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arryl Sheepway testified the gun he brought with him when he tried to rob his drug dealer was not intended for murder. On the stand testifying in his own defence Nov. 22, Sheepway said he brought the shotgun to rob Christopher Brisson and then later kill himself. Instead it was Brisson who died that night in August 2015. Sheepway is on trial accused of first-degree murder. At issue is not whether Sheepway killed Brisson. He has already offered to plead guilty to manslaughter, an offer rejected by the Crown. On the stand Sheepway described a rapidly growing addiction to crack cocaine that lead to him spending up to $500 per day on the drug he got from Brisson. Sheepway said he first tried the drug in May or June 2015. “I thought it was the greatest feeling I’ve had in my life. Period,” he told the court. In July he got Brisson’s phone number and Brisson would meet with him “pretty much daily” to deal drugs, he said. On Aug. 28, the day Brisson died, Sheepway said his wife had taken his credit cards and ID after becoming suspicious of money that had gone missing. Sheepway said he felt “humiliated” and started thinking that his family would be better off without him. He said he wanted to end his life but needed more drugs first. “I thought I had the most courage when I was high,” he said. The plan was to get high, run away and kill

himself. But he had no money. Sheepway testified that he had called Brisson for the first time that day and begged him for drugs. Brisson gave him less than half a gram and the two agreed to meet when Sheepway was able to pay. That’s how they ended up sitting side-by-side in trucks with the drivers’ side windows facing each other. Sheepway still didn’t have any money. “I thought I’d just try and rob him, I wanted more drugs.” After pointing the gun at Brisson with his finger on the trigger, Sheepway said he just expected Brisson to hand over whatever drugs he had and drive away. When instead Brisson grabbed the shotgun, Sheepway said he “panicked.” The weapon went off twice in the struggle. When Sheepway regained control of the gun, Brisson’s truck began to roll forward. That’s when, Sheepway testified, he leaned out of his truck and shot a third time. Sheepway said he doesn’t remember thinking anything specific when he pulled the trigger the third time. “He was leaving, I wanted to stop him.” He said he shot at the back of the truck. “I don’t remember thinking why I did it.” The whole interaction took “less than five seconds” he said. After the third shot Brisson’s truck went into reverse and rolled off the road. Sheepway approached the lifeless body laying on the ground near the truck. He took drugs and about $2,000 from Brisson’s pockets and drove home in a panic doing drugs along the way, he said. Sheepway admitted to going back to the scene

later to pick up the spent shotgun shells, find more drugs and dump Brisson’s body near Miles Canyon. After seeing Brisson dead, Sheepway testified he was no longer feeling suicidal. He told the court his mental health has been deteriorating while at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre. He said he’s been kept in “what I would consider segregation” for 17 months and has only been out of his cell for an average of three to four hours a day. That time out of his cell involves having access to a larger room where he is only allowed to interact with one other inmate, he said. Sheepway said he doesn’t have access to the same basic privileges that other inmates at the jail do. There’s no programming, no hot water and no workout equipment, he said. He does meet periodically with a psychiatrist and a psychologist. Under cross examination from Crown prosecutor Jennifer Grandy, Sheepway admitted that when he was high he believed he was able to convince people around him that he was sober. He had no issues driving, getting into town or caring for his dogs, he said. Grandy pointed out that in order for the weapon to have gone off twice during the struggle, Sheepway would have had to cock it. Grandy also questioned Sheepway’s insistence that he had no intention of using the gun when he showed up to the drug deal. “Is that really true?” she said. “You had to know that you might have to use it.” “No, that’s really true,” Sheepway replied.

Grandy pressed Sheepway on whether he in fact fired four shots that day, not three. Sheepway insisted that there were only three shots. While answering questions from Yukon Supreme Court Justice Leigh Gower, Sheepway repeatedly insisted that he only fired once into the back of Brisson’s truck. An expert witness earlier in the trial testified that there were trajectories for two objects almost certainly the path of two shotgun slugs that moved from the back of the truck to the front. Sheepway said he questioned whether one of the trajectories was from a bullet at all. The trial is expected to continue today. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

Corrections A story on the Casino mine project in Wedenesday’s paper originally contained incorrect information. Casino Mining Corporation plans to submit a study on the best option for tailings management by April 2018. It plans to submit an environmental and socio-economic statement to YESAB by the end of 2018. A reference to the size of the Casino tailings dam relative to the Mount Polley dam has been removed after Rifkind acknowledged he had no basis for the comparison. The Yukon African Music Festival scheduled for this weekend has been cancelled. The story was written before the cancellation became public. The News regrets the errors.

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Government cancels oil and gas disposition process in northern Yukon Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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he territorial government has put an end to 15 requests to consider oil and gas rights in northern Yukon. In July 2016 the Department of Energy Mines and Resources received the posting requests, all located in the Eagle Plain and Kandik Basins in northern Yukon. Normally that would be the first step in the process towards exploration. After consulting with the First Nations and the general public, the Yukon government could have decided to proceed with competitive bids on all or only a portion of the requests. Instead the Liberals have stopped the process after consulting with First Nations but before public consultation or any reports are done. “Three northern Yukon First Nations — Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation and the First Nation of Na Cho Nyäk Dun — indicated that they did not support proceeding to a call for bids on the requested postings at this time,” Minister of Energy Mines and Resources Ranj Pillai told the legislative assembly Nov. 23. Pillai said the territorial government was discontinuing the process and taking

more time to consult with the First Nations. Last election the Liberals promised to support “oil and gas development (not including hydraulic fracturing) on Eagle Plains, in collaboration with the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.” Pillai denied the government was breaking an election promise by cancelling these plans. At the same time he couldn’t tell reporters when the area would be put back out for consideration. That won’t happen until after he talks to the First Nations, he said. “It’ll be a partnership moving forward between Yukon government and affected First Nations if there’s going to be oil and gas development.” Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Chief Bruce Charlie said some of the areas that were being talked about are habitat for the Porcupine caribou herd. Others were on the head waters of rivers in that area. There needs to be more consultation “to tell us exactly what kind of work would go on,” he said. “The habitat of the caribou is very important, the headwaters are very important. If anything happened up there in the headwaters, it affects everything downstream.” Charlie said the Yukon government has agreed to an intergovernmental forum that “would include

technical and political representation to address north Yukon oil and gas issues.” No date for that forum has been set. Pillai said he hopes a deal can be worked out similar to the MOU the government signed with First Nations over mineral rights. Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation Chief Roberta Joseph said she is also pleased with the government’s decision to stop the process. She said “there’s still a lot of work that needs to be done” to clarify fees and create a clear communications strategy between the Yukon and First Nations governments. “Hopefully this time will allow us to be able to do that,” she said, adding that companies that apply for permits need to be in good standing. Of the 15 requests, two were for the Eagle Plain Basin and the rest were for the Kandik Basin. The Kandik Basin straddles the Yukon-Alaska border northwest of Dawson City, and extends east toward the western boundary of the Eagle Plain Basin. Posting requests can be submitted to the government twice a year, in the spring and fall. Prior to these 15, there had been none since the spring of 2013, Yukon government officials said earlier this

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Minister of Energy Mines and Resources Ranj Pillai explained to the legislative assembly why the Liberal government decided to put an end to 15 requests for oil and gas rights in northern Yukon. year. Pillai said ther government received no requests in 2017. Yukon Party MLA Scott Kent told the legislative assembly his party was

disappointed with the decision. “This is worrisome because it could potentially spell the end of this industry here in the Yukon — one that has a long history of

exploration and production with significant revenues flowing not only to the Yukon government, but First Nation governments as well,” he said. NDP Leader Liz Hanson said she was pleased with the decision. “The ‘pause’ button that the government has pushed on the oil and gas posting process is an opportune time for this government to do a reality-based assessment with respect to Yukon’s continued involvement in an industry that cannot, does not, survive without significant subsidies,” she said. The department has never said which companies asked to have a look. Pillai said the 15 requests came from “minimal companies.” Right now there is only one working in the area, he told the legislative assembly. The company formerly known as Northern Cross filed a lawsuit against the Yukon government for up to $2.2 billion over its decision not to allow hydraulic fracturing. The company claims the government effectively cancelled its oil and gas exploration permits in the Eagle Plain Basin and wants to be compensated. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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ousing minister Pauline Frost announced a new housing first initiative in downtown Whitehorse with fanfare but few details Nov. 22. The project will see the design of a multi-unit building at Fifth Avenue and Wood Street meant to house homeless individuals in Whitehorse. The Department of Health and Social Sevices and the Yukon Housing Corporation will team up to build the complex, which is intended to provide “affordable permanent housing to those who require ongoing support and care in addition to a place to live,” the government said via press release. In an interview, Frost,

who’s also the health and social services minister, said people who move into these units will not need to stay off alcohol or drugs while they are living there. The project is designed to give “immediate access” to housing, she said. This makes the project the first true “housing first” initiative in the Yukon. “We wanted to push this out right away and recognize that this has a certain philosophy behind it,” Frost said. The Mental Health Commission of Canada defines housing first as “an approach that provides immediate access to permanent housing, in addition to flexible, community-based services for people who have experienced homelessness … without requiring psychiatric treatment or sobriety.”

In the press release, the government recognized housing first as “both a philosophy for housing provision and a clearly defined program model” and said it “will continue to use the core principles of housing first to guide its approach.” Kristina Craig, co-ordinator for the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition (YAPC) said that the project will fill a gap in housing in the Yukon, although without more details it was hard for her organization to comment further. “This will definitely be a benefit, we need a housing first program,” she said. “It’s definitely a good thing.” “There is a huge need … for these services in the community.” When asked for details about the program, includ-

ing how much it would cost, Frost was unable to provide any information because the plan was still “in its early stages.” “It’s too early to quote an amount of money,” she said. “At this point, we just don’t know.” But request for proposals for a building issued jointly by the Yukon Housing Corporation and the health and social services department Nov. 20 included some of those details. The RFP lists the proposed construction budget at around $2.7 million, not including design fees. The proposed facility will have 15 bachelor-style units approximately of 400 square feet, with two of those units being slightly largely in order to accommodate two people. Each apartment will include a

kitchenette with apartment-sized appliances. Windows will open “only partially” for security reasons, drywall will be impact-resistant and rooms will have bedbug resistant flooring and sealants between units. On the main floor there will be two accessible units, a common living area, communal kitchen, staff office, mechanical and electrical room with separate entrances. If there is space available in the final design, this area will also contain a “healing” or “quiet” room for disturbed occupants. The building with be accessible by key fob 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with on-site staff supervision. Proposed dates in the RFP include a contract award for the design process by Dec. 13, 2017,

a conceptual approval by Jan. 26, 2018 and construction tender to be awarded May 25, 2018. Residents in the units will pay rent which will be based on their income, said Pamela Hine, president of the housing corporation. Frost said this is a standard practice and that the government has no intention of providing housing “free of charge.” “There are housing first programs across the country with people living in them for the rest of their lives,” said Craig. “So paying rent in those scenarios just makes sense.” The project is expected to be completed by June 30, 2019. With files from Ashley Joannou Contact Lori Fox at lori.fox@yukon-news.com

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When asked after question period if the Nehass case would be specifically addressed by Loukidelis in his investigation, McPhee replied that was “going to be up to the inspector.â€? The parameters of the inspection are intentionally vague in order to give Loukidelis “free rangeâ€? in the scope of the project, she said. “The terms of reference are very broad on purpose so the inspector is not directed to do a certain thing or go a certain way ‌ and deals with the concept of the entire process, â€? she said. “I’m very pleased that the terms of reference are as broad as they are.â€? Whether or not specific people will be named in the report is within Loukidelis’ power. Whether that happens is at his discretion, she said, depending how he wants to proceed. Loukidelis will have access to and be able to record and examine anything within the WCC — with the exception of an inmate’s medical records— during the investigation. He can, however, request access to those records if he feels he

needs them. “Mr.Loukidelis is an expert in privacy law,â€? McPhee said. “If he is interested in having discussions with particular people about their personal records and they agree to waive that requirement, then presumably he will make that decision at that time.â€? Loukidelis is an expert in privacy, information and conflict-of-interest law. He is a member of the bar of British Columbia and Alberta, with degrees from Osgoode Hall Law School, the University of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh. In 2010 he was appointed as Queen’s Counsel in British Columbia, an honour which denotes exceptional competence and expertise as a lawyer. In a press release, McPhee said she was confident Loukidelis will “bring a wealth of experience and expertise to his role and ‌ provide an impartial report that will enhance the administration of justice in the territory.â€? Loukidelis will submit his final report on the inspection to McPhee on March 29, 2018. With files from Ashley Joannou Contact Lori Fox at lori.fox@yukon-news.com

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From hospital to home care: health department now offering more service hours Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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s Whitehorse’s hospital beds continue to fill up — in part because of patients who should be cared for somewhere else — the number of Yukoners getting home care is also climbing. “We’ve been seeing increasing complexity of people’s needs over the years … and of course there’s just more,” said Amy Riske, the Department of Health and Social Services’ director of care and community. According to the department, this fiscal year the average number of clients receiving home care in Yukon every month is 614. There were 636 clients in October. That’s compared to a monthly average of 585 clients last fiscal year and 602 the year before that. In the Yukon, home care can range from getting help once a week with groceries, to more frequent medical care like cleaning wounds. “A lot of evidence does show that people do better in their home environment, or they can,” Riske said. Most clients are allowed a maximum of 20 hours a week, said Riske, though a handful do qualify for more.

Home First The Whitehorse General Hospital made news this year because of its struggle with overcrowding. The hospital’s acute care beds were often over capacity which lead to patients being moved to

the communities with or without the consent of them or their families. Many of the Whitehorse hospital beds — up to 40 per cent officials have said — are filled with patients who should be cared for somewhere else, often continuing care. In an effort to get some of those long-term care patients out of hospital, the home care branch launched a new program this summer. Dubbed Home First, it offers clients more attention than is usually available as a way of getting them home from the hospital and keeping them there. The program started in late August with the goal of getting two patients out of a hospital bed a month. By the end of September seven people had been discharged though one did end up going back in the hospital, Riske said. By the end of October, 10 patients had been discharged. Riske said most Home First clients are getting more than the 20 hours a week allotted for standard clients, though some get more frequent visits as opposed to more overall hours. She didn’t have specific data on how many hours Home First clients get. The program is too new, she said. From August to November Riske estimates moving clients out of the hospital has freed up 400 days when those clients would have been in a hospital bed. “What other places have seen is that sometimes when you put quite

high (levels) service for the first two to three months, that sometimes people get a bit better in their home,” she said. “They’re at home, they can do way more at home and their services can actually decrease.”

Staffing and wait times The number of staff working in home care has gone up. Five and a half new positions were filled using money that was announced last year. More recently the department hired four more home support workers and a half-time occupational therapist specifically for the Home First program, Riske said. The department also expanded the hours of a physiotherapist on staff and is looking for a new social worker. All of the new positions are term jobs, she said. They’re slated to end in September 2018 when the first phase of the new 150-bed Whistle Bend continuing care facility is scheduled to open. “The demand and the pressures will continue to grow but we need to be adaptive as well and look at alternative measures, meeting people’s needs where they reside,” said health minister Pauline Frost. Frost said home care was given an extra $771,000 in the most recent budget compared to last year. That’s on top of a base budget of $6.8 million. “We have sufficient resources,” Frost said. The government insists there is no wait list for people wanting home

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The Yukon’s health department is now offering more service hours to select clients as a way of getting them out of the crowded Whitehorse General Hospital. care. But while most might begin the intake process almost immediately, the department doesn’t track overall numbers for how long it actually takes to receive care. Frost said those numbers are tracked on individual records but there are no averages or overall statistics. When a person is referred to home care in Whitehorse it can take about two days for them to begin the intake process, she said. “If there’s an imminent requirement or an imminent request then that would clearly have to be adjusted in terms of where they are on the list … we have to deal with individuals as they come forward with requests to meet the demand.” Frost said the department “works extremely hard to be responsive and deliver the best services possible.”

Home care in the communities In rural Yukon, the av-

erage monthly number of people getting home care this fiscal year is 235. Last fiscal year that number was 221. It was 238 the year before that. A co-ordinator out of Whitehorse manages support workers in each of the rural communities, Riske said. There are also home care nurses in Watson Lake, Haines Junction, and Dawson City. Again, the department doesn’t have a breakdown of the time it takes to get support in the communities. For about the last two years staff with the Yukon’s Emergency Medical Services have been used to help Whitehorse home care clients by coming into their homes to offer non-emergency care. “We’d be doing such things as medical assessments, checking blood pressure, ensuring they’re compliant with their medication, checking on them when home care is not available which is nights and weekends,” said Cameron Sinclair, manager of

Whitehorse operations. The program only has “about a handful” of clients, he said. EMS visit during a set window of time so they’re always flexible and can leave in case of an emergency. “The main goal is to improve their health and a factor of that is less visits to the emergency (room), less visits to the hospital and really just better healthcare for them in general.”

Hospital bed usage still high Ideally Whitehorse General Hospital would be at about 75 per cent bed capacity. Last year, beds were filled at an average of 96 per cent capacity. More than half the time the hospital was functioning at 100 per cent or higher. Hospital spokesperson James Low said a series of changes, like moving patients to the communities and the Home First program have contributed to reducing occupancy. The hospital is still averaging about 85 to 95 per cent capacity, he said. Preventing people from staying in the hospital too long when they don’t need to is about more than freeing up beds Riske said. She said the Home First program will also hopefully help people maintain their confidence and stay more independent. “It is for addressing bed pressures but it’s also for addressing people at home. There’s also a quality piece that goes along with this.” Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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he Liberal government’s response to its own financial advisory panel last week was like a bit from The Simpsons. Premier Sandy Silver: “So, panel, what should we do about the Yukon’s fiscal situation?” Panel: “Well, we think….” Silver: “Okay great! Thanks for coming out.” Both Silver and Highways and Public Works Minister Richard Mostyn quickly announced that major options presented by the panel of five experts would simply not be considered. The Yukon government needs to close a budget gap of between $40 million and $60 million over the coming years. Economic growth, courtesy of all those mines that are currently working their way through the regulatory system will help, but it won’t be enough. The government will have to raise revenues, cut expenses, or some combination of the two. There is no magic wand. There are three options and the government has to pick one. One of the panel’s suggestions is a sales tax. Now, nobody wants to hear this, but consumption taxes accomplish a couple of things we want: they shift the tax burden off employment, incentivizing work, and they draw revenue from the spending of non-residents and participants in the black market, whose incomes are off the books. But we are giant babies about taxes, even though at 4.5 per cent of GDP (according to the panel’s report), we have one of the lowest tax burdens in the nation, and the moment anyone proposes any kind of tax change we start frothing at the mouth. The panel says that if the Yukon adopted the tax system of Alberta our deficit problem would basically be solved. Silver, meanwhile, declared a sales tax off the table. You can read this as basically an act of political self-preservation, given the hullaballoo the Yukon Party was raising. But it also means that Silver isn’t interested in the difficult — but arguably necessary — task of restructuring the tax system. The premier also ruled out an increase in royalty rates, even though some of them are comically low. You can argue boosting royalty rates would actually diminish returns by killing off marginal resource projects, but that’s far from certain. It seems more likely Silver was trying to avoid the headache of having to even make the case for higher royalties, which would prompt a backlash from the resource sector. The government’s consideration of cuts to the Yukon’s inflated public service has also been inconsistent.

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Here’s Silver in May: “Nobody is contemplating any cuts to the public service.” Here’s Silver in September: “All these recommendations are on the table.” Then, just before the report came out, Highways and Public Works Minister Richard Mostyn told reporters cuts were in fact “off the table.” Finding the absurdity in the government’s reluctance to cut does not even require you to be a fire-breathing libertarian fantasizing about an ideological spree of state-shrinking. Nearly everyone is in favour of good hospitals, schools and roads. But the panel’s own data show that 14.5 per cent of the Yukon’s population works for the territorial government at an average hourly cost of $61 per employee. This doesn’t just eat up vital cash in the here and now: these jobs also mean long-term pension costs for workers whose utility is sometimes debatable. Any scan of the government directory reveals all kinds of positions that are, shall we say, non-vital. The government employs, as of a Nov. 20 directory search, 65 policy analysts. Is anyone going to credibly argue that we need all of them? The average salary of a policy analyst, per Indeed.com, is more than $81,000 per year, around 24 per cent higher than the national average. Or take the advice of Doug Bell, former Yukon Commissioner (and publisher of the Yukon News), who wrote his own speeches and news releases for six years. In 2014, he told the CBC the Yukon government spent too much money on government spin. When that story ran, the government employed 48 people in “communications.” As of this week there are now 69 people

doing this kind of work. A handful of these jobs are useful. The vast majority are not. I very much doubt the number of media requests to the government has increased by nearly 50 per cent in three years. This, by the way, is why it’s rich for the Yukon Party to crow about the need to cut spending. They’re not wrong, but who hired most of this dead weight? The Yukon Party did. As Kyle Carruthers wrote this week, the Liberals are responsible for what happens next, but the Yukon Party bears responsibility for the state of the territory’s finances. The Yukon Party also complained about the notion of raising fees and fines to cover the budget shortfall. Across Canada, the share of provincial/territorial revenue from user fees is 13 per cent. In the Yukon it’s five. Simply raising fees to the Northwest Territories’ level of 10 per cent would raise $60 million and eliminate the deficit. But that’s beyond the pale for Yukon Party finance critic Brad Cathers, who called user fees “a tax increase by another name.” He’s not entirely wrong, but user fees are in many cases preferable to taxes because it means people who use certain services pay a greater share of the cost. In other words, it’s only fair for someone who goes camping a lot to pay for campsites, in order to reduce the burden on someone who never goes camping at all. It’s fine to have preferences. It’s fine to base those preferences on ideology. But it’s a shame our politicians appear to have decided to take the product of months of consultation and study, and throw most of it in the trash. Contact Chris Windeyer at editor@yukon-news.com

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was once told that report recommendations are like cookies. They’re best when still warm (from the printer). But freshness didn’t save three of the final recommendations from the Yukon government’s financial expert panel. The territorial sales tax, government job cuts and raising the royalties on placer mining were quickly ruled out of bounds by the government. There are another roughly 40 recommendations that are presumably still being considered. We will know the fate of most of these when the spring budget comes out. In the big picture, the territorial government has

three options. The path of least political resistance is the status quo. This strategy would perhaps include some minor adjustments, but would avoid major unpopular tax and fee increases as well as painful spending cuts. The cost would be a continuation of the cash burn we have seen in recent years. At the start of the 201516 fiscal year, the Yukon government had $195 million in net financial assets (think of this as cash in the bank). The Yukon Party government burned through many tens of millions in the run up to the last election, and the current Liberal government continued the trend in its first full-year budget with a burn of $87 million this year. By March 31, the Yukon’s cash reserves are expected to be down to under $10 million according to the last budget’s projections. Unless the government cuts the burn rate, the Yukon government will have to borrow money. Banks will be happy to lend it, since

they are confident we have steady future revenue from Ottawa. Politically speaking, this strategy kicks the can down the road to some future government and generations without upsetting today’s voters. This is the strategy implicit in the last budget’s projections, which show the Yukon government with a whopping debt of $216 million in debt by 2021-22. The second strategy is to keep up the spending, but raise taxes and fees. The panel’s report had a number of charts that will be disturbing to Yukoners who like their wallets. In terms of tax rates and fees paid for government services, we are better off than residents of most provinces. Of course, this is because we are trying to encourage businesses and people to live in the Yukon and grow our economy. But a cash-strapped government could squeeze more money out of the populace and still plausibly claim we had a lower tax burden than most Canadians.

The third strategy is the quiet freeze. If the Yukon government just froze all the departments for three years, inflation would eat away at their budgets, the transfer payment would keep rising, and in a few years the budget would be balanced. The panel pointed out that a freeze at 2017-18 levels would result in a balanced budget in just two years. This is a balance in accrual accounting terms and may still involve a cash burn and some debt, but at least the government could go into the next election claiming to have balanced the books. Some governments have found that this approach has the benefit of avoiding high-profile budget reviews that attract attention and criticism. Instead, each deputy minister has to move money around inside his or her department as inflation bites, shaving some programs and topping up others. Economists tend not to like this approach, since

it means that important programs get frozen as much as ineffective ones. They prefer transparent program reviews that compare all programs on the same basis and deliberately move resources from less important or effective programs to others. But the quiet freeze approach has its advantages in terms of political tactics. In the end, the choice between these three strategies depends on the government’s vision for the Yukon and what its ministers want their legacy to be. The status quo has the lowest execution risk, since it involves no major changes to how the government runs today, although at the cost of leaving future Yukoners with an unprecedented public debt. The tax and fee option is relatively easy to implement since it just involves changing tax and fee rates, but carries substantial political risks. Many of the Yukoners consulted by the panel were not keen on higher taxes and fees. They

know the Yukon government gets almost a billion dollars a year from the federal government and won’t smile on politicians claiming this is not enough. This option also eats away at the Yukon tax advantage and — critically — makes it harder to attract private-sector workers and investment. The third option avoids debt and sustains the Yukon tax advantage. But it requires sustained communications discipline and strong central management of the deputy ministers and budget process. The net financial assets number in the spring budget will tell us which approach they chose, and perhaps also the fate of some of the other 40 recommendations from the financial expert panel. Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels. He is a Ma Murray award-winner for best columnist.

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CHARLOTTETOWN ustin Trudeau says one of the challenges of being prime minister is not being able to pop into a Canadian Tire for a screwdriver or grab a double-double at Tim Hortons without “causing a bit of a kerfuffle.� In an off-the-cuff radio interview in P.E.I. that touched on shopping, sports, fashion and TV dramas, Trudeau said it’s hard for him to partake in these commonplace and quintessentially Canadian outings. Being the head of the Canadian government comes with “amazing things but a certain awkwardness in stopping in for a double-double,� Trudeau said in an interview with Charlottetown’s Ocean 100 radio host Kerri Wynne MacLeod. “The level of kerfuffle — there are flashing lights in the street right now — around a PM can go to your head or you can take it the wrong way,� he said. “The only way to make sense of it is there is

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ly when he was spotted sporting P.E.I.-made sunglasses, Fellow Earthlings eyewear, on a recent trip Vietnam. A photo snapped of Trudeau stepping off the plane shows him adjusting the vintage leather-covered aviator-style sunglasses, a model called the Canadian. “I never imagined people would connect on those little details. They’re absolutely gorgeous, I love them,� he said. “I get nothing but compliments on them and they’re from right here in P.E.I. They’re just slick.� The 45-year-old also weighed in on this weekend’s Grey Cup final between the Calgary Stampeders and the Toronto Argonauts in Ottawa, which he plans to attend with his family. “I’m bringing the kids and Sophie has agreed to come as well, which is always a bonus,� he said. “Unfortunately, my beloved (Montreal) Alouettes aren’t in it, but the Argos and the Stamps will give a great game. I hope for a really close game.� After Trudeau’s speech and a question and answer

session in Charlottetown, the prime minister will head to eastern Newfoundland to meet with a local Liberal candidate in Clarenville. Trudeau is expected to be in Goose Bay on Friday to apologize to former students of residential schools in Newfoundland and Labrador. They were left out of a compensation package and a national apology in 2008 by former prime minister Stephen Harper. His Conservative government argued that Ottawa did not oversee those schools.

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industry disagrees with government estimates of how much that would cost. Methane is a greenhouse gas considered about 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Reducing emissions by sealing off leaks and other releases during energy extraction is considered to be one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways. Alberta is still considering its approach, but Ottawa released draft regulations in the spring. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, which supports the reduction goal, has already said the federal plan would cost many times more than Ottawa’s estimate of $1.7

billion over 18 years. It says thousands of jobs are at risk if the regulations are poorly drafted. The issue became murkier recently when new research suggested that Canada’s actual methane emissions are twice what has been reported. Tyner, who did the cost analysis with Carleton colleague Matthew Johnson, said reported emissions could be significantly brought down at a minimal cost and, in turn, reduce the overall cost of tackling unreported releases. “The costs are potentially significant,” Johnson said. “But if we’re getting more than our share from … reported (emissions) —

and it’s really not costing much of anything — then maybe that takes some of the overall cost burden away.” Release of about 250,000 tonnes of methane is reported every year in Alberta. That’s equivalent to emissions from more than one million passenger cars. Johnson and Tyner considered about 9,400 oil sites in their study, including individual heavy oil wells pumping away in farmers’ fields to large oil batteries. They looked at the cost for a range of mitigation methods such as capturing methane and directing it into a pipeline or burning

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it in a flare. They concluded those methods could reduce Alberta’s total methane releases from conventional oil and gas by about nine per cent for almost no cost, calculated over 10 years. Including larger emissions improve the economics. Johnson and Tyner found methane releases could be cut by as much as one-third for an average cost to industry of roughly one dollar a tonne. No site would have to pay more than $30 a tonne. That’s in line with the eventual cost of carbon under Alberta’s carbon tax framework. A small number of sites actually would earn extra profit if their flared and vented gas were captured and sold. Environment Canada says its proposed rules

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OTTAWA ore than a year after Maryam Monsef revealed she was not actually born in Afghanistan, as she had previously believed, the Liberal cabinet minister is still waiting for the government to update her documents. “Just like everybody else, I’m waiting my turn,” the status of women minister said in an interview with The Canadian Press last week. In September 2016, the Globe and Mail reported that Monsef, hailed by the Liberals as Canada’s first Afghan-born MP, was actually born in Mashhad, Iran, a city about 200 kilometres away from the border with Afghanistan. At the time, Monsef said her parents fled Afghanistan as the security situation there deteriorated and that after her father was killed, her mother never discussed what the minister de-

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scribed as the unspeakable pain of those early years — until media inquiries prompted Monsef to press her for details. “She told us she did not think it mattered,” Monsef said in a September 2016 statement. “We were Afghan citizens, as we were born to Afghan parents, and under Iranian law, we would not be considered Iranian citizens despite being born in that country.” Monsef, who had listed her birthplace as Herat, Afghanistan, when she applied for a Canadian passport, promised she would take steps to fix the error. Since then, she has submitted documentation to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, but is still waiting for a resolution. “There’s just nothing to tell,” said Monsef, who made it clear she did not wish to be questioned about it further. “I’m as Canadian as you are. The paperwork is done and when there is news, I will be sure to share it with

you.” Celia Canon, a spokeswoman for Monsef, did not answer follow-up questions about the matter, including whether Monsef was still travelling on a passport containing erroneous personal information. The Immigration Department would not comment specifically on her case, citing privacy reasons, but did outline the potential steps involved should someone need to correct their birthplace on their passport. “The passport applicant must indicate the same place of birth that is on their birth certificate or citizenship document,” departmental spokesman Remi Lariviere wrote in a emailed statement. “If there is an error in these documents, they must be corrected before submitting a passport application,” said Lariviere, noting the applicant would not be eligible to use the renewal process, and would instead have

to make a general application. Immigration lawyers say lengthy delays would not be surprising for such a complex situation. Jamie Liew, an assistant law professor at the University of Ottawa, said given the high-profile nature of the case, government officials might be going above and beyond the usual due diligence, or it could be simply be bureaucratic delay. “It’s all speculation, but it isn’t uncommon for cases to take a long time to come to resolution,” said Liew, who specializes in immigration and refugee law. Monsef’s mysterious origin story raised eyebrows when it first emerged, in part because at the time, the Liberal government was still aggressively enforcing a Conservative law that could strip naturalized Canadian citizens of their status without a hearing, despite having campaigned against it. Immigration lawyers

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Yukon’s Proposed Framework for Legalized Cannabis LEGAL AGE

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Yukon proposes setting the minimum age for the legal possession, consumption and cultivation of cannabis at 19. POSSESSING CANNABIS

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In Yukon, adults 19 and older would be allowed to possess up to 30 grams of dried cannabis, or its equivalent, in public. Young people — those under the legal age of 19 — would not be allowed to purchase or possess any cannabis. GROWING CANNABIS

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Yukon proposes allowing adults to grow up to four plants per household for personal use.

CONSUMPTION OF CANNABIS The new act would limit recreational consumption to privately owned residences and adjoining property, where permitted by the owner, while providing for the potential to allow consumption in other spaces in the future.

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DISTRIBUTION OF CANNABIS The Government of Yukon would have the sole authority to import, warehouse, transport and otherwise distribute recreational cannabis within Yukon for commercial purposes.

RETAIL OF CANNABIS Yukoners will have legal access to cannabis upon federal legalization next year. Our proposed approach is to allow for both government and private retail stores, while acknowledging that it will take more time to develop a licencing system for private retail sales.

Friday, November 24, 2017

‘Very intense’ windstorm rocks Maritimes, heads toward Newfoundland Canadian Press

HALIFAX fall storm packing winds that gusted to almost 130 kilometres an hour closed schools, shut down ferry services and knocked out power throughout the Maritimes early Thursday. “The Maritimes are closed today. Call again later,” one Twitter user joked after thousands of people in Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and New Brunswick awoke to darkness when the powerful winds blew through the region overnight and into the morning. “It was very quick moving, so it crossed over Nova Scotia and into the Gulf of St. Lawrence in a short time frame,” said Ian Hubbard, a meteorologist with Environment Canada. “It was very intense in terms of its impacts in a short time.” Nova Scotia appeared to be the hardest hit, with more than 24,000 customers without power in outages that spanned much of the province from Bridgewater to northern Cape Breton, which saw the highest wind gusts — 128 km/h — in Grand Etang. By 11 a.m., there were about 200 outages affecting 14,000 customers. In Halifax, the winds temporarily closed the MacKay Bridge to high-sided vehicles and became the butt of a few Twitter jokes, with one man referencing a previous storm,

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“The surprise hurricane this morning is delightful. Didn’t see this Juan coming.” Several schools in Cape Breton as well as the Nova Scotia Community College in Dartmouth were forced to close for the day due to power outages. P.E.I. was also hit by raging winds that cut off power to about 4,300 customers in dozens of communities early Thursday, closed or delayed the opening of some schools and restricted travel by high-sided vehicles on the Confederation Bridge. Hubbard said wind gusts reached 102 km/h in Charlottetown. New Brunswick also saw a school closed due to a power outage, with NB Power reporting about 1,300 customers in the southern part of the province without power early Thursday. Most of those outages had been restored by midday. The province’s Green party leader, David Coon, used the blustery storm for a political jab, tweeting “Winds of change blowing this morning.” The storm also brought heavy rain to parts of Nova Scotia, which saw 54.9 millimetres of rain in Baccaro Point — almost half of that falling in one hour. Hubbard said the storm is moving north toward Newfoundland and Labrador, which could see wind gusts of 100 km/h and some rain.

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Liberals propose billions for affordable housing, including individual benefits Jordan Press Canadian Press

OTTAWA Liberal government fond of promising help for those working hard to join the middle class unveiled billions in housing help Wednesday that could make a difference to hundreds of thousands of households — but only in a few years when federal money finally flows to new units and tenant benefits. The release of the national housing strategy on National Housing Day was designed to tout tens of billions in planned and expected spending over the next decade and solidify the federal government’s re-entry into the affordable housing sector. Included in the plan was a promise to introduce legislation to make housing a fundamental right, create

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a new, portable housing benefit for low-income households, and prioritize funding for the most vulnerable populations like women fleeing domestic violence. But the plan itself rests heavily on provinces and territories kicking in matching funds, without which federal dollars won’t flow. Even then, it won’t happen until April 2018 and not until 2021 in the case of the new housing benefit. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the reason much of the money won’t be spent until after the next election in 2019 is because the federal government needs to take the time to get the details right and satisfy myriad local, provincial and territorial needs. “We are looking at the realistic horizon that is going to not just put a Band-Aid on the problem, but create the kind of deep change and lasting impact that we

know Canadians are going to need,” he said at an event in Toronto. “When we say the federal government is back for the long term, we mean it — and that starts with getting it right from the very beginning.” NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh called the plan “timid” because of the delays in spending when the money is desperately needed now. And Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said the strategy does nothing for lowering the high cost of housing ownership in major urban centres, only making a passing reference to exploring further options. What the plan does is pull together almost $10 billion in planned spending, $11.2 billion in housing money outlined in this year’s budget, and $4.8 billion the Liberals promised to keep spending on funding to affordable housing providers. The rest is all

from provinces, territories and the private sector to total about $40 billion over a decade. There are also strict strings attached. A new housing fund to create 60,000 new affordable housing units and allow repairs to 240,000 more, through grants and loans, will prioritize mixed-income developments and require about one-third of all those units to be offered at 80 per cent of median market rents for a 20-year period. (A mix of other funding is poised to create an additional 40,000 new affordable housing units.) The $4-billion portable housing benefit could eventually help 300,000 households by 2028 and provide on average $2,500 a year in help, but only if provinces and territories match $2 billion in federal money and ensure the extra money doesn’t cause a jump in private rents.

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Help us shape the electoral map for future elections Electoral district boundaries for future elections have been proposed. Now we want to hear your comments!

Des propositions ont été présentées concernant les limites des circonscriptions électorales qui serviront aux prochaines élections. Nous voulons maintenant savoir ce que vous en pensez!

You may have ideas to change the proposed boundaries - or may support the changes. Either way, your opinion is important and [MPP FI GSRWMHIVIH MR GVIEXMRK ƙREP TVSTSWEPW for Yukon’s electoral districts.

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data found that 1.7 million households were in “core housing need” in 2016, meaning they spent more than one-third of their before-tax income on housing that may be substandard or does not meet their needs. The government hopes the strategy will lift 530,000 of those families out of that core housing need category, help 385,000 more avoid losing their homes and lift 50,000 out of homelessness. Wednesday’s news included precious little help for Indigenous communities, which is getting a separate plan that Trudeau said the government is still finalizing. Separate plans are in the works for First Nations, Inuit and Metis.

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Liberals push cities to rethink planning with launch of ‘challenge’ program Canadian Press

OTTAWA ities looking for extra federal cash are being pushed to think outside the box and take some risks as part of a federal challenge that launches today. Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi is in Calgary to unveil what the government calls its “Smart Cities Challenge,� which will provide millions of dol-

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Trump tells troops ‘We’re winning’ against foes Jill Colvin Associated Press

PALM BEACH, FLA. resident Donald Trump thanked U.S. troops for their service on Thursday, assuring them “we’re really winning” against America’s foes as he celebrated Thanksgiving at his private club in Florida and provided lunch for Coast Guard men and women on duty for the holiday. Using the occasion to talk up his own leadership, Trump told deployed military members via a video conference that they’ve achieved more progress in Afghanistan and against the Islamic State group under his watch than had been made in years of the previous administration,. “Everybody’s talking about the progress you’ve made in the last few months since I opened it up,” he told the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division, whose members are conducting operations in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Speaking from a gilded room at his Mar-a-Lago club, Trump said: “We’re not fighting anymore to just walk around, we’re fighting to win, and you people are really, you’ve turned it around over the last three to four months like nobody’s seen, and they are talking about it, so thank you very much.”

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President Donald Trump speaks with members of the armed forces via video conference at his private club, Mar-a-Lago, on Thanksgiving, in Palm Beach, Fla. Turning to the 74th Expeditionary Fighters Squadron based at the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, Trump suggested the Obama administration hadn’t allowed soldiers on the ground to do their jobs. “They say we’ve made more progress against ISIS than they did in years of the previous administration,” he said. “And that’s because I’m letting you do your job.” Throughout the day — at events and on Twitter — Trump boasted about the economy’s performance

since he took office, pointing to recent stock market gains and the unemployment rate, along with his efforts to scale back regulations and boost military spending. “So you’re fighting for something real, you’re fighting for something good,” he told the service members. “A lot of things have happened with our country over the last very short period of time, and they’re really good.” Trump and his wife, Melania, also made a trip to a nearby Coast Guard

station in Riviera Beach, Florida, where they delivered a lunch of turkey sandwiches, giant muffins, heaping baskets of fruit, chips and cookies to men and women on duty for the holidays. During his remarks, Trump, singled out the service for its hurricane relief efforts during Harvey and the other storms that

battered the country earlier this year. “There’s no brand that went up more than the Coast Guard,” Trump told them “What a job you’ve done.” Trump praised the superiority of U.S. military equipment, too, yet said he tries to make sure that equipment the U.S. sells abroad — even to allies —

is not quite as good as that kept at home. “I always say, make ours a little bit better,” Trump said. “Keep about 10 per cent in the bag.” He added: “You never know about an ally. An ally can turn.” During his recent trip to Asia, Trump repeatedly talked up the quality of U.S. military equipment and encouraged countries including Japan and South Korea to purchase much more of it, both to defend themselves and boost U.S. manufacturers. At the earlier video conference, Trump cleared the room of press after about 10 minutes so he could have “very confidential, personal conversations” with those on the line. Borrowing a line from his “Apprentice” days, he told the reporters “You’re fired,” and wished them a happy Thanksgiving, too. On the Trumps’ own Thanksgiving menu for family and friends at Mara-Lago: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, red snapper, Florida stone crab, baked goods, local produce and cheeses, and a selection of cakes and pies for dessert.

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On disputed land, Zimbabweans see hope after Mugabe’s exit Christopher Torchia Associated Press

MAZOWE, ZIMBABWE or years, a group of Zimbabwean villagers resisted efforts by the wife of former President Robert Mugabe to force them off a farm near the capital, enduring police raids and the demolition of their homes. Now that Mugabe has resigned, the farmers say they are able to move more freely in a blow to Grace Mugabe’s efforts to expand her landholdings. “God bless her, we suffered,” said 57-year-old Violet Mazvarira, who described a hard life on the disputed farm in an area of rolling hills, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of the capital, Harare. The Mazowe district is a centerpiece of assets likely to come under scrutiny as many Zimbabweans believe the Mugabe family exploited its power to improperly take control of land and other resources in a country where many struggle to get by. Grace Mugabe, whose ambitions to succeed her husband as president triggered a military takeover, has

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attracted criticism in the past for lavish shopping trips. In October, she went to court in an attempt to seize assets of a Lebanese businessman who allegedly failed to deliver a diamond ring worth more than $1.35 million. The former first lady set up a school and runs a dairy farm in Mazowe, projects that she said would boost Zimbabwe’s devastated economy but were widely seen as an attempt to build a business empire for personal gain. Those ambitions are now in question after her 93-year-old husband resigned Tuesday following pressure from the military, parliament and street protesters, ending nearly four decades in power that saw Zimbabwe slide into economic ruin. The conflict over Manzou farm, also known as Arnold farm, was a flashpoint for national anger over perceptions that Grace Mugabe thought she was above the law in her efforts to evict residents and turn the area into a wildlife park. Earlier this year, human rights lawyers secured a court order allowing hundreds of villagers to stay

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A group of Zimbabwean villagers who for years resisted efforts by the wife of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to force them off a farm are seen during a meeting at the farm in Mazoe, near the capital Harare, Nov. 23. Now that Mugabe has resigned, the farmers say they are able to move around more freely. on the farm, but police or guards showed up again and tried to force people off the land, according to community leader Innocent Dube. Grace Mugabe “never followed the court order,” he

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Franken’s rising political star obscured by accusations Alan Fram & Kyle Potter Associated Press

WASHINGTON any of you have jobs, many of you have families,” Sen. Al Franken told Democratic leaders gathered on the eve of a hotly contested governor’s election in Virginia. After an expectant pause, he leaned into the microphone and added, “Ignore them.” Franken was jokingly beseeching activists to get out the vote the following day, in what ended up as a surprisingly decisive victory for Democratic candidate Ralph Northam. But the moment, barely two weeks ago, also underscored how high the one-time Saturday Night Live comic had risen in his party’s firmament. After spending much of his nearly nine years as senator trying to shed his funnyman image and quietly digging into issues like internet access and consumer protection, he was now a draw at political events and mentioned by some as a 2020 presidential possibility. Months of savaging some of President Don-

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ing a flak vest aboard a military plane. Franken, 66, has apologized. Another woman, Lindsay Menz, said Monday he’d squeezed her buttocks in 2010 while posing for a photo at the Minnesota State Fair. Franken, by then a senator, said he didn’t remember the picture but expressed remorse that Menz felt “disrespected.” In a story published Wednesday by the Huffington Post, two more women alleged that Franken touched their buttocks during campaign events in 2007 and 2008. Franken cancelled a sold-out appearance in Atlanta to promote his book, Al Franken, Giant of the Senate. His aides have said he’s “spending time with his family and doing a lot of reflecting.” Franken came to the Senate after a monthslong recount gave him a 312-vote victory in his 2008 election. He immediately distanced himself from his decades of professional comedy, which included off-colour jokes about rape and disparaging women, and avoided national reporters. Instead, he focused on building a reputation as a

studious senator, pushing legislation to crack down on Wall Street rating agencies he considered complicit in the 2007 economic collapse. As a signature issue, he adopted the push to protect “net neutrality,” an Obama administration policy barring internet providers from blocking or hindering websites. The Trump administration’s Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday it will dismantle the rule. Franken helped shape parts of former President Barack Obama’s health care law and tackled farm and mental health issues. He easily secured a second six-year term in 2014, defeating a Republican businessman. Franken appeared on his first Sunday network talk show late in his first term amid signs he was bolstering his national profile. But it was Trump’s emergence that teased out a new Franken and had him pivot from staid senator to liberal

attack dog. In withering interrogations in the Senate, Franken has clashed with a parade of Trump Cabinet appointees. “He made those guys sweat,” former Senate Democratic aide Jim Manley said. “He’s got the ability to channel some of the populist rage against the administration.” Franken had a celebrated clash last month with Jeff Sessions over the attorney general’s evolving descriptions of his contacts with Russian officials during last year’s presidential campaign. Sessions, a Trump campaign official, told Congress in January he’d not communicated with the Russians. He later said he didn’t recall such contact. Then last month, he told the Senate Judiciary Committee he’d had no “improper discussions” with them. “To me, that is moving the goal posts every time,” Franken, a committee member, told

Sessions. At a January confirmation hearing, Franken bore into education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos when she seemed unable to answer a policy question. “I’m not that surprised that you didn’t know this issue,” he said. He opposed Trump Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch and battled with Rick Perry over the energy secretary’s skepticism that increased carbon dioxide emissions cause global warming. He told Tom Price, who has since resigned as health secretary, that it was “very hard to believe” that he didn’t realize he’d owned tobacco stocks, and that “millions of Americans” feared the Trump administration’s push to repeal Obama’s health care law. In a lighter exchange, Perry told Franken he enjoyed meeting him at the senator’s office, saying, “I hope you are as much fun on that dais as you were on your couch.” “Please, oh my Lord,” Franken replied.

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WASHINGTON emocrats have been quick to support the “me too” chorus of women — and some men — who have stepped up to allege sexual misconduct and name names. But now “me too” stains the Democrats, too, putting them in an awkward place as they calibrate how forcefully to respond. Allegations against Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota and Rep. John Conyers of Michigan are part of the newest chapter in the hot-potato politics of sexual predation for the party, which has its own fraught history on the subject. The latest revelations have prompted a hard look back at the way Democrats and their allies once circled the wagons around President Bill Clinton, dismissing allegations that extended to serious assault as mere dalliances or the tales of “looney” women. In her 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton drew a clear line on behalf of women who allege sexual assault, saying flatly: “You have the right to be

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And now, BuzzFeed has published affidavits from former employees of Conyers who said they saw the Democrat inappropriately touching women who worked for him and asking them for sexual favours. It reported that his office paid more than $27,000 to a woman who alleged she was fired because she rejected his sexual advances. On Tuesday, Conyers denied he made that settlement — but his office later acknowledged it while still denying that the allegations were true. The House Ethics Committee has initiated an investigation. Democrats, predictably, have spoken fiercely and with one voice against Roy Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama who is accused of disrobing a 14-year-old girl in his house when in his 30s. Some Republicans have demanded Moore quit his candidacy “if” his accusers have told the truth about his approaching teenage girls. Others have concluded the accusations are more credible than his denials. But a few, like Alabama’s GOP governor, have suggested that even if he did prey on a 14-year-old girl decades ago, the need to protect the Senate’s Republican majority is a higher priority. President Donald Trump repeatedly noted on Wednesday that Moore has denied the allegations and insisted that

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Alabama must not elect the Republican’s “liberal” opponent in a Dec. 12 special election. In this sexual misconduct frenzy of unmasking figures in entertainment, media, sports and politics (#MeToo on Twitter), all sorts of episodes on the spectrum of misbehaviour are being lumped together, from the boorish and juvenile to the allegedly criminal. Grabbing a woman’s behind at the state fair isn’t in the same league as molesting a child. Still, the Democrats have a predicament. “They don’t want to look tolerant on this issue by saying, ‘He wasn’t as bad as so and so,’” said Dan Lublin, a political science professor at American University. “They need to appear strong,” he said, and not focus on gradations in misbehaviour. “They’re going with ‘unacceptable.’ And it is a dilemma, because you don’t know how far that will go.” Kathleen Dolan, chair of the political science department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, said the party’s history with this issue is important to remember. “Certainly, Democrats, from an ideological perspective, and on gender egalitarianism, should be the party or people we’d expect to be taking the lead on awareness of the decades-old problem of sexual harassment and sexual assault,” she said.

“That’s complicated in part by the history of the party debate when Bill Clinton was in the thick of his stuff. … There’s evolution, because the Democrats could perhaps with some accuracy say in the ’90s we tolerated so much of what we shouldn’t have.” Indeed, Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, whose Senate seat was once held by Hillary Clinton, now says she believes Bill Clinton should have resigned for his improprieties. Only now is there movement to bring sexual misconduct out of the shadows in Congress, where people in both parties say it has been widespread. Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier, who sponsored legislation to overhaul the system by which sexual complaints are made and settled on Capitol Hill, described Congress as “a breeding ground for a hostile work environment.” Last month she shared her own story of being sexually assaulted by a high-level aide while she was a staffer. In a stunning public hearing last week, Speier and Republican Rep. Barbara Comstock shared stories of current lawmakers harassing staff members. Comstock said she was told that an aide recently left her job after a congressman exposed himself to her. Support for mandatory training to prevent sexual

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resh off a Canada-wide tour that took them from Iqaluit to Ottawa to Vancouver and everywhere in between, Yukon favourites the Dakhká Khwáan Dancers and Daniel Ashley (aka DJ Dash) are preparing for yet another blowout show — this time, much closer to home. The dance group and DJ, whose partnership has resulted in the fusion of Tlingit songs and dance with electronic dance music, are on the cusp of debuting their joint album Deconstruct/Reconstruct at the Yukon Arts Centre Nov. 24. It’s a record almost a year in the making. “It took longer than anticipated but maybe not that much longer than, I think, was realistic,” Ashley said with laugh during an interview in mid-November. He and the Dakhká Khwáan Dancers began

recording at Whitehorse’s Green Needle Records in November of 2016, occasionally taking weeks-long breaks for performances and tours, with the final mixing and mastering completed this fall. The result is a two-disc album features 21 songs, 15 of which are original tracks featuring traditional Tlingit vocals and instruments. The remaining six songs are remixes of some of those compositions, in which Ashley said involved him “shaping’ electronic sounds and elements around the original tracks. “All those tracks have a lot of the traditional instruments in them, but they’ve also got electronic music elements.… It’s sort of like building a really complicated piece of LEGO out of sound, which I really love, but it can be a bit time-consuming,” he said, citing one song, “Killer Whale Hunt,” as an example. The song is based

on a story about how orca whales hunt seals, and so for his remix, Ashley found audio recording of the sounds orcas make underwater and manipulated them to create electronic-style buildups. For the traditional songs, Ashley said he mainly played a producing role and occasionally that of a coach, encouraging the dancers to channel the energy they have on stage in a studio environment. “I’m in the studio sessions and I’d be like, ‘Okay, this is like that festival, remember? And there’s this many people out there, think about this much energy and this many people out there, think about this much energy and this kind of intensity when we’re doing this song or that song,’” Ashley recalled. Dakhká Khwáan Dancers leader Marilyn Jensen said the group was quickly able to settle into recording in the studio, standing in

the usual circle formation they take when practicing. “The studio that we were at was actually really warm and nice, so it was out in the bush, we could look at the windows and see the wilderness and all that, so it didn’t seem too sterile and it seemed to quite easily translate our usual energy and just kind of our hearts in there,” she said. Writing original music, instead of recording old Tlingit songs they had no right to, and creating songs with strong messages about resilience, strength and moving forward was an important part for everyone involved, Jensen added. “(The album) speaks to reclamation and revitalization and to honouring our elders, the people before us, the leaders before us who worked so hard to establish just basic human rights for my generation and the generations fol-

lowing that, so I feel like the album really holds up our vision to communicate that, and just to celebrate the beauty of our culture and just to have fun, you know?” she said. There’s one song, in particular though, that Jensen said holds a special place in her heart — “Spirit of Carving,” which Jensen said has become a tribute of sorts to group member William Callaghan, an Eagle dancer who died a year and a half ago. “Whenever I hear it, it just really, really always warms my heart and I just always think of him, and I feel like he’s still with us and he’s with us always … it just really kind of takes me somewhere special. He’s always with me when I’m doing that song,” she said. For the album launch Nov. 24, both Ashley and Jensen said attendees can expect a similar performance to the one they did in March, but more refined

music — especially the remixes — and with a few new additions. The positive feedback they received while on the Canada-wide tour has also boosted everyone’s confidence and spirit, Jensen said. “Expect a lot of energy, it’s going to be really, really on fire,” she said. “I think we’re just ready to explode — the creativity and the fire that’s within us with the dance and our song and to lift our people up and to celebrate this accomplishment.” The Deconstruct/Reconstruct album release concert will take place at the Yukon Arts Centre starting at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 24. Tickets are available online at yukontickets.com and are pay-what-you-can with a $5 minimum. The album will be on sale at the Yukon Arts Centre and will also be available on iTunes and Spotify. Contact Jackie Hong at jackie.hong@yukon-news.com

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Second City launches new improv class specifically for teenage girls Maija Kappler Canadian Press

TORONTO omedian Stacey McGunnigle says it’s hard to be confident when you’re a teenage girl. “You’re so concerned about what people think,” she says, recalling how self-conscious and awkward she felt as a teenager. “And I didn’t even have the internet then,” she adds. ”I can only imagine what it’s like now.” McGunnigle’s desire to arm teenage girls with boldness and self-confidence is what led her to develop Empower-Prov, a new improv comedy class at Toronto’s Second City aimed specifically at girls between grades 9 and 12. “I think it’s just putting that tool in the toolbox young and early, about being confident, stepping forward, trusting your instincts, trusting your gut,” she says. McGunnigle, a Second City alumna, says the skills she learned improvising — being quick, resourceful, self-assured — have helped her outside of the comedy world. “Knowing who you are and knowing your voice

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is so crucial, especially with women,” she says. “Walking into a room and knowing your value, and knowing your boundaries, and knowing what’s appropriate and what’s not appropriate.” She says she expects an all-female space will allow students to be more open and collaborative than they might be in a coed class, where in her experience, male voices are often the loudest. “Even in teen classes I’ve taught before, it’s the guys who will say stuff first,” she says. “The girls are … in the back, taking it all in, before saying anything. This course is like, no, be bold. Be brave. And feel like that’s OK.” It’s not just teenagers who are benefiting from classes designed specifically for a female experience. Vancouver comedian Amy Shostak ran a oneday improv workshop for women last year that was so successful it’s coming back as a four-part class at Blind Tiger Comedy. She says there are several reasons why many women are seeking out classes designed specifically for them. In addition to the benefits of building

new skills in a comfortable environment, a women-only class also provides an opportunity to talk about tactics for dealing with uncomfortable situations onstage. “The thing about improv is, it’s in the moment,” Shostak says. ”When I was kind of coming up, there were lots of moments onstage where I would get offstage and feel like: I really wish I could have done something in that moment.” She remembers one instance early in her career when a male improv performer called for a doctor, and when she walked onstage, he said, “Nurse, could you go get the doctor?” She was shocked, and didn’t know what else to do but to go get someone else. “That moment, I always reflect on it and think, what could I have said?” Shostak says. ”I could have said, ‘You don’t know me, I am the doctor.’ Or I could have said, ‘You don’t need a doctor, I’m a nurse, it’s a routine flu shot.’ There are ways that I could have probably held on to that space, but I just didn’t know how.” One of the core princi-

ples in improv is agreeing with someone else’s premise, which can make it hard to set boundaries. But “there are some ways to say yes to an offer and still maintain your dignity,” she says. But she also teaches her students that it’s OK to sometimes just say no. Once, during an improv game where someone from the audience comes onstage and moves the performers around like puppets, an audience member repeatedly tried to push Shostak onto her knees in front of a male performer. “In that moment, I just had to physically resist,” she says. ”I was like: I’m not doing that.” Amanda Scriver, who took a women-only standup class at Toronto’s Comedy Bar this summer, says she sought out a female environment because she wanted a place where she felt comfortable doing something she describes as “new and terrifying.” “Comedy, that is the most vulnerable and terrifying you can get,” she says. ”It’s just you, and some lights, and a microphone, and a stage. And that’s it. Nothing else.”

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Scriver says she felt comfortable in her vulnerability because the class was a supportive environment, both in terms of guidance from instructor Jess Beaulieu and from her classmates. They all worked together to develop their joke-writing skills, and were able to workshop their material with each other. “I feel like oftentimes women are more gentle to one another in offering criticism, but also lending support for one another,” Scriver says. Another benefit of a female space, she says, are the topics they covered in class. “I don’t think that if I was in a coed comedy group I could have opened up about the self-image issues that I have,” she says. Women in the group

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e woke at anchor off Gjoa Haven Sept. 11 — a community of about 1,400 located on the southeast side of King William Island. The community was named by Roald Amundsen when his ship — the Gjoa —spent two winters (1903 and 1904) in the sheltered harbour blocked in by ice before he was able to complete his journey becoming the first through Northwest Passage. It was here he learned from the Netsilik Inuit how to dress in animal skins, travel by dog team and survive in an Arctic environment. This knowledge set him apart from other explorers of the time and was crucial to his success in his later journeys when he was first to the South Pole in 1911 and first to fly to the North Pole in 1926. Canadians pronounce the community name as “Joe Haven” but a Danish passenger on our ship told me Amundsen’s ship is pronounced “Goya” in Norwegian. He thought it quite hysterical that Canadians have turned Goya into Joe. I had no defense to make. Once ashore we were divided into groups and sent off with guides from the community. I didn’t stick with my group for long as my main objective was to see an Amundsen monument at the top of a hill above the harbour. It was a cool, beautiful sunny day as I strolled along the beach and up the hill. I caught site of a few snow buntings and horned larks flitting between snow patches. The Amundsen monument commands a beautiful view of the harbour and I could instantly see why Amundsen chose this spot to overwinter as it is very protected. Later on, the community hosted our ship with drumming, dancing and throat singing followed up with a taste of country food (char and caribou soup). My last stop was the Nattilik Heritage Centre. The outside of the building is impressively adorned with stylized paintings of muskoxen and huge Inuit snow goggles framing the windows. The centre has a nicely displayed collection of archaeological and historic artifacts including

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The Ocean Endeavour floats in Aston Bay on the northwest coast of Somerset Island. a very convincing replica of the ship’s bell recovered from the Erebus in 2015. The actual bell is now in England. A portion of the centre is a gift shop offering an extensive variety of locally produced Inuit art, carvings, clothing, etc. The next day we travelled slowly skirting pack ice along the western shore of Boothia Peninsula in Larsen Sound. At times the ship would change direction to avoid hitting larger pieces of ice and at other times would bump smaller chunks with its reinforced hull sending them spinning away. It was fascinating watching the incredible sizes, shapes and colours of the ice chunks going by. There were also a number of seals and small flocks of eider and long tailed ducks flying around the ice while glaucous gulls and northern fulmars soared around the ship. Adventure Canada had experts on deck to help us identify the wildlife. I was fascinated by the fulmars which look like small gulls with a stiff-winged flight. They have an extra tube on the top of their beaks through which they vio-

lently expel excess salt from their marine diet. Late afternoon we passed the last of the ice and dropped anchor at the entrance to Franklin Strait where we went out in zodiacs to visit Coningham Bay on Boothia Peninsula. The bay is known for being a good place to spot wildlife and it did not disappoint as we saw a female polar bear with a cub, two lone polar bears as well as a large pod of Beluga whales. Later that night we passed the top end of Boothia Peninsula, which is the northernmost point of the North American mainland. Today was the first opportunity we had to explore the High Arctic environment on foot in Aston Bay on the northwest coast of Somerset Island As would become the norm, bear guards and crew went ashore ahead of the passengers. The bear guards would make sure a large area was free of polar bears before taking up watch positions at high points around the perimeter of the area where we would be walking. The staff would position themselves at various locations where

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A person walks along the raised beaches in Aston Bay on the coast of Somerset Island. they found something interesting and we could go to them to learn about plants or archaeological sites or whatever they found in a particular place. I was fascinated by the raised beaches paralleling the curve of the shoreline. These are step-like terraces that make lovely flat walking surfaces for human and beast alike. They are caused

by the earth rebounding (isostatic rebound) when the weight of a glacier melts away. In this case it was the melt of the Laurentide Ice Sheet that covered most of North America during the last ice age. There were other things to see as well, like an archaeological site, an ancient food cache, polar bear tracks and skeletal remains

of a few small whales. This was the first place I was introduced to the amazing Arctic willow which is a very short creeping willow that hugs the ground poking up barely a centimetre or two. Marina McCready is a Whitehorse based freelance writer and photographer. This piece is second in a five-part series.

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Canadian initiative fuelled by Terry Fox’s dream may be only hope for young Camille Bains Canadian Press

VANCOUVER eeing children suffering with cancer when he was being treated himself broke Terry Fox’s heart and inspired his Marathon of Hope. Now, those efforts have fuelled a unique initiative to give kids and young adults across the country a chance to live when there are few, if any, treatment options left. Eight-year-old Marlow Ploughman of Shannonville, Ont., has relapsed four times and is on a new drug thanks to genetic testing involving a project that brings together collaborators from over 30

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pediatric cancer research and funding organizations. The girl was diagnosed at age 2 1/2 with late-stage rhabdomyosarcoma, or cancer of the soft tissue, such as muscle, after a vine-like tumour was found in her calf, said her mother Tanya Boehm. After three rounds of radiation, chemotherapy protocols and at least four clinical trials, there were no therapies left to try as the cancer spread to the girl’s neck and lungs. A program called Terry Fox PROFYLE, short for Precision Oncology for Young People, seemed to be the only hope for Marlow, Boehm said. PROFYLE provides precision treatment by sequencing tumour samples on a molecular level and analyzing the vast amount of information at any of three labs in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal for patients up to age 29, regardless of where in Canada they live. Until now, young cancer patients in rural or remote areas did not always get the testing available, let alone the collaboration of scientists and researchers from across the country to guide treatment. “It presents options and time,” Boehm said. ”We were told with Marlow when the cancer came back the first time that she was going to die. … I think it’s fantastic that finally, families like ours have hope.” Marlow’s oncologist

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Eight-year-old Marlow Ploughman of Shannonville, Ont., pictured with her mother Tanya Boehm, was diagnosed with a muscle cancer at age two and a half. She has relapsed four times and is one of the kids who now has hope because top scientists and research centres have joined forces to sequence and analyze her tumour and provide new treatment. and project leader, Dr. David Malkin of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, said the focus of the five-year project is the approximately 20 per cent of pediatric cancer patients whose disease is considered hard to treat. “Every pediatric centre across the country is part of PROFYLE and several of the adult centres will also be able to enrol their patients into the study. Even in the pilot phase we have had patients from all provinces now enrolled,” Malkin said. About 40 people are participating in the study

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and about half of them have had their tumours sequenced because of the partnership that has so far provided $16.4 million, including $5 million from the Terry Fox Research Institute. “One of the reasons that PROFYLE is so important is that the cancers that occur in young people are inherently different than they are in adults,” said Malkin. “We need to be collecting much, much more information on the sequences of childhood and young adult tumours and personalize it and make

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it more precise so we can work with industry and pharma and develop ways that we can get these drugs for kids,” he said. About 1,900 youth under age 18 are diagnosed with cancer every year in Canada, and about a third of them would be eligible for PROFYLE, he said, adding that only two other programs in the world come close to what PROFYLE offers. “What is unique about PROFYLE is that it’s truly national.” Patrick Sullivan, whose three-year-old son Finn died of rhabdomyosar-

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coma in 2008, has raised over $2 million for the BC Cancer Foundation and is on the executive committee of PROFYLE, for which he has committed another $250,000. He said Finn, who was “introverted with a heavy streak of silly,” would have qualified for PROFYLE but the cost of molecular sequencing and analysis was far too high in 2008. “It not only offers hope for families, which would have been enough for me, it offers a way to integrate this type of approach for kids, adolescents and young adults and for all Canadians,” he said. Dr. Victor Ling, scientific director of the Terry Fox Research Institute in Vancouver, said Fox, who was diagnosed at age 18 and died four years later, would have qualified for PROFYLE. “We did not know how to do DNA sequencing in those days, we did not have the drugs that we have now.” Darryl Fox, Terry’s brother and a senior adviser at the Terry Fox Research Institute, said Terry was passionate about meeting young cancer patients, especially during the Marathon of Hope. “We’re bringing not only children’s hospitals and fundraisers together but in 1980 he united a country. He brought Canadians together for a common cause and we continue to do that and this program is an example of that.”

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Retailers look to woo shoppers from rivals as Amazon grows Anne D’Innocenzio Associated Press

NEW YORK oys and TVs at J.C. Penney, Barbies at Best Buy, kitchen appliances like wine refrigerators at B.J.’s. As the holiday shopping season officially kicks off Thursday, shoppers may find some surprises at their favourite stores. Even as retailers are counting on a lift from a better economy, they’re looking beyond economic data and mapping out ways to pick up sales from other retailers as Amazon expands its reach. That can mean opening earlier than rivals on the holidays or even jumping into new product categories. The fight for market share comes as analysts at Bain say Amazon is expected to take half of the holiday season’s sales growth. And Amazon is the top destination for people to begin holiday shopping, according to a September study by market research firm NPD Group. “The retailers are in survival mode. It’s about stealing each other’s market share,” said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst at NPD. “Ama-

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zon is the Grinch. They’re stealing the growth.” With the jobless rate at a 17-year-low of 4.1 per cent and consumer confidence stronger than a year ago, analysts project healthy sales increases for November and December. The National Retail Federation trade group expects sales for that period to at least match last year’s rise of 3.6 per cent and estimates online spending and other non-store sales will rise 11 per cent to 15 per cent. Amazon is expected to be a big beneficiary as it cements loyalty among its Prime members and moves into new services and private-label merchandise. The company has introduced more than 20 such brands in the past two years in clothing, electronics, groceries and more, says Bain. That leaves stores looking at rivals to see where they can pick up sales. There are extra dollars up for grabs this year, after thousands of store locations have closed and several retailers including Gymboree and Toys R Us filed for bankruptcy protection. Jordan Ascencio, who

has sons aged 1, 7, and 8, plans to bypass Toys R Us on Black Friday after being turned off by what she says are dirty stores and skimpy supplies. The latest problem: Her online order was cancelled following a large-scale coupon glitch. “I am not a fan anymore,” said the resident of Sapulpa, Oklahoma. Instead, she plans to buy toys at J.C. Penney and Target. And with Gymboree shuttering a quarter of its stores, Ascencio is buying more of her children’s clothing at Target, which has launched a number of new private label brands. Target CEO Brian Cornell recently highlighted that up to $60 billion in consumer spending will be up for the taking in the next few years, and said the chain has been picking up market share in such areas as clothing. The Thanksgiving weekend, when stores go all-out to attract shoppers, can be an indication of how well they’ll do through the season. About 69 per cent of Americans, or 164 million people, intend to shop at some point during the five-day peri-

od from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday, according to a survey released by the National Retail Federation. It expects Black Friday to remain the busiest day, with about 115 million people planning to shop then. Stores like Macy’s, Target and Kohl’s are set to open Thursday evening as they try to woo early shoppers. Walmart starts deals in its stores at 6 p.m. J.C. Penney is opening its doors at 2 p.m., an hour earlier than last year and at least three hours ahead of its department store rivals. Some retailers are using the weekend to test new product areas before committing to them year-round: Penney says it will have TVs and consumer electronics like game consoles as doorbusters for Thanksgiving and Black Friday only. Penney has also added year-round toy shops and increased its selection of work pants as an apparent move to grab market share from Sears, after last year going back to selling major appliances. Penney’s Senior Vice-President James Starke called these moves “market share plays.”

Both Walmart and Target have been expanding their exclusive toys offerings. Walmart is throwing parties in its stores including ones where kids can play with new toys. Best Buy created its first toy booklet for the holidays. And in its Black Friday ad, the chain features Barbies among smart TVs and other electronics. Chris Baldwin, CEO of BJ’s Wholesale Club, says it is offering more toys and clothes. In clothing,

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don’t seem to give much warning about what they intend to do. So out of necessity they need to stay vigilant. They don’t seem to use turn signals much. The cabbie told me if he did signal to change lanes the other drivers would then know he was going to and probably wouldn’t let him in. Vehicles including taxis and buses are in worse condition than we are used to. Bald tires, body damage, no lights seemed to be the norm. I didn’t see a lot of speed limit signs. Instead most urban roads have a lot of “topes” or speed bumps.

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n 1952, my Grade 10 civics teacher asked us what we hoped to become as adults. One of the most popular boys answered, “I hope to go into politics.” We were delighted because we knew he wanted to make the world and Canada better, and we admired him for it. Things have changed in half a century. In 1992, my daughter Severn, then 12, created a minor sensation with a speech at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, upbraiding delegates for not protecting the future for children. “You grownups say you love us, but please, make your actions reflect your words,” she said. Back in Canada, CBC Radio host Vicki Gabereau interviewed her. “So Severn, when are you running for politics?”

she asked. My daughter’s answer stunned me: “Oh, is that an insult?” To her generation, running for office was not admired or inspiring. Her response made me realize I was constantly decrying politicians who made grand statements but failed to follow through. To a child, my complaints indicated that politicians are hypocrites. Democracy is far from perfect but it’s better than the alternatives. We must strive to improve. Women were once thought to be incapable of making decisions and were denied the vote. Asian-Canadians and African-Canadians, even those like my parents who were born and raised here, couldn’t vote until 1948. The original peoples of this land didn’t gain the franchise until 1960! Homosexuality was a crime in Canada until 1969. Change can happen in our political and judicial systems, but we have to work for it. When far fewer than half of us fail to vote in federal, provincial and municipal elections, democracy flies out the window. It should be

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largest river on the North Slope, the Colville. As far as he knows, there are no reports of beaver in the Colville. “What stops that beaver from coming down the Nigu?” he said. Beavers are not great walkers, and their feet may not be adapted to cold. Beavers do not avoid winter by hibernating. To survive, they need a store of willow branches for food and water a few feet deep that doesn’t freeze. They mate in deepest winter, January or February. The females have two to four kits from late April to June. Their presence north of arctic treeline since the late 1990s may be a population rebound from the late 1800s, Tape said, when the Hudson Bay Company sold almost three million Far-North beaver pelts to English buyers. But he wonders if beavers were ever present on arctic tundra landscapes. The northern expansion of the American beaver might be a phenomenon people have not yet seen. Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.

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new historical novel arrived on my doorstep recently, sent to me by the author’s publicist, who is headquartered in New Jersey. The title: No Time to Bury Them by Mark C. Eddy (Iguana Books, Toronto). Mark Eddy was born in Newfoundland but has lived in metropolitan Toronto for the last 14 years. This is his second effort, the first being a work of historical non-fiction titled The Recent History of Terrorism in Canada, 1963-2013. According to material sent out by the publicist, “For too long, Canadians have been hesitant to share and celebrate their history. In 2017, the nation marked its 150th birthday, and there is plenty to be proud of on this monumental occasion. With his new work of historical fiction, No Time To Bury Them, Canadian author and history buff Mark C. Eddy is hoping to engage his fellow Canadians in some of the more exciting and undiscovered aspects of Canada’s past.” I am sorry to disappoint you, but you won’t get a history lesson from reading this book. The blurb accompanying the book explains more: “The Yukon 1907: North America’s last untamed frontier. Dawson City has reached its turning point. The citizens, and the people they count on to protect them, now live under the brutal control of Eric Morgan, a violent gang leader. Morgan’s power has only grown since the days of the Klondike Gold Rush, and he now prepares for his greatest score yet.” “Dawson City’s salvation rests with Inspector Richard Carol, who will lead a team of Mounties to liberate the city. But can he trust his own people? And with so many of his own battles to fight, can Richard trust himself? “In No Time to Bury Them,” the blurb continues, “author Mark C. Eddy provides a gripping narrative depicting the brutal realities of this exceptional time in Canadian history.” “Everybody knows

about the American Wild West, but the Yukon in the days around the Gold Rush, was Canada’s Wild West. For Canadians, it was our time and place of untamed frontiers, lawlessness, bigger than life heroes, and brave women and men that faced challenges unseen in today’s Canada.” It goes farther by claiming that the novel explores the bravery of the early Mounties, and creates thrilling scenes depicting historically accurate shoot-outs. The book received Five-star rating from all three reviews when I checked Amazon Books. “You can’t put it down,” said one; “amazing job,” said another; “I loved it,” said the third. They all seemed ecstatic about the history as portrayed in the novel. “This delves into its history and cements respect for the role they played in the development of the frontier areas of the country,” said one. “It was so informative of life back in the early 1900s,” reported another. Hogwash, I say. I won’t quibble with the author’s skill as a writer; there are obviously some readers who really liked Eddy’s work. The trouble with this novel is that it does not portray accurately the history of the Yukon. Eddy starts the narrative at a non-existent Fort MacCammon. “The biggest break from historical fact (apart from the characters) is Fort MacCammon and the Little Fox River,” he states in the author’s note at the end of the book. But he is wrong there. I found little in this historical novel that reflected historical reality, and I am disappointed that any reader might think that they are getting a history lesson as well as a good read. Eddy injects many of

the clichés of the Wild West into this story: the untamed wilderness, the gunfights and ambushes, the violent gang-leader and the solitary figure who defeats the villain in the land of the midnight sun. With the great golden orb just breaking the horizon, this novel, similar to the famous movie western, could easily have been titled Low Noon. Compared to the lawlessness of the Wild West and neighbouring Alaska, the Yukon was, if anything, over-policed. From the summer of 1898 to the summer of the following year, when the Gold Rush was at its peak, not one murder was committed in Dawson City. Chopping wood on Sunday was a serious offence - but murder? Many of the Yukoners who watched the Klondike television mini-series, produced by Ridley Scott a few years ago, and scoffed at the patent mischaracterization of the North, will undoubtedly take offence with this book for the same reason. The author conveys the impression — to me at least — that he has not visited the scene of this novel, or he would have known that those leaving the Klondike generally went up river, not down river. The Dawson of 1907, in this book, has blossomed into a “sprawling metropolis of thirty thousand,” when, in fact, the population, which had only ever reached half that much at its peak, was slowly declining. Dawson City was clearly a town on the wane a decade after the gold rush. To be fair, he was correct that by 1907, the Mounted police were now “Royal,” and he acknowledges the role of “special constables,” but doesn’t tip the scales toward authenticity, in my view. I had the same difficulty with the novel

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who provided her with technical and historical assistance, but concludes with the disclaimer that “Any possible historical accuracy in this book is to the credit of the abovenamed people.… All errors, embellishments and downright lies are my own.” Her honesty on that point was refreshing! It is not so much the misrepresentation of Northern history in Eddy’s book that I find offensive (after all, it is a work of fiction), but rather the false impression it creates of the Yukon’s history in the minds of the readers. Writers like Robert Service, Jack London, Pierre Berton and Dick North did a great job of portraying our territory because they lived here. It is time we look to our Northern authors to craft the narrative of our territory. After all, there is plenty of talent here to work with. The Floor of Heaven, by Howard Blum, which was touted as a well-researched “true tale of the last frontier.” But it wasn’t, as I discovered while struggling to read it. I turned to another novelization of the gold rush: Gold Camp Vampire, a “high-spirited fantasy adventure, written by award-winning fantasy writer Elizabeth Scarborough. The premise of a vampire visiting the Klondike is a novel concept — especially with those long hours of darkness. Scarborough had been

resident in Alaska for some time while developing the story, and spent time in Dawson City doing her research. In her acknowledgements, she cites a number of people

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he Hockey Yukon Peewee Mustangs surprised themselves when they moved up a tier and easily made it to the finals during a tournament in Victoria, B.C. this month. Head coach Derek Johnstone said coaching staff decided to play a tier two tournament after a great showing during an October tournament in Squamish, B.C. “In that tournament we played tier three and went undefeated until the final where we played Whistler and lost in a shootout,” said Johnstone. “Though we were pretty strong in that tournament. We were probably the best team there, we just never got the outcome we wanted in the final.” The U-13 Mustangs travelled to Victoria Nov. 10-12 to play eight teams from across British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and Portland, Oregon. The team got off to a good start, beating B.C’s Kerry Park 3-2 Nov. 10. They beat Portland 12-4 the following day, and then lost to Yellowknife 7-4. “Yellowknife is typically pretty strong and they

showed it,” said Johnstone of the game. After beating Vancouver in an exciting semi-final game on Sunday morning (the Mustangs came back from a 2-0 deficit to win 5-2), the team played Yellowknife later that day in the finals. There, they lost 4-0. “It was really close,” said Johnstone. “Yellowknife was strong and fast and it was pretty tiring … we gotta learn to save some energy for Sunday or learn how to play back-to-back games.” He said the Mustangs are a young pewee team, with lots of players born in 2006, so they’re still learning. Johnstone said goalies Finn Ritchie and Ben Power, who split goaltending, did an excellent job in net, but that the team as a whole needs to work on defending the crease. One thing Johnstone was pleased with the way the players worked as a team, especially when it came to puck support. He was also happy to note the Mustangs were among the top teams in terms of goals scored, thanks, in part, to Gavin McKenna. McKenna is a year younger than most kids on the team. He typically plays atom, but came up for the tournament.

“We look to him to score goals and that’s what he did,” said Johnstone. McKenna had five goals and three assists over the five games, placing him fourth in the tournament in terms of goal performance. Though the Mustangs will go back to playing tier three at a February tournament in Prince George, B.C. where there’s strong competition, Johnstone said holding their own in a tier two tournament was a legitimizing experience for the team. And, though they lost both games to Yellowknife, he said it was a huge improvement over previous years, when losses have been along the lines of 20-5. “It’s nice to see that gap has closed and we’re starting to produce a little bit more. It’s nice to see that we can play with Yellowknife like this,” said Johnstone. The team would have had another chance in December to try for a win against Yellowknife, but the Whitehorse tournament they had planned to host was cancelled after a number of B.C. teams couldn’t make the trip. Instead, they’ll get their practice in with the local U-15 Arctic Winter

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Jonny Timmons of the Yukon Peewee Mustangs races with the puck during the annual tier two tournement in Victoria Nov. 10-12. Games team Saturday December 25 at 3 p.m. at the Canada Games Centre’s Northwestel rink. “It’s quite a jump to play them, but up here, that’s what you’ve got to do to get the competition.” The game is preparation for the Prince George games and for provincials in March. “Hopefully we can adjust a few things and finish a little bit better there,” he said. Contact the Yukon News at editor@yukon-news.com

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Jase Johnstone tries to get by a Kerry Park Islander player during a tier two tournement game Nov. 10-12

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Feb 19/Mar 20

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Mar 21/Apr 20

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May 22/Jun 21

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Jun 22/Jul 22

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Honesty is the best policy, Cancer. So have that frank conversation with someone even if full disclosure can be a bit uncomfortable. Afterward, you’ll be glad you did.

Jul 23/Aug 23

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Aug 24/Sept 22

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19. Sportscaster Patrick 21. What day it is 24. Petrels with saw-toothed bills 25. Bumps in the road 26. Stars 27. Riding horses 31. Swamp plant 32. Type of bear 34. Style of cuisine 35. Home of the Flyers 36. Serious-mindedness 40. Velvet Underground album 41. Highly important

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Oct 24/Nov 22

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Nov 23/Dec 21

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Virgo, stay open to external influences and you may be able to infer some things about the future that can guide you in the days ahead. It’s good to stay ahead of the curve.

You have basic needs that have to be met, and a strong network of friends and coworkers can get you through any rough patch, Sagittarius.

SAGITTARIUS Dec 22/Jan 20

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