and provincial politics to offer commentary on important news events for a host of different media organizations in Quebec. “He’s one of the finest political analysts I ever met,� Martin added. “He worked so hard at it.� Many well-known Canadian journalists posted messages on
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social media during the day, begging Lapierre to say something to deny rumours he was on board the plane. Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre, who worked with Lapierre under the Liberal banner in Ottawa, said the popular pundit was able to explain politics to Quebecers in a simple, succinct way. “He was above all a communicator,� Coderre told a news conference at city hall. “He could say a lot in a few words. He used his colourful commentary to make us understand (politics) in few words and left no one indifferent.� Politicians of all stripes also weighed in on his death. “It just has me reeling,� Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in an interview with Global television. “He was such a strong fixture in Quebec, in Canadian political life and the media landscape. It actually hasn’t sunk in that he’s not with us anymore.� NDP Leader Tom Mulcair also tweeted his condolences. “An utter shock to learn of the death of Jean Lapierre and many family members,� Mulcair said. “Deepest condolences to those grieving this tragic loss.�
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WASHINGTON here may be a reason why people have trouble seeing while driving at night, and it’s not their eyesight. A new rating of the headlights of more than 30 midsized car models gave only one model a grade of “good.� Of the rest, about a third were rated “acceptable,� a third “marginal� and a third “poor.� The difference between the top- and bottom-rated models for a driver’s ability to see down a dark road was substantial, according to the study released Wednesday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, an industry-funded organization that evaluates automotive safety. The LED headlights in the top trim level Toyota Prius V – the only one of 31 models tested to get the “good� rating – were able to illuminate a straight roadway sufficiently to see a pedestrian, bicyclist or obstacle up to 387 feet ahead. At that distance, the vehicle could be travelling up to 70 mph and still have time to stop. But halogen headlights in the BMW 3 series, the worst-rated ones, were able to illuminate only 128 feet ahead. At that distance, the vehicle couldn’t be travelling at more than 35 mph and still have time to stop, according to the study. That’s important because of the more than 32,000 traffic deaths last year, about half happened at night or during dawn and dusk when visibility is lower. The reason for the big performance gap is that there’s a lot more to how well headlights help drivers see than merely the brightness of the bulb or even what type of bulb is used, said David Zuby, the institute’s executive vice-president and chief researcher. “We found the same light bulb, depending upon what reflector or lens it’s paired with and how it’s mounted on the vehicle, can give you very different visibility down the road,� he said. It gets more complicated. Consumers can’t buy a more expensive model or add an expensive technology package and necessarily expect to get better headlights, the report said. The halogen headlights in the economically priced base model 4-door Honda Accord, for example, earned an acceptable rating while halogen and LED headlights in two pricier Mercedes-Benz models were rated poor. Zuby said with no reliable clues such as the price of the car or the type of light, it’s hard for consumers to figure out which vehicles will provide the safest visibility. He recommended car buyers check the institute’s rat-
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From left, a BMW 3 series, Honda Accord, Toyota Prius V and a Kia Optima are seen at the institute’s Vehicle Research Center in Ruckersville, Va. ings at http://www.iihs.org. The report comes as halogen lamps are being replaced by high-intensity discharge (HID) and LED lamps in many vehicles. Headlights that swivel with the car’s steering to help see around curves are also becoming more widespread. While these changes can have advantages, they don’t guarantee good performance, the report said. Researchers tested the headlights after dark at the institute’s test track in Ruckersville, Virginia. A special device measured the light from both low beams and high beams as the vehicles were driven on five different approaches: travelling straight, a sharp left curve, a sharp right curve, a gradual left curve and a gradual right curve. Researchers also evaluated headlights for excessive glare. They were surprised to find how much headlights varied from the base model to higher trim or accessory packages, Zuby said. Eighty-two different headlight systems were available for the 31 2016 models assessed in the study. To get the top-rated headlights in the Prius V, consumers would have to purchase the advanced technology package, which is only available in the top trim level. Standard halogen lights without high-beam assist in less expen-
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Cast and crew of Broke Down Dawson Town film a scene at the Dawson City dump. The two-part miniseries premiered on Northwestel Community Television and will be re-aired over the next few weeks. stars Stephanie Davidson, who also co-wrote the episodes, News Reporter and Brian Willdey, as Tom and Harry (short for Harriet). wo summers ago DawThe Nova Scotia couple arson City writer and rive in Dawson penniless and director Lulu Keating move into the Westminster looked around and reHotel with a friend, the aptlyalized there were five reality TV named Dick. shows being filmed in town. From there the newcomers In recent years reality shows do their best to try and fit in to have become rife in the Klondtheir new community. ike, portraying the region’s gold “The look of the town and rush history and its mining the ambiance of the town, we and hunting industries. wanted to portray that as much That summer, four of the as possible,” Fraser said. shows filming were being run “So as far as we’re conby companies based Outside. cerned Dawson is a character.” Keating, along with Yukon With only two episodes, producer Max Fraser, has Broke Down Dawson Town is as taken a different approach for mini as you can get while still the latest TV miniseries to air being a series. But that doesn’t on Northwestel’s Community mean its creators have pintTelevision channel. sized aspirations. Broke Down Dawson Town The plan is to take the is a fictional take on life in two episodes and shop them modern Dawson. The cast of around to larger broadcasters the comedy-drama is made up and production companies as entirely of Dawsonites, and the a quasi-pilot for a longer telecrew that brought it to life were vision series, Fraser said. all Yukoners. They want broadcasters to “I’ve been attracted to see the potential in a full series places where I can be true to filmed in Dawson. myself without feeling railFraser said the show has roaded into somebody else’s things in common with other image and I think that’s true successful Canadian series. for a lot of people who have “The tone of the show is chosen to live here, who are charming, like Corner Gas is newer migrants,” said Keating, charming,” he said. who moved to Dawson from “The characters are immediAntigonish in 2004. ately warm to the audience.” “The series is definitely a Then there’s what Fraser celebration of strong, unique, affectionately calls “The Pit local characters and colourful subculture.” characters.” Many scenes in the shows Broke Down Dawson Town were filmed at the iconic DawAshley Joannou
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Max Fraser is the producer of Broke Down Dawson Town. and Willdey worked on in 2010 and 2013. A change to the Canada Media Fund in 2014 was critical to the characters making their way to TV. The national organization, which promotes the production of Canadian content, offers an incentive to northern companies looking to film. But until that year creators usually had to have a deal with the country’s larger broadcasters to qualify for the funding. The change meant projects licensed by community cable stations, like Northwestel’s, could trigger cash, Fraser explained. “When the Canada Media Fund made their announcement it kind of took everybody by surprise,” he said. “It was good news but people had to adjust to the circumstances.” That money, combined with federal and territorial grants and cash from individual sponsors, was enough to cobble together a budget of $100,000. Nobody worked for scale.
They got paid about half of what they would for a properly funded conventional shoot, Fraser said. But it was enough to get the two 25-minute episodes done. The money was lined up by January 2015 and that’s when things “went into fast motion,” Fraser said. Ten days of filming started that April. The two episodes premiered on Community Television Wednesday. They’ll be re-airing back-to-back every night at 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. until April 10, with the exception of Friday night because of radio/TV bingo. Fraser said he and Keating have already started making contact with people who might be interested in funding the development of the series into a full season. “I think that’s its biggest strength, that it’s genuine, authentic Yukon content.” Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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PARIS he man who nearly stole over 70 million euros from France’s business and banking elite is a serial manipulator who sees fraud not as a crime but as a way of life, according to those behind a new film based on the con artist’s exploits. Je Compte sur Vous – released in English as Thank You for Calling – is based on the exploits of the French-Israeli Gilbert Chikli, who engineered rogue payments by phoning companies and pretending to be the firm’s CEO or a French intelligence agent. Those behind the film, which was released in France on Dec. 30, describe Chikli as a chameleon of a man, a brazen charmer whose boasts suggest he has yet to abandon his criminal career. “Chikli is an unstoppable seduction machine,� said director Pascal Elbe in a recent interview in Paris. “For him it’s a job, it’s definitely not a con.� Chikli’s heists were astounding in their daring. With a little background research and a wellplaced phone call, Chikli could cajole or bluster his way into organizing the transfer of several hundred thousand, a million or even millions of euros to bank accounts in Dubai, Russia, China or Hong Kong. His victims put down the phone convinced they were speaking to their boss or to a
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Gilbert Chikli, 50, poses for a photo at his home in Ashdod, Israel on March 28. genuine French spy. One spoke of being taken in by a man with “an extremely powerful tone of voice and self-assurance.� Two more were convinced – somehow – to withdraw cash and hand-deliver it to bars in Paris. When tricks or charm didn’t work, Chikli turned to bullying; another employee was threatened with losing her job if she didn’t immediately
organize the transfer of nearly $2 million to the U.K. “He adapts to his interlocutor, that’s what’s crazy,� Elbe said. “He improvises. He reacts. He riffs off what you’re saying and gives you back what you want to hear.� The idea for the film came from producer Isaac Sharry, who bought the rights to Chikli’s story when he was still in French
custody and visited him in Israel shortly after Chikli jumped bail. Chikli remains a wanted man in France, but today lives openly in Ashdod, a port town south of Tel Aviv. Israeli authorities refused to explain why Chikli is able to live freely in Israel. Sharry said he wanted to
speak to Chikli in depth to ask how “bankers who make thousands of euros and went to fancy schools let themselves be hoodwinked by a simple guy on the phone?� The producer amassed 10 cassettes worth of tape which became the basis for a screenplay. Elbe was tapped as filmmaker and actor Vincent Elbaz was brought in to play the Chikli-like con artist at the centre of the film. All three spent significant periods of time with the fraudster, trying to draw out the secrets of his trade and unwrap the mystery of his character. Elbaz said he found it difficult to get access to the man behind the con. “He adapts constantly his behaviour to the other. It’s constantly a lie,� he said. Whether Chikli has mended his ways is open to question. At one point, Elbaz said Chikli announced that there would be a sequel. Elbaz said he warned Chikli off the idea. “The film is super and all but you have to sell millions and millions of tickets for it to be a sequel,� he said. Elbaz said Chikli replied: “No. We’re going to do a sequel not because the film is going to be a success, but because of what I’m going to do next.� Contacted later by The Associated Press, Chikli denied the exchange ever took place.
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I attended a house party held in the home of an antiques dealer whose home was filled with magnificent furniture. In the distant past, a friend of mine and I talked often about how one must be taught to sit properly in any chair. Well, as you would imagine, an oversized guest at this party sat indelicately on a small, expensive antique chair and broke one of the legs. The hostess was in another room. I heard and saw the crack because I was nearby. The chair was definitely seriously damaged. Moments later, I left with another guest who gave me a ride home. I never told the hostess. Was I wrong? And, if I was supposed to tell the hostess, just how could I do that without embarrassing the awkward guest? GENTLE READER: The
hostess was going to find out whether you told her or not — and was probably going to make her own assumptions about the culprit. Miss Manners fears that the only reason to have told her would be to recuse yourself from blame. The guest who broke it should have confessed and offered to repair the damage. Perhaps he or she did; you left shortly after the crack. But not much good could come from your turning that person in. DEAR MISS MANNERS: I teach in a large high school, and two of my fellow teachers have now suffered the tragic loss of a family member. In one case, the father of my colleague did not have life insurance, and the cost of undertaking services fell on his shoulders. The staff took up a collection to which I was happy to contribute. Then another teacher lost an unborn child very late in the pregnancy. Of course, my heart went out to this family. Again, we took up a collection to buy gift cards for things the family may need. That family was deeply saddened, but in no financial crisis. In my day, we might collect for flowers or a tree that the family could plant in memory.
If we were close to a family suffering a loss, we would take over a meal, so the gift cards may substitute for that meal. We all were upset by the loss, but is a monetary gift appropriate? I am uncomfortable with this to the point that I don’t want my personal losses shared in fear that any loss might be met with a financial gift. No amount of money can replace a loved one. GENTLE READER: No, but people often don’t know what to say or do when tragedy strikes, and the first colleague’s financial situation gave the staff a specific purpose for their donations. Unfortunately, that set a precedent. You could lead a movement away from automatic public solicitations, regardless of financial circumstances, by initiating a gift of food or flowers the next time tragedy strikes. Miss Manners sincerely hopes that no one believes a financial reward is payment for grief — even if wayward lawyers would often have you believe so. (Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail. com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO
Religious Organizations & Services Whitehorse United Church
Yukon Bible Fellowship
601 Main Street 667-2989
FOURSQUARE GOSPEL CHURCH 160 Hillcrest Drive Family Worship: Sunday 10:00am
(Union of Methodist, Presbyterian & Congregational Churches) 10:30 a.m. - Sunday School & Worship Service Rev. Beverly C.S. Brazier
Grace Community Church 8th & Wheeler Street Pastor Jim Joe 668-2003
PASTOR SIMON AYRTON PASTOR RICK TURNER www.yukonbiblefellowship.com
Church Of The Nazarene 2111 Centennial St. (Porter Creek) Sunday School & Morning Worship - 10:45 am Call for Bible Study & Youth Group details
Quaker Worship Group RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Meets regularly for Silent Worship. For information, call 667-4615 email: whitehorse-contact@quaker.ca
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Seventh Day Adventist Church
First Pentecostal Church
1607 Birch St. 633-2647
149 Wilson Drive 668-5727
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Sunday 10:00am Prayer / Sunday School 11:00 am Worship Wednesday Praise & Celebration 7:30 pm Pastor Roger Yadon
4th Avenue & Steele Street • 667-2437 Masses: Weekdays: 12:10 pm. Saturday 5 pm Sunday: 9 am - English; 10:10 am - French; 11:30 am English
Whitehorse
Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
Saturday Evening Mass: 7:00 p.m. Confessions before Mass & by appointment. Monday 7:00 PM Novena Prayers & Adoration Tuesday through Friday: Mass 11:30 a.m.
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Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church 4th Avenue & Strickland Street
668-4079 tlc@northwestel.net pastor.tlc@northwestel.net EVERYONE WELCOME!
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Riverdale Baptist Church 15 Duke Road, Whse 667-6620 Sunday Worship Service: 10:30am Pastors: REV. GREG ANDERSON MICHELLE DREWITZ
www.rbchurch.ca Affiliated with Canadian Baptist Ministries and Canadian Baptists of Western Canada
Baptist Church 2060 2ND AVENUE • 667-4889
www.whbc.ca Family Worship & Sunday School
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St. Nikolai Orthodox
Christian Mission
Saturday Vespers 5:00 pm Sunday Liturgy 10:00 am FR. JOHN GRYBA 332-4171 for information www.orthodoxwhitehorse.org
403 Lowe Street Mondays 5:15 to 6:15 PM
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Christ Church Cathedral Anglican Dean Sean Murphy, Rector
TAGISH Community Church
Our Lady of Victory (Roman Catholic)
Meditation Drop-in • Everyone Welcome!
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Vajra North Buddhist Meditation Society
1609 Birch St. (Porter Creek) 633-5385 “We’re Open Saturdays!� Worship Service 11:00 am Wednesday 7:00 pm - Prayer Meeting All are welcome.
10:30 AM FAMILY WORSHIP WEEKLY CARE GROUP STUDIES Because He Cares, We Care.
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Bethany Church
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4TH AVENUE & ELLIOTT STREET Sunday Communion Services 8:30 & 10:00 AM Thursday Service 12:10 PM (Bag Lunch)
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Calvary Baptist 1301 FIR STREET 633-2886 Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday Evening Worship 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Pastor L.E. Harrison 633-4089
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Church of the Northern Apostles
An Anglican/Episcopal Church Sunday Worship 10:00 AM Sunday School during Service, Sept to May
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Yukon Muslim Association 1154c 1st Ave • Entrance from Strickland
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Geothermal: Tapping Earth’s abundant energy couver and Montreal offices use geothermal. According to National Geographic, geothermal power plants use three methods to by David produce electricity: dry steam, flash steam and binary cycle. Suzuki Dry steam uses steam from fractures in the ground. “Flash CIENCE plants pull deep, high-pressure ATTERS hot water into cooler, lowpressure water,� which cren the midst of controversy over B.C.’s Peace River Site C ates steam. In binary plants, which produce no greenhouse dam project, the Canadian Geothermal Energy Association gas emissions and will likely become dominant, “hot water released a study showing the is passed by a secondary province could get the same amount of energy more afford- fluid with a much lower boiling point,� which turns the secondably from geothermal sources ary fluid into vapour. for about half the construction Unlike wind and solar, costs. Unlike Site C, geothergeothermal provides steady mal wouldn’t require massive energy and can serve as a more transmission upgrades, would be less environmentally disrup- cost-effective and less environtive and would create more jobs mentally damaging form of throughout the province rather baseload power than fossil fuels or nuclear. It’s not entirely withthan just in one area. Despite the many benefits of out environmental impacts, geothermal, Canada is the only but most are minor and can be overcome with good plan“Pacific Ring of Fire� country ning and siting. Geothermal that doesn’t use it for commerfluids can contain gases and cial-scale energy. According to heavy metals, but most new Desmog Blog, “New Zealand, systems recycle them back into Indonesia, the Philippines, the the ground. Operations should United States and Mexico all also be located to avoid mixhave commercial geothermal ing geothermal liquids with plants.� Iceland heats up to 90 per cent of its homes, and sup- groundwater and to eliminate impacts on nearby natural plies 25 per cent of its electrifeatures like hot springs. Some city, with geothermal. Geothermal energy is gener- geothermal plants can produce ated by heat from Earth’s rocks, small amounts of CO2, but binary systems are emissionsliquids and steam. It can come from shallow ground, where the free. In some cases, resources temperature is a steady 10 to 16 that provide heat can become depleted over time. C, hot water and rocks deeper Although geothermal potenin the ground, or possibly very hot molten rock (magma) deep tial has been constrained by the need to locate operations below Earth’s surface. As with clean-energy sources like solar, in areas with high volcanic activity, geysers or hot springs, geothermal energy systems new developments are making vary, from those that use hot it more widely viable. One conwater from the ground directly troversial method being tested to heat buildings, greenhouses is similar to “fracking� for oil and water, to those that pump and gas. Water is injected into underground hot water or a well with enough pressure to steam to drive turbines. The David Suzuki Foundation’s Van- break rock and release heat to
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produce hot water and steam to generate power through a turbine or binary system. Researchers have also been studying urban “heat islands� as sources of geothermal energy. Urban areas are warmer than their rural surroundings, both above and below ground, because of the effects of buildings, basements and sewage and water systems. Geothermal pumps could make the underground energy available to heat buildings in winter and cool them in summer. New methods of getting energy from the ground could also give geothermal a boost. Entrepreneur Manoj Bhargava is working with researchers to bring heat to the surface using graphene cords rather than steam or hot water. Graphene is stronger than steel and conducts heat well. Bhargava says the technology would be simple to develop and could be integrated with existing power grids. Unfortunately, geothermal hasn’t received the same level of government support as other sources of energy, including fossil fuels and nuclear. That’s partly because upfront costs are high and, as with oil and gas exploration, geothermal sources aren’t always located where developers hope they’ll be. As Desmog notes, resources are often found in areas that already have access to inexpensive hydro power. Rapid advancements in renewable-energy and powergrid technologies could put the world on track to a mix of clean sources fairly quickly – which is absolutely necessary to curtail global warming. Geothermal energy should be part of that mix. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington.
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Ghost ship artifacts emerge in museum by Ned Rozell
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detective work and found this: In 1930, Canadian filmmaker Richard Finnie spent a year in Canada’s western Arctic to make a movie of the life of “Copper Eskimoes” that had little contact with outsiders. Finnie caught a few rides on the Baychimo, during which he left crates of gear and ethnological specimens. He flew back to Ottawa before the ship got trapped. In August 1933, the crew of the Trader, a ship based in Nome, heard of a Baychimo siting as they were anchored off Wainwright. They sailed out to the Baychimo, tied lines to it, and tried to tug it free. The Baychimo remained fused to the ice pack, but crewmembers took what they could, including Finnie’s artifacts. One year later, a crewmember of the Trader gave the 14 items to Otto Geist, the legendary Alaska collector and naturalist who was doing work on St. Lawrence Island. Both the Trader and Geist were at Savoonga at the same time. Upon his return to Fairbanks, Geist brought the artifacts to the museum. And there they sat, for decades. The items saw the light for the first time in many years last fall when Reuther opened the drawer. He and Rogers then unraveled a small mystery straight from the belly of Alaska’s ghost ship. 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 Homefront: Dawson City during the First World War by Michael Gates
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he echoes of the cheering crowd in the Arctic Brotherhood Hall had died. The patriotic speeches that stirred the hearts were now a memory. The bunting was taken down and the flags and decorations were stored away. Three days later, on October 9, 1914, the volunteers assembled at the mounted police barracks at the south end of Front Street. Wearing khaki trousers and matching shirts, yellow mackinaws and stiff-brimmed hats, they marched quick-step, as they had been drilled to do, down the avenue with flags waving, behind a small brass band, until they reached the waiting crowd at the docks near King Street. They boarded the steamer Lightning and lined the hand rails along the decks as the crowd waved. With three cheers and a tiger, the band struck up “God Save the King,� and the feisty little river boat turned away from the wharf, churned its way upriver, and disappeared in the distance. The 39 volunteers (11 more would join them in Whitehorse) of the Boyle Machine Gun Detachment were off to do their patriotic duty. It was a scene that Dawson City would experience time and again as hundreds of men streamed from the community to serve “King and Empire� in distant battlefields. As the distant artillery boomed and machine guns chattered, the lifeblood of the Yukon slowly flowed from the territory. By the end of the Great War (1914-1918), the Yukon would be a withered husk of its former self, drained of its vitality. The war heralded the end of the gold rush era, and defined the beginning of a slower, diminished life that would be the nature of the territory for the next two decades. Similar preparations were made for the departure of the second large group, the volunteers of the George Black contingent in 1916. The third and final group were those from the selective draft of 1918. These were the youngest volunteers to leave. Meanwhile, the Yukon ladies shifted into high gear to raise funds for the war effort. Almost immediately, they started a campaign to raise funds for a hospital ship; Joe Boyle chipped in $2,500 for that cause. The Imperial Order, Daughters of the Empire (IODE) became the leaders of fund raising efforts. Once war was declared, several new chapters of the IODE were formed to join the original one established in 1913. The ladies were the Women’s
Patriotic Service League, The Anglican Church Women, The Daughters of the Eastern Star, and the Daughters of Nippon. Even First Nation members made patriotic contributions. Every event they organized henceforth was designed to raise money for charitable works related to the war effort. They held raffles, picnics and socials; they organized dances and special events at the theatres in Dawson. A summer fete was held at Government House. A dinner cruise with dancing was offered aboard one of the Yukon River sternwheelers. The community turned out in large numbers to support every fundraiser. Students participated at all of these; their choir sang, they gave recitals and posed in tableaux. The Boy Scouts collected clothing to send to displaced Belgians. The Girl Guides took drill instruction from “Major� Knight, who was in charge of the Mounted Police in Dawson. The ladies organized Christmas gift packages to send to their men overseas; knitting socks became a patriotic pastime, for which the Yukon volunteers were especially grateful. During the war, the Dawson Daily News served as the most important conduit for war news to the community. From the day that war was announced, each issue was filled with reports of action on the front and contained stirring editorials. The newspaper also published letters sent home from the men overseas. These letters described their trips to enlist in Vancouver or Victoria, detailed their journeys to England, and related their training once they arrived. Their letters complained about the English weather, the food (there was never enough), and what their comrades were doing. The newspaper also carried reports of the wounded, captured and missing. The News recounted the heroic deeds of the Yukon men and the honours bestowed upon them. It also carried the sad news of those who died from gunfire, gas attacks, shelling and shrapnel, disease and misadventure. When Dawsonites went to the theatres, they watched newsreels prepared with special content covering the war effort. Jack Suttles, a Kentuckian and Yukoner, sent to Dawson City copies of films taken of the Yukon Company in training at Sidney during the fall of 1916. As the Yukon men boarded a ship at the beginning of their long journey to England, Dawsonites filled the Dawson Amateur Athletic Association (DAAA) theatre in January of 1917 to view these films. The sight of the company doing physical drill, dinner parade, bayonet drill, route march and posing for a group photo brought cheers and applause from the appreciative audience. The front of the theatre was filled with children from the public school who sang patriotic
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A large crowd greeted Captain George Black, the commissioner of the Yukon, when he returned to Dawson City June 8, 1916. Recruitment of the Yukon Infantry Company had already begun; by October, 225 volunteers joined him for the long campaign overseas. songs including “Oh Canada,� “Rule Britannia,� and “Soldiers of the King.� Even after the war, these events continued. The IODE (Martha Munger Black Chapter) sponsored a special event at the DAAA in April of 1919 showing slides of the George Black contingent training in England. People applauded as their loved
ones appeared on the screen. The viewing was followed by various songs, accompanied by Mrs. Alex McCarter on piano, and then concluded with a fivereel movie. As the war progressed, people in Dawson became involved in various issues of importance. Prohibition was hotly debated, and defeated. Women’s en-
franchisement was sought, and gained. As the supply of replacement soldiers dried up, conscription became one of the hottest political issues in the country. Conscripts started leaving the Yukon for the battlefields by early summer of 1918; some of these actually saw combat overseas, and a few of them died in battle. As the war’s end approached, the Yukon was dealt a terrible blow: the territorial budget was reduced and many jobs were abolished, including that of the commissioner. For all his patriotic service, Commissioner George Black, the most senior official in the Yukon, would find himself unemployed when he returned from Europe. This and many other stories about the Yukon during World War I will be revealed at “The North and World War I� conference, which will take place in Whitehorse and Dawson City May 9-15. For more information about the conference, go to: http://heritageyukon.ca/wwi/ north-and-wwi-conference Michael Gates is currently writing a book on the Yukon in World War I. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net
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Studer wins fourth straight Percy in race’s 40th year
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Carcross musher Crispin Studer, seen here racing last season, won his fourth consecutive Percy DeWolfe Memorial Mail Race in Dawson City over the weekend. Tom Patrick News Reporter
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fter a year off of racing, Carcross musher Crispin Studer decided to get one in before the thaw. He did, after all, have a title to defend. The 35-year-old won his fourth straight title at the 40th annual Percy DeWolfe Memorial Mail Race in Dawson City last Friday. “The trail was very bumpy. They put a lot of work into it, but it was still a very technical trail. Other than that, it was pretty good,” said Studer. “I had a flawless run, which is my goal. I didn’t have a single injury and no dog problems, and that’s what I was hoping for.” Studer claimed first, completing the 338-kilometre race from Dawson to Eagle, Alaska
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and back in 21 hours and 39 minutes. It’s his fifth Percy title in total, having won the race in 2011 as well. While Studer took most of the season off to finish construction of his new home, he team from Pika Kennel kept fairly busy. The Pika dogs were also winners at the Carbon Hill Sled Dog Race in January. Carcross’ William Kleedehn then ran the team to win the 2016 Cinnamon Bun Run at the end of February. “William had all the race dogs pretty much all season and he wasn’t able to race this weekend so I jumped in,” said Studer. In addition to winning the Percy last year, Studer and his speedy team won at the Carbon Hill, the Silver Sled and the Cinnamon Bun Run. So, in other words, it’s been a while since his
this Saturday. The 50-kilometre race will now start at 10 a.m. Yukon Due to warm temperatures and time, followed by the 25-kilomelting snow, organizers of metre at 10:15, the 10-kilomethe Buckwheat Ski Classic have tre at 10:30 and the five-kilomoved up start times by an metre kids race at 11:30. hour for the 30th annual race “There is plenty of snow on
dogs have lost a race. “I’m pretty lucky to have good core of dogs here,” said Studer. “You have to have good bloodlines … I don’t do anything fancy with training … Feeding is super basic: meat, kibble and water. “The majority of it is really good bloodlines.” Four-time Yukon Quest champ and two-time Percy winner Hans Gatt of Whitehorse placed second, 23 minutes behind Studer. Whitehorse’s Alexander Serdjukov took third with a time of 22:24 and was named Rookie of the Year. Dawson’s Kyla Boivin placed fourth at 24:51; Wisconsin’s Laura Neese fifth at 27:47; and Whitehorse’s Gaetan Pierrard came sixth at 27:53 and picked up the Vet Care Award.
Shallow Bay’s Gerry Willomitzer scratched from the race in Eagle and was given the Sportsmanship Award. “I had a 20-minute lead after 50 miles and then it was between 20 and 25 minutes for the rest of the race,” said Studer. “I knew if I didn’t have to load dogs – didn’t have injured dogs – I’d be tough to catch. So I made sure I had leaders up front running just the right speed – not too fast, not put the dogs over the edge by running too fast a tiny bit.” In the half-distance Percy Junior race, from Dawson to 40 Mile and back, Dawson’s Jason Biasetti took first with a time of 11:50 and received the Vet Care Award. Whitehorse’s Matt Rydholm (11:56) placed second and Dawson’s Matt McHugh (12:53), just
two seconds ahead of Dawson’s Brian Wilmshurst. Haines Junction’s Krys March took in the red lantern. “This was the 40th annual Percy DeWolfe and Percy himself carried the mail from Dawson to Eagle for 40 years, so it was a special anniversary for everyone involved,” said race president Anna Claxton. “One notable thing was the effort it took to get the trail in this year … A bunch of great and really dedicated volunteers from Dawson stepped up and did an amazing amount of work. We finally calculated it and it took over 200 hours to get the trail in to Eagle. Without that this race wouldn’t have happened.”
the trails for the race, but snow conditions are getting progressively softer through the day,” reads a news release. “The Buckwheat was moved a week later than normal this year to accommodate the Haywood Canadian Nationals in White-
horse, which ended Easter weekend. Several of those racers are staying an extra week to ski the Buckwheat and help trail crew volunteers get the course ready.” Over 360 skiers are currently registered for Saturday’s race
that will be hosted by the Log Cabin Ski Society in Log Cabin, B.C. More information can be found at www.buckwheatskiclassic. com. (Tom Patrick)
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Whitehorse’s Charlie Hawes races towards his third Yukon Cup title. (U14) – 1:24.07 5th Manas Toews (U16) – 1:24.46 6th Clayton Chapman (U12) – 1:24.89 7th Noah Wright (U14) – 1:25.16 8th Lyle Dinn (master) – 1:25.58 9th Naoise Dempsey (U14) – 1:27.02 10th Paul MacDonald (master) – 1:27.49
(U10) – 1:39.46 9th Adelle Anderson (U12) – 1:39.82 10th Felicity Vangel (U16) – 1:39.84 Yves Titley/Yukon News
Yukon Alpine Ski Team’s Katie Vowk races at the Yukon Cup in Watson Lake over the weekend. Vowk won her second straight Yukon Cup title. Tom Patrick News Reporter
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hitehorse’s Charlie Hawes and Katie Vowk were once again the fastest down the mountain over the weekend. The two under-16 alpine skiers had the fastest combined times over two days of racing to win overall titles at the Yukon Cup at Mount Maichen in Watson Lake. It was Hawes’ third in a row and Vowk’s second in a row winning. But it wasn’t all smooth sailing. Hawes fell in one of his two giant slalom runs and Vowk was disqualified in her first slalom run. “It was a fun race,” said Hawes. “In the first run, when I fell, I think I was going a little bit too fast and it caught me off guard on a couple of turns. In the afternoon it got really hot and the snow got very slow, so it as a lot more difficult in the afternoon.” “I was kind of unsure because of my disqualification (in my first run), so I was surprised to hear it still worked out,” said Vowk. “(On the second run) I took it a little bit easier – the course was a little rutted up, so I had to take it slow anyways. But when I got to the end I was pretty sure I was going to make it and went all out.” Hawes and Vowk squeezed out wins – determined by the lowest combined time from the best run Saturday and best run Sunday – by just a few seconds ahead of teammates. Hawes produced a combined time of 1:14.13, just 1.66 seconds ahead of Shane Orban. Vowk posted a combined time of 1:17.64, just 13.87 seconds up from Greta
Gladwin. Vowk, Hawes and Orban all won gold medals at the Arctic Winter Games last month in Greenland. The team, which included Gladwin, also took the silver in the team competition. Though spring weather is melting the snow, the season isn’t quite done yet for the Yukon Alpine Ski Team. They will compete at the Fidelity Investments U16 Alberta Provincial Finals next week at Sunshine in Banff, Alta. “I’m pretty excited about Sunshine. It’s definitely the higher level skiers we’re going to be competing with there,” said Vowk. “So I’m a little bit worried about it, but I think when I get to the race I’ll be a little more confident to ski.” A total of 54 skiers competed at this year’s Yukon Cup, which was held in Watson Lake a second year in a row.
Top 10 results (combined times) Women 1st Katie Vowk (U16) – 1:17.64 2nd Greta Gladwin (U12) – 1:31.31 3rd Mollie Fraser (U14) – 1:33.25 4th Anna Potvin (U12) – 1:34.04 5th Rosa Martens-Derepentigny (U14) – 1:35.13 6th Anna Lund (U16) – 1:36.86 7th Tanya Ordish (master) – 1:38.59 8th Jordan Minifie
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he Capital Towing Jets might not be the fastest team or the most skilled, but a cohesive effort put them on top over the weekend. The Jets bagged their firstever playoff title with a shutout win over the 202 Saloon Shooters in the Yukon Broomball Association’s league final at the Takhini Broomball Arena on Saturday. “We’re not All Stars, but we support each other on the ice and off, and it’s a really good fun group,” said Jets captain Scott Smith. Few would have predicted those two teams in the final. The Jets placed fifth in the league’s regular season and the Shooters fourth. Last year’s two finalist teams ended up playing for bronze and the top team in the regular season – the Spectrum Security Bears – didn’t even get a shot at a medal. “It’s been low-scoring affairs all playoffs,” said Smith. “There have been a number of teams quite short on players with travel, family and holidays … Capital was no different. We started the playoffs with one spare on the bench and then people started coming back from holidays and travel, etcetera. “Our team got stronger as the
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202 Saloon Shooters’ Luke Parker, left, and Capital Towing Jets’ Antoine Dion-Lafortune fight for possesion in the final of the Yukon Broomball Association league on Saturday in Takhini. Capital Towing won 2-0. playoffs went on, in numbers, if nothing else.” The Jets took the title with a 2-0 win in the final. Gabriel
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Nadon and Francois Lafortune both scored – and assisted each other’s goals. “Gab said to me before we started, ‘I don’t want to play with anyone else, they confuse me.’ So we played together and we really clicked,” said Lafortune. Lafortune scored in the first period on a breakaway with a pass from Nadon. Lafortune then returned the favour in the third period, lobbing a pass over the 202 defenders to Nadon, who made it 2-0 with 1:49 left in regulation. “He’s a young guy – 16 years old – up and coming in the league,” said Smith of Nadon. “He’s been waiting to play for years because both his mom and dad play and his brother played until he went to university. He’s been helping out, time keeping, waiting patiently until he’s of age to play. So he’s having a lot of fun.” Jets goalie Brayden Hunt was a wall for his team with a shutout in the final and semi. It’s a
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ven after getting bumped up a level, the Whitehorse Atom Development Team was more than the competition could handle in Alberta over the weekend, The Whitehorse team went undefeated to win gold at the 26th annual North Edmonton Zone Eagles Spring Tournament. “We go to Alberta and try to figure out where we are in different tiers,” said Whitehorse coach Derek Johnstone. “We’re maybe a little bit stronger than what we thought we are and played very well.” The Whitehorse atoms entered the tournament’s Tier 3 division. But following a 15-0 blowout over North Edmonton Eagles, tournament organizers decided to move Whitehorse up to Tier 2 – the tournament’s highest. It made for a busy schedule. Whitehorse didn’t get to keep the points from their first win and had to play a makeup game. They went on to win four more in a span of about 24 hours. Whitehorse opened their Tier 2 run with a 10-1 win over another Edmonton Eagles team. Seth Sheardown-Waugh and Jonny Timmons each registered a hat trick with an assist. The Whitehorse squad then topped two Fort McMurray Bulldogs teams in succession. They
won 6-2 over the first one as Jase Johnstone, Taylor Bierlmeier and Luke Cozens each contributed a goal and assist. Whitehorse beat the other Bulldogs team 8-1 for a spot in the final. Bierlmeier and Cozens both had three-point games with a goal each. In a rematch against the Tier 2 Eagles, Whitehorse claimed gold with an 8-2 win. “Our team just gelled. We kept rolling three lines, six defence, and I think they found it hard to play against us because we were pretty quick,” said Johnstone. “It was good to see an atom development team to show like that.” Whitehorse goalies Fynn Ritchie and Ben Power shared net-minder duties in Edmonton. In their first tournament of the year the Whitehorse development team was squeezed out of a playoff spot through a goal differential. In their second outing they won silver out of 16 teams at the Squamish Atom Family Day Tournament in B.C. in February. “Our coaching staff was extremely proud of this group of kids, as we came close in earlier tournaments this year,” said Derek. “We learned from those performances and came every week ready to practice, learn and continue to improve. We never once let up this year, one main goal was to continue to peak towards the end of the year, finally getting the opportunity to feel success in this tourna-
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Yukon Mustangs goalie Ethan Vanderklay gets set to make a save at the Whitehorse International Showdown in December. The U16 Mustangs went undefeated in Anchorage over the weekend. Tom Patrick News Reporter
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wo of Alaska’s top AA teams were unable to secure wins against the
U16 Mustangs over the weekend in Anchorage. The Yukon rep team went undefeated in four exhibition games with three wins – including one over a state champion team – on a road trip.
“I’m very happy with where we’re at,” said Mustangs head coach Martin Lawrie. “We knew a couple of the teams we were going to play in Anchorage were going to be pretty challenging … We were hoping we were at that level and we’re pretty impressed the guys
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played at that level.” The Mustangs hit the ground running in Anchorage facing the Alaska U18 AA Jr Avalanche, the U18 AA state champions who are off to nationals this week. Yukon took the game 2-0 with goals from Jonas Leas and Dylan Kindervater while goalie Ethan Vanderkley notched his first of three shutouts. “That’s probably the best game we played,” said Lawrie. The Mustangs then galloped to a 5-2 win over the Alaska U16 AA Wolves. Forward Bryce Anderson scored twice and had three assists. Linemate Johnny Elias posted a goal and two assists, Brett Walchuk had goal and assist, and Kindervater knocked in the game-winner. Mathew Butler, Oscar Burgess and Gavin Lawrie helped with assists. The Mustangs then kept another state champion team scoreless. Yukon tied the Alaska U16 AA Jr Avalanche 0-0 in Game 3. Vanderkley kept his net clean as the Mustangs topped the Wolves a second time at
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4-0. Leas, Walchuk, Camerson Gingell and Mackenzie BennWipp each found the back of the net. Gavin Lawrie and Dion Fowler each posted two assists. “Different guys played well at different times. We had solid goaltending again, which we really come to expect from Ethan Vanderkley,” said Martin. “Our one line of Anderson, Elias and Kindervater had a really strong game in the 5-2 win over the Alaska Wolves.” The U16 Mustangs is a new “elite-15” program established last year by Hockey Yukon for first-year midget players. Many on the roster also played for last year’s Bantam Mustangs who won Yukon’s first-ever gold medal at the B.C. Hockey Championships last year. The U16s won the Whitehorse International Showdown in December, beating the Yellowknife Wolfpack in the final. “I’m happy with how they’ve been progressing and I think the program is proving to be a success,” said Lawrie. “Hopefully it’s something Whitehorse Minor and Hockey Yukon look to continue going forward. It’s a nice fit for us and I think we can grow off the successes of this age group after provincials last year.” Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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t’s rare – and almost unthinkable for hockey fans – but the Stanley Cup playoffs will go ahead without any Canadian teams. The Ottawa Senators were the last club to be eliminated on Wednesday night, despite beating the Winnipeg Jets 2-1. The Philadelphia Flyers’ 2-1 shootout win over the Washington Capitals mathematically eliminated the Sens. The Jets, Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks had already fallen short and will stand aside as 16 U.S-based clubs battle for the Cup. “It’s such a big part of our culture in Canada and ever since I can remember growing up, gearing up for that first round of playoffs is huge,” said Calgary Flames captain Mark Giordano, a Toronto native. “It’s disappointing that we’re not going to have a team from Canada represented. “But there are still a lot of great players, a lot of great teams, a lot of great Canadian players on American teams, so I’m sure the fans will still enjoy it and it will be another great playoff.” It is only the second time it has happened in NHL history. The last was in 1970, when the Toronto Maple Leafs finished sixth and last in their division and the Canadiens ended up fifth, losing the final playoff spot to the New York Rangers on a tiebreaker – total goals scored – on the final day of the regular season. But it has been coming, with the Leafs, the Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames and Winnipeg Jets all missing the post-season more often than not in recent years. In 2014, Montreal was the only Canadian club in the playoffs. In 2011 and 2012, there were only two. It will cost the teams millions in lost ticket and merchandise sales. Bars, restaurants and retailers of team jerseys and flags will miss out on the extra sales from playoff fever. “All the teams come into the year certainly hoping for more
than we have,” said Vancouver Canucks coach Willie Desjardins. “As a country we just take so much pride in our hockey. It’s hard to believe I guess in some ways that one of the teams wouldn’t get in.” It also is a nervy time for Rogers Sportsnet, which in 2013 inked a 12-year, $5.2-billion deal for rights to NHL games and now hasn’t a single Canadian team to highlight in what is usually the biggest ratings period of the year. Already, fans are being reminded that great playoff matchups await anyway, and that Canadian stars like Chicago captain Jonathan Toews, Los Angeles rearguard Drew Doughty and Pittsburgh centre Sidney Crosby are still in the hunt. “This league is very competitive and there is no rhyme or reason why there is not a Canadian team in the playoffs,” said Edmonton forward Matt Hendricks, an American. “It’s unfortunate because of the blood, sweat and tears that the fans in this country put into the game. It’s just an off-year.” “I think it’s a fluke,” said Montreal defenceman Nathan Beaulieu. “Every team has Canadian players, so I don’t think it has anything to do with Canadian teams.” Five Canadian squads reached the playoffs last season, with Winnipeg grabbing the last wild card spot in the Western Conference to reach the post-season for the first time in four years. Ottawa needed a late-season 23-4-4 tear, built on Andrew Hammond’s stellar goaltending while the Calgary Flames ended a five-year drought with a surprise 97-point season to finish third in the Pacific Division. The Senators, Flames and Jets each took a step backward this season, as did the Vancouver Canucks, who have missed the playoffs in two of the last three campaigns. “It’s going to be quiet around here,” said Senators forward Bobby Ryan. “Everywhere we went, even into Calgary and some of the other buildings, fans were still pulling for us to represent Canada on the map, without that I don’t know where people are going to turn.” The Leafs are in rebuilding
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Ottawa Senators’ Alex Chiasson celebrates his goal agains the Winnipeg Jets during third period NHL action in Winnipeg on Wednesday. mode and were expected to miss out for the ninth time in 10 years.
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they went to the Stanley Cup final in 2006 was probably dashed when top draft pick Connor McDavid broke his collarbone on Nov. 3 and missed three months. The Canadiens began the year as Canada’s best hope after finishing second overall in the NHL with 110 points. They looked like a lock after a 19-4-3 start, but a long-term injury to star goalie Carey Price and a lack of depth on attack led to an epic crash. “These things turn around,” said Canadiens forward Lars Eller. “The biggest thing is management – scouting and drafting. “It’s no secret that some Canadian teams have trouble attracting big free agents, but if a team gets enough high draft picks they’re going to turn their organization around. That’s usually how it goes.” Canucks defenceman Christopher Tanev said he hopes Canada’s teams can turn things around. “It sucks,” he said. “I’m Canadian. You always want the Canadian teams in. We feel like it’s our game in Canada.”
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Help Wanted HELP WANTED Hotel Front Desk Clerk NOC #6525 Qualifications: Completion of college program in front desk operations or hotel management required. Applicants with relevant experience preferred Hours: 40 hours per week Wage: $15/hr Duties: •Register arriving guests, assign rooms •Answer telephone enquiries •Compile and check daily records Contact: HR Manager hr@elitehotel.ca Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd. 206 Jarvis St Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A-2H1 LEAD CSR NOC#6551 $17 per hour, 40 hours per week Duties: to provide wide range of cash based products and services Email taunya.hirschl@moneymartdr.com
OfďŹ ce Manager Posting Do you love working with people? Are you a goal oriented individual that likes to get things done? Is organization your middle name? Dakwakada Capital Investments (DCI) is the investment arm of the Champagne Aishihik First Nation and one of the largest private sector employers in the Yukon. We are looking for an OfďŹ ce Manager to join our team. This is a mission critical role as it keeps everything aoat and moving forward and it will never be described as dull! Your role ebbs and ows from report and funding writing, arranging board meetings and events, providing ďŹ nancial support, taking minutes, and managing paperwork though to website updating and participating in community engagement events. As OfďŹ ce Manager you work as a core member of our team. You have a broad scope in supporting the DCI leadership team, the DCI Board of Directors, the Champagne and Aishihik Trust and the Boards of our subsidiary organizations. ConďŹ dentiality and discernment are inherent in your nature as you are immersed in our strategic operations. Your positive attitude makes you a valued member of the team and is recognized by those around you. Your solid computer skills help you be efďŹ cient and effective with your work. Come and join a successful Yukon based organization that offers competitive wages and beneďŹ ts commensurate on education and experience. Please submit your resume to joey@dakwakada.com.
Prepare and coordinate healthy meals, snacks and drinks for our Yukon locations and local events. Events planner with culinary/catering skills to use collaborative social media tools to plan, administer and supervise our organization’s catering operations. More info‌ www.openbroadcaster.pro/opportunity
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 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
Family Literacy Coordinator & Outreach Worker This position works in three speciďŹ c areas: Support Worker at the Family Literacy Center, Yukon Community Outreach Worker, and as Manager/ Coordinator of Summer Programming at the Pioneer Hotel in Shipyards Park. There is some travel and the ability to work exible hours is required. Salary is dependent on experience. For more information contact the Yukon Literacy Coalition @ 668-6535 or yukon.literacy.coalition@northwestel.net, or see full job description on Yukon Literacy Coalition website www.yukonliteracy.ca QualiďŹ cations: t 3FMFWBOU EFHSFF PS FRVJWBMFOU FEVDBUJPO JO FEVDBUJPO community development or early childhood t ,OPXMFEHF PG DPNNVOJUZ EFWFMPQNFOU BQQSPBDIFT BOE family literacy best practices t 1SPWFO FYQFSJFODF DPPSEJOBUJOH BOE NBOBHJOH QSPHSBNT t &YDFMMFOU DPNNVOJDBUJPO TLJMMT BOE UJNF NBOBHFNFOU t "CJMJUZ UP BEBQU DPOTVMU BOE CF DSFBUJWF t "CMF UP XPSL JOEFQFOEFOUMZ BOE UP UBLF EJSFDUJPO t $BO BDRVJSF 1PMJDF $IFDL t OE MBOHVBHF B CPOVT Deadline for Applications is April 8th, 2016
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Teslin Tlingit Council Employment Opportunities Be part of one of Canada’s most dynamic environmental and socio-economic assessment processes and work 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. We are an impar al, eec ve and eďŹƒcient organiza on that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.
ASSESSMENT OFFICER Dawson Designated OďŹƒce Full-Ć&#x;me, 6-month Term
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Located in Dawson, this posi on reports to the Manager, Designated OďŹƒce and is responsible for assis ng in conduc ng environmental and socio-economic assessment of projects. This includes iden fying project eects and mi ga on measures for adverse eects, determining the significance of any residual eects and developing recommenda ons. The annual salary range for this posi on is $67,988 - $78,385 based on 75 hours biweekly. If you feel you have the qualifica ons and desire to meet the challenges of this posi on, please forward a cover le er and resume outlining how your experience and qualifica ons relate directly to the posi on. A job descrip on is available at the Dawson Designated OďŹƒce, 705 Church Street in Dawson YESAB Head OďŹƒce, Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street in Whitehorse or on our website at www.yesab.ca. Please submit applica ons to: Finance and Administra on Manager, YESAB Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9 Ph: 867.668.6420 Fax: 867.668.6425 or email to yesab@yesab.ca Toll free: 1.866.322.4040 Resumes must be received by April 17, 2016.
The Teslin Tlingit Council (TTC) operates as a self-governing First Nation in the Village of Teslin, 180 kilometres southeast of Whitehorse. Teslin is a beautiful community situated at the conuence of the Nisutlin River and Teslin Lake offering a lifestyle attractive to people who enjoy small town life and outdoor recreation opportunities. The village is comprised of approximately 400 citizens and provides schooling to grade nine, a nursing station, general store, college campus and a large recreation complex. The positions are headquartered in Teslin and will require the successful candidates to be residents of the village.
The Teslin Tlingit Council invites applications for the following SENIOR MANAGEMENT POSITIONS: CAPITAL & INFRASTRUCTURE DIRECTOR: Reporting to the Executive Director, this key senior management position establishes and directs Capital and Infrastructure services in accordance with the TTC’s mission statement, strategic plan and operational work plans. Supervising a variety of positions in the Capital and Infrastructure department, this position is a member of Management Board, and is responsible for the overall planning, organizing, implementing, controlling, and evaluating programs and project activities. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring that programs and projects identiďŹ ed in the TTC annual work plan are implemented.
LANDS & RESOURCES DIRECTOR: Reporting to the Executive Director and the Executive Council, this key senior position is a member of the Management Board, and is responsible speciďŹ cally for direction and management of the Final Agreement implementation, renewable resources management, lands management and GIS and data management. The incumbent is responsible for preserving and protecting the spirit and intent of the Final Agreement; ensuring that projects identiďŹ ed in the TTC annual work plan are implemented. As a members of the Management Board, the Directors share responsibility for the efďŹ cient and effective operation of the Management Board, which governs the administration activities of TTC. The key activities of the Management Board include: preparing and reviewing budgets; preparing work-plans, policies, procedures and laws for the Teslin Tlingit Council and ensuring that all activities and efforts of the Management Board reect the direction of the Strategic Plan.
TTC’s Hiring Preference will be in effect. Applications/resumes must be received by the HR & Staff Development OfďŹ cer at the Teslin Tlingit Council ofďŹ ce by 4:00 P.M. on April 8, 2016. For more information, contact Valerie Tizya at 390-2532 / Ext 317 You may also fax your application to 390-2176 or Email to humanresources@teslin-ttc.com
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REFILL THE SHED with super-dry straight-grained lodgepole pine this spring: $225 cord bucked/delivered. Text or call Doug Martens @ 334-7364
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KITCHEN CABINET handles, pulls & hinges, various models, new, still in packets, $1 ea. Call 335-6886 aft 6pm AUBE THERMOSTAT model TH115-A-120S, 2000W 120V-16.7 A, new, still in box, more than 10 available. Call 335-6886 aft 6pm
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Yukon Suspension Bridge is a world class tourist attraction located between Whitehorse, Yukon and Skagway, Alaska along the Klondike Highway. We are looking for energetic and personable individual who can work well in our customer service business. Daily transportation to and from the Bridge is provided. Qualifications and duties very from each position, should you require more information please contact us. If you feel you have the experience and knowledge to be a part of our team please submit resume.
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LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL
Position Type: Permanent Part-Time (18.75 hrs. /wk) Location: Tagish Salary: $20.00/hr. plus benefits
RUGER MODEL 77, 270 Winchester cal, as new, only fired 10 rounds, green/brown laminated stock, c/w Ruger scope rings, $700 obo. 335-4749 or 668-4726
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Full-time – Term (to March 31, 2017) Community Services Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 4:30 p.m. $74,084 - $89,790 per annum (Level 7), plus benefits
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School of Community Education and Development Term Position to December 16, 2016 Salary: $38.53 to $45.87 hourly (Based on 75 hours bi-weekly) Initial Review Date: April 5, 2016
Da Daghay Development Corporation is looking for business minded individuals to fill vacancies on the board. If you are interested in getting involved in the Ta’an Kwach’an development corporation, please contact us. TKC citizens are encouraged to apply. Interested applicants call for an information package.
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Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
RUGER 77-22, as new, 22 LR caliber, $700 obo. 668-4726 or 335-4749
CHIAPPA MARES Leg, chambered in 44mag, overall length 24”, c/w 400 rounds, leather holster and belt, very good condition, is non-restricted, PAL required, $1,250. 335-0281
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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.
Instructor/Coordinator Mayo Community Campus
DONʼS FIREWOOD •Year round harvest/supply •Beetlekill stockpiled in Whitehorse •$235/cord delivered city limits U-Cut available “Firewood When You Want It!” 393-4397
Guns & Bows
Office Adminstrator
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ANDYʼS FIREWOOD SERVICE Order Now For Spring/Summer Delivery Avoid High Fall Prices Quality standing dry Haines Junction Full stacked, measured cords Scheduled deliveries Satisfaction guaranteed $245/cord 667-6429 (or 335-0932)
S.A. vouchers accepted.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
For more information of our business visit us at,
DRY STANDING FIREWOOD 6 cord loads of 13 ft, $190/cord Phone for price on larger amounts *Bucked wood *Clean limbed *No rot *No green •20 years service in Yukon 334-9464
ANSCHUTZ MODEL 190, single shot 22LR silhouette rifle, c/w Anschutz peep sights, great shape, $500 obo. 335-0281 RESTRICTED FIREARMS safety course at Whitehorse Rifle Pistol Club April 3 Rd 8:30am. For more info call 667-6728 or 334-1688 BERETTA MODEL 92FS 9mm, c/w 6 mags & holster, must have restricted PAL, $600. 336-2789
Wanted WANTED: USED camper van in good condition. 333-0650 WANTED: LOOKING to reconnect with members of, or people who supported, the 1990 British Schools Exploring Society Expedition to the Yukon. Please see http://www.bses1990yukonexpedition.com/ for further details WANTED: OLDER gentleman with medical condition and limited mobility is moving into apartment, has bed, requires all other household items, any items to donate or drop off please call 334-0938.
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Friday, April 1, 2016 WANTED: ANYONE who might have witnessed a fender bender at Superstore parking lot on the evening of Thursday, March 24. Please call 334-5555 WANTED: 2011 or newer one ton gas Chev or GMC truck with 8 foot box and low kms. 668-5644
Cars
YUKON NEWS 2010 JEEP Patriot, 5-spd, 4-cycle, runs good, $7,000. Al @ 333-1482 2009 GMC 3500 HD 4x4 extended cab, lots of extras, gas engine, low kms at 72,000, $24,900 obo. 334-1859 2007 FORD F250 pick-up, V8 auto, posi-track, $4,900. 667-7777 2006 CHEVY Express 15 passenger bus, 190,000kms, new battery, runs great, $9,500 obo. 336-1502 for more info.
2.4L Mivec 5 speed manual transmission. Power everything, A/C, aftermarket stereo & headlights, front strut tower bar, tinted windows, carbon ďŹ ber spoiler. Comes with winter tires on aluminum rims. Very clean. SEE KIJIJI FOR MORE INFO. Bright yellow! $8,000 obo.
Call or Text 867-335-7997 2010 HYUNDAI Accent, good clean reliable unit, 75,000 kms, $9,000 obo. 633-6665
4 KIA Soul 18� alloy sport rims in excellent shape off 2011 Kia Soul, $200 obo. 689-9730 FREE CHEV Cavalier tires, gd condition, winters & all-seasons, pick up at 48A Liard Rd driveway near deck, owner moved.
2008 TOYOTA Corolla, great condition, good on fuel, set of all season & studded tires, manual transmission, 189,000kms, $5,800 obo. 333-4014 2007 DODGE Grand Caravan, Stow'N'Go, DVD plyr, new alternator/battery, reg. oil changes, good running condition, quality winter tires, 230,000 hwy km, $6,000 obo. 336-4499
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2005 NISSAN Frontier 4X4, 4.0L, V6, 6-spd manual, vg condition, cold air intake, Magna Flow exhaust, new tires, $9,500 obo. 633-4215 eves or lv msg
2006 DODGE Caravan, great condition w/power windows and doors, seating for 9 with 3 removable back bench seats, excellent condition in and out, $5,900 obo. 333-3457 2006 MAZDASPEED 6, 91,000km, AWD, Turbo 6 speed, manual trans w/custom intake manifold, leather heated seats, sunroof, Bose speakers, exc. mechanical cond, $11,000. 393-2962
Sunroof, Leather bench, 5.7L Hemi, 2,000 Kms
4 Door,Silver
$
21,900
2016 Chev 1500 LT
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2002 KIA Spectra, runs very well, 297,000kms, needs front bumper, $1,700 obo. 335-0678 1999 FORD Taurus 4-dr, V8 auto, new tires, $1,895. 667-7777 1993 LINCOLN Town Car limousine, priced for quick sale at $4,500 obo. Call Mike 332-4444 1991 CHEV Suburban 2X2, 93,000kms, $4,000. 250-651-7670
Trucks 2000 TOYOTA Tundra 4X4 Limited, runs/shifts flawlessly even in very cold weather, driven very lightly, new Wrangler Duratrac tires, spray in bedliner, 272,000 kms, $7,200 obo. 689-2474
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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 For more information contact Linda Priestley at 1-867-633-6019 or email linda.priestly@humanesocietyyukon.ca
SOLD! 2015 Subaru Outback Tech Pkg 7855A ............... 2007 Toyota Tacoma X-Runner 1505A 505A .................. 2010 Nissan Altima 3.5 SR 6 spd 7724A ............ 2011 Kia Sorento LX V6 7596A................................... 2015 Toyota Tundra Platinum 7705 .......................
AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION
2011 Chev Silverado 3500HD LT STOCK # 7825A
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2013 Toyota Tundra Double Cab Ltd
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2003 MITSUBISHI Lancer, 5-spd, 4 cycle, runs good, $1,500. Al @ 333-1482
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2003 GRAND Cherokee Overland, fully loaded, red/grey, remote start, Bluetooth CD, runs/drives great, good condition, $4,800. Text 867-336-0848.
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2003 CHEV XLT Tracker 4WD, remote start system, reliable vehicle, summers & studded winters, tinted windows, clean, smoke free, $7,500 obo. (867) 689-5907
Panoramic Roof, Leather, Navigation,Back Camera, Shimmery White
2001 Ford F-450 Flat-deck Truck
STOCK # 7837A
2005 FORD Taurus, $2,500. 336-1129
42,900
2016 Hyundai Sport Santa Fe AWD – LOADED!
2012 Toyota RAV4 Limited
2006 VOLKS Jetta 94Km, 2.5L, 5-cyl engine, full-size spare, moon roof, heated cloth seats, new summer tires, winter studded tires, 4 wheel disc brakes, rear folding seats, $6,900. 660-5693
633-6019
...that we have accounts with both P&M Recycling and Raven Recycling? You can drop off your recycling with them, tell them that it’s a donation for us and they’ll add your recycling to our account! ...that you can submit your Independent Grocer receipts to help Mae Bachur Animal Shelter? Drop them off at the Shelter for every $5000 in receipts, Independent Grocers give the Shelter a donation
Crew 4x4 Auto, 5.3L, 8�Touch Screen, Remote Start, Tungsten Black
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2015 Chrysler 200 LX
1995 CHEV Blazer, light roll-over, open to offers. Al @ 333-1482
2013 Ford Escape SE 1.6L ECO
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2010 Nissan Altima 3.5 SR 6 Spd p 7724A ............. SOLD! 2009 Toyota Corolla 7007A ................................................ ............................ 2014 Toyota Tundra TRD Crew Max 7785A ........... 2008 Toyota Corolla 5-Spd 7838A ................................ 2013 Toyota Tacoma TRD 7829A ...............................
Help control the pet overpopulation problem
have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED.
...that you can donate credit at The Feed Store for us so we can purchase food and other items for the animals?
2015 Dodge Ram 1500 Quad Cab 4x4 Laramie Sport
1997 TOYOTA 4-Runner Limited, fully loaded, new 4� suspension lift, Fox shocks, Toytec front suspension, no rust, looks & runs good, 4.3 auto, difflock in 4logear. 335-7529
$
4-door Sedan 248,649 km. Loaded, all options, new snow tires.
2016
IN-HOUSE FINANCING AVAILABLE!
1998 DODGE 1-ton hydraulic tilt deck, ready for work, new tires & brakes, 170,000kms, runs really good, always maintained. 336-3922
STOCK # 7745A
2005 Mercedes-Benz C-240
633-6019
NEW!! 2016 Hyundai Accent - REMOTE START ............................... $17,995 ! SPE RED ............................................ $3,995 2005 Chrysler P.T. Cruiser uiser ser - 5-5-S 5-SPEED, SOLD 2008 Skidoo Summitt - SO 860LD CC,! MANY MANNY UPGRADES.................................... $5,195 2015 20’ Car Haulerr - NEW!! Tand Tandem Trailer ..................................$4,495 2010 Dodge Caravan - STOW ‘N’ GO.........................................................$10,995
1999 GMC 4x4 p/u auto $1,500. 333-1482
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2010 KIA Forte, 4-dr sedan, 4-cyl auto, 80,000kms, P/W, P/D, heated seats, exc cond, $8,950 obo. 333-3123 2010 SUBARU Forester 2.5X Limited, exc cond, low km's at 58,000, everything works great, no issues, new battery, brakes, recent oil change, winter/summer tires, $18,500. 335-0554
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2005 F350 turbo diesel 4x4 crew cab, tires 90%, new batteries & alternator, great bush truck or heavy hauler, $5,900. 335-1088
2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart
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Come for a visit and meet your next furry family member!
RUNNING AT LARGE... If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382
633-6019 126 Tlingit Street
www.humanesocietyyukon.ca
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.
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YUKON NEWS 4 NEXEN CP 641 205 55 R16 tires with very good tread left, $25 ea. 689-9730
TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box
Pets RABBITS FOR sale, 5 female. 333-0915
Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100
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Motorcycles & Snowmobiles TAITʼS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg JO'S SMALL ENGINE REPAIR •Repairs to snowmobiles, snowblowers , chainsaws, outboards, lawnmowers and more. •Shop rate $70 per hour, •Lawnmowers and chainsaws $60 per hour. Call Steve @ 633-6314 or 334-1628
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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
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2009 HARLEY V-Rod two-tone blue factory paint, ABS, security system, excellent condition, 23,000 km, 240 mm rear tire, Harley's performance cruiser, $10,500. Rob 335-2600. 2008 SUZUKI C109RT, factory windshield and luggage, driving lights, 13,000 km, 109 cid/1800 cc, excellent cruiser for long trips or daily rider, stored indoors, excellent condition, $8,000. Rob 335-2600 2006 URAL Tourist w/sidecar, spare wheel, knobby & road tires, tough Yukon bike, 15000 kms, $4,500. Mark 393-2962 WANTED: 332-6570
2 Harley 16” mag wheels.
ATV SNOW plow with ears, good shape, asking less than 1/2 price of new, $350. 334-6685
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1979 EMPRESS 24ʼ motorhome, $5,000. Don @ 334-1212
2007 KAWASAKI VERSYS, orange, excellent condition, great touring bike, 16,700 kms, $3,600. 668-4205
Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467
17ʼ KEVLAR Kayak Seca Tandem Day Tripper, spray skirts, pump, 2 paddles, $1,800. 660-5693 16ʼ BOAT & trailer with 20hp 4-stroke motor, used once, $5,500. 867-994-2104 WANTED: HONDA BF35, BF40, BF45, BF50 outboard motors for parts. Richard 668-7963
Heavy Equipment •360 kW, 600 Volt Enclosed Generator Volvo engine, 2300 hours $25,000 •D7E Ripper Complete Comes with extra teeth $2500 management@mercercontracting.com 332-3293 •45,000 litre double-walled fuel tank Skid mounted Certified with pump & meter $28,000 •Various older camp trailers Skid mounted Wellsite • Bunkhouse • Offices Can deliver management@mercercontracting.com 332-3293 MINI-EXCAVATORS and skid steer loaders for rent, Dawson area. With or without operator, mob/de-mob available. Great for landscaping, mining, general construction. Call Joe 867-993-3914
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2005 KINGSPORT 295BBR, great condition, walk around queen bed in front, lots of storage, 4 bunks in rear, sleeps 8 - 10 people, $15,000 obo. 667-4657
2014 ROYAL Enfield Continental GT, 697 kms, excellent condition, almost new, $4,350. 668-4205
WANTED: 20ʼ Campion boat. 867-634-2114
1997 BEAR Cat snowmobile, runs great when running and when idling it wants to die, $500 can take it away. 335-1088
2006 ADVENTURER 8ʼ truck camper, excellent condition, $8,000. 867-994-2104
2010 BIG Tex car hauler, 18ʼ, tandem 3500 lb axles, 4ʼ ramp, used 3X, like new, $4,500, will consider trade & enclosed car hauler. 633-4246 lv msg
26' SEARAY, 260HP Mercruiser engine & drive, sleeps 5, immaculate condition, new engine in 2013, only 50 hours since installed, call for specs, $22,500. 336-8850 2011 BMW R1200 RT, 35,000km, loaded from the factory, lots of after market extras, show room condition, $15,000. Ron @ 334-1222
TAITʼS 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
2005 POLARIS 900, engine rebuilt, reverse, 151 track, $2,500. 633-4643
1984 ZETA 24' Hard Top, 350/260 leg, 15hp kicker, dingy, barbecue, galley, head, canvas enclosure, GPS chart plotter fishfinder, radio, sleeps 5, tandem trailer, rough water boat, bottom paint, many extras, reasonable offers. 332-1374
Happy Birthday Cameron!
Campers & Trailers
Coming Events 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 KIDS KREATE, free family art class at the Yukon Arts Centre, April 24 from 1–4pm, printmaking. Registration not required. Call 393-7109 for more information CHILKOOT TRAIL/LOG Cabin: Non-motorized weekend: April 1-3 & 22-24. Other weekends & weekdays: Multi-Use. For info: 867-667-3910 HORAIRE PISTE Chilkoot/Log Cabin: Multi-usage sauf du 1 au 3 et du 22 au 24 avril. activities non motorisees. 867-667-3910 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. 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. INTʼL FOLK Fest, 30th Annual, Skagway, Friday April 15, 7pm AK time, Eagleʼs Hall, on Broadway at 6th. Skagwayartscouncil.blogspot.com, 907-983-3222, bring Passport. HABITAT-FOR-HUMANITYʼS AGM is Saturday, April 2, starting at 4:30 at the Library. Everyone is welcome. Building affordable homes, and building hope for Yukon families since 2004. THE ALZHEIMER/ Dementia Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. A group for family/friends caring for someone with dementia. Info call Joanne 668-7713. 23RD BRIDGE Building Contest on April 9, Porter Creek Secondary. Grade 3-12 students and public. Come at 12 pm to view, 1 pm for testing. www.scienceadventures.ca Call 668-8739. KLUANE MOUNTAIN Bluegrass Festival June 10-12 in Haines Junction. Tickets at Dean's Strings, Kluane Machine (Haines Junction) or online: yukonbluegrass.com. Don't miss out, this event sells out SPEECH CONTEST /35 Anniversary Toastmasters. Come and listen to great speeches. All Welcome. Yukon College in Glass Class, Wednesday April 6th, 6:30-9:30
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Friday, April 1, 2016 ELAINE QUEHL, Canadian Quilt Teacher 2015, will present lecture on "From Inspiration to Art Quilt" of her evolution from traditional to art quilter, April 5, 7pm at Beringia Centre, $5. All welcome LETʟS SPEAK French. Your schedule, your choice. 4-day Intensive French Classes or 7-evening French Conversation Classes. From beginner to advanced starting May 2nd. fls.afy.yk.ca NSNY IS holding their AGM on April 20th, 2016, 12Noon –1pm, 478 Range Road, Whitehorse. All are welcome FREE EVENT. Turn your coffee addiction into extra income stream. Visit our website and watch our 4-minute video http://valentustour.com/chiyone. Coming to Whitehorse April 2. JAZZ ON the Wing, April 3. New York City vocalist & pianist Champian Fulton Quartet. Tickets yukontickets.com, Yukon Arts Centre Box Office 667-8574 or Arts Underground. KLONDIKE CRUISERS AGM, be sure to attend! 6:30 pm Wednesday April 6th, 2016 at the Transportation Museum RYAN MCNALLY ʟSteppin Down Southʟ album release with 5 piece band. Saturday, April 2. Early show 6pm and late show 8:45pm, Old Fire Hall. Tix at Deanʟs Strings FREE EVENT. Want to lose weight, increase mental focus, energy? Watch 4-minute video through our website. Coming to Whitehorse on April 2, 2016. http://valentustour.com/chiyone PORTER CREEK Community Association meeting Monday, April 4th, 5:15pm, Guild Hall. All welcome. Come show your support. Info @ 633-4829 AUTISM YUKON Annual General Meeting Thursday, May 5, 7pm, 108 Copper Rd. Our AGMs are short, friendly and include food. At this meeting, we will have our yearly elections INTRODUCTION TO the Haven Approach. Join us in Whitehorse for a weekend of learning new skills, breathing, bodywork, experiential exercises, and connecting. April 22/23/24. For more info : e-mail sartori.gisela@gmail.com SWAZILAND EDUCATIONAL Trust Society AGM April 4th @ 6pm at the library boardroom on the main floor. For more info call Ernie Berken @ 633-2580. SALSA YUKON'S Latin Dance Classes, beginner and intermediate Salsa, Bachata, Starts April 1, 2016. salsayukon@gmail.com for info PETER MATHER, noted Whitehorse nature photographer, will be guest presenter at Whitehorse Photography Club monthly meeting Tuesday April 5, Whitehorse Public Library, 7:00pm. www.whitehorsephotoclub.ca HAMLET OF Mount Lorne Local Advisory Council meeting Apr 5, 2016 at Mount Lorne Community Center 7pm. Agenda on website
YUKON NEWS RECLAMATION/RESTORATION SPECIALIST For over ten years, 2003-2014, I was part of a five-man team (D-8) who reclaimed, restored and returned 50-75 abandoned oil and gas leases to their natural state. I would like to do the same kind of work in the Yukon goldfields either as a consultant or operator. 867-689-1998 dougsack@outlook.com
LIVE WORDS Dianne Whelan author tour Saturday April 23, Watson Lake, 3:00pm. Free LIVE WORDS, Noah Richler reading & talk, Friday April 22, Old Fire Hall, 7pm, tickets $10. LIVE WORDS Dianne Whelan author tour Thursday April 21, Isabelle Pringle Library, Carcross, 7pm, and Friday April 22, Teslin Library, 1:30pm. Free LIVE WORDS Reading & Reception with writers, Wednesday April 20, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, Whitehorse, 7–9pm, free LIVE WORDS Storied Science presentation with Sandy Marie Bonny, Sunday April 24, Beringia, Centre, 7:30pm 2016 GROWING season Downtown Urban Gardeners community garden signup Saturday, April 9th, noon until 2pm Whitehorse Public Library Meeting Room. First come first serve. dugsyukon@hotmail.com JACK HULLAND School Council is having it's Regular Council Meeting on April 6, 2016 at 7pm in the School Library. Everyone is welcome to attend. ELIJAH SMITH School Council is having it's Regular Council Meeting on April 5, 2016 at 6:30pm in the School Library. Everyone is welcome to attend YUKON FISH & Game Association will be holding their AGM at Canada Games Centre boardroom Wednesday April 13th, 7pm-9pm LIVE WORDS readings Saturday April 23, guest writers, Haines Junction Library, Haines Junction, 7pm LIVE WORDS reading, Heather OʟNeill, Saturday April 23, 1pm, Well-Read Books. Free LIVE WORDS Dianne Whelan author tour Monday April 18, Carmacks Library, Carmacks, 1:30pm, free, and Tuesday April 19, Pelly Crossing Library, 10:45am & Mayo Library, 7pm. Free.
Services Need A Roof? ALPHA ROOFING CONTRACTOR Residential • Commercial New roof • Roof inspection Re-roof • Leak repair Shingles Torch-on • Tin roof • Journeyman High quality workmanship 332-4076 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
ELECTRICIAN •Licensed •General Handyman Services •Light Carpentry, Drywall, etc •Free Estimates •10% Seniorʟs Discount 334-0974 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 LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 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 THINKING OF BUILDING in the Mount Lorne area? Contact Lorne Mountain Building at 334-2994 lornemountainbuilding@gmail.com or www.lornemountainbuilding.com JUDEʟS PAINTING & HOME RENOVATIONS •Interior & Exterior painting •Kitchen/bathroom renovations •Hardwood & Laminate flooring •Tile •Window & door installation Additions, sheds & water rooms Call 334-6175 judewaldman@gmail.com
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YUKON MULTIPLE Sclerosis Association annual AGM, Whitehorse Public Library April 26th 2016 at 7pm. All are welcome to attend. BABY STORY TIME: Mondays, Apr 4 – May 30, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m., ages 6 - 24 months & caregiver, Whitehorse Public Library. Free drop-in. JAZZ IN the Hall, April 7, featuring bassist Jon Heaton Quintet. Twists on Ornate Coleman, Thelonious Monk & vocalist Bobbi McFerrin. Old Fire Hall, 7 pm. TODDLER STORY TIME: Wednesdays, Apr 6 – May 25 from 10:30 – 11:30 a.m., 2 - 4 yrs. of age & caregiver, Whitehorse Public Library. Free drop-in. OUT NORTH Queer Film Festival April 15-17 at Beringia Centre. Tickets and weekend passes at the door. Details and trailers at yukonqueerfilmalliance.com. Opening night: Carol with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. THE WILDWISE Yukon AGM is set for Tuesday May 3 from 12:00 to 1:30 in the Whitehorse public library meeting room. INTʟL FOLK Fest, 30th Annual, Skagway, Friday April 15, 2016, 7pm AK time, Eagleʟs Hall, on Broadway at 6th. skagwayartscouncil@gmail.com. Bring Passport! MURA-MATSURI JAPANESE VILLAGE Festival. Fun for everyone. Family oriented. Origami, Children's Singing Games, Tea Ceremony, Martial Arts, Bon-Odori, etc. Admission by Donation. Saturday April 2, 11:00-16:00. KDCC Multi-Purpose room. Info: jcayukon@gmail.com, 393-2588 WHITEHORSE CONCERTS presents: Duo Rendezvous, violin and guitar duo at The Yukon Arts Centre on Saturday, April 9, 2016. Concert begins at 8:00 pm. Contact: steve@whitehorseconcerts.com JAZZ ON the Wing, April 3. New York City guitarist Alex Goodman Quartet. Tickets yukontickets.com, Yukon Arts Centre Box Office 667-8574 or Arts Underground. SOYBO PRESENTS acclaimed documentary film The Messenger, Tuesday April 12th, 7pm at Yukon Beringia Centre. Tickets $25, complimentary refreshments and door prizes. See film trailer songbirdsos.com
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It is with great sadness that the family of Henry (Hank) Irving Dowd announce his passing on Thursday, March 24, 2016 at the Whitehorse General Hospital, after an extremely courageous battle with cancer. He is predeceased by his father Tracy Dowd (1959), his mother Mabel Dowd (1984, his daughter Dianne Dalbey (2008) and his sister Lily Deutsch (2013). Hank leaves to mourn, his wife Diana Dowd, his step-daughter Helen Geisler (Whitehorse), his step-son Wayne Blattner and Gaylene Blattner (Regina), his step-son Glen Blattner (Whitehorse), his daughter Wendy Dowd Carter (Wisconsin), his son Robert Dowd (Wisconsin), his sister Grace Deutsch (Wisconsin), his sister Dorothy Cook (California), his brother Robert and Joanne Dowd (Minnesota) and his sister Barbara and Marvin Anderson (Wisconsin), as well as grandchildren, great grandchildren, cousins, nieces and nephews. Viewing and prayers will be held Monday, April 4, 2016 at 7:00 PM and the Funeral Service will be on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 3:30 PM. Viewing and Funeral will both be held at the Nikolai Orthodox Mission at Our Lady of Victory Parish at 1607 Birch Street. A reception will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion at 503 Steele Street following the Funeral.
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LOST: LG flip cover cell phone, on Tuesday March 15, 2016 near Home Hardware. Please call Michele 633-6081 LOST: BLUE Tubbs snow shoes on Sam McGhee Trail, near Carcross, Saturday March 19th. Please contact if found. Many thanks. 456-4397
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Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 25, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Jo-Anne Tingley at joanne.tingley@gov.yk.ca.
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 20, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Jenny Richards at jenny.richards@gov.yk.ca.
All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
LOST: Small rectangular brooch made of pewter with a little magenta felted heart. Sentimental value. If found, please call 660-4516. LOST: 14-YR-OLD Tahltan dog, 20-25 lbs, black with grey around muzzle, name is Blackie, lost around Lorne Road near McCrae. Please call 633-4570 FOUND: NEAR Grey Mountain antenna 1 handmade dark green knitted mitt, right hand. Phone/voicemail: 668-2714. FOUND: 1/2 trailer gate on Alaska Highway late Thursday afternoon, March 24. 668-3153
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Liquor Corporation
ELECTRICAL MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS YUKON HOUSING UNITS ALL YUKON COMMUNITIES EXCLUDING WHITEHORSE 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 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.
Baseline Conditions Update – Aishihik Lake Area Muskrat
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LIQUOR ACT ✓New Licence ❑ Existing Licence ❑ TAKE NOTICE THAT, Creative Precast Ltd. o/a Upper Liard Lodge, of PO Box 209, Watson Lake, Yukon Y0A 1C0, is making application for a Food Primary - All Liquor liquor licence(s), in respect of the premises known as Upper Liard Lodge situated at Mile 642 Alaska Highway, Yukon. Any person who wishes to object to the granting of this application should file their objection in writing (with reasons) to: President, Yukon Liquor Corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4P9 no later than 4:30 pm on the 6th day of April, 2016 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant. The first time of publication of notice is March 18, 2016. The second time of publication of notice is March 25, 2016. The third time of publication of notice is April 1, 2016. Any questions concerning this specific notice are to be directed to Licensing & Inspections, Yukon Liquor Corporation 867-667-5245 or toll-free 1-800-661-0408, x 5245.
RFP 2016-019 Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande
Baseline Conditions Update – Aishihik River Downstream Hydraulic, Icing, and Fluvial Geomorphology Conditions
Yukon Energy is working with the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations on the Aishihik water licence renewal. As part of the Aishihik relicensing effort, Yukon Energy is inviting proposal submissions from qualified consultants in response to the above RFPs. The work on each RFP is to be performed in the 2016 work season with final reports due in the fall of 2016.
Application Number Numéro de la demande
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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
MN93-001-13 (Amendment of MN93-001)
City of Whitehorse
Schwatka Lake & Aquifers, Tributary of Yukon River
Municipal
April 11, 2016
MS12-020-1 (Amendment of MS12-020)
GY – Highways and Public Works
Haines Road & North Alaska Highway
Miscellaneous
April 11, 2016
Sealed proposals, clearly marked with the number and title of the RFP will be received up to 4:00:00 p.m. Yukon time, April 13, 2016 at Yukon Energy’s corporate offices, #2 Miles Canyon Road, Box 5920, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Y1A 6S7 or via e-mail.
Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice.
To obtain a Request for Proposal package contact Matthew Sills at 867-393-5335 or at matthew.sills@yec.yk.ca.
Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.
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Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis. Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.
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DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm 404A Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office Alterations, Hemming, Zipper Repair and more. Garments in for repair, have to be freshly washed. Sportees 6098 6th Avenue 668-2691
WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB March 29, 2016 North/South East/West 1st - Andrzej Jablonski -Mark Davey & Chris Bookless 2nd - Darwin Wreggitt & Jan Ogilvy Diane Emond & Don Emond 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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CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903
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BUNK BEDS Lifetime Warranty Yukon Made! Yukon Owned! Eco Friendly 1-800-Bunkbed
PARTIAL ROOF REPLACEMENT YUKON TRANSPORT MUSEUM BLDG. 1448 - WHITEHORSE, YT 2016/2017
PUBLIC TENDER WASTE / RECYCLING BIN AND TRAILER REPAIR AND PAINTING AND WELDING SERVICES
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4 SOLID oak dining chairs, like new, $150 ea. obo. 668-7504
Liquor Corporation
LIQUOR ACT
Village of Haines Junction
✓New Licence ❑ Existing Licence ❑ TAKE NOTICE THAT 536041 Yukon Inc. of Box 338 Mayo, Yukon Y0B 1M0, in Yukon, is making application for or change(s) to Food Primary - All Liquor and Off Premises liquor licence(s), in respect of the premises known as Nachos Grille situated at Front Street in Mayo, Yukon. Any person who wishes to object to the granting of this application should file their objection in writing (with reasons) to:
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL No. 01-2016 STRATEGIC PLANNING CONSULTANT SERVICES Issue Date: March 21, 2016 Closing: Cao-vhj@yknet.ca
President, Yukon Liquor Corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4P9
Chief Administrative Officer, Monika Schittek Village of Haines Junction, Box 5339, Haines Junction, Y.T. Y0B 1L0 Proposals must be received no later than: 2:00 PM Pacific Time
not later than 5:00 p.m. on the 13th day of April 2016 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant. The first time of publication of notice is March 24, 2016. The second time of publication of notice is April 1, 2016. The third time of publication of notice is April 8, 2016.
on April 6, 2016 More information is available at: http://www.hainesjunctionyukon. com/index.php/document-list/ village-documents/289-rfpstrategic-planning-for-thevillage-of-haines-junction
Any questions concerning this specific notice are to be directed to the Licensing & Development Branch at 667-5245 or 1-800-661-0408, local 5245.
Project Description: Community Services owns a multitude of front load and roll off bins and trailers, this tender if for the welding repairs and painting of the bins and any repairs to our trailers. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 18, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Darrin Fredrickson at darrin.fredrickson@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
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MAYO ROAD M HURLBURT ENTERPRISES, MILE 5, MAYO ROAD. RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL INDOOR GARAGE SALE. Friday, April 1, 1-8pm, Saturday April 2, 10am-6pm. Books, furniture, toys, dishes, clothing, office furniture & equip, used Hurlburt inventory, tools, parts and more. 335-5192
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MAYO ROAD M HURLBURT ENTERPRISES, MILE 5, MAYO ROAD. RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL INDOOR GARAGE SALE. Friday, April 1, 1-8pm, Saturday April 2, 10am-6pm. Books, furniture, toys, dishes, clothing, office furniture & equip, used Hurlburt inventory, tools, parts and more. 335-5192 PORTER CREEK M 2011 CENTENNIAL ST, Porter Creek, Saturday April 2, 9am-12Noon, kitchen items, zodiac, full size truck canopy, men’s hockey equipment, 2004 Dodge truck etc
SUNDAY, APRIL 3RD
DOWNTOWN M 7146-7TH AVE, downtown. Saturday & Sunday, April 2 & 3, 10am-2pm. Moving out sale. In the basement.
A Site Visit has been scheduled for: Wednesday, April 6th at 1:00 pm. 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. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy may apply to this project. 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/
Good Night! Wind up your day with everything you need. 867-667-6283
PUBLIC TENDER ASPHALT PATCHING KM 1442.2 TO KM 1448.0 ALASKA HIGHWAY #1 YUKON 2016-2017 Project Description: The project includes traffic control, environmental compliance, milling and disposal of existing asphalt pavement, supply and placement of asphalt tack coat, and supply, placement and compaction of asphalt concrete. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 21, 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 Kirn Dhillon at kirn.dhillon@gmail.com. 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. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy may apply to this project. 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
Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de 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
PM15-089
Kelly Thompson
Hunker Creek, Little Gem Gulch & Groundwater, Tributary of Hunker Creek & Klondike River
Placer
April 26, 2016
PM16-018
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Sparkling Creek and Tributaries, Tributary to Yukon River
Placer
April 26, 2016
PM16-023
Charles Villeneuve
Vancouver Creek, Tributary of McQuesten River
Placer
April 26, 2016
Application Number Numéro de la demande
COPPER RIDGE M 81 NORTHSTAR DRIVE, Copper Ridge, Saturday April 2, 9am-1pm, Xmas craft supplies & decorations, card making supplies, storage units, household items, clothes DOWNTOWN M 7146-7TH AVE, downtown. Saturday & Sunday, April 2 & 3, 10am-2pm. Moving out sale. In the basement.
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 20, 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 Eric Bartlett at Eric.Bartlett@gov.yk.ca.
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Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice. Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.
Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis. Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.
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