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wo former employees of the Silvertip Mine near Watson Lake have filed lawsuits against JDS Silver Inc. and JDS Energy and Mining Inc., claiming they were wrongfully fired after a “safety-related incident” at the mine in April.

In separate civil claims filed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia on May 30, 2017, Aaron Swerhun and Russell Schram, who describe themselves as “experienced miners,” both claim they were fired on April 26, 2017, after an “incident” at the mine two days earlier.

Swerhun and Schram claim JDS accused them of “serious misconduct, including unsafe conduct” when firing them, an allegation they both deny. The lawsuits claim JDS “made the allegations without undertaking a proper investigation” and fired the two workers “in part to shift responsibility for the incident from themselves” to the workers.

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The Silvertip Mine is located just south of the Yukon/ B.C. border about 90 kilometres southwest of Watson Lake, seen here in satellite imagery from Google. “mental distress and a loss of job opportunities in (the) industry” for both men, and both are seeking general damages from JDS for breaching termination provisions in its employment contract, aggravated damages and costs, among other things.

In its responses to the claims, filed June 30, the company denies Swerhun and Schram’s allegations, writing that they were fired for their involvement in a blast that was set off on April 24 while a haul truck driver was underground in the blast area.

JDS claims the workers’

failure to adhere to safety rules resulted in dangerous situation where a haul truck driver was in the mine while a blast went off.

Swerhun was the blast guard and Schram was the blaster at the time of the “dangerous occurrence,” according to the JDS responses. Swerhun failed to ensure the gate to one of the entrances to the mine was closed, remain at the entrance after the final sweep to ensure no one else entered the mine and ensure that no one entered the blast area between the final sweep

and the clearance to blast, JDS claimed.

Meanwhile, Schram failed to ensure the entrance gate was closed, that someone was guarding the entrance between the final sweep and blast and that no one entered the blast area between the final sweep and clearance to proceed with the blast, the response says.

The “breaches… placed the Plaintiff and his co-workers at risk and resulted in a blast occurring while a haul truck driver was underground in the mine,” JDS wrote in both responses.

Both Swerhun and Schram were well aware of the rules and other safety regulations in place, the response says, and as a result, both were justly fired and should not be awarded any damages.

According to the JDS Silver website, the Silvertip Mine is located in northern British Columbia about 16 kilometres south of the Yukon border and 90 kilometres southwest of Watson Lake.

None of the allegations have been proven in court yet.

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he Yukon Court of Appeal has cut a convicted drunk driver’s jail time almost in half after finding the judge who handed down the sentence did not adequately take the man’s Indigenous heritage into account.

In a written ruling filed Aug. 4, Chief Justice Robert J. Bauman agreed with an appeal filed by Champagne and Aishihik First Nations citizen Arthur Joe, in which Joe argued that 2014 sentence of 43 months and five days plus three years’ probation for convictions of refusing to provide a breath sample, impaired driving and breach of undertaking were unjust.

The original sentencing judge, Donald Luther, “erred” in not properly taking into account Joe’s “Aboriginal background, his moral blameworthiness and… the principle of rehabilitation” when handing down the sentence, Bauman found. Bauman revised Joe’s sentence to

23 months and five days’ imprisonment plus three years’ probation instead, which credits Joe for the 19 and a half months of pre-sentence custody he served. This resulted in a net sentence of three and a half months plus five days, which Bauman notes Joe has already served.

Bauman also struck down one of the original terms of Joe’s probation, which would have prohibited him from “being present in any motor vehicle when an occupant of that vehicle has any alcohol in his body.”

The decision was supported by Justice Ian Donald and Justice Bonnie Tulloch.

Joe’s convictions stem from two incidents in 2014.

In the first, police were called by a concerned citizen who saw Joe driving erratically. Police asked Joe to give a breath sample and he blew three times, but not hard enough for the sensor to obtain a sample.

He refused to blow a fourth time and was arrested. At the time, he was under

an order to abstain from possessing or consuming alcohol and pled guilty to charges of refusing to provide a breath sample and breach of undertaking.

In the second incident, police found Joe next to his stalled truck and took him to an RCMP detachment, where he blew well over the legal blood alcohol concentration limit but claimed someone else had been driving. He was found guilty of impaired driving at trial.

At sentencing, Luther had “ruled out prioritizing rehabilitation” on account of Joe’s “horrendous record,” which included numerous drunk driving convictions. Luther had also stated that the fact that Joe was “horribly abused as a child in residential schools does not relieve him from responsibility for these offences.”

In his appeal ruling, Bauman wrote that “the sentencing judge was required to take judicial notice of the systemic and background factors affecting Aboriginal people

in Canadian society,” but effectively ignored Joe’s Gladue report, which, among other things, detailed Joe’s experiences in residential school and the resulting trauma.

Luther also erred in not considering Joe’s rehabilitation potential, Bauman ruled, noting that, until the 2014 convictions, Joe had been out of trouble with the law for eight years, and even built a camp near Haines Junction he plans to turn into a “tourism centre or a healing centre for people struggling with addictions and residential school trauma.”

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Correction The Aug. 11 sports story “Yukon soccer team downs N.W.T. in nail-biter, will play for historic finish at Games,” mis-identified Team Yukon’s goalie.

James Russell was out with an injury and Dawson Weir played the position.

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Car dealer’s pending departure to open up prime downtown lot Rhiannon Russell News Reporter

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decades-old Whitehorse car dealership will be moving from its downtown location next year, opening up a large piece of desirable real estate.

Mic Mac Toyota, at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Steele Street, has resided at that site since it opened in 1970. It will bemoving to a bigger location on Range Road. The property, which extends from Steele Street to Main Street — about 30,000 square feet in all — is for sale for $2.95 million.

Co-owner Holly Wilcox said Mic Mac has outgrown its current location.

“We don’t have the ability to expand to what we would like to have to offer customers,” she said. “One of the biggest things we struggle with here is parking. We don’t have enough.”

At its new facility next to Tait Trailers, the property comprises 8.5 acres, or more than 370,000 square feet — about a 12-fold increase.

Wilcox’s father purchased the dealership in 1974 with a partner. It’s been in her family since.

When she was growing up, she remembers that “it was a pretty quiet corner.” She recalls some old homes in the area, as well as grass and dirt lots. “I remember lots of dirt roads that are paved over now.”

In the early 1990s, her

parents bought the property next door, where the detail shop now sits. And for several years, they owned the land where the 506 All Day Grill is located now, on Main Street. They thought they might be able to expand in the existing location, but zoning changes complicated things.

The land is zoned core commercial, which is described by the city’s zoning bylaw as “core commercial activity that is vibrant and pedestrian-oriented with a mix of commercial, residential and institutional uses.”

Restaurants, shops, hostels, health services, offices, and parks are all allowed under this designation. Residential use is allowed only above the ground floor.

Under the current bylaw, car dealerships, classified as “vehicle sales and service,” are allowed in a few different zones. Core commercial isn’t one of them.

The territory’s Municipal Act allows for uses of land permitted under previous bylaws, though there are restrictions on what owners can do to improve existing structures, called “non-conforming buildings.”

They can’t be enlarged or structurally altered, though repairs and maintenance are allowed. For example, new siding and minor interior renovations would be permitted, while a new roof wouldn’t be.

“It’s a mechanism to essentially make change over time,” said Kinden Kosick, acting manager of the city’s

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Construction has begun for the new Mic Mac Toyota location on Range Road, which will open in summer 2018. planning sustainability department.

There’s little space downtown that remains open for development, so it must be used as efficiently as possible, he said.

“We want people to come downtown and be able to hit all the shops and all the local retail that are better-suited for people walking by them and looking at them.”

It’s something Wilcox acknowledges: “In downtown Whitehorse, there’s not a

lot available, especially in our location right at the end of Main Street. It’s a pretty desirable spot.”

Since the city completed its last Official Community Plan in 2010, it’s been a priority to bring retail services and offices to the core, Kosick said.

“Larger, more land-intensive uses like car dealerships, with lots of outdoor storage, maybe aren’t as appropriate in our downtown core as they are, say, in our commercial service

by Walmart or Superstore, or along the highway,” he said.

Since the Gold Rush, Whitehorse has been an industrial city, Kosick added, citing the U.S. Army’s presence here when the Alaska Highway was built, the mining and rail history, and the unloading of steamboats along the Yukon River.

As Whitehorse has grown, the need for housing, retail, and other services has grown, pushing

industry out of the downtown core. “It’s revitalization like you see in cities everywhere,” Kosick said.

Wilcox has noticed the change over the years. “It’s definitely busier, more traffic. Just more people. We’re definitely more fancy now.”

With the apartments and townhouses now in the area, the once-quiet end of Main Street is no longer.

“As much as we are sad to leave the downtown core, we’re really excited to be getting into our brand-new facility,” Wilcox said. “And we’re excited for our customers because we know that they’ve been frustrated with our parking situation.”

The dealership’s move is happening as the city works on a new plan for both the downtown core and Marwell. It hosted two events earlier this year, asking people to weigh in on what they want the neighbourhoods to look like. The last downtown plan was completed in 2007.

“A lot has changed in those 10 years,” said city planner Ben Campbell. “It’s worth re-examining those two areas and seeing if we’re on track, what can be changed, what we can do to ensure those two areas remain vital and successful.”

The city is planning another consultation event in the fall, and is also welcoming feedback on the plans at: whitehorse.ca/ downtown and whitehorse. ca/marwell.

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Whitehorse RCMP confiscated package of 535 fentanyl tablets in April Jackie Hong News Reporter

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n accused fentanyl dealer is making another court appearance in Whitehorse Aug. 16, months after Whitehorse RCMP confiscated a package containing hundreds of fentanyl tablets.

In April, the RCMP intercepted a “suspicious package” in the Whitehorse area investigators believe “was destined for a location outside of the Yukon.” Lab tests confirmed the package contained 535 fentanyl tablets, according to an RCMP press release.

RCMP arrested Jibril Hosh Jibril, 26, in Whitehorse June 30 and charged him with possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking.

He’s made “several” court appearances since then and remains in custody.

Police said Jibril has held a number of addresses across Canada and has had run-ins with the law before.

Jibril has been arrested and charged with drug trafficking offences before in several other provinces, including British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Whitehorse RCMP did not issue a news release following either finding the package or Jibril’s arrest, only doing so after being asked by the News about reports of a fentanyl bust earlier this summer.

Fentanyl is a powerful, highly addictive synthetic opioid often described as 50 to 100 times stronger

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Hundreds of fentanyl tablets were seized from an accused dealer by the RCMP in April. than morphine. Originally developed as a painkiller for people battling cancer or other ailments, fen-

tanyl has found its way into the recreational drug supply and contributed to what’s become known

as the opioid crisis. There are also reports of it being mixed in with other drugs and causing overdoses —

some of them fatal — in unsuspecting users.

Between April 2016 and May 2017, there were five confirmed fentanyl-related deaths in the Yukon. In British Columbia, one of the provinces hit hardest by the opioid crisis, there were 525 fatal fentanyl overdoses between January 2017 and May 2017 alone, according to a coroner’s service report.

The effects of an opioid overdose can be reversed almost immediately by another drug, naloxone.

Free take-home naloxone kits are available at pharmacies, the Kwanlin Dün First Nation Health Centre, Blood Ties Four Directions, and Taiga Medical Clinic.

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Yukon government launches carbon tax survey as Opposition raises concerns Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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he territorial government is issuing a survey today looking for input on how the carbon tax will be rebated to Yukoners.

Meanwhile federal officials will be in the territory Aug. 17-18 for meetings as part of a study on how the North will be impacted by the new tax.

The Yukon government’s survey was momentarily active yesterday before it was shut down. It’s scheduled to go public again sometime today.

According to the document, the Yukon is expecting the price of gas to go up 2.33 cents per litre in 2018, when the federal rules for jurisdictions that don’t have their own carbon tax take effect.

That would work out to about $5 million in revenue.

By 2022 the federal government’s rules mean the cost of gas will go up 11.63 cents a litre generating about $25 million, the survey says.

The Yukon Liberals have promised to rebate that money.

The survey, which is

open until Sept. 13, asks for Yukoners’ opinions on how rebates might be handed out — through a cheque, direct deposit, tax credit or by reducing the income tax rate.

It also asks Yukoners to consider whether certain people and Yukon businesses should get more of a rebate than others.

“In your opinion, how important is it that Yukoners belonging to the following groups receive a higher rebate than others?” the survey asks, while listing off options like seniors, low-income Yukoners, Yukoners with children and rural Yukoners.

A similar question focuses on whether certain types of businesses, those considered energy intensive or businesses that are not connected to the grid, should get a higher rebate than others.

The possibility of giving some Yukoners and Yukon businesses larger rebates than others has the official Opposition accusing the government of breaking an election promise.

Yukon Party MLA Scott Kent said instead of giving Yukoners all the money back they spent on the tax, Pre-

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“He never said during the campaign or since that he would be picking winners and losers with this carbon tax scheme. So absolutely it would be breaking a campaign commitment.”

The Liberal campaign platform promises that the carbon tax would “be distributed back to individual Yukoners and businesses through a rebate.”

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tax would be “truly revenue neutral for Yukon business and Yukon families.”

The premier was not available for an interview in time for today’s story.

Eric Clement, a spokesperson for the Department of Finance, said one of the government’s key considerations is that a carbon tax should not disproportionately impact vulnerable people.

“The rebate mechanism could be designed to address these concerns.

The public survey … has highlighted these concerns so that Yukoners can give the government input on these and other considerations,” he said in an email.

The 2018 deadline to come up with a rebate plan is fast approaching, Kent said.

“I suspect they’re finding it more difficult than they thought to give every Yukon business and Yukon family their money back.”

This summer, federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna promised to study the North’s “unique circumstances” and “find solutions.”

Silver has said that could mean “sector-specific” carbon tax exemptions.

As part of that study, federal officials will be in Whitehorse Aug. 17 and Dawson City and Haines Junction

Aug. 18, Clement said.

Meetings are scheduled with municipalities, First Nation governments and various industry representatives, including the territory’s airlines, mining associations and energy companies.

No meetings with the general public have been scheduled.

Calls to the federal environment department were not returned in time for today’s deadline.

McKenna has promised a decision on how the tax will be applied in the North before it comes into effect across Canada in 2018.

Yukon officials bar hunting wayward sheep from Kluane National Park

that have wandered out of Kluane National Park and Reserve near Sheep Mountain, across the highway and onto adjacent land.

The closure is a “precautionary tool,” Environment Yukon biologist Shawn Taylor said. There was “some interest” expressed about hunting the wandering sheep, he said, but “we haven’t had anyone shoot a sheep or shoot at a sheep there.”

“It’s an unusual situation because the sheep are moving across the highway more

than they have in the past,” Taylor said, explaining that the receding levels of Kluane Lake have opened up new habitable areas for the sheep. Normally, the sheep are protected from hunting within the boundaries of the national park.

Taylor said the population isn’t likely to wander much farther than it already has, and experts and local First Nations are working on a long-term solution to protect the sheep. He also asked drivers to be cautious and aware of sheep on the road while driving in the area, although, to date, no one’s struck a sheep with a vehicle yet.

The hunting closure will remain in effect until Oct. 31, the closing date for sheep hunting in the Yukon.

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KDFN launches civil suit against man repairing broken cars on Old Village land Jackie Hong News Reporter

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he Kwanlin Dün First Nation has launched a civil suit against a man it says is illegally storing and fixing broken cars, among other things, on a plot of land it owns and has set aside for development.

In a statement of claim filed to the Yukon Supreme Court Aug. 2, KDFN alleges that Tim Smith has “made unauthorized use” of Lot 226, known as the “Old Village,” since around 2008 by “using the property to restore derelict vehicles” as well as “storing personal property” in an unsanctioned structure built on the lot. Smith “may also occasionally sleep in the structure in the summer,” the statement alleges.

The First Nation is asking the court to declare that Smith is trespassing and order him to remove his belongings, or to allow for KDFN to remove them without consequence.

KDFN is the registered owner and pays property

taxes and servicing fees on Lot 226, a residential area for KDFN citizens until 1986, when the First Nation reached an agreement with the federal, territorial and municipal governments to move residents to McIntyre. Since the relocation, which finished in the 1990s, KDFN has not allowed any residential structures to be built on the land nor leased any part of it to residential tenants. However, the statement notes that both KDFN citizens and others “have periodically abandoned junk (mainly old cars)” on the lot, and that “unknown persons also put up a couple of structures to use to keep warm while working on cars.”

KDFN began clearing the lot in 2010 and about three years later, “established a draft conceptual development plan … which includes opportunities for commercial and light industrial activities.” That plan requires KDFN to clear the lot and “remediate any environmental contamination,” and as part of that effort for the 2017 season, KDFN

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Derelict vehicles sit on land owned by the Kwanlin Dün First Nation in the Marwell area of Whitehorse. notified residents to clear personal property from the lot by June 26.

In the statement of claim, KDFN said it’s been advising Smith and his family since at least 2013 that “his use of Lot 226 was unauthorized.” On top of verbal warnings, the First Nation said it has

hand-delivered two letters to Smith in 2015 and 2016 telling him to stop using the lot, and also served him with a notice in January of this year asking him to “remove his personal effects,” including the structure.

However, despite being advised on “several occa-

sions” that Smith would be vacating, including once by his mother, the First Nation said in the statement of claim that Smith hasn’t actually removed his belongings and has, in fact, “refused or neglected” to when directly asked to do so.

“Mr. Smith’s unau-

thorized use of Lot 226 constitutes a continuing trespassing, in that it interferes with the KDFN’s possession of land and is causing the KDFN to suffer damage and loss, including by impeding its ability to clean up and remediate Lot 226 for the benefit of its citizens,” the statement reads.

KDFN is asking for the court to declare Smith is trespassing on the lot and to put a permanent order in place to keep him from trespassing again.

It’s also asking the court to order Smith to remove “any personal property from Lot 226, including the structure and its contents, within one week of the court’s order,” and, if he fails to do so, to allow KDFN to be “at liberty to dispose of any and all personal property” of Smith’s “without providing any notice of compensation to Mr. Smith.”

The allegations have not been proven in court.

An initial hearing is scheduled to take place in Whitehorse Aug. 23.

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Pilot suffers minor injuries after helicopter crash in Atlin Jackie Hong News Reporter

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man suffered minor injuries in Atlin, B.C., Thursday afternoon after the helicopter he was piloting crashed shortly after lifting off.

Atlin RCMP received a report about a helicopter crash near the

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Atlin Airport around 3 p.m. on Aug. 10. Officers “immediately” located the pilot, who told them he was the lone occupant of the helicopter and that he was not seriously injured.

The pilot said he was lifting off and about three to six metres in the air when he felt the left side of the helicopter start to sink, according to

Atlin RCMP. The helicopter was privately owned by the pilot.

Police notified the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, which said it would not be investigating the incident and that the scene could be released to the pilot to clean up the wreckage.

alleged kidnapping and sexual assault made his first court appearance Monday.

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rested and charged Philip Tyler Reid, 25, “without incident” Aug. 11 about an hour and a half after sharing his name and

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A pilot suffered minor injuries after his helicopter went down just after taking off at the Atlin Airport Aug. 10.

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photo on social media and appealing for information on his whereabouts.

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Reid did not enter a

plea Monday. He will appear in court again later this week for a bail hearing.

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recent issue of Rolling Stone magazine — with a photo of a smiling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the cover — asks: “Why can’t he be our president?” It’s just the latest example of the global media’s current fascination with Trudeau and Canada and their supposed stark contrast to Donald Trump and the United States.

As a Canadian scholar at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, I’ve watched with fascination for months as media pundits both abroad and back home have promoted the idea of “Canadian exceptionalism.”

They argue that Canadians are especially tolerant, diverse and committed to multiculturalism. Many believe that Canada — with our self-described feminist prime minister and our compassionate approach to refugees — should show other countries how it’s done.

In The Walrus, author Stephen Marche argued that Canada is the last defender of multiculturalism on Earth. Canadian novelist Charles Foran claimed that Canada is a “post-nationalist state.”

“Call it post-nationalism, or just a new model of belonging,” he wrote in The Guardian. “Canada may yet be of help in what is guaranteed to be the difficult year to come.”

More recently, Adam Gopnik wrote in The New Yorker: “Canada is the model liberal country.”

In Gopnik’s New Yorker essay, “We Could Have Been Canada,” he wonders why Canadians are not more similar to Americans. After all, both countries were settled by Europeans who relied on Indigenous knowledge about the land. Indigenous peoples in both places also taught settlers how to live amid different cultures and identities. So why did multiculturalism and liberality supposedly take hold in one place, but not the other?

Some writers believe the key difference is the two different systems of government in Canada and the United States — a republic south of the border versus Canada’s constitutional monarchy — and the circumstances in which those governments emerged and evolved. Americans birthed their nation-state out of violent disobedience; Canadians, out of a conference on Confederation.

Gopnik agrees. He blames the American Revolution for denying Americans the opportunity to end slavery “more peacefully, and sooner.” Americans, he says, could have developed their country in an orderly and peaceful fashion.

But historians know this is a simplistic narrative.

Gopnik assumes that without the American Revolution, slavery would have ended in 1833 when the House of Commons passed a bill to abolish slavery in the British Empire.

Perhaps so. But maybe not. And even if it did, that doesn’t mean Canadians are any less racist.

It’s a common myth that Canada didn’t have slavery. It did. As historians like Brett

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Rushforth, Marcel Trudel and Charmaine Nelson point out in their scholarship, thousands of Indigenous people and enslaved Africans were held captive in Canada by merchants, traders and settlers.

Canada had slavery. But because of the colder climate, it did not have the conditions to grow profitable crops that relied on slave labour, including sugar, rice, tobacco and cotton. Consequently, Canada never developed a slave system akin to the entrenched and all-encompassing institution that many Americans implemented and protected for so long.

As in Canada, white settlers in the U.S. invaded Indigenous lands. But unlike in Canada, those people then settled that land with a significant population of enslaved Africans and African-Americans. This is a critical difference between the two countries.

Even as slavery bolstered the American economy, founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson recognized that it would be difficult for future generations to create a multicultural nation from one founded on chattel slavery and settler colonialism.

Much of the white supremacy and xenophobia that Canadians deride in American culture, and overlook in our own, can be traced to the racism that developed alongside the federally protected slave system in the U.S. Given this history, it’s not surprising that the overwhelming majority of white voters in former slave states voted for Trump.

As Joseph Crespino, a historian at Emory University, notes in his book In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution, white southerners have succeeded in shaping the United States based on their own values.

The idea of “American exceptionalism” can be traced to the arrival of Puritan settlers in Massachusetts in 1620 who promoted the idea of a white American settlement as the “city upon the hill.” Puritans hoped that their piety would serve as an example to the supposedly corrupt, luxurious Europeans and “savage” Native Americans.

The 1776 Declaration of Independence, and America’s victory in the War of Indepen-

dence, further spurred American exceptionalism, as did key 19th-century concepts like the Manifest Destiny, which declared that American colonization of North America was justified and inevitable.

But the hubris of American exceptionalism has rendered the country rife with hypocrisy. In the 20th century, critics noted that the self-described “leader of the free world” was defeating fascism in Europe while propping up racial segregation at home.

As the counter-protests in Charlottesville and against Trump this week demonstrate, many Americans recognize their nation’s racism and bigotry, and are working to show their skeptical countrymen that diversity is an asset.

This kind of work only happens when Americans drop the self-congratulatory plaudits, look inward, and acknowledge their own flaws, which is exactly what exceptionalism discourages.

Canadians know that Canada can be better. It’s nonsensical to suggest that Canadians know compassion better than any country when international agencies like Amnesty International and the UN Human Rights Commission slam Canada for failing to alleviate the systematic discrimination of Indigenous peoples, and especially violence against Indigenous women and girls.

There is much to celebrate about Canada, which undoubtedly remains more tolerant and just than many countries. But Canadian patriotism should be about gratitude, not hubris.

Gratitude appreciates good fortune and breaks down pride. By taking off the blinders and revealing our collective ugliness, of which there is a lot right now, a Canadian patriotism rooted in gratitude can help initiate progressive change —which is exactly what Canada, as wonderful a country as it is, still needs.

Melissa J. Gismondi is a lecturer in women, gender and sexuality at the University of Virginia. This article was originally published on The Conversation.

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ot content with simply eliminating the Harper government’s income-splitting program, the Liberals now propose to go one step further and are targeting those who use incorporation and the practice of “dividend sprinkling” as a roundabout means of accomplishing the same.

The corporation has for decades been used as a means for income splitting. By paying out some portion of the corporation’s profits to spouses and other adult family members in the form of dividends, incorporating allowed a person to redirect some portion of what might otherwise be paid to themselves to family members in lower tax brackets,

thus (often substantially) saving on tax.

Having taken such a strong stand against income splitting for workers in the last election it was difficult as a matter of consistency to continue to allow business owners and incorporated professionals to enjoy preferential treatment. Workers are unable to take advantage of the same tax avoidance technique because the Income Tax Act denies “a corporation [that] … provide[s] services to another entity… that an… employee of that entity would usually perform” access to the small business deduction needed to make income splitting work. In other words you can’t just create a company and sell its services to your employer to take advantage of corporate income splitting.

And so we are all treated to another round in the great debate over the concept of income splitting.

Philosophically, I think there is an arguable case for allowing income splitting when both spouses are employed. The disparity

of family tax bills that our system produces does seem unfair. To illustrate, in the Yukon a two-income family where each spouse makes $80,000 a year will pay about $34,780 in tax.

But a family where one spouse makes $120,000 and the other makes $40,000 (for the same $160,000 family income) will pay $37,145.

The problem for proponents is that we don’t just evaluate tax changes on the basis of what would be more fair if you were to design a taxation system from scratch. We also look at how a particular change impacts revenues and who benefits from those changes. It is often easier politically to just leave things the way they are.

And the practical and political reality of moving towards income splitting from a taxation system that didn’t previously allow for it means a windfall wealthy families with very little benefit to those further down the income spectrum. Income splitting also does nothing for single-parent families (which

struggle more than anyone), yet benefits families already saving on childcare expenses on account of the fact that one spouse is staying home.

The redistributive effects of implementing income splitting is the reason the Harper government went only half-in — allowing it but only to a point. Correcting the arguable unfairness in our system meant depleting government revenues to benefit a small group of already well-off families and their critics seized on that. Arguments based on correcting unfairness to high-income families rarely seem to get a lot of buy-in from the public for reasons that are probably obvious.

But there are serious political problems with what the Liberals are proposing to do here as well.

When the Liberals eliminated income splitting after the last election they softened the blow by reducing the middle tax bracket and enhancing the Child Care Benefit.

No such trade-offs appear

to be on offer this time around.

The Liberals face the additional problem that corporate income splitting is far more entrenched in the tax planning strategy for certain Canadian families than the Harper-era family tax cut (which had only been in place for a few years when the Liberals axed it).

People don’t like paying more taxes and for some the move could mean a a higher tax bill. As an example, a Yukon small business owner with $200,000 in net income and a stay-athome spouse could pay more than $15,000 extra in taxes next year. That stings and it is doubtful that too many will be saying, “well if it levels the field I guess it is for the best.” People are rarely so philosophical at tax time.

There are other challenges as well.

The introduction of a reasonableness standard to determine when a person has contributed sufficiently to a family business endeavour to be paid a certain amount in salary or

dividends is a real can of worms as well. The government has to contend with the fact that sometimes family members do contribute capital and labour to a business. The question is how much do they have to contribute and how much they can receive. The answer: an amount that is “reasonable” — a standard sure to complicate an already complex tax system.

I can appreciate what the Liberals are attempting to accomplish by levelling the playing field between workers and the self-employed, but eliminating dividend sprinkling will be more complicated and politically difficult than swapping a Harper era tax credit for some new goodies.

And the political damage will come more into focus as the significance of this change hits home for Canadian business owners.

(Disclosure: I am an incorporated professional, but have not used dividend sprinkling to save in tax).

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

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BEIJING hina is telling the U.S. and North Korea to “hit the brakes” on threatening words and actions and work toward a peaceful resolution of their dispute, in a sign of growing concern over the standoff on the part of Pyongyang’s only major ally.

Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, that the two countries should work together to contain tensions and permit no one to “stir up an incident on their doorstep,” according to a statement posted on the Chinese foreign ministry’s website.

“The most important task at hand is for the U.S. and North Korea to ‘hit the brakes’ on their mutual needling of each other with words and actions, to lower the temperature of the tense situation and prevent the emergence of an ‘August crisis,’” Wang was quoted as saying in

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The ministry quoted Lavrov as saying tensions could rise again with the

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North Korea nuclear issue by military force is completely unacceptable and the peninsula’s nuclear issue must be peacefully resolved by political and diplomatic methods,” Lavrov was quoted as saying.

China is North Korea’s main economic partner and political backer, although relations between Beijing and Pyongyang have deteriorated amid the North’s continuing defiance of China’s calls for restraint. In recent months, China has joined with Russia in calling for the U.S. to suspend annual military exercises with South Korea in exchange for Pyongyang halting its missile and nuclear tests as a first step toward direct talks.

On Wednesday, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, continued a visit to China following talks the day before with his Chinese counterpart that touched on North Korea.

No details of the talks have been released.

Dunford on Tuesday told Fang Fenghui, chief of the People’s Liberation Army’s joint staff department, that the sides had “many difficult issues” between them but were willing to deal with them through dialogue.

On Monday, Dunford was in Seoul to meet with senior South Korean military and political officials and the local media, seeking to ease anxiety while

showing his willingness to back President Donald Trump’s warnings if need be.

The U.S. wants to peacefully resolve tensions with North Korea, but Washington is also ready to use the “full range” of its military capabilities, Dunford said. His visit to Asia, which also will include a stop in Japan, comes after Trump last week declared the U.S. military “locked and loaded” and said he was ready to unleash “fire and fury” if North Korea continued to threaten the United States.

North Korea’s military on Tuesday presented leader Kim Jong Un with plans to launch missiles into waters near the U.S. territory of Guam and “wring the windpipes of the Yankees,” even as both Koreas and the United States signalled their willingness to avert a deepening crisis, with each suggesting a path toward negotiations.

The tentative interest in diplomacy follows unusually combative threats between Trump and North Korea amid worries Pyongyang is nearing its longsought goal of being able to send a nuclear missile to the U.S. mainland. Next week’s start of U.S.-South Korean military exercises that enrage the North each year could make diplomacy even more difficult.

During an inspection of the North Korean army’s Strategic Forces, which handles the missile

program, Kim praised the military for drawing up a “close and careful plan” and said he would watch the “foolish and stupid conduct of the Yankees” a little more before deciding whether to order the missile test, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said. Kim appeared in photos sitting at a table with a large map marked by a straight line between what appeared to be northeastern North Korea and Guam, and passing over Japan — apparently showing the missiles’ flight route.

The missile plans were previously announced.

Kim said North Korea would conduct the launches if the “Yankees persist in their extremely dangerous reckless actions on the Korean Peninsula and its vicinity,” warning the United States to “think reasonably and judge properly” to avoid shaming itself, the news agency said.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters in Washington on Tuesday, “We continue to be interested in trying to find a way to get to dialogue, but that’s up to (Kim).”

Lobbing missiles toward Guam, a major U.S. military hub in the Pacific, would be deeply provocative from the U.S. perspective. A miscalculation on either side could lead to military confrontation.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in, meanwhile, a liberal who favours diplomacy, urged North Korea to stop provocations and to commit to talks over its nuclear weapons program.

Moon, in a televised speech Tuesday on the anniversary of World War II’s end and the Korean Peninsula’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule, said Seoul and Washington agree that the nuclear standoff should “absolutely be solved peacefully.” He said no U.S. military action on the Korean Peninsula could be taken without Seoul’s consent.

North Korea’s military said last week that it would finalize the plan to fire four ballistic missiles near Guam, which is about 3,200 kilometres (2,000 miles) from Pyongyang.

It would be a test of the Hwasong-12, a new missile the country flight-tested for the first time in May. The liquid-fuel missile is designed to be fired from road mobile launchers and has been described by North Korea as built for attacking Alaska and Hawaii.

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Heavy Duty Machinery 6-cyl Deutz diesel, 6,500hrs, c/w 65kw Stamford generator 600V, 2 6” submersible Flygt pumps, HD suspension cage for 8” discharge, auto switch gear engine on float system, in Mayo as package, $31,000. 867335-6649

Bear Cat chipper/shredder, model SC3305E, with blower, only used for 25 hrs, great condition, $1,100. 6334375

Complete 24” sluice box & Lister diesel pump w/approx 250’ of 4” aluminum Victaulic pipe. 332-2246

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

Store (867) 633-3276

COYOTE ENTERTAINMENT Full-time Sales Clerk Wages $15.70/hr High School Graduate Operate computerized inventory system; Provide product advice; Prepare product sales; Process payments.

Effective interpersonal skills & team player Resumes: coyotevideo007@gmail.com GAS BAR CASHIER (NOC 6611) Full time permanent $15.00/hour Please apply by email: takhinigas@gmail.com

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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Baby stroller, good condition, $30.

633-2837

Merchandise for Sale

Appliances Solar panels, quality, 250 watt panels selling for $290 each, 10 year warranty. 633-2533.

Wanted: Washer & dryer. 667-6726 or 335-9309

Computer Equipment Dell Inspiron computer, Dell 20” flat screen monitor, Lexmark 1200 inkjet printer & scanner, $250 for all, good for back to school. 633-4379 iPhone 5s, Bell or Virgin Mobile, 16gb, good cond, c/w charge cube & cord, $170. 334-6087

Firearms Browning 30.06 stainless steel rifle, comes with a Bushnell Elite 3200 stainless steel scope, case, sling & swivel, hardly used, $900 obo. 3331901 LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R NEW & USED 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY * SELL SKS rifle, folding stock, choice of scopes, $375 obo. 332-0067 Wanted: M1 Garand rifle. James @ 867-336-1292

Elliptical trainer, cardio style, barely used, $500 obo. 633-4311

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

S.A. vouchers accepted.

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

Children’s Misc

200-225 CD’s, wide selection, $60 obo. 393-2780

Cheque, Cash

MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION! In-demand career! Employers have workat-home positions available. Get online training you need from an employer-trusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1-855-768-3362 to start training for your work-at-home career today!

Children

Coffee table; steel bathtub; 2 45-gal steel drums. 667-6649

MAYO, YUKON

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

YELLOW CABS is looking to hire a full-time AUTOMOTIVE MECHANIC/ TECHNICIAN $26/hour 10-15 years experience 867-689-9694

1976 60’x12’ mobile home, 2-bd bathroom, F/S/W/D hot water tank incl, nice interior, outside needs TLC, ready to move, great starter for $25,000. 336-4123 or 334-0372

First Nation of Na-cho Nyäk Dun

KITCHEN HELPER (NOC 6711) Full time permanent $15.00/hour Please apply by email: takhinigas@gmail.com

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

Blue cowboy boots, size 7.5, made in US. 867-634-2880

Misc. for Sale

Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782

Help Wanted

Acetylene torch, c/w tanks, hose, tips, etc; acetylene & oxygen cylinders, both full. 456-4927

Furniture 6-drawer chest of drawers, good condition, $20. 456-4554 Dining room table, 7 chairs, almost 2 yrs old, solid wood, very good condition, paid $1,400 new, asking $650.

667-7840 Elegant home/office desk, 60L”x28D”x30”H, with matching wooden office chair, purchased at Ashley’s less than 2 years ago, too large for condo, $400.

Reply to nnigel34@yahoo.ca Queen size mattress w/box spring, in excellent condition, comes with bed protection cover, $300 obo.

393-2630 Queen Tempur-Pedic mattress, good, clean condition, always had cover, $300 obo. 633-5177

Help Wanted

WE’RE MAKING A FEW CHANGES… The First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun (FNNND) is becoming an independent nation of self-reliant people who give back to their nation and look after the land and water.

To achieve this vision, we’re changing the way our government is structured and the way we deliver programs and services. If you are a leader in developing teams that can accomplish great things, and believe in helping people to achieve their potential, we want to hear from you!

Currently we are advertising the following positions for the Lands and Resources department: • • • •

Administrative Assistant Natural Resources Coordinator Lands Officer Environmental Assessment Officer

NOTE: If the substantive position interests you through a flexible working arrangement, job share, under-fill, or professional services contractual arrangement, please respond with your expression of interest to the undersigned.

Please submit a cover letter and resume by: Monday, August 28th, 2017 @ 4:30 p.m. to: Ronalda Moses, Manager, Human Resources First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun Tel: (867) 996-2265 ext. 138 | Fax: (867) 996-2267 Email: humanresources@nndfn.com

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT Travel Consultant

Annual Salary: Department of$55,701-$64,006 Highways and Public Works Annual Salary: $55,701-$64,006

Closing Date: August 18, 2017 Closing Date:RequisiƟ Auguston: 18,#6311 2017

RequisiƟon: #6311

For viewing all jobs and to apply, please go to

www.employment.gov.yk.ca

For viewing all jobs and to apply, please go to “CommiƩed to employment equity” Public Service Commission (867) 667-5834

www.employment.gov.yk.ca “CommiƩed to employment equity” Public Service Commission (867) 667-5834

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Men’s & women’s Vasque hiking boots, floater jacket, hip waders, metal frame glass door with lock, FREE. Call 667-7144 Norge propane stove, used, $100.

867-821-4338

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Receptionist The Yukon Teachers’ Association is seeking an energetic, friendly & professional person to be YTA’s part-time Receptionist. The role is for up to 45 hrs per month on a roster of Thursday, and then Thursday/Friday on alternating weeks.

Yukon Teachers’ Association

The role will commence in September 2017 with a wage of $19-$21 /hour depending on experience.

Duties will include to: • welcome & greet visitors • answer the switchboard, screen & forward phone calls • receive and sort daily mail/deliveries/couriers • maintain a presentable reception area

Association des enseignants(es) du Yukon Necessary skills:

• Clear written and verbal communicator • Proficient computer skills including the use of email and Microsoft Office software Please forward your cover letter and copy of your resume to the Yukon Teachers’ Association (YTA). Applications may be faxed to 867667-4324 or e-mailed to execdir@yta.yk.ca.

Only those selected for an interview in September will be contacted.

Volunteers

Volunteers

ACTIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY Are you looking for volunteer opportunities?

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

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE AT: www.nndfn.com

Travel Consultant Department of Highways and Public Works

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!

Indoor/outdoor plants, trees, shrubs, purple Lilacs, Honeysuckle, Mayday, Sea Buckthorn, Potentilla, Caraganas, perennial flowers, starting $5 to $100. 668-4186

$

60+GST

YukomiCon 2017 is Looking for Volunteers Task description: Looking for motivated individuals to fill various positions on Friday August 25th of YukomiCon primarily, other shifts also available. Security, Hospitality and Gaming area volunteers needed.

Responsibilities: Being responsible for the area you are assigned, handling money and registration forms.

Skills needed: responsible and outgoing individuals who can work with teams and individually and adapt to last minute changes.

Time commitment: 3 to 10 hours Incentive for the volunteer: Day pass with 3 hour shift, Weekend pass with 3 or more shifts worked, entry into our draw for a volunteer prize, prize to be determined.

Staff position that will supervise the volunteer: Kate McConnell Kate McConnell, info@yukomicon.com, (867) 333-9888

2017 Startup Canada Awards Volunteer Task description: Startup Canada Awards (North) - 19th - We celebrate those driving impact and demonstrating excellence in Northern Canada’s entrepeneurship and innovation community at the regional Startup Canada Awards, a red carpet event. Regional winners announced at the event!

Responsibilities: We’re looking for VOLUNTEERS to get a free t-shirt, serve beer, help set-up, welcome guests, serve as the face of (co)space/YuKonstruct, and more!

Time commitment: September 19: Set-up: 3pm to 5pm and Event: 5.30pm to 9pm Incentive for the volunteer: We will be providing t-shirts to the first 10 volunteers who sign up online: Lauren Manekin, (co)space – Yukonstruct, lauren@cospacenorth.com You work for a non-profit organization and you would like to add your volunteer opportunities? Please click on http://www.volunteeryukon.ca/.

PHONE: 867-667-6283 Community Services

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

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Misc. for Sale

Musical Instruments

Cars - Domestic

Recreational/Sale

Trucks & Vans

Trucks & Vans

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.

Castiglione full-size piano accordion, excellent shape. 867-634-2880 PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 Email: bfkitchen@hotmail.com

2011 Nissan Sentra 2.0L luxury model, white, only 80,000 kms, exc cond, sunroof, keyless entry, lots of extras, $10,000. 668-6534 or 3347534.

2008 Northern Lights Special Edition, 10’2” long, exc cond, $24,000.

393-3630

1995 Chevrolet S10, automatic, no reverse, no rust, engine runs well, 259,780kms, canopy, c/w 2 sets of good tires, best offer. 633-4826

2008 GMC K1500 4X4, whiskey brown, extended cab, short box, 6” lift, 20” rims, new tires, well maintained, rear air bags, dual exhaust, 210,000kms, $9,500. 334-0372

Ongoing yard sale, Mile 932.2 Old Alaska Highway near Scout Lake Rd, 9am-4pm daily, follow orange signs, lots of quality items. 336-0908 Pendleton Xtra-Large jacket, perfect shape; Bombardier Skidoo belt. Offers. 668-5188 Raspberry plants, $15 each. 3326565 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 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. Shop Vac, 10 gal, like new, $35.

668-2885 eves or weekends, 6673950 day.

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.

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.

Ted Harrison Painting Paradise books, soft cover @ $40, retail $80, or limited edition signed hard cover @ $250, retail $500. 633-4311

Sporting Goods 120 lb cast iron weights, includes barbell, dumbbell, EZ curl bar. 4564927 btwn 10am & Noon Canondale men’s road bike, handmade in USA, 56 cm frame, exc cond, $600; Haro BMX 24” wheels, mint condition, need to sell ASAP, $400. 334-0368 Hockey gear, tykes and youth, shin pads, chest protectors, pants & pant covers.

Tykes to youth skates.

Goalie pants, youth XL. 668-4186 Speed bag, gloves & hanger; Everlast heavy bag. 456-4927 btwn 10am & Noon Women’s mountain bike, Giant Liv Tempt 3, small frame, 27.5” tires, hydraulic disc brakes, front suspension,, near new condition, $550 obo.

332-2905

Transportation

Auto Accessories/Parts Blizzak WS80 235/50/18, 80% tread left, $600 obo. 633-6684 Set of stock rims for 2000 Jeep Cherokee. New spare tire on new rim. 668-6297 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 Wanted: 4 x 16” 6-hole rims for GMC Canyon. 667-6649

Cars - Domestic

2012 Ford Focus, command start, summer & winter tires on rims, automatic, 110,000 kms, great condition, $8,000. 334-6759 2015 Dodge Journey SXT V6, 13,400kms, loaded, exc cond, new Nokian tires, reduced to $23,900 obo. 456-3373 Thule cargo roof top carrier, approx 3’ x 2’, $100 obo. 393-2780

2010 Yamaha V Star 650 Silverado, 314kms, ridden very little due to health, very nice motorcycle, $6,500 obo. 335-1445 2017 Honda Rebel 300, posted last week with wrong price, should read $4,000 firm instead of $4,800 obo, it has 0 kms & full warranty. 390-2244

Off Road Vehicles 2011 Polaris Ranger Crew 800, low mileage, no off road, power steering, covered top, front & back plexie wind screens, $10,000 firm. 3323734 2015 Yamaha Grizzly 550 with tub trailer, like new, 300kms, sacrifice at $10,000. John @ 336-0908 Argo Conquest, model V899-37, green, winch, only 31 hrs used, like new, 3 yrs old, $12,800. 250-6517650

Misc Services

Wanted: Rim with tire, pre-1970 GM 14” 5 stud x 4.75” rim with tire for spare on Chev. 334-6087 Wanted: Sausage stuffer. Call 6685644

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Trucks & Vans 1973 Ford 1/2 ton pick-up, strong mechanical, body rough, in May, $700; 1973 Ford 3-ton, good body, motor runs, needs brake work, in Mayo, $2,200. 335-6649 1993 Chevy Suburban, $2,500 obo.

633-2218 1993 GMC 3500 dually, 5-spd, 6.5L diesel, extended cab, long box, 294,000kms, excellent condition inside/outside, safety inspection, ready to haul, $5,500. 334-0372

Recreational/Sale

Misc Services

Wanted: Kitchen chairs, will look at anything even needing repairs. 6335177

In Memoriam

2003 Jeep Liberty 4X4, 1 owner, good body, glass, winter tires, saftied, must be seen, 131,000kms, $5,900. 334-6393

2009 Chev 2500, 3/4 ton, 4x4, extended cab, $9,200. 667-7777 2009 Ram 1500 Sport, well maintained, all round good condition, 131,000kms. 335-5221 2011 Dodge Ram 1500, 4X4, reg cab, outdoorsman package, air, tilt, cruise, Nav, power everything, running boards, new tires, 260K recent mechanical/oil change, no issues, $9,800 obo. 334-2802

Utility Trailers 20’ flat deck trailer, good working order, double 5-ton axles with electric brakes, c/w loading ramps, $4,750.

667-4858 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

Boats 19’ Lymann motor boat, model Fisherman w/inboarder 150hp, 4,200 RPM, and 21’ trailer, $3,000 obo.

633-4826 Canoe inflatable SOAR 16’. Top quality, vg cond. Sturdy, great for white water. Equipped with D-rings, c/w a pump, a tool + repair kit box, & paddles. Sold for $890. 334-7275

In Memoriam

Kimberly Dawn Chambers

1991 Dodge Ram 250 camper van, 318 motor, a/c, cruise, p/windows, awning, furnace, fridge, stove, bathroom, 2 dinettes, everything works great, located in Golden Horn, $8600 obo. 633-3050 or 334-1693

Misc Services

Wanted: HD iron board. 332-7797

In Memoriam

2003 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide Ultra Classic, $14,500. 668-1315

WILL PAY for Yukon River Salmon, also moose meat. Call 867-9962006 or 867-393-4074

Misc. Wanted 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

2000 Mazda MPV mini-van, like new tires, runs great, $3,300 obo. 3333457

Sport Utility Vehicle

2006 Harley Davidson Softail DeLuxe, well maintained, low mileage at 8,000 mi, $13,900 obo. 306-6610988

1997 Ford F250 Turbo Diesel 7.3 litre Trailtech flat deck Manual transmission Comes with tire chains $4,000 obo 335-4334 2002 Chev 3/4 ton, x-cab, 4x4, headache racks, bush bumper winch, 219,000kms, $8,200. 6677777 2002 Ford ambulance, 82,000kms, 7.3L diesel, all emergency equip, sirens, lights etc work, $7,700. 667777 2003 F250 Triton V10, 288,000kms, 4X4 auto, c/w 1979 camper, #9 cylinder has misfire, runs/drives just low on power, $5,900. Call/text 867333-0375 for more info 2003 Montana van all equipped for traveling, + cooler, 2 bikes, rack, 185,000 kms. New brakes, battery, alignment. All together, $4600.

Available Whitehorse Aug. 12-14th Call/Text 403-493-6044 2004 Dodge Durango LTD, 4X4, one owner, new tires, $3,500. 6605360 2007 Chev 2500HD crew cab 4x4, great unit, many options, trailer tow, fully serviced, new brakes & battery, $13,500. 633-4311 2007 Dodge Calibre, 4-dr, custom rims with new tires, c/w extra set of snow tires on rims, $4,500. 6681958 2008 F-350 Lariat s/c long box srw diesel, 160,000kms, 5th wheel hitch, $23,900. 334-9258

2000 Jeep Cherokee, Special Edition, complete power, infinity sound system, heated leather seats, sunroof, remote start, new tires, 216,000kms, $5,500. 667-7777

1993 Coachmen 29’ Class A motor home, 454 Chev motor, four speed auto, air ride, 1,000 watt inverter, ready to go, $10,500. 633-3257

Woods 3-star sleeping bag, canvas shell, goose down liner w/snap-in wool blanket, $350 obo. 332-0067

Truck & 5th wheel, $12,500, or $6,000 for 2002 Silverado 2500 4X4 crew cab, 246,000kms, $7,500 for 1993 Triple E BB 26’ model, good shape. 335-6551

Motorcycles

1999 Ford Taurus 4 dr sedan, 130,000kms, p/s, p/w, a/c, auto, V-6.

667-7777 1999 Toyota Camry LE, excellent condition, low kms, auto, $2,000 obo. 633-3982 2000 Audi TT, very good condition, runs beautifully, 193,000kms, $7,500 obo. 335-5221 2001 Chevrolet Impala, recent inspection, 4-dr, auto, $2,500. 3351681 2005 Ford Taurus, 4 door, power equipped, 83,000kms. $5,500. 6677777 2005 Honda Accord Coupe, auto, great car, $5,000 obo.

867-6342888 2005 Nissan Altima 2.5 S, 4-dr, 170,000kms, P/S, P/W, P/L, no leaks, doesn’t burn oil, c/w 4 winter tires on rims & spare, clean & reliable. 334-7162 2007 Chevy Cobalt LTE, 170,000kms, 4-dr, 5-spd, power locks & windows, cruise, remote start, good tires, $4,500 firm. 6686911 2007 Pontiac G6, 4 door, auto, good shape, $5,000 obo. 867-634-2888 2010 Dodge Charger, cruise, a/c, stability control system, pozi rear end, $6,300 obo. 333-3457 2012 Dodge Gran Caravan, 187,000Km, loaded, excellent condition, $13,900 obo. 322-2404

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

2009 Pleasure-Way 20’ class B RV, generator, TV, microwave, rear, air ride, w/compressor, fridge, furnace, onboard toilet, new windshield, clean, well maintained, 74,000 mi, Ford chassis w/V10, $58,000. 4562055

May 18, 1988 - August 15, 2016

At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.

2000 National Dolphin Class A, 36’, 2 slides. V-10 Triton engine (Ford), 77,342 miles, sleeps 6, incl’s car dolly, $25,000. 250-869-7110 or 334-8340 2005 Ford/Majestic Class C 24’ motorhome, sleeps 6, washroom, microwave/oven, generator, lots of storage, E350 super duty, good gas mileage, $24,900 obo. Phone/text 867-332-4909.

Kimberly, you were taken away from us way to soon.

Not a day goes by that we don’t think of you.

Heavy Duty Machinery

Love and miss you everyday, your family.

Tenders

Tenders

Tenders

Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande

CATERPILLAR 735B TRUCK for sale in Dawson City. 2012 model with only 2,271 hours. Absolutely perfect condition. $400,000.00 Jonathan Ganter 780-289-4989. jonathanganter@hotmail.com

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TOPSOIL Call Dirtball

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

Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise

Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h

PM14-064-1

Dominion, Pertland, Assignment to Ace Nevada Creeks and Placer Mining Ltd from Champion Pup, Tributary Art and Noreen Sailer of Dominion Creek and Indian River

Placer

August 31, 2017

PM16-067-1

Assignment to Ace Placer Mining Ltd from Art/Noreen/Ross Sailer

Dominion & Little Dominion Creeks, Discover, Lombard Pups, Tributary of Dominion Creek and Indian River

Placer

August 31, 2017

PM16-073-1

Assignment to Ace Placer Mining Ltd from Art/Noreen/Ross Sailer

Hunker Creek, Tributary of Klondike River

Placer

August 31, 2017

AG17-059

Tim and Jen Mervyn

Yukon River

Agriculture

August 31, 2017

MN17-048

Apache Canada Ltd

La Biche River, Tributary of Liard River

Municipal

August 31, 2017

Application Number Numéro de la demande

Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire

Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu

Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice.

Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.

Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis.

Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.

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Utility Trailers Houseboat, 50’ long, 8’ wide, on trailer, all equipment must be seen, sleeps 6 adults. 867-399-4002 Inatable 9’ raft boat, like Zodiac, suitable for ďŹ shing, hunting, transport etc, 3 separate airtight chambers for safety with Boston valves, $415. 334-6087 Min Kota electric boat motor, 30 lbs, 12 volt, $80. 633-4826 PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49 MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467

Legal Notices

SHERIFF’S SALE

BY VIRTUE of a Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the SUPREME COURT OF YUKON against the GOODS, LANDS AND CHATTELS of MONARCH MINING SERVICES LIMITED and TERRY L. EISEMAN. (1) The land known as: Lot 97, Group 905, Plan #29988 in Ross River, Yukon, Canada Sealed bids will be received by the Sheriff of the Yukon Territory up to and including September 12th, 2017 at 4:00 p.m.. The sale is, as is, where is, without warranty to title.

The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted.

The Court must confirm the sale and payment by the successful bidder within five working days from acceptance of bid.

Sheriff 867-667-5867 Law Court Building 2134-2nd Avenue Whitehorse YT Y1A 5H6

Tenders

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES FOR THE TOWN OF FARO FIRE HALL AND PUBLIC WORKS BUILDING Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is September 21, 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 Jackie Burgess at jackie.burgess@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/

YUKON NEWS

Boats

Tenders

PUBLIC TENDER

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

SNOW REMOVAL VARIOUS LOCATIONS AREA #2 WHITEHORSE ,YUKON

TRANSPORTATION ASSET MANAGEMENT CONSULTING SERVICES

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is September 7, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Kevin Poyton at kevin.poyton@gov.yk.ca.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is September 13, 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 Comchi at david.comchi@gov.yk.ca.

Mandatory site visit: August 24 at 9:00am. Meet at Copper Ridge Place 60 Lazulite Drive, Whitehorse 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/

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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CHAMPAGNE AND AISHIHIK FIRST NATIONS

REQUEST FOR BIDS ANNUAL SERVICING OF WOOD/OIL/PROPANE HEATING EQUIPMENT Property Services is seeking bids from qualified contractors to service the space heating appliances in CAFN’s offices, community buildings and rental residences. This includes the Whitehorse office, Klukshu Hall and our communities of Takhini River, Champagne, Canyon and Haines Junction.

Bids must be submitted in the evaluation form specified in the invitation, and sealed in an envelope or package that cannot be seen through and delivered by hand or mailed to: CAFN Property Services Department, #1 Allen Place Box 5310, Haines Junction, YT. Y0B-1L0 Request for Bid packages are available on the CAFN website at www.cafn.ca Bids must be received at the location specified above, before the specified closing time, as determined by the clock at the closing location. Bids received late, or not received completely by the closing time will not be considered and will be returned to the bidder unopened.

The closing time is: Friday, August 18, 2017 at 3:00 p.m.

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For further information, contact: Terry Rufiange-Holway CAFN Property Manager 867-634-4200, ext. 225 tr-holway@cafn.ca

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is September 6, 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 Kevin Poyton at kevin.poyton@gov.yk.ca.

Mandatory site visit: August 23 at 9:00am. Meet at Facilities Management Building 113 Industrial Road.

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

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The Yukon Business Incentive Policy may apply to this project.

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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

Home Repairs HANDYMAN SERVICES 24-7 *Renovations * Repairs *Restorations * Maintenance

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

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

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

Painting & Decorating PASCAL REGINE PAINTING PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Interior - Exterior Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Small drywall repair Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368

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 *Roof Tiles *Repairs (867) 334-8263

Pets & Livestock

Livestock 1991 Logan Coach 2 horse straight haul trailer, excellent condition, loading ramp, interior lights, locking tack area, ready to haul, $3,800. 3340372 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

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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

Silent auction of northern art/crafts in Atlin, 19 August, 1-3pm, Atlin Mountain Inn. Originals, prints, seal skin mukluks, etc, of well-known artists. A fundraiser for Atlin Supportive Living Society.

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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 Quarter horse, Fjord, 14 years old, 14 hands, lined buckskin. 867-5362633 for more info

Pets Wanted: Akita puppy and Pug puppy for a decent price. 393-4630 or email: theyoung1983@gmail.com

Tennis-Mountain bike camp, August 22-25, 9am-4:30pm daily, 7-13 years old, $240, spots open! Need your own bike. Contact: tennisyukon@gmail.com or www.tennisyukon.com

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.

Whitehorse will experience a 50% partial solar eclipse. Yukon Astronomical Society will be handing out 200 free solar viewers to observe this event safely on August 21, Shipyards Park, 9am-11am.

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 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.

CNIB mobile days, September 8, Dawson City, 10-3pm @Tr’ondek Hwech’in Community Hall, September 11, Whitehorse 10-3pm @Golden Age Society, September Watson Lake 9-2pm @Signpost Seniors Centre. More info: Brad Hooge 1604-431-2151 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.

Elijah Smith School Council is holding its AGM on Tuesday, September 5, 2017, at 6:30 PM in the school library. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Foodsafe Level 1 workshop, Saturday August 26, 2017. Cost: $75.00.

Pre-registration required. Please contact the Yukon Tourism Education Council at 667-4733 or info@yukontec.com for more information or to register.

Historical evening prayer, Anglican, Old Log Church Wednesday & Sunday, 7pm, ‘till August 30, 2017; Tuesday Outreach barbecues, Stringer Park, Christ Church Cathedral, 11:30am-1:30pm ‘till August 29.

Hope Community Church meets each Saturday at 1pm for Worship Service. All are welcome in the log church across from the RCMP station in Carcross. Come as you are!

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 Jack Hulland School Council is holding its AGM on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 7:00 PM in the school library. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Multicultural Centre of the Yukon, After School ESL Tutoring Program Kindergarten to Grade 12 begins September 11th. Register now at 4141D-4th Avenue. For more information call 667-6205 or email info@mcyukon.com Packing our stories over new trails, Whitehorse 911 with Max Fraser, Sept 11, 2-4pm, Yukon Transportation Museum. Storytelling, live music, bannock and tea.

Porter Creek Secondary School Council is holding its AGM on Wednesday, September 13, 2017, at 6:30 PM in the school library.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

YCKC’s whitewater rodeo is Wednesday, August 16. Kayaking, raft flip races, slalom, boogie-boarding, any age or skill, BBQ too. Registration at 5:30. Events start at 6:00pm at the Millenium Trail Pedestrian Bridge. Participants can win a Werner whitewater paddle.

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August 26th Mountain View Golf Club

FRIDAY Yukon Orienteering Association meet set for August 30 on the Yukon College map. Registration starts at 6:00 pm in the student parking lot.

For information contact Jen at 3351139

7:00 PM Lutheran Church Basement Beginners Mtg (4th & Strickland) 8:00 PM Lutheran Church Basment Regular Mtg (4th & Strickland)

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

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ALCOHOLICS ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS MEETINGS in Whitehorse

MONDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) 305 Wood Street (back entrance) 8:00 pm New Beginnings Group (OM) 6210 - 6th Avenue (Downtown) TUESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) 305 Wood Street (back entrance) 7:00 pm Juste Pour Aujourd’hui (CM) 4141B - 4th Avenue & Jarvis 8:00 pm Ugly Duckling Group (CM) 6210 - 6th Avenue (Downtown) WEDNESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) 305 Wood Street (back entrance) 8:00 pm No Puffin Group (CM) 6210 - 6th Avenue (Downtown) 8:00 pm Porter Creek Step Meeting (CM) 1607 Birch Street THURSDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) 305 Wood Street (back entrance) 7:30 pm Polar Group (OM) 6210 - 6th Avenue (Downtown) FRIDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) 305 Wood Street (back entrance) 1:30 pm Yukon Unity Group (OM) #4 Hospital Rd. (Resource Room) 8:00 pm Whitehorse Group (OM) 305 Wood Street (back entrance) SATURDAY: 1:00 pm Detox Meeting (OM) Sarah Steele Building, 609 Steele Street, Main Entrance 2:30 pm Women’s Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital #5 Hospital Road (Board Room) 7:00 pm Hospital Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital #5 Hospital Road, boardroom SUNDAY: 1:00 pm Detox Meeting (OM) Sarah Steele Building, 609 Steele Street, Main Entrance 7:00 pm Hospital Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital #5 Hospital Road, boardroom OM - open mixed, includes anyone CM - closed mixed, includes anyone with a desire to stop drinking

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Fast-melting Arctic sign of bad global warming Seth Borenstein Associated Press

WASHINGTON ne of the coldest places on Earth is so hot it’s melting.

Glaciers, sea ice and a massive ice sheet in the Arctic are thawing from toasty air above and warm water below. The northern polar region is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the planet and that’s setting off alarm bells.

“The melting of the Arctic will come to haunt us all,” said German climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf.

While global leaders set a goal of preventing 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) of man-made warming since pre-industrial times, the Arctic has already hit that dangerous mark. Last year, the Arctic Circle was about 3.6 degrees (6.5 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than normal.

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Causes of warming Earth is getting hotter because of the buildup of heat-trapping gases spewed into the air by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, according to decades of peer-reviewed research. Scientists have

long predicted the Arctic would warm first and faster than the rest of the globe. Real-time measurements are proving them right.

The Arctic is mostly ocean covered with a layer of ice; changes from ice to water often kick in a cycle that contributes to global warming.

Sea ice is white and it reflects the sun’s heat back into space. But when it melts, it’s replaced with dark ocean that strongly absorbs it, said former NASA chief scientist Waleed Abdalati, who heads the environmental research program at the University of Colorado.

That heat gets transferred back up to the atmosphere in the fall and winter. As that happens, water vapour — a greenhouse gas — hangs around, trapping more heat. More clouds form around that time, also acting as a blanket, said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

Role of winter Winter is crucial. Three times in the past two cold seasons, air temperatures near the North Pole were

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A polar bear stands on the ice in the Franklin Strait in the Canadian arctic archipelago, July 22. near or even a shade above freezing. That’s about 50 degrees warmer than it should be. From last November through February, Barrow, Alaska — the northernmost U.S. city — was 7 degrees Celsius (13 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the 20th century average, and much of the Atlantic Arctic off Norway and Greenland was as hot.

Warm winters weaken sea ice, which floats on the ocean surface. It’s supposed to recover, spread

more across the Arctic and get thicker in the winter so it can withstand the warmth of the summer.

But a warmer winter means less protection when the heat hits.

In September 2016, the time of year the spread of ice across the Arctic is at its lowest, Arctic sea ice was the second lowest day on record, about 40 per cent below the lowest day measured in 1979 when satellite records started.

Between those two days 37

years apart, the Arctic lost enough sea ice to cover Alaska, Texas and California combined.

Then it didn’t grow back that much this winter, setting record low amounts from November through March, when sea ice reaches its peak spread.

Beyond the arctic Of all the global warming warning signs in the Arctic, “it is the sea ice that is screaming the loudest,” Serreze said.

That’s a problem because a growing body of studies connects dwindling sea ice to wild weather. The reduced winter sea ice interacts with warmer oceans to change conditions in the air that then triggers a potent noticeable shift in the jet stream, the giant atmospheric river that controls much of our weather, said Rutgers University climate scientist Jennifer Francis.

This theory is still debated by scientists, but increasingly more researchers are agreeing with Francis.

It’s not just sea ice on the decline. Glaciers in the Arctic are shrinking. And the massive Greenland ice sheet is slowly but steadily melting and that can add a big dose to sea level rise.

Since 2002, it has lost 4,400 billion tons (4,000 billion metric tons) of ice.

Then there’s the Arctic carbon bomb. Carbon dioxide and methane — which traps even more heat — are stuck in the permafrost in places like Alaska and Siberia.

“Roast the Arctic and you create a mess everywhere on Earth,” said Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer.

Canada’s NAFTA demands: Good luck with that, say skeptical U.S. trade vets Alexander Panetta Canadian Press

WASHINGTON ome of Canada’s key demands in the upcoming NAFTA renegotiation will be a tough sell in the United States, according to former American trade officials who say they will be difficult to achieve in the climate of a Donald Trump, America First-themed presidency.

The Canadian government has just released priorities for the talks which begin Wednesday and they include a broad desire for four new chapters, and two specific demands: fewer Buy American rules for public contracts and freer movement of professionals.

It’s the latter two some see as a long shot.

That includes a former official who oversaw procurement at the United States Trade Representative. Speaking in an interview a few days before Canada formally announced its positions, Stephen Kho explained why it’s always been difficult to extend free trade in procurement to the state

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and local level, as Canada wants.

Canada has long desired a similar level of access to contracts at the subnational level that it enjoys at the federal level — and it mostly failed to get that in negotiations for the now-stalled Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Kho says he doesn’t see how this changes now.

American politics is moving in the opposite direction: Trump was elected on a promise to increase Buy American rules, not reduce them; it’s even a stated U.S. priority for the new NAFTA; the opposition is also with Trump on this, with Democratic lawmakers calling for NAFTA to allow less foreign procurement, not more.

“It might be a problem,” said Kho, who was lead counsel on Buy American/ procurement issues at USTR and now works at the Akin Gump firm.

“It’s particularly going to be true of the Trump administration. It’s made it a point, very publicly, of tightening up the exceptions rules, waivers … (and proclaiming) America First. That will make it

particularly difficult — and it’s difficult already.”

He said it’s always good to talk about new ideas, but: “I don’t think expectations should be too high for this being liberalized further.”

Canada announced that more liberalized procurement would be a priority, in a speech Monday by Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland in which on the eve of her departure to Washington for round one of the NAFTA talks, she laid out about 10 priorities.

She referred to the economic argument against buy-local rules.

“Local-content provisions for major government contracts are political junk food: superficially appetizing, but unhealthy in the long run,” Freeland said.

The basic argument against these provisions is they drive up the cost of projects — so taxpayers pay more, they get fewer new roads and bridges for their money, that reduces economic activity and in the long run it doesn’t save the economy any jobs.

But it’s politically pop-

ular.

Polls show huge voter support for buy-local policies amongst Americans, although more detailed polling has, on the other hand, shown that voters prefer getting a bargain to paying more for a product just because it’s made at home.

Professional visas was another of the more detailed priorities Freeland mentioned.

What Canada wants is changes to a NAFTA jobs list which allows some people to more easily get a visa to work across the border.

The jobs list is old and outdated. It mentions land surveyors and range conservationists, for instance, but not computer programmers. International companies want that jobs list in Chapter 16 expanded to make it easier for employees to move

between offices.

Robert Holleyman, former deputy U.S. trade czar to Barack Obama, says any changes to labour mobility could prove difficult. In an interview several days ago, before Freeland spoke, he predicted worker mobility might get swept into the turbulent U.S. immigration debate.

That immigration issue has been fought to a stalemate in the American Congress. Congressional paralysis on immigration-related reforms is one reason that NAFTA list has

never been updated.

And the mood in Congress matters: in the end, it will have to vote on any NAFTA deal.

“I think any question that deals with mobility of persons will be very difficult for the U.S. to do,” said Holleyman, who is now president of C&M International.

“I think it would be, in any case — but particularly in the context of the current debates about immigration. I suspect that’ll be very difficult for the U.S. to do.”

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he RCMP Musical Ride returned to Whitehorse for the first time in 22 years last weekend, delighting crowds at the Cross Country Ski Club stadium with performances featuring dozens of horses trotting, cantering and charging in formation to music.

The three shows, spread out over Aug. 12 and 13, also featured performances by Hank Karr & the Canucks, Yukon Poet Laureate PJ Johnson and the 4-H Horse Club.

The ride is currently on a national tour as part of Canada 150 celebrations, with Whitehorse the only stop in the North.

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The RCMP Musical Ride stands at attention during a performance at the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club stadium Saturday.

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Top left: A RCMP officer looks on as horses trot in formation. Top right: RCMP Const. Sean Roche and horse Elliott meet a young fan Saturday after the first of the three shows at the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club stadium. Bottom left: Escorted by police cars, the horses make their way from the Takhini Arena up Hamilton Boulevard.

Bottom right: The RCMP Musical Ride enters the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club stadium via a tunnel.

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Canadian athletes enter tricky doping landscape with pending legalization of weed Donna Spencer Canadian Press

CALGARY anada’s elite athletes are smoking, eating and investing in marijuana. Is a toke before stepping to the start line far off?

The Canadian government intends to legalize recreational cannabis by July 1, 2018. It’s already legal for personal, recreational use in a handful of U.S. states.

Cannabis, hashish, marijuana, and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) are on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s prohibited list, but only during competition.

When labs receive urine samples taken out of competition, they don’t test for those substances, according to the Canadian Centre For Ethics in Sport.

WADA also relaxed the in-competition threshold in 2013 to allow for 150 nanograms per millilitre of urine instead of 15.

That tenfold change is significant given Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati was nearly stripped of his Olympic gold medal in 1998 at 17.8 ng/ml.

He said he inhaled second-hand smoke from a joint. Rebagliati’s medal was reinstated largely because marijuana wasn’t yet a banned substance by the International Olympic Committee.

An informal survey of Canadian athletes planning to compete in February’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, produced a variety of opinions, ranging from keeping marijuana on the prohibited list to removing it when it becomes legal at home.

“I think it’s pretty proven that it’s not unsafe for you and it’s definitely not performance-enhancing, at least in what I do,” alpine

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Growing flowers of cannabis intended for the medical marijuana market are shown at OrganiGram in Moncton, N.B., on April 14, 2016. skier Dustin Cook said.

“So yeah, I think it should be taken off the banned list when it becomes legal.”

Snowboarder Spencer O’Brien agreed.

“I personally do not smoke weed, but I feel like it’s not a performance-enhancing drug,” she said. “I don’t see any aspect of that that would give somebody a competitive edge.

“Cigarettes aren’t a banned substance. They’re not great for you, but they’re not a banned substance. Once marijuana is legalized, I think it should be something that isn’t a banned substance.”

Bobsled pilot Kaillie Humphries says she’s never tried weed or hash ”and I think I’m the only athlete in the entire world,” but knows of teammates who smoke it and eat it in food as a sleep aid while training.

“You lift at 6 p.m. and you’re wired because you had a big lifting session.

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You’re not sleeping until two, three four in the morning,” said the Olympic gold medallist.

“A lot of athletes use it for recovery. It’s not something performance-enhancing.”

But both she and luger Sam Edney agree sliding down a track at more than one hundred kilometres per hour under the influence of a substance that alters perception and behaviour is dangerous.

“For me, I feel it’s a safety thing,” Edney said. “In a racing sport, under the influence is still under the influence.”

The only Olympic sport in which athletes are tested for alcohol is archery, with the in-competition blood alcohol concentration limit set at .10 grams/litre by WADA. The international sport shooting federation, however, says an athlete showing signs of intoxication would be immediately booted from the shooting

range.

Skeleton racer Dave Greszczyszyn says he’s seen the odd athlete have a beer while training and racing.

The 38-year-old substitute teacher saw the coming legalization of marijuana as a means to pay for his sport, which had its Own The Podium funding slashed this quadrennial.

“I actually invested in a bit trying to make some money,” Greszczyszyn said.

“Half of our team has invested in the stocks trying to make some money to help fund ourselves in our program.”

Substances on WADA’s prohibited list meet at least two of the three following criteria: its use has potential to, or can enhance performance; its use presents an actual or potential health risk; its use violates the spirit of sport.

Figure skater Gabrielle Daleman comes down firmly on the side of criteria No. 3. She’s adamant marijuana should not be

removed from WADA’s prohibited list.

“I think it should stay on. I believe in clean sport,” she said. “I’m actually surprised that’s going to be legal because all drugs are bad. I do not recommend them at all.

“We should still continue to push for clean sport, fair, and doing everything the way it’s supposed to be.”

Athletes tend to be fanatical about what goes into their bodies, so smoking a joint seems ridiculous to some.

“You do not want to put anything down that throat that is going to make your throat burn,” skicross racer Georgia Simmerling said.

The social and political winds around marijuana and cannabis are changing as they are now used to treat pain and certain medical conditions.

The CCES’s position is marijuana isn’t performance-enhancing, said president and CEO Paul

Melia, but not every country that is a signatory to the World Anti-Doping Agency code feels that way.

There is still resistance from some countries to completely removing marijuana from the prohibited list, he said.

“Political pressures are probably more relevant to the question of when and if marijuana would come off the prohibited list,” Melia said.

“When the use of marijuana becomes legal in Canada, I don’t think that will have any impact on the status of marijuana or THC on the WADA prohibited list.”

When Canada makes cannabis legal, Melia says the CCES must be proactive telling athletes that’s not a green light to partake freely.

As long as it remains on WADA’s prohibited list in competition, there is the risk of a positive drug test.

The consequences are the stripping of results and medals and a suspension of up to four years.

There are no hard and fast timelines on how long it takes marijuana to clear the body.

“We stress marijuana is a fat-soluble drug. It’s stored in the fat of the body and it’s not cleared out of the system quickly as Vitamin C might be,” Melia explained. “You can’t make a blanket statement that if you wait two weeks you’re free and clear.

“What this means going forward with the legalization here in Canada is the impressions and misconceptions that athletes might form.

“This means our education is going to have to be that much more explicit, emphatic and targeted around this issue as it becomes legal. Athletes may have the mistaken impression that means it’s off the list.”

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One of his own stresses is keeping everybody busy so that there aren’t any layoffs in the winter when business slows down.

“Fortunately,” he says, “since opening up a warehouse in Edmonton, we are busier.

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Paris Pick, left, performs with her band, Ukes of Hazard, at this year’s Atlin Music Festival.

Rhiannon Russell News Reporter

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aris Pick’s pirate persona was born in a costume shop in Kitchener, Ont. It was four years ago and the 18-year-old was busking and hitchhiking her way across the country, from her home on Vancouver Island to Halifax.

She’d noticed that street performers who were “loud and proud,” as she puts it, made more money than those who sat quietly. So she went to the store and bought a $75 marching-band outfit—a little red number that she thought looked like a pirate dress.

“If I spend this much money right now, I’ll have to make it back,” she told herself. “I hope my plan works.”

It did. Playing her ukulele and singing in the dress, she made double the money she normally did, and wore it throughout the rest of her trip.

Four years later, she says with a grin, it still hasn’t been washed. “It looks so dirty

and gross and I still wear it.

It’s like my authentic pirate outfit.”

Pick is the founder, singer, and electric-ukulele player of the Whitehorse-based pop rockabilly band Ukes of Hazard, along with Cain Rogan on saxophone, Patrick Docherty on drums, Zacharie Pelland on electric guitar, and Aiden Tentrees on bass.

The get-up is still her signature stage costume. She pairs it with a pirate hat she got from a child she nannied when she first moved to Whitehorse—“I tell people I stole it from an eight-yearold French boy. Sounds even more pirate-like.”

Now 22, she came to the Yukon after her cross-country trip. She describes that original journey as a “hippie adventure,” during which time she worked on farms and in eco-villages — shaving alpaca and planting rutabaga in Prince George, B.C., in one instance.

How it ended: her grandma found out she’d hitchhiked all the way to Halifax, “lost her mind,” told Pick’s parents, who knew but were keeping it a secret from the

grandmother, then bought her a plane ticket home.

Back on Vancouver Island, “I was like, good luck keeping me here. Where else haven’t I been? The Okanagan and the Yukon.”

She hitchhiked here with a friend in 2013. While she’d felt safe travelling across Canada, she ran into “a few weirdos” on her way to the Yukon, she says. At one point, after hitching a ride on the Stewart-Cassiar Highway, she had to pull out her knife and demand the driver let them out of the car.

“Guys being creepy, asking for favours,” she says.

A kind couple in an RV drove them into Whitehorse.

It was fall, and Pick remembers the sky: “The sunset was that magical, typical Yukon sunset, pink and orange.”

She got the nannying job, then started working at Baked. “And then, boom!

You’re in the Whitehorse system.”

Nearly every night, she began playing open mics at different bars—even though she was underage. “No one seemed to ID me,” she says with a laugh.

People were supportive.

“The musical community here is like its own tight-knit family. We always have each other’s backs. I was, like, 18 and very bad at first…

Regardless, they would all clap rather than booing me offstage.”

Pick was inspired by the Yukon bands she saw, like Soda Pony and The Midnight Sons Band, and the musician Diyet. When she met Docherty, who also plays in The Midnight Sons, and bassist Jerome Belanger, they formed a band.

Their first gig was a 4/20 show at Paddy’s Place, and in the months leading up to it, Pick was desperately trying to come up with a name. On one of her breaks at Baked, she brainstormed “punny ukulele things,” she says. Uke Got Mail was one option. The Egg Ukes was another. But Ukes of Hazard won out.

The band started playing a weekly gig at the Dirty Northern Public House, opening for The Midnight Sons Band, “which was like my dream,” Pick says.

During her first couple of

years in Whitehorse, she lived “that typical musician party life” — getting drunk and playing gigs.

In 2015, the band released its first demo, followed by its first LP. Both were self-funded.

This year has been a big one for the band. In June, they piled into Docherty’s van and went on their first tour, playing venues from northern British Columbia to Vancouver Island, including Pick’s hometown, Port Hardy. She did all the booking herself — it took about six months of planning.

They also played three summer festivals: Atlin Arts and Music Festival, Folk on the Rocks in Yellowknife, and Dawson City Music Festival.

For the first time, Pick could afford to spend her summer as a full-time musician, with no waitressing or cooking jobs on the side.

It feels to her like Ukes’ momentum is growing.

“It doesn’t all come at once,” she says. “I think people need to see that you’ve gone a certain number of years before you get a certain amount of respect from the

community and other musicians in general.”

Pick doesn’t feel she can take a break, either.

“Even though great things are happening, you want to keep those great things happening. You have to keep working.”

Two of the band members are going to school this fall, so the group will be on a bit of hiatus, though they’ll be playing the Blue Feather Music Festival in Whitehorse in November. Pick plans to start working on a solo album too.

It feels like a new chapter in her life has started, she says. She just moved outside the city limits, and will start a cooking job over the winter.

“I don’t know how to describe it,” she says. “Maturing? I’m only 22 but I feel like it’s adult phase or something. I’m tired of just getting drunk in the bars every weekend. I’d rather go home and hang out and listen to vinyl and quilt and go to bed at 10 p.m. sober.”

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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

SPORTS AND RECREATION

Soccer team takes 10th for back-to-back record finishes for Yukon at Games Tom Patrick News Reporter

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irst it was the female team, then it was the male.

A week after Yukon’s female team placed 10th at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg, the territory’s male team did the same. Both 10th place finishes mark Yukon’s highest ever in soccer at the Canada Games.

“It’s really good,” said Yukon striker/goalkeeper Dawson Weir. “Not only did we do well, I think we can strive to do better. As we progress in the sport we are improving massively and I think it’s only going to go forward from here.”

Yukon’s male team finished with a 4-0 loss to Saskatchewan on Aug. 11 to place 10th, ahead of P.E.I. in 11th and N.W.T. in 12th.

Saskatchewan scored twice in the first half and twice in the second.

“I think it was our best game, the way we played,” said Yukon head coach Edgar Musonda. “We played very well with an offensive mind, but also we defended very well.

“What we lacked was quickness. Saskatchewan was very, very quick.”

Yukon reached the ninth/10th place match with a shootout win over N.W.T. on Aug. 10.

After finishing regulation tied 1-1, it took seven shooters from each team for Yukon to win the shootout 6-5.

Simon Kishchuk, Matthias Hoenisch, Cody Amaral and Milton each scored to put Yukon up 4-3 in the shootout before Ewan Halliday put his off the post and N.W.T.’s Austin Sleno tied it up, sending it into extra shooters.

Yukon’s Carl Knickle logged the game winner as the seventh shooter for Yukon.

Weir, who scored on his penalty kick as Yukon’s sixth shooter (before the N.W.T. goalkeeper scored as his team’s sixth), secured the win with a diving save on a shot from N.W.T.’s Ethan McKay. “I wasn’t too worried when it came to me shooting,” said Weir. “I’m pretty comfortable on the ball as I play striker as well as goalie.

“Where as playing

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Yukon goalkeeper Dawson Weir reaches for a shot from N.W.T. at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg on Aug. 10. Both Yukon soccer teams logged historic 10th place finishes at the Games. in net, really there’s not that much stress on you because it’s all up to the players to put it in the back of the net. If you make the save then you’re the hero.

“It was really stressful, but at the same time it was enjoyable because you know all the pressure is on them. You just have to enjoy the moment and hopefully come out on top.”

Yukon took a 1-0 lead over N.W.T. just 10 minutes in on a goal — Yukon’s first of the week — from midfielder Tyler Milton.

N.W.T.’s Viktor Gutierrez scored in the 48th minute.

“It felt pretty good to score in regulation,” said Milton. “I’m not usually the goal scorer, so it’s a rare occurrence. I just have to enjoy it.”

Yukon lost 11-0 to Quebec to start the tournament and then managed to keep Manitoba scoreless for the first half in a 5-0

loss on Aug. 8.

Ontario took gold, Alberta silver, Quebec bronze and Manitoba placed fourth.

Weir played in net for the first half against Saskatchewan and striker in the second as starting goalkeeper James Russell made his return. Russell suffered a minor concussion in the match against Quebec in a collision with an opposing player.

“The boys are proud of the record we’ve achieved and they’re thinking they can do more in the future,” said Musonda. “We’re going to use this record to help prepare for the Arctic Winter Games. I think we can do better.

“One thing we’re proud of is our team is very young; we have 14-yearolds on the team and the average age was 16. So playing against the big teams (in the under-18 tournament) was a big

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Yukon’s Tyler Milton, right, fights N.W.T.’s Emil Balasanyan for possession.

achievement for us.”

Yukon’s female team also beat N.W.T. to reach the ninth/10th place match in the first week of the Games, going on to lose 4-0 to Newfoundland and Labrador on Aug. 2.

Not only are the two 10th place finishes records for Yukon, they also mark the first time since the inaugural Games in 1967 a territory has placed ahead of a province. N.W.T. pulled it off 50 years ago when the territory’s male team took 10th ahead of P.E.I. in 11th.

“I’m the only player from a community for the second week — I live in Haines Junction — and it was really awesome to have the support from my whole team, to be able to play and participate in this activity even though I don’t live in the same community,” added Weir.

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Swimmers log Whitehorse club records in Winnipeg Tom Patrick News Reporter

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ukon’s swim team didn’t win medals last week at the Canada Games, but they certainly reworked their club’s record book.

Yukon swimmers, who are all members of the Whitehorse Glacier Bears Swim Club, set 13 club records while at the Games in Winnipeg, Aug. 7-11.

“It was a very good swim meet for everybody, basically,” said Yukon swim team head coach Malwina Bukszowana. “The kids had never raced a fiveday swim meet, so I was surprised with how fast they went. They actually coped quite well with such long days. We were leaving at 7 or 7:30 in the morning and we come back around 10 o’clock — after nine o’clock (at night).

“There were five really hard days, with not much sleep, and they still performed really well, even on the last day. The last day was weaker, but still they performed really well.”

Yukon’s Alex Petriw logged just under half the club records on his own.

The 14-year-old, who was selected to be flag-bearer for Yukon at the closing ceremonies on Aug. 13, set six club records, all in freestyle events for boys 13-14.

Petriw set records in the 50-metre (27.35), 100-metre (1:00.08), 200-metre (2:12.77), 400-metre (4:41.65), 800-metre (9:42.80) and 1,500-metre (18.36.03).

“He just swam really well,” said Bukszowana. “I think he peaked at the perfect time. He was hungry for racing.”

Petriw placed 15th in the 1,500-metre for the highest finish by a Yukon male swimmer at the Games.

Teammate Hannah Kingscote matched that with 15th in the 100-metre butterfly female event.

Kingscote was the only Yukon swimmer to make two finals, also placing 16th in the 50-metre backstroke.

Teammate Rennes Lindsay took 16th in the 800-metre freestyle female race.

Petriw also took 19th in the 800-metre freestyle and had five 21st place finishes in other events.

Yukon’s Thomas Bakica also set a Whitehorse club record in the boys 13-14 division. He swam the 400-metre individual med-

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Yukon swimmer Alex Petriw leaves the block at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg on Aug. 9. Petriw set six Whitehorse Glacier Bears records at the Games.

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Yukon’s Cassidy Cairns swims a breaststroke event in Winnipeg. ley in 5:39.14, placing 20th.

Teammate Aidan Harvey, notched a boys 15-17 record, in the 200-metre backstroke, finishing in 2:30.11 for 20th. He also placed 19th in the 50- and 100-metre backstroke events.

With a recent decision by the Glacier Bears to start keeping relay records, Yukon’s female relay teams registered five in Winnipeg.

With 11th place finishes, Emma Boyd, Cassidy

Cairns, Kingscote and Lindsay set the club record in the 4×50-metre freestyle (1:56.04); Boyd, Cairns, Kingscote and Lindsay in the 4x100 free (4:19.43); and Kingscote, Kassua Dreyer, Shepherd and Boyd in the 4x100 medley (4:49.08).

Coming in 12th, Lindsay, Boyd, Dreyer and Cairns set the club record in the 4×200 free (9:37.82) and Kingscote, Cairns, Ella Pollock Shepherd and Boyd in the 4x50 medley

(2:11.59).

“I told them this was the best swim meet I went to with this group,” said Bukszowana. “There were no parents, which was very important to me. My goal was to try to teach them to be independent and I actually gave them a bit of freedom, a bit of time to figure it out. So I wouldn’t give them instructions for some stuff, I’d wait for them to figure it out.”

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Yukon, N.W.T. split volleyball matches to end Games

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Left: Yukon’s Manas Toews, left, and Arcel Siosan celebrate a point against N.W.T. at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg on Aug. 11. Yukon defeated N.W.T. to place 11th in male volleyball. Right: Yukon’s Skye Hanson goes for a kill against Nova Scotia on Aug. 9.

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rivalry was reignited on the volleyball courts at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg on Aug. 11.

N.W.T. didn’t enter teams in the 2013 and 2009 Games but were back in the mix last week.

In both the male and female competitions it came down to the Yukon versus the N.W.T. in fights to avoid last place, with the winners taking 11th and the losers 12th.

Yukon’s male team took the win in an intense fiveset marathon and Yukon’s female team lost in straight sets.

“We played way better than in other games,” said Yukon captain Austin Hayduck. “We brought it together in the end. We played more like a team than we did in the other games — that’s what helped us win that game.”

Yukon’s male team came back from a set down to win

22-25, 25-19, 19-25, 25-23, 15-8. The second set was the first won by Yukon’s male team in Winnipeg after going winless in their previous six matches. N.W.T. took one set from P.E.I. in their previous match.

“It was awesome,” said Yukon male team head coach D’Arcy Hill. “We showed great resiliency after losing the first (set), made a few adjustments on the coaching side, and started to execute. It was a great back and forth match and I thought we did well.

“We recognized that they were having trouble blocking the middle, so we started to use the middle option more on offence more frequently.”

Yukon’s female team lost 25-23, 26-24, 25-22 to N.W.T. They went winless in Winnipeg, but they did go the distance against P.E.I., losing in five sets on Aug. 8. The set wins against P.E.I. were the first for Yukon in female volleyball at the Canada Games since 2005, getting shut down in straight sets in every match in 2009 and 2013.

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Yukon’s Austin Shaw spikes the ball against Saskatchewan on Aug. 9.

P.E.I. placed 10th in both the male and female divisions last week.

“It’s definitely a new

experience for me because I haven’t been to a big event like this before, besides nationals,” said Hayduck.

“It’s been an amazing experience.”

“What’s been nice … our players got to know players

from all across the country, which has been great for them,” said Hill.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com