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A proposal by the Department of Highways and Public Works to upgrade the highway is open for public comment with the Yukon Environment Socio-Economic Assessment Board until May 25.

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placer mining operation that didn’t use a settling pond and let sediment flow directly into a stream received a $20,000 fine May 9.

Cameron Johnson and No Name Resources Inc. pleaded guilty to Water Act charges in Yukon territorial court in Dawson City.

Johnson is the sole director of No Name Resources who is still mining. Johnson was fined $5,000 and his company $15,000.

On Sept. 24, 2015 natural resources officer Johnny Nunan was flying over 10 Mile Creek when he noticed a discolouration in a channel spilling into the creek, according to a statement of fact read in court.

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Willet said the department has promised to move the signs once work is finished.

“If you’re coming from Carcross, it kinds of screws us,” she said. “It could be a big part of our business, people coming from Skagway.”

Average daily traffic in 2015 at the Carcross cutoff was 2,782 vehicles per day heading south (towards Carcross) and 4,551 vehicles per day

heading north (coming from Carcross) said Britanee Stewart, a spokesperson with the highways department.

While the exact number of collisions at the Carcross cutoff was not available, Stewart said the intersection has a “similar safety concern” as another high-collision area at the top of Robert Service Way. “It’s kind of a crazy intersection, I agree with that,” Willett said. “I think a set of lights would have been sufficient.”

“There’s positives and negatives, but we know it’s inevitable.”

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The department is also planning left-hand turning lanes and the extension of merging lanes.

“The work is primarily to improve safety at the Carcross cutoff and that whole vicinity,” said Alicia Debreceni, a spokesperson with the highways department.

Lee Willett, who owns the Cutoff Restaurant, agrees there are safety concerns with that stretch of road, but said the road work might potentially cost her business, because it removes direct highway access to the restaurant.

Willet said she also

in Donovan Creek, a tributary of 10 Mile Creek, with his family.

“Upon landing, Nunan observed Johnson wasn’t making use of the settling pond for sluice water but instead sluicing directly into Donovan Creek,” prosecutor Megan Seiling told the court.

Nunan thought the level of settled solids in the water exceeded the terms of Johnson’s water licence and he took samples upstream and downstream from the operation.

While the terms of the licence allowed for a maximum of two millilitres of settled solids per litre of water, samples right below the sluice came in at 60 to 70 ml, and samples 100 m downstream from the operation came in at 6.6 mL. Samples taken upstream showed levels of settled solid of less than 0.1 ml per litre of water.

“Johnson claims that earlier in the day a dam

he had constructed upstream from sluice breached and flooded his settlement pond,” Seiling said. “He shut down his operation until he had a system in place to manage the effluent. He admits he was struggling to get the system for settling in place but starting mining again.”

A second breach resulted in even more water with a high level of settled solids flowing into Donovan Creek.

The sediments are considered waste under the Water Act. Seiling said Johnson was cooperative during the investigation and gave a statement at first request in which he admitted the offences.

Because he was self-represented, Johnson pleaded not guilty at first to have time to understand the process, she said. While he is remorseful, Seiling also noted that the effluent levels from

the samples were high and justified the fine the Crown sought.

“It’s important that fines imposed for these types of breaches don’t simply become the cost of doing business and for that reason the fine isn’t simply to be slap on wrist,” she said.

The fine was a joint submission proposed

by Johnson and Seiling.

Johnson told judge Karen Ruddy that the income from operation supported his entire family.

On average his placer mining operation brings in $60,000 after bills are paid, he said.

Ruddy gave him 15 months to pay the fine and decided to waive the 15 per cent surcharge usually imposed on fines.

“Fines are what’s sending the most important message,” Ruddy said. “I don’t want it to be crippling.”

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‘Sky’s not falling’ for Yukon with carbon pricing, premier says Chris Windeyer News Editor

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ederal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna issued a discussion paper May 18 that offers the first detailed look at Ottawa’s plan to implement carbon pricing across the country by 2018.

But the precise impact on Yukon consumers and businesses remains unclear.

Ottawa’s so-called carbon pricing “backstop” will impose a carbon tax of $10 per tonne of CO2 emissions starting in 2018.

The tax will increase by $10 per year until it hits $50 per tonne in 2022.

It’s called a backstop because it will only apply in provinces or territories that don’t have carbon pricing, or where local regimes don’t meet Ottawa’s standards. British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec already have some form of carbon pricing.

The federal program is modelled on Alberta’s system.

“Making polluters pay is an important part of any climate plan,” McKenna told reporters in Ottawa May 18.

The carbon tax will be collected partly through levies on fuel. The federal levy on gasoline starts at 2.33 cents per litre in 2018

and increases to 11.63 cents per litre in 2022.

Dirtier fuels like heavy fuel oil will be taxed at a higher rate. Levies will also apply to other fuels like diesel, aviation gas and jet fuel.

Some fuel importers, distributors and users will have to register with the Canada Revenue Agency for the purpose of collecting or paying carbon levies. That will include airlines and trucking companies.

The plan also includes a cap-and-trade system for large-scale industrial emitters who produce more than 50,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. Lower emitters may also opt in. Polluters that emit less CO2 than their limit can earn credits they can save for later or trade to other industrial users.

Large public-sector buildings, such as schools and hospitals, are exempt from cap-and-trade.

The federal Liberals have said that jurisdictions where the backstop is in place will get all carbon tax revenue back, but the government has yet to say exactly how that will happen. On Thursday, McKenna said she is looking at rebates to individuals and businesses which would bypass provincial and territorial governments completely.

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Federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna speaks in Ottawa May 9. A discussion paper outlining a federal carbon pricing strategy was released May 18. back to Ottawa,” she said.

Peter Turner, president of the Yukon Chamber of Commerce, said he’s not particularly concerned with the initial fuel price levies. “That’s within the normal range of what we’ve seen with gas price swings,” he said, adding the 2022 fuel levies of 11 or more cents per litre could take a toll on businesses.

That’s why Turner said he wants to see a portion of carbon tax rebates directed to business to help them reduce their fossil fuel consumption. He also wants to see special help

for miners, who sell commodities with prices fixed by global markets, and who can’t pass on higher costs to customers.

Premier Sandy Silver said his government was still talking with Ottawa about how carbon tax revenues would be returned to the Yukon. Silver said it was vital that any rebate program not “penalize people who can’t reduce” their carbon footprint, but could not give specifics about how that might work.

He said Yukoners will know how carbon tax

revenues will be returned when the federal Liberals introduce enabling legislation in the fall. He has previously pledged that any carbon tax will be “truly revenue neutral for Yukon business and Yukon families.”

Silver also said he suspected the impact of the cap-and-trade component for large industrial emitters would likely have little impact on the Yukon’s economy because the territory currently has no industrial operations that produce 50,000 tonnes of carbon per year,

though that could change with several large mining projects working their way through the regulatory system.

The premier did accuse the Yukon Party of overstating the impact of carbon pricing on the economy.

“The sky’s not falling on this one,” he said.

But Scott Kent, the Yukon Party’s economic development critic, said the prospect of gas tax hikes of approximately 12 cents per litre by 2022 “is pretty concerning.” The discussion paper said by 2022 a 50-litre tank of gas would cost about $5.82 more.

Kent said he is also concerned about the impact carbon pricing will have on the aviation and mining industries. He said waiting until the fall to see details of how rebates would work is “disappointing.”

“Yukoners are pretty anxious to see details,” he said.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, meanwhile, has said his province plans to take Ottawa to court over its imposition of carbon pricing. He called Thursday’s discussion paper “frankly more like a ransom note.”

With a report from CP Contact Chris Windeyer at editor@yukon-news.com.

Beets’ defence for setting pond on fire holds no water, judge rules Pierre Chauvin News Reporter

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he star of a Discovery Channel mining show who let one of his employees set a pond on fire in the Klondike has been convicted of charges under the Water Act. Judge Peter Chisholm convicted Anthony Beets alongside Tamarack Inc., of which Beets is a director, on May 17 for depositing waste into the water and failing to report a fuel spill back in October 2014.

Chisholm rejected the defence’s argument that gasoline wasn’t waste under the legislation.

“In addition to employing common sense, there is ample expert evidence for me to hold that gasoline meets the definition of ‘waste’ under the legislation,” Chisholm wrote in

the judgment.

He also rejected the arguments that the amount of fuel was so small it didn’t deserve prosecution and that most of the fuel had combusted, resulting in little to no harm to the environment.

“The fact that the gasoline was combusted soon after it was introduced in the water does not assist the defendants, as the act of combustion itself may lead to other dangerous by-products entering the water system,” Chisholm wrote.

“This is one of the reasons why the burning of such a spill is not recommended.”

In 2014 a Discovery Channel crew was following Beets and his team working at the dredge at Eureka Creek near the Indian River.

On Oct. 4, one of Beet’s

subcontractors, welder Mark Favron, decided to pour fuel on the dredge pond and light it on fire.

“I don’t give a fuck,” Beets told Favron when he asked whether he could do it, according to Favron’s testimony in court.

Favron estimates he poured about four to seven litres of gasoline on the pond before setting it on fire. He ended up paying a $1,725 fine for that.

The entire scene was captured and broadcast during an episode of the show Gold Rush.

A clip from the episode was shown to the court.

As Favron is seen pouring fuel, a man narrates in a dramatic reality TV voice that the crew is about to give the dredge a “Viking baptism.”

The gasoline instantly catches fires and the camera zooms in on a cheering

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Anton Beets stands in front a fire created by pouring gasoline in a dredge pond in this video still from the Gold Rush television show. Beets has been convicted of charges under the Yukon’s Waters Act. Beets screaming to the film crew: “I told you guys, ‘come hell or high water!’”

The defence of due diligence couldn’t be used in this case because there was no evidence Beets took any step to avoid such an incident, Chisholm ruled.

“In fact, it appears from

the evidence of Mr. Favron that the defendants had not established a training program for employees or contractors with respect to the handling of waste on site or the proper response to waste spill.”

“As well, Mr. Beets’ acceptance of Mr. Favron’s

actions with the gasoline demonstrate that dumping waste into the water was in this situation, at least, not a priority for him or Tamarack Inc.” Chisholm convicted Tamarack Inc. because Beets was a “directing mind” of the company at the time of the offence.

“Mr. Beets was the face of Tamarack Inc. at this mining operation. Not only was he the site boss, he represented the company in his role as director,” Chisholm wrote. “(Beets) decision to refrain from preventing Mr. Favron’s pouring of gasoline in the pond was equally the decision of Tamarack Inc.” A date for Beets’ sentencing hearing will be set May 26.

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he Yukon government is asking the RCMP to focus on preventing and solving cases of violence against women in a list of priorities it released May 16.

Every year the minister of justice gives Yukon RCMP a list of priorities based on consultation with the Yukon Police Council and the Department of Justice.

While the priorities encompass everything from drug trafficking to traffic safety, violence against women is at the top of the list.

“It’s a problem across Canada. We know it’s a problem here in the territory and we know it’s not something that can be delayed,” Justice minister Tracy-Anne McPhee told the News.

The government wants the RCMP to continue to train their members to ensure a “compassionate and appropriate response to sexualized assault and domestic violence.”

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She did wonder whether the justice priority to “target all levels of the drug trade” was still relevant at the time the federal government is moving to legalize marijuana.

McPhee clarified that priorities were aimed specifically at targeting drug dealers selling fentanyl and fentanyl-derivatives.

Hanson also agreed with the priority given to the RCMP to properly introduce officers to the communities they police.

“We’ve been very keen on the focus on the relationship with the community,” she said. “Making sure that when people are recruited to work in communities they have a good understanding of dynamics and culture of that community.”

The priorities also include an emphasis on prevention and harm reduction.

Police officers could, for example, use their discretion to not charge somebody on probation who is found intoxicated and bring them home instead of detaining them.

“We want to make sure (police officers) are using their discretion to make sure they’re forming good relationships and assisting rather than simply moving to charges,” McPhee said.

“Police officers do this all the time but we want to make sure it’s a priority.”

One thing Hanson thought was missing was increased resources for the community of Burwash Landing.

“They’ve repeatedly requested having on-theground policing there,” she said.

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McPhee insisted education was key. She didn’t commit to increasing speeding fines but said the government would look at having “appropriate penalties.”

The NDP introduced a motion in the legislative assembly May 18 calling on the government to compare Yukon’s distracted driving rules with other jurisdictions.

As the list of priorities focuses on police work, McPhee acknowledged it was only “one piece of the puzzle” in the fight against crime.

“We’ve taken a one-government approach,” she said. “We don’t think these things can be dealt within silos.”

The departments responsible for health, social services, justice, housing and the women’s directorate are all working together she said, for example on the issue of addictions.

Hanson cautioned the government against the

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“Over the last number of years, there’s been dozen of NGOs spending an awful lot of time looking at the root causes (of crime),” Hanson said.

McPhee told the legislative assembly she hadn’t looked at a 2012 report on poverty and crime, Hanson said.

“It’s very frustrating for NGOs and people living a hard life on the streets or having lived the experience of poverty to have to keep explaining over and over again there are lots of reasons, lots of background to why.

Not everybody is born a pathological criminal,” Hanson said.

Health and Social Services Minister Pauline Frost committed to review that report, McPhee said.

“I know everyone thinks we’ve been here for a long time but we’re really just getting started.”

Yukon party Justice critic Brad Cathers told the News he was satisfied with the priorities because they were very similar to the ones he gave the RCMP when he was justice minister.

“There are some adjustments, but largely speaking (those are) similar priorities.”

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What the heck is a local improvement charge?

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he May 9 rejection of the proposed Hillcrest improvement project may have stunned city hall, but it has left many citizens asking a bigger question: what exactly is a local improvement charge (LIC)?

Mayor Dan Curtis said at the May 16 council meeting he felt there was a lot of misinformation circulating about LICs among Hillcrest residents.

LICs are levied by the city on homeowners to help pay for improvements and repairs in neighbourhoods.

The city’s website describes LICs as “cost-sharing arrangements between the city and abutting property owners.” They help pay for improvements to streets, sewers, water mains and other infrastructure.

Since 1988, there have been 22 proposed LIC projects in Whitehorse. Of these, 36 per cent — eight projects, including Hillcrest — were defeated by voters.

Prior to Hillcrest, the last rejected one was on Industrial Road in 2008.

Mike Gau, director of development services, said the Municipal Act, which is a territorial legislation, governs the way the city handles LICs. “That’s not our legislation and we are subject to

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the Municipal Act and have no choice but to follow,” said Gau. “What the Municipal Act does is create space for municipalities to create an LIC,” said Sarah Murray, a spokesperson for the Department of Community Services. “It’s kind of open-ended.”

Gau said LICs are usually enacted when a neighbourhood requests infrastructure work. The proposal is put before council, which votes on whether to allocate funds for consultation. If the project is approved, city staff begin designing the project and calculating its cost. The project is then voted on by homeowners.

Project costs are calculated by the amount of frontage on each property.

Homeowners, said Gau, pay one-third of the cost and business owners pay twothirds. In both cases the city pays for the rest.

In the case of the Hillcrest LIC, the cost per metre for the project was $1,900.

This means homeowners would have paid $633 per metre.

That means a person with an expensive new home with a small yard could pay as much or less than a person with an older, less valuable home with a big yard, said Shaunagh Stikeman, president of the Hillcrest Community Asso-

ciation.

LICs are used in other municipalities, such as Vancouver and Ottawa, said Stikeman.

The average Hillcrest homeowner was expected to pay roughly $15,000 for the proposed project. Gau said that is not an unusual amount for an LIC. In an approved LIC, residents have three choices for payment, Gau said: to pay up front, take a bank loan, or take a loan from the city.

If they take a bank loan, they are subject to the typical conditions of a loan, and maintain the debt even if they sell their house. If they take out a loan with the city, the debt is paid through their taxes over a period of 20 years at an estimated interest rate of 6.25 per cent.

“The biggest factor (in the rejection) overall was the cost to property owners and their ability to pay,” Gau said.

Gau said LICs are the price of owning an older home in an older neighborhood.

“There are nice places in Hillcrest, don’t get me wrong, but they are older….

People who buy (older houses in older neighbourhoods) are looking for lower-cost housing, but they should be aware they need (infrastructure) repairs,” he said.“That’s part of ‘buyer beware’. Buy a really old

four bears were killed in the territory. Environment Yukon says one was shot by an RCMP officer and three by conservation officers in Beaver Creek, Mt. Sima and Carmacks.

Killing the bears was a last-resort measure.

“Unfortunately, (the bears) had become food-conditioned and posed an immediate risk to public safety,” the department said.

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Residents in Hillcrest rejected a local improvement charge in a May 9 vote. Whitehorse Mayor Dan Curtis said afterwards there was a lot of misinformation surrounding the LIC. home in a really old neighbourhood and (LICs) are part of the cost.”

“There are compromises when you buy an older house … that’s why the price is lower.”

Homeowners who purchased new houses in the city’s newer neighbourhoods paid 100 per cent of the infrastructure costs when they purchased their home, Gau said.

Many residents also objected to the voting system.

Residents and members of council described counting uncast ballots as yes votes for the project. This is not, Gau said, quite true: instead, the majority of homeowners — 50 percent plus one — must vote against the project in order to defeat it.

In the case of Hillcrest, 41 ballots weren’t returned, 33 votes were in favour and

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94 votes — 56 per cent — rejected the project.

This is different from the way voting systems normally work, said Gau. LICs are the only situation where this system is used.

“The principle of an LIC is that the benefiting party pays,” Gau said. “It’s unfair to expect taxpayers to pay for the improvements.”

The $14 million the city had set aside for its portion of the project was to come from the federal government.

So what does that mean for neighbourhoods like Hillcrest, where the infrastructure need repairs, but the homeowners can’t afford to pay the LIC charges the city levies?

“Whatever changes we make must be affordable and in the confines of the Municipal Act,” Gau said.

“We need infrastructure improvements to be a priority in all neighbourhoods — high or low income.

Residents are willing to pay their fair share but it has to be affordable,” Stikeman said.

“If the city stays on this path, we will end up with have and have-not neighborhoods. Nobody wants to live in a city like that.”

“I think we need a little more compassion,” said Stikeman.

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would like to take exception to comments made in the May 5 article regarding the government’s concerns over wild sheep contracting pneumonia from domestic sheep and goats. The comments made by the farmer interviewed for the article are a perfect example of how a lack of awareness by good, well intentioned people can appear as indifference.

• It is common knowledge that sheep populations previously unexposed to disease die off catastrophically when infected. No more studies are needed to establish this fact.

It has happened again and again outside of the Yukon, and will happen here, unless very concrete action is taken.

• Yukon’s wild sheep population is much more contiguous than those in the south.

Therefore one wild sheep touching noses across a single fence at the Wheaton River can and will spread disease to every other wild sheep in the territory, and eventually the N.W.T. and Alaska.

• Wild sheep do indeed come down into the valleys. I have personally seen sheep down to the treeline above Wheaton River Gardens every year. I have also seen rams crossing the Takhini River near the Takhini River campground, and next to the Klondike Highway at the sod farm. Young rams often travel in this manner. If they did not, their populations would become genetically isolated to their respective mountains and they would eventually become inbred and unviable, a problem any farmer can understand.

Whole groups of sheep also cross valleys to change ranges seasonally, from spring to summer ranges for example.

These three facts, coupled with the increasing presence of domestic sheep and goats in the Yukon, mean that contact and epidemics are not a probability, but a certainty.

Why should we care? The most disturbing statement in the article came toward the end: “What are we protecting all these thinhorn sheep for?” Alexandrovich said. “So we can shoot them in 10 years?”

No. I would expect that that is not the reason most people in the Yukon would want to protect “all these thinhorn sheep.” I would suppose that most Yukoners see wild sheep not as a resource, but as a vital part of the world we live in. When we drive past Tachal Dhal (Sheep Mountain) in Kluane National Park, we expect to see the sheep that have lived there since the last ice age, not a barren, windswept hillside. While I cannot speak for First Nations, I would expect them to agree that, having coexisted with and hunted wild sheep since time immemorial, they would also prefer to see them continue to thrive.

If one prefers to see the natural world and the animals in it as merely an economic resource, we could do some simple math to calculate the monetary value of wild sheep.

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Reception/ Classified Ads erated by the sale of hunting seals: “Between 2006 and 2015, the sale of sheep hunting seals generated between $10,000 and $13,000 annually in the Yukon. This doesn’t include licenses, permitting costs or revenue from guiding activities.”

Seal fees alone, however, do not give a realistic picture of the economic value of wild sheep. The government’s own numbers say Yukon outfitters contribute $8.1 million in yearly revenues to the Yukon economy. There are 22 big game outfitters in the Yukon. All of them offer wild sheep hunts. Prices range from US$20,000 to $42,000. If we use the published total of 130 non-resident harvested wild sheep in the Yukon in the 2015-16 season (counting successful hunts only), multiplied by an average of $30,000, that comes to $3.9 millon per year. That’s just the amount of outfitter fees spent in Yukon on “all these thinhorn sheep.” This does not include air charters, restaurants, hotels, Air North flights, taxidermy fees or government trophy fees.

Purely on an economic basis there is clearly a case for protecting Yukon’s sheep population.

I am confident that all Yukoners, from farmers to hunters to city dwellers, can see the value of our wild sheep and the importance of keeping them healthy. Therefore, it is imperative that we take quick and decisive action to ensure that disease does not gain a foothold in the Yukon. Once it does, there will

be literally nothing that can be done.

Double fencing would be in my opinion a minimum stopgap measure. Fencing fails, gates can be left open. I understand testing and vaccination is potentially unreliable, as well as expensive. There is only one option: banning domestic sheep and goats from the Yukon. Comparing the financial, ecological, and societal cost of the eventual outbreak of disease against the limited economic benefit of small scale goat and sheep farming makes this an easy decision.

According to the Canadian Environmental Law Association, “the precautionary principle denotes a duty to prevent harm, when it is within our power to do so, even when all the evidence is not in. This principle has been codified in several international treaties to which Canada is a signatory.”

We have at this point a golden opportunity to prevent a calamity before it happens. The currently low numbers of domestic animals in the territory make it possible for us to ensure they do not pose a threat to our wild sheep population, which is, for now at least, large and healthy.

It is imperative that quick action be taken on this issue before it is too late.

Leif Austad has hunted sheep since he was 15 and has worked as a hunting guide in the Yukon and N.W.T. He lives in Whitehorse.

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Good news for Yukon gold miners based on strong fundamentals

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ou may not be interested in the commodity markets but, to paraphrase Leon Trotsky, the commodity markets are interested in you.

While Yukoners debate the future of the mining industry and how our four levels of government should deal with the sector, global markets for several important resources have aligned to put the Yukon back on corporate Powerpoint presentations in mining boardrooms around the world.

We have recently seen a number of big-money announcements. Goldcorp invested in Kaminak in 2016. Victoria Gold recently announced a major deal

with international banks and other investors. Last month saw Barrick announcing a deal with ATAC Resources. Newmont and Agnico Eagle are other well known industry names with recent Yukon investments in the news.

Importantly, many of these deals involve blue chip international investors and mining companies. Junior mining companies are a key part of our exploration and mining eco-system, and have remained active in the Yukon in bad times as well as good. But it is also positive for the industry in the long run to have the big firms involved with their global engineering and production capabilities and the coffers needed for big investments.

The first commodity market to look at is gold itself, which has recently been trading a bit north of US$1,200 per ounce.

This is down from its peak of over US$1,900 in 2011, but well above the US$300 levels where it languished

in 2000.

According to the World Gold Council, gold demand slipped 18 per cent in the first quarter of this year from “last year’s exceptional high.” Jewellery demand weakened and retail investors bought less gold through recently popular exchange traded funds, although volumes held up better in Europe where investors were worried about Brexit and European political uncertainty.

Meanwhile, demand was boosted by Chinese investors, who bought more bar and coin — more than 100 tonnes. Central banks also continued to buy the metal, although at a slower rate.

The BMO Capital Markets April gold forecast had the metal averaging in the US$1,220-1,250 range through 2018, a modest increase from their predictions in the previous month.

At first, having gold pull back from over US$1,900 to around US$1,200 does not seem like good news for

Yukon miners. That’s where the second global market comes in: foreign currencies. The Canadian dollar has fallen from near parity with the U.S. dollar in 2011, to around 73 cents more recently.

This means that, to Canadian miners, the price of gold has gone from an average of around C$1,550 in 2011 to over C$1,650 in recent weeks. Essentially, a falling loonie has more than cushioned the decline in gold since 2011, much to the benefit of Canadian miners.

The next two commodity markets that have smiled on Yukon miners are the ones for oil and gas. The price of oil has collapsed by around half since 2014, meaning that running heavy diesel equipment at a Yukon mine or shipping supplies from Outside has become significantly cheaper.

Furthermore, natural gas prices in Alberta, as measured at the Empress hub, have gone from C$3.24 per million Brit-

ish thermal units in 2011 down to C$2.60 recently.

This is in part because of the glut of Canadian natural gas, due to the rise of fracking volumes and limits on pipeline capacity to export it to Asia and the United States. Generating electricity at a Yukon mine with liquefied natural gas is cheaper as a result (unless the mine is able to tap into the Yukon grid for even cheaper power).

As a result, Yukon mining business cases benefit from a revenue line supported by a slumping Canadian dollar, and lower costs because of cheaper diesel and natural gas.

All of this creates some attractive opportunities for the Yukon, in particular for our publicly-owned electricity company to grow its revenue (for projects near the grid) and for First Nation development corporations to get involved as investors and business partners.

Don’t be surprised to read about more gold deals in the coming months.

Of course, if commodity markets go up they can also go down. No one really knows where gold, the loonie, oil or gas prices will be in two or three years.

A lot will depend on how quickly these projects can move through the Yukon regulatory process.

We need to have rigorous environmental and socio-economic screening, but we also need to do it in a timely fashion that doesn’t take so long that final investment decisions end up happening so late that commodity markets have turned against us.

Time — and Yukon regulators — will tell whether all, some, or none of the hopeful projects above turn into mines that employ Yukoners, generate business on Main Street and pay royalties to our governments.

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 is a Ma Murray award-winner for best columnist.

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WASHINGTON resident Donald Trump’s maiden international trip, a five-stop marathon across the Middle East and Europe, has long loomed as a crucial first test abroad for the chaos-courting president.

The president will embark on his big trip carrying the baggage of dire troubles at home. As he tries to calm allies worried about his “America First” message, he’ll be followed by fallout from his firing of FBI Director James Comey and the appointment of a special counsel to probe the president’s campaign ties with Russia.

“There has never been a president taking his first international trip being dogged by scandal like this,” said Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “He’s already a president viewed skeptically by much of the world. And while the pictures from the trip may be great, the White House can’t change the headlines that will follow him wherever he goes.”

Trump’s trip was always going to be dramatic. U.S. allies have been rattled by his warnings about pulling back from the world.

He is tasked with urging a united front against terror by appealing to some of the same corners of the Muslim world he has tried to keep out of the United States with his travel ban.

Last week, he added new layers of complication by disclosing classified intelligence to a longtime adversary.

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President Donald Trump walks down the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base May 17. wrapped in the pomp and circumstance of diplomatic protocol, could offer a chance at a reset after a tumultuous first four months in office. Trump’s advisers saw it as an opportunity for the United States to boldly reassert itself on the world stage and resume a leadership role that the administration believes was abdicated by President Barack Obama. Trump’s powerful senior adviser, his son-inlaw Jared Kushner, led a West Wing team to craft the agenda, laden with religious symbolism.

Still, Trump hasn’t been eager to seize the opportunity. It’s been more than a half-century since any president waited as long to take his first foreign trip. The itinerary, which begins Saturday in Saudi Arabia, is a startlingly ambitious excursion for a president who dislikes travel and has displayed a shaky grasp of foreign affairs.

In Saudi Arabia, the president — whose

campaign was marked by heated anti-Muslim rhetoric and whose administration has tried to enact a travel ban from several Muslim-majority countries — will deliver a speech to the Islamic world meant to be a clear contrast with the vision Obama laid out in his first trip to the region.

In Israel, Trump will meet with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, looking to smooth over fresh tensions. Israel was in an uproar earlier this week after U.S. officials confirmed Trump shared highly classified intelligence about the Islamic State group with senior Russian officials visiting the White House. The information, about an IS threat related to the use of laptops on aircraft, came from Israel and there were concerns a valuable Israeli asset could be in danger, a U.S. official said, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive material.

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dent will call upon Pope Francis, the popular, liberal-minded pontiff. Trump denounced Francis during the campaign, calling him “disgraceful” for questioning his faith.

In Brussels, Trump will attend a meeting of NATO, the World War II-era alliance which Trump has repeatedly mused about abandoning because member states weren’t paying their fair share.

He recently has shifted to reassure wary allies that he remains committed to the pact.

And in Sicily, the president will meet with the other leaders of the G7, a gathering of Western economic powers. Key parts of the group are unsettled

by Trump’s unpredictability and his willingness to cheer on nationalist sentiment.

Trump’s itinerary is heavy with religious symbolism. He’ll visit the birthplace of Islam, the Jewish homeland and the Vatican. Officials say the message is “unity.”

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Weaver says Greens will fight pipeline, calls Clark’s Liberals ‘reckless’ Dirk Meissner Canadian Press

VICTORIA ritish Columbia’s three Green members will use their increased political clout to fight Kinder Morgan’s $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, party leader Andrew Weaver says.

Weaver reaffirmed the Greens’ election campaign promises Wednesday to oppose the pipeline and the B.C. government’s $8.8-billion Site C hydroelectric dam as the party enters high-stakes political negotiations with the New Democrats and Liberals over Green support.

The final results of last week’s B.C. election remain inconclusive after Christy Clark’s Liberals and John Horgan’s New Democrats failed to win a majority in the 87-seat legislature. The current standings have 43 Liberals, 41 New Democrats and three Greens.

Elections BC, the agency that administers provincial elections, reports that almost 180,000 absentee ballots remain to be counted. The final tally, including recounts in two ridings, Vancouver-False Creek and Courtenay-Comox, is expected to be announced next week.

Weaver said his members believe it’s their responsibility to stop the federally-approved Kinder Morgan project.

“We believe we need to support the First Nations in B.C. who are in court now,” he said.

Weaver said the Greens will seek intervener status to support a pending legal challenge by First Nations and municipalities opposed to the project.

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B.C. Green party leader Andrew Weaver is joined by elected party members Adam Olsen and Sonia Furstenau to speak to media on the Legislature grounds in Victoria, B.C. May 17.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said Tuesday her province had been given intervener status in the same legal action. One province or region can’t hold hostage the economy of another province, she said.

The Federal Court of Appeal application, launched by several First Nations, environmental groups and the cities of Burnaby and Vancouver, seeks to have the approval of the pipeline expansion project by the National Energy Board thrown out.

The Kinder Morgan project would double the pipeline and triple the available capacity between Alberta and B.C., allowing for up to 890,000 barrels of crude to be shipped every day.

Weaver said the Greens strongly reject the B.C. Liberal government’s support for the project.

“The fact we’re being

told to ship diluted bitumen in our coastal waters is just reckless,” he said.

“The government is reckless for agreeing to it.”

Clark said Tuesday that B.C. negotiated $1.5 billion worth of environmental protections and services with the federal government in exchange for provincial support for the pipeline project. The Liberals also negotiated a 20-year revenue-sharing agreement worth about $1 billion with Kinder Morgan.

Weaver said the National Energy Board approval process for the pipeline was flawed and Clark’s demand that five conditions be met before her government approved the expansion was ”pure political spin.”

Clark said she is willing to collaborate with the Greens and the New Democrats to ensure a working government.

The NDP leader has said his party won’t work with the Liberals, but he believes the New Democrats and Greens share many common positions, including halting the Kinder Morgan pipeline.

Weaver said he is prepared to enter face-to-face negotiations with both parties.

He suggested the Greens and NDP appear more aligned on issues surrounding the environment and electoral and campaign-finance reforms.

Weaver, who said he negotiated faculty contracts at the University of Victoria, said he will head up the four-person Green negotiating team. Norman Spector, a chief aide to both former prime minister Brian Mulroney and former B.C. premier Bill Bennett, was recruited to provide political advice to the Green negotiators.

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REDMOND, WASH. rime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Washington state Wednesday to promote Canada’s growing technology industry to major multinational companies, joining top business leaders inside the closed-door Microsoft CEO Summit.

Trudeau’s visit comes as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration poses both challenges and opportunities for Canada’s high-tech industry. Trump’s “America First” rhetoric and his plans to slash corporate taxes could mean more investment flows south of the border, but his restrictive approach to immigration could draw talent north, experts said.

Trudeau is the first sitting head of government or state to be invited to address the summit, his office said.

“The prime minister’s participation in the summit is an important opportunity to encourage innovation, promote investment in the technology sector, and draw global talent to Canada,” said press secretary Andree-Lyne Halle in a statement.

“The PM will showcase Canada’s skilled, hard-working, creative, and diverse workforce.”

The summit, under the theme “The CEO Agenda: Navigating Change,” brought more than 140 executives to Microsoft’s sprawling headquarters in Redmond, just outside Seattle. The annual gathering is closed to the public and the conference centre was surrounded by security guards, black vehicles and armed police officers.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses a gathering during the opening of Microsoft’s new location in Vancouver on June 17, 2016. he’s modern, he’s a feminist.

I guess he ticks all the right boxes for me.”

Dave Ebb, a Winnipeg-born Microsoft employee, said while he was passing by the building that he was excited the prime minister was visiting. He said it would be great for Canada to have more investment in its technology sector.

“I love being Canadian, but the stuff we’re working on here is so cool,” he said.

Microsoft declined to make a representative available for an interview.

Trudeau has no media availability other than a photo opportunity prior to a meeting with Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday.

Werner Antweiler, an associate professor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business, said the prime minister’s main goal at the summit should be to “put Canada on the map.”

Trudeau needs to promote Canada’s standard of living and ease of immigration, qualities that make the country an attractive place for global talent as well as investment, Antweiler said.

After Trump signed an executive order barring citizens

from seven majority-Muslim countries in January, dozens of Canada’s technology CEOs signed a letter asking the federal government to offer immediate entry visas to those affected. The American order was struck down by the courts and a second, similar order is now being challenged.

“Trump says ‘America First’ but then he’s putting America last when it comes to attracting talent from abroad,” said Antweiler.

“A lot of people from Europe, from Asia, from the Middle East, are going to look at the United States and say, ‘Well, wait a minute, am I feeling comfortable moving there when there is a government that is quite hostile to certain types of immigration?’ “ Paul Preston, director of science, technology and innovation policy at the Conference Board of Canada, said in order to attract more global investment, Canada must give incentives to its businesses to spend more on research and development.

“Compared to other developed nations, we spend a lot less,” he said. “The more we can continue to attract investment from other

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Namir Anani, CEO of the Information and Communications Technology Council, said attracting international companies to Canada not only creates jobs but creates the ecosystem for future entrepreneurs to connect with local markets.

For example, General Motors added 1,000 jobs in Oshawa to create autonomous cars, allowing an entrepreneur developing an innovative battery system the opportunity to pitch to GM and access international markets, he said.

Benjamin Bergen, executive director of the Council of Canadian Innovators, said his industry group’s focus was making sure that domestic companies can scale up and grow in Canada.

“If foreign investment dollars are flowing, let’s make sure that our domestic firms are still able to hire talent here in Canada as well and be able to compete with multinationals.”

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Editor of CBC’s ‘The National’ reassigned after cultural appropriation flap Victoria Ahearn Canadian Press

TORONTO he managing editor of CBC’s The National was reassigned Wednesday for what the public broadcaster called “an inappropriate, insensitive and frankly unacceptable tweet” he made as part of a controversial debate over cultural appropriation.

In a memo distributed to staff, CBC News editor-in-chief Jennifer McGuire said Steve Ladurantaye will now work on its digital “storytelling strategies” and reach out to indigenous communities “as part of his learning process.”

“As you know, Steve Ladurantaye apologized for his action,” said McGuire in the memo.

“He has made it his goal to better understand the appropriation issue from the perspective of Canada’s Indigenous people.

“We will support Steve in these efforts and I am confident that the work and conversations we are engaged in will, in the long run, make Steve and all of us better journalists and better leaders.”

Last week, Ladurantaye was among the journalists who engaged in a latenight Twitter conversation that was sparked by a contentious magazine

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article advocating for more cultural appropriation in Canadian literature.

In the Writers’ Union of Canada’s magazine Write, novelist and then-editor Hal Niedzviecki suggested “anyone, anywhere, should be encouraged to imagine other peoples, other cultures, other identities.”

The opinion piece also suggested there should be an appropriation prize in literature.

After the article was published, apologies came from the union as well as Niedzviecki, who resigned.

Meanwhile, former National Post editor Ken Whyte responded by tweeting he would “donate $500 to the founding of the appropriation prize if someone else wants to organize.”

Ladurantaye replied that he would contribute $100. He later deleted the tweet and apologized, saying “what I did was hurtful, and my apology is without condition.”

“In short, I wasn’t thinking. I didn’t stop to think,” he said in a string of tweets.

“That’s a problem. I need to address it. I didn’t stop to think about what it is like to not have my position or my power or my voice.”

McGuire said she spent the last few days “meeting with individuals and groups who have experienced personal hurt and

community impact” from Ladurantaye’s tweet.

“This incident raised questions about CBC’s commitment to being a more inclusive and representative workplace in staffing, in leadership, and in content,” she said.

Ladurantaye’s duties will be assumed by executive director of news content Jonathan Whitten, senior director of content experience Michael Gruzuk, and executive producer of “The National” Caroline Harvey, said a CBC spokesman.

McGuire’s memo also noted that Ladurantaye’s future with “The National” will be reassessed in the fall.

The CBC said Wednesday that Ladurantaye was going to comment on his reassignment.

The move comes a few days after Jonathan Kay stepped down from his job as editor-in-chief at The Walrus magazine.

While Kay said his reasons for leaving the magazine were “somewhat mundane,” his departure followed an opinion piece he wrote in the National Post defending the right to debate cultural appropriation.

In an email to The Canadian Press, Kay said his interests as an editor no longer aligned with the priorities of the organization that produces the magazine.

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The Fintrac report, obtained by The Canadian Press through an Access to Information request, says there is a lack of information available in electronic fund transfer reports on contributors to crowdfunding campaigns.

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ic transactions above $10,000.

That lack of information poses a problem for financial intelligence, “especially when trying to flag individuals supporting a crowdfunding campaign that may be suspected of being (terrorist financing)-related by an investigative authority,” Fintrac says in the November 2015 report.

The federal agency said the reports typically don’t include information on contributors to crowdfunding campaigns because the amounts transferred tend to fall be-

low the reporting threshold of $10,000.

“Terrorism financing and high-risk traveller cases, in particular, most often entail relatively small amounts of money,” spokeswoman Renee Bercier said in an email.

Daryl Hatton, founder of ConnectionPoint.com, a company that runs three crowdfunding websites, said they don’t have to submit funds transfer reports because that is the duty of the payment processors.

“The short answer is that crowdfunding platforms leverage the anti-money laundering systems of our payment processors,” Hatton said in an email.

“We add our own checks on the identities of the people running the fundraising campaigns but trust the much more sophisticated work our partners are doing in this area.”

Hatton said he has removed a “very small number” of campaigns over terrorism financing concerns. The decision to remove the campaigns was made in collaboration with payment processors and was done more as a

precaution, he said.

Craig Asano, the executive director of the National Crowdfunding Association of Canada, said it’s important that there are mechanisms in place to detect such transactions.

The Financial Action Task Force, an international organization that aims to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, flagged crowdfunding as an emerging terrorism-finance risk in a 2015 report.

The task force report said crowdfunding platforms are vulnerable to being exploited for illegal purposes because people can mask the true reason for their fundraising efforts.

It also said there have been instances in Canada where people under investigation for terrorism-related offences have used crowdfunding sites before leaving the country or attempting to leave the country, suggesting that they could be using that money to fight overseas.

But details of those cases were not provided.

In addition to filing reports for large electronic funds transfers, banks and payment processors also have an obligation to

report suspicious transactions to Fintrac, even ones that fall below $10,000.

But in the case of crowdfunding campaigns, banks are only facilitators of the transactions and typically don’t have all of the information about the fundraising effort, said Moh Datoo, a senior adviser in the financial crime risk management practice at Securefact Transaction Services.

“The actual information on who the investors are, the identities of the companies and the individuals — all that information is maintained by the crowdfunding platform,” said Datoo. “So it becomes inherently very difficult for banks to be able to spot illicit activity within those transactions.”

Datoo suggested that regulators undertake a “countrywide” review of existing laws in light of technological advancements that have transformed the financial services industry.

“A lot of the (current) regulations do not consider the fast-changing pace of technology and how it’s affecting the way businesses are being run today,” he said.

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Transgender community, NDP urge Trudeau government to change travel regulations Kristy Kirkup Canadian Press

OTTAWA ennifer McCreath has a fear of flying of a different sort: a fear she won’t be allowed on board.

McCreath, a 43-yearold transgender woman in St. John’s, N.L., takes issue with a federal regulation that prohibits airlines from transporting anyone who “does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification presented.”

Doing away with the regulation is a cause the federal NDP has been pushing for five years, and one for which Justin Trudeau expressed support before becoming prime minister.

It’s also one the federal Liberal government should be all over, given its self-proclaimed reputation as the party of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, McCreath said in an interview Wednesday.

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It just sends the wrong message.”

Trudeau’s cabinet has the ability to change the regulation immediately, said Randall Garrison, the NDP’s critic for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer issues.

The regulation has nothing to do with safety and does little more than subject transgender Canadians to public humiliation and obstructs their fundamental right to travel, Garrison said.

He noted Trudeau himself raised the issue both in the House of Commons and on Twitter in 2012, when he was an opposition MP. “If he supported removing this discriminatory regulation then,” Garrison asked during question period Wednesday, ”why as prime minister has he taken absolutely no action?”

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The question came one day after Transport Minister Marc Garneau introduced a new passenger bill of rights, a response of sorts to last month’s sensational viral video showing airline security forcibly dragging a passenger off a United Airlines jet.

The Liberal government is looking at the transgender issue, Garneau responded.

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“I don’t think it is very fair that if I tried to travel that because I’m trans, because I present differently than they expect me to, that they wouldn’t let me travel.”

The Liberal government also says it is working to address gender identity on passports — an issue already tackled in countries like Australia and New Zealand.

“That work is continuing,” Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould told the Senate legal affairs committee earlier this month.

For her part, McCreath said she hasn’t been back to the United States since 2011, a trip she used to take at least once a year.

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Canada backs recommendation for Magnitsky Act targeting rights abusers Mike Blanchfield Canadian Press

OTTAWA oreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said the government has agreed to create a socalled Magnitsky Act that would expand Canada’s international sanctions law to target gross human rights violators.

Freeland announced the decision Wednesday night in the House of Commons.

“Human rights are a non-partisan issue, and I look forward to working with the opposition on this initiative,” Freeland said in a statment. “We will work closely with sponsors and all committee members to bring forward some technical amendments to strengthen the bill and ensure it can have maximum effectiveness.”

The move comes after the Commons foreign affairs committee agreed last month to support amending Canada’s sanctions regime to include the rights violators “in honour” of the Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky.

Magnitsky died in a Moscow prison in 2009 after accusing officials of a $230-million tax fraud.

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critic Helene Laverdiere applauded the bill, saying that Canada must be a leader in human rights.

“Several countries have adopted similar legislation and we are encouraged that the Liberals are finally taking this important step to support the Global Magnitsky movement,” Laverdiere said in an email.

The decision is bound to further strain relations with Russia, which has reacted strongly to the imposition of Magnitsky-style legislation elsewhere.

After the Obama administration enacted its Magnitsky Act in 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded with a law that banned American citizens from adopting Russian children.

Ottawa and the Kremlin have their own differences, which includes a Russian travel ban on Freeland.

Freeland was one of several Canadians placed on a Russian sanctions list in 2014 in retaliation for Western sanctions imposed on Russia following its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region. In her previous career as a journalist, Freeland called Putin an authoritarian who was “really dangerous.”

Liberal, Conservative and New Democrat MPs

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Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland talks to reporters about NAFTA outside the House of Commons in Ottawa May 18. on the Commons committee supported the change to the Special Economic Measures Act as part of a mandated review of that law and the Freezing Assets of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act. The committee decided

to take an expanded look at the issues surrounding Magnitsky’s death. Human

rights watchdogs say he was beaten in prison and denied medical treatment.

To have done otherwise would have amounted to the committee missing a ”piece of reality,” Liberal MP Bob Nault, the committee chair, said in an interview.

The committee heard compelling testimony from lawyer William Browder, whose firm employed Magnitsky; former Liberal MP and human rights lawyer Irwin Cotler; chess legend and Russian democracy advocate Garry Kasparov; and other human rights advocates.

Kasparov told the committee that the legislation was important because Russia was working so hard to oppose it.

“That’s why Putin and his cronies and his agents and his lobbyists were so aggressive in trying to repeal the Magnitsky Act,” Kasparov said in December.

“It is because it will hurt the very foundation of his so-called social contract with the Russian elite.”

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Infrastructure bank may avoid projects with too much financial risk, Sohi says Jordan Press Canadian Press

OTTAWA he government’s new agency for financing major construction projects might take a pass on proposals that pose too great a risk for taxpayers when they’re asked to make a private sector idea a reality, the infrastructure minister says.

Amarjeet Sohi said the key test for the so-called infrastructure bank, which combines public and private funding for major projects, will be whether it is financially viable in the long run to provide the necessary returns to public and private investors.

The government will be taking on financial risk regardless of what projects go ahead, but only on its portion of the funding, not the entire cost of the project, Sohi said in an interview Wednesday with The Canadian Press.

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opposition questions about the agency and just how much public money will be on the line for transport, energy, and transit projects that could cross municipal, provincial and international borders.

“That is the review that the bank will do: is it too risky for the government to get involved? Maybe the government will not get involved,” Sohi said.

The Liberals see the bank as a way to use public dollars to leverage private funding for projects that are either too expensive or too risky for Ottawa or the private sector to go it alone.

The government plans to fund the bank with $15 billion in cash from its long-term infrastructure plan and a further $20 billion in financing, the costs of which would be defrayed through project user fees or other revenue streams.

The bank is not exactly what the Liberals promised during the 2015 election.

The party’s campaign platform proposed using the government’s “strong credit rating and lending authority” to provide low-interest loans and “small capital contributions” to help provinces and cities build projects that lacked the necessary capital.

Sohi said the Liberals changed the concept of the bank because provinces didn’t want Ottawa to compete with or duplicate their own lending agencies that provide financing to municipalities.

Instead, the Liberals looked to woo private investors for financing help, enlisting the help of investing giant BlackRock to bring together deep-pocketed international investors last year. The government has refuted opposition charges that private investors have too much say in how the bank is being designed.

The opposition criticism about the bank has expanded since the legis-

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Minister of Infrastructure and Communities Amarjeet Sohi participates in an interview with the Canadian Press in Ottawa May 17. lation to create the bank was tabled last month, with questions about how much more Canadians would be forced to pay in user fees to provide a return to private investors – Sohi said those would be project-by-project decisions – and whether taxpayers could lose money if federal loans aren’t repaid.

The auditor general this week highlighted the need for the government

and Crown corporations to report on how much is set aside annually if loans are ultimately not repaid.

Michael Ferguson’s report on government spending estimates pointed to the $1.9 billion in estimated risk from loans, loan commitments and loan guarantees at Export Development Canada as one example of this reporting.

Sohi said the government wants to make sure financing deals are struc-

tured in a way to protect the public interest. If the project is unnecessary or not in the public interest, the government won’t fund it through the bank, he said.

The government won’t take majority stakes in any projects, Sohi said.

Rather, a minority stake would give the government a say in how much is charged in user fees that would ultimately come back to public coffers.

“What is wrong with that, if we are able to share in that profit and maybe use that profit for other areas?” Sohi said.

Sohi also said that the bank wouldn’t be used to privatize any existing infrastructure.

“The bank is mandated to build new infrastructure, infrastructure that would otherwise not be possible to build,” he said.

“We are not privatizing infrastructure. This is infrastructure that doesn’t even exist. So how can you privatize something that doesn’t even exist?”

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Analysis: Trump intel sharing risks damaging US alliances Julie Pace Associated Press

WASHINGTON or months, U.S. allies have anxiously wondered if President Donald Trump could be trusted with some of the world’s most sensitive national security secrets.

Now, just a few days before Trump’s debut on the international stage, he’s giving allies new reasons to worry. A U.S. official said Trump revealed highly classified information about an Islamic State plot to senior Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting last week. The information had been obtained by a U.S. partner and shared with Washington, according to the official.

“If it proves to be true that the American president passed on internal intelligence matters, that would be highly worrying,” Burkhard Lischka, a senior German lawmaker, said in a statement to The Associated Press.

A second European official told the AP that their country might stop sharing intelligence with the United States as a result of Trump’s disclosure to Russia.

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verify in a pair of tweets Tuesday morning – are sure to shadow the president as he embarks Friday on his first overseas trip as president. After high-stakes visits to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican, he’ll meet some of Washington’s strongest European partners at a NATO summit in Brussels and the Group of 7 meeting in Sicily. Some of the leaders he’ll meet come from countries the U.S. has intelligence-sharing agreements with.

Sen. John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, said Trump actions send “a troubling signal to America’s allies and partners around the world and may impair their willingness to share intelligence with us in the future.”

Trump has a contentious relationship with American spy agencies.

He’s questioned the competence of intelligence officials, challenged their assessment that Russia meddled in last year’s election to help him win, and accused them of leaking information about him and his associates.

The leaks have only continued to flow.

According to the U.S. official, Trump shared details with top Russian

officials about an Islamic State terror threat related to the use of laptop computers on aircraft.

The Washington Post first reported the disclosure.

White House officials disputed the report, saying Trump did not disclose intelligence sources or methods with the Russians, though they did not deny that classified information was disclosed in the May 10 meeting. And by Tuesday morning, Trump was justifying his actions, writing on Twitter that he had an “absolute right” to share the information about “terrorism and airline flight safety” with Russia.“ The U.S. and Western officials spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss sensitive information.

The White House has looked to Trump’s trip abroad as a moment to draw the president out of Washington’s hyper-partisan hothouse and put him in a more statesman-like setting. He’s expected to be warmly received by Arab allies in Saudi Arabia, who welcomed his decision to launch missiles against a Syrian air base following a chemical weapons at-

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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain responds to questions on Capitol Hill in Washington May 18. tack, and in Israel, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu views Trump as more favourable to his interests than former President Barack Obama.

But some of the European partners Trump will meet later in his trip have been more skeptical about his policies, including a controversial travel and immigration ban that’s been blocked

by U.S. courts. Western allies, including Britain and Germany, have also been wary of Trump’s warmness toward Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was kicked out of the summit of leading economic powers

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That will certainly be a question as he visits any country overseas,” Cordesman said.

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The I-word: As Trump troubles spiral, Washington starts whispering ‘impeachment’ Alexander Panetta Canadian Press

WASHINGTON he I-word has entered the Washington vocabulary.

That forbidden word — the 11-letter pathway to political damnation, is suddenly, timidly, tiptoeing onto the tongues of capital-dwellers.

A Democrat suggested it on the floor of Congress on Wednesday. A Republican conceded it might be a possibility. And an Independent expressed regret about having to even mention the fear-inducing noun.

Impeachment.

“The president must be impeached,” said Democrat Al Green, raising it on the congressional floor Wednesday. “This is not something to be taken lightly. And I do not…. It’s a position of conscience for me.”

The fact that it’s travelled in just one week from the realm of liberal barroom fantasizing to open discussion in the hallways of Congress indicates the degree of turmoil caused to Trump’s presidency in just a few days.

To be sure, impeachment remains a distant hypothetical threat. The more immediate concern for Trump is the mounting pile of investigations, with new elements added Wednesday.

The biggest development was the Justice Department announcing the appointment of a special counsel in the Russia probe. It will led by Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who preceded the now-fired James Comey.

How did this happen?

It’s been less than two weeks since the president held a victory party on the White House lawn, surrounded by jubilant Republicans, as they celebrated the partial passage of a health-reform bill.

But it turns out a president can accumulate lots of damage by firing an FBI director; changing the story about why; becoming the target of a congressional investigation that’s expanding into money-laundering; sharing intelligence with Russia, to the dismay of allies; being accused of interfering with a police probe; chewing out his staff; and seeing enemies within government leak constantly to the press.

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in a speech to graduates of the Coast Guard Academy.

“Look at the way I’ve been treated lately, especially by the media,” Trump told the ceremony on Wednesday. “No politician in history — and I say this with great surety — has been treated worse or more unfairly.”

A perceptible shift has occurred. It happened the instant news reports surfaced saying that Comey kept a diary of his interactions with the president and in it the president purportedly asked him to cut short a Russia-related investigation.

That hint of obstruction of justice was a turning point for many — including Republicans, who are increasingly on Trump’s case as the president watches the defensive wall around him begin to crumble.

Three committees, all controlled by Republicans, have requested Comey’s records. Two have asked the former FBI director to testify. One has asked for money-laundering records from the U.S. Treasury Department.

A few Republicans have even joined calls for a special prosecutor or independent investigator.

One lawmaker from a ruby-red conservative district, Adam Kinzinger, told CNN: “This has raised real red flags in the level of seriousness. This is about America. It’s not about our political parties, or our political future.”

Democrats, meanwhile, are using their meagre minority power to push the White House to release transcripts of the Oval Office conversation with Russian officials, and to release any tapes of Comey talking to Trump — the existence of which the president has hinted at.

They also want to see Comey’s memos, as well as the former FBI director himself, testifying before Congress.

Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said it’s about preserving America’s political institutions: “These requests are reasonable. They’re modest.

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He’s not among those uttering the noun of presidential doom.

Yet others are. A maverick Republican libertarian, Justin Amash, said that if the latest allegations

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Then-FBI Director Robert Mueller listens as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 13, 2012. are true, impeachment becomes a possibility. An Independent senator who works with Democrats, Angus King, told CNN when asked about impeachment: “Reluctantly … I have to say yes. Simply because obstruction of justice is such a serious offence. And I say it with

sadness and reluctance.”

The Democratic leadership is discouraging such talk.

No presidential impeachment has reached the two-thirds majority required for conviction in the Senate. In two cases, the Senate acquitted Andrew Johnson and Bill

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Ousting Trump would require the votes of all

Democrats and nearly half the Senate Republicans.

So the party brass intends to start off by whacking Trump with a more modest weapon — the investigative club and not the nuclear button of impeachment. One Democrat on the intelligence committee said it’s important to do the work, build the case against Trump as it comes.

The work must be done diligently, carefully and not be perceived as an effort to nullify the election, said Adam Schiff. Elijah Cummings said he wants to learn what he can, and who knows whether that leads to impeachment.

A New Jersey lawmaker, Joseph Crowley, put it this way: “I’m not afraid of the ‘I’ word — it’s independent. Independent commission, independent investigator. That’s what I support.”

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Dubai firm dreams of harvesting icebergs for water Fay Abuelgasim & Sam McNeil Associated Press

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Dubai firm’s dream of towing icebergs from the Antarctic to the Arabian Peninsula could face some titanic obstacles.

Where many see the crumbling polar ice caps as a distressing sign of global warming, the National Advisor Bureau Limited sees it as a source of profit, and a way of offsetting the effects of climate change in the increasingly sweltering Gulf.

The firm has drawn up plans to harvest icebergs in the southern Indian Ocean and tow them 9,200 kilometres (5,700 miles) away to the Gulf, where they could be melted down for freshwater and marketed as a tourist attraction.

“The icebergs are just floating in the Indian Ocean. They are up for grabs to whoever can take them,” managing director Abdullah al-Shehi told The

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Associated Press in his Dubai office. He hopes to begin harvesting them by 2019.

It is perhaps no surprise that the idea would originate in Dubai, which is already famous for its indoor ski slope, artificial islands and the world’s tallest building. But the plan to harvest icebergs faces a wide array of legal, financial and logistical hurdles — and environmentalists are less than thrilled.

The firm would send ships down to Heard Island, an Australian nature reserve in the southern Indian Ocean, where they would steer between massive icebergs the size of cities in search of truck-sized chunks known as growlers.

Workers would then secure them to the boats with nets and embark on a yearlong cruise to the United Arab Emirates.

The company believes that, as most of the icebergs’ mass is underwater, they would not melt significantly during the voyage. Al-Shehi said each iceberg would hold

around 20 billion gallons of fresh water that could be harvested without costly desalinization, which currently provides nearly all of the Gulf region’s water.

Masdar, a government-backed clean energy firm in the United Arab Emirates, is exploring new technologies to meet the country’s water needs.

The United Arab Emirates’ Energy Ministry issued a statement this week denying “reports” that an iceberg was in the process of being imported, without specifying the reports to which it referred.

Al-Shehi said his project is a private initiative and that he would seek government approval once his firm completes its feasibility study. He declined to share the company’s cost estimates, and said it has not carried out an environmental impact study.

Robert Brears, the founder of the climate think-tank Mitidaption, has studied the feasibility of Antarctic ice harvesting and estimates the project would require an initial

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The shattered remains of a colossal iceberg known as B-15 on the Ross Ice Shelf are seen by satellite in Antarctica, Jan. 14, 2015. outlay of at least $500 million.

The challenges begin at Heard Island, where Australia strictly limits access in order to preserve the area’s rich ecosystem of migratory birds, seals, penguins and fish, which could be disrupted by large ships. Antarctica itself is subject to global treaties that mandate environmental regulations and ban mining and military activities.

Even if the firm secures the necessary approvals from multiple governments, the wrangling itself could prove daunting.

“There are thousands and thousands of icebergs drifting around and they can move without warning,” said Christopher Readinger, who heads the Antarctic team at the U.S. National Ice Center.

“Storms down there can be really brutal, and there’s really not anyone that can help.”

The interagency group uses satellites and floating sensors to track large

icebergs in order to warn fishing and science vessels.

One of the icebergs it tracked last month was twice the size of Manhattan.

Antarctica holds 60 per cent of the world’s freshwater, frozen in an ice shelf that sheds nearly 1.2 trillion tons of icebergs a year , according to NASA. The ice loss is accelerating as global temperatures warm.

In the Arctic, Canadian “iceberg cowboys” use rifles to blast off chunks of icebergs that are later sold to wineries, breweries and vodka distilleries. A Norwegian company sells 750ml bottles of melted iceberg for $100 each.

But iceberg wranglers off Antarctica would find a leaner herd. “It’s the driest ice in the world,” Brears said. “You could melt a lot of this ice and get very little water from it.”

Environmentalists meanwhile point to simpler measures that could be taken to address climate change in the Middle East,

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“This region is the heartland of the global oil industry, it will be at the forefront of experiencing these massive, insane heat waves, and there’s only one way to avoid this — reducing emissions and keeping all fossil fuels in the ground,” said Hoda Baraka, spokeswoman for the climate advocacy group 350.org.

Green investment groups are unlikely to finance the iceberg project, said Charlotte Streck, director of the consultancy firm Climate Focus.

She says the project is “an exceptionally futile and expensive way” to solve the Gulf’s water woes and “seems to run counter to all ideas of climate change adaptation.”

Al-Shehi is undeterred, and insists the project will have no impact on Antarctica or any other natural environment. The whole process, he said, “will be a drop in the ocean.”

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With waiver, US lets Iran keep getting benefits of nuke deal Josh Lederman Associated Press

WASHINGTON he Trump administration took a key step Wednesday toward preserving the Obama-era nuclear deal with Iran, coupling the move with fresh ballistic missile sanctions to show it isn’t going light on the Islamic republic.

The State Department said Iran would continue to enjoy relief from decades-old economic measures punishing Tehran for its nuclear program. Under the 2015 nuclear agreement, the U.S. lifted those sanctions. But Washington must issue periodical waivers to keep the penalties from snapping back into place and the most recent one was set to expire this week.

Donald Trump as a candidate vowed to renegotiate or tear up the nuclear deal.

As president, he has altered his position, insisting he is still studying the accord and hasn’t made a final decision. The move to extend the sanctions relief in

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the meantime was another indication Trump may be laying the groundwork to let the deal stand.

Still, the U.S. paired the announcement with new, unrelated sanctions that go after Iran for a ballistic missiles program that Washington fears could target American interests in the Middle East or key allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Wednesday’s sanctions target Iranian military officials along with an Iranian company and China-based network accused of supplying Iran with materials for ballistic missiles, the State Department said.

The dual moves — ensuring old sanctions on Iran don’t return while imposing new ones — appeared aimed at undercutting the impression that Trump’s stance on Iran has softened.

Since taking office, Trump’s administration has sanctioned hundreds in Iran and in Syria — an Iranian ally — as part of a campaign to increase pressure on Iran even as it reviews the nuclear deal.

Stuart Jones, the top U.S. diplomat in charge of the Middle East, said the U.S. is still forming a “comprehensive Iran policy” that addresses Iran’s support for Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and militant groups in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen.

“This ongoing review does not diminish the United States’ resolve to continue countering Iran’s destabilizing activity in the region, whether it be supporting the Assad regime, backing terrorist organizations like Hezbollah, or supporting violent militias that undermine governments in Iraq and Yemen,” Jones said. “And above all, the United States will never allow the regime in Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.”

In a similar move last month, Trump’s administration certified to Congress that Iran is complying with the terms of the deal — a requirement for Iran to keep receiving the economic benefits of the deal.

At the same time, Trump dispatched Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to issue

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a scathing critique of Iran in which he also cast doubt that the nuclear deal would achieve its objective of keeping Tehran from developing nuclear weapons.

Trump also announced late Wednesday that the U.S. didn’t intend to limit Iran’s ability to sell oil. In a memo to Tillerson and the secretaries of Energy and Treasury, Trump said there’s enough oil being produced currently by other countries that Iran’s output could be reduced without hurting global supplies. But he said that given U.S. commitments under the nuclear deal, “the United States is not pursuing efforts to reduce Iran’s sales of crude oil at this time.”

“I will continue to monitor this situation closely,” Trump added.

The moves come as Iran prepares for a presidential vote on Friday whose outcome has major implications for Iran’s future stance toward the U.S. and its likelihood of sticking with the deal. President Hassan Rouhani, a moderate who oversaw the clinching of

the nuclear deal, faces challenges from hard-liners who have stridently criticized the deal.

The new sanctions announced Wednesday hit Morteza Farasatpour, a top Iranian defence official who oversaw the sale of explosives and other materials used by Syria’s Scientific Studies and Research Center, the Treasury Department said. The Syrian agency produces non-conventional weapons such as the chemical weapons that Assad’s forces used earlier this year.

The U.S. also punished another Iranian official it said has been involved in Iran’s ballistic missile program, as well as Matin Sanat Nik Andishan, a company based in Iran that the U.S. said helped obtain materials for the ballistic missile program.

The sanctions also target a series of Chinese companies associated with Ruan Runling, a Chinese citizen.

The U.S. said his network helped produce electronics such as missile guidance for Iran’s program.

Mark Dubowitz, an Iran expert and head of the Washington-based Foundation for Defence of Democracies, which advocates for a tough U.S. position on Iran, said the latest steps were part of a “much more comprehensive strategy to use all instruments of American power to roll back Iranian regional aggression” and to “rectify what the administration sees as a deeply flawed nuclear deal.”

Also on Wednesday, Iranian state media said four passenger airplanes were being delivered as the first installment of a deal with French-Italian manufacturer ATR that was finalized after the nuclear agreement.

Iran is buying 20 of the ATR 72-600 planes. It also has clinched bigger deals with trans-Atlantic rivals Airbus and Boeing.

Under the 2015 deal, the U.S. and other world powers eased sanctions after the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran had taken a series of steps to pull its nuclear program back from the brink of weapons capability.

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Nova Scotia campaign debate: Party leaders clash over health care Canadian Press

HALIFAX ova Scotia’s major-party leaders clashed over health care in a televised campaign debate Thursday.

Progressive Conservative Leader Jamie Baillie and NDP Leader Gary Burrill attacked Liberal Premier Stephen McNeil’s track record, with Baillie questioning

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McNeil’s 2013 promise that every Nova Scotian would have access to a doctor.

“You promised them a doctor,” Baillie told McNeil, who cited a number of other promises he’d been able to keep.

Baillie said one of the hardest calls he’d had to make was to Kim D’Arcy, whose husband, Jack Webb, died Feb. 1 after he had languished for six hours in a chilly emer-

gency-room hallway and was bumped from his room by another dying patient during five days of struggles in Halifax’s largest hospital.

“We need more doctors. We need them urgently,” Baillie said.

Burrill asked McNeil if he would admit there is a health care crisis.

“Do I believe there’s a crisis? No,” McNeil said.

“Are there challenges? Of course there are.”

McNeil defended his record, saying the province’s health system has improved during his term, and his government has taken measures to train and bring more doctors to Nova Scotia.

His government reduced administrative costs by merging health authorities, he said.

McNeil said a re-elected Liberal government would invest in collaborative care teams to

ensure all Nova Scotians have access to primary care.

McNeil also defended attacks on his labour relations record, arguing he has to represent all taxpayers at the negotiating table with teachers and other public service unions.

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Baillie said it’s time to take politics out of classrooms and make decisions that benefit children.

“Let’s give teachers the real discipline and attendance policies they deserve and let’s get mental health into classrooms,” he said.

Baillie criticized Burrill’s promise to make community college tuition free.

“Making education free means we’re going to train people to go somewhere else,” he said.

Nova Scotians go to the polls May 30.

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Many women think men are the better investors; they’re not Stan Choe Associated Press

NEW YORK any men and women think men are the better investors. They’re wrong.

After checking how 8 million of its customers did during 2016, Fidelity Investments found that women did better than men by an average of 0.4 percentage points.

The difference in performance is small, and it’s always dangerous to make big generalizations out of small slices of data. But it slots in with other research that suggests women tend to take a longer-term view of investing.

They are more likely to buy and hold their investments, and they take fewer risks. Perhaps more importantly, the numbers put into sharp relief how women may be too pessimistic about their own abilities.

And that’s a dangerous thing if it discourages them from investing for retirement or other goals.

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take the step of investing, they do a good job,” says Kathleen Murphy, president of personal investing at Fidelity. “It doesn’t surprise us, but I think it will surprise them. The issue is: How do we get women to have the confidence in themselves to take care of something that is fundamental to their future well-being?”

To check confidence levels, Fidelity asked pollsters to survey about 1,000 investors early this year and ask whether they thought men or women had the better returns in 2016.

Men and women answered roughly the same way. Nearly half of each group thought there would be no difference (49 per cent of men and 47 per cent of women). But among those who guessed that one gender would come out on top, the vast majority said it would be men. Only 9 per cent of women (and 9 per cent of men) said they thought women earned higher returns in 2016.

One of the main reasons for the lack of confidence among women may be the financial services industry itself. It’s one that was created by and, for a long time, run for men. So much so that Sallie Krawcheck, a Wall Street veteran who earlier ran Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney, cited that when she co-founded Ellevest, an online investment adviser that says it helps customers “invest like a woman.”

The disparities run up and down Wall Street. Less than 10 per cent of all U.S. fund managers are women, and the percentage has been on a slow decline since 2008, according to a recent study by Morningstar. Managers attribute

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To better engage with female customers, Fidelity now writes all its promotional materials with an imaginary, 38-year-old target customer in mind.

She’s a woman, and her name is Susie.

“Everyone in the company knows Susie and says we need to walk in Susie’s high heels,” Murphy says.

“Whether it’s financial planning or saving for retirement or retirement income, we pause and ask if this will meet Susie’s standards.”

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Financial companies certainly have an incentive to engage more with women. Divorce rates are rising for older Americans - it’s roughly doubled since the 1990s for those aged 50 and above - which means more women are becoming a sole financial decision maker. And women continue to have longer life expectancies than men. In blunt market terms, that makes them a bigger pool of potential customers.

Fidelity says it has already seen improvements in recent years following its increased outreach to female customers, with more getting their portfolios in better balance. That means they’ve got an appropriate

mix of stocks and bonds for their age, rather than being in all cash at a young age or in all stocks during retirement. But there’s still more room for improvement.

“I remember being at an AARP event doing one of these speeches, and I was telling them that I was flying from to D.C. to New York that night to meet with a group of 1,000 millennials,” Murphy says. “So I asked them, ‘What advice should I give millennials, which are your daughters and granddaughters.’ And they said, ‘Tell them to break the cycle. Don’t let this happen to them, too, not being engaged enough. Take control of your future.”’

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Asian funerals go green, high tech at Hong Kong trade fair Kelvin Chan Associated Press

HONG KONG eath is inevitable but it doesn’t have to be bad for the environment.

Caskets made of paper and wicker coffins on display at a recent Hong Kong funeral industry trade highlighted a trend toward “green burials” in an industry booming as Asia’s population rapidly ages.

Chinese businessman Alex Sun’s company, Shandong Ecoffin International, makes wicker and seagrass coffins, which first became popular in the West and are now catching on in Asia.

Basket-weaving dates to the Tang Dynasty (618907 AD) in northeast China’s Shandong province, where Sun’s factory uses fast-growing willow reeds to make caskets that are an eco-friendly alternative to wood.

“Eco funerals are a global trend,” said Sun. “European customers already know about this product, while Asian customers are also interested in it and would love to learn more,” he said. Interest is especially high in the Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam as well as mainland China, he said.

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Visitors look at a paper casket at the Asia Funeral and Cemetery Expo & Conference in Hong Kong May 18. and entrepreneurs converged on Hong Kong this week for the Asia Funeral and Cemetery Expo & Conference, a trade fair held every other year.

Participants were pitching caskets for pets, Italian hearses, German cremators with hightech filters and Japanese mobile embalming units.

From China, Truthkobo Jewelry offered pendants made with ashes from deceased relatives or pets while Shenyang Roundfin

was looking for international distributors for its autopsy tables, morgue fridges and body bags.

The death industry is a lucrative market: Asia’s aging population is projected to hit 923 million by midcentury, according to the Asian Development Bank, putting the region on track to become the oldest in the world.

The region’s funeral services market has been growing steadily and is

now worth about $62.6 billion a year, with China accounting for nearly half that, according to data from market research firm Euromonitor.

“This is a very promising industry in China,” said Gloria Chuang, marketing director at Yu Fu Xiang Memorial Group, a Chinese funeral services company.

But she said the industry in China needs to expand and to modernize. Most funeral home operators are family-run outfits selling one-sizefits all services. They’re not transparent about prices and other information for services and products like coffins and urns, she said.

That’s partly because, as in many places, talk of death is taboo.

“A lot of the funeral service industry is backwards,” she said.

“Our culture dictates that Chinese people are very sensitive to talk about matters of death.

Therefore this industry has become a very closed one.”

Under Mao Zedong, who ruled China until his death in 1976, elaborate funerals, like many other customs, were officially condemned as feudal superstition and fell out of favour, though they persisted in many rural areas. Such rituals have seen a revival in recent years as the economy boomed, as the newly rich use lavish funeral rites to show off their social status and the accumulation of wealth.

In 2013, the government banned Communist Party members from holding extravagant funerals for family members, seeking to curb waste, corruption and

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On the Hong Kong show floor, Lee Jong-lan, South Korea’s top funerary beautician, demonstrated her airbrushing technique, which she said is better than conventional makeup for covering up discolored or damaged skin on corpses.

The Luen Hing Coffin Co.’s paper casket looked deceptively like a traditional one. It costs more because of a specialized manufacturing process for its honeycomb paper construction, but burns twice as fast as wood in a crematorium, saving funeral operators time and money, said General Manager Carol Chan.

On display at Yu Fu Xiang’s booth were custom-designed cremation urns adorned with faces of the deceased and an ornate “elite longevity costume” resembling robes worn by Chinese emperors. Chuang said attitudes are changing and demand is growing for more personalized service as the children of the older generation become wealthier and more tech savvy. Cultural sensitivities regarding death are starting to ease, making it more acceptable to talk about preparing for the afterlife, she said at one of the fair’s seminars.

Other speakers said that despite lingering resistance, there’s growing interest in online memorials that let family members upload pictures to the cloud and pay respects using their smartphones.

The prospect of a lucrative investment opportunity even drew investors from outside the industry to the fair.

Piyanuch Wattanasiritananwong and a friend came from Thailand, where they run a property business, after hearing about the show from a contact.

“We want to know what opportunities there are in this industry because everybody dies,” she said.

She pondered the possibility of starting a coffin business based on recycling _ an elaborate outer shell is removed to be re-used while only a plain inner box is cremated with the body.

“I don’t want people to spend a lot of money but still have a nice farewell,” she said.

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Experts say risk of sheep transmitting disease ‘very real’ Lori Garrison News Reporter

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abbitfoot Canyon — that craggy split that divides downtown Whitehorse from Porter Creek — is the last place you would think to look for a wild sheep. But that’s exactly where Philip Merchant said they have turned up in the past.

“They were just standing there, watching the cars go past,” he said.

Merchant was the animal health coordinator with Environment Yukon for 10 years, a position from which he retired in 2011. He is, by his own admission, not a biologist or a veterinarian.

During his career, he said, it wasn’t just Rabbitfoot Canyon where wild sheep turned up unexpectedly but also in the Takhini River area near the sod farm, at Vista Road Tower, and even at the Grey Mountain rifle range, near the sheep silhouette targets.

This could have severe health implications for the species if they were to come in contact with domestic sheep, Merchant said.

“We have as good an idea of where wild sheep are as any jurisdiction, but we don’t know where they want to be,” he said.

As the News recently reported, there have been rising concerns among the conservationists, outfitters, environmentalists and farmers that domestic sheep and goats can spread pathogens to wild sheep. Those pathogens can cause severe — and often fatal — pneumonia.

This has occurred in southern populations of bighorn sheep, to which thinhorn sheep — a group comprised of three species and to which the Yukon’s famous all-white Dall sheep belong — are “very closely genetically related,” according to Environment Yukon ungulate biologist Troy Hegel.

An analogy might be grizzly bears and black bears, or mule deer and whitetails, Hegel said, referring to separate but closely-related species, which are often susceptible to the same infections.

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Concerns have been raised that domestic sheep and goats can spread disease to Yukon’s thinhorn sheep population. teria with few or no health consequences, wild sheep have extremely limited resistance because they have never been exposed, said Hegel. Infected sheep either die, or, if they recover, have lingering health issues. Those that recover become “shedders” Hegel said, continuing to harbour the pathogen and infecting healthy members of the herd.

Although cross-species infection is well documented in bighorn sheep, there have been no documented cases of thinhorn sheep becoming infected from contact with domestic sheep. Merchant said there are “reams of data” that this is possible, and that infection has occurred in laboratory settings.

“The guy who was doing the experiment (on thinhorns) stopped his work because he said he was sick of killing sheep,” said Merchant. “You should never confuse the absence of evidence with evidence of absence.”

Hegel agrees the risk of infection to thinhorns is real.

“It’s a real risk — the probable outcome of the disease entering the wild population … there’s no doubt it would have a drastic effect on a population that’s been exposed,”

he said.

People have been bringing sheep and goats into the Yukon for much longer than Environment Yukon has been around to do public awareness campaigns, however. This begs the question: If the disease is so contagious and dangerous, why haven’t there been infections — and die-offs — documented before?

“We don’t know this hasn’t occurred (already),” said Hegel. “If it happened 150 years ago, we might not even know.”

Thinhorn sheep have “high fidelity to range,” said Merchant, meaning that they often use the same grazing areas year after year, but we only understand their range “as we define it,” he said.

Animals may come down from the mountain in search of mineral licks, said Hegel, although these are usually routes which are well known to the animals. Small numbers of animals, particularly younger ones, may go “on a walkabout,” he said, where they wander off from their herd and either wind up back with their original population or assimilate into a new one.

These movements are a “key transmission risk,” said Hegel. If one of these

wanderers were to come in contact with a domestic sheep carrying pneumonia-causing pathogens and become infected, it could spread the disease into the wild population when it returns to its range, Hegel said.

“They aren’t stuck on a mountain top their entire lives — there’s animals that are moving around,” he said. “These are the ones we are concerned with.”

This wandering behaviour explains the recent and much-talkedabout incident of a young thinhorn ram who hopped a fence in Dawson City to visit some domestic sheep.

The ram paid for this casual encounter with its life.

“If a wild sheep comes in contact with a domestic sheep, the policy is to destroy it so that it can’t return to its native population,” said Hegel.

“All the reports have come in, and they’ve all said the same thing — do not let these animals mix in any way,” Merchant said. “That (ram is) the canary in the coal mine.”

“All the pieces of disease outbreak are here, they just haven’t come together yet. But they always do, given enough time.”

These concerns for wild populations have lead

to discussions between agricultural and environmental officials and farmers, some of who feel unfairly pressured to meet recommendations to prevent interactions. These recommendations include double fencing, or adding electric fencing, a process which is expensive and labour-intensive.

There have been some calls to ban sheep and goats from the Yukon entirely, which is the way the Northwest Territories is going, said Merchant.

Hegel said that would be a “pretty significant, non-trivial” step for the Yukon.

Merchant said most people who own sheep and goats do not make their living from them, and that the number of sheep and goats in the Yukon is relatively small.

A 2015 flyer from the Animal Health Program entitled Preventing Pneumonia in Wild Sheep, recommends farmers “consider livestock other than sheep to raise fiber, milk and meat.”

“It’s a hobby — does somebody’s hobby have the right to threaten the public interest in conservation?” Merchant said. “Without the sheep, the mountains are just mountains — so I think

that anything that could threaten them needs to be looked at.”

Shelia Alexandrovich of Wheaton River Garden said the idea that the eight sheep she raises are “just a hobby” is not a true. Alexandrovich has sheep for meat and milk, as well as for fibre, which she uses to make art and sells as part of her income.

“If I took away my ‘hobby,’ I would starve,” she said. “It provides 80 per cent of my food and 50 per cent of my income.” “(Merchant) may see me as a hobby farm, but it’s what I do full time — I’m paid in food.”

Alexandrovich has lived in the Annie Lake area — thought to be some of the best wild sheep territory in the Yukon — for 37 years and has never once seen a wild sheep on her property, she said.

Hegel said this was possible, as there might might be other factors in the environment which discourage or prohibit the movement of the sheep onto the farm.

Merchant said the farm is “within one kilometre of where I would expect to see wild sheep.”

“If I thought I’d infect wild sheep, I’d double-fence in a minute — but I’ve never seen a wild sheep here,” Alexandrovich said. “If (the government) wants their concerns addressed — and it’s a legitimate concern — consult with farmers and give them the money to do (what’s been recommended).”

Alexandrovich said she didn’t feel the recommendations took into account the importance of smallscale farming and local food security.

“How on earth do you start (a farming industry) up here?” she said. “The little fellows trying to make inroads into local food … it isn’t easy.”

All in all, Hegel likens the recommendations to seatbelts.

“You can say ‘I never wear a seatbelt, I’ve been driving for 30 years, and I’ve never been in an accident,’” he said. “And then, suddenly, you’re in an accident and you really wish you’d been wearing a seatbelt.”

Contact Lori Garrison at lori.garrison@yukon-news.com

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Study of ancient Arctic temperatures could predict how Greenland ice will melt Rob Drinkwater Canadian Press

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esearchers studying ancient ice from Canada’s Arctic say the samples reveal new information on what climate change could do.

The ice cores were drilled to a depth of a few hundred metres on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut and were saved by an Alberta university when the program that preserved them shut down.

Scientists from the University of Ottawa examined the samples and concluded that temperatures in the early Holocene Epoch between 8,000 and 11,000 years ago were up to five degrees warmer than earlier thought.

That means temperatures not long after the end of the last ice age were warmer than they are now.

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better able to predict how fast Greenland’s current ice cover will melt in the future.

The findings were published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“If the climate continues to warm — and the Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else — then having an event in the past where the temperatures got warmer than today gives us a glimpse of where we might be heading,” said geophysics professor Glenn Milne, one of the scientists on the study.

Greenland, along with other melting glaciers, is a major contributor to rising sea levels today. If the melt continues to accelerate, sea levels will jump as well.

Computer models with the new data predict Greenland’s ice could lose almost a kilometre of thickness over the next 1,000 years.

The research also determined that the rate of temperature change is

the fastest it has been in 12,000 years, bolstering evidence that recent global warming is happening unusually fast and likely caused by human activity.

Previous attempts had been made to pinpoint ancient temperatures, but the two methods produced inconsistent results. One method measured the amount of melted and re-frozen ice in a layer; the second measured isotopes in oxygen in the ice.

The new study manages to get the results from the two methods to match.

David Fisher, another University of Ottawa scientist who worked on the study, said temperatures were warmer in the early Holocene due to a natural variation of the Earth’s orbit around the sun and its tilt on its axis.

He said the study had to consider whether the elevation when the ice formed was different, which could have affected the temperature.

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“You pretty much have to look back 4,000 years, if you look at 25-year averages, you have to go back that far to find temperatures as high as what we’ve had in the last 25 years,” Fisher said.

“And if you look at the last 15 years, you have to go back maybe 8,000 or 9,000 years to find it quite as warm as that.”

The ice cores samples, some of which were drilled in the 1980s, had been stored in the Geological Survey of Canada’s Ottawa freezers until the program was discontinued about five years ago.

“When we were told we had to disband, we sent out an all-points bulletin, as it were, to any scientists around the world who wanted ice cores,” Fisher said.

For a while, he said the cylinders were being stored in commercial freezers along with meat and ice-cream.

The call was answered by the University of Alberta, which accepted them earlier this year.

Some of the collection didn’t survive in its new home in Edmonton. A freezer malfunction at the university last month destroyed 12 per cent of the collection.

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New Zealand quake scientists discover surprise: Hot water Nick Perry Associated Press

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND hen researchers in New Zealand drilled deep into an earthquake fault, they stumbled upon a discovery they say could provide a significant new energy source for the South Pacific nation.

The scientists found the water in the Alpine Fault was much hotter than expected, and could potentially be harnessed to generate electricity or provide direct heating in industries like dairy farming.

The finding was surprising because geothermal energy is usually associated with volcanic activity, but there are no volcanoes where the scientists drilled.

Because the Alpine Fault stretches for hundreds of kilometres (miles) like a spine along the country’s South Island, the energy source could be enormous.

Led by Victoria University of Wellington professor Rupert Sutherland, the study was published Thursday in the journal Nature.

Sutherland said the intention of the study near the popular tourist destination of Franz Josef Glacier was to collect rock cores and install monitoring equipment rather than gauge water temperatures, but researchers are excited about their unexpected findings.

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“Economically, it could be very significant for New Zealand,” Sutherland told The Associated Press in an interview. “It’s a totally new paradigm.”

In their study, the scientists say they believe two actions are creating the hot water.

First, they say, previous earthquakes have moved hot rocks up from deep within the Earth into the mountains along the fault line.

Second, the shaking has broken up the rocks, allowing rain water and snow melt to quickly percolate through the hot interior of the mountains, which concentrates the heat beneath the valleys.

Sutherland said they found the water in the fault reached 100 degrees Celsius (212 Fahrenheit) at a depth of 630 metres (2,100 feet). Water typically gets progressively hotter with depth, but under normal conditions it doesn’t reach that temperature until about 3 kilometres (2 miles) underground.

One hundred Celsius is boiling point on the Earth’s surface, although water doesn’t boil underground because it remains under pressure, much like the liquid inside a pressure cooker.

The Alpine Fault is among the most active faults in the world. It typically creates large earthquakes about once every 300 years, and scientists

figure there is about a onethird chance it will rupture again in the next few decades. The resulting quake could devastate some New Zealand towns, although the fault is not located near any large cities.

Sutherland said the discovery of the hot water doesn’t have any bearing on predicting when the next quake might hit.

He said before any commercial ventures begin, scientists will need to determine the extent of the hot water, what purposes it could be used for, how easy it is to extract, and whether it can be done safely.

He said he didn’t think removing water from the fault would risk triggering a quake but scientists would need to study that question as well.

New Zealand already generates about 15 per cent of its electricity from geo-

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The drilling site of an earthquake fault near Franz Josef Glacier is seen on the South Island of New Zealand on Oct. 3, 2014 . thermal sources, most of it from the Taupo volcanic zone in the central North Island. Sutherland said the declining coal mining industry in the South Island could provide needed expertise, engineering and infrastructure for any new geothermal ventures on the

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Alpine Fault.

He said the hot water could potentially be used by the dairy industry as a heating source to dry milk.

Milk powder is one of the nation’s largest exports.

Dave Craw, a professor at New Zealand’s University of Otago who was not

involved in the study, said that in a global context, the high temperatures found in the fault are very unusual.

“The famous San Andreas Fault of California was drilled in a similar way to this New Zealand borehole, and the temperatures and thermal gradient encountered there were much lower than the Alpine Fault,” Craw wrote in an email. “The Alpine Fault is a spectacular thermal anomaly for an area without active volcanic activity.”

Bill Ellsworth, a professor at Stanford University who helped review safety aspects of the study but who was not involved in the research, said that because elevated fluid pressures weaken faults, the study’s findings also have important implications for understanding the workings of quakes on similar faults around the world.

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Business, leisure travellers ponder flying without laptops David Koenig & Joyce M. Rosenberg Associated Press

NEW YORK nternational air travellers might soon rediscover magazines, paperbacks and playing cards.

Airline passengers have become hooked on their laptops and tablets to get work done or just kill time during long flights. But U.S. aviation-security officials appear determined to ban large electronic devices in the cabin of flights from Europe.

Business travellers are worried about lost productivity, laptops in checked baggage being stolen or damaged, or even leaving the machine home if their employer won’t let them check it on a plane. Parents are pondering how to keep children occupied.

On Wednesday, U.S. and European Union officials exchanged information about threats to aviation, believed to include bombs hidden in laptop computers.

Airline and travel groups are concerned about the possibility that a ban on laptops and tablet computers that currently

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applies to mostly Middle Eastern flights will be expanded to include U.S.-bound flights from Europe.

The officials agreed to meet again next week.

The airlines are still talking to government officials about how a laptop ban would look at European airports. It will require one set of screening rules for U.S.-bound travellers, another for people headed elsewhere.

Nearly 400 flights leave Europe for the U.S. each day, carrying about 85,000 people, according to airline industry and U.S. government figures.

The flights are popular with vacationers and critical to many business travellers, who often buy pricier tickets.

The laptop ban in March covered far fewer flights – about 50 on an average day – and hurt Middle Eastern carriers by targeting their hub airports. Emirates blamed the ban among factors reducing demand when it scaled back flights to the U.S. Expanding the ban to Europe will hit American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines and their European partners,

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Airlines fear that expanding the ban will lead to more flight delays and increase their liability for theft or damage to electronics devices in checked luggage. Safety advocates worry that putting devices with lithium batteries in the cargo hold will create a fire threat.

Airline groups propose several alternatives to the laptop ban, including more use of machines that detect residue from explosives, turning devices on to demonstrate that they are not bombs, and sorting low-risk passengers from highrisk ones, presumably to let frequent travellers keep their laptops in the cabin.

Business travellers are keenly interested in the outcome.

Michael McCormick, executive director of the Global Business Travel Association, said he believes the threat identified by security officials is real, but the laptop ban will hurt business travel, at least in the short term.

“There are a certain amount of things you can do on your smartphone to stay in contact,” McCormick said. For laptops that must be checked, he added, companies will take steps to better lock down information contained on them “and then just deal with the shortterm challenges and loss of productivity.”

The International Air Transport Association, a trade group for global airlines, said banning laptops in the cabin would cost passengers $1.1 billion a year, mostly in lost productivity for business travellers.

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“Businesses will cancel trips rather than risk having laptops checked due to risk to confidential information,” said the group’s CEO, Alexandre de Juniac.

Edward Pizzarello, an investor in a Washington-area venture-capital firm who also writes a travel blog, is holding off booking a July business trip to Germany and the United Kingdom “until I figure out what’s going on.”

Pizzarello won’t put his everyday laptop in checked luggage – “too much sensitive info.” So he might buy a cheaper machine to use on the outgoing flight and while in Europe, then wipe it clean before checking it on the return flight. He is also considering flying back through Canada to sidestep the ban, although that would likely cost more.

“Maybe I don’t take the trip,” he said. “That’s one of the options. It’s not my first option.”

David Lewis, who operates a human-resources consulting firm in Connecticut, said he would prefer closer inspection of his laptop over getting on a plane without it.

“I will wind up working four to five straight hours, which is like 15 in an office because of the lack of interruptions,” Lewis said of his trans-Atlantic flights. “It’s going to have an adverse

effect on how often I’m going to make those trips.”

Rachel Winard, who owns a skin-care products company in New York, writes on her laptop during flights to and from Europe. She said she will use her cellphone – those aren’t covered by the ban – to answer emails.

“It’s not a deal breaker,” she said of not having her laptop, “but it is definitely time that I would happily use for my work.”

Small business consultant Gene Marks said he and many of his clients work when flying to and from Europe. Still, he tried to put the annoyance of a ban in perspective.

“I would be more anxious if there was a bomb on my flight,” Marks said.

Besides, he said, he sees plenty of business travellers who spend the flight sleeping.

Many leisure travellers use laptops and tablets to while away the hours watching movies or playing games, or to keep their kids entertained.

They might have to turn back the clock.

“It is worth remembering that families were flying together for a few decades before digital entertainment came along,” said Eileen Gunn of travel website FamiliesGo. “Maybe this is a good excuse to rely a bit less on electronics for both parents and kids.”

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Vaccine may cut HPV infections, an oral cancer risk, in men Marilynn Marchione Associated Press

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he HPV vaccine that helps prevent cervical cancer in women also might lower the risk in young men of oral infections that can cause mouth and throat cancers, a new study finds.

These cancers are rising fast, especially in men, and research suggests that HPV, the human papillomavirus, is spreading through oral sex. The actor Michael Douglas brought attention to this risk several years ago when he blamed his cancer on it.

This is the first study of whether the vaccine might prevent oral HPV infections in young men, and the results suggest it can. No men who had received at least one dose were later found to have infections of HPV strains linked to cancer, but more than 2 per cent of unvaccinated men had them.

“There may be additional benefits to vaccinating your son or daughter” besides the problems the vaccine already is known to prevent, said Dr. Maura Gillison of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Results were released Wednesday by the Amer-

ican Society of Clinical Oncology ahead of presentation at its annual meeting next month.

THE VIRUS HPV is very common – most sexually active people have been exposed to it.

Some types cause genital warts. Usually, the virus causes no symptoms and goes away, but some people develop long-lasting infections of strains that can cause cancer.

The vaccine was approved in 2006 to prevent cervical cancers in women, and later, for some others including anal cancer in men. But acceptance has been slow – only about half of those eligible are getting it now, according to the latest information.

Now, awareness is growing of HPV’s other risks – oral infections are blamed for 70 per cent of cancers in the mouth and back of the throat. About 11,600 of these occur each year in the U.S. and rates are rising 5 per cent per year. They’re four times more common in men than women.

There are now more mouth and throat cancers caused by HPV in the U.S. each year than there are cervical cancers.

Oral sex is the main risk factor for getting an HPV infection in the mouth or

throat, Gillison said. While “oral sex does not give you cancer,” the infection in rare cases can develop into cancer over many years, she explained.

THE STUDY She led the study, funded by the National Cancer Institute , while previously at Ohio State University.

Researchers interviewed 2,627 men and women ages 18 to 33 years in a national health study from 2011 to 2014 about whether they had been vaccinated, and tested oral rinse samples from them for HPV. Infections with worrisome HPV strains were found in far fewer people who had received any shots – an 88 per cent lower risk.

The results in men were striking – no infections in the vaccinated group versus 2.13 per cent of the others.

The study was observational, so it can’t prove the vaccine was responsible.

But it may no longer be ethical to do an experiment where one group gets no vaccine, because its benefits for preventing other cancers is known. It might be possible to do such a study in people over 26, the age limit now for HPV vaccination, Gillison said.

If a benefit were shown, it might lead to expanding

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The bottom line is that the vaccine helps, and “so few people who should be getting it are,” said Dr. Richard Schilsky, chief medical officer of the oncology society who had no role in the study.

WHAT PATIENTS SAY Scott Courville wishes it existed when he was young. The 43-year-old construction inspector from St. Martinville, Louisiana, was treated last year for HPV-related tonsil cancer that spread to lymph nodes.

“I went through 33 rounds of radiation and six rounds of chemotherapy,” he said. He also lost 100 pounds, and now has damaged taste buds and sinuses, and constant ringing in his ears.

His three teenage sons and stepsons are getting the vaccine.

“There was no question at all” that they would, only how soon, he said.

Tom Jackson also had an HPV-related tonsil cancer, found in 2013, and works to fight stigma over an infection that is largely sexually spread.

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tions,” Jackson said. “The horror of HPV cancer is tremendous,” and not to be “whitewashed” by squeamishness or reluctance to discuss prevention, he said.

THE VACCINES The vaccines are recommended mostly for young people, ideally before they’re exposed to HPV. Merck’s Gardasil is approved in the U.S. for females 9 through 26 to prevent cervical, vulvar, vaginal and anal cancers and genital warts. For males ages 9 through 26, it’s approved for preventing anal cancer and genital warts. A newer version of Gardasil that includes more HPV virus types is approved for males 9 through 15.

GlaxoSmithKline’s Cervarix vaccine is approved for females 9 through 25 to prevent cervical cancer.

All require two or three shots, depending on age.

Other ways to help prevent oral HPV infections are limiting the number of sex partners and not smoking. Condoms or dental dams may help.

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Don’t drive distracted

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he Canadian Safety Council has deemed the week of May 16-22, as National Road Safety Week for 2017. The theme this year is Can you see them? By “them” they mean distracted drivers.

To quote Jack Smith, president of the Canadian Safety Council: “It’s hard to overstate the importance of distracted driving awareness. This is a serious problem on Canadian roads. We live in a society where people believe it’s important to be in contact at all times, whether it’s with work, family or friends. But the world won’t stop spinning if you let a phone call go to voicemail or take a little longer than usual to answer a text message or an email. Keep your attention squarely where it belongs: on the road.”

Distracted driving is anything that takes your eyes or mind off the road.

Eating, drinking, applying makeup, reading, or manually programming GPS devices or music players.

Being focused on anything other than the road and driving is considered distracted driving. It’s dangerous to yourself and others.

Taking your eyes off the road for only five seconds while driving 90 km/h, you will have travelled the length of a full football field. Think about what could happen in that distance: kids riding their bikes out into the road, elderly people crossing the road, or maybe even another distracted driver crossing into your lane.

Anything can happen.

Distracted driving is a factor in over four million vehicle crashes every year in North America. Distract-

ed driving is responsible for over 25 per cent of all crash fatalities. You may notice the word crash was used here, and not the word accident. “Accident” implies it was unavoidable.

But car crashes as a result of distracted driving are 100 per cent avoidable.

The biggest distraction is the use of handheld devices like cellphones.

Studies show that while you’re talking on your phone (even a hands-free unit) you visually lose about 50 per cent of what’s going on around you.

Think about that. What are you missing?

You are five times more likely to be in a crash if you’re on your phone.

And young people are the most vulnerable. Distracted driving is a factor in nearly six out of 10 moderate-to-severe crashes involving teenagers.

The Government of Canada estimates that collision-related health care costs and lost productivity add up to at least $10 billion annually.

The costs of distracted driving are clear. Here are some tips you can start using today to avoid distracted driving: Shut your phone off or put it on airplane mode while driving. The airplane mode on your phone should actually be considered travel mode. Ideally you would put your phone on travel mode before starting your vehicle.

Use the hands-free Bluetooth function on your smart phone but make sure it’s connected before putting your vehicle in gear. Use of hands-free function on your phone is allowed only for people with full driving privileges.

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This includes the use of a GPS. Manual use of a GPS while driving is dangerous and illegal.

Secure children safely in their seats before departure. If issues arise, pull over and park before attending to them, just like on an airplane when they advise you to put the mask on yourself before attending to others.

Ensure pets are safe and secured in your vehicle before driving. The use of pet barriers and safety harnesses are advisable.

Stay calm while driving and don’t engage in emotionally charged conversations while driving. This includes other passengers or other drivers. Yelling at that idiot driver puts your safety and driving in jeopardy as well. Road rage is a choice. If you see an idiot driving stupidly, why let yourself get worked up and angry so that there are now two idiots not watching the road?

Have a designated texter who is responsible for calls and texting. This is much like the way we have a designated driver while we’re out drinking. If you’re driving alone, pull over, stop, and put your vehicle in park before reaching for your phone.

For parents or employers who want to ensure drivers of their vehicles do not engage in distracted driving, there are products out there like Text Buster that can be installed in your vehicle and on the drivers phone that will restrict calls and texts while the vehicle is on.

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Increased awareness is key to resolving the climate crisis

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ost people understand that human-caused climate change is a real and serious threat. True, some still reject the mountains of evidence amassed by scientists from around the world over many decades, and accepted by every legitimate scientific academy and institution.

But as the physical evidence builds daily — from increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather events like droughts and floods to disappearing polar ice to rising sea levels — it takes an incredible amount of denial to claim we have no reason to worry.

Climate change isn’t an easy or pleasant subject, and massive efforts by the

fossil fuel industry and its supporters to sow doubt and confusion have made it harder for people to grasp. With all the information out there, it’s not always easy to distinguish between analysis based on rational, peer-reviewed evidence and propaganda from industry and deniers.

But if more people truly understood the enormity of the crisis, we’d be engaged in an all-out effort, comparable to those undertaken during world wars, to reduce the threat.

That’s why David Suzuki Foundation senior editor Ian Hanington and I wrote Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do. The book provides a clear and comprehensive overview of global warming, climate science and solutions. We examine the science’s history, from 1824 when natural philosopher Joseph Fourier discovered the greenhouse effect — although he didn’t call it that — through to the discovery of feedback loops, and up to the present, following the 2015

Paris Agreement, which was based on the current evidence outlined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report.

The book then delves into climate consequences and impacts — from extreme weather to melting Arctic ice and ocean acidification to species extinction and impacts on human physical and mental health to the refugee crisis and more.

With extensive knowledge about climate change and its consequences and impacts, one has to ask why we’re moving so slowly to confront such an urgent problem. We’re already in a troubling state and it will quickly get worse if we fail to tackle it head-on.

The book’s next section explores some reasons behind this lack of resolve.

Although there’s progress in many areas, we still have to come to terms with outmoded ways of thinking and living that prevent us from acting in our own best interests. We also have to deal with issues like

population growth and industrialization in the developing world. And we’re still up against wealthy, powerful interests that would like us to ignore the issue so they can continue to reap enormous fossil fuel profits.

Despite the barriers, there’s a wide range of solutions, and most of the book focuses on those. Some are already in place and some are being developed. Some show more promise than others, and some have their own pitfalls. Ultimately, though, this is what gives us hope.

As we point out, no single technology, action or idea will get us out of this mess. It will take concerted efforts from individuals, governments at all levels and people in every sector,

from agriculture to science and technology.

The benefits of many solutions go beyond their climate implications.

Burning less coal, oil and gas helps the climate but also cuts pollution, which protects human health and brings health-care costs down. Those who are able to walk, bike or take transit instead of driving will improve their physical and mental health (avoiding gridlock aggravation, for example) and save significant amounts of money.

Improving agricultural methods can increase the carbon stored in soils and plants and prevent loss of fertile soils, which is also a serious problem for humanity.

Many individual solutions, especially, come with

added benefits. There’s so much people can do in their personal lives: drive less, eat less or no meat and dairy, be more energy efficient, reduce waste, buy less and divest from fossil fuel companies among them. But individual actions alone won’t resolve the crisis. That’s why the most important way to help keep the world healthy and habitable for humans is to get informed and get involved. We hope this book will encourage more people to join the growing movement for a livable future!

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Mountains full of snow and birds

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n the early going of my second hike across Alaska along the route of the Trans-Alaska pipeline, I chose to walk the highway rather than the pipe’s route to get up Thompson Pass north of Valdez. The road added nearly 10 kilometres to our day. But I tried the pipe route up the pass 20 years ago and it was like trying to climb a 90-metre ski jump.

Most of my mileage so far on this trip has been on the shoulder of the Richardson Highway. The pipeline pad here in the mountains is still deep with punchy snow.

You’d think a guy would have checked that out before starting.

The road, surprisingly, is quite pleasant. Cora doesn’t seem to mind being leashed.

And only about 10 cars and trucks pass us each hour. Is Alaska becoming the land gone lonesome, with people headed down the Alaska Highway and moving out?

I’ve seen a good number of U-Hauls. Or is it not Memorial Day yet?

If the people are still on their way in, the birds have beat them to the party. One,

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On a crisp moonlit night, the snipes sliced through the mountain air with their winnowing call. It’s a bit spooky, like hysterical laughter that starts and ends soft but is loud in the middle. I’m pretty sure Cora never heard it before.

She sat up a few times with pointy ears trying to figure it out. She gave up after a few hours.

A snipe makes that sound not with its throat but its tail. During breeding display swoops, the bird forces air through its outer tail feathers and generates sound. Anna’s hummingbirds generate a musical pop in the same fashion during their courting arcs through the air.

So what’s a shorebird like a snipe doing at the toe of a glacier, where most of the ground is covered in two feet of snow? These birds with beaks as long as pencils, some from as far south as Panama, are in the alpine to feed on the creatures living in the mud of the marshy areas up here and to have their babies. Summer is short.

Migrant birds are flooding into the high country of Alaska, and everywhere else in the state. Sitting here at an airstrip near Worthington Glacier, I hear the first three notes of the Sesame Street

theme (“sun-ny day”). It’s the song of golden-crowned sparrows fresh up from the California coast. A fox sparrow that might have wintered in Pensacola, Florida, is doing his part to fill the soundscape, too.

The ptarmigan, cackling manically, must wonder what to make of all these visitors.

I’m all for them, even if they keep me awake. They are flooding the territory, and from the ground this country feels pretty big.

I’m happy to report a few successful encounters with one of the most dangerous animals we will encounter.

Cora’s dog friend Freya returned to us early in the trip with a solitary porcupine quill protruding from her nose. We pulled it out with a set of hemostat pliers, but it took Chris, Ian and me holding her.

Since then, we’ve seen a few more porkys. They have Tina Turner hair of quills and seem as big as small bears.

Those hardy guys survived without hibernating all winter, clinging to spruce trees and eating their needles and bark, which are toxic to most other organisms. That is obvious when you crunch a needle that fell into your oatmeal.

So far, Cora has only

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Cora the Lab/blue heeler mix deciding to avoid the pipeline’s path up Thompson Pass northeast of Valdez. She and Ned Rozell walked the Richardson Highway instead. barked at them and has come back when I called.

Maybe she saw her buddy being wrestled and came to the conclusion that some things aren’t worth sticking your nose in.

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This was Yukon life 100 years ago

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ne hundred years ago, war was the dominant topic in the minds of Yukoners as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Great Warâ&#x20AC;? dragged on into its third year. Human life became an expendable commodity stalemate in the battlefields of France and Belgium.

The Yukon newspapers had reported upon the deaths of eight men who had volunteered from the southern Yukon: George Chapman, William Hare, Joseph Joyal, Harold Newton, Frank Polley, James Salvatore, Hugh Stewart, and Jack Taylor.

Another half dozen men from the south end of the territory would die in the brutal fighting that would occur in the final months of the war.

Germany had proclaimed open season upon American shipping to the Allies overseas, and the American public opinion had solidified against Germany after German submarines sank five American merchant vessels in March of 1917. After remaining neutral up to this point, the United States had finally declared war on Germany April 6, 1917.

To celebrate this new alliance, a Whitehorse committee decided to defer their Empire (Victoria) Day festivities until Saturday, June 2, so that Americans could participate. The White Pass and Yukon Route even put on a special excursion train to bring Yankees to Whitehorse for the joint celebration.

Speaking to this new alliance and the planned event in Whitehorse, the Skagway Daily Alaskan declared: â&#x20AC;&#x153;With British and Americans now allied in the war against Germany, the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes will float side by side with a new significance when Whitehorse, with the citizens of Skagway and Gastineau channel points participating, celebrates the Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday, Saturday, June 2.â&#x20AC;?

Friday night, the committee was planning to put on a â&#x20AC;&#x153;home talent vaudeville showâ&#x20AC;? in the North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) building at Third Avenue and Main Street, followed by dancing and a meal. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sports were planned for Saturday morning on Main Street, followed by baseball games.

A grand ball was sched-

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The Yukon River broke up late in May of 1917, but the community was spared from flooding. Front Street was still a cluster of old buildings that had survived since the gold rush. uled for the NSAA hall in the evening. The Skagway organizing committee had invited army officers and men from Fort Seward at Haines to participate, and was arranging for the Skagway home guard, 100 strong, to come to Whitehorse en masse. The Whitehorse Star noted that such visits had been going on between Whitehorse and Skagway since 1902.

The Star noted that cards had been received in Dawson from Robert Service and his wife announcing they were the proud parents of twins, Iris and Doris, who were born on Feb. 28. Posted beside this notice was the poem â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bob Smartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dream,â&#x20AC;? which had been penned by Service years before, when he was still â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Śa struggling cashier in the Canadian Bank of Commerce.â&#x20AC;? The poem forecast a rosy future for Whitehorse, 50 years hence.

Of greater note, perhaps, was the announcement by the Whitehorse Star, which celebrated its 17th volume of the newspaper in the April 20 edition. Under new management during the previous year, the Star was happy to announce that both its subscriptions and its advertising had increased.

Meanwhile, in Dawson City, the front page of the newspaper was filled, as it had been ever since the war began, with headlines about the conflict overseas. The largest headline for May 15 announced that the wharves

in Petrograd (Russia) were in flames. Fighting on the Balkan Front at Salonika were reported to be taking some of the pressure off the Western Front.

The United States, now in total war mode, announced plans to impose a luxury tax for the duration of the war.

All German mails have been terminated for the duration of the war, reported one article in the May 16 edition of the News, while another brief item stated that the total Canadian dead and injured had reached 90,000.

This last article was of particular interest to the people of Dawson, who had been reading about the mounting death tolls in the newspapers. To date, at least 30 Yukon volunteers had died serving their country.

The total would increase by twice again that number by the end of the war.

One of the by-products of the industrial-scale bloodshed, the wounded, were starting to come home.

Frederick Wright, a returning soldier, would be back in Dawson soon, reported the Dawson News May 14, 1917.

He would be the first returnee of more than a hundred of the thousand Yukoners who volunteered during the war. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wright was in some of the hardest fighting on the western front,â&#x20AC;? reported the Dawson Daily News, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and was wounded and sent back to Vancouver, where he was in a convalescent hospital for a time.â&#x20AC;Ś He was injured

in the leg, and has considerable of a limp and some pain yet, but he says he can work and that he is not looking for anyone else to support him so long as he can get about.â&#x20AC;?

Wright was already in Whitehorse, where he would be a fireman on the steamer Selkirk, once the Yukon River was open to transportation.

The break-up of the Yukon was late in coming in 1917. On May 14, ice moved down from above the mouth of the Klondike and piled up in huge ice bergs just below the mouth, while the ice broke up and flowed away gently from opposite St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hospital, at the north end. But the ice in front of the business section of Dawson held fast.

Early that morning, Dr. Faulkner had crossed the Yukon on the ice opposite Klondike City. Another man crossed opposite King Street, falling through the ice twice in doing so, but Charley Payson, the town â&#x20AC;&#x153;weatherologist,â&#x20AC;? crossed safely without even getting his feet wet.

The ice finally went out early in the morning of May 15, but the exact time could not be determined. The wire that ran from the ice up to the clock at Vincent Vescoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jewelery store, had failed to stop the clock as it was supposed to. Some bystanders watched the event, but could not swear to the minute that the ice broke, but it was believed to have been between 4 and 5 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock.

Meanwhile, ice from all

the streams above Dawson City was running gently in the Yukon throughout the day. By days end, the riverbanks on either side of the river were jammed with icebergs, but Dawson had once again been spared from flooding. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the

way it was 100 years ago in the Yukon.

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New winners crowned at Tour de Haines Junction

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pair of rising stars shined in the junction over the weekend.

A team veteran and a newbie won competitive divisions at the Tour de Haines Junction, May 14 and 15 in and around Haines Junction.

Whitehorse cyclists David Jackson and Veronica Porter topped the general classification for their respective divisions at the third annual event hosted by the U Kon Echelon Cycling Club.

Jackson has big plans for the season and he’s off to a good start.

“His goal is to go to the Canada Games this season, so he’s started this season off just on fire,” said U Kon coach Trena Irving. “(Olympic team cycling coach Houshang Amiri) has been his coach for the last year and obviously the planning, working with an expert coach like that, and the time he has put in, and everything his mother (Sarah Jackson) has done … all of that has paid off.”

Jackson, who also won the season opening time trial event last week, was the fastest expert male in all three stages over the weekend — Saturday’s 20-kilometre time trial and 40-km hill climb, and Sunday’s 100-km road race.

The 20-year-old, who won the sport men’s division last year, clinched the win finishing the three-stages with a combined time of five hours, one minute and 35 seconds, almost eight minutes ahead of twotime defending champ Rod Savoie of Whitehorse.

Whitehorse’s Mike Setterington placed third in expert men with a GC time of 5:57:15.

Porter took first in the under-15 girls with a combined time — after a 20km trial, 20-km climb and 52-km road — of 3:37:33.

Porter, who is an accomplished biathlete, just joined the U Kon club this year.

“Veronica is a super strong cyclist. It’s super to have her riding with us,” said Irving.

Mollie Fraser took second with a combined

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Above: Veronica Porter, left, and Mollie Fraser warm up before the start of the road race at the Tour de Haines Junction near Kathleen Lake on May 14. The event was the first of two U Kon Echelon will host in Haines Junction this season. Right: Expert men’s winner David Jackson leads Rod Savoie up a hill in the road race. time of 3:38:22 and Ava Irving-Staley third at 3:54:32. Fraser and Porter tied in the hill climb.

“They were trying to go over the line together,” said Irving. “I said to them, ‘I want you two to be friends and everything, but those last few feet, give her.’ But it’s sportsmanship. They wanted to show they worked together.”

Whitehorse’s Oscar Setterington was another to deliver a top-drawer performance with three first place finishes culminating in a GC win. Oscar took first in under-16 boys finishing with a combined time of 3:26:50 (on the same length courses at the U15 girls).

“Oscar Setterington is the other one standing out right now because he had a growth spurt and he’s on fire this year too,” said Irving. “He cleaned up in the youth division.”

Orin Gladwin took second at 4:05:01 and Clayton Chapman third at 4:18:29.

Other division winners include Irving in sport women, Stefan Gladwin in sport men, and Greta Gladwin in under-15 girls (shorter distance).

The U Kon club hopes to host a second set of races in Haines Junction later in the season.

“We hope to do a second one in August. We’re trying to get (Yukon Olympic cyclist) Zach Bell here for a camp and then we’ll

do a second one out there where we’re racing as part of the camp,” said Irving.

Haines Junction marked the first of two tour events in back to back weekends with U Kon hosting the Tour of Skagway this coming weekend.

The three-stage event will include a time trial in Fraser, B.C. Saturday morning, a road race Saturday afternoon and a hill climb Sunday morning.

“People don’t have to be a club member to come to the Tour of Skagway …

it’s open to the public, as long as they pay a fee,” said Irving.

For more information, or to register, contact Irving at trenairving@gmail. com.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Whitehorse

Bethany Church

Saturday Evening Mass: 7:00 pm Confessions before Mass & by appointment.

Monday 7:00 PM Novena Prayers & Adoration Tuesday through Friday: Mass 11:30 am

ALL WELCOME

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church 4th Avenue & Strickland Street

668-4079 tlc@northwestel.net pastor.tlc@northwestel.net EVERYONE WELCOME!

10:00 am

Riverdale Baptist Church 15 Duke Road, Whse 667-6620 Sunday Worship Service: 10:30 am Pastors: REV. GREG ANDERSON MICHELLE DREWITZ

www.rbchurch.ca AfÀliated with Canadian Baptist Ministries and Canadian Baptists of Western Canada

Baptist Church 2060 2ND AVENUE • 667-4889

www.whbc.ca Family Worship & Sunday School at 10:30 am

St. Nikolai Orthodox

Christian Mission

Saturday Vespers 5:00 pm Sunday Liturgy 10:00 am FR. JOHN GRYBA 332-4171 for information www.orthodoxwhitehorse.org

403 Lowe Street Mondays 5:15 to 6:15 pm

www.vajranorth.org • 667-6951

Christ Church Cathedral Anglican Dean Sean Murphy, Rector

TAGISH Community Church

Our Lady of Victory (Roman Catholic)

Meditation Drop-in • Everyone Welcome!

OFFICE HOURS: Mon-Fri 9:00 am to 12 Noon

10:30 am FAMILY WORSHIP WEEKLY CARE GROUP STUDIES Because He Cares, We Care.

633-4903

Vajra North Buddhist Meditation Society

1609 Birch St. (Porter Creek) 633-5385 “We’re Open Saturdays!”

Worship Service 11:00 am Wednesday 7:00 pm - Prayer Meeting All are welcome.

PASTOR NORAYR (Norman) HAJIAN

www.whitehorsenazarene.org

Rigdrol Dechen Ling,

(Roman Catholic)

4TH AVENUE & ELLIOTT STREET Sunday Communion Services 8:30 & 10:00 am Thursday Service 12:10 pm (Bag Lunch)

668-5530

Meets 1st & 3rd Sunday each Month Service starts at 4:00 pm Details, map and information at:

www.tagishcc.com 867-633-4903

ECKANKAR

Religion of the Light and Sound of God

For more information on monthly activities, call (867) 633-6594 or visit www.eckankar-yt.ca www.eckankar.org ALL ARE WELCOME.

Bahá’í Faith Box 31419, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6K8

For information on regular community activities in Whitehorse contact:

867.393.4335 whitehorselsa@gmail.com

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Meeting Times are 10:00 am at 108 Wickstrom Road

Calvary Baptist

The Salvation Army

1301 FIR STREET 633-2886

311-B Black Street • 668-2327

91806 Alaska Highway | Ph: 668-4877

Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 am Sunday Evening Worship 6:00 pm Wednesday Bible Study 7:30 pm

Sunday Church Services: 11:00 am

www.bethanychurch.ca

Pastor L.E. Harrison 633-4089

The Temple of Set

Church of the Northern Apostles

Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada First Service 10:00 - 11:00 am Sunday School (ages 0-12) 10:00 - 11:00 am Second Service 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

The World’s Premier Left Hand Path Religion

A not-for-prophet society. www.xeper.org canadian afÀliation information: northstarpylon@gmail.com

An Anglican/Episcopal Church Sunday Worship 10:00 AM Sunday School during Service, Sept to May

BISHOP LARRY ROBERTSON 45 Boxwood Crescent • Porter Creek 633-4032 • All Are Welcome

EVERYONE WELCOME!

Yukon Muslim Association 1154c 1st Ave • Entrance from Strickland

www.yukonmuslims.ca For further information about, and to discover Islam, please contact: Javed Muhammad (867) 332-8116 or Adil Khalik (867) 633-4078 or send an e-mail to info@yukonmuslims.ca

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Yukon Roller Girls hope to ‘krush’ Fairbanks in derby bout

Yukon Bears are Out and About!

To report unusual bear activity, call the TIPP line 24/7 toll-free at 1-800-661-0525.

For information on avoiding negative bear encounters, visit www.env.gov.yk.ca

Be alert. Be aware. Be prepared.

AMENDMENT TO DENTAL PROFESSION ACT AND REGULATIONS INVITATION TO COMMENT

MAY 19 – JUNE 26, 2017

The Department of Community Services is seeking input on proposed changes to the Dental Profession Act and regulations.

These proposed changes are intended to enable dental hygienists to provide services for which they are trained and to prepare a patient for an examination by a dentist. The proposed changes will also allow dental hygienists to provide these services for the Yukon Children’s Dental Program.

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Yukon Roller Girls captain Lindsay “Bonanza Babe” Agar hip-checks a jammer from Squamish’s Sea to Sky Sirens at the Smackdown in Derby Town last September in Whitehorse. The Yukon Roller Girls will host the Juneau Rollergirls on June 3.

Dental professionals and the public are invited to review proposed changes to the Dental Profession Act and regulations and provide their comments until June 26, 2017.

Highlights of the proposed changes can be viewed at http://www.community.gov.yk.ca/consumer/public_reviews.html.

Comments and feedback can be sent to the Professional Licensing & Regulatory Affairs Branch of Community Services at plra@gov.yk.ca.

For more information, call 667-5111, or 1-800-661-0408 ext. 5111.

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o one in Yukon is old enough to remember the Klondike Gold Rush, but there’s bound to be good memories made at the Klondike Gold Krush.

The Yukon Roller Girls will host the Fairbanks Rollergirls in a roller derby bout by that name in Whitehorse on June 3.

“It’s been quite some time since we last played them, so we’re super excited,” said YRG president Christy “Crack-Her” Huey.

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YRG haven’t faced the Fairbanks team since defeating them at the United We Roll Roller Derby Tournament — the Alaska state championship — en route to winning the championship in 2013.

The first-ever YRG bout in Whitehorse was between the two teams in 2011, with YRG taking the win then too.

Next month’s bout will be the YRG’s first of the year.

They lost 220-76 to the Sea to Sky Sirens from Squamish, B.C., last September in Whitehorse — their first at-home bout in three years.

It’ll be a chance to see some rookies in action. Five

YRG skaters will be competing in their first official bout, including Huey.

“There’s just a sense of excitement all around,” said Huey. “I’d definitely say we’re a little bit nervous, but our team is wonderful and our veteran players are so supportive.

“We’re just going out to have fun and whatever happens, happens. We’re all just really engaged in the sport and love playing the people that we’re playing with. The chance to expand our skills and play with other people is going to be so much fun.”

Though the YRG didn’t enter a team at the United We Roll championship at the start of the month in Wasilla, they made their presence known. Three YRG — Lindsay “Bonanza Babe” Agar, Andrea “Honey Badger” Badger and Aman-

da Couch, a.k.a. “Couch” — competed for the Juneau Rollergirls, helping them win the state title.

The June 3 bout will take place at the Mount McIntyre Rec Centre. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the whistle blows at 7 p.m. Tickets will soon be available at Well Read Books and Molotov & Bricks Tattoo. Kids under 10 get in free with a donation for the Whitehorse Food Bank For more information, or to volunteer, find the Yukon Roller Girls on Facebook.

“We are still looking for volunteers, so if there are people interested in helping out in any way — it takes a lot to put on an event like this,” said Huey. “We have a pretty small league right now, so the more people we can get involved the better.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

Dr. Pete Vaden, an EQUINE specialist,

Come out to Haines Junction to enjoy a day of soccer on May 27, 2017. Our annual last day in May soccer day is a go once again.

A Free event for children aged 5 to 18.

Join coaches and U15 players coming out to share their passion and skill with children and youths from Haines Junction and beyond.

Come spend a day or weekend in Haines Junction! Check out The Little Green Apple Grocery Store, The Village Bakery, Frosty Freeze and the new 1016 Mile Pub and the majestic Kluane National Park.

WHERE: WHEN: TIME: BRING:

St. Elias School Field, Haines Junction Saturday, May 27th 11am to 3 pm Running shoes, water bottle and comfy clothing and most importantly a great attitude.

QUESTIONS: Please Contact Cindi Cowie at St. Elias School at 867 634-2231.

will be available for appointments

May 26, 27 & 28 Dr. Vaden has over 35 years experience working with all aspects of equine medicine.

To book an appointment please call (867)

633-5700 107 Copper Road, Whitehorse F. (867) 633-5705 | E. clinic@alpinevet.ca

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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: physically or morally hardened

Puzzle A

I D R T E AU N

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: thug; especially : a violent criminal

Puzzle B

CLUES ACROSS 1. W. Loman’s failed son 5. Largest English dictionary (abbr.)

8. Wanes 12. Lifeless geologic period 14. No (Scottish) 15. Filled chocolate cookie 16. Circular chordophones 18. Short-term memory 19. Any small compartment 20. Poisonous gas 21. Cologne 22. Scaleless fishes

23. Ormolu 26. Well-known & respected 30. Man-made river embankment 31. Yearned after something 32. Before 33. Garlic mayonnaise 34. California white oak 39. CNN’s founder Turner 42. Removed contents 44. Frighten 46. Responded 47. “Extant” star

49. Aba ____ Honeymoon 50. Box (abbr.)

51. Reptile leather 56. Norse goddess of old age 57. Drive obliquely, as of a nail 58. Inspire with love 59. Affirm positively 60. European sea eagle 61. Congresswoman Giffords 62. Emit coherent radiation 63. Fall back time 64. Masses of fish eggs

17. Paris river 24. Confined condition (abbr.)

25. More than charged 26. A major division of geological time 27. Japanese apricot 28. Initial public offering 29. A quantity of no importance 35. Securities market 36. Sharp part of a tool 37. Downwind 38. Doctor of Education 40. Built up

41. Borrowers 42. Stray 43. Country singer Haggard 44. Eurasian marten pelts 45. Fashion magazine Marie ___ 47. Turkish candy 48. Regarding 49. Distribute game cards 52. Princess Anne’s daughter 53. Planned pipeline from Burgas to Vlore 54. An academic gown 55. Removes moisture

CLUES DOWN 1. Leavened rum cake 2. Moslem women’s garment 3. Quilting duo: ____ & Porter 4. S W Pacific state 5. The start of something 6. Edible 7. More coy 8. From 56 to 34 million years ago 9. Small wind 10. Disney heroine 11. Helios 13. Existing at birth but not hereditary

OHDLOMU

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: having a delicious sweet taste or smell

Puzzle C

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The successful candidate must possess a diploma in early childhood education or equivalent education to qualify for a level three childhood education certificate in the Yukon.

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EMPLOYMENT CENTRAL “Your Job Search Headquarters”

EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANT (Part-time, 11 hours per week) Be a part of one of Canada’s most dynamic environmental and socio-economic assessment processes; working with an energeƟc, progressive organizaƟon. We are commiƩed to the well-being of our employees and encourage their personal and professional development.

YESAB is an independent, arms-length body responsible for carrying out the assessment responsibiliƟes under the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act (YESAA).

Our commitment is to be an imparƟal, eīecƟve and eĸcient organizaƟon that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Dawson Designated Oĸce Full-Ɵme, one year term This posƟng is open to the general public.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Mayo Designated Oĸce Full-Ɵme, permanent This posƟng is exclusive to Mayo & surrounding area only.

The AdministraƟve Assistant posiƟon reports to the Manager, Designated Oĸce and is responsible for providing recepƟon and administraƟve support to the staī of the Designated Oĸce. Applicants should demonstrate their ability to work independently in a conĮdenƟal environment, with frequent interrupƟons, and their ability to mulƟ-task and prioriƟze their workload while maintaining a posiƟve aƫtude with both co-workers and the public. Applicants must have experience with MicrosoŌ Outlook, Word, Excel and Access.

Should you feel you have the qualiĮcaƟons and desire to meet the challenges of either of these exciƟng opportuniƟes please apply by forwarding a cover leƩer and résumé, clearly describing how your background and experience make you the ideal candidate for the preferred posiƟon.

ApplicaƟons must clearly idenƟfy which posiƟon is of interest; ambiguous submissions will not be considered.

ATCO Electric Yukon has been serving you since 1901.

We are looking for an energetic, client focused, friendly and knowledgeable person to join our team on a permanent part-time basis.

Location Whitehorse Requisition ID # 3651

For more information and a complete job description contact Jean Metropolit at 867-393-8274.

Please submit your cover letter and resume by June 2, 2017 to our office at: Suite 202-204 Black Street, or email ec@northwestel.net

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Employment Opportunity Climate Change Community Liaison Job Summary: Reporting to the Director of Circumpolar Relations, this position will help enable Yukon First Nations to successfully adapt to the negative impacts of climate change and capitalize on the positive impacts.

The position will be primarily tasked with supporting First nations governments and other organizations with First Nation membership, to develop climate change project ideas both mitigation and adaptation focused.

Hours: Full time term to March 31, 2018, with a possibility of extension

INCREASE YOUR REACH

For information, please visit: www.atco.com/careers/

Dease River First Nation Administrator

Please submit applicaƟons to: Finance and AdministraƟon Manager, YESAB Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9 Ph: 867.668.6420 Fax: 867.668.6425 or email to yesab@yesab.ca Toll free: 1.866.322.4040

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Customer Service Advisor – Entry Level

• Excellent customer service skills • Strong MS Word, Excel and knowledge of Access • Business Administrative/or Office Administration Certificate or Diploma or a combination of experience & education • Strong word processing skills • Able to multi-task and work with frequent interruptions • Knowledge of Yukon Labour Market

Educational Requirement: Post-secondary degree in environmental science, geography, anthropology, cultural studies, communications, or equivalent.

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Job descripƟons are available at: Dawson Designated Oĸce, 705 Church Street Mayo Designated Oĸce, First Avenue YESAB Head Oĸce, Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street in Whitehorse or on our website at www.yesab.ca.

ApplicaƟons must be received by end of day May 28, 2017.

ATCO Electric Yukon

Employment Central provides services to job seekers.

Services include computer workstations, labour market information, needs assessments and referral to a range of programs and services that assist individuals in becoming employed.

Candidates with an equivalent combination of training and/or work experience may be equally considered.

Salary: $53,989.64 to $67,486.42 per annum

Job Requirements: Travel to the communities and outside of Yukon Condition of Employment: Valid Yukon class 5 drivers’ license or equivalent Additional Information: The closing date for this competition is May 22nd at 4:30 p.m.

Only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted. Secondments may also be considered to fill this position.

For more information about the position please contact Merran Smith at (867) 393-9244. If you would like a copy of the job description or more information on how to apply please contact Roxanne LaCarte, Human Resource Manager at (867) 393-9237.

Please submit resumes to: Council of Yukon First Nations - Human Resources Email: human.resources@cyfn.net Phone: (867) 393-9237 Fax: (867) 668-6577 YUKON FIRST NATIONS PREFERENTIAL HIRING POLICY IS APPLICABLE. YOU MUST INDICATE YOUR FIRST NATION AFFILIATION ON YOUR RESUME OR COVER LETTER TO BE ELIGIBLE.

This position is the senior manager for the Dease River First Nation Government operations with the responsibility of implementing programs and services as identified in the comprehensive funding arrangements along with compliance reporting. This position reports directly to Chief and Council.

Primary Responsibilities • Acts as the liaison between Dease River First Nation and Canada, British Columbia on all program matters.

• Manages the annual audit exercise; including the fiscal year closure • Prepares annual fiscal year budgets for Council approval • Provides back up when required to the finance officer in maintaining a/p, a/c payroll functions.

• Insures compliance with INAC, First Nation Health Authority and SWWG reporting requirements on program delivery as identified in the funding agreements.

• Working with the operations manager identify and implement project activities under the Professional and Institutional Development initiative sponsored by INAC. • Manage human resources working closely with departments and Chief and Council ensuring labour standards and human rights are met.

Qualifications Dease River First Nation Administrator • Undergraduate degree in business or management or the equivalent combination of education and experience • 5 years working knowledge of accounting software, preferably with Quick Books • Strong financial management skills including development of annual program budgets • Working knowledge of current auditing practices in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles • Excellent communication skills, including verbal, written and presentation • Skilled in negotiating and conflict resolution • Working Knowledge in preparing materials and reports in support of compliance reporting.

• Experience working with INAC programs and initiatives • An understanding of Federal Funding Agreements and FNHA Agreements

How to apply: Resumes will be accepted until 4:30pm May 19, 2017 Resumes can be faxed to Attention: Chief Ruby Johnny at (250) 239-3003 Or e-mailed to wolf_kaska@hotmail.com References required. Salary negotiable Please Note: There will be a process of short listing applicants and only the applicants on the list will be interviewed.

Job Posting

The annual salary range for this posiƟon is $54,240.68 - $62,285.60.

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Wanted: Couple of baby cribs in good condition, reasonable price.

334-4625 if you have something available

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Childcare Available Newest Child Care in Whitehorse open.

24-service.

Now accepting infants, toddlers, preschool & school-age children. $100 discount for May & June enrolments.

GROW WITH JOY CHILD CARE 4040-th Ave 334-9191 growwjoy@northwestel.net

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

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

Daycare Centers MARANATHA PRE-SCHOOL DAYCARE NOC#4214 is looking for Early Childhood Educator full time, permanent, with ECE Level 3.

Wage is $22 per hour.

Email resume to maranathawhitehorse@gmail.com or call 668-7937

Merchandise for Sale

Appliances

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MasterCard

S.A. vouchers accepted.

Furniture

Free to anyone willing to pick up both, Kenmore front-loading electric washer/dryer, dryer works, washer needs new main bearing. 667-6544

2 computers, 1 great entry-level gaming computer running Linux, $299; 1 restored office computer w/ minor cosmetic damage and Windows 10 Pro, $80. Email for more info: lexowjason@gmail.com.

62” entertainment wall unit, shelves & glass door on right-hand side, cupboard underneath TV area, fits approx 40” TV, exc cond, $100. 6672922 Antique chest trunk, 1853, excellent condition, $180. 668-6808

Browning BLR 450 Marlin, stainless camo, $700. 668-6008 LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R NEW & USED 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY * SELL Marlin 1895 lever action 45-70, very good to like new condition, Williams aperture rear sight, 22” barrel, $750.

668-2396 T97 Flat Top Upper, like new, Weaver 3-9x40 scope, C Products mag, non-restricted Bullpup black rifle, $1,100. 335-2788 Wanted: Hunting rifle for big game, prefer .300 Win Magnum or .338.

Call/text/leave message 333-4653

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Service Station/Propane Attendant The Applicant must be able to work weekends and evenings.

Driver’s License & Propane Certification is required.

Wage is $13.50 - $17.50 / hour depending on experience (NOC Code 6621).

Group Insurance Benefits available.

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

This is a part time position (20 to 25 hrs/ wk) with a starting salary of $21/ hour. Raven offers innovative conditions of employment and flexible scheduling.

The Raven Recycling Society is a not-for-profit social enterprise that works to divert waste from Yukon landfills and educate the public.

Applicants must have the following qualifications: • Completion of post-secondary education in accounting and/or experience.

• Demonstrated working knowledge of Simply Accounting Pro and Excel • An oversized - no make that a gigantic sense of humour.

An environmental commitment would be an asset.

Drop off resume in person to 100 Galena Road.

Ask to see Joy or Danny.

Looking for a Journeyman Electrician with 3-5 years commercial experience.

Must be self-motivated, able to work in a high pace environment, and function well in a team.

Pay dependent on experience.

Apply in person to 106-101 Titanium way or e-mail resume to: ace-electrical@klondiker.com

8171935

Executive Assistant Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce Closing date: May 30, 2017 Full-time, Permanent Salary: Competitive wages with benefits

Teslin Tlingit Council is inviting resumes for

Capital & Infrastructure Director

Job Description: The Executive Assistant reports to the President of the Chamber and is the Office Manager - responsibilities include administrative functions, basic bookkeeping, public relations, project/special event organization and minute taking at Board meetings.

Requirements: • • • • • • •

Post secondary education/training or equivalent experience.

Event planning/organizing meetings experience.

Strong communication skills.

Enjoys working in a busy environment.

Able to handle a variety of responsibilities.

High level of computer skills.

Ability to work independently.

The Chamber needs en Executive Assistant who enjoys people, is innovative, highly productive and is able to work independently.

A high level of computer awareness is essential - website and data base management, desktop publishing. Knowledge of office procedures and strong communication and organizational skills are necessary.

Company Profile:

Your r Com mu nity Commu nity New spa per Newspa per. .

Integra Tire Whitehorse is looking to fill a full time permanent position consisting of 40 hours/week.

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Firearms

Binelli M4 semi-auto 12-gauge shotgun, new, $2,200 firm. 667-6008

Help Wanted

Roll-away cot with duvet, $25. 6336623

Computer CPU, monitor, keyboard, mouse for $180. Wireless keyboard $65. Wireless TouchPad $40. 6684186

8.5” mag-fed Grizzly 12 gauge shotgun, Magpul stock, 2 mags, Dlask forend, side saddle, perfect truck gun, $575. 335-2788

Advertising It’s good for you.

HELP WANTED

Complete 24” sluice box & Lister diesel pump w/approx 250’ of 4” aluminum Victaulic pipe. 332-2246

Raven is looking for a Bookkeeper.

EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery * Dry accurate cords *1/2 Cord Orders Accepted *Clean shavings available *VISA/MC accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Assoc Costs will rise ORDER NOW 456-7432

3 very solid wine bottle shelves, each for 80 bottles, $70 for all 3.

668-6808

Computer Equipment

Corner desk, metal with glass top, 61”x30”Hx24”D each side, great condition. 335-5388

2005 C25 Clark forklift, 4500 lb cap, 15’ lift, propane, side shift, $18,000.

333-4816

THEN WE HAVE THE JOB FOR YOU!

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Cheque, Cash

Apartment size washer & dryer, $100. 334-5032

White standard fridge, freezer on top, exc cond, $350; white propane range, exc cond, $850. 250-8027155 in Whitehorse

Beautiful coffee table with drawer for dining room, 112cm long, 65cm wide, 44 cm high. $80. 333-9604

The Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce is a business organization that has close to 500 members, a Board of Directors and a small staff working together to represent business interests in our community. The work environment is active, challenging and positive, with constant interaction among staff, Board members, the membership, other organizations, all levels of government and the public.

How to apply: If you have the skills and relevant experience, and if you like a position where you can be involved and make a difference, please forward your application to: Rick Karp, President Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce, 101-302 Steele Street Whitehorse Yukon, Y1A 2C5.

Phone: 867-667-7545 Fax: 867-667-4507 E-mail: president@whitehorsechamber.ca Website: www.whitehorsechamber.ca

TTC also welcomes Underfill Applications

TTC hiring policy will be in affect

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Applications must be received by the Workforce Development Department no later than 4:00 p.m. on

Monday, May 29, 2017 For more information, contact Workforce Development 390-2532. Ext 316 You may also fax your application to 390-2176 or Email to humanresources@teslin-ttc.com JOB DESCRIPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

The Teslin Tlingit Council (TTC) operates as a self-governing First Nation in the Village of Teslin, 180 kilometres southeast of Whitehorse. Teslin is a beautiful community situated at the confluence of the Nisutlin River and Teslin Lake offering a lifestyle attractive to people who enjoy small town life and outdoor recreation opportunities. The village is comprised of approximately 400 citizens and provides schooling to grade nine, a nursing station, general store, college campus and a large recreation complex.

Reporting to the Executive Director, this key senior management position establishes and directs Capital and Infrastructure services in accordance with the TTC’s mission statement, strategic plan and operational work plans. Supervising a variety of positions in the Capital and Infrastructure department, this position is a member of Management Board, and is responsible for the overall planning, organizing, implementing, controlling, and evaluating programs and project activities. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring that programs and projects identified in the TTC annual work plan are implemented.

Only applicants considered for interviews will be called.

BOX 133 • TESLIN, YUKON Y0A 1B0 • 867·390·2532 • http://www.ttc-teslin.com/

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Merchandise for Sale

Merchandise for Sale

Transportation

Transportation

Transportation

Merchandise for Sale

Heavy Duty Machinery

Misc. for Sale

Auto Accessories/Parts

Cars - Domestic

OffMotorcycles Road Vehicles

2008 Chev Uplander LS Ext, 165,054 kms, grey exterior, black/grey interior, Bridgestone Blizzak tires, 4 extra summer tires, Goodyear Intergrip, $6,300 obo.

334-3456, 333-3457, jenskel@hotmail.com

2009 Yamaha 1300cc street cruiser, low kms, serviced, last fall, new windshield, leather saddle bags, tires, plug in for heated accessory, reduced to $4,500. 333-9020

Heavy Duty Machinery

10x6 CORNELL PUMP MODEL: 6RBEM18 6 CYLINDER JD ENGINE ENGINE & PUMP JUST REBUILT; NEW SUCTION HOSE, SCREEN, FOOT VALVE. 3800 GALLONS PER MIN. AT 100 FT T.D.H. SEE PICTURES ON WEBSITE FOR RENT, SALE, OR RENTAL PURCHASE Email: a1cats@telus.net or call 780-538-1599 2013 Toolcat by Bobcat, a/c, aux hydraulics, heavy duty battery, c/w forks, general bucket, snow bucket, V plow, 1500 lb lift, 2000 dump box, 550 hrs, exc cond, $45,000. 3347635

Misc. for Sale 2-drawer metal filing cabinet, includes dividers, good for home use, $25; Baycrest sewing machine with buttonhole attachment, $20. 6336623.

2 Inuit prints, “Guided by Stars” by Mary Pudlat, $500; “High Kick, 1984”, by Agnes Nanogak, $300, oak frames, non-reflective glass.

332-0067 9+ used & new locks, door knobs, assorted, $65. 668-6808 Cabin solar system, includes panels, batteries, charge controller, inverter, and cables, $6,500 obo. 334-7296 for more info Canvas Tents & Wood Stoves Lowest Prices in Canada Tents will ship by Greyhound from Castlegar, BC Canvas Tent Shop www.canvastentshop.ca 1-800-234-1150 Call for Prices Da-Lite heavy duty fast fold deluxe projection screen, 11’ wide x 7’ 6” high, exc cond, transport case included, $800. Call 668-5014 Dark blue cement board siding, 1200 sqft, $2.50/sqft. Call for pictures or viewing, more at this price if needed. 335-3331 Double sized blow up mattress with pump. Only used twice for visitors.

Never outside, $50. 667-7715 Dress & sport fabric by the bag; various dishes including baking dishes.

Call 633-3463 for more info Electric masonry tile router, $50; electric tile cutter, $50. 334-0235 Free: 500 gal underground oil tank, empty, no leaks. Call 633-2575 FREE: Approx 90 sqft quality floor tile, light gray/beige. 667-2760 or yukoncamerons@klondiker.com Front wheel only, rim/tire/brake disc assembly, for fat tire bike, 26”x4” complete, $100. 633-4311 Gas lawn mower, $125. 335-1681 Invacare Meteor scooter, for outdoor use to assist with mobility issues, like new, $4,500 new, asking $1,750 obo, 867-994-2442, tsbaker@northwestel.net.

Iridium sat phone, comes with external antenna and other attachments, $800. 335-3331 Kodak 4600 slide projector. 6677715 Omni charger 21.A for Apple iPhone, new, $25. 334-8318 One 150 gal. Tidy Tank $ electric pump, $600; locking Somona Job Box, 2’x2’x4’, $200. 334-6101 after 6pm One 5 fold-up camper step, $200 obo. 334-6101 after 6pm One white wood door frame to fit door size 79” x 3’, $50. 668-2919 Orange Spilsberry XBX radio w/antenna, very good condition, $500 obo. 996-2509 Party Lite, large variety of candle holders, new, never used. 668-4186 Plastic water tank, never used, 30”Wx36”Hx56”L, $350; 1 300’ roll 2” blue lay-flat water hose, $150; 1 300’ roll 3” blue lay-flat water hose, $250, never used. 334-6101 Ron’s Small Engine Services Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATV’s, Small industrial equipment.

Light automotive & welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg Samsung stereo, 8” sub, in box, like new, $40 obo. 334-1846 Woods 3-star sleeping bag, canvas shell, goose down liner w/snap-in wool blanket, $175 obo. 332-0067

T-shirt/coffee mug/sports cards/vinyl sticker etc, small business/hobby, c/w heat press, printer, 34” cutter/plotter, plus enough inventory to easily make your investment.

334-1564 We will pay CASH for anything of value.

Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, rifles & ammo.

G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY * SELL

Misc. Wanted Tiny house on wheels, open house May 13 & 14, 200 sqft, bright, spacious, designed with Yukon winter in mind, $69,900. To view/more info call 335-3477 Wanted: 2 full-size railway rails.

332-7797 Wanted: Good used plywood, untreated, 5/8 or 3/4, 4x8 sheets.

Norm 456-7868 Wanted: Honda XR200R dirt bike.

332-7797 Wanted: Older washing machine for kid’s camp, free would be very appreciated. 633-3086 Wanted: Sterling Silver flatware set, at least 45-pc starter set, prefer case included. 334-8197 Yukon Learn is looking for Volunteers to sell Raffle Tickets. If you would like to volunteer, please call Yukon Learn at 668-6280.

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

Sporting Goods 16” Spawn Banshee bike, as new.

Best bike made for 5-7 yr old, $400.

633-4315 Eberlestock hunting pack, 44 litre.

Phantom Sniper, paid $515, asking $250 obo; Fjallraven Pack, 55 litre, $200 obo. Phone: 334-7071.

Everlast heavy bag, as new, $140; speed bag w/gloves, as new, $120.

456-4927 Globalstar GSP 1600 Trimode Satellite Phone, 2 lithium batteries and charge unit, user guide, excellent condition, $100 firm. 668-5014 Osprey Atmos 35 mens backpack.

Grey, clean exc cond. Don’t use it anymore. $100 obo. Call/text 3322352 Roubaix Elite Carbon Fact road bike

by Specialized, like new, carbon construction, low price at $1,220.

668-6808 to view/more info Two sets of golf clubs and carry bags, one left and one right handed, a few dozen golf balls with each, $100 each. 633-3113

Stereo / DVD / TV 2005 Dodge Caravan, 231,000kms, $2,000. 334-5032

Tools Blacksmith tools; forge, 80 lb anvil, $160; 120 lb cast iron leg vice, $200. 456-4927

Transportation

Auto Accessories/Parts 2005 F150 for parts, 4.6 auto engine, diff, hood, driver’s door; 1997 Dodge 3/4 ton 4x4, rough but all there; 6 Pathfinders, take one, take all. 334-0235 3 Toyota pick-ups, 90s, 4-Runners, $90; carburated 302 motor, like new, $400; Honda 4” trash pump, $1,750.

334-0235 4 good tires, 80% rubber with studs, 235/15/75, $200. 689-6194 4 used all season Goodyear Eagles, 225/55R17, tread depth 8/32. 6891450 4 used Hercules Avalanche winter tires, 225/50R17, tread depth 8/32.

Call/text 689-1450 4 wheels, 15”, 6 bolt, will fit Toyota/Nissan p/u-suv. Tires are mounted but no good. $150 for wheels, tires free. Call/test 332-2352 Corolla HydroEdge summer tires on factory OEM 15” alloy rims, set of 4, $500. 668-5014 New 305 V-8, $1,000 obo. 633-6502

Set of 4 winter tires with rims used on 2007 Prius. Used 2 winters of hwy driving.

Good shape.

195/60R15 92TXL, Nokian, Hakkapelitta 7, $300. Cindi 867-6891741 Sliding bed-extender for Frontier, $150. 668-5014

Nissan

Starter for 4.3L Chevy Blazer or GMC Jimmy, new in box, $140 obo.

334-1846 TRUCK CANOPIES in stock *New Dodge long/short box *New GM long/short box *New Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100

Cars - Domestic 1996 Jeep Cherokee, exc cond, n.

260,000kms, very well maintained, must be seen, $4,500 obo. 3356851

2009 Nissan Versa, 4 door sedan, automatic, gas mileage city, 26 miles/gallon, highway, 33 miles/ gallon, 113,175 kilometers on vehicle, non-smoking, winter tires on rims, $7,000. 633-2956.

2010 Camry, one owner, 128,000kms, remote start, 8-way power driver seat, block heater, loaded, great cond, upgrade package. 667-2966

Motorcycles

2010 Yamaha 250 Virago Star, like new cond, always stored in garage, 2,200kms, recently serviced at Yamaha, $5,400 new, asking $3,500. 335-1410 $

Off Road Vehicles Bombardier 650 quad, runs great, ready to work or play, great condition, $3,500 obo. 332-5181

Recreational/Sale 16’ trailer, beautiful shape, bath, shower, everything works. Real at 689-8487

1998 Virago II Hundred Special addition, 37,000kms, black, all original, $3,200. 667-7223

1996 truck camper, 10’ 6”, fridge with freezer, stove with oven, toilet, sink, shower, north/south bed, furnace, lots storage, well maintained, $8,000 obo. 660-4103

Misc Services

Misc Services

79,650.00

CATERPILLAR D-8K (1978)

c/w ripper, two blades, angle + “c” frame & straight with hardware

Tel: (867) 667-7777

Cars - Domestic 8171523

SALES • BODY SHOP • PARTS • SERVICE

1997 Chevy Lumina, V-6, auto, 4-dr, exc tires, clean, great on gas, $1,800 obo. 689-6254

2012 Can Am Spyder pyder

2001 Toyota Corolla, silver, runs well, serviced regularly, oil changed, good tires, great for work or new driver, 175,000kms, $3,900. 3932275

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2002 Ford Taurus LX, 4-dr sedan, A/C, P/W, P/B, seats 6, under 117,000km, clean & good condition, $3,600. 456-4696 2002 Mazda Miata MX5, 130,000kms, black, convertible, 6-spd manual, 2 owners, garage stored, exc cond, $8,500 obo. 3345047 2003 Taurus SEL, auto, moon roof, dark grey, last 200,000kms mostly highway, 328,000kms total, summer & winter tires, $2,800. 668-1103 2005 Mercedes-Benz, 248,649kms, loaded, all options, new snow tires, $6,500. 667-7777 2005 Nissan Altima, black, 160,000kms, 4-dr, fully loaded, great running order. 322-2404 2006 Ford Focus Wagon, set winter & summer tires (new) 4 cylinder, great gas mileage, hatchback with good storage, great condition, ready to drive away, $4500 obo. 334-3456 2007 Chevy Cobalt LTE, 170,000kms, 4-dr, 5-spd, power locks & windows, cruise, remote start, good tires, $4,500 firm. 6686911 2008 Toyota Yaris, 167,000 mi, new tires, snow tires, fresh battery, $5,900. 332-0067

Misc Services

3 Wheel ATV Green Mint! Like New!

13,900

2017 Chev 1500, 00, Crew 4x4, red hot color,r, free headache rack, rails and toolbox

13 DENVER ROAD in McCRAE • 668-6639

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2015 Ford F350 Sunseeker $ Class C Motorhome 18,900 $ 2012 Jeep Liberty, 4X4, RED 18,900 2013 Hyundai Accent 5dr hatch back WHITE $8,995 $ 2003 Ford E150 VAN WHITE 895 2012 Suzuki VH800 Touring Motorcycle $7,900 2011 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport Limited RED $15,900 2016 Ram 1500 Crew 4X4, 3K MILEAGE, BLACK $42,000 2013 Dodge Grand Caravan STOW ‘N’ GO, RED $16,500 $ 2013 Ford F150 S/C 4X4 XLT WHITE 22,900 $ 2009 Ford F150 Crew 4X4, PLATINUM MODEL 29,995 .....................................................................

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668-2963 Bobcat Services Now Available Excavating • Trucking Septic System • Driveways

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$199.00 to $399.00!!!!!

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Recreational/Sale

Recreational/Sale

Trucks & Vans

Trucks & Vans

1999 Western Wilderness 11’ camper, exc cond, full bath, toilet, 3-way stove, fridge, furnace, A/C, king bed, sleeps 6, $8,000. 334-2862

RV propane forced air furnace. 6336502

2007 Chevy Equinox Lt Fwd 3.4lt V6, auto, heated front seats, command start, 31.5” lightbar, great shape, 91,000kms good tires & glass, $9,800. 333-0380

2011 BMW X5, diesel, AWD SUV, command start, 4-way cameras, backup camera, panoramic sunroof, navigation, dual DVD players, reduced to $29,800. 333-9020

2007 GMC 3500 4X4 standard cab dually, duromax 6.6L turbo diesel, Allison auto transmission, remote start, 12’ flat deck with stakeboards, 82,000kms, great condition, $30,000. 334-7635

Utility Trailers

2000 Toyota 4-Runner & 2002 Streamline 22’ trailer, excellent condition, ready to drive away, $13,000.

668-2919 for more info

Timberline camper, high quality, 11.5’, rarely used, family layout, lots of storage, Atwood electrical jacks, 118L 3-way fridge/freezer, 80 watt solar panel, heated basement, sunroof, etc, $11,200. 668-6808

2008 28’ Toyhauler RV, loaded, genset inside & out, TV, shower.

335-3243

Wanted: 5th wheel hitch with rails, must fit 2009 Chev Silverado short box. 335-5980

2008 Adventurer camper 86 SBS with dinette slide, fits short box 1 tonne truck, well maintained, excellent condition, sleeps 4, bath with shower, $14,500 obo. 335-1128.

26’ Evergreen trailer, leather seats and chesterfield upholstery, lightweight, easy to haul, large frig, stove, oven, TV, multiple storage areas, $27,000. 633-3113 Model 2015 Sunseeker 2300, Ford E350 Chassis (2014), V-10, 39,000 miles, sleeps 6, very clean, fridge, freezer, 3 burner stove/oven, microwave, hot water heater, bathroom with shower, fantastic fan, u-shape dinette, queen size bed, Serta mattress, huge outside storage, GPS, back-up camera, dual pane windows, heated tanks, and more extras. $47,500 + GST. For more information or to view: rentals@klondikerv.com or 867-334-7043

Sport Utility Vehicle 2012 Dodge Journey RT, AWD, V6 auto, most options, 2 sets of tires & wheels, must sell, $17,745 obo.

333-0186 or 667-7774

Trucks & Vans 1995 Chevrolet S10, automatic, no reverse, no rust, engine runs well, 259,780kms, canopy, c/w 2 sets of good tires, best offer. 633-4826 1995 Chevy, K-3500, 4x4, 180,000 km, many new parts, new tires, runs great, $5500. 335-333119 1997 GMC 3/4 ton diesel, 2WD, automatic, single cab, long box, canopy, good condition, $4,000; 8’ GMC box trailer, 3/4 ton, will sell together or separately, both white. 334-2862 2007 Chev 2500HD crew cab 4x4 great unit, 190,000 kms, many options, trailer tow, fully serviced, new brakes & battery, $13,500 obo. 6334311.

In Memoriam

In Memoriam

IN LOVING MEMORY

2007 Sierra 1500 4x4, 5.3l vortec, exc cond, ext’d cab, long box, tow pkg, tonneau cover, 250,000km.

867-993-3134

8x14 flat bed utility trailer, two ft. steel rail, 3500 pound torque axle, new 14” tiers, new bearings, build in scissor ramp, lights work, $1,500.

334-9951 TAIT’S 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

2008 Ford 250 Superduty diesel crew cab, good condition, $11,500.

332-8393 2008 Ford F250 4X4, crew cab, SB, $7,500 obo. 335-3243 2009 Ford Taurus X Limited AWD SUV, air, cruise, tilt, AM/FM/CD, P/W, P/L, mirrors, seats, tailgate 7-passenger, heated leather, memory seats, moon roof, must sell, $9,975 obo. 667-7774

19’ motor boat w/inboarder and 21’ trailer, $4000 obo. 633-4826

Obituaries

Obituaries

Boats

Karen Olsen

If roses grow in Heaven Lord, please pick a bunch for me e Place them in my Mother’ss arms And tell her they’re from me.

10 Years Y

Tell her that we love & miss her And when she turns to smile Please place a kiss upon her cheek And hold her for while.

missing you!

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Stanley Keays

Peacefully slipped away on May 9, 2017 at the hospital in Watson Lake.

Stan moved to the Yukon from Northern Ontario as a young man and enjoyed life in the Yukon and his career in the Äre towers with the Federal Government.

He loved the people in the Yukon and had many close friends.

He was predeceased by his parents Annie and Lindsay Keays and his sister Shirley Fisher.

He will be sadly missed by friends, his sister and brother-in-law Carolyn and Bob MacArthur and nieces and nephews.

FRIDAY, MAY 19

2017

She will be missed by: Mother Rae, brothers Rick and Duncan, sisters Chris and Ingrid, and daughters Molly and Katie and by her grand children, Jordan, Ryder, Drew, Landon and too many friends and family to mention.

HOURS OF OPERATION FOR THE SHELTER: Tues - Fri: 12:00pm-7:00pm Sat 10:00am-6:00pm CLOSED Sundays & Mondays

Help control the pet overpopulation problem have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL

633-6019

Annual General Meeting on TUESDAY, MAY 30TH Location Whitehorse Public Library Time 7:00 pm

It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Karen on Monday, May 8, 2017 at her home in Roberts Creek, B.C.

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

Trigger

Emmie

Dayze

Lydia

Bronson

Max

Chief

Reba

Jigz

Master Shifu

L.J.

Nala

Harley

Salt

Max

A celebration of life was held in Roberts Creek on Friday, May 12th.

Because remembering her is easy We do it every day But there’s an ache within our hearts That will never go away.

With all our love from Jeanette & Pete, Kristie & Kurt and all your loving family & friends.

633-6019

1957 - 2017

She was pre-deceased by: Father Pat, first husband Rob, second husband Tim, and daughter Sara.

April 10, 1916 - May 21, 2007

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Brent Walden We’re sad to announce the sudden passing of Brent on May 4, 2017 at the age of 62.

Brent was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta and moved to the Yukon in the late 1970s.

He spent the first few years working for United Keno Hill Mine.

When it shutdown, he settled at Marsh Lake and began a 30-year career with the City of Whitehorse. In 2005, he became a journeyman electrician and after retiring from the city he started his own business, Keno City Electric.

In his younger years he enjoyed camping, fishing, dogsledding and snowmobiling. Later he spent his spare time trying to strike it rich on his gold claims.

Brent had a kind and generous soul and will be missed by the many who knew him.

And more...

Oscar

Morris

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

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Services

Services

Boats

Electrical

Roofing & Skylights

Livestock

Need A Roof?

ALPHA ROOFING CONTRACTOR Residential * Commercial New Roof * Shingles Roof Inspection Re-roof * Leak Repair Torch-on * Tin Roof Journeyman High Quality Workmanship 332-4076

Heston 540 Roundbaler, field ready, like new. 393-3477

140 hp, 4 cyl, OMC, inboard complete out board drive with steering and throttle linkage, new prop, etc, steady compression, runs well. Pics and video available. 335-3331 16’ Hourston Glasscraft. good condition, spare parts, reconditioned seats, 60hp motor in excellent condition, with EZload trailer, downriggers, 2 gas cans, $4500. 335-3331 18’ Ally folding canoe in green with spray skirt, stable, high load capacity, 47 lbs, compact for portage or floatplane, $1,200. 668-5014 1984 Zeta 24’ Hard Top, 350/260 leg, 15hp kicker, dingy, BBQ, galley, head, canvas enclosure, GPS chart plotter fishfinder, radio, sleeps 5, tandem trailer, rough water boat, bottom paint. Call for price. 3321374 or 633-6506 2002 MacGregor 26 X power sailboat with Honda 50 op outboard engine, easy to tow trailer, sleeps 6, porta potty, stove, water ballast, full canvas, $18,500 obo. 633-5804 Aluminum Boat 20 XCalibur Legend, 115 4 stroke Mercury, canopy, trailer, premium package, great Yukon boat, $21,000. 332-7125 Infiniti whitewater kayak, 11.5’, paddle, spray skirt. $600 obo. 633-4311 PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49 MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 Rangeley 17-foot square stern royalex recreation/fishing boat in olive by Esquif. 51” beam, 3 seats, comes with oars, rated for 8hp short shaft, excellent condition, $2,600. 6685014 YUKAN CANOE Canoe Instruction Courses Learn to Canoe with Yukan Canoe.

We provide a safe, supportive and fun environment for you to learn or perfect your paddling skills.

Many courses available: Intro, Whitewater, Lapie River, Swift Water Rescue, solo or tandem.

We provide all needed gear.

Check out our schedule at WWW.YUKANCANOE.COM

Services

Home Care HOME CARE AID I am a Qualified, Experienced Home Care Aid. Are you looking for a companion, someone for errands, appointments, respite or light housekeeping?

I can help!

Call me. 333-9398

Carpentry/ Woodwork JOSEF GRAF PAINTING Certified Journeyman for 20 seasons Residential & Commercial Free estimates & Consultations 335-2300 Master quality in the Yukon 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

Cleaning Services CLEAR SPACE...ARE YOU READY? I will help you clear your clutter, clear your mind, lighten your load & make room for new possibilities.

Clear Space also offers spring and bi-weekly cleaning.

Call Sue @ Clear Space 334-1010

SIMA ELECTRIC *Since 2004 *Renovations *Service work *Trouble-shooting *Free estimates *Reasonable rates Call Jacques at 334-1176

Home Repairs HANDYMAN SERVICES 24-7 *Renovations * Repairs *Restorations * Maintenance

*Furniture Repair *Small Appliance Repair *Interior/Exterior Painting *Gutter Cleaning *Pressure Washing *Window Washing

393-2275

Misc Services BACKHAULS Whitehorse to Alberta.

Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc. Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems 667-2050 FOR SALE NATIVE BRAIN-TANNED HIDES and Tanned Beaver Pelts at reasonable prices.

Phone (780)355-3557 If no one available please leave message or call (780)461-9677 FROSTY’S PLUMBING, HEATING, GAS and FIREWOOD SERVICES Plumbing repairs and installations.

Special on firewood: May 1 - July 31, $200 per cord, Fox Lake burn wood.

Call Frosty @ 867-689-8671 frostysfirewood@gmail.com LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

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

Painting & Decorating 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

Legal Notices

Pets & Livestock

Livestock 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 springnot prime) $5 Nielsen Farms Maureen 333-0615

Legal Notices

Liquor Corporation

LIQUOR ACT New Licence T Existing Licence T TAKE NOTICE THAT, Chi Tung Lau, of 8181 8th Ave., Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1T1, is making application for changes to a Food Primary - All liquor licence(s), in respect of the premises known as Morikawa Sushi situated at 102 Wood Street in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Any person who wishes to object to the granting of this application should file their objection in writing (with reasons) to: President, Yukon Liquor Corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4P9 no later than 4:30pm on the 24th day of May, 2017 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant.

The first time of publication of notice is May 5, 2017.

The second time of publication of notice is May 12, 2017.

The third time of publication of notice is May 19, 2017.

Any questions concerning this specific notice are to be directed to Licensing & Inspections, Yukon Liquor Corporation 867-667-5245 or toll-free 1-800-661-0408, x 5245.

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Pets & Livestock

HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix No weeds or sticks Small squares 60 lbs plus 4 ft x 5 ft rounds 800 lbs Free delivery for larger orders Straw square bales available 335-5192 * 668-7218 WEANER PIGLETS for sale Available Immediately Leave a message at 667-2568

Legal Notices

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS The Estate of ROBERT NEIL MAIR All claims against the Estate of ROBERT NEIL MAIR, late of Whitehorse, in the Yukon Territory who died on or about the 8th day of April, 2016 must be made by filing a statutory declaration with the personal representative noted below on or before the 9th day of June, 2017 after which date the Estate will be distributed having regard only to the claims of which the Estate Trustee then shall have notice.

Joseph Ray Shannon Benoit, Executor of the Estate of Robert Neil Mair c/o Tucker Carruthers 301-303 Alexander Street Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2L5 Attention: Kyle J. Carruthers DATED at Whitehorse Yukon, this 15th day of May, 2017.

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Liquor Corporation

LIQUOR ACT Existing Licence T New Licence T TAKE NOTICE THAT, Dustin Davis of Cabin Fever Adventures of P.O. Box 120, Carcross, Yukon Y0B 1B0, is making application for changes to extend the licence area with the addition of a patio liquor licence(s), in respect of the premises known as Bistro on Bennett situated at The Commons, Carcross, Y0B 1B0, Carcross, Yukon.

Any person who wishes to object to the granting of this application should file their objection in writing (with reasons) to: President, Yukon Liquor Corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4P9 no later than 4:30 pm on the 24th day of May, 2017 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant.

The first time of publication of notice is May 5, 2017.

The second time of publication of notice is May 12, 2017.

The third time of publication of notice is May 19, 2017.

Any questions concerning this specific notice are to be directed to Licensing & Inspections, Yukon Liquor Corporation 867-667-5245 or toll-free 1-800-661-0408, x 5245.

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Pets & Livestock

Announcements

Announcements

Announcements

Announcements

Livestock

Pet Services

Coming Events

Coming Events

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Tenders

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

Hereford beef - $5.50/lb Domestic pork - $5/lb Domestic wild boar - $6/lb Order now for guaranteed spring or fall delivery.

Whole, half or custom order.

Samples available 668-7218 * 335-5192

CANINES & COMPANY Dog Obedience School Classes Starting: May 23 and June 27 Tracking & Dog Puller Intro May 20-21 Private Lessons School Rental for Groups For info call 867-333-0505 www.caninesandcompany.ca

2017 Predators Dog Puller Summer Championship Saturday, June 3, 2017, 9:00-3:00 at Shipyards Park.

Running, jumping, puppies, newbies. Fast, fun, exciting. Spectators welcome. More info Carol Foster 668-3556.

50th Anniversary of Braeburn Lake Christian Camp 2018, planning meeting, Wednesday, May 24, 7PM, United Church. We’d love to have your ideas!

AGM and Appreciation Party, Dog Powered Sports Association, May 26th @ 6pm at Muktuk Adventures, Board members needed! Free movie: “Dog Power”, Free BBQ, cash bar, chili cook off, sign up: dogpoweredsports@gmail.com Are you interested in reducing human-wildlife conflict? Looking for a dynamic board to join? Come to our AGM. We look forward to seeing you there, June 1st, 7:30pm, Whitehorse Public Library

Al-Anon Meetings, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someone’s drinking? Wednesday 12Noon @ new Sara Steele Bldg, main entrance. Friday beginner’s meeting, 7pm, regular meeting 8pm at Lutheran Church, 4th and Strickland.

FASSY Parent/Caregiver Support Meeting Thursday May 25 at 6:30pm at the FASSY Office, 4041B 4th Ave. All are welcome. 393-4948 for info.

Advertising It’s good for you.

Yukon Grown Hay Top quality Timothy and Brome hay.

60 lb bales $12 to $16 per bale Delivery Available Ph: 867-634-2666 moe484@gmail.com

2 pet carriers, one for small animal, one for medium animal, $20 for both. 633-6623

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PUBLIC TENDER

PUBLIC TENDER SURPLUS TRAILER IN DAWSON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 7, 2017.

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 Robert Hinchey at robert.hinchey@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/

www.yukon-news.com

Attn: All artists and crafts people.

Cranberry Fair is now accepting applications for Nov. 26th sale. Info and application: cranberryfair@live.com or visit our new website: www.cranberryfair.com Application deadline July 31st.

Golden Horn School Community Garage Sale Saturday June 3, 9am3pm. Rent a table for $10 to sell your items or donate to the school for fund raising. Contact ameliakenny1@gmail.com

Co-Ed Soccer registration, ages 18-65+, games Mondays & Wednesdays, 7:30pm-9pm, Vanier Field, cost $70, May-September.

Info & registration @ http://yukonsoccer.yk.ca/coed/

he FASSY AGM will be held on Wednesday May 24 at the FASSY office 414B - Fourth Avenue at 7 pm. All are Welcome!

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PUBLIC TENDER

STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT(S) FOR THE SUPPLY OF STATIONERY SUPPLIES FOR CENTRAL STORES

STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT (SOA) FOR THE SUPPLY OF GENUINE PACCAR PARTS & ACCESSORIES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF YUKON

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 8, 2017.

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 Betty Monahan at betty.monahan@gov.yk.ca.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 8, 2017.

Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Jenny Richards at jenny. richards@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

SUPPLY OF EDUCTION SERVICES HAINES JUNCTION/BEAVER CREEK AREA YUKON, 2017-2018 Project Description: To provide all labour, equipment, and material required for the supply of eduction services for the Government of Yukon outhouses, holding tanks, and septic tanks Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 8, 2017.

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 Myran McLaughlin at myran.mclaughlin@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/

PRODUCE AND STOCKPILE VARIOUS AGGREGATES AND BLEND SAND-SALT MATERIAL AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS: ALASKA HIGHWAY #1 AND KLONDIKE HIGHWAY #2 YUKON 2017-2018 Project Description: This project includes clearing, grubbing, stripping, room and board, environmental compliance, and various combinations of producing, blending, hauling, and stockpiling of aggregates and sand-salt material at various locations on the Alaska Highway, Klondike Highway, Haines Road, and Tagish Road.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 7, 2017.

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 David Lorenzi at david.lorenzi@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy may apply to this project.

Bidders and/or Proponents are advised to review documents to determine CertiÀcate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

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

Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire

Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu

Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise

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

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

PM17-005

Andrew Heslip

Bonanza Creek, Tributary of Klondike River

Placer

June 13, 2017

STAINED GLASS ARTWORK

PM17-015

Canyon Mining Ltd

Multiple Watercourses, Tributary of Jarvis River

Placer

June 13, 2017

PM17-052

Deryk Law

Dominion Creek and Groundwater, Tributary of Indian River

Placer

June 13, 2017

PM17-053

M2 Gold Mines Ltd

Sixty Mile River and Twelve Mile Creek, Tributary of Yukon River

Placer

June 13, 2017

Village of Haines Junction

For the Atrium of the St. Elias Convention Centre The Art Acquisition Selection Committee, on behalf of the Village Of Haines Junction, invites proposals from artists for a piece of stained glass artwork to be placed in a window of the Atrium of the St. Elias Convention Centre.

Information packages may be obtained from ƥ the St. Elias Convention Centre or from the Village Website at www.hainesjunctionyukon.com.

Highways and Public Works

FH Collins Grads of 1977 are having a 40th Grad Reunion July 14 to 16, 2017 in Whitehorse. If you are interested in attending please email: 40thGradReunion2017@gmail.com

PUBLIC TENDER

Deadline for proposals will be 5.00 p.m., May 31, 2017 For further information, please contact ƥ ȋͤͣ͢Ȍ ͢͟͠Ǧͣ͜͝​͜

Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice.

Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.

Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis.

Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.

Friday, May 19, 2017

Announcements

YUKON NEWS

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yukon-news.com

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Coming Events

Coming Events

Coming Events

Lost & Found

Hospice Walking Group: Mondays May 29 - June 19, 6:30-8pm. Walk the Millennium trail with others on their grieving journey. To register: 667-7429 or administrator@hospiceyukon.net 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, 11:30-3.

667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net Interfaith Potluck Dinner Thursday May 25, 5:30-9pm at Lewis Hall (Whitehorse United Church) 6th & Main Please do not include pork, beef or alcohol in your dish.

All welcome.

Seniors amateur dart shooting starting October 3, 2017. Bring your own beverage. For more info contact Allan at 867-689-4946, phone or text

Yukon Bird Club is hosting early bird walks along the Yukon River every Monday until July 3. Meet at Shipyards Park at 7 am. (1 hr) Everyone welcome.

LOST: Kokatat life jacket, yellow, between Rotary Park & Whitehorse City intake. 335-1993

Join the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition for a Community Meal and AGM, Thursday, May 25th 5 pm at CYO Hall.

Information: 334-9317.

Everyone welcome!

Lawrence Hill, author, Odd Fellows Hall, KIAC, Tuesday, May 23, 7:00p.m. In partnership with Dawson City Library. Free.

Lawrence Hill, author, Wednesday, May 24: 7:30p.m., Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, Longhouse. Presented

by Whitehorse Public Library. Free.

LOOKING FOR donations of household items for Humane Society sale. Please drop off at the Shelter, 126 Tlingit Road, any day of the week. No televisions or computers please.

Marsh Lake Emergency Services Society invites residents of Marsh Lake to the Annual General Meeting and barbecue on May 23, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. at the Fire Hall.

Northern Backyard gardening program, 7-week Growers group has 2 spots open, May 25-September, learn to grow and get the produce you grow. More info 667-7083 LMCA or mountlorne.yk.net Puck Pockets will hold their AGM on Saturday June 03, 2017 at 13:30 hrs at 17-9th ave Whitehorse, Yukon.

Queer Yukon: upcoming events for the LGBTQ+ allies community.

Community Clean Up, May 13.

Yukon Pride, June 10. www.queeryukon.com.

Rendezvous Rotary Club 21st Lobster Dinner & Kitchen party, Friday May 26, Mt. McIntyre Rec Centre, 5:30pm-9pm, also famous BBQ ribs, Keitha Clark and The Slainte North Band, silent auction, tickets $60 at Yukon Inn or call 633-8526, for Shelterbox Canada and local projects Summer gun show, July 29, Gold Rush Inn. Interested? Call 667-2278

Tenders

PUBLIC TENDER 3 FUEL OIL TANK REPLACEMENTS, YUKON HOUSING UNITS, HAINES JUNCTION Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 8, 2017.

Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon.

Technical questions may be directed to Bill Greer at bill.greer@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

Ted Harrison Artist Retreat Society is holding its AGM on Tuesday, June 6 at 12Noon at the MacBride Museum. Everyone is welcome!

The Reuse & Repair Fair is happening June 3rd. This Free event features workshops on repair, artwork created from redesigned materials, live music and a beer garden. From noon - 5pm at Winterlong Brewery on Mt. Sima Rd. The Teen Parent Centre is now offering New Summer Childcare to the Whitehorse Community. Registration now open for preschool to school-age through June 15th to Aug 18th. For info: info@teenparentcentreyukon.ca The Whitehorse Curling Club is hosting its AGM in the club lounge starting at 7pm on Wednesday, May 24th. The Board of Directors encourages all members to attend.

The Yukon Child Care Association will be hosting its annual general meeting on June 2 at 1pm . Location Whitehorse Westmark banquet room.

Winter Trio presents concert of jazz & improvised music to welcome in warmer weather. Hamilton & Son Guitar Works. 3165-3rd Ave. Friday, May 19, 7:30-9:30pm, $20 at the door, cash only, wintertrio.com Yukon Humane Society AGM Tuesday, May 30, 7pm in Library Meeting Room. Everyone welcome.

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Yukon Orienteering Association, May 24 World Orienteering Day meet will be on the Downtown map.

Register Shipyards Park at 6:00 pm.

For info call Jim at 668-2639

Personals N.A. Meetings - Wed 7pm-8:30pm 404A Ogilvie St, BYTE Office; Fri: 7pm-8:30pm - 4071 4th Ave, Many Rivers; Sunday 7pm-8:30pm, BYTE Office, 404A Ogilvie St. Whitehorse Duplicate Bridge Club May 16, 2017 1st - Mark Davey & Paula Pasquali 2nd - Stan Marinoske & Jay Whitfield 3rd - Bob Walsh & Jack Cable 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.com

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Lost & Found Found: camera bag with camera on Alaska Hwy between airport and Valleyview Monday May 15. Call to describe the bag, list it’s contents and identify the make/model of camera. 336-3000 Lost: Cat in Whistlebend near the pond, neutered male Siamese-Tabby X. Pale grey, white chest, tabby legs & tail. Mocha, 17.5 yrs old, declawed, metal hip. Ran off during aftershocks. Karin, 667-4209 h, 6673441 w

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SATURDAY, MAY 20TH COPPER RIDGE

T 64 GRIZZLY CIRCLE, COPPER RIDGE, Saturday May 20, 8am-2pm, multi-family, no early birds please

GRANGER T 3 GILLIS PLACE, GRANGER, Saturday May 20, 9am-12Noon, business wear clothing, formal wear, shoes, recreational gear, dishes, baking supplies

JUDAS CREEK T LOT 49, JUDAS CREEK, Saturday May 20, 10am-2pm, multi-family, furniture, bikes, exercise equipment, house plants, kennels, gardening supplies, outdoor, household, cookbooks, rain or shine

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T 72 CIRQUE PLACE, MT. SIMA, turn on Moraine Dr. across from golf course, Saturday May 20, 9am-12:30pm, multi-family, kid’s stuff, toys, kitchen appliances, household goods & décor, pictures, sports gear, bikes

TAKHINI - NORTHLAND MHP T 15 NORTHLAND TRAILER PARK, 986 RANGE RD, Saturday May 20, 10am-2pm, spring cleaning garage & bake sale, different range of items for all ages, no early birds

Sudoku:

T 21 NORTHLAND TRAILER PARK, 986 RANGE RD, Saturday May 20, 9am starting time, multi-family, small furnishings, knick knacks, art items, kitchen, ladies fun clothing, rain or shine

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T 11 & 12 NORTHLAND TRAILER PARK, 986 RANGE RD, Saturday May 20, 9am-3pm, camping gear, fishing poles, clothing mostly women and kids, tools, hh items, much more.

NORTH KLONDIKE HWY/MAYO ROAD Teslin Tlingit Council will be releasing 11 residential lots in the Sawmill Subdivision, by way of a lottery

T VISTA ROAD, FIRST DRIVEWAY ON LEFT, North Klondike Highway, Saturday May 20, 9am-3 pm, no early birds please, moving sale, wardrobe, dresser, bookshelf, BBQ, lamp, cooler, microwave, large desk, reclining chair, coat rack etc

Kakuro:

T 5.3 MAYO ROAD, WATCH FOR SIGN, Friday May 19, 3pm-6pm, & Saturday May 20, 10am-2pm, lots of household goods, furniture. Call 335-5283 for more info

The TTC Department of Lands and Resources will be accepting applications for consideration in the lottery until

PORTER CREEK T 1201A GROVE ST, PORTER CREEK, Saturday May 20, 8am-12noon T 4 OAK STREET, PORTER CREEK, Saturday May 20, 10am-2pm, lots of tools, 3 compressors, furniture, new/used tires, new home theatre, 2 Honda generators, 250 gal water tank, etc.

5:00 pm on May 31, 2017 Application packages can be picked up at the TTC Lands and Resources office in Teslin, at the TTC Whitehorse office, or by email. All applications must be submitted to and deemed complete by the Lands and Environmental Technician by the deadline noted above.

RIVERDALE T 2 VAN GORDA PLACE, RIVERDALE, Saturday May 20, 9am-1pm, Traila-bike, dressers, golf clubs, Party Lite candle holders, goalie bag, kid’s hockey gear, lamps, books, etc

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TAGISH RIVER ROAD T 30 TAGISH RIVER ROAD, Saturday May 20, 9am-2pm, household goods, sporting goods, tools

Eligibility • 19 years of age or older • TTC Citizen (for the first round of lottery) • Do not currently hold a lease or allocation on Settlement Land in the greater Teslin area (50km in either direction along the Alaska Highway) For applications and more information, please contact the TTC Department of Lands and Resources in person, by phone at 867-390-2532 ext. 373 or by email at lands.reception@ttc-teslin.com

SUNDAY, MAY 21ST JUDAS CREEK T LOT 49, JUDAS CREEK, Sunday May 21, 10am-2pm, multi-family, furniture, bikes, exercise equipment, house plants, kennels, gardening supplies, outdoor, household, cookbooks, rain or shine

Word Scramble A: Indurate B: hoodlum C: luscious

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Spring Tea For Yukon’s Retired Teachers and their guests Wednesday May 24, at F.H. Collins Secondary School starting at 3:00 pm.

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T 72 CIRQUE PLACE, MT. SIMA, turn on Moraine Dr. across from golf course, Sunday May 21, 9am-12:30pm, multi-family, kid’s stuff, toys, kitchen appliances, household goods & décor, pictures, sports gear, bikes

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