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Not a chance Northern Cross name change will affect $2.2B lawsuit against YG Lori Garrison News Reporter

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he recent name change by the Yukon-based oil company from Northern Cross to Chance Oil and Gas will not impact its $2.2 billion lawsuit against the Yukon government, the company says.

The suit, launched April 4, is over what Chance calls a moratorium on fracking in the Eagle Plains Basin.

The government has said it only wants to allow fracking developments in the the Liard Basin.

“The lawsuit and the name change are separate issues,” said company president Richard Wyman.

“The only thing that’s changed is the name. But in the last 10 months there have been some changes here.”

Wyman said these changes were “triggered” by the departure of the company’s majority shareholder, China National Offshore Oil Corporation.

CNOOC pulled out of Northern Cross in October 2016, which forced the

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An exploratory site near Eagle Plains owned by Chance Oil and Gas Limited, formerly Northern Cross, is seen in April. company to restructure, said Wyman.

“They sold out — now the company is 100 per cent Canadian-owned and directed,” he said.

Chance will be focusing on smaller-scale projects in “geological settings where fracking doesn’t need to be used,” said Wyman. “(CNOOC) did not really express much interest in the kinds of operations in the geological areas I’ve described. They preferred operations where (fracking

could be used),” he said.

“Chance is small enough that we don’t need shale operations to work for us.”

Wyman said what he calls the moratorium on fracking in the Eagle Plains Basin has made this kind of change necessary.

“Until such time as the moratorium is lifted, there will be no hydraulic fracking by us,” he said.

Chance will invest in small-scale projects spread over longer periods of time, to encourage the participation of local

business, he said, in order to financially benefit local communities.

“There have been changes in the way we’ve been organizing ourselves so there will be more obvious and clear lines of sight in our engagement with communities and First Nations,” he said.

“There is a much stronger willingness to establish benefits sharing by people within the Yukon, especially First Nations when activities take place in their traditional territories.”

These smaller scale projects will also have a “smaller environmental impact,” Wyman said.

The name, Chance, is derived from the name of a creek which flows into the Whitestone River and then joins the Porcupine River. The creek drains north by northwest from the company’s Eagle Plains Basin exploration site. The name is also influenced by the name of a discovery license issued in the 1980s, after oil was discovered in the Chance Sandstone in the 1960s, Wyman said.

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It’s a zoo: Animal issues make up most Whitehorse bylaw complaints Jackie Hong News Reporter

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nimal issues make up the majority of complaints Whitehorse’s bylaw services department receives every year, according to data provided by the city.

Of the roughly 2,300 complaints bylaw services fielded annually since 2012, about 70 per cent are related to issues like dogs and cats at large, dogs offleash and excessive barking. The department also gets the occasional call about livestock — perhaps a horse, cow or pig — that has escaped its enclosure and wandered into city limits.

Animal-related complaints crop up so often, in fact, that two of the department’s five general-duty investigators are primarily designated to animal control, bylaw services supervisor Tom Wyers said.

Other common complaints include “maintenance” issues, which can

include everything from an unmowed lawn to excessive noise, and traffic and parking problems.

Depending on the situation, some complaints may be resolved the same day, while others take several weeks of investigation.

Investigators have about 30 files on the go at any given time.

The department received 2,310 complaints in 2012, 2,423 complaints in 2013, 2,561 complaints in 2014, 2,154 complaints in 2015 and 2,226 complaints in 2016. As of the end of July this year, bylaw services had fielded 1,397 calls for service.

What investigators don’t often do, though, are patrols looking for bylaw infractions, something not everyone’s happy about.

Long-time Porter Creek resident Marlene Koppang spoke at Monday’s standing committee meeting, expressing frustration at cyclists and skateboarders she said she often sees riding on sidewalks

downtown, despite bylaws forbidding them to ride on sidewalks in an area bounded on the north by Wood Street, the east by Front Street on the south

by Elliott Street, and on the west by Fifth Avenue.

In a phone interview, Koppang said she’s seen the bylaws broken “numerous times” and pedestrians nearly hit by cyclists or skateboarders, but has never seen a bylaw officer around to enforce the rules. She added she’s never called in a complaint because by the time an investigator got there, the offender would be long gone.

“When you see this going on and you don’t see anyone doing something about it, to me, it’s crazy,” she said. “I don’t know what they’re doing with their time.”

Wyers, however, said the department simply doesn’t have the resources to do patrols or station investigators in one place to wait for something to happen.

“Like any other department in the city, we’re a smaller department and we’re aptly employed with the number of complaints that we get coming in to respond to,” he said.

“Officers are expected to be proactive if they come across something, but we’re not out there looking for it just because we don’t have the capacity to do that.”

Bylaw services also responds to all complaints it receives, Wyers added, although some responses may take longer than others.

“It all comes down to priority,” he explained. “An aggressive dog as opposed to someone not cutting their grass — which one are we going to work on first? It’s all priority-based, but all complaints get followed up on. People may not like the speed it gets done, but like any enforcement agency, that’s the nature of the beast.”

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Unhappy trails: Decision to scrap greenways committee surprises some councillors Lori Garrison News Reporter

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he proposed dissolution of the Whitehorse trails and greenways committee caused some discord among council at the July 31 standing committee meeting.

Coun. Roslyn Woodcock said the unofficial decision to disband the WTGC, which has been an advisory council to the city since 2007, was discussed with council at a regular meeting on advisory boards July 13. Some council members, however, took issue with Mayor Dan Curtis and Woodcock’s decision to bring this to the attention of trails committee members at their regularly scheduled meeting July 20.

The disbandment had not yet gone before council for a formal vote, and was therefore unofficial, despite the notification of the WTGC. “I was a bit surprised … to find we had officially disbanded the trails and greenways committee,” said Coun. Dan Boyd with a hint of sarcasm. “I would have liked to have it brought before council before we officially decide what to do.”

The minutes of the July 20 WTGC meeting note, at item three, that “senior administration had a meeting with mayor and council and it was determined by council that the trails and greenways committee will not function past the completion of the 2007 trail plan concluding at the end of 2017. The committee was unofficially disbanded at the end of this meeting. Council will officially disband the Whitehorse trails and greenways committee at an upcoming council meeting.”

Woodcock, who sits on

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A runner uses the trail in Whistle Bend. the trails committee as an ex-officio member (she observes proceedings and answers questions but doesn’t have a vote) said telling committee members the WTGC is being shut down was the right thing to do. The WTGC does not traditionally meet in August, so to not say anything to members would have meant they would have assumed they were returning in September, Woodcock said.

“I was not going to not tell them. I wasn’t going to wait until September,” said Woodcock in a post-meeting interview.

“It was identified as not a responsible thing to do bring it before council without telling the committee that this was what the

council was thinking to do,” said acting city manager Linda Rapp.

At particular issue was a comment made by Curtis, where Curtis said he felt it was “not that the committee had failed the council but that the council had failed the committee.”

“I, too, like Coun. Boyd was surprised to hear of this through local media outlets,” said Coun. Samson Hartland. “This was an unofficial disbanding with a message we (the council) were not aware was going to be delivered.”

“How is it that we have failed this committee?” asked Boyd.

There were some calls for the minutes of the July 20 WTGC meeting be altered

to show that Curtis was not speaking for council. The trails committee’s meetings are available online, but are limited to decisions, and do not include detailed proceedings.

Woodcock said she also felt council had “disappointed” the committee.

“I want it noted that I don’t want the minutes to shift to such a degree that that is not clear,” she said.

Curtis said the WTGC was already considered “in sunset,” meaning it was going to be phased out at some point in 2017.

“In this year or within the next, when the next set of trails come up, (previous committee members) would be reached out to to see if they would like to partici-

pate again,” Curtis said.

The decision to disband the WTGC “came to a head,” said Woodcock, discussion about trails in Whistle Bend.

Members felt the relationship with council deteriorated, Curtis said.

“I can’t speak for the WTGC,” Woodcock said, “but I think they felt that individual delegates and lobby groups were receiving more weight than the committee.”

Woodock said members understood the decision to disband the committee but were disappointed.

“People were in tears,” said Woodcock. “This (committee) is a huge deal to them. They’re very passionate about this. For some people on the WTGC, this is thousands and thousands of

volunteer hours.”

Woodcock said for her two years on council, trails have been a highly charged issue. She said at one point, someone threatened a trails committee member and police had to be called in to intervene. Woodcock declined to elaborate.

Woodcock said there are “vexatious complainers” about trails issues.

“I don’t know how it is that the jewel of our community … can be so contentious,” she said. “I find it endlessly frustrating and fascinating.”

The formal council vote to disband the committee will take place in September.

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Dawson’s former McDonald Lodge could be saved from destruction Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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lans to tear down the former Alexander McDonald Lodge continuing care facility in Dawson City are on pause.

“The community has asked us to have another look at it, we’re going to have another look at it. I’m not going to say one way or the other whether we keep it or it goes,” said Highways and Public Works Minister Richard Mostyn August 2.

“We’ll work with the

community to come up with the most responsible way to meet the needs of the community.”

The building, which has been empty since a new facility opened last year, has had its interior gutted to the studs and all the hazardous material removed from inside, Mostyn said.

“We’re at the stage now where it’s just sort of a framed-in building with nothing inside.”

Last year officials with Highways and Public Works said saving the building was not financial-

ly viable.

Keeping it as a continuing care facility would have cost $8 million, a spokesperson said at the time, $2 million to bring the building into basic code compliance and another $6 million to upgrade it to “modern care standards.”

“Renovating the building to be something other than a continuing care facility was not specifically looked at but would certainly cost more than building a new building on that site,” the spokesperson said.

Mostyn said he wants to take a closer look.

No deadline has been set for a final decision on the building’s future. The minister would not speculate into how the building could be used if it is saved.

While in opposition, Premier Sandy Silver, who is MLA for the Klondike, was critical of the former Yukon Party government’s decision to knock it down, claiming the former government was “hell-bent on tearing it down.”

A $226,000 contract was awarded to a Whitehorse

company to demolish the building and deal with the hazardous material. Mostyn couldn’t say what this change would mean for the contract.

Community members have suggested turning the building into residences for students attending the Yukon School of Visual Arts.

SOVA has been struggling to attract enough students for its year-long fine arts program.

Enrolment has dropped so dramatically that this year’s class could be

cancelled. The Yukon Department of Education hasn’t announced whether enough students are enrolled for the program to run.

Education Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee confirmed earlier this week that six students have enrolled in the program.

Despite a report by CBC that six is the minimum number required, McPhee said no final decision has been made.

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Public comments open on proposed coal prospecting project Lori Garrison News Reporter

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proposal to explore for coal under review by the Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Board is now open for public comment.

The project would take place 90 kilometres northwest of Whitehorse, 20 km off the North Klondike Highway at Division Mountain.

If approved by YESAB, it would cover prospecting for coal and last for two years. It would include drilling up to 10 holes up to 1000 metres deep, mechanical digging, geological and prospecting mapping, creating a one-kilometre long access trail, cleaning of existing trails and water use.

The proposed project site is located within the

traditional territories of the Champagne and Aishihik, Little Salmon Carmacks, Kwanlin Dun and Ta’an Kwach’an First Nations.

Lewis Rifkind, energy analyst for the Yukon Conservation Society, said coal is not currently used as a fuel source anywhere in the Yukon, although it was mined for heat in the Gold Rush days. Large coal claims still exist in the Braeburn and Peel areas, he said.

The Yukon Energy Mines and Resources webpage lists coal as “a local energy resource that has the potential to supply both local needs and export markets.”

“It’s basically a small project,” said Rifkind. “It’s not the end of the world, from a mining perspective … but what they’re looking for (coal) is extremely envi-

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If coal were found, it would likely be sent to China or Korea for export, but “we will get it right back in the form of pollution and climate change,” he said.

“This is exactly the kind of mining you don’t want up here if you’re concerned about the environment.”

The project proponent, Kevin Brewer, is a consultant geologist and works for 2560344 Ontario Inc., a small company owned by Toronto-based Forbes and Manhattan Group. He said the project is extremely small in scope, with a budget of only $100,000, and has to do with acquisitions from a small company called Pitchblack Resources.

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The company was involved in remediation work in the Peel region, and won an environmental award, Brewer said.

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When asked why prospect for coal at all, Brewer

declined to say. But he said “when you are a new public company, you need a new qualifying transaction.”

“In regards to coal for us in the Yukon, this is a non-story,” he said.

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portion of land adjacent to the Winterlong Brewing from greenspace to industrial.

The up-and-coming Whitehorse micro-brewery Winterlong has applied to acquire a portion of vacant city-owned land in order to expand its business, council heard at the July 31 standing committee meeting.

The brewery, located at 83 Mt. Sima Rd., wants to build a second building on the property and add more parking. Overflow parking is currently along the road, which some residents have

identified as a potential safety concern.

Some councillors questioned the size of the land request, stating that it looked like more space than the brewery needed.

“It seems the existing land would be sufficient,” said Coun. Betty Irwin. “What kind of expansion are they planning to do?”

Council will put the zoning amendment to first reading at the August 7 council meeting.

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concerned about bicycles and skateboards being ridden on sidewalks in the main downtown area, which bylaw prohibits.

“Numerous times this bylaw has been broken,” she said.

Koppang said she had recently seen a “little old lady” nearly knocked down by a cyclist on the sidewalk when she was coming out of Paradise Alley.

“Why haven’t I seen bylaw officers in this area? I would like to know what they are doing with their working hours.”

Koppang said that what she saw as a failure of bylaw to enforce these issues lead to loss of income for the city from ticketing.

Koppang was once a member of the now-defunct group, Citizens on Patrol.

When she was finished she thanked council for listening to “her rant.”

Mayor Dan Curtis said this was not the venue to address Koppang’s questions, but that council would look into it.

“I promise you, we will get responses to you,” he said.

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Changes to Yukon recycling regulations mean money for milk jugs Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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eturning your milk jugs to the local recycling depot will now net you a nickel.

About a year after they were originally going to be introduced, the Yukon’s new beverage container regulations are now the law of the land.

For the first time the regulations include containers for milk and milk substitutes like almond milk.

Those containers will now have a 10-cent surcharge added to them at checkout. Shoppers get five cents back if they return the container to a recycling depot.

“We are also catching up to most other justifications in Canada which do have milk containers in their beverage container recycling program,” said Sarah Chan, the acting manager of standards and approvals for Environment

Yukon coroner investigating sudden deaths The Yukon Coroner’s Service is investigating two separate, “non-suspicious” deaths that occurred near Haines Junction and Whitehorse Sunday and Monday mornings, respectively.

In the first instance, Haines Junction RCMP and Destruction Bay Emergency Medical Services were called to the Slims River Bridge around 8 a.m.

Sunday after reports of a man in medical distress.

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The new regulations have been simplified, putting all beverage containers into three categories.

Beverage containers other than milk that are less than 750 ml also have a 10-cent surcharge with a five-cent refund. Beverage containers of exactly 750 ml or more come with a 35-cent surcharge and a 25-cent refund.

In the old regulations that higher surcharge was reserved for containers of a litre or more, Chan said.

Money collected from these surcharges goes to the territory’s recycling fund. That’s the money that is supposed to pay for getting recyclables out of the territory.

Yukon’s Department of Community Services, which manages the fund, couldn’t say by deadline how much money the changes are expected to add to the fund.

“While all of the fund is used for recycling, costs ar-

en’t 100 per cent covered — it’s not yet self-sustaining,” spokesperson Amanda Couch wrote in an email.

“Depending on the beverage container type, the consumer-paid non-refundable surcharge covers 40 to 96 per cent of the cost.”

The territorial and municipal governments pay recyclers diversion credits to help make up the difference.

Joy Snyder, the executive director of Raven Recycling, said adding milk containers to the Yukon’s system is progress.

“It increases the number of containers that are part of a system that pays for the recycling of the material and that’s what we’ve been asking all along,” she said.

Snyder said “number two” plastic jugs like the ones used for milk are “very easy to get rid of.”

That plastic is bought by a company in Vancouver that breaks it down into

57-year-old man had left Cottonwood Park for a run about half an hour earlier before going into medical distress near the bridge.

Passersby performed CPR on the man before emergency personnel arrived, but he was later pronounced dead on scene.

In the second case, Whitehorse RCMP, Yukon Emergency Medical Services and the Yukon Coroner were called Monday morning after a report of a sudden death in Whitehorse’s Hillcrest neighbourhood. The body of a 35-year-old man was found at the scene.

Neither death is considered suspicious and the Yukon Coroner’s Service is leading both investigations.

(Jackie Hong)

Yukon sends more firefighters to B.C. Yukon Wildland Fire Management has sent additional firefighting personnel down to British Columbia to assist the province in getting its wildfires under control.

Sixteen initial attack firefighters as well as an airtanker group were deployed to Prince George, B.C., over the weekend.

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Glass bottles at Raven Recycling. Containers for milk and milk substitutes are now refundable. chips and sends it around the world to be made into other things, she said.

But along with the more lucrative plastics, the recyclers will also be getting

containers that Raven has to pay to get rid of, she said.

“In this case we get good number two plastic but we’re also going to get

“We are pleased to provide this additional support to B.C. in their time of need,” Minister of Community Services John Streicker said in a press release. “Our fire situation has quieted down now and as a result we have the resources available to provide further assistance.

They helped us earlier this season when we needed it; now it’s our turn to help

them.”

The group joins the 34 firefighters and four incident management staff who the Yukon deployed to British Columbia last week.

The territory has also sent down 40 pumps to assist in the firefighting effort, and earlier this month, the Yukon Government donated $25,000 to the Canadian Red Cross to aid with the relief efforts for residents

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According to the BC Wildfire Service website, there were 117 active wildfires in the province as of midnight on Tuesday.

The current fire danger rating throughout the Yukon is low or moderate with the exception of Old Crow, where two new lightning-caused fires were reported Monday.

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Last year the former Yukon Party government announced it was postponing amending two sets of recycling regulations to consult with industry.

The next group of regulations slated to get updated is the territory’s designated materials regulation, which will add surcharges on tires, electronics and electrical products. Those regulations will be implemented on Feb. 1, 2018.

Snyder said some customers arrived at Raven on August 1 with milk containers they had been saving up to get the five cent refund.

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ricing carbon is about much more than getting people to drive less. It’s also about generating the money we need to accelerate the process of getting our economy off fossil fuels and onto renewables.

If a nationwide price on carbon is going to be successful, getting this part right is crucial.

Our whole economic system creates dependence on fossil fuels. This is bigger than tax and royalty structures, but these structures matter. A lot. Fossil fuels are still subsidized. The natural gas boom has left prices low. This has stunted large-scale uptake in renewable energy technologies.

And overreliance on hydroelectricity isn’t helping.

As an institution working towards zero emissions by 2035, the University of Winnipeg knows this first hand. In 1990, university buildings and owned vehicles emitted 3,132 tonnes of CO2 equivalent. In 2015, occupying 38 per cent more space than we did in 1990, we emitted 2,129 tonnes.

That’s a 32 per cent reduction in absolute emissions despite a period of rapid campus expansion.

The University of Winnipeg has already mirrored Canada’s emission reduction commitments under the Paris climate accord. And it’s done so in a way that will pay for itself in about eight years. The next target is to achieve a 50 per cent reduction in emissions comparing 1990 to 2020, with or without a carbon price, which we think is achievable. However, our university is also pretty sure we can’t get to zero unless revenues from the price help tip the scales away from the artificially low cost of fossil fuels.

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Lori Garrison ise for replacing fossil fuels and expensive hydroelectricity as heating sources.

But in every instance, the university’s capacity to implement these technologies to their fullest is limited by the cost relative to fossil fuel alternatives. That won’t stop us from nibbling at the edges and implementing what we can while being good stewards of public funds. But if we’re going to stop emitting, we need to do better than nibble at the edges.

To do better, energy economics need to change. Solar, wind, geothermal and sustainable biomass need to become viable alternatives to fossil fuels.

This is where the carbon tax comes in.

By using carbon price revenues to invest in Canada’s growing renewables industries, provinces can tip the scales. They can narrow the price gap.

Especially in these early years of carbon pricing, using revenues to narrow this price gap can have a bigger impact than the behaviour change induced by a modestly higher price on fossil fuels.

A carbon price will change behaviour but for it to change behaviour to the extent necessary, it will have to be substantially higher than the prices we see today.

When the B.C. government published its 2008 climate plan, it projected emission reductions from its carbon tax would account for only nine per cent of the reductions re-

quired to meet its 2020 target. In its climate plan, California expected to achieve 85 per cent of its 2020 emission reduction commitments through measures distinct from its cap-and-trade system.

Quebec’s approach is a step in the right direction. By 2020, the province’s cap-andtrade system is expected to have generated $2.445 billion in revenues. These revenues are paying for other emission reduction initiatives identified in the province’s 20132020 climate action plan.

Climate change is already costing Canadians money and it will cost us more.

The federal government spent more on recovering from large-scale natural disasters between 2009 and 2015 than it did in the previous 39 fiscal years combined. And this years’ wildfire season appears poised to add to this trend. In 2011, the National Roundtable on the Economy and the Environment estimated that climate change would cost Canada between $21 billion and $43 billion per year by the 2050.

Using the revenues from carbon pricing to invest in the transition away from fossil fuel dependence now will help us mitigate the costs taxpayers are already incurring because we failed to act sooner.

The number of bears killed around Whitehorse is unsettling.

I know bears are dangerous, difficult to predict, threatening, and scary when you meet one face to face. I’ve had four such encounters and I don’t want more.

I indeed respect all the things that humans should do to avoid bear contact and that we should deal with property and personal attractants. But recent reporting said the bear was “aggressive.” I think bears are allowed to be aggressive. They can defend their young. They can stake their territory.

They can be curious and get close to things.

They can even charge. Most bear awareness

instructs us, among other things, to stand our ground, which is often effective, as bears are posturing to make a point. They can also break away at the last minute. That is indeed frightening, but does not make the bear a problem. Very often, they will let you back away.

I know this is not always the case and that we’ve had some tragedies. But in the recent Whistle Bend event, key information was discovered afterwards — that the sow had a cub. That is more than an adequate reason for aggressive behaviour. When coming into contact with people, a bear in a compost container, greenbelt or neighbourhood does not to my mind automatically constitute a habituated bear or a problem

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bear. They can be deterred. They can be passing through. They can move on or be frightened away. Even seeing the same bear more than once is not, in itself, a problem.

Of course, if a person is defending human life from imminent physical injury, by all means, use any means necessary to save that life, including a gun. But if that danger is no longer immediate then are there other actions that can result other than deciding to kill the bear in order to save it.

Attractants are a significant part of the problem, but are we too quick to use the gun as a solution?

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Health care: can’t live with it, can’t get ‘skinny repeal’ through the Senate

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t had been a while since I stayed up to watch a voice vote in the United States Senate, but last week’s events in Washington D.C. were high drama for political junkies.

Repealing the Affordable Care Act (better known as Obamacare) had been a central plank of the Republican Party’s 2016 election campaign and the focus of its legislative efforts for years.

But as is often the case in politics, it is much easier to be against something than to offer up your own ideas for how things might be done better. Since taking control of the White House and Congress, the GOP had struggled to find a consensus on what to replace Obamacare with as the stark consequences of simply returning the preObamacare era became

clear to the public. Each plan offered up by the Republicans was projected to lead to more Americans returning to the ranks of the uninsured.

Last Thursday’s vote on the so-called “skinny” repeal of Obamacare was widely seen as a last ditch effort (for now at least).

The drama arose because pundits had tallied up the known votes for and against and realized that the fate of Obamacare hinged on the vote of a single senator — Arizona Republican John McCain.

The unpredictable McCain had not committed to one side of the other, had given mixed signals about his intentions and held his cards close to his chest until the very last moment.

Opposition to Obamacare had been an effective political foil for Republicans because it offered Republicans an opportunity to reach beyond their base and secure support from bread and butter voters who had been “losers” under the previous President’s signature legislation.

And Obamacare was certainly not perfect.

While it succeeded in securing health insurance for millions of Americans, premiums have risen substantially in recent years and some of the tweaks to insurance markets haven’t exactly gone according to plan. The so-called “individual mandate,” which requires those without insurance to buy it or face fines, was irksome for Americans who don’t like being told what to do, as well as young healthy people with other priorities.

Conservative Republicans also hated an increase in government-funded Medicaid for poorer Americans, and various tax measures aimed to pay for it all.

But ultimately those who stood to lose if Obamacare was repealed had made their voices heard as well in recent months. In the absence of something better to replace Obamacare with the end result is the status quo will remain for the time being.

After the vote, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — stung by defeat on such a high-profile issue — made no secret his frustration with those Democrats and

moderate Republicans who had scuttled his efforts.

He accused his opponents of offering no solutions of their own and lashed out at those who preferred “socialized” and “European-style” health care. That line of argument probably fell flat with the handful of Europeans and Canadians watching late-night legislative coverage.

America’s inability to establish a health care system that provides coverage for all is a bewildering sight for many of us north of the border.

But it is important not to be smug, because we are far from perfect.

Those who have ever faced the frustration of long waiting times for vital surgery, or spent days or weeks sitting in overstretched hospitals know that not everything is sunshine and rainbows on our side of the border.

For those in need of timely care, our underfunded health care system can feel like a smothering nightmare you can’t wake up from.

Socialized medicine by definition means surrendering to society our indi-

vidual power to decide how much money we want to spend on health care. The amount of money that is spent on health care in our country is almost exclusively a collective decision.

That would be just fine and dandy if we all gave health care the prominence it deserves but Canadians have too often been distracted by other shiny objects. For years we have underfunded this crucial pillar of our society. Decisions about health care spending get subjected to the same crass politicking, and retail politics of public decision making, not to mention the buck-passing of federal-provincial relations.

Those who would prefer to devote more money to our ailing health care system so everyone can get better care have enjoyed middling success and have no choice but to accept the collective decision making of Ottawa or their province or territory.

That is a bitter pill to swallow for some. For those suffering with serious ailments alike treatment tends to be priority number one. No sum of money

is too small to get the care and service one needs. It is the frustration with this apathy towards health care spending that drives calls for two tier health care, and court challenges to the prohibition of pay-for-access when waiting lists are so dreadfully long.

On a whole, I’ll take the equality of service we enjoy here in Canada over the dysfunction of the American system any day.

Obamacare attempted, however imperfectly, to remedy gross moral failing of a wealthy society that allowed the so many to fall into a dreaded choice between foregoing care or going broke trying to pay for it.

But I can also understand the reluctance of some Americans to give up control over such a deeply personal and fundamental important matter like health care to the whims of collective decision making.

There’s little guarantee that one’s fellow citizens will take our lives and those of our loved ones as seriously as we do.

Kyle Carruthers is a born-and-raised Yukoner who lives and practises law in Whitehorse.

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Yukon soccer team cements landmark finish with win over N.W.T. Tom Patrick News Reporter

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ukon’s first soccer goal of this week’s Canada Summer Games turned out to be a history maker.

With the goal, Yukon took a 1-0 win over rival territory N.W.T. in female soccer Aug. 1 in Winnipeg.

It’s Yukon’s first win in female soccer at the Canada Games since beating N.W.T. in 2005.

Yukon will now play Team Newfoundland and Labrador in the ninth/10th place match on Wednesday.

Win or lose, it will the Yukon’s highest ever finish in soccer — male or female — at the Games.

It’ll also mark the first time Yukon finishes ahead of a province with the team guaranteed to place better than New Brunswick.

“I think we’re all pretty excited,” said Yukon co-captain Malorie Hanson. “It was great to have a win — and score a goal. It’s exciting to play our game a little more too and play offensively, so I think everybody is pretty pumped.

“I definitely think we’re improving with experience, getting a little better every game, getting our feet under us.”

Yukon scored the game-winning goal in the 38th minute on a corner kick. Hanson, who plays attacking midfielder, took the kick that went off an N.W.T. player and in.

Goalkeeper Jayden Demchuk was in net for the shutout and left fullback Alice Frost-Hanberg was named Yukon’s Player

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“We controlled big parts of the game and had a lot more success in our attack because we were able to generate a large percentage of possession,” said Yukon head coach Jake Hanson. “We were starting to create chances but were still hoping to create more and get to goal a little bit better than we did today.

But we did get the goal we needed to go through, so everybody was happy about that.”

Yukon opened the Games with a 9-0 loss to Quebec on Saturday and a 6-0 loss to Saskatchewan on Sunday.

Newfoundland lost 1-0 to B.C. and tied Alberta 1-1 before beating New Brunswick 3-0 in their match on Tuesday.

“They’ve been doing really well lately, so we’ll do our best and, I don’t know if we’ll come out with a win, but we’ll definitely play as hard as we possibly can,” said Malorie Hanson.

“It’ll be our last game so we’ll try to leave it all on the field.”

Yukon’s female team went winless in 2013, a Games in which N.W.T. didn’t field a female team.

The 2009 Yukon team lost their final match to N.W.T. to place last (12th).

The match against Newfoundland will take place today at 1:30 p.m.

Yukon time and can be streamed through the Canada Games website.

“I am over the moon,” said Yukon co-captain and centre back Jamie Joe-Hudson. “This is such an amazing opportunity.

It’s going to be a historical game, so win or lose we’ll play our hearts out and no matter the result it’s going to be a great game.”

The male soccer competition will take place in week two of the Games.

Basketball With three losses each,

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Yukon’s Samantha Ng, left, fights for the ball against a Quebec player at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg on July 29. Yukon defeated N.W.T. 1-0 on Tuesday to secure the highest finish ever for a Yukon soccer team at the Canada Games.

Yukon’s Ryan Hindson looks to score against Quebec on Monday.

Yukon’s two basketball teams have been dispatched to the placement rounds.

So far Yukon’s male team has lost 107-45 to Saskatchewan, 122-45 to New Brunswick and then 131-41 to Quebec on Monday in the Round of 16. They will play P.E.I Wednesday morning to start the placement round.

Yukon’s Ryan Hindson has led his team in scoring in all three games, averaging 21 points per game so far this week.

Yukon’s female team has lost 98-14 to Nova Scotia, 126-2 to Alberta, and then 67-23 to New Brunswick in the round of 16, for their closest and highest-scoring game thus far.

Emily Johnson and Jetta Bilskay put six points each

passed a number of people at the end of the race. He did really well.”

Yukon’s Dominic Korn qualified for the B final of the 200-metre, placing fifth in his heat at 22.58 seconds. The final will take place on Friday.

Dawson City’s Jack Amos, who was flag-bearer for Team Yukon at the opening ceremonies, placed 10th in his heat for the 1,500-metre on Monday with a personal best time of 4:08.76, but did not qualify for Thursday’s final.

Alysha Gullison became the first-ever Yukoner to compete in hammer throw at the Canada Games on Monday. She placed eighth in her pool with a throw of 27.01 metres and will not advance to the final.

on the board against New Brunswick — Johnson with a pair of three-pointers — and Sheridan Curteanu logged five points.

Athletics Whitehorse’s Kieran Halliday has posted the high water mark so far in the athletics competition.

Halliday placed ninth in the 3,000-metre steeplechase on Tuesday with a time of 9:41.33. Four years ago he became the first Yukoner to compete in the event, placing 12th, and has competed in steeplechase for University of British Columbia as well.

“It’s outstanding in his placement and stuff — it’s not a PB (personal best),” said Yukon athletics coach Don White. “He had issues with it and we told him to buck up and realize he

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An upcoming highlight: Kate Londero will become the first Yukoner ever to compete in the heptathlon at the Canada Games on Thursday. No athletics events are scheduled for Wednesday.

Beach volleyball It’s do or die time for Yukon’s beach volleyball team. Max Clarke and Benjamin Grundmanis, the first-ever Yukoners to compete on the sand at Canada Games, have suffered five straight losses and will face P.E.I. on Wednesday. The losing team will be eliminated and the winning team will play New Brunswick later in the day for a shot to play in the seventh/eighth place game.

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Man who gave up ASIMIL8 licence plate compares government to Star Trek’s Borg Steve Lambert Canadian Press

WINNIPEG Star Trek fan who had to give up a personalized licence plate says the Manitoba government is acting like a villain on the science fiction series.

Nick Troller is heading to court next month to try to regain his licence plate that bears the message “ASIMIL8.”

It was confiscated in April by the Crown-owned Manitoba Public Insurance

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after two Indigenous people complained the word “assimilate” is offensive because of the long history of government assimilation policies.

But Troller says his plate refers to the catchphrase “you will be assimilated’” that is used on Star Trek: The Next Generation by aliens called the Borg, who absorb their enemies into a hive-like collective.

In an affidavit, Troller says he is being assimilated by the government bureaucracy and losing his freedom of expression.

“The irony of the rescission of my freedom of expression is not lost on me: I have been assimilated by the bureaucratic machine.

The individualized expression on the plate has been subsumed and erased,” Troller’s affidavit reads.

“Like the Borg, MPI is vastly more powerful than I. And like the Borg, it feels no need to explain itself to the people in its path when it suddenly reverses course.”

In his affidavit, Troller says his licence plate was clearly tied to the Star Trek

series. It was in a frame that contained other phrases from the Borg including ”Resistance is futile” and “We are the Borg.”

Manitoba Public Insurance has not yet filed a response to the legal action, but has previously said that it retains the right to recall plates that might be considered offensive.

“The corporation’s position in this matter was clearly stated in the letter to the customer. With legal proceedings impending, Manitoba Public Insurance respectfully has no further

Pipeline, opioid crisis likely on agenda as Trudeau meets with Vancouver mayor Canadian Press VANCOUVER

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rime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to meet with Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson this morning, but their once-rosy relationship has been threatened by the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Trudeau’s government approved the $7.4-billion expansion last November despite Robertson’s staunch opposition to the project, which would see a seven-fold increase in the number of tankers in Vancouver-area waters.

Robertson and Trudeau have long had a friendly rapport, but the mayor has said he was “profoundly disappointed” by the decision, calling it a “big step backwards” for Canada’s environment and economy.

The opioid epidemic that has claimed hundreds of lives in Vancouver is also likely to be high on the agenda for the meeting, as is the city’s affordable-housing crisis.

Trudeau took a helicopter tour yesterday of the damage caused by fast-moving wildfires in British Columbia’s Interior and thanked the crews who have fought to the edge of exhaustion to keep people and buildings safe.

He later spoke at a $1,000-a-plate Liberal fundraiser in Surrey, where he urged the crowd of about 250 people to donate to the Canadian Red Cross to help people displaced by wildfires.

The Liberals have faced criticism over expensive fundraisers attended by the prime minister, but the party says it’s increased transpar-

ency by requiring the events to be posted publicly three days in advance and providing guest lists no more than 45 days afterward.

Inside the banquet hall last night, Trudeau urged supporters to help the Liberals get re-elected in 2019. Canada needs to keep going in the same direction, he said, ”at a time when the world is turning toward the politics of division, populism and fear.”

“Canada’s showing there’s a different way to govern, a different way to operate — a place grounded in reason and bringing out the best in our neighbours instead of fighting against the worst,” he said.

All around the world, people are anxious about themselves, their children and their communities, he said.

“Politicians always have a choice. You can either draw on those anxieties and fear and try and play off of them and win because of them … or instead we can pull together and give ourselves the tools as a society to meet those challenges head on.”

The speech drew loud applause from the primarily South Asian audience.

Trudeau also urged the crowd to remember that “we’ve got some competition,” as the Conservatives have chosen a new leader, Andrew Scheer, and the New Democrats will have a new leader by the end of the year.

“Their supporters aren’t waiting until next year to make a donation or volunteer their time. They’re doing it now, and we need to be doing that work right now, too.”

comment to provide,” spokesperson Brian Smiley wrote in an email Monday.

According to MPI’s policy, licence plates can’t contain words, phrases or innuendoes that “may be considered offensive.” Even after they are issued, the plates can be recalled since they are the property of the Crown.

Troller’s case is similar to a legal battle over a personalized licence plate in Nova Scotia.

Lorne Grabher had his plate with the text “GRABHER” — his last

name — revoked after it was deemed offensive to women.

Both Grabher and Troller are being supported in their court cases by the Calgary-based non-profit Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.

In its court application, Troller’s lawyer says the revocation of the licence plate contravenes the freedom of expression under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

An initial court hearing on the matter is scheduled for Aug. 16.

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Prime Minister Trudeau thanks crews for efforts fighting B.C. fires Dirk Meissner Canadian Press

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. rime Minister Justin Trudeau says a helicopter tour of British Columbia’s charred landscape Monday left him awed by the destructive force of wildfires burning across the province and impressed by the extraordinary determination of firefighters battling the flames.

Trudeau said he saw ranches in the Cariboo region surrounded by scorched earth and evidence of flames stopping just short of a runway.

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could cut across roads, really impressed upon me the extraordinary work being done by our wildfire professionals,” he said. “I really saw the extent of the scale of the devastation and the damage.”

Fire crews on the edge of exhaustion have pushed through to keep people and buildings safe, the prime minister added.

Trudeau, accompanied by several federal politicians and B.C. Premier John Horgan, spent an hour above a fire zone in a Canadian Forces’ Chinook helicopter watching spot fires and billowing smoke.

At times, the dense smoke blurred out the land below.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, views areas affected by wildfire with Tony Falcao, Deputy Manager of the Northwest Fire Centre, during an aerial tour in a Canadian Forces Chinook helicopter near Williams Lake, B.C., on Monday. the Cariboo have forced thousands from their homes, including 10,000 residents of Williams Lake who had to leave on July 15 when a fast-moving fire encroached on their community.

People were allowed to return last weekend, but the city remains under evacuation alert and residents must be ready to leave again at a moment’s notice.

Most businesses in Williams Lake had reopened Monday, but it was a staggered start as many employees were still returning to the community. The local Boston Pizza restaurant was open Sunday evening, but ran out of pizza.

About 6,000 people remained displaced by the nearly 150 fires that were still burning across B.C. on Monday.

Dozens of homes have been lost as more than 800 fires have burned around the province, scorching about 4,200 square kilometres.

Trudeau said he recognizes how difficult the aggressive fire season

has been for residents, businesses and local economies. He pledged that Ottawa will help with recovery efforts.

“There will be challenges in the months to come that we will also be there for,” he said. ”This is what Canadians do, we stand up for each other in times of difficulty,” he said.

People in the Cariboo have been hit especially hard by wildfires this year, Horgan said, echoing Trudeau’s promise.

“We’re going to make sure people are whole when this is all over,” Horgan said. “The province is going to be there to help rebuild.”

Trudeau thanked those on the front lines of firefighting efforts for ”stepping up,” saying it is reassuring for people to see everybody pulling together.

Several hundred Williams Lake residents cheered as Trudeau and Horgan emerged from a recreation centre where they met first responders.

The cheering grew louder as fire service personnel left the building.

The prime minister also sat down for lunch and a chat with some BC Wildfire Service personnel, many wearing the red coveralls of the firefighters.

“What do you do in the winter?” Trudeau was heard asking some of the crew.

He and Horgan then took a tour of the fire operations centre at the Williams Lake Airport.

Kevin Skrepnek, chief fire information officer with the BC Wildfire Service, said the visit means “a great deal” to fire crews who have been affected both personally and professionally by the aggressive fire season.

Many staff were among those evacuated from Williams Lake and had to sleep in tents or in their offices while responding to fires around the community, he said.

“I would say it’s a morale booster in terms of having those kinds of visits,” Skrepnek said.

The political visit comes as the forecast calls for another week of hot, dry weather.

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has issued a special warning about a heat wave for Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, Howe Sound and several parts of Vancouver Island.

Residents have been told to expect daytime temperatures to soar to the upper 30s.

Lightning forecast for the Interior, where many fires are already burning, could make the fire situation even worse.

Smoke from fires in both B.C. and Washington state could also pose a problem for crews, reducing visibility for aircraft detecting and fighting the flames and making it unsafe for them to fly, Skrepnek said.

He said winds were forecast to push the haze west to the coast by Tuesday.

“I think across many parts of the province we’re likely going to have this smoke settling in for quite some time,” Skrepnek said.

An air quality advisory has also been issued for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley as smoke from B.C.’s Interior wafts into the region.

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THE ARTS After five years, Dawson City’s League of Lady Wrestlers to storm the ring one last time

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League of Lady Wrestlers combatants Shreeeka and Garbageface take to the mat in the Island Rumble III on Sept. 9, 2016 in Toronto.

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reak out the whiskey and set your tampon-guns to stun because the League of Lady Wrestlers is winding back to deliver their last-ever show in Dawson City August 5.

LOLW plans go out with a bang at their final throwdown, Thunderdome. The event will feature wrestlers from all three LOLW chapters — Dawson City, Victoria and Toronto — as well as guest wrestlers from the unaffiliated but similar sister syndicate, Fairbanks Ladies of Wrestling.

This serious rumble features more than a half-dozen bouts, with a host of old and new fighters, including three new wrestlers over the age of 60 for whom this will be the first show, said LOLW organizer and performer Yasmine Renaud.

Senior Sex Siren (Lulu

Keating), one of the new kickass grand-dames of wrestling, saw the last LOLW event in Dawson featuring a bout by Anita Pad, who “was just a girl frustrated at how expensive tampons are,” said Renaud. Anita Pad featured sanitary pads, a bad attitude and a tampon gun, which shot tampons into the crowd. When Keating saw that, she just had to be part of the show, Renaud said.

“Our league has created a space where women — any woman — can come and create and feel powerful, be seen and be heard,” said Renaud.

“Lulu couldn’t believe it,” Renaud said. “When she was a girl she had to go to the pharmacy and wait for the male pharmacist to leave to ask the female clerk to get tampons for her. They came in an unmarked brown box.”

Renaud, who has had two previous characters,

will be playing Fedora Todd in this event, Todd is a “men’s rights activist” she said, although he “probably wouldn’t describe himself that way.”

Renaud describes his as the caricature of online “trolls.”

“He’s a self-described ‘nice guy’… who takes his frustrations out on women online,” she said.

The most important aspect of the events — and one of the things Renaud said she will miss the most — is the audience.

“They show up in costume, they have characters…. It’s hard to keep them out of the ring sometimes,” she said. “They’re just so involved.”

“If you looks at the faces of audience members sometimes, they’re just losing their minds.”

Just like professional wrestling matches, LOLW is more performance art than actual combat. Fights are scripted and rehearsed,

said Renaud, and each performer is responsible for their own character, dialogue and bout. It’s the best performance, in fact, that wins the overall competition, in place of a clear fight ‘winner,’ she said.

“We do get criticism about how we’re not ‘respecting’ wrestling,” she said. “But this isn’t about wrestling. (LOLW) could be about train conducting, it doesn’t matter, it’s just a vehicle we use.”

“Honestly, I don’t care what some men out there think about the event. It’s not for them.”

One interesting thing, Renaud notes, is that the LOLW doesn’t really have any “heroes.” When creating characters, most women in LOLW don’t want to be a hero, she said.

“We’re (as women) always told to be polite and kind and all the girls just want to be rude and crude and wild,” Renaud said.

“A lot of aspects of the

patriarchy are based on gender roles. That’s what (LOLW) is all about — just taking up space and making noise.”

The league started in Dawson City in 2012, and soon expanded to Toronto and Victoria thanks to the naturally migratory behaviour of Yukoners. Now, five years later, it’s time to put the event to rest, Renaud said.

“We never intended it to be this big,” said Renaud.

Renaud said the event takes a huge amount of time and commitment both from members and the community. She and the other lady wrestlers are ready to move on to other “badass projects” including writing a “how-to” manual for other feminist groups looking to do this kind of event.

“I’m happy to see it end — I want to blow this thing up instead of seeing it fade out,” Renaud said. “But I’m going to miss it.”

“It’s bittersweet,” said Andrea Pelletier, who plays the long running-character Shreeeka. “There’s something nice about feeling like you’re ending on top, but at the same time it’s going to be hard to say goodbye to the community and Shreeeka herself.”

Pelletier said mixed feelings aside, this final event is going to be one of the best shows the LOLW has ever put on.

“We’re kind of storming the town with feminists. It’s awesome,” Pelletier said.

“This will be the biggest and best performance we’ve ever put on…. We’re going to leave it all out there in the ring…. It’s going to be an epic goodbye,” she said.

“It’s going to be a lot of emotion and a lot of energy. It’s a big work of beauty.”

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

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Horse hotel: RCMP Musical Ride takes over Takhini Arena

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hitehorse’s Takhini Arena is getting a new look later this month to make room for a group of 36 elite, specially-trained athletes.

Athletes that eat a lot of hay.

The arena is being converted into a makeshift barn for the stars of the RCMP’s Musical Ride. The horses are visiting Whitehorse starting August 9.

Eighteen dump trucks of dirt, 175 bales of a specific kind of hay, 100 yards of wood shavings and enough removable metal walls to create the necessary stalls are all being shipped north for the horses as they put on a weekend’s worth of shows.

A host committee made up of local organizers and volunteers has been working to make sure everything is in place before the three semi-truck trailers full of animals get here.

For example, the horses need to have their hay shipped in, said co-chair Inge Sumanik. Horses usually eat the same food every day to help their digestive system, she said.

While the Yukon grows good hay, it’s not the same hay these horses are used to.

“Because they’re travelling so much and travel is stressful for them, and they’re living in different places, one of the way to keep things the same for horses is to feed them the same kind of hay.”

The team is currently on a national tour marking 150 years since confederation. Whitehorse is the only stop in the North.

As for their living arrangements, the RCMP horses are used to hanging out in unconventional barn arrangements, said Insp. Pat Egan, the officer in charge of the show.

“That’s a pretty standard stable situation for us.

We stay in hockey rinks in virtually all the provinces.”

The horses arrive in Whitehorse August 9 and are putting on three shows at the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club’s stadium off of Sumanik Drive.

Shows are scheduled for August 12 at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. and August 13 at 1 p.m.

The ride will be going to Skagway for a show on

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RCMP’s Musical Ride is performing Saturday August 12 at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. and Sunday August 13 at 1 p.m. at the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club’s stadium off of Sumanik Drive.

August 14 before leaving the North the next day.

Takhini Arena will be open daily from August 10 to 13.

“People can go in and see the horses and talk to the ride members,” said Sumanik.

RCMP horses are not your average equine.

They’re all bred by the RCMP at a farm near Ottawa. Each horse in the show is black and between 16 and 17 hands tall. (For the uninitiated, that’s really big.)

Up to 32 horses at a time are putting on a halfhour-long presentation.

The Whitehorse events will also feature performances by local equestrians.

The last time the ride visited Whitehorse was in 1995 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Northwest Mounted Police arriving in the Yukon.

Getting the animals north is only part of the logistics that have had to be planned out.

The horses will be training before the shows near the Whitehorse’s Public Safety Building — and the appropriately-located

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giant metal horse statue — before walking to the cross country arena.

That means crossing public streets. Sumanik said RCMP officers will be temporarily stopping traffic so the horses can safely cross.

“Those people who are lucky enough to be in the front will be able to see the 32 horses crossing both across Two Mile Hill to the

warm-up area and then again across the highway,” she said.

The visit to Whitehorse is a homecoming of sorts for Egan who spent 23 years as an RCMP officer in Whitehorse, Carcross, Haines Junction and Mayo before leaving the territory in 2009.

Prior to coming north he was a member of the musical ride from 1984 to

1986.

Spectators can expect to see the riders, all in their RCMP red serge, perform a series of choreographed movements set to music, he said. The show ends with the cavalry’s signature move “the charge” where the horses run from one end of the arena to the other.

“I think people are generally quite pleased with

what they see,” he said.

Small bleachers are being moved into the cross country ski arena for a few people, including dignitaries to sit on, Sumanik said.

Spectators are asked to bring their own chairs.

The cross country ski arena will also have extra sand brought in to create better, softer footing for the horses.

Once the horses leave the sand is going to stay and be used by the skiers, she said.

“We’re going to leave that for the cross country ski club because they’ve got snow makers and the sand will help make a nice bed for the snow makers.”

Sumanik estimates it costs $30,000 just to care for the horses while they are in the territory.

Tickets for the shows are $11 in advance or $12 at the door. Any profits will be donated towards the creation of a community dressage arena.

More information is available online at www. musical-ride5.webnode. com.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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SPORTS AND RECREATION Historic tie for first highlights River Trail Marathon Tom Patrick News Reporter

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hitehorse’s Brendan Morphet and Calgary’s Mark Davis met at the start of the race, were rivals for the first few legs, and were working together as a team by the end.

The two runners tied for first place in the 18th annual Yukon River Trail Marathon, July 30 in Whitehorse.

It is the first time two marathoners tied for first in the event.

“We ended up working each other the whole way and by leg 4 we just agreed, let’s finish it together, keep ahead of everyone else, work hard,” said Morphet.

“That’s what it was: work hard till the end, finish together.”

“We both had the same kind of feeling in our legs — weren’t sure what we had left in the tank for the rest of it,” said Davis.

Morphet, 34, and Davis, 32, shared the win with a time of three hours, 24 minutes and 41 seconds.

It was just Morphet’s second marathon — and his second win, having placed first in the marathon category of the Yukon Arctic Ultra in February.

He was also the top male in the half distance of last year’s River Trail marathon.

Davis thinks Sunday’s race was his 11th or 12th marathon, but his first on trail. He was in the territory for his first time, visiting friends.

“It was an absolutely beautiful trail,” said Davis.

“I do a lot of running in the mountains close to Calgary, but this is fantastic. You don’t have to drive at all, you just go right into the trails from your back door, which is amazing.”

“I see myself coming back, running this again sometime,” he added.

It was quite a different story in the women’s marathon distance on Sunday.

Carcross’ Denise McHale won her seventh title, finishing over 27 minutes ahead of the second place women. The 43-yearold finished in 3:53:01, 25 seconds slower than last year.

“It feels great of course.

It’s one of my favourite races and was a great day for running, so it’s always nice to have the win,” said McHale. “I was thinking

I was going to be a few minutes faster, but I got to the fish ladder and started feeling a little bit of cramping and stuff. Then I got down to the campground and almost onto the river wall there and I really had to stop a couple times.

“I don’t know if it wasn’t enough liquids — I had a pretty normal race strategy, but who knows.”

McHale, a former national 100-kilometre champion, also won the women’s title at the Skagway Marathon in June and placed second for women in the Reckless Raven 50-Mile Ultra early July in Whitehorse.

Whitehorse’s David Eikelboom sped to his third title on Sunday, but his first in the half distance. The 30-year-old finished the half at 1:31:00, marking the fastest time since 2012.

“This race totally didn’t go how I expected,” said Eikelboom. “I had expected Jonathan Zaugg to be out here and my plan was to run a strategic race, to stay with him and try to make a move at the end.

But I guess he didn’t start or something.

“I went out and in the first mile it didn’t seem like anyone was going to come along and had to change the plan.”

Eikelboom won the full distance last year and in 2013, but decided to do the half for his first time after entering the Reckless Raven, in which he finished third.

“Obviously 90 minutes sounds better than 91, but I’m happy with what happened today,” said Eikelboom. “I’ve been really beat up since that Raven (race) — three weeks where I just couldn’t do anything.”

After three attempts, Whitehorse’s Shawna Smith logged her first win in the women’s half on Sunday. The 27-year-old took the win with a time of 1:50:50, over five minutes faster than her third place time last year.

“Last year I ran it with a concussion, so this year I decided I’d run it again sans concussion,” said Smith. “It was quite hot and I’ve been doing a few trips on the river so that hasn’t been helping with my legs.”

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Half distance runners leave the start line at the Yukon River Trail Marathon in Rotary Park on July 30.

Whitehorse’s David Eikelboom, front right, won the half distance with the fastest time in five years. cheering section at the end,” she added of placing first.

Whitehorse’s Jane Haydock marched her way to a first place finish in the half distance walking division with a time of 2:24:26, more than 52 minutes ahead of second place’s Julie Jai. A total of 32 four-person

relay teams took park in the race.

Jambalaya, a mixed team of Rachel Tredger, Tarek Bos-Jabbar, Logan Potter and Kendra Murray, posted the fastest time at 3:36:30.

Lasses Run Their Asses — Vesta Mather, Kat Davis, Justine Scheck and Rebecca Davis — won the open

female relay at 4:16:50.

The Heart Breakers, the only male relay team, finished in 4:49:45. The team was made up of Michael Nadeau, Charlie Furchner, Lee Malanchuk and Art Webster.

“A big thanks to everyone who helped out,” added Eikelboom. “This event happens year after

year because of committed people doing the water stations, the timing, everything. Every time I do this race I’m profoundly grateful for the work people put into this.”

“I love the cheering from all the volunteers, so I just want to thank them for that,” said Smith.

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Left: Whitehorse’s Richard Thompson runs towards the finish to place fourth in the half distance. Right: Racers head over the Robert Campbell Bridge into Riverdale.

Top 10 finishers Marathon male 1st Mark Davis (Calgary) — 3:24:41 1st Brendan Morphet (Whitehorse) — 3:24:41 3rd Stephan Atmanspacher (Whitehorse) — 3:52:27 4th Tedd Tucker (Whitehorse) — 3:55:39 5th Brian Horton (Whitehorse) — 3:59:02 6th Boris Hoefs (Whitehorse) — 4:05:57 7th Jason Mackey (Whitehorse) — 4:10:17 8th Emmanuel Fedon (France) — 4:12:30 9th Barry Morton (Toronto) — 4:17:21 10th John Nagel (Juneau) — 4:17:29 Marathon female 1st Denise McHale (Carcross) — 3:53:01 2nd Virginia Sarrazin (Whitehorse) — 4:20:55

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Games athletes in motion

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Yukon goalkeeper Mary Londero reaches for the ball during play at the Canada Summer Games taking place this week in Winnipeg, Man.

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ith the first-ever Canada Games having taken place in 1967, the tagline for the 2017 Canada Summer Games is “the hottest summer in half a century.”

They weren’t kidding. Temperatures reached 30 C on Monday at the Games, taking place this week and next week in Winnipeg, Man. Yukoners are competing in female soccer, male and female basketball, male beach volleyball and athletics this week.

(Tom Patrick)

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Ontario’s Makiah Hunt established a new record in women’s pole vault with a jump of 4.02 meters.

Yukon high-scorer Ryan Hindson looks to score against Saskatchewan on July 29.

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Yukon Yukon’s Benjamin Grundmanis bumps the ball in the beach volleyball competition.

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Alysha Gullison becomes the first-ever Yukoner to compete in hammer throw at the Games.

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Yukon’s Dominic Korn races on track July 31.

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Yukon flag-bearer Jack Amos of Dawson City leads his team into the opening ceremony on July 28.

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Yukon’s Maggie O’Conner Brook storms over half in her team’s 98-14 loss to Nova Scotia on July 29.

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Smith was given a minor penalty for not picking on someone his own size. Along with Eric Gryba of the Edmonton Oilers and former NHLer David Booth, Smith will be participating in the Watson Lake Pro Hockey Camp for young hockey players aged 7-16 this week.

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Submit resume and cover letter to: Executive Director, aylu Dena Council Box 10, Lower Post, BC V0C 1W0 Ph: 250-779-3161 | Fax: 250-779-3371 E-mail: executivedirector@dayludenacouncil.com

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Kluane Community Develpment Corporation

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Closing Date: August 11, 2017 at 3:30 pm

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FOR YOUR CANOE TRIP shuttles and fishing trip requirements give www.nisutlinoutfitting.com in Teslin a call this summer at 1-867-334-7364 Fishermen are the best people!

Small Olympus FE-210 digital camera, c/w case & manual, $25. 6333154

Yukon Wildlife Conservation stamps, set of 13 annual stamps 1996-2008, beautiful Yukon wildlife artwork, great Christmas gift, $150.

633-3154

WORSLEY GATEWAY HOTEL Experienced restaurant cooks, shift work, newer hotel in Worsley, Alberta.

Shared staff accommodation or rental homes available.

Starting wage $15/hr.

Salary evaluated after training.

Starting immediately.

Email Dawn info@worsleygateway.ca

Merchandise for Sale

Appliances Matching washer/dryer, good working order, $200 for both; chest freezer, 9 cu ft, $125; 18 cu ft refrigerator, 2 door up & down, $125. 633-2837

Computer Equipment Budget gaming computer, 8GB Ram, GTX quad core CPU, 2x 250GB hard drives, currently runs Linux but can Windows, $250 obo.

867-689-5879 Iphone 5 Virgin Mobile 16gb good condition $130. 334-6087 Mobile internet smart hub, runs on Telus LTE, exc cond, can connect up to 30 devices at once with wifi, $75. 867-993-3468 Older refurbished office computer, 4GB Ram, 160GB hard drive, Windows 10 Pro, slight cosmetic damage to top front of case, everything runs fine, $80. 867-689-5879

Firearms Browning 300 wsm Eclipse Hunter with Bushnell scope, 3-9 x 40.

Bought new 5 yrs ago. Used 3 times at gun range, c/w hard case & ammunition, $1300. PAL req’d. 3356452 Collection of 13 guns, good shape.

456-8910 LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R NEW & USED 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY * SELL Parker Hale Mauser in 30-06, butler creek composite stock, glass bedded, Vortex scope, has original open sights, some character scratches, but shoots well, $550 obo. 334-7335 Savage 30-06, new, never fired, c/w 3X9 Bushnell scope, lens covers, sling, few shells, $500. 668-4945 SVT 40, $600 obo; .45 ACP Kimber Raptor 2, $2,000 obo; Tokarev 7.6225, $300 obo; Norinco 1911 .45, $400 obo; must have PAL. 4564766 Wanted: 8mm Mauser 98 stripper clips. James 867-336-1292 Wanted to buy: Lee Enfields, must be matching & correct, especially snipers. 867-393-3911 or email thirtypound@hotmail.com

HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. 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

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DON’S FIREWOOD * Year round harvest/supply * Beetlekill stockpiled in Whitehorse “Firewood When You Want It!” New Phone #: 333-1508 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

Furniture

Pump + motor 649 turbocharged Diesel Allison Chalmers paco water pump 2000gpm@100psi on wheels all safety gauges. Dennis, Taber, Alberta 403-308-1400

Misc. for Sale 4 crab traps, 3 are rings, 4 shrimp pots, all come with buoy and rope.

633-2671 4-person Arctic Spa hot tub, exc cond, c/w lid & chemicals, will assist in transport if necessary, $3,500.

667-7236 Arctic Spa hot tub cover, 8’X8’, grey, $280 obo. Call for pick-up 668-6806 Brooks dry suit, older model in good shape, full body dry suit, c/w head mask & gloves, $175 obo. 8679933468 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 Chainsaw parts, carburetor for Husqvarna, can be Walbro W239 or 2AMA to fit a 36 or 141 Husqvarna.

Norm 456-7868 Collection (55) various music CDs, folk, rock, guitar, Latin, $50. 6333154

Greenworks 40V battery & charger for chainsaw, $50. 393-3097 Iridium Satellite phone, c/w all charging accessories & hard cover case, exc cond, $850 obo. 333-0018 Men’s & women’s Vasque hiking boots, floater jacket, hip waders.

Call 667-7144 Moving out sale, apartment-size deep freezers, furniture, many household items, everything must go. 336-0908 NEW 2017 MANUFACTURED HOMES starting under $80,000 delivered! Best Buy Homes Kelowna www.bestbuyhousing.com Canada’s largest in-stock home selection, quick delivery, and custom factory orders! Text/call 250-7652223.

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

Folding camp cots & chairs, $10 to $50. 332-6565

SAWMILLS from only $4,397 MAKE MONEY & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800566-6899 Ext:400OT. Small collection (15) of various classical music CDs, $25. 633-3154

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Da-Lite heavy duty fast fold deluxe projection screen, 11’ wide x 7’ 6” high, exc cond, transport case included, $800. Call 668-5014

Oak desk, $400 obo. 335-9272 Single mattress in good condition, $45. 668-1944

Heavy Duty Machinery 1992 N14 Cummings International cabover, air-ride dolly, complete w/gim poles & winch, very low kms on truck. Email henley@northwestel.net 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 International 252 forklift, 3-stage boom, lifts up to 20’ or more, runs good, powerful, turns sharp. 3339400

Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club nonrestricted firearms safety course August 12 & 13. Info: 633-2488

Mahindra 4X4 tractor, front-end loader, new, diesel engine, 8-sp shovel, 4WD, box for hydraulics, lifts or rises, $12,000 firm. 456-8910

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Office Manager/Reservation Agent Year-round Employment DUTIES INCLUDE: Extensive clerical responsibilities, computer DB management, Excel spreadsheets, phone sales, extensive Email correspondence and management, (Outlook), filing, staff communications, operational communications, data collection, sales transactions, postseason wrap-up duties and reports.

The office is situated on Copper Road in a non-smoking environment with pleasant views.

Candidate must have a post-secondary education, be willing to commit for several season, have a high degree of computer literacy and an aptitude for above-mentioned programs. Previous sales experience in Tourism / Travel industry is preferred. Must possess suitable transportation. The candidate must excel at independent work and have a strong aptitude for working and communication with public in a sales environment.

Peak season May through August, but position is year ’round.

Detailed product description may be viewed at: www.nahanni.com STARTING WAGE: $22.00 / hour and certain benefits, based on experience with increase based on performance review.

For detailed job description, contact Neil Hartling at 668-3180.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday, August 7, 2017

FORWARD RESUMÉS TO: Fax: 668-3056 or email: info@nahanni.com

To give away: corner TV stand w/glass door & one wood frame stand up speaker. 334-3886 Tool chest, electrician working tools, testers, etc, belonged to working mine electrician, $200. 668-2772 ToyoStove Laser 73 oil heater, well maintained, $1,000 obo. 334-2197 Various hockey cards, complete sets, OPC, McDonalds. 633-3154 for details.

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 Wanted: approx. 150 sq feet of tongue and groove interior siding, cedar/spruce/pine/other, can be in shortish (4’) pieces, willing to buy for reasonable price. Call/text 335-3514 Wanted: Boy’s clothing for school, size 8-10 and size 6, also size 6 girl’s clothing for school, mainly dresses, in good shape, willing to pay reasonable price. 667-2440 or lv msg Wanted: Hobby drone pilots to get a group together. 335-5442 Wanted: Lumber, 2X6 & 2X4 plywood. 86-399-3031 Wanted: Smaller size woodworking tools for younger boy, 10 oz hammer, small handsaw & drill. 6681944 Wanted: Someone to install outdoor carpet on concrete steps. Please call 335-2045.

Musical Instruments

Winchstar winch, 1,750 lbs, $450 new, asking $200. 393-3797

2 Hohner accordions, one 2-row, one 3-row, great condition. 4568910

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Be a part of one of Canada’s most dynamic environmental and socio-economic assessment processes; working with an ĞŶĞƌŐĞƟĐ͕ ƉƌŽŐƌĞƐƐŝǀĞ ŽƌŐĂŶŝnjĂƟŽŶ͘ tĞ ĂƌĞ ĐŽŵŵŝƩĞĚ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ well-being of our employees and encourage their personal and ƉƌŽĨĞƐƐŝŽŶĂů ĚĞǀĞůŽƉŵĞŶƚ͘

1 set pine bunk beds w/mattresses, $100. 867-821-4521

Table set, 4 chairs, mechanical leaf, bar height, exc cond, $1,400 new, asking $425. 335-2038 or 336-0995

STEEL BUILDING SALE ...”PRICED TO SELL!” 20x21 $6,296 Front & Back Walls Included. 25x25 $6,097 No Ends Included. 32x35 $9,998 One End Wall Included. Check Out www.pioneersteel.ca for more prices. Pioneer Steel 1-855-212-7036.

Does being a part of one of Canada’s most dynamic environmental and socio-economic assessment processes interest you?

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.

LEGAL COUNSEL Head Oĸce - Whitehorse Full-Ɵme - Permanent

The Legal Counsel is responsible for providing a full range of legal services to the Yukon Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Board. This posiƟon provides legal advice and counsel on maƩers such as corporate issues, aboriginal law, environmental and socio-economic assessment law, resource management law, contract law, access to informaƟon and privacy law, conŇict of interest, and administraƟve law. This posiƟon also aƩends Board and assessment team meeƟngs as requested to provide advice.

The annual salary range for this posiƟon is $110,231 – $147,449 If you have the qualiĮcaƟons and desire to meet the challenges of this exciƟng opportunity, please apply by forwarding a cover leƩer and résumé which clearly demonstrate how your background and experience make you the ideal candidate for this posiƟon.

A comprehensive job descripƟon is available at: YESAB Head Oĸce, Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse or on our website at www.yesab.ca.

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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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ApplicaƟons must be received by end of day August 13, 2017.

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

1968 Antique original Volkswagen dune buggy, restored, valid papers, original Manx body, gel coat, blue paint, street legal, stereo, lights.

336-0620 for info/photos 2013-14 Bombardier 800 quad, used 2 seasons, will be fully serviced and ready for the season, paid $13,000, asking $5,500. Phone/text 334-7071, lv msg

2002 Chev 3/4 ton, x-cab, 4x4, headache racks, bush bumper winch, 219,000kms, $8,200. 6677777

2015 16’ Ocean Pro inflatable commercial grade with trailer, $4,800 obo. 867-390-2244

HANDYMAN SERVICES 24-7 *Renovations * Repairs

9.9 hp Johnson, long shaft in exc shape, $1,275. 667-6525

*Furniture Repair *Small Appliance Repair *Interior/Exterior Painting *Gutter Cleaning *Pressure Washing *Window Washing

Sporting Goods Invertrac exercise machine for sore back, $100. 333-3369 Total Gym 1,000 exercise unit, $75.

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Tools Rockwell Sawbuck frame and trim saw, $500 obo. 335-9272

Transportation

Auto Accessories/Parts 4 tires & chrome rims, 215/55R/16, continental. 633-3116 or 334-3160 Sliding bed-extender for Frontier, $150. 668-5014

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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 1976 Impala, 4-dr, 305 auto, gray/red interior, runs/drives, cool car, $500. 633-3819 1980 Pontiac Formula Firebird, auto V8, rebuilt engine, red interior, black exterior, 62,000kms, $11,000 obo.

456-4766 1997 Cougar XR7, showroom condition, never winter driven, immaculate, 153,000kms, $5,400. 334-3160 1998 7-seat Dodge Caravan minivan, runs great, looks good, well maintained, 258,338kms, all maintenance receipts for last 5 yrs, $2,400.

Barb 334-6433 2001 Toyota Corolla, runs well, needs new brakes/rotors but otherwise road ready, summer/winter tires w/some life, some issues but ok in town, A to B, $350. 334-9596.

2005 Ford Taurus, 4 door, power equipped, 83,000kms. $5,500. 6677777 2007 Chevy Cobalt LTE, 170,000kms, 4-dr, 5-spd, power locks & windows, cruise, remote start, good tires, $4,500 firm. 6686911 2007 Pontiac G5, auto, no dents, good on fuel, 185,000kms, $4,500 obo. Call/text 333-0018 2007 Toyota Yaris, + winter tires, 140,000kms, 4-dr, runs well, A/C, $5,000. 668-4539 btwn 4-8pm or lv msg 2008 Toyota Yaris, 167,000 mi, new tires, snow tires, vg cond, upgraded stereo, fresh battery, $4,900. 3320067 2010 Dodge Charger, great shape, heavy duty vehicle, excellent on gas, good tires, nice ride, $7,900 obo. 334-3456 2011 Camaro SS convertible, V8 400 hp, RS pkg, victory red with cream leather interior, heads up display. This car is as it came from showroom floor, 11,948 kms, $31,500 obo. Paul 668-1990 2013 Ford Fusion Titanium, fully loaded, tech pkg incl pos crash system, lane keep, driver assist, c/w new studded winter tires/street gear rims, $19,500. Call/text 332-3886 2014 Ford Focus Titanium, 4-dr hatchback, like new, 26,500kms, $12,500. 334-3160 2015 Dodge Journey SXT V6, 13,000kms, loaded, exc cond, still on warranty, reduced to $25,900 obo. 456-3373 Buick Park Avenue, like new, runs very well, $1,300 in recent parts, asking $1,100. 456-8910

Motorcycles 2006 Harley-Davidson 883 Sportster, only 112 kms, incls two new Harley-Davidson crash helmets, $9,500 obo. 668-1990 2012 CRF250X, one owner, low hours, well maintained. New Maxxis tires, Trailtech computer, rad guards, skid plate, new levers and rear fender, forks just serviced. Nathan 335-3935 Honda Rebel, 300 cc, new, full warranty, at Honda dealer, $4,700 obo.

867-390-2244

1991 Ford F-250 4X4, 190,000kms, 1981 Okanagan Camper, sleeps 4 comfortably, propane 3 burner cooktop, furnace and fridge, c/w extra jacks, great hunting or wood hauling truck. 335-1349 1999 Ford F250 with 2000 Venture camper, $8,000. 393-3797 2000 National Dolphin Class A, 26’, 2 slides. V-10 Triton engine (Ford), 77,342 miles, sleeps 6, incl’s car dolly, $25,000. 250-869-7110 2002, 25.5’ Westwind 5th wheel, 1 slide, well maintained, 1/2-ton towable, sleeps 4-6, tub, shower, good appliances, good tires/spare, $9,500. 334-7709 2007 Adventurer camper, 8.10SW, clean unit, north/south queen bed, fridge, stove, shower, everything works. 333-0018 2008 Kingsport 32’ bumper pull trailer, 2 slides, sleeps 6, vg cond, Whitehorse location, $14,000. 780915-3291 2013 Ever Light 26’ trailer, fridge, stove, freezer, shower, queen bed, TV, leather seats, pull-out couch, A/C, can send pics, $27,000. 6333113 2013 Whitehawk TravelTrailer-28BHS. Immaculate shape, 5290 pounds, 1/2 ton towable, barely used. Loaded, electronic awning & hitch. Double bunk beds fit 600 pound each bunk, queen bed in front, $27,000. 335-9140

Sport Utility Vehicle 1996 Grand Cherokee, V8. Runs, but needs work. Great project car.

Remote start & door locks, 287,500kms, $1500. Call/text 3351608 1999 Subaru Outback, AWD, c/w 2 sets of tires on rims & roof sport box. Heated seats, electric windows.

Winter carpets and rubber liner.

116k, two-tone silver $4,400. 6685701 2000 Jeep Cherokee, Special Edition, complete power, infinity sound system, heated leather seats, sunroof, remote start, new tires, 216,000kms, $5,500. 667-7777

Trucks & Vans 1979 2wd pick-up, red, $800 obo; GMC pick-up, blue, $1,000 obo; 2005 PT Cruiser FWD, electric blue, $1,200 obo; 1992 Toyota 4WD & canopy, $3,700 obo. 335-5664 1989 Bronco 2/4WD, silver/maroon/red interior, $2,000 obo. 3355664 1993 Chevy Suburban, $2,500 obo.

633-2218 1993 Chevy Suburban, $2,500 obo.

633-2218 1994 Ford F250, 4WD, Turbo diesel, runs well, great work or wood truck, $1,850 obo. 633-2218 1995 F-150 1/2-ton, 163,064 miles, 300, 6-cyl, 5-spd trans, canopy, new battery, front brakes & alternator, tires 80%, spare 80%, good on gas, minor body damage, $2,000. 3350242 1996 Chev Astrovan, good condition, some rust, technically sound, new tires, located in Tagish, can send pics, $1,800 firm. 332-6025 1997 Chev Signature conversion van, exc cond, mechanically certified, must sell, $7,000 obo. 6332997 for more info 1998 Dodge XLT Laramie 4X4 V10, runs excellent, roll-over, engine drive trail excellent, $1,200 obo; 1966 Fargo power wagon short box Fleetside 4X4, $800 obo. 336-0908 1999 Ford Explorer, runs great, $2,900 obo. 333-3457 2000 Jeep Cherokee Sport, 4L, auto, 4X4, 242,000kms, daily driver exc YTG Jeep, $2,750. 667-4563 2000 Mazda MPV van, great shape, must see, reduced to $3,300. 3343456 2000 MPV Mazda 7 passenger, 2.5L V6 engine, runs great, power windows/locks/mirrors, cruise control, AC, CD player, $2,900. 333-3457 2009 Chev 2500, 3/4 ton, 4x4, extended cab, $9,200. 667-7777

2002 Ford ambulance, 82,000kms, 7.3L diesel, all emergency equip, sirens, lights etc work, $7,700. 667777 2008 Jeep Wrangler Sahara, 4-dr, removable hard top, A/C, cruise, very reliable, runs smoothly, 175,000kms, $17,500 obo. 6334131 2010 Ford Ranger, 4-dr, 92,500kms, V6 auto, vg condition, 2WD, A/C, $7,900. 668-4082 2011 BMW X5 turbocharged Diesel AWD SUV, full options incl. command start, 360d camera, panoramic sunroof, navigation, dual dvd players, too much to list. 333-9020

Esquif 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. 668-5014 Honda 20 HP 4 stroke, very reliable and quiet, approximately 100 hours use, well maintained, $2,400 obo.

Dave 390-2244 Mercury 7.5hp outboard motor, can be seen running, $375. 334-6087

2013 F150 XLT, crew cab, 4x4, 6’6” box, 5.0L, command start, tonneau cover, $26,000. Mike 335-1536

PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49 MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467

Utility Trailers

Services

16’ heavy duty flat deck trailer, 7,000lb tandem axles, slide-in ramps, headache rack, new spare tire, like new condition, $5,500. 6334656 5X8 enclosed trailer, heavy duty frame, new tires, wired for generator, HD door, exc cond, easy towing, recent inspection, $2,500. email northernprospect@gmail.com Custom utility trailer, new tires, must see, $800 obo. 393-3797 Heavy duty utility $2,150. 334-4209

trailer,

4’x8’,

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

Volunteers 8273903

Carpentry/ Woodwork 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 Cleaning Lady and Car for Hire with Driver to help with daily chores. $20 per hour.

References available upon request.

Call 335-1088

Volunteers

ACTIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY Are you looking for volunteer opportunities?

Please check www.volunteeryukon.ca to find more volunteer opportunities.

Community Kitchen Volunteer Task description: Assisting with prep, cooking, serving and clean-up at VFWC’s weekly Community Kitchen lunch on Wednesdays.

Responsibilities: • Assist cook to prepare meals.

• Follow hygiene and food handling procedures, as directed • Assist staff with set up (tables, chairs, dish washing stations, compost, serving stations etc.)

• Assist cook with serving as requested • Interact with centre users in a friendly, positive manner Skills needed: • Comfortable in a kitchen setting (experience is not necessary, but would be welcome!)

• Reliable and punctual • Ability to maintain confidentiality • Ability to follow instructions • Non-judgmental and comfortable working in the context of VFWC values (feminism, anti-oppression, respect, inclusivity & equality) Time commitment: Each volunteer shift would be 4-5 hours. Volunteers can sign up for shifts based on their availability and are not required be available every week.

Sarah Murphy, Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre, coordinator@vfwomenscentre.com, 667-2693

Assistant Editor for Sourdough Chronicle Task description: The Yukon Council On Aging (YCOA) has a new editor who wants to fill the assistant editor position ASAP for our quadannual Newsletter, the Sourdough Chronicle.

This is a volunteer position perfect for a retired journalist who wants to keep semi-busy. Since our new editor is old, male and white, he is hoping to find someone who is NOT in order to give the publication gender and racial balance but will take the best applicant regardless of age, gender or ethnicity.

*Restorations * Maintenance

393-2275

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c/w ripper, two blades, angle + “c” frame & straight with hardware

Misc Services

Tel: (867) 667-7777

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

GET RESULTS!

FROGGY SERVICES PEST CONTROL For all kinds of work around the house.

Windows & wall cleaning Painting Clean Eavestroughs Carpentry Yard Work, etc. references available 867-335-9272

Reach almost 2 million people in 101 papers for only $395/week for a 25-word text ad, or $995/week for a formatted display ad

Misc Services

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

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

Book by province or whole country and save over 85%!

Misc Services

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TOPSOIL Call Dirtball

668-2963 Bobcat Services Now Available Excavating • Trucking Septic System • Driveways

House Hunters Little Footprints, Big Steps was founded to provide ongoing care and protection for the children of Haiti. We welcome and greatly appreciate your support.

Please check our website to donate, fundraise or to get involved.

Advertise your Home in 3 issues (3 consecutive weeks)

for only $60+GST

An account at Raven Recycling has been set up for Little Footprints Big Steps.

People may donate their refundable recycling to help continue Morgan’s work in Haiti.

PHONE: 867-667-6283

Incentive for the volunteer: membership to Yukon Council on Aging Elaine Kimball, Yukon Council on Aging (YCOA), ycoa@yknet.ca, 867 - 668-3383 You work for a non-profit organization and you would like to add your volunteer opportunities? Please click on http://www.volunteeryukon.ca/.

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Services

Pets & Livestock

Painting & Decorating

Livestock

Coming Events

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

Augusto! Children’s Festival, Haines Junction, August 11-13, 2017, Fun for ages 12 and under. Check out the website at www.augustokids.ca

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 Advertising It’s good for you.

Roofing & Skylights 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 THOMAS’S ROOFING SERVICE *Shingle Replacement *Metal Roofs *Tile Installation *Repairs (867) 334-8263

Pets & Livestock

Livestock 5 chickens, Sussex Red layers, 2 months old, eggs by fall, half bag of feed, will deliver, $50. Jim @ 3334094 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

In Memoriam

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

Pets Looking for a new home for my two bonded cats, very well behaved and well trained, they hate my toddler, inside only, must stay together. 3330260 LOST: Black cat with white chest, chin & upper lips, more white on right upper lip, 4 white paws, medium/long hair, possibly downtown, pics on Kijiji. 456-7890 Purebred Siberian Husky, 11 months, purchased from Edmonton breeder, located in Pelly, will send pics, $800. 867-332-8945

Announcements

Coming Events 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.

Annual General Meeting for the Shuwateen Ancestral Group Events (SAGE), Whitehorse Public Library Meeting Room Sept 2/17 at 11:30 am shuwateenancestralgroupevents@gmail.com for info

Announcements

A Yukon Camino to celebrate St James Day, walk/hike 1 of 3 minicaminos around downtown Whitehorse on Monday July 24, 5 pm at Waterfront Wharf. We’re on Facebook at Canadian Company of Pilgrims -Whitehorse Chapter.

www.yukon-news.com

Tenders

PUBLIC TENDER PURCHASE OF TRUCKS Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 23, 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.ridchards@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 Canadian Free Trade Agreement.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

In Memoriam

Graveside Service for the late

Highways and Public Works

JP (Jean Paul) Goulet August 10th, 7:00pm at the Faro Cemetery.

We will meet back at Faro Bible Chapel following the service.

For information, contact Ted Baker 944-2442

Obituaries

Obituaries

Brian Joseph Sampson DOB: September 30, 1952 in Sydney, Nova Scotia DOD: July 23, 2017 in Whitehorse, Yukon from serious health complications.

Beloved son of Albert Joseph Sampson (Dec 2007) and Mary Catherine Sampson (Dec 1996). Brother of James Albert Sampson (Dec 1996), Velma Sampson, Kevin Sampson, Blair Sampson, Craig Sampson (Dec 2014), Paul Sampson and Marjorie Sampson-Carter.

Having come to the area over 30 years ago, Brian became an adopted son of the Yukon, enjoying its natural resources and splendor and the close community of Whitehorse. Of particular closeness to Brian in his adopted northern home was the family of Jim and Melanie Carter. We, his surviving brothers and sisters, are grateful to Jim and Mel for all that they did for brother Brian over the years that he was in Whitehorse.

We love you Brian. May God grant that you rest in peace with Dad, Mom, Craig and Al.

PUBLIC TENDER

Announcements

8273444

Tenders 8275575

PUBLIC TENDER STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT FOR MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING OF CYLINDERS, RESPIRATOR FIT TESTING AND AIR QUALITY SAMPLING/TESTING Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 22, 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 Mike Marcuson at mike.marcuson@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/

633-6019 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2

2017

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

IN THE RUFF 2017

Humane Society Yukon

GOLF TOURNAMENT August 26th

Mountain View Golf Club

INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM REGISTRATION Packages at Humane Society Yukon or Mountain View Golf Club

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

Community Services

Kiki

Cypris & Zohan

L.J.

Mew

Pepper

Salt

Bindi

Moody

Master Shifu

Missy

Elsia

James

Falcor

Elvis

Wallie

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL YUKON BERINGIA INTERPRETIVE CENTRE (YBIC) EXHIBIT HALL DESIGN PROJECT

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 23, 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 Knight at david.knight@gov.yk.ca.

Project Description: The Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre will undertake an exhibit design project in the facility’s exhibit hall. The project will include the research, writing, and design of new exhibits and interpretive content for the “Creation of Beringia” room.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 22, 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 Christie Grekul at christie.grekul@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/

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

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Come for a visit and meet your next furry family member!

RUNNING RUNN NING AT LAR N LARGE RGE...

If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382

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Coming Events

Information

BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS Sunday, August 6, 10:30 am Whitehorse United Church 601 Main Street (downtown) Elevator access available Welcome all 2, 4, (6 & 8?) legged guests & their humans, or bring a photo or ashes.

Well behaved stuffies can come too.

Please ensure that pets are on leads or in carriers for their comfort & safety.

Water & treats provided.

Join us for coffee after the service.

All are welcome!

867-667-2989

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Choose your province or all across Canada. Best value. Save over 85% compared to booking individually. www.communityclassifieds.ca or 1866-669-9222

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BUD HAYNES & Ward’s Firearms Auction. Saturday, August 19, 10 a.m., 11802 - 145 St., Edmonton, Alberta. Estate Bill Manarey of Edmonton, Collection Wilfred Allerie of Penticton. Over 500 lots - Online bidding. To consign call Linda Baggaley 403-597-1095; Brad 780-9408378; www.budhaynesauctions.com / www.wardsauctions.com.

Personals CRIMINAL RECORD? Why suffer Employment/Licensing loss? Travel/Business opportunities? Be embarrassed? Think: Criminal Pardon.

US Entry Waiver. Record Purge.

File Destruction. Free Consultation 1800-347-2540.

Come celebrate Discovery Day at the Old Log Church Museum on Monday, Aug 21, 10am-5pm. Kids’ crafts and guided tours all day, free refreshments. Corner of 3rd and Elliott.

Lost & Found FOUND: Kid’s glasses - call 3934555 to identify

FH Collins 1997 Grad 20-year reunion, let’s get together and catch up, August 13, 2017. Picnic, potluck, family friendly fun. Elizabeth @ 250505-4103

Tenders 8275588

Guild AGM/BBQ is Saturday, August 12 at Noon, meeting at 1pm. Come find out what we are doing next season. All are welcome.

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS

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

2017/18-2615 SUPPLY, INSTALL, AND SERVICE OF LONG TERM CARE BEDS AND MATTRESSES FOR WHISTLE BEND CONTINUING CARE FACILITY

Packing our stories over new trails Future travel with Rick Steele Aug 15, 2-4pm, Yukon Transportation Museum. Storytelling, live music, bannock and tea.

Project Description: The Department of Health and Social Services is seeking to establish pre-qualiÀed vendors for a planned future procurement to Request For QualiÀcations for Supply, Install, and service of Long Term Care Beds and Mattresses for Whistle Bend Continuing Care Facility Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title and will be received at the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101-104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

The closing date for submissions is before 4:00 PM on August 17, 2017.

Technical questions may be directed to Dallas O’Neill, dmoneill@gov.yk.ca.

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

Packing our stories over new trails.

Horses with Chuck Hume & Roy Ness, Aug 8, 2-4pm, Yukon Transportation Museum. Storytelling, live music, bannock and tea.

Packing our stories over new trails, Whitehorse 911 with Max Fraser, Sept 11, 2-4pm, Yukon Transportation Museum. Storytelling, live music, bannock and tea.

THREE DAY COLLECTOR AUCTION Sept. 8, 9 & 10 - Abbotsford, BC. Granny & Grumpa’s Antiques.

View online www.prodaniukauctions.com.

Weaving Voices, a C150+ community art project, audio installation located at rear of the Commissioner’s Residence and Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre in Dawson City is open for the season Wee Moves - Kid-Friendly Sundays.

Bring your bike & learn all about the rules of the road! Sept 10, 2-4pm, Yukon Transportation Museum. $5 for members, $10 for non-members.

Wee Moves - Kid-Friendly Sundays.

Launch straw rockets to the Moon!

Aug 13, 2-4pm, Yukon Transportation Museum. $5 for members, $10 for non-members.

Tenders

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WHISTLE BEND BIOSWALE LANDSCAPING AND REPAIR

PURCHASE OIL WATER SEPARATOR SYSTEM

PURCHASE OF A 40’ STEEL CONTAINER (SEACAN)

MILE 91807 COMPOUND UPGRADE

Project Description: Landscaping of newly constructed Bio-swale and repair of existing Bio-swale.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 29, 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 Ron Bramadat at ron.bramadat@gov.yk.ca.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 17, 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 Knight at david.knight@gov.yk.ca.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 17, 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 Knight at david.knight@gov.yk.ca.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 16, 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 Rebecca Irish at Rebecca.Irish@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/

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/

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/

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

Energy, Mines and Resources

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

Bidders and/or Proponents are advised to review documents to determine CertiÀcate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

PUBLIC TENDER Community Services

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www.yukon-news.com Call the Yukon News advertising team at 667-6285.

Wee Moves - Kid-Friendly Sundays.

Make your own Hobby Horse OR your own Musical! Aug 6, 2-4pm, Yukon Transportation Museum. $5 for members, $10 for non-members.

Health and Social Services

Tenders

Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h

Application Number Numéro de la demande

Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire

Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu

Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise

PM15-090-1 (Amendment)

535969 Yukon Inc.

Bonanza Creek & Eldorado Creek, Tributary of Klondike River

Placer

August 28, 2017

PM17-021

H3 Mining Company

Carmack Fork and Tributaries, Tributary of Bonanza Creek

Placer

August 28, 2017

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.

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

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.

STEWART RIVER LIFT STATION UPGRADES Project Description: Upgrades to building structure, mechanical, HVAC, electrical, control equipment, and installation of temporary bypass facilities.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 17, 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 Annika Palm at Annika.Palm@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 Canadian Free Trade Agreement.

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/

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL Earth Works and Site Clean-up For a full project description and site details please contact Phil Emerson at PEmerson@taan.ca or (867) 668-3613 or visit Employment on our website at Taan.ca Ta’an Kwäch’än Council (TKC) invites proposals for earth works and site clean-up on Ta’an Kwäch’än Council Settlement Lands, parcel C-10B, located within City of Whitehorse, Yukon.

RESPONSIBILITY: • The contractor will be responsible for all equipment required to safely complete this project • The contractor is responsible for all staff required for the project. Priority will be given to contractors which hire TKC citizens • The contractor is responsible for transportation to and from the site • The contractor is responsible for any additional material to fill the depressions

THE WORK COMPRISES: • Vegetation removal • Filling of open pits • Removing debris from berms • Deactivating any roads created during the project Work to be completed prior to September 15, 2017.

RFP must be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “RFP for Ta’an Kwäch’än Council, Earth Works Site Clean-up” and addressed to: Ta’an Kwäch’än Council 117 Industrial Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2T8 Attention: Phil Emerson

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