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Swans take flight near the bridge in Tagish on Sunday. Environment Yukon’s Dave Bakica says a boater who caused thousands of swans to take off from M’Clintock Bay last weekend didn’t break any laws.

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boater who caused thousands of trumpeter swans to fly away on M’Clintock Bay last weekend didn’t break any laws, according to a conservation officer.

Environment Yukon’s Dave Bakica said there is nothing illegal about taking a boat up a navigable waterway, even if it’s in close proximity to wildlife. “What’s important is the manner in which the boat is moving,� he said. “There has to be some level of intent there in order to constitute harassment.�

Every spring, thousands of trumpeter swans descend on Marsh Lake as part of their migration.

As of last week, there were almost 2,000 of them. They usually spend a few weeks on the lake resting and feeding before continuing their migration to northern Yukon and Alaska.

And every year, Environment Yukon receives at least one complaint about someone disturbing the swans.

According to section 92 of the Yukon Wildlife Act, a person is deemed to harass wildlife “if the person operates a vehicle or boat in a manner that might reasonably be expected to harass any wildlife,� or if a person attempts to interfere with the movement of any wildlife.

Bakica said that never happened last weekend.

His understanding is the boaters were setting a net nearby on Saturday, and returned to check it on Sunday. When they saw the

birds flying away they slowed down and idled along the shore.

It’s not the end of the world for the birds to have to fly away, he added, but it’s not something they enjoy doing. “They’re burning energy they wouldn’t otherwise be burning,� he said. “They’re conditioned to be wary of approaching hazards from both the sky and the water.

Sometimes they’ll fly away if they see an eagle nearby.�

Bakica said there are signs at the nearby boat launch asking people not to approach the swans, but it’s completely voluntary. Environment Yukon is also asking people not to approach the swans by canoe or kayak, either.

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Territorial budget delivers small surplus, no tax increase Maura Forrest News Reporter

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he Yukon government has tabled a record $1.39-billion budget, but has steered clear of any new major capital projects.

In his budget speech on Thursday, Premier and Finance Minister Darrell Pasloski emphasized his government’s fiscal prudence, including the fact that the territory has no net debt.

“This is a plan that will give Yukoners confidence that our government’s focused and principled approach to fiscal management is working,” he said.

The government plans to post a small, $9.5-million surplus in 201617, with no increase in taxes.

The capital budget is down 2.1 per cent from last year, to $306 million. But the territory’s operations and maintenance budget has increased by three per cent, to $1.09 billion.

Overall, federal money accounts for about 85 per cent of the territory’s budget.

While it’s true that the government managed to post a surplus with an overall spending increase, it has also been drawing down the territory’s net financial assets, which are essentially its cash in the bank.

The Yukon’s net financial assets are now estimated at $57 million.

That’s down from about $137 million last year, and $223 million in 2014-15.

Those shrinking funds will make it harder for the government to avoid either a deficit or spending cuts next year.

The $306-million capital budget also includes $47 million that was held over from last year. That’s money that was supposed to be spent in 2015-16, but wasn’t.

But Pasloski said the most important thing is that the Yukon has no net debt.

“Every dollar we have in revenue goes to programs or services or capital investment, and that is what is so enviable for our position,” he said in an interview with the News.

“Once you crawl into that debt hole, it’s virtually impossible to get out of it.”

The largest chunk of money in this year’s budget, $67 million, will go toward construction of the 150bed Whistle Bend continuing care facility. Another $15 million will go toward planning of the Whistle Bend subdivision.

The government is also advertising an $11-million increase to health-care funding, a $3-million increase to IT funding and $520,000 for school supplies, which works out to about $100 per student. Discussions are underway with school councils about how to distribute that money.

The budget also includes $3 million for the F.H. Collins technical education wing and another $3 million for the demolition of the old school. A further $400,000 will go to planning of a new francophone high school.

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Yukon Premier and Finance Minister Darrell Pasloski presents the $1.39-billion budget at the Yukon Legislative Assembly yesterday.

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Yukon’s spring legislative sitting opened yesterday.

Another $12 million will go toward the Alaska Highway-Shakwak agreement, and $11.4 million will be spent on reconstruction of the Robert Campbell Highway.

The government has committed $7.4 million for the replacement of the Sarah Steele facility, $8.4 million for the new Salvation Army centre and $22 million for the MRI and

emergency department expansion of the Whitehorse General Hospital.

It will also spend $1 million on a new mental wellness strategy.

The Whitehorse RCMP detachment will also receive $385,000 for new front-line officers.

And $2 million has been allocated for continued discussions with First Nations about the Next

Generation Hydro project.

The Yukon government is also spending $679,000 on this summer’s Council of the Federation meeting, when Canada’s 13 premiers will meet in Whitehorse.

It will also spend $50,000 on two ancient Arctic camel skeletons, one to be placed on exhibit and the other in a reference collection.

Missing from the budget, however, are some of the major commitments the government has made over the last several months, including the paving of the Dawson City airport runway and the construction of a fibre-optic line up the Dempster Highway.

The government plans to spend $395,000 on planning for upgrades to the Dawson City airport, and $500,000 on planning and consultations for the fibre-optic project. But construction is not slated to start before this year’s election.

“It’s frustrating,” said Liberal Leader Sandy Silver. “The only way that the Yukon Party government is going to pave the runway in Dawson is if they win the next election, because then they can decide what they do with the budget money.

That fell really, really flat.”

But Pasloski said that planning time is necessary.

“Those things are coming. But you just can’t say, ‘Go build it.’ You have to do the planning first, and sadly, the other parties lose sight of that.”

Silver said this year’s budget takes a “scattershot” approach, with small amounts for different projects, but no major new commitments.

He also said that a $4.2-million pledge for reconciliation with First Nations won’t go very far.

NDP Leader Liz Hanson had strong words for the budget, calling it “uninspired and uninspiring.”

She said the $520,000 for students’ school supplies was a cynical attempt at “blatant vote-buying.”

“It speaks to a fundamental disrespect for the citizen,” she said.

“If you’re struggling, and a lot of families are, you are basically saying ‘Well, here’s a little token, but we’re not going to deal with the real issues.’”

Also notable in the budget is a major drop in last year’s corporate income tax revenue. Last spring, corporate income tax was forecast at about $26.5 million. Now, it’s estimated at just $7 million. The forecast for 2016-17 is about $14.5 million.

Finance officials said adjustments from prior years account for over half of that $19.5 million shortfall. The rest is due to an economy that was weaker than expected.

Last year’s surplus also shrank dramatically. It’s now estimated at just $1.2 million, down from a predicted $23 million last spring.

In what looks to become an important election issue, Pasloski also highlighted his opposition to a carbon tax during his speech.

“It doesn’t work for the northern way of life,” he said, claiming the Liberals and NDP both support a carbon tax.

Both Hanson and Silver suggested they are considering some form of carbon pricing, though neither would say exactly what that might look like.

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

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our sporting organizations are getting more stable funding after a change to the way they get cash from the Yukon government.

Sport Yukon, Special Olympics Yukon, the Yukon Aboriginal Sport Circle and the Recreation and Parks Association of Yukon used to all get funding through the Yukon Recreation Advisory Committee’s annual grants. If this week’s territorial budget is approved, the Yukon government will now fund the groups directly through Community Services’s sport and recreation branch.

The change involves more than just paper pushing, said minister Currie Dixon. He said it “gives these four groups the certainty and consistency of knowing exactly how much money they’re going to get and they don’t have to go through the process of applying to YRAC.�

Yukon Recreation Advisory Committee is a middle-man of sorts. The committee gets money from the Yukon and federal governments as well as Lotteries Yukon and then divides it up between groups that apply for funding.

Last year the pot totalled about $1.15 million, including $400,000 from the Yukon government.

Each new fiscal year requires a new application from groups, and there’s no guarantee they’ll get the same amount from the

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Minister of Community Services Curry Dixon says that the new the funding format for Yukon sports organizations will provide “certainty and consistency.� committee every time. It all depends on how many groups want a piece of the pie. There are 28 sport governing bodies in the territory that could apply for money.

Under the new method, Sport Yukon will receive $130,000 in annual funding, Special Olympics gets $50,000, the Recreation and Parks Association of Yukon will receive $70,000 and the Yukon Aboriginal Sport Circle will receive $50,000.

The annual funding will continue “indefinitely. This is the way it is now,� according to the minister.

The groups were chosen because they are umbrella organizations that deal with more than a single sport, Dixon said.

Without those four groups the $300,000 they would usually receive in grants will now be available to other sports, he said. “This is the biggest increase in sport funding that I’m aware of ever.�

Sport Yukon executive director Tracey Bilsky said applying for

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Sport Yukon would get the money every year – about the same that they’ll now get from community services – but it meant putting together paperwork often around the same time as the Arctic Winter Games.

Bilsky said the number of groups applying for the fund has been going up, but the size of the fund hasn’t changed in “20-odd years.�

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Government wants public input on protections for mobile home owners Maura Forrest News Reporter

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he Yukon government is considering changes to the rules governing mobile home tenancies, to help protect mobile home owners against evictions and uncontrolled rent hikes.

The government is conducting a public survey about possible changes to the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. It’s considering putting in place some form of rent control for mobile home parks, and getting rid of evictions without cause for mobile home owners.

Currently, Yukon’s legislation treats mobile home owners who rent pads essentially like any other tenant, said Community Services Minister Currie Dixon.

That means their pad rent can be increased by an unlimited amount every year. They can also be evicted without cause, though they have to be given a year’s notice, and they can’t be evicted in December, January or February. Conventional tenants only have to be given two months’ notice.

But Dixon said those rules ignore the differences between renting an apartment and renting a pad for a mobile home. “The situation in Yukon is such that there’s limited available space for mobile homes currently,� he said. “So if you are, for instance, evicted from a mobile home park and asked to take your mobile home off of the site, there isn’t really anywhere else to go.�

He also pointed out that many mobile home residents own their homes and have a mortgage on them, but don’t own the land. That’s an unusual

She has been calling for exactly these changes since before December 2014, when she collected 350 signatures on a petition that she presented to the legislative assembly.

At the time, Brad Cathers, then the minister responsible for the Yukon Housing Corporation, said the government was willing to reconsider the rules for mobile home owners. “Do I think the consultation could have been done two years ago? Absolutely. ‌ But there wasn’t that political will,â€? White said. “I’m so thankful that the mobile home owners have hung in there for so long.â€?

The consultation comes just months after the new Residential Landlord and Tenant Act came into effect in January, following the government’s release of new regulations last fall.

But the act itself was tabled three years earlier, in November 2012. At the time, Dixon said, protections for mobile home owners didn’t come up as an issue.

Asked whether she felt the timing of the announcement was intended to take a piece of ammunition out of the NDP’s arsenal in the lead-up to an election, White said this isn’t a political issue. “I will take it now, because Joel Krahn/Yukon News this is to the betterment of NDP MLA Kate White is pleased the Yukon government is considering changes to the Residential people within the parks,â€? she said. “This had nothing to do Landlord and Tenant Act which will protect mobile home users. with political gains for me.â€? situation for most tenants. “We want to hear from mobile NDP housing critic Kate White A paper survey is available at He said the government home owners, we want to hear for raising the issue numerous the Residential Tenancies Office might adopt a model like Nova from people who rent from motimes. “She was the first to bring at 307 Black Street in WhiteScotia’s, which allows annual bile home owners ‌ and park it forward to us,â€? he said. horse. An online version is also pad rent increases at the rate of owners themselves, to consider In return, White thanked available at www.community. inflation plus one per cent. what the implications could be Dixon for taking action on the is- gov.yk.ca. The survey will run But he said he wants input for any particular changes.â€? sue, though she added that “the from April 6 to June 6. from Yukoners before any deciIn a rare display of crossunfortunate part is that this is Contact Maura Forrest at sions are made. party generosity, Dixon thanked just a consultation.â€? maura.forrest@yukon-news.com

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he owner of Takhini Transport is seeking the Liberal nomination for Watson Lake in this year’s territorial election.

Ernie Jamieson said he wants to improve industry in the Yukon, and create more jobs in Watson Lake.

He pointed out that the Yukon Party has held the Watson Lake riding since 2002. “People want to know why there’s nothing,� he said. “Why isn’t there work?�

Jamieson is particularly concerned about jobs for tradespeople. He said people trained in the trades have difficulty finding work if they want to stay in the community. His own family members have gone down south to find work, he said.

Jamieson described himself as both “pro-industry� and a conservationist. “I truly believe in the development of your resource,� he said. “We can sell resource, but it has to be done very professionally.

After the fact, it has to be a nice clean-up and left natural again.�

Although he wasn’t previously a member of the Liberal Party, Jamieson said he believes the federal Liberals are the best choice for Canada right now, because of their focus on infrastructure.

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councillor and deputy mayor for two terms with the Municipality of Watson Lake. During that time, he worked on the renovation of the recreation centre, a Yukon Electric waste heat project and the construction of the new town office.

Jamieson was also a minor hockey coach for more than a decade.

Last summer, the Yukon government dropped Takhini Transport as the territory’s school bus company, citing safety and operational concerns.

Documents from 2014 obtained by the NDP through an access-to-information request showed the company hadn’t provided proof of RCMP checks, first-aid certificates or driver training requirements for some workers.

The company also failed to have buses serviced and repaired by a certified mechanic.

But Jamieson said that should have no bearing on his campaign. “There’s two sides to every story,� he said. “That’s old news to me. ... I’m moving on.�

Jamieson said he’s stepping Submitted Photo/Yukon News into territorial politics for his Ernie Jamieson, owner of Takhini Transport, is hoping to run for the hometown, which he says needs “a facelift.�

Liberals in Watson Lake in the upcoming territorial election.

Watson Lake is currently He now owns Takhini Transport, has lived in Watson Lake for 55 represented by Yukon Party MLA a bus and trucking company, years. He’s worked in carpentry, Patti McLeod. with his wife, Pat. machine operation, trucking, Contact Maura Forrest at Jamieson also served as a mining and road construction. maura.forrest@yukon-news.com

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pilot project to deliver a new mental wellness program in a pair of rural communities is already getting some positive feedback after a week.

Schools in Faro and Ross River began receiving visits from a Many Rivers counsellor last week as part of the Flourishing and the Science of Happiness program.

In the program, students are taught how to generate more positive emotions and foster better relationships with each other.

Angela Magon is the principal of Del Van Gorder School in Faro.

She said the new program fits in nicely with the school’s vision. “One of the things we’re working on is helping students develop a growth mindset in the educational world,� she said. “We believe that with coaching and positivity, statements such as, ‘I’ll never be able to do that’ or, ‘I’ll never be as good as’ can become statements more like, ‘With effort, I can achieve and be successful.’�

In Faro, the program will be offered on an individual basis to students in the Grade 6-8 class, as well as the 9-12 class.

In each one-hour session, the counsellor tackles a different aspect of the program such as

positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishment.

Magon said the school is trying to be proactive, rather than reactive, about showing students there are opportunities out there after high school. “I sold the idea to my school council by saying this program is particularly important for this age group,� she said. “It’s when they go from feeling that anything is possible to feeling that little is possible. This affects rural students more than it does urban students, so we’re trying to fight apathy head on. “We’ve received a lot of positive feedback from the kids al-

ready. They’re interested in what he has to say.�

The program will run every second week for the next three months.

Once complete, Many Rivers will work with the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Social Services to determine the potential ongoing need for more services in the communities.

The counsellor will also be offering mental health services to residents in Faro and Ross River during his visits, which is another benefit, Magon said. “There’s a lot of need here.�

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For roughly the same price as a round-trip ticket between the Yukon and Australia, visitors can spend four days and three nights at the Chilkoot Trail Village in Bennett, B.C. this summer.

The camp will feature a cookhouse facility with a kitchen, dining room and showers in one building, and four walled-tent units on raised platforms.

The cookhouse will feature similar characteristics from the old Arctic Hotel, which Friedrich “Fred� Trump ran in 1899.

Guests can take part in guided tours of the area, workshops given by Carcross/Tagish First Nation members and explore the remnants of a once-bustling town.

The only building still standing in Bennett is St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.

Until now, the only way to get to the site was along the Chilkoot Trail or by riding the White Pass train in the summer.

Nature Tours of Yukon, the operator for the camp, is charging $1,675 for the experience.

That includes flying to Bennett via floatplane and leaving on the

“Right now we have an operator helping us over the next five years to develop the capacity and the skill set to run and operate this business,� he said. “We’ve invested into this project and the idea is that we’ll be collecting a management fee for the first few years, and eventually collecting all of the profits.�

The Chilkoot Trail Village is not to be confused with another project the First Nation has been working on for a few years.

In 2014, a British Columbiabased company called International Ecotourism Development Corporation proposed building an eco-tourism resort at Millhaven Bay in partnership with the Carcross/Tagish First Nation.

The $44.7-million resort, dubbed the Lodge at Stoney Mountain, would include 20 cabins and 10 tents with room for a maximum of 120 people.

Barrett said the project is still alive, but “moving slowly.� “We’re working through some planning issues with the community to see if it still fits into the First Nation’s land use plan,� he said. “It’s also taken some time for the proponents to raise the money. But it’s still there.�

The Chilkoot Trail Village will be in operation during July and August. Prochazka said it’s just a pilot season for now but the plan is to be open for the entire summer next year.

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n case it wasn’t obvious already, the Yukon Party plans to make carbon pricing a big issue this coming territorial election. “A carbon tax isn’t common sense, and it doesn’t work for the northern way of life,� the premier declared on Wednesday, during his annual tradition of offering business leaders a sneak-peak at the coming territorial budget before legislators had a chance to hear the official version the following day. “We will not raise the barriers to getting to and around Yukon. We will not make the cost of heating homes more expensive. And we are not going to punish our resource industries and place them in an uncompetitive position. The North is not the South. It’s cold up here. And we don’t get on the subway to go to work.�

The premier also offered this warning: “Make no mistake. There will be voices that will come here to insist on a carbon tax. We’re the only party that has a made-in-Yukon solution that puts the focus on results, not ideology. We are not encumbered by being part of a federal political party.�

The budget speech itself hit the same notes, with an entire section dedicated to the evils of carbon taxes. “The NDP and Liberals both support a carbon tax,� the premier asserted. “They follow the line of their federal parties.� And, with what passes for a zinger in the Yukon legislature: “Proposing carbon taxes may make the Liberals and NDP feel warm at night. For the rest of us, it’s our furnace.�

Expect to hear similar comments by the premier throughout this sitting of the legislature and well into the election, which must be called by the autumn.

Putting the focus on carbon pricing could be a clever political strategy. It lets the Yukon Party fall back on its familiar portrayal of itself as defenders of the economy against their job-killing political foes, and it puts the Opposition into the awkward position of defending a policy that may have the virtue of being the right thing to do if you view climate change as a serious threat, but as a pocketbook issue plays to the Yukon Party’s advantage.

Focussing on carbon pricing may also help the governing party turn a weakness into a strength. Traditionally, the Yukon Party has bragged about how its tight relationship with the federal Conservatives has brought more money to the territory. With the new Liberal majority in Ottawa, this obviously no longer holds. So Pasloski has traded coziness for combativeness.

Now he says the territory needs a leader willing to stand up for what’s right, rather than simply behave as local franchises of their federal counterparts.

Yukon’s opposition parties haven’t actually promised to introduce carbon pricing, but nor have they ruled it out, leaving themselves vulnerable to this accusation. Still, this is a bit rich, given how it’s not exactly a secret that Pasloski has long been closely aligned with the federal Conservatives, for whom he once stood as a territorial candidate. And it just so happens that the premier’s trenchant opposition to carbon pricing mirrors the Conservative take on things. At least Pasloski has now taken the courtesy of having his own sound-bites prepared on the subject – in

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the past, he simply cribbed the same “job-killing carbon tax� epithet used by Stephen Harper.

Pasloski’s campaign against carbon pricing is also clearly trying to tap that rich vein of resentment felt by some Yukoners who fret that the territory is being wrecked by a bunch of outof-touch busybodies from Outside, as opposed to his “made-in-Yukon� plan to keep doing what we’re already doing.

One strange thing about all this is that it still remains unclear whether the Yukon actually has any choice in the matter of whether to adopt a carbon-pricing scheme. Recall that the federal Liberals won a majority mandate to roll out such a plan across Canada.

Pasloski maintains that the territories have won an exemption, due to our already high costs of living. But all he has to show this is true is some vague wording in the latest agreement signed by the premiers, which may or may not actually serve as an escape hatch.

It would be highly inconvenient for Pasloski if he won re-election only to discover that Ottawa wanted him to introduce some carbon-pricing plan after all. Given how dependent the territory is on federal cash, we don’t exactly have a lot of bargaining power.

This wobbliness may give the Opposition a way of hitting back, by turning carbon pricing into a different sort of pocketbook issue: is our premier still able to bring home the bacon with federal Liberals in power, particularly when he is staging a big, albeit indirect, fight with them over their carbon pricing plans?

Pasloski is right that carbon pricing would make transportation and home heating more costly for many Yukoners. It would also make mining in what is already a remote region a more pricey prospect. But there’s a problem with his contention that the Yukon is such a tiny jurisdiction that we ought to get a free pass on curbing our carbon output. The same excuse, of course, could be made for an entire country like Canada, and many other countries have similarly novel explanations about why they deserve a break.

This line of thinking is a big reason why curbing global carbon emissions has proven so difficult.

Just how big a strain a carbon pricing regime would put on Yukoners depends entirely on the

details of the plan. British Columbia’s carbon tax comes with a rebate for rural and low-income households, to take the sting off higher fuel bills, for instance. Another feature of B.C.’s system is that it is revenue neutral – any additional money collected through the province’s carbon tax is offset by other tax cuts.

The Yukon could also consider a fee-anddividend system, in which every penny paid in carbon taxes is returned to the pockets of taxpayers in an annual payment. Those who succeed in burning a lower-than-average amount of carbon effectively receive a cash bonus, creating an incentive for residents to further reduce their carbon footprints. You could even tailor this system so that each Yukon community had its own dividend amount, to help recognize that higher fuel consumption is hard to avoid in further flung areas.

Perhaps a steep carbon price would be crippling to the Yukon, but that needn’t be the case with a modest one. Yukon’s gas tax is currently far below British Columbia’s, and would remain so even if a carbon tax comparable to B.C.’s were tacked on. It’s also worth noting that the best time to put a price on carbon is when gas prices are low, as they are now.

Someone truly interested in “results, not ideology� would at least be willing to study what a carbon pricing system could look like in the Yukon, rather than dismiss the idea out of hand.

After all, pretty much every energy economist will tell you that carbon pricing is the smart way to reduce emissions. But Pasloski doesn’t seem interested in doing that. He says Yukon’s emissions are irrelevant in the scheme of things, as a tiny fraction of what Canada produces, which is in turn a drop in the bucket of global carbon output.

In other words, the premier is campaigning on the notion that the Yukon, having long been a financial freeloader in Confederation, should take the same approach to the country’s efforts to curb the carbon emissions that are responsible for climate change.

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This unlikely scheme would see a million barrels of oil carried each day across a huge new bridge over the Yukon River somewhere around Fort Selkirk

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verybody loves a government-funded feasibility study. The people with the idea are happy to see their idea moving closer to, they hope, realization. The media love them because it’s easy news, usually with a cool map or artist’s rendering to spice up the story. Politicians love them because it’s a cheap and noncommittal way to be able to say “I’m working on it” without making a big commitment that might alienate other people.

And consultants love feasibility studies because they get paid to do them.

Even better are pre-feasibility studies, especially if they wrap up with a recommendation to do another, more detailed feasibility study. Another round of expense claims and self-congratulatory press releases, barkeeper!

Rarely do the consultants frankly say, “Nice idea, but this one won’t fly.” A few times I

have seen the Yukon version of this, which is, “the project is economically viable as long as the government pays for it.”

It’s hard to think of something that is not economically viable if the government pays for it.

The only people who don’t like feasibility studies are taxpayers. Instead of getting a pothole filled, they get a PowerPoint presentation.

The latest example is the Alberta to Alaska Railway PreFeasibility Study. The idea is to build a railway from Fort McMurray to Alaska, where the crude could be loaded onto tankers for shipment to international markets. The Alberta government picked up the $1.8 million tab for this study. The next step is, you guessed it, a fully-fledged feasibility study.

The proponents are looking for $20 million from governments along the route, including $10 million from the Canadian government according to various media reports.

How about this idea: the proponents should pay for their own feasibility study if they think the idea is so great, and the government should build $10 million of actual infrastructure instead. You could probably build our much-ballyhooed backup fibre-optic line for the

cost of a feasibility study for a railway that is, let’s face it, a real long shot.

You don’t need to spend $1.8 million to realize this, but the Alberta to Alaska Railway idea has some big hurdles to get over. Capital costs would be around $30 billion. The route passes through environmentally sensitive areas. It would require assessments and permits at federal, state, provincial and territorial levels. It would even require the president of the United States to personally approve it. There are 25 directly affected aboriginal communities, plus 11 “Native Corporations and Traditional Councils” along the way. Oil companies would have to be willing to pay somewhere between $12.46 and $21.41 per barrel. A huge new bridge able to accommodate trains with a million barrels of oil per day would have to be built over the Yukon River somewhere around Fort Selkirk.

Even worse, the premise of the project is what economists call “regulatory arbitrage.”

Shipping oil from Fort McMurray to Asia via Watson Lake and Faro on a train is not the first choice of Albertan oil companies. A pipeline straight to Prince Rupert would be shorter and, depending on your math, would probably cost less than

$10 billion.

A railway only makes sense since pipelines are so hard to build in Canada these days, and because the federal government has banned oil tankers at Canadian West Coast ports but can’t ban tankers at Alaskan ports. Indeed, Alaskan tankers sail up and down the Canadian coastline every day from Alaska to Bellingham, Washington, just south of Vancouver.

So the $30 billion investment could be rendered a white elephant if future governments change policies on West Coast pipelines and tankers, or Alberta figures out a way to get its oil to tidewater via the Lower 48.

The proponents point out that the train could serve future mines in the Yukon. True enough. But I’m sure it won’t take environmentalists long to realize the railway’s existence would be great news for large deposits in the central Yukon, perhaps even allowing that giant iron ore find in the Peel Watershed to be developed.

It would also create jobs for armies of Yukon consultants.

It would be so controversial that every lobbyist and constitutional lawyer in the Yukon would be able to buy a new Suburban and put another deck on the cabin. It would also be great for high-end tourism,

since every movie star in Hollywood would visit to publicize the threat to so much red squirrel habitat between Watson Lake and Beaver Creek.

It’s hard to talk about this project without getting pulled into ever more outlandish territory.

Perhaps the biggest benefit to the Yukon would be that, once the railway was built and a million barrels a day were trundling along it, we could block the tracks and demand even more cash. Ukraine does this to Russian pipelines all the time (although this doesn’t always end up going the way Ukraine hoped).

I could be wrong about this railway idea. But I would rather not have my tax money invested in it on my behalf until we find out. Let the proponents raise $20 million for the next round of feasibility studies from investors. If it really is a good idea, they should have an easy time convincing oil companies and First Nation development corporations to put up their own money.

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.

The northern way – a budget built for Yukoners Darrell Pasloski

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esterday, I was proud to stand up on behalf of our entire caucus and all Yukoners to table our 2016/17 budget.

This budget is shaped by our shared values, Yukon’s economic realities and extensive public engagement. These shared values – what I like to call the Northern Way – will bring a bold prosperous future for Yukon.

Yukoners are resourceful and resilient. They are determined to build a brighter future for their families. And they want government working toward the same goal.

This budget is proof that our government shares Yukoners’ values, that we listened to their views and that we built a budget that meets their expectations, with sensible solutions to real problems.

The cornerstone of our common-sense plan is simple – a balanced budget. I’m proud to say we won’t raise taxes, we won’t run a deficit and unlike almost every other jurisdiction in Canada, Yukon will have no

net debt.

We are also the only party in Yukon which has stood firmly against any sort of new carbon tax. A carbon tax would force our families and our businesses to pay more and would put our economy and Yukoners at a disadvantage.

We know that economic realities will make this a challenging year. The downturn in the mineral sector continues to impact our revenues. But we can’t simply wait for commodity prices to rebound.

Now more than ever we need to stand up for our resource sector, so that we can continue to benefit from the high paying jobs and economic opportunities this sector creates.

This year we’re offering double assessment credits to mining companies to spur exploration and employment.

We will continue to engage with First Nations, modernize regulations, and promote investment.

But even as we stand up for mining, we can support and grow other sectors. Tourism has always been a key piece of Yukon’s economy.

That’s why we invest more than $20 million in tourism and culture every year. This budget will invest $1.84 million in museums and First Nations cultural centres, and includes a $100,000 increase in annual funding for the Yukon First Nations Culture and Tourism Association. We are also funding the incredibly successful Yukon Now tourism marketing campaign for another three years at just under $1 million/year, and have asked the federal government to match that.

This year’s budget also includes the largest-ever singleyear investment in information technology. Last fall, we committed to increase IT capital spending by $2 million. We’ve done even more. Our IT spending will increase by $3 million, to a total of $9.5 million.

We’re also investing in a new fibre optic connection to the N.W.T. These and other community-level IT investments will create even more jobs for Yukoners.

Whether mining, tourism, or tech, we’re blessed with a diverse economy and our investments will continue to build on that.

That’s what sets us apart from other parties. While others talk about replacing the resource sector, we’re focused on diversification that strengthens all sectors of our economy.

Of course, education remains the best investment in the economy, because it’s an investment in our future. This year’s budget provides $100 per student for the purchase of school supplies. We’re also increasing our investment in the Yukon Grant and contributing $1.5 million over three years to help Yukon College become Yukon University, so our children can stay close to home and pursue a Yukon-made degree.

Our government has spent about $300 million on capital work in every year of our mandate, and this year will be no different. We’re also increasing our focus on projects at a scale and scope for local companies to benefit.

There is $3 million to build new staff housing in Ross River, almost $5 million in airport upgrades from Burwash to Dawson to Whitehorse, and more than $50 million to improve roads and bridges.

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will see job-creating investment when Yukoners need it most.

When the mineral sector starts to rebound, we’ll reduce our role in the economy. Only a party committed to privatesector growth and employment can understand and respond to that cycle.

Our vision and plan is a reflection of what we heard from you in our pre-budget tours and community conversations.

Every community we visited had a simple theme – invest in projects that make our lives just a little easier.

From working on the economy, and diversifying it, to improving education delivery, to collaborating with First Nations to drive positive change, your values are reflected in this budget.

We’re the only party that has a made-in-Yukon solution that puts the focus on results, not ideology.

This budget is about building a prosperous future for all Yukoners. I look forward to passing this budget and continuing to invest in Yukoners.

Darrell Pasloski the Yukon’s premier and minister of finance.

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Ontario says its coming capOTTAWA and-trade market will raise $1.9 he chairman of Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission has billion annually. B.C.’s carbon tax generated $1.2 billion in a message for Brad Wall 2013-14 (all returned in tax as the Saskatchewan premier cuts and rebates). And Alberta and high-profile carbon-tax is projected to reap north of opponent embarks on his third $3 billion a year from its new straight majority mandate. carbon tax. “If you have a stated goal to Smart, transparent, rulesreduce greenhouse gas emisbased public policy detailing sions – and Saskatchewan does – the most cost-effective way to how governments “recycle� those carbon revenues will be do it is carbon pricing. Period,� the key to public acceptance says Chris Ragan, the McGill and approval, argues Ragan.

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Governments are already spending public dollars on climate change, from disaster assistance to industrial subsidies such as Saskatchewan’s public support for carbon capture and storage technology.

Wall, in a post-election scrum Tuesday in Regina, presented a more nuanced view on carbon taxes than in the past. “We haven’t ruled it out ourselves in the long term,�

Wall said. “A price on carbon, effectively we kind of have one because we’re selling CO2 right now to oil companies out of Boundary Dam 3,� he said, referring to a carbon capture project. “But in terms of a broader application of a price, that’s possible down the road but it’s not right now.�

The 13 provinces and territories are currently in a six-month research phase looking at a quartet of broad climate policy measures with the federal government, including carbon pricing.

Ragan, for the record, doesn’t buy the argument that Saskatchewan’s carbon capture technology actually prices carbon, although he applauds Wall’s government for funding the initiative.

He believes the debate over carbon pricing has moved beyond yes or no arguments, as evidenced by the commission’s detailed report on what to do with actual new streams of revenue. “We are talking more about how to do it, rather than whether it should be done at all,� said Ragan. “And provinces are actually doing it.�

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Liberal budget less transparent than Ottawa’s past ďŹ scal plans: watchdog it eroded the independence of government’s traditional Canadian Press practice of basing its projections on an average of private-sector OTTAWA economic forecasts. he federal budget watchIn fact, the report said, in dog says the Liberals’ past years actual nominal GDP inaugural fiscal plan was outcomes have typically exceedless transparent than those of ed their forecasts. past governments, making it That $6-billion annual tougher for people to assess the cushion has lowered fiscal state of the public books. forecasts to the point they could A new report Wednesday by ultimately help the government the parliamentary budget office reap political rewards by beatsaid last month’s federal budget ing expectations. failed to separate purely discreAsked Wednesday about this tionary decisions by the Liberals criticism, Prime Minister Justin – like new policy measures and Trudeau argued that in recent changes in planning assumpyears expert predictions missed tions – from shifts in economic the mark for nominal GDP by conditions, as past governments about $40 billion. did. “It’s been three or four years “The government has made that every time they make changes to the presentation of predictions for the economy, its fiscal plan that have made it they later say, ‘Oh, we were more difficult for parliamentarwrong, it’s going worse than ians to scrutinize public financwe thought’,â€? Trudeau said in es,â€? said the analysis by budget French at a news conference in officer Jean-Denis Frechette.

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The report came weeks after “So, instead of continuing to the Liberals tabled a budget make these same errors and to projecting five years of deficits allow these same errors, we say totalling more than $110 billion. let’s adjust it right away‌ The analysis said the govern“It’s by the desire of transparment could have provided more ency and openness and veracity clarity for the public in several that we took this approach and areas. it’s an approach, by the way, that Among Frechette’s concerns, was applauded by economists he questioned the Liberal and by the experts.â€? decision to introduce a risk Trudeau has repeatedly adjustment that lowered annual insisted that running a string of forecasts for nominal gross annual budget shortfalls will endomestic product by $40 billion able the government to invest in – a move that translated into the economy to boost long-term knocking $6 billion a year off the growth and create jobs. projected budgetary balance.

But the budget office’s He called the size of the analysis predicts a more-modest adjustment “excessive� and said impact than the Liberals expect.

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The Liberal budget projected near-term government investments – especially in infrastructure and tax relief for middle- and low-income households – to generate 0.5 per cent growth this year and one per cent in 2017-18. The plan also predicted the measures would create or maintain 143,000 jobs over the next two years.

The report said the measures are poised to create or maintain 86,000 jobs over the next two years, while boosting growth by 0.5 per cent this year and 0.8 per cent in 2017-18.

Frechette’s report also noted that the Liberal budget shortened the traditional time horizon – to two years from five years – for the detailed estimated costing of the government’s individual budget measures.

The Liberal plan does, however, lay out the total estimated annual costs for the budget measures over the next five years.

Those totals are set to decrease each year, but the numbers fail to spell out which measures will receive less cash, the budget office found.

For example, these measures include those under the section in the budget titled, “Growth for the Middle Class,� which outlines specifics on funding for commitments like infrastructure and science. “While uncertainty surrounds cost estimates, particularly five years into the future, a medium-term horizon is required to more fully assess the evolution of program costs,� the watchdog said.

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RBC to comb through four decades of records following Panama Papers fallout Alexandra Posadzki Canadian Press

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he CEO of RBC, the only Canadian financial institution linked to the so-called Panama Papers scandal, said Wednesday the bank is combing through four decades worth of files to determine whether any wrongdoing took place.

David McKay said he is unhappy the bank’s name has been “dragged into” the controversy involving offshore tax evasion allegations, especially considering that there is no evidence to suggest the company has done anything illicit.

“As a CEO, I have to be concerned about our brand and reputation, particularly in a situation where there’s absolutely no allegation of wrongdoing,” McKay said.

McKay’s comments came following the bank’s annual general meeting in Montreal, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was also asked about the data leak that has pulled a curtain on the use of offshore tax havens.

Trudeau called on the international community to work together to make global finance more transparent so that rich investors can’t simply “hop” around to favourable jurisdictions to avoid paying tax.

“The level of awareness that citizens of the world are beginning to take in regards to tax avoidance and evasion is a good thing,” Trudeau said in his first public comments on the matter.

“But it’s certainly something that we will be working on together as a community of nations.”

The federal government knew tax avoidance was a problem long before the scandal put offshore havens in the headlines, he added.

The Toronto Star and CBC, which worked with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, have reported that RBC and its subsidiaries

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Royal Bank of Canada President and CEO David McKay addresses shareholders during the bank’s annual general meeting in Montreal on Wednesday. used Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm at the centre of the data leak, to set up more than 370 shell companies.

McKay emphasized that there are many legitimate reasons for setting up such companies and said it’s important not to conflate tax evasion, which is illegal, with tax planning.

“We just happen to have a couple hundred files, going back 40 years, that are attached to this legal firm,” he said. “That’s all that’s been reported.”

RBC has assembled a team of people to review the company’s files and try to determine what relationship the bank may have had with Mossack Fonseca and whether that relationship still exists, McKay said.

He added that he doesn’t know how long the process could take, given that the information cited in the leaks spans four decades.

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Banks have had to shoulder growing responsibility for policing and monitoring the global financial system in recent years, he said. He expects that trend to continue.

“We accept that responsibility, and we’ve adapted to that responsibility as an industry for over a decade now.”

Bill Downe, the CEO of the Bank of Montreal, offered a similar take during that bank’s annual general meeting earlier this week.

Downe said Canadian banks have “dramatically” beefed up their anti-money laundering controls over the past decade at the request of various governments around the world.

He said if any violations do emerge from the leaked files, he suspects they will likely be in relation to business that was conducted a long time ago, before the banks had invested in improving their practices.

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Lobbyist registry records show that at least one Torys LLP lawyer is actively registered to lobby Wilson-Raybould on the issue of corporate and mutual fund tax law.

A spokesman for the Liberal party said the event is being “hosted personally by Mitch Frazer, a partner at Torys LLP, not by Torys itself,� and that no Torys lawyers registered to lobby the minister will be in attendance.

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Mary Dawson cleared WilsonRaybould’s participation in advance.

“As one would expect, all MPs have a role to play in attending events for their political party and the commissioner’s office recognized that fundraising is an important part of all MPs’ political engagement,” Caley wrote.

The ethics commissioner’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The optics and timing of the event, however, are problematic for Trudeau’s Liberals.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has just barred her cabinet members from attending private fundraisers, following embarrassing revelations that ministers were expected to raise up to $500,000 annually for the provincial Liberal party – a task that often entailed perceived conflicts of interest.

Ontario, like British Columbia, does not have limits on how much corporations and unions can contribute to party coffers, setting up scenarios in which massive donations coupled with private access to political leaders raises a multitude of concerns.

Trudeau, speaking Wednesday in Montreal, noted that union and corporate donations are forbidden under the rules for federal political parties, while donations by individuals are strictly limited. Canadians can contribute up to $1,525 annually to a registered political party, plus the same yearly amount to a riding association or candidate, plus another $1,525 to a party leadership contestant.

“The federal government and the Liberal Party of Canada has very, very strict rules around fundraising,” said Trudeau.

The prime minister also lauded Wynne’s decision to ban her cabinet members from attending private fundraisers, but failed to address the question of whether Wilson-Raybould’s Toronto event presents a potential conflict of interest.

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NDP ethics critic Alexandre Boulerice said this week’s fundraiser “raises serious ethical concerns” because it’s an exchange of access to a minister in return for a donation.

Boulerice said the Liberals are developing a “bad habit” of promising access on donations, citing a recent offer for partisan donors to win a trip with Trudeau to Washington and another for donors to win dinner with Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

Boulerice said he finds it problematic that the federal ethics commissioner is providing a green light.

“We have a bigger problem,” said Boulerice. “The rules them-

selves should be tightened.”

The Green party said Trudeau should impose strict limits on fundraising by his ministers.

Liberals themselves once took a dim view of such potential conflicts – when they were in opposition.

“This kind of event clearly crosses the line,” Ralph Goodale, the party’s deputy leader at the time, said in January 2014 when it was revealed Conservative Heritage minister Shelley Glover attended a Winnipeg fundraiser that included stakeholders from the arts community. “It is improper, and quite frankly the donation should be paid back.”

Glover ended up not accepting the donations that were raised due to the outcry.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, speaks during a media forum of the All-Russia People’s Front in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday. show how complex offshore financial deals channeled as much as $2 billion to a network of people linked Associated Press to the Russian president.

Putin said Roldugin, a longtime ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA friend, did nothing wrong. He said resident Vladimir Putin has he was proud of Roldugin, adddenied having any links to offing that the musician spent his shore accounts and describes personal money to advance cultural the Panama Papers document leaks projects. scandal as part of a U.S.-led plot to Roldugin used the money he weaken Russia. earned as a minority shareholder Putin also defended a cellist of a Russian company to buy rare friend named as the alleged owner musical instruments abroad and of an offshore company, describing hand them over to the Russian him as a philanthropist who spent state, Putin said. his own funds to buy rare musical “Without publicizing himself, instruments for Russian state colhe also has worked to organize lections. concerts, promote Russian culture Speaking at a media forum in abroad and effectively paid his St. Petersburg, Putin said Western own money for that,” Putin added. media pushed the claims of his “The more people like him we have, involvement in offshore businesses the better. And I’m proud to have even though his name didn’t feature friends like him.” in any of the documents leaked Putin contended that Washfrom a Panamanian law firm. ington has fanned allegations of Putin described the allegations Russian official corruption in order as part of the U.S.-led disinforto weaken Moscow as the U.S. has mation campaign waged against become concerned about Russia’s Russia in order to weaken its growing economic and military government. “They are trying to de- might. stabilize us from within in order to “The events in Syria have make us more compliant,” he said. demonstrated Russia’s capability The Washington-based Interna- to solve problems far away from tional Consortium of Investigative its borders,” he said, adding that Journalists said the documents it Moscow has achieved its goal “to obtained indicated that Russian cel- strengthen the Syrian statehood, its list Sergei Roldugin acted as a front legitimate government bodies.” man for a network of Putin loyalists, Putin said it’s essential to and, perhaps, the president himself. prevent the collapse of the Syrian state to stem the flow of refugees to The ICIJ said the documents Irina Titova And Vladimir Isachenkov

Syria, he signalled tensions on another issue, accusing the U.S. of breaching its obligations under an agreement to reprocess weaponsgrade plutonium.

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BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Gettin’ a charge out of the electric car Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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s the story goes, when the speedy army engineers first built the Alaska Highway, no one had time to consider putting up gas stations.

“When the first highway started, when they popped it through, the army pushed it through in eight months,” said Stephen Mooney with Yukon College’s Cold Climate Innovation.

“There were no gas stations. We had to come up with gas stations. So it’s the same analogy, now we’ve got to come up with charging stations for EVs.” EVs, for the uninitiated, are electric vehicles. These environmentally-friendly cars forgo gas in favour of electricity and have become increasingly popular in both North America and Europe.

In the Yukon the market has been slower to catch on. There are seven electric vehicles registered in the territory. Some were bought at dealerships and others have been retrofitted by mechanically-inclined Yukoners.

A committee of organizations including the Yukon Transportation Museum, Yukon Energy and Cold Climate Innovation wants to bump that number to eight.

They’re working on a plan to study an electric car in Whitehorse, putting it through its paces running daily errands in and around the city.

On paper electric vehicles might be a hard sell for some Yukoners.

When Yukon Energy studied the issue it found that the territory’s cold temperatures, Yukoners’ propensity to drive long distances and love of trucks are all likely to get in the way of people wanting to give up their gas-guzzlers.

About 60 per cent of new vehicle sales in the territory are light trucks.

Nobody’s making an electric version of those yet, the report from February said.

Add to that the fact that cold weather can zap up to half of a vehicle’s battery life and the report concludes there won’t be a high percentage of Yukoners purchasing electric vehicles over the next 20 years with the technology the way it is now.

But all is not lost. Commuters travelling around Whitehorse could still make use of an electric vehicle, the report says.

It’s the viability of that kind of travel that this new study will be looking at, said Yukon transportation museum executive director Janna Powell.

“Many people just drive figure eights around town,” she said.

For this study the idea is to build a charging station on the Yukon Transportation Museum’s south-facing property that uses solar panels to create power and charge the car.

Staff at the museum would use the car for daily business or activities like parades or community events.

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Lee Johnson stands with the Ford Focus Electric that Quantum Machine Works purchased in 2014 to use as a company vehicle.

CEO, Andrew Hall, said his company’s report was a paper exercise gathering research from outside sources.

He said there’s value to actually bringing an electric car north to test it out.

“I think there is some justification to continue to look at this and to demonstrate it here in the Yukon,” he said.

“Particularly to give the public and policy-makers and government exposure to what these things look like, actually, physically, on the road and how they work.”

The idea for the charger is what piqued his office’s curiosity, Mooney said.

Plugging a car into the electricity grid isn’t exactly the kind of “innovation” they would normally be interested in, he said. An electric car uses essentially the same plug as

your average laundry machine.

The options of using solar panels along with the grid to get that energy makes things much more intriguing, he said.

“What we want to get involved with is how can we use innovation and potential.”

Right now the project is still in its infancy. The Yukon government just gave $10,000 to help with the planning process.

The study itself would likely cost between $200,000 and $400,000 depending on what car and charging station they’re are able to find, Powell said. She’s hoping to have a car on the road by the end of the year.

Both Hall and Mooney said their offices would likely be willing to help out, but those details haven’t been worked out yet.

It’s not difficult to find Yukon’s

electric car owners. With so few on the road, the drivers all tend to know each other by name.

Quantum Machine Works in Whitehorse owns a Ford Focus Electric it bought it 2014.

Partner Lee Johnson said he’s aware of the public perception of electric cars. When he first started shopping around he was actively discouraged by salespeople. “(They were) basically saying, well, you should buy a hybrid if you really want something efficient.

Don’t buy this, it won’t be good for you up there,” he said.

But Johnson decided to do it anyways.

“I just wanted to try it really, and prove that it could be done.”

He said the company was prepared to tweak the car if need be to get it to work well in the North.

But that wasn’t necessary.

They comfortably drive it around town and once went as far away as the Ibex Valley.

He estimates the coldest he’s driven in was -29.

In the summer the car can do between 100 and 120 km in one charge, he said. The lowest he’s seen in the winter is about 68 km With the push of a button the car can start warming its battery and the interior before it gets unplugged.

That’s important because it means the car is warmed using power from the charger, not the battery, he said.

“That’s the major drain on electric cars in the winter, is actually keeping the inside of the car warm.”

The car cost about $27,000 plus another $1,500 for the charger, which a local electrician was able to install.

Company staff plug the car in every night. Johnson estimates it would take about three hours for the car to completely charge from zero, though he’s never let it get that low.

He estimates they’ve put 20,000 km on the car driving it around Whitehorse since they bought it in May 2014.

“Even being outside (in the cold), as long as it was plugged in much like a gas vehicle, it didn’t have any major issues other than of course the range is reduced.”

Other attempts at using electric vehicles in the Yukon have been less successful.

In late 2012 a class of Yukon College students spent three days converting a Ford Ranger from gaspowered to electric.

Unlike Johnson, who bought his car, almost every piece of this retrofit was done by hand.

The Ranger never really worked right, Mooney said.

Students decided to build the battery management system themselves instead of buying one off the shelf, He said. That’s the critical piece that regulates how the cells are charged and tells the driver how much battery power is left.

It would have cost them $200 to buy, Mooney said. But instead batteries froze because staff couldn’t tell if they were being charged or not.

“It was a $200 part that took hours and hours and wasn’t built properly and we should have never went down that path,” he said.

“But it was a good learning experience for the people to understand the details of what a battery management system does.”

A new battery management system has been ordered, this one off the shelf, and is expected to arrive in Whitehorse soon.

Mooney is hoping the Ranger might be ready for an event next Tuesday showcasing alternative forms of transportation.

The Shift Whitehorse Transportation Showcase is happening at the Old Fire Hall. From 4 to 7:30 p.m.

Yukoners can come by and check out Quantum Machine Works’ electric car and a range of other green methods of transportation.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Hydrogen-fuelled cars back on the horizon as technology improves, costs drop fuel cell cars ready for commercial production.

Canadian Press â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at that stage where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to offer consumers a reliCALGARY able and very conventional-feeling utomakers and fuel cell piece of technology,â&#x20AC;? said Beatty. developers say the hydrogenToyotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mirai fuel cell car is powered age is almost here currently selling in California for â&#x20AC;&#x201C; again.

US$57,500, has a range of over 500 Hyundai now has a hydrogenkilometres on a full tank, and fuels fuelled vehicle available in Canada, up in three to five minutes. and Toyota wants to introduce The company is betting on fuel theirs here too, while Canadian fuel cells as the long-term solution to an cell developers that include Ballard emissions-free vehicle because they Power Systems and Hydrogenoffer more range, faster refuelling, ics have been busy putting their better performance in the cold and product in everything from trains to overall lower costs than batterybuses and forklifts. powered cars, said Beatty.

A fuel cell produces electricity But while the company wants through a chemical reaction, but to bring the car to Canada, a lack of without combustion. It converts hy- hydrogen fuelling infrastructure is drogen and oxygen into water, and an issue, he said. in doing so, creates electricity.

Hyundai has taken a different â&#x20AC;&#x153;There has been a big change, approach, last year bringing six of particularly in the past year,â&#x20AC;? said its Tucson SUVs to drivers living Eric Denhoff, president of the near a single hydrogen refuelling Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell station in Surrey, B.C. Association.

And earlier this month the comBut this is hardly the first time pany, which is leasing the vehicles proponents have been excited for $599 a month including fuel, about the technology. found their first Ontario customer Back in the late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when Hydrogenicsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chief technolcarmakers made big promises that ogy officer signed on for one. they would soon mass-produce cars Daryl Wilson, chief executive that would emit nothing more than of Hydrogenics, said the fact that water vapour as exhaust. someone at the company is driving Vancouverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ballard and Misto work in a fuel cell vehicle shows sissaugaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hydrogenics rode that their time has come. wave of excitement, with their stock And while the technology has prices climbing into the hundreds helped make that possible, he said of dollars. more environmental awareness is Those lofty expectations of the also helping make the shift. worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cars running on Canadian â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our values as a society are movfuel cells, however, came crashing ing away from fossil fuels; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s down, along with the companiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; broader recognition of the impact share prices, as the cars failed to of climate change,â&#x20AC;? said Wilson. materialize.

He said Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fuel cell inâ&#x20AC;&#x153;In the auto industry, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really dustry has been in and out of the good at selling visions of the future,â&#x20AC;? news as it goes through growing said Stephen Beatty, vice president, pains, but is emerging with global corporate at Toyota Canada. contracts and customers.

He said two forces conspired â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a constant steady against the hopes of automakers drive to overcome the remaining â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the technology wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t perfected, obstacles to make all of this posand consumers were unwilling to sible,â&#x20AC;? said Wilson. pay the high prices, putting the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ballard and Hydrogenics have move towards hydrogen-fuelled managed to go through that valleyvehicles on hold for years. of-death challenging experience But he said advancements in of pioneering new technology, and on-board computers, electric motoday weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re, both of us, supporting tors, higher-pressure systems and customers all over the world,â&#x20AC;? he general cost-cutting have made said.

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That could change with the recent federal budget setting aside $62.5 million for alternative fuelling infrastructure, including hydrogen refuelling stations.

Hydrogenics has already built 50 hydrogen fuelling stations globally, and Wilson says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in talks to install stations in Vancouver and Toronto.

But while there are some green shoots of momentum in fuel cells, auto industry analyst Dennis DesRosiers says consumers have been skeptical of the alternative fuelling options. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The most popular vehicle to this day, and is going to remain that way for decades, is conventional gasoline-fuelled vehicles,â&#x20AC;? said DesRosiers.

He said the most straightforward way for people to reduce emissions is to buy a new car, since the industry has been increasing fuel efficiency by about two per cent a year, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a lot of room for improvement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The industry was challenged to increase fuel efficiency and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing it; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing it with technology that consumers will buy,â&#x20AC;? said DesRosiers.

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Summary of Annual Financial Statements â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Oct 1, 2014 to Sept. 30, 2015 STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS:

Revenue..................................................................................................................................$ 266,400 Expenditures .................................................................................................................................74,356 Excess of revenues over expenditures .............................................................................192,044

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS: Contributed Principal â&#x20AC;&#x201C; (Net) ..................................................................................................70,173 Distributable Income ..............................................................................................................218,011 Statement of Financial Position â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Closing Net Assets ........................................... 7,071,298 Contributable Principal Funds ........................................................................................ 6,853,455

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Part of that money was riverless cars, trucks earmarked for developing and buses are going to cause a major economic regulations for emerging technologies, including automated headache, and the federal government needs to be ready, say vehicles.

The Canadian Automated advocates for the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high Vehicles Centre of Excellence tech and automotive sectors. welcomed the investment.

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Canada lags far behind its G7 counterparts in preparing for what will be a hugely disruptive digital technology, Kirk told industry, government and academic leaders gathered in an Ottawa suburb Wednesday.

Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government last year set aside almost $200 million for research and development of driverless vehicle technology and to build wireless and other infrastructure to support the vehicles.

The money has led to an influx of matching private-sector spending to support research by automotive, IT and telecoms companies. Testing is also being conducted in the U.K. in advance of new driverless vehicle regulations.

In the United States, where vehicles are regulated state by state, the federal Department of Transportation has floated a model set of rules it hopes all states will adopt.

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Too much â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or worse, inconsistent â&#x20AC;&#x201C; regulation will stifle the industry by making Canada less attractive to companies wanting to conduct vehicle research, said Kirk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The more hurdles you raise, the fewer vehicles will be tested here,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the moment, we in Canada are not really on the car companiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; radar screens as much as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like them to be.â&#x20AC;?

The effect that tech-driven services such as Uber have had on the taxi industry pales in comparison to the tremors that driverless vehicles will send through the economy, said Kirk.

Mark Aruja, chairman of Unmanned Systems Canada, said he expects a significant impact on jobs coming within the next three to 10 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge change coming for those who drive as a profession,â&#x20AC;? predicted Aruja, whose organization has been heavily involved in helping to build regulations around the ballooning remote-controlled drone marketplace in Canada.

Long-haul truck drivers, taxi drivers, even transit workers could be forced out of work as companies and municipal governments embrace trans-

portation technologies that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t require someone behind the wheel, he said.

And, if predictions of significant reductions in automobile collisions hold true, everyone from insurance adjusters to auto body repair technicians could also feel the effects.

How cities are built will also be affected, say municipal leaders with their eyes on the technology. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just imagine not needing to own a car,â&#x20AC;? said Bruce Lazenby, the CEO of Invest Ottawa who moderated a panel discussion Wednesday on autonomous vehicle ecosystems. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You could get picked up in your driveway by a driverless car you order from a service,â&#x20AC;? he mused. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But wait, would you even need a driveway?â&#x20AC;? he rhetorically asked an audience of about 80 people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And what about parking garages?â&#x20AC;?

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Giant gold mine left high arsenic levels in Yellowknife area lakes: research Within four kilometres of the mine, arsenic levels were between three and 13 times higher than drinking water guidelines, Blais reported. Even 17 kilometres away, about two-thirds of the sampled lakes had enough arsenic to damage aquatic life.

“This is where we would expect to see adverse effects on aquatic life,” said Blais. “There is evidence to suggest that important components of the aquatic food web are affected by arsenic in lakes around Yellowknife.”

Blais said arsenic in some of the lakes is also a human health concern, especially since other

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esearch has found that levels of toxic arsenic in lakes circling a former gold mine on the outskirts of Yellowknife exceed guidelines for human and environmental safety.

It’s another level of complexity to what is one of Canada’s biggest environmental cleanups.

About $1 billion in tax dollars is already earmarked to deal with the defunct Giant Mine, where 237,000 tonnes of arsenic sit underground on the shores of Great Slave Lake.

Two new studies are among the first to look at the impact of the mine’s operations on lakes outside the mine property.

“Concentrations of arsenic are well above drinking water quality guidelines and protection of aquatic life for lakes within 17 kilometres of the Giant Mine,” says an academic paper released Wednesday and co-authored by Jules Blais of the University of Ottawa.

A 17-kilometre radius is big enough to include most of the city of Yellowknife.

The territorial capital gets its water from the Yellowknife River, which flows near the mine.

But the river’s watershed is big enough to keep the arsenic low.

The city also tests for arsenic.

A Northwest Territories government study concluded that 45 of the lakes within 30 kilometres of the mine had arsenic levels that exceeded drinking water

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The head frame of the Giant Gold Mine stands high above the ground in Yellowknife in 2001. standards.

The Giant Mine was the city’s economic mainstay for 56 years before it closed in 2004.

Its gold was locked within crystals of arsenopyrite, a mineral that contains iron, arsenic and sulphur. Most of the arsenic was blown back underground, where huge dustpiles of it sit in 15 subterranean chambers, some big enough to swallow an 11-storey building. About 3,600 cubic metres of arsenic and arsenic-contaminated material also remain in surface structures.

Previous studies suggest another 16,500 tonnes of arsenic were blown into the air between 1947 and 1974 before emissions equipment was installed. As late as 1997, the mine was puffing

out 30 kilograms a day of the potent poison.

Much of that arsenic drifted into dozens of small, shallow lakes that dot the rocky tundra and bush surrounding Yellowknife. The government research found the smaller the lake, the higher the arsenic level.

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studies have found similarly high levels in groundwater.

“People who derive water from wells or lakes need to be concerned about this.”

Blais said he and his colleagues are studying the arsenic’s environmental effects, including how it moves and where it’s accumulating.

The Giant Mine is currently the site of a massive federal remediation plan. Engineers plan to install subterranean heat pumps to cool the mine’s chambers and tunnels to essentially freeze the underground arsenic in place.

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Larval surveying and monitoring for the City of Whitehorse 2016 Mosquito Control Program is scheduled to begin as early as 11 April 2016, depending on conditions. The goal of the annual control program is to reduce adult mosquito annoyance for residents and visitors. Experience has proven that the best way to achieve this is through effective control of larval mosquito populations.

Control of larval mosquito populations will be completed as required, and where necessary, throughout the season on the basis of mosquito population surveillance. Larvicide applications will be made using aerial (helicopter) and ground-based, handbroadcast methods. Control program operations will extend throughout the summer and until mid-August.

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While the larval mosquito control program will reduce overall mosquito populations, residents and visitors should still be prepared to protect themselves from adult mosquitos. Ensure window screens are in good condition, wear loose, light coloured clothing. Limit outdoor activities near landscaped areas, marshes, ponds, lake margins and forested or overgrown areas where adult mosquitos may rest. Avoid perfumed skin care products, shampoos and consider using repellents.

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bring about one of the largest river restoration projects in the history of the U.S. The landmark deals also protect farmers and ranchers from rising power and water prices as the various interests work to end long-running water wars in the droughtstricken Klamath River basin.

The dams now block fish from migrating to their historic spawning grounds and also degrade water quality, spreading fish diseases and algae blooms. Salmon are sacred to some Native American tribes that use them for subsistence and ceremony. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our allocation of fish this year doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meet half of our subsistence for our people,â&#x20AC;? said Yurok Tribe Vice Chairman David Gensaw. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a threat to our culture, our religion and the economic survival of our people.â&#x20AC;?

The Klamath basin has been the site of tense disputes between tribes, environmentalists, farmers and ranchers for nearly two decades.

In 2001, water deliveries to farmers and ranchers were severely curtailed. Adult salmon suffered a major die-off a year later. Salmon harvests have been sharply reduced for the tribes as well as recreational and commercial fishers.

The latest deal is spelled out in two agreements signed at the mouth of the river in Northern California in a ceremony attended by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, California Gov. Jerry Brown, federal officials, tribal leaders, conservation groups, large-scale water users and dam-owner PacifiCorp.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a huge exercise of humankind fixing some of the mistakes of the past,â&#x20AC;? Jerry Brown said.

The agreements include promises to keep working on a six-year-old settlement process that went dormant when Congress failed to approve it last year. In addition to removing dams, an initial settlement would have restored tribal lands and provided more water for farmers and ranchers.

By removing the dams without congressional approval and providing price assurances to farmers, backers hope to make the larger deal more palatable for Congress.

Funding for the $450 million project would come from PacifiCorp customers in California and Oregon, along with a water bond approved by California voters in 2014.

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Not everyone is celebrating.

Dam removal is a major improvement, but the guarantees for farmers and ranchers donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t belong in the agreement, said Jim McCarthy of the conservation group WaterWatch.

The PacifiCorp utility has supported a dam-removal agreement because it offers the company liability protections and caps the costs to its customers.

Several studies have shown that dam upgrades likely to be required would significantly reduce electricity generation and would cost millions of dollars more than dam removal and replacement of hydropower with other sources.

The company will transfer ownership of four Klamath River dams to a non-profit corporation recently created in California, which will petition the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for approval to tear them down. Two others will be transferred to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which will continue operating them without raising prices for farmers and ranchers who irrigate their fields.

One of the tribes already has obtained senior water rights through the courts, limiting water available for farmers and ranchers, and the others could pursue that process. Klamath Basin agriculture is valued at about $670 million annually.

Scott White, head of the Klamath Water Users Association, said the agricultural interests he represents had no stake in the dam removal but he hopes the efforts to boost water rights donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get lost. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Klamath River is a precious resource,â&#x20AC;? White said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is much left to be done to preserve the interests of the communities that it serves.â&#x20AC;?

Klamath Tribes Chairman Don Gentry said the câ&#x20AC;&#x2122;iyaalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, which means salmon, were placed in the river by the creator and have been essential in sustaining the tribes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be whole, and we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be complete as a people until we can once again fish for our câ&#x20AC;&#x2122;iyaalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s,â&#x20AC;? Gentry said.

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New potential Viking site discovered on coast of southern Newfoundland â&#x20AC;&#x153;What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really going to be looking for is an overwhelming amount of evidence that will include additional, very clear Norse-style architecture and ideally, distinctive Norse artifacts,â&#x20AC;? said Bolender. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the kind of thing where experts in the field, myself includedâ&#x20AC;Ś come with a huge amount of skepticism, and very

appropriate skepticism. There are always claims about these sites in North America. Most of them do not pan out.â&#x20AC;?

Michael Deal, a professor of archeology at Memorial University in St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, N.L., shared that skepticism. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This sounds kind of sensational. My first thought was â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh yeahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;,â&#x20AC;? said Deal on Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We

have people coming over from Europe all the time thinking they know where are Norse sites and they never find them.â&#x20AC;?

Bolender said if the Point Rosee site proves to be Norse, it could help researchers understand why they were in the region, which is more than 600 kilometres from Newfoundlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other Viking settlement.

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potential Viking settlement discovered in southern Newfoundland may reveal that the pioneering seafarers travelled further into North America than previously thought, but experts caution thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still lots of work to be done to verify the find.

Douglas Bolender, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, was part of a research team that made the potential discovery last June in the Point Rosee region of the provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s southwest corner.

Bolender said high-resolution satellite data taken 600 kilometres above Earth brought American archeologist and National Geographic fellow Sarah Parcak to the area, where excavations were carried out.

Bolender said the research team has found a Viking-style structure and evidence of someone collecting bog iron, a type of iron found in bogs, lakes, and rivers that is easily processed.

Carbon residue scraped from a rock near the bog iron was radiocarbon dated to around 800 AD

and 1200 AD, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re right at this tantalizing cusp where the archeology is very suggestive of Norse activity,â&#x20AC;? said Bolender in a phone interview on Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a series of things that look Norse but we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a fullfledged settlement or a bunch of very clear Norse artifacts at this point. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right on the teetertotter.â&#x20AC;?

The expedition was documented by the PBS show NOVA in partnership with the BBC. The two-hour documentary, titled Vikings Unearthed, will air on PBS next Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET. It could be the first such site to be discovered in North America in over 50 years.

Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Anse aux Meadows, a Viking settlement on Newfoundlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s northern peninsula discovered in the late 1960s, is currently the first known evidence of European presence in the Americas.

But Bolender warned that a bounty of evidence needs to be uncovered before the new site can be confirmed as a Viking settlement. Researchers plan to return to Point Rosee this summer to conduct further excavations.

The 2016 Spring Sitting of the Yukon Legislative Assembly convened at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 7, 2016.

The Assembly sits Monday to Thursday 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Live and archived audio, and archived video of the legislative proceedings are available through the Legislative Assemblyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website: http://www.legassembly.gov.yk.ca/coverage.html The first hour of the proceedings of the Yukon Legislative Assembly is telecast at 11 a.m. and at 6:00 p.m. on the day following the proceedings, on Northwestel Cable, Channel 9 in Whitehorse.

Live radio coverage is available at 93.5 FM. The Order Paper, the Hansard transcript, and audio and video for each sitting day can be accessed through the Calendar at: http://www.legassembly.gov.yk.ca/33_leg.html#cal Closed captioning is available.

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Christy Clark has anThe announcement is the nounced a $470-million latest sign the province is forging deal for turbines and generators ahead with construction of the for the Site C dam, despite ongoing protests and court challenges $8.8-billion dam on the Peace River, despite protests outside BC against the controversial megaHydro’s Vancouver headquarters project. and court challenges filed by First Clark was joined by Energy Nations and landowners.

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LIFE Sweet reward for longtime Yukon beekeepers Myles Dolphin News Reporter

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ince the advent of mainstream cinema, Hollywood producers have become more and more skilled at using animals to prey on our darkest fears, whether it’s birds, sharks or spiders.

Bees haven’t been spared, either. A cursory glance at the Internet Movie Database reveals over a dozen titles ranging from Attack of the Killer Bees to The Swarm.

But Peter McPeake, a longtime beekeeper who lives near the Takhini River Bridge, can tell you the film industry has it all wrong.

Honeybees are docile and very rarely bad-tempered, unlike Africanized bees, which guard their hives aggressively.

“They’re pretty harmless and they’re not interested in stinging people,” he said.

“If you went into a hive causing damage, yeah, they’d attack you. They’re just like any other insect, they’re out there doing their own business.”

When he removes the frames of his beehives with his bare hands, none of them sting him, although he admits to being stung “hundreds of times” in his life.

In fact, it’s even likely that they recognize him. A study published in Scientific American in 2013 described how honeybees can learn human faces.

There is a long history of beekeeping in the Yukon, McPeake said, and it sounds like more enthusiasts are about to get involved in the hobby.

The Downtown Urban Gardeners Society is pushing for the construction of an apiary in Whitehorse this summer, one that would have close to 40,000 bees.

And Mount Lorne is hosting a beekeeping workshop by a master beekeeper from Terrace, B.C. in a few weeks.

McPeake got into beekeeping in 1995 after taking a course in Fairview, Alta., but it was two years later that he had his first hives in Whitehorse.

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“I had a thing about taking bee pollen as a natural supplement for consumption, and that’s what piqued my interest in the hobby,” he said.

“They’re just so fascinating. I also thought I could have a honey-producing business after taking that course.”

But when he returned to the Yukon, he realized the lack of foraging areas for honeybees.

You need a much larger area if you’re going to produce large amounts of honey, he added.

So he began moving his bees around year after year, taking them to different spots in Whitehorse and even as far as Fox Lake, where there is an

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Honey production is also weather dependant, he said.

May and June were great months last year but there was too much rain in July and August.

Overwintering the bees in the Yukon is a challenge. But many of them survive the harsh winter months by clustering together to keep warm, entering an almost catatonic state.

McPeake checked his hives last week and said they were looking “OK.” “Towards the end of April,

early May, that’s when you know whether they’ll survive or not,” he said.

Don Mark is another longtime beekeeper in the territory who started in the early 1980s while living in the bush near Pelly Crossing.

One summer, when he was living in Carmacks, a bear ripped all of his hives apart.

“There were no survivors,” Mark said, “so I took a break from it.”

He started up a few years ago but it’s been up and down since then.

Last summer he had close to 200 pounds of honey. This year, instead of giving it all away, he plans on selling it.

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“You have urban beekeeping all over the place now, even in Los Angeles and Vancouver,” he said.

In February Winnipeg’s city council approved a zoning bylaw amendment to allow beehives on the rooftops of downtown buildings.

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EDMONTON plus-size womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clothing store has apologized to an employee after it fired her for using â&#x20AC;&#x153;fatâ&#x20AC;? to describe customers.

Connie Levitsky of Edmonton used the word on her Facebook page last week when updating her job status as a new sales associate with Addition Elle.

Levitsky wrote: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Conquering the world, one well-dressed fat lady at a time.â&#x20AC;?

She said a store manager called her Friday to tell her that using â&#x20AC;&#x153;fatâ&#x20AC;? on Facebook was inappropriate, so she deleted the post. And she thought that was the end of it.

But when she showed up for her shift Tuesday at the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s West Edmonton Mall location, she was fired. Levitsky said a district manager told her that the company couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be associated with â&#x20AC;&#x153;fatâ&#x20AC;? and that she considered it a swear word.

Levitsky, a 24-year-old university student, said she was shocked, hurt and angry. And when she got home, she took to Facebook to vent her frustrations.

She wrote that it took years for her to accept her plus-size body and she prefers to use â&#x20AC;&#x153;fatâ&#x20AC;? instead of store-accepted euphemisms such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;curvyâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;shapely.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;As part of the body-positivity movement, I feel that if companies â&#x20AC;Ś are still censoring the word fat, then we are never going to get anywhere,â&#x20AC;? she wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is one less store I can shop at, not because their clothes donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fit me, but because what they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stand for doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.â&#x20AC;?

Addition Elle later posted a statement on its Facebook page that said it took Levitskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use of â&#x20AC;&#x153;fatâ&#x20AC;? out of context and worried the word would offend customers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We believe that anyone should use whatever words they are comfortable with when describing themselves and whatever makes them feel empowered,â&#x20AC;? it said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We recognize that letting her go was a mistake and have apologized to our employee for any hurt this may have caused her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We stand for body positivity in all its forms.â&#x20AC;?

The company said it has offered Levitsky her job back.

But Levitsky said thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to happen.

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Iditarod musher reports getting groped during Alaska race bile intentionally drove into two top Iditarod teams, killing Associated Press one dog and injuring others, ANCHORAGE, ALASKA authorities say.

Lester said he has been uthorities in Alaska trying to contact the rookie were investigating after musher and has not intera female competitor in viewed her yet. The woman, this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Iditarod Trail Sled who went on to complete the Dog Race said two men on snowmobiles groped her as her 1,000-mile race, couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t immediately be reached for commushing team passed by. ment by The Associated Press Alaska State Troopers were on Monday. looking into the March 13 inThe AP generally does not cident as harassment for now, James Lester said Monday. The name people who may have been a victim of a sex crime.

27-year-old rookie musher Lester described the groping reported the groping at the as offensive touching on the checkpoint in the village of buttocks.

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next to the trail, and the musher thought they wanted to give her a high-five. Race marshal Mark Nordman said in the release that he immediately contacted authorities after a race judge notified him.

Nordman referred questions to the timeline when reached Monday by phone. Asked if the groping and snowmobile attack this year would lead to changes, Nordman again referred to the timeline, which states that further discussion â&#x20AC;&#x153;will occur in coming months.â&#x20AC;?

It is not clear why Iditarod officials did not release information about the incident earlier. Nordman and race CEO Stan Hooley did not return messages Monday seeking additional information.

The Iditarod quickly announced the March 12 snowmobile attack against the teams of musher Aliy Zirkle, who finished third this year, and four-time champion Jeff King, who came in ninth. One of Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dogs was killed, and others in both teams were injured.

In those cases, Arnold Demoski has been charged with assault, reckless endangerment and reckless driving. His attorney, Bill Satterberg, declined to comment on the case through his office Monday.

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2015 Pre-Season Training Initiative.

The initiative brought over 165 athletes and their support teams to the Yukon in November 2015.

Mt. Sima was the ďŹ rst area in North America open to pre-season training, positioning the Yukon to become a front-runner in training facilities.

Through the teamwork of our government agencies, our hardworking and dedicated staff, local businesses and other partners, the Yukon is becoming a key support of the provincial and national ski/snowboard teams.

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Indigo, ex-Lululemon CEOs take aim at sugar, call for transparent food labelling Aleksandra Sagan Canadian Press

TORONTO wo Canadian business leaders want the country’s food industry to use more transparent labels so Canadians know just how much sugar they’re consuming.

Indigo’s CEO and the former CEO of Lululemon are making sugar one of their main targets as they fight to change industry standards.

Sugar is the enemy, said Heather Reisman, CEO of Indigo Books and Music Inc. and executive producer of the 2014 documentary Fed Up, which takes on the sugar industry.

Lots of processed food contains high amounts of sugar, she said.

“Today, sugar is in everything – everything,” she said during a presentation to the Toronto Region Board of Trade earlier this week. “It’s in ketchup. It’s in canned foods. It’s in the bread we eat.”

People have become addicted to sugar, contributing to the obesity epidemic, Reisman said. For her part, she’s prohibited Indigo stores from selling chocolate treats at checkout counters to help hungry customers avoid making sugar-laden impulse purchases.

On average, about 13 per cent of calories consumed in Canada come from sugar, according to Canada’s Heart and Stroke Foundation. That’s at least three per cent too much.

The foundation recommends sugar account for no more than 10 per cent of the calories people consume daily, or about 12 teaspoons for an average diet of 2,000 calories a day. The World Health Organization echoes this, but suggests less than five per cent, if possible.

Therefore, Canadians need to change the way they eat, Reisman said – and to succeed they need easier-to-understand food labels.

Currently, food packages list how many grams of sugar are contained in a single serving size (like half a cup).

“You have to be a chemist to understand how much sugar is in the product,” she said.

Instead, Reisman is calling for something more “straightforward,” like the number of teaspoons rather than grams.

Reisman said she proposed the idea to people she said are responsible for re-labelling. “Guess what? No interest whatsoever.”

She was unavailable later to respond to questions about what people she’d met with.

The federal government pledged to revamp food labels in the October 2013 throne speech.

Last June, Health Canada announced its proposed changes.

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Luvo frozen dinners are pictured in a freezer at a Loblaws in Ottawa on Wednesday. percentage of a person’s daily recommended amount of sugar is contained in a product and grouping all sugars (like fancy molasses) together on the ingredient list. They did not include distinguishing between natural sugars, like those found in fruits and unsweetened fruit juices, and added sugars, which some industry watchers had anticipated.

Health Canada is now in the process of reviewing comments from a public consultation on the proposed changes that ended last August.

A Health Canada spokeswoman would not provide a timeline for when the new regulations

would be published, saying it would take the time it needs.

The spokeswoman also said Health Canada could not immediately provide any further details or answer questions about the proposed changes, instead pointing to online information about the public consultation process and the proposed changes, as well as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s mandate letter to his health minister, Jane Philpott.

In that letter, Trudeau instructed Philpott that one of her top priorities was to improve “food labels to give more information on added sugars” in processed foods.

That kind of transparency in

labelling is needed, said Christine Day, the former CEO of Lululemon. She’s now chief executive at Luvo, a company touting nutritious frozen food meals low in sodium and sugar.

There are lots of gaps in labelling practices, she said, but sugar in particular stands out.

Health Canada’s proposal to include the percentage of a serving’s daily recommended amount of sugar is progress, she said. But added sugars, common in foods

like yogurt and granola bars that are typically viewed as healthy, should be listed separately.

Day said she has no qualms with doing that for her frozen meal products, which already provide detailed ingredient information.

“As Canadians, whether our government’s ready or not to address the labelling issue, I think businesses are ready to provide solutions to consumers,” Day said.

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Got milkweed? Monarchs still need your help

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hree years ago, the eastern monarch butterfly population plummeted to 35 million, a drop of more than 95 per cent since the 1990s. More than a billion milkweed plants, which monarchs depend on for survival, had been lost throughout the

butterfly’s migratory range – from overwintering sites in Mexico to summer habitat in Canada.

We needed more milkweed in the ground, quickly. But many provinces and states listed the plant as “noxious”, and few nurseries and garden centres carried local “weeds”.

A lot has changed in three years. The David Suzuki Foundation launched its #gotmilkweed campaign in April 2013 to encourage Toronto residents to plant milkweed in yards and on balconies. Foundation volunteer Homegrown Park Rangers also planted milkweed in local parks and schoolyards. The Ontario

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government pulled the plant from its naughty list and media stories about the monarchs’ plight took flight.

By winter 2015, the #gotmilkweed campaign had inspired more than 10,000 milkweed plantings in Toronto, with another 11,000 people across the country pledging to help monarchs via the Monarch Manifesto.

This week, the 2016 #gotmilkweed campaign launched, offering milkweed plants in Toronto and Montreal and seed packets for the rest of the country. As author and urban gardening guru Lorraine Johnson noted, these and other campaigns have made milkweed the hottest native plant on the market.

How are monarchs doing?

Last month, Mexican authorities estimated the population that survived the epic 5,000-kilometre journey from Canada and the U.S. Midwest last fall was threeand-a-half times greater than the year before. Media across the continent ran stories about the comeback.

Then the weather turned. The worst winter storm in more than 30 years hit the mountainous forest where eastern monarchs overwinter, killing as many as 11 million. Scientists worried the damage would be even greater, such as in 2002 when a storm wiped out more than 220 million monarchs.

According to a recent study by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and U.S. Geological Survey, published in Scientific Reports, eastern monarchs face a significant risk of extinction, with quasi-extinction – when so few are left that recovery is impossible – occurring over the next 20 years.

Severe weather is a major threat to monarchs, from winter storms in Mexico to scorching summer droughts in their breeding grounds. Near eradication of milkweed along parts of their migratory route is an even more pressing concern. Milkweed has long been found in roadsides, ditches, medians, meadows and fields. But sprawling development coupled with a dramatic increase in use of the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) has killed tens of millions of the plants.

No one knows what the future holds for monarch butterflies.

But there’s reason to be encouraged.

U.S. federal agencies have offered millions in funding, and dozens of government agencies and conservation groups are working with projects like the Monarch Joint Venture. The U.S. Environmental Defense Fund is developing the innovative Monarch Butterfly Habitat Exchange, allowing landowners to get paid for opening marginal land to butterflies.

La séance du printemps 2016 de l’Assemblée législative du Yukon est convoquée à 13 h, jeudi 7 avril 2016.

In Canada, while the federal government remains quiet, a handful of researchers and municipalities – and thousands of concerned individuals – are leading the charge.

Since last fall, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked with University of Guelph conservation biologist Tyler Flockhart to assess how to best manage linear infrastructure corridors – transmission lines, railways and highways – as potential “butterflyways.” We hope the results will help establish best practices and make an economic case for boosting milkweed and monarchs throughout North American corridors.

Many cities are aiming to make space for bees and butterflies, but the City of Markham wants to become one of the most monarch-friendly municipalities on the continent. This winter, the Ontario city committed to creating the world’s first municipal milkweed nursery, in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation. It recently became the first Canadian city to sign a mayoral monarch pledge, and has started posting “butterfly parking signs” in city parks.

Although milkweed is spreading and monarch numbers have bounced back from historic lows, the population remains more than 80 per cent lower than 20 years ago. This summer, the great-grandkids of butterflies we welcomed last year will return to Canada. I encourage you to continue bringing them home, one milkweed plant at a time.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation.

Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation communications strategist Jode Roberts.

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Archeologist Dennis Griffin examines the remains of a housepit from Thule-era people who lived briefly on St. Matthew Island in about 1650.

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bout 1,000 years ago, Norse explorer Leif Ericson bumped into the New World at Newfoundland. The old world was filling up, with 300,000 people living in the Roman capital of Constantinople.

Up here in Alaska, the ancestors of today’s coastal Natives were quietly having one of the more successful runs in human history.

The Thule people of Alaska’s west and north coasts lived a good life for centuries, perfecting technologies that traveled with them across the northern Arctic all the way to Greenland. This April is Alaska Archeology Month, a time to think about people who mastered life in the far north before anyone in the more populated world knew about them.

How do you thrive so far from the equator and all its edible plants and animals? The Thule hunted the largest animal to be found up here, the bowhead whale.

Thule people invented the umiaq, a boat of sewn walrus hide.

Umiaqs allowed Thule people to intercept the slow-moving whales and harpoon them. When a whale was struck and recovered, the hunters had more than 30 tons of food. They also had building materials; they framed their sod houses with whale bones along with driftwood.

Jeff Rasic has seen the sunken ovals of coastal tundra that were Thule house pits, as well as the mounds enriched by bones and other organic refuse left by those people near the present town of Barrow.

“There’s about 13 mounds littered with whalebones,” said Rasic, an archeologist with the National Park Service. “As we were there mapping this site, people were there duck hunting. People shot

ducks and started plucking them right on the mounds.”

That was a lightbulb moment for Rasic. People were attracted to that place today just as they were many generations ago.

The Thule of A.D. 1000 developed many things Native elders recognize today. Among the tools that stuck were the ulu, the knife with the curved blade so effective at slicing blubber and fish; kayaks, the pointed boats so stable in the ocean; snow goggles made of bone cut with narrow slits; and advanced harpoon tips attached to floats made of inflated seal skins (to find struck but submerged whales). The Thule were also among the first people to use dogs to help with travel and safety.

In the chill of the far north, Thule people have lived on in what they have left behind.

“There are hundreds of Thule sites out there,” Rasic said. “Those in Greenland have great similarities to those in Barrow and the Seward

Peninsula.”

After centuries of living well off the country, Thule people experienced changes around 1850. Not only did a cold period known as the Little Ice Age thicken sea ice and make the air-breathing bowheads more elusive, but Thule people had been found, as western explorers and commercial whalers permeated the far north.

The Thule communities waned after that contact, but today’s Inupiat descendants of Thule people trace some of their richest traditions back to a culture that had things dialed in.

“They were wealthy, successful people,” Rasic said of the Thule.

“Their adaptations worked really well. They were just fine-tuning them for more than 1,000 years.”

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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Celebration at warâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and remembering the fallen peal of church bells, the sound of factory whistles and hands clapping. On the streets below and on the balconies around her, she could see the signs of celebraby Michael tion: little boys tooting whistles, uniformed lift girls dancing to Gates jazz music; people cheering loudly and waving flags from their ISTORY balconies. At last, she thought, UNTER her loved ones would be safe.

News of the Armistice reached fter the battle of Amiens, Whitehorse at 10 in the mornFrance, in early August ing of November 11, and quickly of 1918, the Allies saw an spread throughout the town: opportunity to bring the Great â&#x20AC;&#x153;soon the flags were flying from War to a swift end with a series every flagstaff, and the doorways of offensive attacks. The proud volunteers from the Yukon played and show windows of every business house were being decorated a prominent role in driving back the German forces from territory with bunting and the flags of the they had controlled for four long, allied nations.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;J.B. Watson, Dominion bloody years. telegraph operator, mounted to The ensuing three months the cupola of the post office and were an inexorable march back into Belgium and the conclusion played several coronet solos, of the war. Yukoners participated among the selections being â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;O, Canada,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Rule Britannia,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and in this march, but at a terrible â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;God Save the King.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; In the front price; the route to Mons reprewindow of the dry goods departsents the bloodiest weeks of the ment of Taylor, Drury, Pedlar & war for the Yukon and is marked Co. a life size effigy of the bust of by 17 Yukon graves. the Kaiser, the artistic handiwork The Townsend Brothers described the kind of reception they of Charles Atherton, head of the grocery departmentâ&#x20AC;Ś was disencountered when they entered played â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and attached to the efvillages just liberated from the figy were two cards, one bearing Germans. In a letter from Alfred the inscription â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hock der Kaiser,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Townsend to his family back and the other, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What Shall We Do in Dawson City, dated October With Him?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

27, 1918, the war was almost Numerous people from over. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were chasing Fritzies Carcross and Skagway wanted to through a lot of French towns join in the celebration; a formal and villages,â&#x20AC;? wrote Alfred. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fritz ceremony was postponed until was going pretty fast so he did the following day. Forty three not have much time to destroy Skagway and Carcross residents the houses or put up much of a arrived in Whitehorse on the fight, so we got along with very train the following afternoon at few casualties.â&#x20AC;? All the girls and 4:30. Everybody in Whitehorse women ran out and kissed and was there to greet them amid hugged the soldiers. blowing whistles, ringing bells, A letter from his brother and a brass band playing.

Norton dated November 15 A fine dinner followed at the expanded upon this theme: â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Whitehorse mess house, and at good bit of the time we were just 7 in the evening, the effigy of the a few hundred yards behind the Kaiser was carried up the street Germans and under fire at that. in a torchlight parade from the The people came out of their cel- Taylor, Drury & Pedlar store, and lars â&#x20AC;&#x201C; cheered, danced, cried and placed atop an eight metre high sang all at once. Old women and pile of cord wood, which was set girls cried and kissed and hugged afire in the ball field. one till you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if you The festivities then moved were yourself or not. They cut all inside the North Star Athletic Asthe badges and buttons off our sociation hall where a speech was clothes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; stripped us of everymade by Fred Maclennan, folthing for souvenirs. The cruelties lowed by local talent performing they suffered under the Germans a number of songs and recitals. are unbelievableâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;?

The school children concluded At the time, the Canadians with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rule Britannia,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;O, were advancing to capture Canada,â&#x20AC;? followed by a dance Mons before the Armistice. The that lasted until the late hours of Canadians encountered sporadic the morning. At 9:30 the followfighting with the Germans as ing morning, the woozy visitors they entered Mons at 9 a.m. on were poured onto the train and November 11, but no Yukoner sent back to Carcross and Skagwas killed that day. At 11, the way.

Armistice began and the guns fell Dawson City was caught up silent. in the excitement as well. The As the Canadians entered town went wild in celebration.

Mons, the Highlanders marched The word was out at 9:40 a.m., their pipe band through the nar- and church bells started ringing; row streets. Lieutenant Lyman everywhere, whistles were blown, Black, who had left high school in guns were fired, and every other Dawson City three years before to sort of noise-maker was brought enlist, was now a battle-scarred into action. School was let out veteran of the war; he led the and children poured out into machine gun contingent on the streets. They marched about his motorcycle through the city town setting off firecrackers for square in the centre of Mons. hours. Everywhere homes were Back in London, Martha Black festooned with streamers and was drawn to the window by the flags.

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The parade led to the AB Hall where, in a crowded informal meeting chaired by Sheriff Brimston, returned veterans, or relatives of war veterans were asked to take the platform; speeches were given by Colonel Knight, who was the acting chief executive, along with Judge John Black, and other dignitaries.

Once the war was concluded, the Yukon resolved never to forget those who left the territory and died in the service of their country. That resolve continues today.

On May 10, at 5:30 p.m., the Yukon Archives and the friends of the Yukon Archives Society (FOYAS) invite the community to a reception and unveiling of a new travelling exhibit about the Yukon and World War I at the Roundhouse on Front Street. Following at 7, the Royal Canadian Legion will hold a memorial ceremony at the cenotaph in front of City Hall. Everybody is invited to the short ceremony of remembrances, which will be attended by members of the armed forces and dignitaries.

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Canadian soldiers march into Mons, Belgium on the morning of November 11, 1918. Young Lyman Black of Dawson City was chosen to lead the Motor Machine Gun Brigade into the town square. As the troops had liberated towns and cites behind the retreating Germans, the people came out of their cellars, cheering, singing and dancing all at once.

In the afternoon, returned soldiers and others formed a parade, several blocks long, headed by Sheriff Brimston. Then came returned soldiers carrying a coffin containing an effigy of the Kaiser. Alex Sealey came next,

carrying an effigy of the Kaiser, then a long line of â&#x20AC;&#x153;women representing all the patriotic societies of the town.â&#x20AC;? They were followed in turn by blocks of gaily adorned automobiles, then others carrying large British and American

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SPORTS AND RECREATION Christ the King, Selkirk lock up wrestling titles

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Zyanya Hoffmann, top, from Golden Horn Elementary tries to pin Myla Turner from Holy Family.

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Dawson Smith, left, and Kalen Lewis grapple. to-wrestlers ratio – didn’t come without a lot of hard work, said the team’s coaches.

“It’s a pretty big deal, we’re pretty excited about it,” said Selkirk coach Brian Larnder.

“We’ve been working hard for Joel Krahn/Yukon News two months.”

Christopher Gwynne-Thompson, left, goes for the takedown against Justin O’Brien at the Yukon “We have practices twice a week and the kids have to Wrestling Championships on Wednesday. Over 400 students from 12 schools competed. come to every single one,” said assistant coach Nicole Rusnak. gram in place for so long now could be the largest wrestling Tom Patrick “We had a really high turnout the ones that started in Grade team in Canada,” said Christ News Reporter the King coach Ron Billingsley. 2 are now in Grade 7. So they’re for our school. We brought 18 very experienced and obviously students here today and some “Almost a third of our school school picked up its that helps us with our success.” of our students medaled, some is in wrestling. It’s a big deal at fourth straight banner of them didn’t, but everyone Holy Family Elementary our school.” and another its first ever obviously did a very god job placed second overall with six “So many kids are involved at the Yukon Wrestling Chamin it, they invite their friends to gold, 12 silver and eight bronze. today.” pionships on Wednesday at the Selkirk won best performing It was the fourth year in a row come. They want to hang out Canada Games Centre.

– a division that often favours the Whitehorse school placed with their friends and parWhitehorse’s Christ the King ticipate together,” he added. smaller teams – with a third of second, but it has its fair share Elementary won the overall its 18 wrestlers bagging hardof banners having won the “It’s just a good event for our title a fourth year in a row while school. All the kids get together overall title every year between ware. The team claimed five Whitehorse’s Selkirk Elemenbronze and one silver.

2007 and 2012. and they have fun at it and tary won the best performing “Foster (Brassard) won a Whitehorse’s Elijah Smith that’s why it’s so big.” title at the event that saw 428 silver medal, but it was a very Elementary came in third with Christ the King pinned its wrestlers, representing 12 Yutough competition with that six gold, seven silver and 12 fourth straight title with 21 kon schools, compete in about gold, 16 silver and 15 bronze. group,” said Larnder. “He did bronze. Elijah Smith is one 1,150 matches. really well for us.

Having the largest team with of just a few schools to have “We’re thinking we’re the “We had a bit of a turnover 90 competitors definitely helps, placed in both categories, taklargest wrestling team in with our group, so some of our ing third overall in 2014 and but having an experienced Canada. No exact stats on that, team is also an advantage. older wrestlers didn’t come second in best performing in but we’re pretty sure. It’s the back this year. We had a lot of 2013.

“I think this is the first largest wrestling tournament rookies on the squad and they Selkirk Elementary’s win in year our Grade 7s have been and we bring the largest team really came through for us.” best performing – given to the wrestling since Grade 2,” said “We found a lot of our Billingsley. “We’ve had the pro- team with the greatest pointshere and we’re thinking we

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Hidden Valley, which won the trophy in 2012, placed second with 13 medals. Yukon Montessori School placed third, down from a second place finish last year and first place in 2014, with 15 medals on Wednesday.

“This year’s tournament was successful again in thanks to the Holy Family school for helping us out, particularly Tirza Spencer and Lional Colaci. Without them this tournament would not have been successful,” said Marc Senecal, president of the Yukon Schools Athletic Association. “Another huge thank you to Rob Langmaid, who was our head official, and big thank yous to all the parent volunteers, wranglers and referees.”

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Yukon skaters cap season at top speed Tom Patrick News Reporter

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he Yukon Speed Skating Championship is the last chance for members of the Whitehorse Rapids Speed Skating Club to notch personal best times.

The vast majority did exactly that on Sunday at the Canada Games Centre.

Fourteen of 18 skaters outstripped themselves with a total of 39 personal best times at the season-ending short-track event.

“For some of the younger kids it’s a good chance to set personal bests and a lot of them do,” said Rapids head coach Phil Hoffman. “They only get three or four times to try the races during the year and each time they go out they improve.

“Personal bests is how we gauge how kids are doing because we have a wide variation in ability of kids who are out there. So it’s not if you were first or second, it’s about how you compare to how you did last time.”

Simon Lauer, Joshua Lauer, Emily Robbins and Max Karpinski all registered PBs in all four of their races. Huxley Briggs and father Bernard Briggs both set “new” times, racing events for their first time.

Robbins cut the most of anyone.

After four races, she sliced a total of 40.68 seconds off her times, all combined.

“We call them Yukon championships, but it’s kind of a fun way for the kids to end the season, to have

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Rapids club skaters Tristan Muir (32), Shea Hoffman (10) and Michael Ritchie (8) race at the Yukon Speed Skating Championships on Sunday at the Canada Games Centre. It was the last event of the season for the Whitehorse Rapids Speed Skating Club. a series of races,” said Hoffman.

“Some of them have been to competitions outside (the territory), so this is a fun way to wrap things up.

So I’m not looking for outstanding results.”

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Though a friendly event, it should be noted Huxley, Joshua and Malcolm Taggart-Cox were the only ones to clean-sweep, winning all four of their races. Lisa Freeman and Micah Taggart-Cox came close with three out of four.

“One thing that stands out for me is that Caius Taggart-Cox skated well,” said Hoffman. “He got cut pretty severely earlier in the season during practice. He got a skate blade on the upper lip. So since then he’s been a little gun shy to get in and really race, but he took control of a couple races, which is nice to see.”

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f you haven’t registered your team for the Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay, you are probably out of luck.

Just eight days after registration opened for the 24th annual relay, the cap of 1,200 cyclists was reached and organizers are no longer accepting teams.

“The response has been strong for the last couple of years and then this year it went crazy,” said race coordinator Mike Kramer. “When I looked at it in the first 24 hours, over 800 of the rider positions had been filled.

It seems to be a more and more popular event, and some folks in the past haven’t been able to register because it’s filled up so quickly, so they’re registering more quickly now.”

“In the last two years it’s usually April that I have to start monitoring it. We shut things down when it hits 1,200, so this is by far the quickest it’s ever filled up,” he added.

The cap was reached with the registration of 89 eight-person teams, 101 four-person teams and 44 two-person teams for the 238-kilometre race from Haines Junction to Haines, Alaska, which is scheduled for June 18.

Relay organizers installed a 1,200 rider limit a few years ago, not because they thought there were too many cyclists, but because they were uncomfortable with the amount of support vehicles sharing the road with racers.

“One year we crept over 1,300 and that year it was a little too busy on the road for our comfort level, in terms of vehicles, so that’s when we started going to 1,200,” said Kramer.

“Off the top of my head, two years ago we were close to 600 reported cars in use by teams to support their riders. Last year that number dropped – in terms of what people declared – to below 500.”

While team registrations are no longer being accepted, race officials will continue to accept solo riders until May 13.

Solo riders tend to be more

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Cyclists leave the start line at last year’s Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay in Haines Junction. Registration for teams in this June’s race filled up in just eight days. experienced cyclists, requiring less assistance by organizers, and they often “buddy-up” and share support vehicles, said Kramer.

As of this week, just over 40 solo riders have registered. Last year the race had a record 92 solo cyclists register.

“We had a significant number of solo riders who didn’t start and certainly some who did not finish,” said Kramer.

However, if you’re not up for doing it solo, there is a chance you can join an existing team.

Frequently teams have riders drop out for whatever reason and look to recruit replacements.

U Kon Echelon Bike Club and

VeloNorth Cycling Club, as well as other social media sites like Facebook, can be used to find teams that are looking to recruit, said Kramer.

If you’re lucky – like really lucky – you might even find a team that has decided to completely drop out of the race and is willing to sell their spot.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if you saw something on Kijiji,” said Kramer.

For more information, or to be one of the 200 volunteers needed for the race, visit the Kluane Chilkat website at www.kcibr.org.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

I am pleased to announce that there have been some changes to my practice.

I have recently married and have changed my name from

Dr. Alison O’Hearn to Dr. Alison Freeman.

I have also asked Dr. Alison Madlung to join me in a practice-share.

This means that if you are one of my patients, you will now have two family doctors. I hope this will allow for better access in the clinic and greater continuity in the hospital. As many of you know, I took over this practice from Dr. Zimmerman in 2013.

If you were a patient of Dr. Zimmerman’s and you haven’t met either myself or Dr. Madlung, I encourage you to book an appointment to meet one of us!

I look forward to many more years of practice in Yukon and appreciate you welcoming Dr. Madlung into our practice.

Sincerely, Dr. Alison Freeman ( formerly Dr. O’Hearn) WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

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Sudoku Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku.

This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test!

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

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

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

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

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: having no pity : merciless, cruel

Puzzle A

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WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: an intense and usually passing infatuation; also : the object of infatuation

Puzzle B CLUES ACROSS 1. Red wine 7. Best nurse-patient aid 10. Footwear closure 12. Chinese dynasty 1122-221 BC 13. Persuade to one’s side 14. Advocate 15. Mandela’s party 16. A woolen cap of Scottish origin 17. About aviation 18. Shallowest of the Greats 19. Sheathe

20. Frightened 23. Brews 24. Relates 27. Atomic #52 28. Up the ante 33. The “Kings’s” initials 34. Lepton 36. Cornmeal mush (British) 38. One who analyzes syntactically 39. Algonquian tribe 40. Systems, doctrines, theories

41. Herb __, San Francisco columnist 42. Informed about the latest trends 45. Seven 46. Morocco’s capital 47. What a doctor practices 49. Beaks 50. In a way, extends 51. A number or amount not specified 52. Gambling

12. Larval crabs 14. Malta capital 18. Clairvoyance 19. Tomato condiment 21. Alleviation 22. French seaport 25. New Testament 26. Shortened (abbr.)

29. Employee (abbr.)

30. Opposite of leaving 31. Lip locking

32. Foes 35. Many not ands 36. Covered with healing scrapes 37. Regions 41. Abel’s brother (Bible) 42. Greek Queen of the gods 43. Esau’s descendants (Bible) 44. Canarium ovatum 46. Ribonucleic acid 47. Gas usage measurement 48. An oppositional argument

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion

CLUES DOWN 1. Composition for orchestra and soloists 2. Bulgarian monetary unit 3. Settled upon 4. Common frog genus 5. Electronic counter-countermeasures 6. Golf ball supporter 7. Divided into 3 8. Crazy (Spanish) 9. Billiards stick 10. More deficient 11. Solomon Islands capital

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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 Office Manager to join our team. This is a mission critical role as it keeps everything afloat and moving forward and it will never be described as dull! Your role ebbs and flows from report and funding writing, arranging board meetings and events, providing financial support, taking minutes, and managing paperwork though to website updating and participating in community engagement events.

As Office 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. Confidentiality 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 efficient and effective with your work.

Come and join a successful Yukon based organization that offers competitive wages and benefits commensurate on education and experience. Please submit your resume to joey@dakwakada.com.

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We thank all applicants but only those short-listed will be contacted.

Resumes must be received by April 17, 2016.

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Manager Required for Mobile Home Park: We are looking for a couple or individuals to manage a 140-space mobile home park. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, all aspects of management including: Working with tenants to collect rent, enforce rules, deal with resident issues, must have strong communication skills and the ability to manage an ofďŹ ce.

Previous experience in a related position managing MHP or Apartments and performing light maintenance work would be preferable.

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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

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

DIRECTOR, GOVERNMENT SERVICES

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: â&#x20AC;˘Register arriving guests, assign rooms â&#x20AC;˘Answer telephone enquiries â&#x20AC;˘Compile and check daily records Contact: HR Manager hr@elitehotel.ca Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd. 206 Jarvis St Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A-2H1

CATERING COORDINATOR 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 organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s catering operations. More infoâ&#x20AC;Ś 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 â&#x20AC;˘ 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 NEW PUMP, factory fabricated, on wheels/dolly, suitable for firefighting, prospecting or other high pressure uses, c/w new fire hose, suction hose & hardware, never used, $650. 867-993-3525 Canvas Tents and Wood Stoves Lowest Prices in Canada Tents will ship by Greyhound from Castlegar, B.C. Canvas Tent Shop, www.Canvastentshop.ca 1-800-234-1150 Call for Prices MENĘźS BLACK shoes, sz 9, like new, $15.

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THE CANDIDATE: The ideal candidate will have a relevant certiďŹ cate or diploma in Civil Engineering, building technology, business management, project and property management or the equivalent in training and experience. The incumbent will have a broad knowledge of First Nations Government systems and an awareness of housing issues affecting First Nation people both locally and nationally. Knowledge of building construction codes and regulations, WCB regulations, and employment law is also a must.

Candidates should also possess very strong communication, interpersonal and time management skills, as well as have extensive ďŹ nancial management experience.

THE JOB: This key senior management position is responsible for directing Government Services activities that include construction and renovation projects, building operations and maintenance, managing landlord and tenant relationships, and community infrastructure planning and operations.

Supervising a variety of positions in the Government Services department, this position will direct the provision of day-to-day government services to the community and implement construction and capital projects, while also ensuring that strategic goals, work plans, policies & procedures are developed, implemented and evaluated on an ongoing basis.

A detailed job description is available @ http://www.vgfn.ca/employment. php Salary Range: $52.47 to $68.21 per hour (65 hours biweekly); plus beneďŹ ts Please submit resumes by: April 22, 2016 @ 4p.m. to: Brenda Frost Manager, Human Resources Tel: (867)966-3261 ext. 256 Fax: (867)966-3800 Email: hrd@vgfn.net Posted: April 4, 2016

FIRST NATION EDUCATION COMMISSION TECHNICIAN

REFILL THE SHED with super-dry straight-grained lodgepole pine this spring: $225 cord bucked/delivered.

Text or call Doug Martens @ 334-7364 BROTHER CORRECTRONIC GX-6750 electronic typewriter w/extra ribbon and manual, new $160, asking $75. 660-4443

YUKON FIRST NATIONS PREFERENTIAL HIRING POLICY IS APPLICABLE AND MUST BE CLEARLY IDENTIFIED ON APPLICATION.

HIGH QUALITY Cloverdale Shark Skin exterior house paint, beautiful steel blue color, never opened, 20 year guarantee, 10 gallons, $200. Dean at 332-3310

Closing Date: Location: Hours: Salary:

SINGLE ELECTRIC adjustable bed, $1,000; beige toilet & tank, new, $50. 867-634-2661, 867-332-5107 cell

Until filled Whitehorse 37.5 hours per week full time Level 7

Job Summary: Under the general direction of the First Nation Education Commission (FNEC) and reporting to the Education Director of CYFN, this position is responsible to work with the FNEC, Education Director and Education Coordinator with regards to achieving the mandate of the FNEC. The position will be the primary position responsible for meeting the needs to the FNEC. This position will complete background research, prepare documents for review and formulate briefing notes for the FNEC, as well as coordinate projects under the FNEC. Additional Information: Only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.

For further information and job description, please contact Renie Bruton at 867-393-9206 or email at renie.bruton@cyfn.net.

Please submit applications and/or resumes to: Name: Renie Bruton Address: Council of Yukon First Nations, 2166 2nd Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 4P1 Phone: (867)393-9206 Fax: (867)668-6577 E-mail: renie.bruton@cyfn.net

66Ęź HEAVY duty 3/4â&#x20AC;? copper roll for plumbing water lines, paid $660, asking $400.

334-6685 BATHROOM MIRRORED cabinet, 17â&#x20AC;?x11â&#x20AC;?.

668-5786 4-LIGHT ABOVE mirror bathroom light.

668-5786 SINGER SEWING machine, 99 stitches, comes with all attachments & extension table. 668-5786 KITCHEN CABINET handles, pulls & hinges, various models, new, still in packets, $1 ea. Call 335-6886 aft 6pm RADIANT HEATING coil, used for infloor heating, CSA approved, new, 50 sqft $100.

Call 335-6886 aft 6pm MILWAUKEE 12â&#x20AC;? double mitre saw, slide cutting with stand, slide ot extensions for material, new $1,100, $800 obo. 335-4749 or 668-4726 BOSCH TABLESAW, 10â&#x20AC;? complete w/collapsing stand, must be seen, $700 new, asking $500. 335-4749 or 668-4726 LONGARM QUILTING frame, 4ĘźX8ĘźX12Ęź lazer, cloth leaders, 4 rails, $500; 17â&#x20AC;? throat longarm sewing machine, $1,500 for both.

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Friday, April 8, 2016 QUILT SUPPLIES, fabric books, DVD, some rulers, templates etc, bobbin tension gauge top & bottom. 456-2541 LIONEL OR MTH trains, looking to buy or trade. Call 633-6310 AUBE THERMOSTAT model TH115-A-120S, 2000W 120V-16.7 A, new, still in box, more than 10 available. Call 335-6886 aft 6pm DOUBLE EGG carton foamy, $20; batting for stuffing, $10; A Hard DayĘźs Ride print by RCMP artist Todd Gray, $30. 633-5009 SEED STARTER greenhouse, 4ĘźHx5ĘźWx2ĘźD, custom built, wood & glass, on wheels, $100.

633-5021 LIVE ANIMAL cage trap, large, $30 ea, 2 for $50. 667-7467 MONARCH 1/2 hp deep well submersible pump, solid state control, 240 volts, good running condition, $75. 634-2321 SANYO ELECTRONIC cash register, used for 1 year, $200. 867-689-9748 or 660-5411

YUKON NEWS BROWNING LEVER action, 22 LR caliber, vg cond, $500 obo. 668-4726 or 335-4749 RUGER 77-22, as new, 22 LR caliber, $700 obo. 668-4726 or 335-4749 BROWNING BLR 308 lever action rifle, brand new in box, never fired, $850 obo. Call 335-5843 NON-RESTRICTED FIREARMS safety course, Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club, April 16 & 17, 8:30 am start. For more info call 633-2488

Wanted 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.

WANTED: ANYONE who might have witnessed a fender bender at Superstore parking lot on the evening of Thursday, March 24. Please call 334-5555

OIL SPACE heater, Monitor model 441, 40,000 BTU, intake/exhaust pipes included, fully serviced, working well when removed, $600. 334-3775

WANTED: 2011 or newer one ton gas Chev or GMC truck with 8 foot box and low kms.

668-5644

Computers & Accessories

LA CSFY recherche un(e) consultant(e) pour dÊvelopper, administrer et analyser des sondages à ses clientèles bilingues.

DĂŠtails Ă http://commissionscolaire. csfy.ca/quoi-de-neuf ou 667-8680 poste 0.

SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 smart phone unlocked 16GB, gd cond, $190. 334-6087 GOPRO HERO 4 silver video camera, brand new, includes an S.D. card, $500.

867-996-2368

WANTED: 45-50 gallon barrels to be used as fire barrels. Call 633-3888

Cars

Musical Instruments

Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782

â&#x153;&#x201D; Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed â&#x153;&#x201D; Everything over 8" split â&#x153;&#x201D; Prices as low as $245 per cord â&#x153;&#x201D; Single and emergency half cord deliveries â&#x153;&#x201D; Scheduled or next day delivery

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EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery â&#x20AC;˘ Dry accurate cords â&#x20AC;˘ Clean shavings available â&#x20AC;˘ VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise.

ORDER NOW 456-7432 ANDYĘźS 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) DONĘźS FIREWOOD â&#x20AC;˘Year round harvest/supply â&#x20AC;˘Beetlekill stockpiled in Whitehorse â&#x20AC;˘$235/cord delivered city limits U-Cut available â&#x20AC;&#x153;Firewood When You Want It!â&#x20AC;?

393-4397

2003 GRAND Cherokee Overland, fully loaded, red/grey, remote start, Bluetooth CD, runs/drives great, good condition, $4,800.

Text 867-336-0848.

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 $3,500 obo. Call Mike 332-4444

1998 DODGE 1 ton hydraulic tilt deck, 17,8000kms, runs good, $5,500 obo.

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1995 DODGE 5.9L, Super Cab, DSL, auto, 12-valve 2-wheel drive, Hirise canopy, 3/4 ton diesel, Hankook tires, 284,000 kms, new rad, fuel pump, 2 new batteries, water pump, thermostat, synthetic oil and more, $3,500.

Gus @ 393-4796 1993 E150 cargo van with contractor shelving, needs to have water pump installed, rebuilt pump comes with van, $800 obo.

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333-9899 2007 FORD F250 pick-up, V8 auto, posi-track, $4,900. 667-7777

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2006 CHEVY Express 15 passenger bus, 190,000kms, new battery, runs great, $9,500 obo. 336-1502 for more info.

2005 FORD Expedition, 190,000kms, exc cond, fully loaded, leather, P/W, sunroof, power seats, Blue Tooth, seats 8, command start, new battery & brakes, $7,900.

334-1012

2005 GIBSON Les Paul studio guitar & case, exc cond, $990 obo. 332-0067

HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC.

2003 CHEV XLT Tracker 4WD, remote start system, reliable vehicle, summers & studded winters, tinted windows, clean, smoke free, $7,500 obo. (867) 689-5907

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

2005 CHEV Blazer 4X4, 2-dr ZR2, 100,000kms, $2,500. 335-1490

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

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2005 CHEV Cobalt, great on gas, clean and well kept, 134,000kms, grey in colour, $4,000 obo. 335-1410

2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart 2.4L Mivec 5 speed manual transmission.

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

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

2004 CHEVROLET Duramax 2500hd, crew cab, long box, power doors, power windows, power & heated mirrors, 4x4, 280,000kms, $12,000 obo. 334-7226 2003 CHEVY Blazer LS 4x4 4-dr, 155,300 kms, regularly maintained. new breaks all round last year, comes with winter/summer tires, $2,500 obo. 334-7013 2002 CHEVY Avalanche 1500, black, sweet stereo system, lots of new parts, contact for more info, 250,000km but it still runs great, $6,500 obo. 334-1042

Call or Text 867-335-7997

2008 TOYOTA Corolla, great condition, good on fuel, set of all season & studded tires, manual transmission, 189,000kms, $5,800 obo. 333-4014 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 2005 FORD Taurus, $2,500. 336-1129

NOW REDUCED TO $8,350.00

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

Loaded, all options, new snow tires.

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TOYOTA Used Vehicle Specials!

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2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee

2001 Ford F-450 Flat-deck Truck

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2007 Toyota Tacoma X-Runner 1505A 505A ..................

2010 Nissan Altima 3.5 SR 6 spd 7724A ............

2011 Kia Sorento LX V6 7596A...................................

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2010 HYUNDAI Accent, good clean reliable unit, 75,000 kms, $9,000 obo. 633-6665 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.

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$11,966 $11, $1 1,96 1, 966 6 | TEL 667-7777 Guns & Bows LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY â&#x20AC;˘ SELL .357 MAGNUM Ruger Security 6, 4â&#x20AC;? stainless barrel, Hogue rubber grips, $395.

633-2488 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

1998 Jaguar XJ8 130,000 Kms, British Racing Green, Absolutely immaculate.

Truly a Gentlemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Limousine.

$9,955.00 | TEL 867-536-7206

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

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WANTED: HONDA BF35, BF40, BF45, BF50 outboard motors for parts. Richard 668-7963

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Help control the pet overpopulation problem

have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL

633-6019

...that you can donate credit at The Feed Store for us so we can purchase food and other items for the animals? ...that we have accounts with both P&M Recycling and Raven Recycling? You can drop off your recycling with them, tell them that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a donation for us and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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

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

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

16Ęź BOAT & trailer with 20hp 4-stroke motor, used once, $5,500. 867-994-2104

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

14Ęź 25 hp Suzuki with trailer painted camo, hunting boat ready for the water, $2,500 obo.

336-3922

Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 215/60 R15 Blizzak, fits 2004 Subaru & upwith wagon rim, used 3 months, $550 obo.

Call Gus at 393-4796 FREE CHEV Cavalier tires, gd condition, winters & all-seasons, pick up at 48A Liard Rd driveway near deck, owner moved.

TRUCK CANOPY, fits Tacoma double cab 6ft box, has aluminum rack on top, excellent condition, $800. 334-5190 2002 CHEV Blazer, good for parts, good engine, good tranny, good front clip, open to offers. 335-1490

Pets RABBITS FOR sale, 5 female. 333-0915 FREE TO good home, 3 1/2 year old female cat, spayed, has shots. Kitty is an indoor/outdoor cat and she doesn't mind dogs either.

Call 660-4578 for further information.

EXPERIENCED HOUSESITTER available immediately in Whitehorse. Great with pets and plants etc. Dependable and reliable. Excellent local references. Non-smoker, Non-drinker. Call Cyril at 867-689-5838 WANTED: TWO cats, preferably indoor/outdoor cats. 334-6868

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

by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com RONĘźS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVĘźs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg

2009 GRIZZLY ATV, c/w spare tires, rims & tracks, $5,500. 335-4237

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Heavy Equipment 2006 URAL Tourist w/sidecar, spare wheel, knobby & road tires, tough Yukon bike, 15000 kms, $4,500. Mark 393-2962 ATV SNOW plow with ears, good shape, asking less than 1/2 price of new, $350.

334-6685 WANTED: 332-6570

2 Harley 16â&#x20AC;? mag wheels.

2005 POLARIS 900, engine rebuilt, reverse, 151 track, $2,500. 633-4643

2009 ST 1300, 12,000 miles, new luggage rack, new tires last year, exc cond, $8,200.

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19Ęź LOWE Roughneck welded aluminum boat, full stand-up canopy, 115hp Suzuki 4-stroke, Nav system, fish finder, downrigger. Call 867-333-0285 or 333-0290

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 CLASSIC 1979 BMW R65 airhead, exc mechanical, cosmetic, well maintained w/new battery, speedo, rebuilt carbs, good tires, needs nothing, good Yukon bike, $3,500.

Mark 393-2962 2008 HARLEY Davidson Electra Glide Classic, 24400 kms, great condition, well maintained, Screaming eagle pipes, tons of chrome and leather, removable trunk, lots of extra/spare/original parts, $15,000. 334-1564

2014 ROYAL Enfield Continental GT, 697 kms, excellent condition, almost new, $4,350. 668-4205 2007 KAWASAKI VERSYS, orange, excellent condition, great touring bike, 16,700 kms, $3,600. 668-4205 2005 POLARIS 500 w/winch, $4,500 obo.

668-6931 1987 BMW K 100 LT, project bike, needs ignition module & other work, c/w extra parts & shop manual, $1,350 obo. 399-3920 2008 KAWASAKI UTV, runs great, $3,000.

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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 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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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

CATERPILLAR D8K salt tracks less than 10% worn with 26â&#x20AC;? pads, $12,500.

780-289-4989, jonathanganter@hotmail.com

2008 SUZUKI C109RT, factory windshield & luggage, driving lights, 13,000 kms, 109 cid/1800 cc, excellent cruiser for long trips or daily rider, stored indoors, excellent condition, $8,000. Rob 335-2600 1992 YAMAHA Venture Royale, great bike for local trips & long distance touring, 1,300 cc V-4, 56,000 kms, exc cond, $4,200.

334-3775

Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 17Ęź GRUMMAN canoe, older but in great condition, solid aluminum, c/w new paddles, $1,200. 867-993-3525 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 17Ęź KEVLAR Kayak Seca Tandem Day Tripper, spray skirts, pump, 2 paddles, $1,800.

660-5693

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

CAT 966C, fair condition, spare on rim, gd. spade nose bucket, many extras, $16,000. tel: 250-651-7542, email awatlin@gmail.com SKID STEER angle broom, 6Ęź wide, 3 position, universal skid steer mount, steel/poly bristles, lightly used, good cond, $2,650.

334-3775 SKID STEER dozer/snow blade, 78â&#x20AC;? width, hydraulic angle, universal skid steer mount, bolt on cutting edge, good cond, $2,450.

334-3775

Aircraft 1969 CESSNA 182M Full IFR, Garmin 430W, A/P TTAF 2953, STOH 1072, many extras, great condition, $75,000. tel: 250-651-7542, email awatlin@gmail.com

Campers & Trailers TAITĘźS TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers For sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon 1987 27Ęź Econoline motorhome, sleeps 6, great shape, 87,000 miles, excellent tires, must see, clean, $10,000. 668-6931 eves or 332-9355 days 2010 BIG Tex car hauler, 18Ęź, tandem 3500 lb axles, 4Ęź ramp, like new, $4,500, obo.

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20Ęź ENCLOSED trailer, side door, rear barn doors, tandem axles, next to new, good shape, $6,000 obo. 335-4749 or 668-4726 2002 CORSAIR truck camper, Excella, 9'2" w/shower, queen bed, N/S, fantastic fan, tinted windows, rear awning, well kept, $13,000. 668-4876

Our Wish List...

Our Big Item Wish List!

773B CAT rock trucks, located in Edmonton.

Call 780-915-3291

1979 EMPRESS 24Ęź motorhome, $5,000.

Don @ 334-1212

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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 1980 DODGE welding truck with 400 amp Canox Air pack welder, $22,500.

780-289-4989, or email jonathanganter@hotmail.com

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1981 BMW R100, touring classic bike, good cond, maintained, c/w full-fairing, pannier liners, workshop manuals, $4,150. 399-3920 eves

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1999 F350 diesel dually, 2001 10Ęź Arctic Fox Camper, auto, supercab, fully loaded, new tires, many options, $6,500; camper, queen size bed, A/C, micro-wave, slide out, electric jacks, $15,000. Don 667-2005

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2014 18Ęź Jayco Feather Lite travel trailer, sleeps 4-5, excellent condition, fully equipped, view at Fireweed RV in McCrae Tuesday-Friday. 668-5082 2012 STARCRAFT Launch 15Ęź lightweight travel trailer, rear tent end bed, rear corner bath w/toilet, tub/shower, wardrobe/pantry, 4 cu ft fridge, front booth dinette, A/C, 2 burner range w/microwave, $13,000 obo. 335-8107

Friday, April 8, 2016

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

Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail glacierviewcabins@gmail.com www.glacierviewcabins.ca 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 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;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 THE ALZHEIMER/ Dementia Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. A group for family/friends caring for someone with dementia. Info call Joanne 668-7713.

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 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.

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LETĘźS 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

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

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.

NSNY IS holding their AGM on April 20th, 2016, 12Noon â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1pm, 478 Range Road, Whitehorse. All are welcome

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.

LIVE WORDS Dianne Whelan author tour Thursday April 21, Isabelle Pringle Library, Carcross, 7pm, and Friday April 22, Teslin Library, 1:30pm. Free

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

LIVE WORDS, Noah Richler reading & talk, Friday April 22, Old Fire Hall, 7pm, tickets $10.

JAMES DANDERFERĘźS Cross Border Jazz Quintet from NYC & Canada, Wednesday, April 13, 7:30pm, Old Fire Hall. Tickets: yukontickets.com

LIVE WORDS Dianne Whelan author tour Saturday April 23, Watson Lake, 3:00pm.

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ACTIVE TRAILS Whitehorse Association AGM Thursday May 26, 7pm, Sport Yukon, 4061-4th Ave, Boardroom #1, all welcome

LIVE WORDS reading, Heather OĘźNeill, Saturday April 23, 1pm, Well-Read Books. Free

THE EARLY Peopling of South America, Long Ago Yukon SKYPE talk with Dr. Thomas Dillehay, Vanderbilt University, Professor of Anthropology Saturday, April 16, 1pm, Beringia Centre www.facebook.com/LongAgoYukon

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 Haven Approach. Join us in Whitehorse for a weekend of learning new skills, breathing, bodywork, experiential exercises, and connecting. April 22/23/24, 9:30am-4:30 pm. For more info 335-4150 TODDLER STORY TIME: Wednesdays, Apr 6 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; May 25 from 10:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11:30 a.m., 2 - 4 yrs. of age & caregiver, Whitehorse Public Library. Free drop-in.

YUKON FISH & Game Association will be holding their AGM at Canada Games Centre boardroom Wednesday April 13th, 7pm-9pm LIVE WORDS Reading & Reception with writers, Wednesday April 20, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, Whitehorse, 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9pm, free

LIVE WORDS readings Saturday April 23, guest writers, Haines Junction Library, Haines Junction, 7pm

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

BABY STORY TIME: Mondays, Apr 4 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; May 30, 10:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11:30 a.m., ages 6 - 24 months & caregiver, Whitehorse Public Library. Free drop-in.

YUKON MULTIPLE Sclerosis Association annual AGM, Whitehorse Public Library April 26th 2016 at 7pm. All are welcome to attend.

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.

INTĘźL FOLK Fest, 30th Annual, Skagway, Friday April 15, 2016, 7pm AK time, EagleĘźs Hall, on Broadway at 6th. skagwayartscouncil@gmail.com. Bring Passport!

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OCTOBER 30, 1953 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; MARCH 22, 2016 Bryan Thibodeau was a proud long-time Yukoner. He was born in Edson, Alberta and moved with his family to Whitehorse in grade school. When he was in his late teens his family moved back to Alberta where he finished high school in Edmonton and started his carpentry apprenticeship. His family eventually moved to British Columbia but Bryan headed back to Whitehorse to make Yukon his permanent home.

Bryan became a certified carpenter in 1977. Whitehorse General Hospital, Canada Games Centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Athleteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Village, Whitehorse Correctional Centre, Elijah Smith building, Closeleigh Manor, Kwanlin DĂźn Cultural Centre, Workerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Compensation Board, Daku Cultural Centre and even substantial renovations on Barry Bellchamberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision of the High Country Inn all benefitted from Bryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expertise and steady hand.

See web link for further information on Bryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s working life: http://heritagenorth.ca/the-obituaries/ Family was very important to Bryan. He raised his family at the Carcross Cutoff area and enjoyed the lifestyle offered there. Gardening became a passion for Bryan and he found he had a true green thumb, sharing vegetables, baking, and canning with friends, neighbours and extended family throughout the year.

Bryan loved the outdoor recreation that the Yukon offered. His favourite pastime was to head out to one of the local lakes or rivers with his freighter canoe to go fishing.

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Bryan was an integral part of the Holway clan and he will be dearly missed.

Bryan is survived by his wife, Debra (Debbie nee Holway), children: William, Sarah, and Ryan as well as the apple of his eye â&#x20AC;&#x201C; granddaughter Laeila. Also Bryan leaves brothers and sisters: Sharon (Bev), Len (Donna), Al, and Rose along with many nieces and nephews and their children.

Bryan was predeceased by his father Julian, step-father John MahĂŠ, and mother (Eva) Jean.

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the Heart & Stroke Foundation or charity of your choice. Notification will be posted in the summer for a gathering to celebrate Bryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life.

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TAKHINI HOT Springs Open House at Hootalinqua Fire Hall Tuesday April 12th at 7pm. Presentation on development plan, entrepreneurship opportunities, lot sales, investment possibilities, home sales. Door prizes & draw THE YUKON Development Education Centre (YDEC) Annual General Meeting with special guest speakers is on Wednesday May 19th at the Yukon Beringia Centre, 6:30pm. Contact 334-9606 for more information FREE BOARD game drop-in for International TableTop Day @ Whitehorse Public Library Meeting Room, Saturday, April 30th, 12-5pm. Games provided, door prizes. All welcome. Hosted by Yukon Comic Culture Society.

YUKON PROSPECTORS Association April 12th 7pm, monthly meeting 2nd Tuesday each month at Yukon Chamber of Mines, 3rd & Strickland St. Go to www. yukonprospectors. ca MARSH LAKE Solid Waste Management Society will hold its AGM on May 4th, 2016 7pm at the Marsh Lake Community Centre.

WINTER TRIO CD Release Concert, Old Fire Hall, April 15, 2016. Doors 7pm, music 7:30pm. Tickets at Deans Strings. more info: wintertrio.com YUKON PRIDE: Saturday, June 25. Parade, Picnic and Dance for the LGBTQ + allies community. Tickets for Queer as Funk at KDCC on sale now. www.queeryukon.com

Friday, April 8, 2016

YUKON NEWS FERMENTED FOODS WORKSHOPS! Get hands-on instruction for making sauerkraut, curtido, kimchi, pickles and kefir, while learning how they can benefit your gut, health and pocketbook!

First one is on April 7.

More info at www.katherinebelisle.com/classes YUKON FISH & Game will be having their free Bird & Bat Box Building for children at the Canada Games Centre on Saturday April 23rd, 12noon-4pm. 667-4263 PORTER CREEK Community Association Annual General Meeting Monday, May 2nd, 7pm, Guild Hall, Porter Creek. All Welcome.

Spread the word & come show your support.

Info 633-4829 THE YUKON Child Care Associationʼs AGM is April 29 at the Westmark Whitehorse at 12:30pm. The AGM will take place during the child care conference “Embracing the Magic.”

HOSPICE WORKSHOP: Living with Loss Wed April 13 6:30-8:30pm at WPL for anyone living with grief or supporting others who are grieving. To register: 667-7429 APRIL 15, 2016 Yukon Council on Aging Annual General Meeting. Doors open at 9 for 9:30 meeting start. Lunch will be served. At the Golden Age Society, 4061 4th Ave.

YUKON WHOLISTIC Health Network Annual General Meeting, 7pm, Thursday, May 12 at the Whitehorse Public Library. Everyone welcome! Contact 667-6030 for more info.

PORTER CREEK Secondary School Council Regular Council Meeting is on April 13, 2016 at 6:30pm in the School Library. Everyone is welcome CREATIVE VOCAL Workshop with Yukon artist Scott Maynard. Part of Gwaandak Theatreʼs Ensemble Theatre Training Series.

All levels welcome. April 27, 6-9pm, YAC Studio.

Register at 393-2676, ensemble.gwaandaktheatre.ca AL-ANON MEETINGS, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someoneʼs drinking?

Wednesday 12Noon @ Anglican Church, 4th & Elliott, back door, Friday 7pm Lutheran Church, 4th & Strickland, beginnerʼs meeting, Friday 8pm Lutheran Church regular meeting HIDDEN VALLEY School Council Regular Council Meeting is on April 12, 2016, at 6pm in the School Library. Everyone is welcome.

FREE WEBINAR on Long Term Care with Dr. Pat Armstrong, York University researcher, Saturday April 16, 9:30 to 11:30 am at Yukon College, C1511. Information: Lillian 667-4563 or Patricia 668-8852

Services

COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE LOTS FOR SALE The Agriculture branch is offering two lots of 42.4 and 20.1 hectares as part of phase three of the Haines Junction planned agriculture subdivision.

These parcels will be sold using an evaluative process.

Applicants are required to submit a detailed Project Plan for the lot applied for.

Application packages outlining eligibility criteria and requirements are available from: Agriculture branch Suite 320, 300 Main Street, Whitehorse Or by emailing landcoordinator@gov.yk.ca Applications will be accepted until May 9, 2016 Project Plans accepted no later than July 11, 2016 For more information visit agriculture.gov.yk.ca or phone (867) 667-5838.

BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta.

Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc.

Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050 MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Cabinets, Windows, Framing, Board, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com 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

JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER/PAINTER 30 years experience Commercial-Residential •Renovations •Repairs •Kitchens •Bathrooms •Drywall Tiles •Decks •Fine Finishing and Painting No job too small Local references available Phone 393-4937 bradmre@gmail.com 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 THINKING OF BUILDING in the Mount Lorne area?

Contact Lorne Mountain Building at 334-2994 lornemountainbuilding@gmail.com or www.lornemountainbuilding.com JUDEʼS 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

LICENSED ELECTRICIAN •Quality Work •Affordable Rates •Residential & Commercial •Free Estimates James at 335-3873

Lost & Found LOST: Small rectangular brooch made of pewter with a little magenta felted heart.

Sentimental value.

If found, please call 660-4516.

FOUND: NEAR Grey Mountain antenna 1 handmade dark green knitted mitt, right hand. Phone/voicemail: 668-2714.

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: 1/2 trailer gate on Alaska Highway late Thursday afternoon, March 24.

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FIT BALL with instructions, one of the better ones, $65 new, asking $25. 668-5786 COMPLETE HOCKEY equipment with bag and skates for 8-10 yr old, $100. 689-6194 COMPLETE HOCKEY equipment with bag & skates for 5-7 yrs old, $100. 689-6194 147” GNU Park Pickle with bindings, $150.

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Now 2 locations: Porter Creek & Kulan.

Onsite & offsite steel containers available for rent or sale.

Phone 633-2594 Fax 633-3915

MULTI-CONSTRUCTION PEOPLE •15 years roofing experience •Spindle railing & decks •All around woodworking & tiling •Cedar sales!

Phone for free quote 867-335-1088

Sports Equipment

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

ELECTRICIAN •Licensed •Spring Renovation Sale •No GST April or May •Free Estimates •10% Seniorʼs Discount •Light Carpentry, Drywall, and Tiling also available 334-0974

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

Whitehorse Rapids Bridge Repair

Sealed bids, clearly marked “RFT #2016-021 Whitehorse Rapids Bridge Repair” will be received up to 4:00:00 p.m.

Yukon time, Friday, April 29, 2016 at Yukon Energy’s corporate offices, #2 Miles Canyon Road, Whitehorse, Yukon.

EXPERT CARPENTRY •All types of projects •Commercial & residential •New construction & renovations •Interior & exterior •Fine finishing 334-5231

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

REQUEST FOR TENDER RFT 2016-021

Yukon Energy Corporation is seeking bids from experienced, COR certified bridge contractors to complete repairs to the concrete spillway bridge at the Whitehorse Rapids Dam located at #2 Miles Canyon Road in Whitehorse. The work includes removal of existing anchor bolts and bearing pads, supply and installation of new bearing pads along with lateral restraint.

The contractor will be performing the work at height and above the Yukon River and therefore must meet or exceed all required safety/environmental codes and practices. Attendance of a site tour will be mandatory prior to the tender close.

LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632

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

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158” GNU Metal Gnuru, with GNU bindings, $200. 689-6194 2-PRYME BICYCLE helmets, includes sizing pads, 13 vents, $25/ea; 1-MEC rack pack, $15; 1- mini-pump, $15; 1- hand pump, $20, all in very good condition. 668-1850 2013 ROCKY Mountain Altitude, medium, all mountain geometry, full suspension bike for single track, climbs/descends flawlessly, well maintained, new tires, converted to 'one by' on the front. 335-2885 NORCOTECH BIKE, 26”, 18-speed, solid, reliable, older model, $200. 311B Hanson St.

Livestock QUALITY YUKON MEAT No hormones, steroids or additives Grass raised grain finished.

Hereford beef - $5.50/lb Domestic wild boar - $7/lb Order now for guaranteed spring or fall delivery.

Whole, half or custom order.

Samples available 668-7218 • 335-5192 HAY & STRAW FOR SALE Excellent quality hay Timothy/grass mix 60+lb $14.50 Alfalfa/grass mix 60+lb $15.50 Straw bales (baled in spring - not prime) $5 Nielsen Farms Maureen 333-0615

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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

Professional Service

FARRIER Since 1992 867-333-0744

Email: caribouwild@gmail.com HAY FOR SALE If you pay more than 10 cents a pound for your hay, you are paying too much.

1,000 pound bales, $100 each.

633-3388 10-40' 2” aluminum irrigation pipes with sprinklers, 2-20' 2” pipe with sprinklers, 2-boxes sprinklers and connectors, $1,350.

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WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB April 5, 2016 1st -Bill Curtis & Chic Callas 2nd - Jan Ogilvy & Darwin Wreggitt 3rd (tied) - Diane Emond & Don Emond Mark Davey & Chris Bookless 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

#16 CEDAR Crescent, Porter Creek, Saturday Aprill 9, 9am starting time, multi-family, kKitchen ware, clothes, books, camping gear, various household items, antiques

81 NORTHSTAR Drive, Copper Ridge, Saturday April 9, 9am-1pm, lots of new items added from last week, craft supplies, evening dresses, household items

GENTIAN LINE Road, first driveway on the right, Saturday April 9, 9am-2pm, sport/campinng quipment, furniture, household items, rain or shine

44 DIEPPE Dr, Takhini East across from school, Saturday April 9, 9am-12noon, arts & crafts table, assorted beads, household & sports items, clothes, books, knives, guitar, videos etc

LOT 1101, Mayo Rd, just past Takhini Hot Springs, Saturday & Sunday April 9 & 10, 9am-4pm, very large indoor sale, something for everyone. 334-9154 for more info

REQUEST FOR QUOTATION Delivery, Pickup & Storage of Containers and Supplies for Household Hazardous Waste

Baby & Child Items

RFQ 2016-ENV0001

Furniture 4 SOLID oak dining chairs, like new, $150 ea. obo. 668-7504 OAK DINING table & four oak & cloth chairs, has one leaf, good shape, $300. 333-0916 GLASS TABLE with 2 chairs, $50. 333-0916

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL Internet Service For City

Closing April 29, 2016 at 2:00 pm PT. For details visit: whitehorse.ca/procurement

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RFP 2016-BTS0004 Closing May 2, 2016 at 3:00 pm PT. For more information visit

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whitehorse.ca/procurement

Personals Alterations, Hemming, Zipper Repair and more.

Garments in for repair, have to be freshly washed.

Sportees 6098 6th Avenue 668-2691

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS TRANSPORTATION FUNCTIONAL PLAN DEVELOPMENT, TRANSPORTATION DIVISION, HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC WORKS, YUKON 2016-17 Project Description: The Department of Highways and Public Works is seeking to establish prequalified vendors for a planned future procurement. This RFQ is to secure a list of pre-qualified consultants capable of providing engineering services to deliver transportation related functional plans.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title and will be received at the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101-104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

The closing date for submissions is before 4:00 PM on April 27, 2016.

Technical questions may be directed to Ken Jeffrey at (867) 633-7960.

Interested parties may obtain information from www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

www.whitehorse.ca PUBLIC TENDER WASTE / RECYCLING BIN AND TRAILER REPAIR AND PAINTING AND WELDING SERVICES 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/

PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES FOR OFFENDERS Project Description: Government of Yukon is seeking a Contractor to provide psychological and risk assessments, programming recommendations and counselling for offenders at Whitehorse Correctional Centre and offenders on community supervision.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 28, 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 Leah White at leah.white@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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Online Form Management RFP 2016-BTS0005 Closing April 22, 2016 at 2:00 pm PT. For more information visit whitehorse.ca/procurement

www.whitehorse.ca PUBLIC TENDER

Community Services

LIQUOR ACT ✓New Licence ❑ Existing Licence ❑

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.

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.

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BARRIER FREE ACCESS LIFT, YUKON COLLEGE, WHITEHORSE, YUKON. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 28, 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 Ryan O’Donovan at Ryan.ODonovan@gov.yk.ca.

Site Visit scheduled for Thursday, April 14 at 2:00 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/

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An account at Raven Recycling has been set up for Little Footprints, Big Steps. People may donate their refundable recycling to help continue Morgan’s work in Haiti.

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Liquor Corporation

President, Yukon Liquor Corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4P9

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

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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:

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