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no formal notification of a forum had been given, and the chiefs had gathered independently for a separate meeting. In the legislature Wednesday, Pasloski said that the forum was intended to be a place to celebrate co-operation, not work towards it. “The forum was not intended to be a hall of debate. Certainly constructive debate is a component of forum discussions, as it is a component of most government-to-government discussions. But the forum was never intended to be a venue for parties to air their grievances against one another. It was intended to be a venue in which to celebrate our mutual successes, move forward our shared opportunities and agree on shared priorities. That is what the Yukon Forum is.” He listed, at length, work that continues in other areas of government in co-operation with First Nations. Pasloski also criticized the motion for failing to acknowledge that it is not up to the government to unilaterally set a date for the forum. Accordingly, he proposed an amendment to the motion so that it would instead urge the government to work with First Nations to plan for the next forum. Despite the fact that no member of the assembly took strong issue with the amendment, debate grew increasingly heated. Speaker David Laxton called

the heckling in the room “minor” when Yukon Party MLA Mike Nixon became distracted by it. “If it draws your attention, that’s unfortunate, but I would ask you to speak to me and ignore the heckling,” said Laxton. “Imagine the difficulty you would have if you were in the House of Commons with 308 people constantly talking and heckling.” But only minutes later, Laxton felt the heckling became disruptive enough to intervene. “There is quite an amount of heckling going on, on both sides. The heckling is not part of the discussion or the debate at hand. It doesn’t help. It doesn’t lead to anything positive on both sides of the House.” When a member threw a pen and gestured in Laxton’s direction, he had quite enough. “Throwing your pen and gesturing like that when I’m in the middle of making a statement … I take offence to that. That’s directed at me personally. Please have your seat. … I’m going to caution everybody right now. My foot is sore. I’m irritated. The actions of the members in this assembly are at an all-time low right now with this debate and there is no need for it. Choose your words carefully. Think before you speak.” Debate adjourned at 5:30 p.m., before a vote could be called on the motion. Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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mately two hours in total.” The Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society at the time called the aniel Morris wants to be attack “a horrific act of domestic chief of the Liard First Naviolence.” tion again, but he may seem like a At his trial, Morris pleaded long shot. guilty to assaulting his wife, as Morris was chief once before, well as uttering death threats and but he was removed from office forcible confinement. He was in disgrace in 2003 following a sentenced to two years probation conviction for brutally assaultfor his crimes. ing his then-estranged wife and Earlier this month he circuthreatening another man with a lated an apology letter in Watson loaded rifle. Lake. The News made repeated at“I admit and do blame myself tempts to reach Morris for over a for hurting my family. I do blame week, but he did not respond to myself for hurting my people and requests for comment. the anger I caused in our comAfter returning home one munity. I regret my unfair actions spring evening in 2003, Morris and my unfair behaviour,” the discovered that his wife was miss- letter reads. ing. According to court records, It goes on to say that Morris Morris grabbed his .30-30 rifle has taken an anger management and four live shells, climbed into program and counseling, and that his truck and headed to Lower his family is back together again. Post, B.C., to look for her. But that apology has little He found her there in a car meaning in the eyes of the First with another man whom court Nation’s current chief. records did not identify. Morris “He’s apologizing for what he cocked the rifle and threatened to did to his wife in 2003 and said kill the man with it, court records he’s taken anger management state. classes, but I know that the last He then forced the man from time that he ran, in 2010, and lost, the vehicle and ordered his wife to he came up to me and threatened drive back towards Watson Lake. me and I had to get a peace bond As the other man fled, he heard against him,” said Liard McMorris yell, “I’m going to kill you” Millan. at his wife, court records said. After the last election, there Once on the road, Morris folwas a push to have the LFN genlowed his wife in his pickup until eral assembly consider changing they reached a gravel pit near the the election rules to prevent conentrance to Lower Post. Morvicted criminals from running for ris hauled his wife from the car, office. But the proposal was never marched her into a nearby sand followed up, McMillan said. pit and began to beat her. “We should have done it, but “She pleaded with him to stop we never did. I have to take the and at one point agreed to have blame for that. It’s just somesexual intercourse with him if he thing that our council never did,” would stop beating her,” court McMillan said. He did point out records said. “After the sexual that while Morris was facing the intercourse, the respondent (Mor- criminal charges before his conris) continued to assault her. The viction, the LFN government paid assault continued for approxihis legal expenses. McMillan is News Reporter

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Former Liard First Nation chief Daniel Morris, seen here in 2003, is running for chief again, despite his criminal history.

not seeking re-election as chief. In an unrelated matter, Morris is also accused by the First Nation of having taken nearly $250,000 in inappropriate loans from the LFN government while he was chief. McMillan tried to get the RCMP and Aboriginal Affairs – which funds a significant portion of the First Nation’s budget – to investigate the loans. McMillan personally supplied the RCMP with seven bankers’ boxes full of documents that he says back up the allegations, and the police

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wound up seizing dozens more. The First Nation hired FJD & Company to conduct a forensic review of the governments books. That report alleges that Morris took $150,000 in improper loans, and also signed himself $36,000 in cheques in a single day. The FJD & Company report also said that Morris received more than $67,000 in reimbursement of income taxes withheld from his salary. Another auditing firm, KPMG, later determined these repayments were part of a broader arrangement that saw

more than $1.5 million set aside for Revenue Canada instead of being disbursed to band members. But he was never charged with anything. Aboriginal affairs hired financial firm KPMG forensic to review the FJD report. KPMG confirmed FJD’s findings that Morris took the money, but found there was no way to prove that it was Aboriginal Affairs money he took because money from a variety of sources all went into the same bank account. In the end, Aboriginal Affairs closed the file without ordering a full forensic audit. In his apology letter, Morris said he never stole any money, but was in fact made the scapegoat for other councillors’ unethical financial behaviour. “I did not steal or take any money or funding from the Liard First Nation office. When I was chief, our government at that time helped out members. We gave out loans to members … some paid up their loans and some is still outstanding, and I took the rap for that,” the letter reads. His letter doesn’t mention anyone else by name, or explain any of the details of the KPMG report, and it claims that Aboriginal Affairs exonerated him because he wasn’t charged with fraud. The whole thing rings false for McMillan. “He’s basically denied doing anything wrong with the money that he took. He’s saying Indian Affairs cleared his name. They didn’t clear his name. They simply looked for and found a loophole so they could wash their hands of it and avoid major embarrassment in Ottawa,” he said. Advance polls for the election were held on Dec. 2. The final poll will be on Dec. 16. Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

“This government has a record of burying controversial items by announcing them on a Friday of a value and value to the community long weekend or during a holiday Construction is scheduled to Conrad. The potential campThe Yukon government reperiod. Mr. Speaker, is it this govof Ross River of the Ross River grounds at Conrad and Atlin do begin this spring. sponded to a petition this week ernment’s intention to announce suspension bridge.” not have to be mutually exclu(Jacqueline Ronson) asking for the government to its own unilateral land use plan The government won’t make sive. There is certainly a need for develop a campground at the for the Peel watershed during the any decisions until it gets the multiple new campgrounds in the Government waits Conrad historic site near Carcross southern Yukon. Yukoners and holiday period?” asked NDP Opsecond opinion, he said. for second opinion instead of the planned location at visitors alike would benefit greatly position MLA Kate White in the “Once that report has been Atlin Lake. on Ross River bridge received and given consideration legislature Tuesday. by the development of both of The proposed Atlin Lake by department staff, we will be these campgrounds.” “What I’ll commit to is ancampground has come under sharing that with the community nouncing the final Peel waterThe Yukon Environmental The government is waiting to controversy as the local Taku of Ross River, including the Ross and Socio-economic Assessment shed plan when it is ready,” said hear if the Ross River bridge can River Tlingit First Nation says it River First Nation, prior to makBoard recently recommended that be salvaged. Resource Minister Scott Kent. must have a land claims agreethe Atlin Lake campground go The government is in a final An engineering report released ing a decision about what steps to ment before it can accept more take with regard to this bridge.” ahead under certain mitigating round of consultation with afearlier this year asserted that the development on its traditional (Jacqueline Ronson) conditions. fected First Nations. Those talks footbridge is beyond saving, and territory. The government is currently were initially scheduled to wrap must be demolished. reviewing the recommendations, The possibility for collaboratup in March. Under pressure from local resiGovernment mum and will soon issue a decision ing on a campground at Conrad Discussions appear to be at dents, the government has hired on Peel plan status is outlined in the government’s fi- document. a stalemate, with First Nations an engineer to review that report “The Yukon government will nal agreement with the Carcross/ threatening legal action if the and give an independent opinion. take the proposed mitigations Tagish First Nation. With less than a month before Yukon government pushes ahead Community Services Minister suggested by YESAB into account Brad Cathers responded this week the staking ban for the Peel waEnvironment Minister Currie with its own plans, and the govand also consider any additional Dixon said both campgrounds ernment unwilling to accept the to a petition calling for the bridge tershed expires, the government First Nations input that is provid- to be saved. won’t say how work on the region’s planning commission’s recommay be eventually developed. land use plan is progressing. “We are committed to working ed in the context of the proposed mended plan. “We thank the Yukoners who It also won’t say if the prohibicollaboratively with the Carcross/ mitigations identified by YESAB December 19 will be the last have expressed their interest in as we prepare our decision docu- this bridge and who have extion on staking will be extended day of the fall legislative sitting. Tagish First Nation if we do go ment,” said Dixon. pressed their views of the heritage past December 31. (Jacqueline Ronson) down the road of developing

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onservative backbench MP Mike Chong’s proposed socalled Reform Act bill is stirring quite the debate in Ottawa. If passed, the bill private members bill would rebalance the internal power of a political party, giving more weight to MPs and at the expense of the party executive. It also lays out tools for calling a leadership review and removing a party leader. While Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his cabinet have yet to comment formally about the bill, many MPs are already giving it a vigorous debate. Yukon’s MP Ryan Leef said while he hasn’t had a chance to read the entire four-page document, he supports the spirit and intent of the bill. Some of the details, however, worry him. “The preamble of the bill is actually an interesting statement and one that I don’t think anyone would disagree with,” Leef said. “But I haven’t made any sort of concrete decision about whether it’s something I would support.” Leef’s biggest beef is with the threshold of MPs needed to call a leadership review. The bill says if 15 per cent of a caucus group is unhappy with a party leader, they can call a review. That would then lead to a vote by the entire caucus, so the dissenting 15 per cent can’t actually force a leader out on their own, but even the perception of internal strife caused by a review could damage a ursd

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Paramedic program flatlines Ashley Joannou News Reporter

Yukon College program, trumpeted as an opportunity for paramedics to be trained locally, has been cancelled. Days before it was scheduled to begin, students registered in the Primary Care Paramedic certificate program were told it wasn’t going to happen. People’s lives were organized with the expectation of starting class, said would-be student Fabienne Brulhart. “You undergo a very lengthy process in order to get here and basically the Friday before, the program gets cancelled. That’s where I feel the biggest frustration,” she said. The Primary Care Paramedic certificate is a joint program between the Justice Institute of British Columbia and the college. It was scheduled to start this Monday. The cost of the five-month course, which includes both an in-class and online portion, was to be covered by the students’ tuition of $11,500 each, explained Dan Anton, the college’s chair of continuing education. When two of nine students dropped out at the last minute and there was no wait-list to draw on, the program was not financially viable, he said. “We needed nine to run this. Within the last two weeks one of the students did not follow through on their needing a prerequisite, and then immediately following that last week the final individual was saying their plans had changed.” Meanwhile Brulhart was unaware of the precarious position her program was in and spent time preparing. She took the emergency medi-

ing on other resources to pay for it,” he said. “There was no budget allocation for this program. We had modelled it on student tuition covering the cost of production.” When the program was first announced, it was described as a chance for students from Outside to learn in the Yukon and avoid long waitlists that exist from programs in other jurisdictions. That never happened. “We had only a couple of inquiries from the South. Our tuition is significantly higher up here when measured against the tuition in B.C. The further south you go the less expensive it gets. They have larger classes, upwards of 30 people,” Anton said. “When people look north they couldn’t balance our tuition fees with their options in the south that just seems like a barrier.” Brulhart said she’s seen tuition in British Columbia for $4,100. Ian Stewart/Yukon News Anton said he feels horrible for Fabienne Brulhart is one of several Primary Care Paramedic students left hanging by Yukon what has happened and is workCollege’s last-minute decision to cancel the program. ing with the students left in the aftermath. With all the work they’ve done, students. cal responder course – an 80-hour the program. the students would be pre-qualiWhile much of that money “What happens now is that prerequisite required for the fied to apply for the same prowas spent on start-up costs and program – and put her children in they tried to accommodate two gram run out of British Columbia equipment, the program is still an or three people that probably daycare. expensive one to run, Anton said. in a few weeks. weren’t fully committed and the Students took a written test “The JIBC is well aware of our This year’s course received no other people have to live with the and were interviewed by a panel. circumstances up here, they know outside funding and was supposed consequences,” she said. Brulhart also completed a the individuals. I have expressed Anton said the two people who to be covered only by tuition. physical, bought a uniform and to each student that if they would It was scheduled to be delivered left the program had been condibooks, and got all the required like to contact our contact there, tionally accepted with the under- by a local instructor trained by the immunizations. She left her job. they will ensure that they are in standing they would complete any justice institute. “For me, I’m a mom of two the loop for the seat assignments. After that instructor backed kids. This took me one and a half requirements before class started. This isn’t a full stop with their out this summer, the college “In an effort to accommodate years to make sure that I had all ability to obtain this training. It is would have been forced to spend all the candidates, we wanted to my pieces of the puzzle in place. a full stop with it to run in White$104,000 to fly in a trained one Once you have a more set life it’s move forward,” he said. horse at this time.” When the program was run for from B.C., Anton said. not just up and go,” she said. Anton said he will also be Without nine students there the first time last year, the college Some students have already reviewing the program to decide just wasn’t enough money. met with Anton to express their received $276,000 from the terwhat happens next and if any ritorial government’s Community “We wouldn’t even come close changes can be made to increase concerns. Other meetings are to covering the direct cost for the interest to create a pool of stuDevelopment Fund and $40,000 planned for next week. from the education program com- JI (justice institute) which would Brulhart said she feels like she dents on a wait-list. mean the college is somehow subwas “basically babysitting” people mittee of the Volunteer AmbuContact Ashley Joannou at sidizing the delivery of this, drawwho weren’t committed to taking lance Society plus tuition from ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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he Yukon government fended off more questions about the F.H. Collins reconstruction project in the legislature this week, though not all of them were well researched. The NDP peppered Education Minister Elaine Taylor and Public Works Minister Wade Istchenko with concerns that the new school is too small, and that the government will end up paying too much for it. “Ten years and waiting,” said the NDP’s education critic, Jim Tredger. “The school we are buying off the shelf from Alberta is 2,500 square metres smaller than the previously tendered design. There are increasing concerns that Yukon Party’s latest redesign of the latest redesign of F.H. Collins will be inadequate to meet the curriculum and programming needs of students at F.H. Collins.” The new school design is borrowed from Mother Margaret Mary Catholic High School in Terwilliger, Alberta. Right now there are only about 430 students at the Alberta school, and 629 students enrolled at the current F.H. Collins, which Tredger said is proof that the government hasn’t planned well. “We are now talking students – not sardines. There is a reason Mother Margaret Mary school has 430 students … will this minister tell this House how a school that is modeled for 430 students will meet the needs of over 700 Yukon students and meet the education requirements of the 21st century?” Tredger asked. But Tredger is wrong, as Education Minister Elaine Taylor pointed out.

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The Yukon government continues to face questions about its handling of the new F.H. Collins Secondary School project. The new school was originally slated to open this fall.

Mother Margret Mary is designed for 750 students. It was built as part of a four-school expansion, not as a replacement for an existing building, according to the Alberta Department of Education. It was finished in 2012 and only has 450 students because it hasn’t reached its capacity yet. The new F.H. Collins design also has a capacity of 750 students. According to the Yukon Education Department, once the new school is finished, Whitehorse will have a recommended high school student capacity of 2,308 at F.H. Collins, Vanier Catholic and Porter Creek secondary schools. That’s still 758 spaces more than Whitehorse’s current student population. In 2009, as part of the planning process for the new F.H. Collins, the department modelled the expected student growth as far out as 2020. When checked against its prediction for 2013, the model was only off by nine students. The NDP also questioned the government’s budgeting prac-

tices for the new school. In the spring, the government deep-sixed the original, Yukon-designed version of F.H. Collins after failing to include three major components in its approved budget. When bids, which included those components, came back over the management board-approved $38.6-million budget, the government decided to import the Alberta design instead. The new design is an entirely different, much simpler school. It was built in 2012 in Alberta for $21 million. But as Premier Darrell Pasloski explained in the legislature, while planning for the Yukon version to be built here, the government chose not to re-evaluate the budget, and left it at $38.6 million. “This is really quite amazing,” said NDP Leader Liz Hanson. “The premier is standing here before this House – before the public and before the voters – and saying that, yes, spending the same amount of money – $38.6 million – for an

off-the-shelf design and smaller school from Alberta is fiscally responsible.” The NDP’s Louis Moorcroft accused the government of failing even to acquire a professional estimate for the new school’s cost. No one from the government side of the House disputed the point. Instead, Public Works Minister Wade Istchenko accused Moorcroft of ignorance in government procedure. “The member opposite is unable to distinguish and grasp how government functions. The contract has been put out – or tenderized to it. It’s the responsibility of the department officials with the expertise in those areas to make sure that this comes across,” Istchenko said. Public Works spokeswoman Kendra Black explained that, unlike the original design, the government didn’t get separate professional estimates done. Instead, the project costs were evaluated by Barr Ryder Architects as part of its $900,000 contract as the bridging consultant on the project. “Barr Ryder supplied the department with an order-ofmagnitude cost estimate that is within the current estimated budget,” Black said, adding that the government hopes competitive bidding from contractors will keep the price close to the estimate. Order-of-magnitude estimates are comparative, she said, based on the consultants’ own experience with similar projects, as well as current pricing. Black would not say how close Barr Ryder’s estimate was to the $38.6-million mark for fear of compromising the tendering process. Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

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atrick Rouble, former Yukon Party minister for Energy, Mines and Resources, is the newest member of the Yukon Land Use Planning Council. He was appointed by the federal government in September, and made chair last month by the council’s other two members. Interim Liberal Leader Sandy Silver says the appointment is illadvised, given Rouble’s documented opposition to the Peel planning commission’s recommended plan for the watershed. “Mr. Rouble’s influence is one of the reasons we are in the mess in the Peel in the first place and I therefore cannot support this appointment,” wrote Silver in an open letter. “I would urge the government of Yukon to ask their federal colleagues to rescind the appointment.” Affected First Nations as well as Liberal and NDP parties have rallied in support of the planning commission’s final recommended plan, released in 2011, which would see 80 per cent of the watershed withdrawn from development, including roads. But the Yukon Party government is intent on changing the plan so that development is not ruled out, but rather actively managed on a case-by-case basis. New concepts released last year would see between 23 and 42 per cent of the watershed withdrawn from staking. Road

Yukon MP Ryan Leef stands up for Santa In an amusing spat over Arctic sovereignty rhetoric on Thursday, Yukon MP Ryan Leef criticized Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau for not caring enough about Canada’s Arctic borders. “Unfortunately, the Liberal

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Former Yukon Party minister Patrick Rouble now chairs the Yukon Land Use Planning Council.

access would not be ruled out anywhere in the watershed. As a result of this disagreement, the plan is currently in limbo. The government is in its final consultation with affected First Nations, with little progress to report. Those consultations were originally scheduled to end in March of this year. Now, the government won’t say when those talks will wrap up, and

have and all of the good work being done, that they’re making the best decisions that they believe possible.” The council’s former chair, Ian Robertson, wrote a letter criticizing the government’s handling of the Peel plan before he left the office. “The council believes that the regional land use planning program is in trouble,” wrote Robertson in April.

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“A number of negative precedents may have been set that undermine the trust and public confidence required to sustain an effective land use planning program.” Rouble said he looks forward to meeting with Robertson and discussing his ideas and concerns. The land use planning council’s role is primarily one of administration and co-ordination, he said. His background in business administration and experience working with First Nations make him well-suited for the role, said Rouble. Several First Nation chiefs have recently spoken out about the lack of progress on land use planning in the territory, first mandated by the Umbrella Final Agreement in 1990. Only the North Yukon region has a finalized land use plan to date. Rouble said he is hopeful that the process will be improved and progress will be made. “I’m eternally optimistic about this. That’s the reason why I got involved in community leadership in my community, and that’s the reason I got involved in this board. It’s a very important issue for the territory, it’s one of those things where I think everyone will agree that this all would have been better if it had been done 20 years ago. I don’t want to be sitting in a chair similar to this 20 years from now saying, ‘Boy, I wish they had done that 20 years ago.’”

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ukon MP Ryan Leef has a chance to help repair our damaged political system. But he needs some prodding in order to do it. The opportunity arises from a private member’s bill tabled this week by Michael Chong, one of Leef ’s fellow Conservative backbenchers. Dubbed the Reform Act, the draft law aims to empower MPs and somewhat weaken party leaders. It could be a real game changer. The bill would deprive party leaders of one powerful weapon they wield to keep their MPs in line – a veto over who receives the party nomination in each riding. Approval of nominations would instead revert back to individual riding associations. The bill would also codify the rules in which a party caucus may expel and re-admit members, or give their party leader the boot. All these measures could be triggered by a petition signed by 15 per cent of caucus, followed by majority consent during a secret-ballot vote. Chong insists his bill is not an effort to depose Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and to diffuse any such interpretation, it would not take effect until after the next election. The aim of the bill, instead, is to restore what Chong sees as the proper workings of a Westminster parliamentary system such as our own. He points to other Westminster democracies, such as Britain, where MPs currently wield such powers. There, prime ministers fear the real possibility of an uprising by their own backbench, and government MPs outside of cabinet aren’t afraid ask real questions of ministers in Parliament – as opposed to the canned schlock rehearsed by backbenchers like Leef. The downfall of Leef ’s

predecessor, the Liberals’ Larry Bagnell, may well have played out very differently under this proposed set of rules. After voting against his party’s long-gun registry on several occasions, Bagnell eventually joined the pack, after being told that doing otherwise would result in his expulsion from caucus. Many Yukoners later cited Bagnell’s propping up of the gun registry as why they abandoned supporting him. These new rules could also conceivably allow Leef to open his mouth without first consulting the Prime Minister’s Office – a request he’s presumably still waiting to hear back on for this matter, as his position remains unclear for now. In fairness to Leef, some thoughtful objections to Chong’s bill have been raised. It’s inconsistent to have party leaders picked by the membership (or in the case of the Liberals, anyone who chooses to cast a vote) but expelled by caucus. The threshold to trigger a leadership vote amounts to just a handful of MPs for small parties, like the much-diminished Liberals, creating the potential for undesirable turmoil. And parties could be vulnerable to pressure groups hijacking weak riding associations. It’s also been noted that a majority of a party’s MPs are already empowered by parliamentary convention to oust an unwanted leader, should they choose. If our MPs are disappointing in their general spinelessness, the real solution is for the public to communicate that we expect our politicians to grow some spines. But, given the culture of conformity within our major federal parties today, it looks like a legislative nudge may be needed for this to happen. Leef, dutifully reading the Publisher

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LETTERS Rein in our PM Open letter to MP Ryan Leef: Please support Conservative MP Michael Chong’s private member’s bill that would bring the prime minister and party leaders’ roles back to where it ought to be. The prime minister should just be first amongst equals, not have chief executive power that Mr. Harper and his PMO have right now. This authoritative regime we have in place right now is resulting in massive omnibus bills that have endangered our environment, overwhelmed our criminal justice system and created a sense of entitlement that is destroying our international reputation. The subsidies to the oil and gas industries keep flowing and there are massive cutbacks in science, environment, heritage, arts, renewable energy, health care, parks,

transportation safety… I could go on and on. Now we see this blind ambition manifesting in corruption associated with the Senate, electoral fraud, RCMP investigations getting closer and closer to the leader of your party, and underfunded inspectors in many crucial sectors, such as transportation, habitat protection, food safety, and our crumbling infrastructure. In the Yukon context that would free you up to do your job and freely represent all Yukon constituents, something you promised over and over in the last election and since, but have rarely been able to deliver on. This private member’s bill isn’t the whole answer but it is a good start. Sally Wright Kluane Lake

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Set my people free white people in prison than in 2003, even though 2,100 more Canadians are incarcerated. by AL POPE The numbers look even better if you’re an educated, well-paid white man in good mental health. Nearly half of today’s prisoners have accessed mental health services, and 80 per cent have substance abuse issues. The average prisoner has a Grade 8 education. The number of women in here’s great news for white prison has increased by 40 per Canadians this week. Corcent in five years. The numrectional Investigator of Cana- ber of aboriginal women has da Howard Sapers released his increased by more than 80 annual report on Tuesday, and per cent in 10 years. Of those it reveals that despite the govincarcerated women, 85 per ernment’s get-tough-on-crime cent have been the victims of agenda, the prison system is physical abuse and 68 per cent locking up fewer Caucasians have been sexually assaulted. than it did 10 years ago. Black people make up nine In the past decade, while per cent of the prison populaConservative policies have tion, though only three per cent swelled prison populations, the of Canadians are black. For proportion of prisoners who aboriginal people, the numbers share Justice Minister Peter are even more striking: 21 per Mackay’s skin tone has dropped cent of prisoners, but only 4.3 by 13 per cent. While whites per cent of the population. As make up about 85 per cent Sapers reports, “if not for these of the general population, we subgroups, the offender popurepresent only 61 per cent of lation growth rate would have prisoners. In absolute numbers, flatlined some time ago.” there are three per cent fewer

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Sapers suggests that these figures, rather than being good news for the dominant culture, indicate a problem in the system. “Beyond rising inmate counts and costs, Canadians should be interested in who is ending up behind bars. Questions about whom we incarcerate, for how long and why are important public policy issues,” he says. But the Conservative government has no interest in black or aboriginal people. According to Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney, “The only minority I would say we are interested in are the criminals.” Can you guess what colour Blaney is? It’s always good to be free, but the white middle class have particular reason to celebrate their un-incarcerated state because, as Sapers outlines in his report, “To make sure that inmates are not ‘coddled’ has meant making prisons more austere, more crowded, more unsafe and ultimately less effective.” Among the growing dangers faced by prisoners he lists “increases in assaults, in use of force, in lockdowns, in

gang membership, in self-harm incidents, in placement in segregation.” While taking TVs out of prisons, reducing yard time, double-bunking inmates in single cells, cutting pay for prison work, and making inmates pay for phone calls, those fabulous money-managers in the government have managed to increase the correctional budget by 40 per cent, or $2.6 billion in five years. This is a remarkable achievement, particularly in light of the fact that crime rates had been dropping for years before the Harper government ever came to power. Sapers says, “crowding, too much time spent in cells; lack of contact with the outside world, lack of program capacity, the paucity of meaningful prison work or vocational skills training and polarization between inmates and custodial staff ” are dragging the system back 40 years, to a time of deadly prison riots. Not to worry, the purchase of pepper spray has not been affected by budget cuts. If you are one of the un-

fortunate white people who does end up in prison, take heart. According to Sapers, “(Blacks and aboriginals) are over-represented in maximum security institutions and segregation placements. They are more likely to be subject to use of force interventions and incur a disproportionate number of institutional disciplinary charges. They are released later in their sentences and less likely to be granted day or full parole.” According to Sapers, higher rates of incarceration, longer sentences, and tougher prison conditions do nothing to lower crime rates or increase public safety. In fact, they make matters worse, because they make it more difficult to rehabilitate prisoners and reintegrate them into society. But really, what does it matter? Most of the damage done is done to minority groups, and as Blaney says, who cares about them? It’s still a great country to be white in. Al Pope won the Canadian Community Newspaper Award for best columnist in 2013. He also won the Ma Murray Award for Best Columnist in B.C./Yukon in 2010 and 2002.

What’s he saying? The truth about methadone Patricia Bacon

here’s been a lot of talk lately by the minister of justice about methadone maintenance therapy and the Whitehorse Correctional Centre. The issue is the decision by the Justice Department in 2012 to stop methadone treatment for prisoners and without the consent of the prisoners, force them into medical detox. Minister Mike Nixon gives three reasons for his decision: 1) that the people who were on methadone therapy when entering WCC were using more than one drug creating a potentially “lethal” situation; 2) that WCC doesn’t have the qualified staff to administer the program; and 3) that prisoners given methadone can vomit it up and sell it to other prisoners. Let’s take a closer look at his reasons and translate them into something real for readers.

Anti-sealing cartoon misses the mark Re: Wyatt’s World Cartoon (Yukon News, Dec. 4).

You would expect misinformation on the Atlantic seal hunt to come from urban animal activists who are disconnected from nature, but coming from a Yukon news-

On the issue of using more than one drug (poly-substance use) and the risks with giving methadone to someone using multiple drugs, the minister’s statements fail to recognize available science and the best practice guidelines. According to Health Canada, it is very common among people who are addicted to opioids to also use other drugs including marijuana and cocaine. Best practice guidelines state that while multiple drug use is not ideal, we should manage it through individualized health plans rather than deny treatment. This is current practice in both community settings and other jails in Canada. The reality of the likelihood of multiple drug usage by people on methadone must be well understood. The minister’s position that poly-substance use makes methadone treatment impossible in a prison setting suggests that WCC isn’t

paper? This is really worrisome. Your Wyatt’s World cartoon is totally off the mark. First, and not that it is wrong to hunt young animals, but white coat seals (or what activists and Wyatt call “baby seal”) have not been hunted since 1987. Second, the Atlantic seal hunt is at least as highly regulated as moose or bear hunting in the

able to provide the same standard of care as other facilities across Canada. Is this the message the minister wants Yukoners to have? That WCC is unable to meet basic standards of health and safety that are on par with other jails in Canada? On the issue of no qualified staff: the WCC does not have qualified staff because they stopped the methadone program in March 2012. Staff that were qualified have since left WCC. New staff haven’t been required to become qualified in methadone management because there is no program. However, the WCC would have qualified staff if they had a methadone policy because the jail would provide training to the current staff or hire appropriately trained staff. The argument that this cannot be done because there are no qualified people to do the work suggests that the WCC never

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has or never adopts any policies that ever require any type of training. Is this the message the minister wants Yukoners to have? That WCC is unable to meet standards of health and safety because they do not have any training protocols for its staff? Finally, I apologize for raising the issue of regurgitation when you, dear reader, might be trying to enjoy your morning muffin – however since the minister raised it… Methadone is a drug that is given in liquid form under the supervision of a pharmacist or nurse. Small amounts of liquid is metabolized in the body fairly quickly. Previously consumed methadone does not become a currency in prison if the drug is taken in the presence of a health professional, away from other prisoners, and the prisoner is monitored for a short period before being taken back to the cells.

It is a supervision issue. Is this the message the minister wants Yukoners to have? That WCC is unable to meet basic standards of supervision? It is not dangerous to give methadone to people who are in jail. It is a standard of practice in all prisons and jails across Canada, with the exception of the WCC. Methadone maintenance therapy is recognized as a legitimate health treatment intervention that stabilizes lives, reduces risk of HIV and hepatitis C, and has better long-term treatment success than detox. Methadone maintenance is also highly effective in reducing criminality and recidivism. Isn’t that something the minister could get behind? His excuses for not providing methadone to Yukoners in jail are short on evidence and long on hyperbole.

culls, the hunt is an economic contributor to local communities. By supporting the seal hunt, the Government of Canada also supports all wildlife hunting. If Canada accepts the EU argument that the seal hunt is immoral, it won’t be long before activists and their political allies start coming after Yukon hunters and trappers. If you want to know more

about the seal hunt, go to www. sealsandsealing.net. If you believe that the EU should not be imposing its morals on the rest of the world, sign the petition at: www.gopetition.com/petitions/ reverse-discriminatory-wto-sealban-ruling.html

Patricia Bacon is executive director of Blood Ties Four Directions Centre.

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Wyatt’s seal cartoon was an abomination

adian Arctic. It is an ethical, humane, sustainable, and intensely monitored activity. Wyatt, an ex-patriot of the Yukon, owes our premier, our aboriginal and Inuit populations who depend on the seal hunt as a way of life and tradition, members of the Yukon legislature who collectively supported the recent motion, and indeed all Canadians who have to fight against the radical and extreme propaganda that continues to hurt Canadian sealers from abroad an apology. I urge editor John Thompson to pull this cartoon from his online paper and censor this kind of disrespectful submission to the News. I also call on the leader of the NDP, Liz Hansen, and the leader of the Liberal Party, Sandy Silver, to take a stand on this deeply disturbing “characterization” and attack on the office of the premier.

cost of the new “free” design and subsequent redesign and delay in tendering of a building that has less room than the current building Re: the “political cartoon” by and is so special that only a limited Wyatt (Yukon News, Dec. 4). number of Outside contractors To put it lightly, the “character could even be considered for the and script” of the submission construction? was gross, wrong, and completely Apparently Yukon government unacceptable. It showed clear job security extends to even the most ignorance of an issue of national incompetent of those in upper manimportance and did so in a deagement who would even consider grading and utterly disrespectful that it would be OK to run a high manner. school in northern Canadian winter What did it show? The cartoon without the benefit of a gymnasium (and I use that description with because somehow that would be of caution) depicted the premier of service to Yukoners. the Yukon, waist-deep in blood Was there ever a cost-benefit wearing a seal tie with a baby seal analysis done regarding the need to at the end of the tie, dripping replace this building? Who decided blood. that we need this? The reasons that The premier holds the highest I have heard for having to replace elected office in our territory, and it are, in my opinion, questionable. has earned a measure of respect Most have to do with the fact that far greater than that provided in most, if not all, of the buildings this ridiculous depiction that is systems are dated and in need of neither funny, nor art, and is, to replacement. say the least, a long way from the Ryan Leef I have never heard that the actual view point of Canadians or the MP, Yukon building itself is in any way comreality of the Canadian seal hunt. promised. I attended and graduated Facts: The motion tabled in from F.H. Collins and have been Make F.H. Collins the Yukon legislature supporting working on it ever since. I have been a historic site the Canadian seal industry passed in every nook and cranny of the unanimously – meaning all parbuilding. It’s old, no doubt about ties in the legislature supported it. I am writing to express both my disgust and my dismay over the han- it. But concrete footings are solid Furthermore, the outlanddling of the F.H. Collins High School and relatively crack free, the walls ish comment that accompanies are solid dry fir timber as are the “project.” I use the word project Wyatt’s abomination suggests, roof trusses which are solidly bolted lightly. After all, wasn’t the original wrongly, that Canada allows the together. We couldn’t afford to build killing of white coat (baby) seals. tender submission date passed and like this in todays construction then subsequently cancelled without Canada does not allow the harvest environment. ever hiring a project manager? of baby seals and hasn’t since the Where I am going with this is to That said, I find myself pon1980s. propose that F.H. Collins does not dering the whole affair whenever The seal hunt in Canada is, in need to be replaced. It need renovathe subject is broached. Weren’t two many cases, the only viable source tions. of income for our aboriginal and consecutive Yukon Party election Any cost savings that might have victories essentially achieved based Inuit people living in the Canbeen realized by building replaceon a promise of an as yet unbuilt ment, I believe, have long since school replacement? And when the vanished in the fiasco that has been original tender was cancelled and the original design was scrapped, did plaguing both the citizens and the government for way too long. anybody lose their jobs? And what Building systems can and should be was the cost of that design? replaced when they have surpassed I suspect that it far exceeded the total annual income of several their best before date. There are • Hand Saws • Chain Saws households. And what has been the many qualified local contractors that • Circular Saws • Carbide Saws • Lawn Mowers • Grass Shears could be employed for this type of • Scissors • Hair Clipper Blades work. These are same people that • Knives • Axes • Chisels Advertising would be responsible for the con• Planer Knives • Meat Grinder Blades tinued maintenance for many years • Meat Saws • Skates We SHArPen ALL THeSe & More 6149 - 6TH Ave., WHiTeHorSe (4 blocks from Main, on 6th Ave.)

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minister has taken this to the extreme, but the truth is, there’s nothing in our system at the moment to stop him. The Reform Act would change that! It would make sure our MPs can speak more freely without fear of retribution from prime ministers or party leaders, by putting power back in the hands of local constituencies. It would give our MPs the power to remove an abusive party leader – a vital democratic safety valve in between normal leadership races. Finally, it would allow Dave Paquet our MPs – not party leaders – to Whitehorse have the final say on whether a given MP should be permitted to Support the Reform Act sit in their caucus. Already, the Reform Act is Canadian politics has been excitgaining momentum right across ing lately, with lots of focus on spending scandals, PMO manipu- the political spectrum, with lation and crack-smoking mayors support from a wide range of Conservative, NDP, Liberal, and (all alleged, of course!). But even Green MPs. more exciting, to me and to the I urge you to go to www.reforfuture of our country, is the Reform Act. It is a private members’ mact2013.ca to get more informabill in Parliament that would shift tion, and to show Conservative backbencher Michael Chong, the balance of power, giving our individual MPs more freedom to who proposed the bill, that you do their jobs and freely represent support what he’s trying to do. Please also go to www.leadnow.ca/ us. If you’re like me, you find that reform-act to show your support for the bill – over 10,000 people Canadian politics is overwhelmsigned it within a day of the bill ingly skewed towards control being introduced in the House! by the leader of a party. MPs Please also write to Ryan Leef at are “whipped” (isn’t that an apt description!) to vote according to Ryan.Leef@parl.gc.ca and tell him you’re depending on him to vote how their leader wants them to in favour of it. vote. They can be removed from Let’s take this rare opportuncaucus if they refuse. The effect ity to fix our democracy and run is that, in general, MPs focus on pleasing their party leader, rather with it, folks! than taking their constituents’ Tanya Van Valkenburg concerns to the party. This hapWhitehorse pens across the main political parties, not just with the Conservatives. In praise of local veggies Some might say that former Yukon MP Larry Bagnell lost I would like to congratulate all support before the last election those Yukon farmers who have because he was “whipped” to support the long-gun registry, which produced food this year. The carmany of his constituency wanted rots, parsnips, beets and turnips are still available to eat and taste scrapped. He himself stated that far better than any of the importhe would have voted against it ed vegetables. if he could have without being I haven’t had to buy potatoes removed from caucus. In a majority government situ- yet, but I know they are also availation, where MPs are “whipped,” able. Congratulations to Superthe Prime Minister’s Office acts store and others for selling locally effectively as a dictatorship. This produced food. is allowed within our political system. Many people have comMike Gladish mented that the current prime Valleyview to come. I propose that F.H. Collins be declared a historic site. Something about this building doesn’t want to be torn down. Almost every person in the Yukon over a certain age went to F.H. Collins as well as a large number who still do. It is in an ideal location, it isn’t too hard to look at and many of its students have gone on to achieve great accomplishments. If this doesn’t qualify as heritage, I don’t know what would.

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South Africa celebrates Mandela Christopher Torchia and Jason Straziuso The Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG outh Africans erupted in song, dance and tears on Friday in public and emotional celebrations of the life of Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who bridged this country’s black-white divide and helped avert a race war. Fellow anti-apartheid leaders like retired archbishop Desmond Tutu called for the 51 million South Africans to adhere to the values of unity and democracy that Mandela embodied. The tributes to Mandela that came from people across the spectrum showed that he had affected people deeply. “What I liked most about Mandela was his forgiveness, his passion, his diversity, the pact of what he did,” said Ariel Sobel, a white man who was born in 1993, a year before Mandela was elected president. “I am not worried about what will happen next. We will continue as a nation. We knew this was coming. We are prepared.” Sobel was with a crowd of people who had gathered at Mandela’s home in the leafy Johannesburg neighbourhood of Houghton where Mandela spent his last sickly months. A dozen doves were released into the skies and people sang tribal songs, the national anthem, God Bless Africa – the anthem of the antiapartheid struggle – and Christian hymns. Many wore traditional garb of Zulu, Xhosa and South Africa’s other ethnic groups. One carried a sign saying: “He will rule the universe with God.” In Soweto, the rough-andtumble black township where

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Nelson Mandela in 2001. The former South African president, who spent much of 2013 in and out of the hospital, died Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 at age 95.

vice is to be held on Tuesday in FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. Mandela’s last public appearance was at the same stadium in 2010 for the closing ceremony of the soccer World Cup. Mandela’s body will then lie in state in Pretoria for three days. Sunday marks a national day of prayer and reflection. “We call upon all our people to gather in halls, churches, mosques, temples, synagogues and in their homes for prayer services and meditation, reflecting on the life of Madiba and his contribution to our country and the world,” Zuma said, using Mandela’s clan name. Zuma had announced late Thursday that Mandela, who had

Mandela used to live, pockets of dancers and singers shuffled through the street, celebrating Mandela’s life. Dozens of kids held oversized pictures of the anti-apartheid icon. “I’m sorry, I’m too emotional. The tears come too easily,” Themba Radebe, a 60-year-old who was filming the street celebration with his phone, told a reporter. He later decided to share his thoughts. “This is a celebration of the death, because we knew he was an old man,” said Radebe, whose eyes sparkled with shallow tears. “He brought a lot of changes to our community, because I grew up in apartheid. It was a very bad situation.” President Jacob Zuma announced that Mandela is to be buried during a state funeral in his rural home town of Qunu on Sunday, Dec. 15. A memorial ser-

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Federal panel says time to upgrade tanker ship oil-spill rules The Canadian Press VANCOUVER otential polluters should be prepared for a worst-case scenario and face unlimited liability in the case of an oil spill from one of their tanker ships, a governmentappointed panel recommends. The three-member panel of experts has delivered a report with 45 recommendations for improving Canada’s preparedness for oil spills from tankers and barges. It’s the first major review of Canada’s ship-source oil-spill regime since it was implemented in the mid-1990s and forms a key part of the federal Conservative government’s efforts to reassure Canadians about the impacts of an energy resource boom. The 66-page report notes that two current pipeline proposals alone – by Enbridge and Kinder Morgan – could bring another 600 tankers through British Columbia waters, while posing new hazards by transporting diluted bitumen and liquefied natural gas. “The very appointment of this panel demonstrates our commitment to protect Canadians and our environment,” Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said Tuesday at a news conference in Vancouver. “The panel’s independence and its investigation and the extent of its work shows that we are serious about obtaining clear advice in a timely manner.” Raitt listed a series of actions she said the government has already taken to improve tanker safety, including a promise to increase inspections of foreign tankers and a study on the behaviour of diluted bitumen in sea water. Raitt said the goal of the panel’s report is to improve on “an already robust tanker safety system.”

federal government is serious about the safety and movement of tankers up and down the coast. “The evidence shows that as we put forward our concerns, the federal government has responded,” she added. However, Art Sterritt, executive director of the Coastal First Nations, a group that has openly opposed the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, said the federal government’s readiness for an oil spill is dismal. He said during one exercise in Vancouver’s harbour last week, crews took six hours to get booms out into the water. “We get no comfort on the prevention side, we get no comfort on the readiness side, and there is no response for an oil spill of the tanker,” he said. Alexandra Woodsworth, a spokeswoman for the Georgia Strait Alliance, said in a statement Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press the Salish Sea is already in the Transport Minister Lisa Raitt, left, and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver respond to an oil highest-risk category for an oil spill, without taking into consideratanker safety report during a news conference in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday. tion the increase in tanker traffic expected with the Kinder Morgan “This is what British ColumThe study recommends remov- emergency responses to spills. pipeline expansion. bians expect and this is what we “In our view, the current ing the current $161-million liabil“When it comes to oil spill will deliver. On this there can be no response time planning standards ity limit for each spill in favour of response, we need prevention compromise.” an unlimited liability for polluters. will not ensure the best possible because there is no cure. And the Raitt said she will now study “We feel that potential polluters outcomes in some spill scenarios.” best way to minimize the risk of The panel also says current plan- the report, speak with stakeholdshould be prepared, through their ning is “particularly lacking” in the ers about their views and discuss it polluting our waters is to stand up contracted Response Organizafor our coast and our communities with her colleagues in cabinet. area of cleaning and rehabilitating tions, to respond to a worst-case The report is the first of two that and say no to Kinder Morgan.” oiled wildlife and the management discharge, whether it be the full Caitlyn Vernon, a spokeswoman the government commissioned of oily waste from spill recoveries. cargo of a tanker or a complete from the three-member panel back for the Sierra Club BC, said in a The experts also recommend release of bunker fuel on board a statement while her organization in March. increased resources for the coast vessel,” it says. agrees more improvements are A second study will deal with guard, Environment Canada and Its executive summary makes the point even more clearly: “Can- Transport Canada to help improve spill hazards in the Arctic as well as needed to deal with the existing tanker traffic on the coast, no an examination of hazardous and the system. adian taxpayers should not bear amount of safety precautions can noxious spills – such as bitumen Joe Oliver, minister of Natural any liability for spills in Canadian Resources, said the federal govern- and liquefied natural gas – on mar- justify increasing tanker traffic. waters.” “Regardless of who pays for oil ine environments. The report recommends annual ment is committed to world-class British Columbia Environment spill cleanup efforts, it is British spill training exercises, and regional safety for the transportation of Columbians who will live with the Minister Mary Polak said she has natural resources by pipeline, rail risk assessments based on local consequences.” a “high degree of confidence” the or tanker. geography. And it calls for faster

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file.” He says it’s important to ensure that PCO is able to maintain and retrieve records “free from political interference.” Last spring, Perrin denied any role in the Wright-Duffy affair. But the email trail disclosed by the RCMP shows he was intimately involved in negotiating a deal with Duffy’s lawyer, under which Duffy agreed to repay his expenses on condition that he be fully reimbursed, that an audit into his expenses be halted and a Senate report on his expense claims be whitewashed.

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Sea lions looking for love may end up lunch for transient killer whales: study Dene Moore

make some noise. “Our study found that transient killer whales frequently VANCOUVER caught prey in near-complete n the killer whale world, a darkness,” Deecke said in an noisy seal make a fine meal, email to The Canadian Press. says new research into the huntIt told the team that the ing practices of transient orcas whales were not relying on vioff the Pacific coast. sion, he said. A study by the Vancouver The group suspected the Aquarium a few years ago whales were using their keen revealed that transient orcas do hearing to target their next meal not, as once believed, hunt usand a juvenile orca provided ing echolocation to target prey, some compelling evidence as measuring the bounce of their own calls back to them in order he hunted all night in a glacial fiord off southeast Alaska. to hone in on dinner. That left Soon after tagging, the tag’s biologists wondering just how they do hunt. “Because transient don’t echolocate we did not know what senses they use to find prey,” said Volker Deecke, a researcher at the Centre for Wildlife Conservation at the University of Cumbria in the United Kingdom and a former research associate at the Vancouver Aquarium. The waters off British Columbia and Alaska are home to two types of killer whales – the resident whales that feed solely on fish, and the transient whales that travel the waters more freely and feed on other mammals like porpoise and harbour seals. Using acoustic recording tags stuck to 13 transient All Kids killer whales with suction cups, Outerwear TIS THE SEASOn PRICE From Jupa, The the team led out of Cumbria North Face, Loki % recorded the mammals in the and Marmot OFF ocean off the coast of Alaska for up to 16 hours at a time. They wanted to know if the Mammut Men’s & whales were hunting with their Women’s sight, picking prey silhouetted Blask against the surface, or listening Softshell for their soon-to-be lunch to Jacket Canadian Press

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that the transient whales eavesdrop to find food, it’s an important clue in the puzzle, suggested Lance Barrett-Lennard, the marine mammal scientist at the Vancouver Aquarium who conducted the earlier research on echolocation. “We, as humans, are putting a lot of noise in the water. Sound carries so well in water, it carries great distances,” he said. “A critter like a transient killer whale, that makes a living by listening for very quiet sounds, is at a real disadvantage when we humans introduce a

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Federal government seeks leave to appeal ‘60s scoop’ lawsuit Diana Mehta

An Ontario court certified the case in July, but the federal government will ask WednesTORONTO day for leave to appeal that arcia Brown Martel feels decision. like she grew up alone. Martel finds the governAfter being taken by child ment’s attempts at fighting the welfare authorities from her case frustrating. aboriginal family and being “This is to change how adopted into a non-indigenous Canada addresses its children,” home, she lost her distinct she said of the lawsuit. “When language, traditions and ties to Canada chooses to appeal ... her community, resulting in a they are appealing a fact of crushing sense of isolation. history.” The now-50-year-old says According to its notice askshe wants to make sure no ing for leave to appeal, the govother child in Canada shares ernment argued “there appears her experience, which is why to be good reason to doubt the she became the representacorrectness” of the court order tive plaintiff in a class action which certified the lawsuit as a lawsuit that claims a devastatclass action. ing loss of cultural identity was Among its arguments, it said suffered by Ontario victims of the judge erred “in impropthe so-called “60s scoop.” erly conflating the allegedly Her hopes of having the protected interest of cultural lawsuit set a precedent, howor aboriginal identity and the ever, now lie with a judge who plaintiffs’ claim for compensawill hear arguments this week tion for physical and psychoon whether the federal govlogical harm.” ernment should be allowed to Martel was taken by child appeal a court decision that welfare services from her home gave the case the green light to on an Ontario First Nations proceed. reserve as a young child. She The lawsuit against the was adopted into a non-indigCanadian government refers enous family at the age of nine, to a period of time between at which point her aboriginal the 1960s and the 1980s when name was changed. thousands of aboriginal chil“I lost my language, I lost my dren were taken from their ability to communicate with homes and placed with nonmy elders, I lost a lot,” said the native families by child welfare woman who only found out services. None of its claims years later that a federal register have been proven in court. listed her as deceased under the Canadian Press

name she had been born with. Martel cut ties with her adoptive family after she turned 18 and eventually returned to the reserve where she had been born. After years of slow and often painful re-integration, she is now the chief of the Beaverhouse First Nation in northern Ontario’s Kirkland Lake region. “I was an outsider. Those people didn’t know me,” she said. “I worked my way into the hearts of the community, one person at a time.” Throughout her childhood, Martel wasn’t given much of an explanation about why she was no longer with her biological family. “’Aboriginal people were always drinking and they couldn’t look after their children anymore’ – that’s what I was told,” she said. “When I was about 12 I kind of wondered how is it possible that thousands of aboriginal people with families across the country could not look after their children anymore, how did that happen in one generation?” The period covered by the suit stretches from December 1965 – when the federal government signed an agreement with Ontario known as the Canada-Ontario Welfare Services Agreement – until December 1984, when aboriginality was made an important factor in child protection and

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Canada to file Arctic seafloor claim this week Bob Weber Canadian Press

ome time this week, Canada is expected to make its case to the world to dramatically expand its boundaries by an area equivalent to the size of all three Prairie provinces. Canada’s deadline is Friday to apply to a United Nations commission for exclusive rights to what is likely to be another 1.7 million square kilometres of Arctic seafloor. The application under the Convention on the Law of the Sea will be the culmination of a decade of work and more than $200 million in public money. The lines on the map will have been drawn by scores of scientists working everywhere from Ottawa labs to ice camps off the northern shores of Ellesmere Island, peering under the stormy black waters to discern the shape and composition of sea floor thousands of metres below. The effort required more than a dozen icebreaker voyages, as well as trips by helicopters, airplanes and an unmanned, remote-controlled submarine that spent days under the ice. With the co-operation of three Arctic neighbours – Denmark, Russia and the United States – more than 18,000 kilometres of sea-floor data was collected from a part of the globe less familiar than the surface of the moon. “It was a huge effort and enormously challenging,” said Michael Byers, an expert on Arctic and international law at the University of British Columbia. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea governs which nations exert what kinds of controls over their surrounding waters. In addition to the 22-kilometre territorial waters and the 370-kilometre exclusive economic zones, coastal countries are allowed to claim additional sea floor if

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Rob Huebert, an Arctic expert at the University of Calgary, will be watching to see if Canada stretches its claim past the North Pole. The geologic justification – an undersea mountain range called the Lomonosov Ridge that stretches north from Ellesmere Island – is there, he said. “I don’t think there’s something magical that stops (the claim) at the North Pole,” he said. Canadian officials have acknowledged mapping flights over the top of the world and into Russia’s claim, which does stop at the pole. But Byers said there’s no evidence that Canada has collected

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weight before he joined them on the air, describing him as having a “quadruple-chin.” WASHINGTON They also shared a laugh over quartet of self-described one of the new allegations – that “knuckleheads” celebrated a Ford is believed to have offered journalistic touchdown Thursday purported gang members $5,000 as they nabbed a timely, unexand a car in exchange for a video pected interview with Rob Ford. that purportedly shows the mayor The Washington, D.C., sports- smoking crack cocaine. radio hosts described how they’d The latest allegations, which sent the Toronto mayor an invita- have not been proven in court, are tion a few weeks back, mainly as a contained in wiretap summaries lark, to offer football predictions put together as part of a guns and on their show. gangs investigation that were in a But to their great surprise Ford police document released Wedagreed to appear once a week on nesday. The Sports Junkies, a CBS mor“(Wow), $5,000!” one of the ning radio show on WJFK-FM. hosts exclaimed, sarcastically. Little did they know the first It wasn’t all laughter and levity, show would end up airing one though. day after a fresh eruption of The hosts acknowledged the explosive allegations about Ford, seriousness of the allegations and leaving them with an unanticisaid they had a duty to address pated news exclusive. them on the air, if only in passing. Before they knew it, the hosts But they made it clear that they’d told listeners, CNN was asking invited Ford onto their show to to send a camera crew into their talk football, and that’s what they studio to tape their segment on mostly planned to do. NFL football picks. “We’re not the Smoking Gun. “We’re happy to be joined by We’re not 60 Minutes,” one host the most controversial political said. figure in the world right now,” “We’re four knuckleheads who one said as he introduced Ford. want to have this larger-than-life Barely a minute earlier, they’d personality on.... We’re not going been mocking him. to backstab the guy. We’re not the The hosts made fun of Ford’s The Canadian Press

moral police.” Ford has admitted to smoking crack cocaine in the past, “probably in one of my drunken stupors,” and has apologized for it, but says he does not use the drug and is not an addict. When the hosts did ask about the latest court documents, Ford dismissed the allegations as an “outright lie” and referred any further questions on the subject to his lawyer. In the end, they mostly talked football. Ford wound up impressing them with his knowledge of the sport and offered predictions on all of this week’s games, going beyond the few picks the hosts had asked him to make. Ford explained that he’d coached for 22 years. He said his admiration for the Washington Redskins stemmed from his stint at a pro football camp years ago. He also revealed that he bets regularly on NFL football through the provincial lottery board. His hosts, who were taping their show from an Atlantic City casino, expressed support for Canada’s legal sports gambling. The mayor was asked about an embarrassing viral video that shows him tumbling to the ground while preparing to pass a

football. “I’m not a quarterback,” Ford said. “I was a centre.” He denied stealing anyone’s seat at a recent Buffalo Bills game in Toronto and said he’d been escorted to that spot by an usher. He also said he enjoyed having people come up to him throughout the game to have their picture taken with him. “I’m really humbled by all the support,” he said, describing himself as a historically great mayor for keeping taxes low, returning people’s phone calls, and maintaining labour peace. “I have a lot of supporters in Toronto.” But he said he knew he was taking a risk at the Bills game, as a politician in a public venue, by digging into a proffered helping

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Saskatoon couple can’t bring adopted son to Canada Chris Purdy Canadian Press

aheeda Afridi was proud when she became a Canadian citizen nearly a decade ago, but now feels only anger and frustration over a bureaucracy that she says has abandoned her and her adopted son overseas. The Saskatoon woman and her husband, unable to have children of their own, became guardians of her nephew in Pakistan shortly after he was born there in 2010. But the family has been unable to bring the boy to Canada. Caught in the middle of changing and confusing Canadian rules around the adoption of Pakistani children, Afridi hasn’t been back to Saskatoon since she and her husband first went to Pakistan to get the child three years ago. She won’t leave without her little boy, Ajjab. She says she’d die first. “I cannot sleep at night. Every night it spins around in my mind: What is going to happen? Are we going to be home soon? When are we going to go back?” Afridi, 38, told The Canadian Press in a phone interview from Ankara, Turkey. “We’re treated like secondclass citizens. Nobody cares and nobody worries about you and nobody gives a darn where you are.” Afridi had been living with family in Pakistan under conThe new Yukon home of

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officially closed its doors to children from Pakistan. Adoption authorities in all provinces decided to no longer approve adoptions from the Asian country. Amirzadeh says it’s heartbreaking for her clients. “It’s a very difficult situation for them because in some ways they have done everything right.” She says Waheeda Afridi also has health problems – a collapsed uterus and painful fibroids. She needs surgery but can’t afford medical care in a foreign country. “She is Canadian. She should be able to jump on the plane and come to Canada, but her three-year-old son has a Pakistani passport. And our government isn’t really being kind to that little toddler.” Saskatchewan officials say they support the child coming to the province and are encouraging Ottawa to allow it. Amirzadeh says it’s not enough. She suggests if the province really supports the family, it should push harder. Ashfaq Afridi recently flew to Turkey to aid his ailing wife and The Canadian Press see their boy for the first time Ajjab Afridi is carried by his adoptive mother Waheeda Afrisince he was a newborn. di, who feels anger and frustration over a Canadian bureauIt took awhile for the man cracy that she says has abandoned her and her son overseas. and child to bond, but Ajjab now calls his father Baba. nearly two years, Canada denied Canada and Pakistan have “legal His mother, Mama, says the the couple’s application for a incompatibilities.” boy is an average kid who sings permanent residence applicaSaskatoon lawyer, Haidah Itsy Bitsy Spider, knows his tion for their child. Amirzadeh, says she helped the English alphabet and likes to A spokeswoman with the couple file further applications watch Calliou, a popular Canafederal Immigration Departfor temporary residence visas dian children’s TV series. ment says she can’t comment and permits for the child, but He’s also been told about on the case because it’s before they were all denied. The Afcold, fluffy stuff called snow the court. But, in general, Sonia ridis are now seeking a judicial and how someday he’ll get to Lesage says adoption rules in review before the federal court. see it in Canada. His mother In 2012, 22 children adopted hopes she hasn’t lied. in Pakistan were allowed into “What’s wrong with CanaCanada through permanent da?” says Afridi. “Why are they residency or citizenship. making such a huge issue about But in July 2013 Canada the child?”

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Ex Harper appointee: Canada ‘rogue state’ on environment ‘On climate, Canada is a rogue state. It’s accelerating the global tragedy… The U.S. government should reject Keystone XL and explain to the Canadian government that it hopes to join with Canada (on a global climate plan).’ Alexander Panetta Canadian Press

WASHINGTON former Harper government appointee used a keynote speech at a Washington event Monday to trample Canadian authorities’ message on oil pipelines and described the country as an environmental “rogue state.” Mark Jaccard was one of the first people nominated by the Conservatives to the environmental file when he was named in 2006 to the federal government’s now-defunct National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy. Seven years later, the environmental economist delivered a lengthy rebuke of Canada’s climate-change performance at Monday’s event while the Obama administration grapples with whether to approve the Alberta-U.S. pipeline. Jaccard, an adviser to different governments and a professor at B.C.’s Simon Fraser University, said he doesn’t want the oilsands shut down – he just doesn’t want them to grow. “On climate, Canada is a rogue state,” Jaccard said. “It’s accelerating the global tragedy ... The U.S. government should reject Keystone XL and explain to the Canadian government that it hopes to

join with Canada (on a global climate plan).” That message stands in sharp contrast to that of the Canadian government, which has spent millions to publicize the benefits to both countries of developing the oilsands. Jaccard was the headline speaker at a summit tied to a well-connected Democratic donor, the so-called “green billionaire” Tom Steyer, and attended by a number of U.S. media outlets. Jaccard has become an increasingly bitter critic of the federal government. He was also arrested last year after joining a blockade on a train carrying U.S. coal from B.C. His disenchantment with the Conservative government reached a boil after the 2011 election, Jaccard said in an interview after his speech. He said he tried to work with the government – not only at the Round Table, but as an adviser to then-environment minister Rona Ambrose. But after the Conservatives won a majority in 2011, the rhetoric hardened, the Round Table vanished and it became clear they had no interest in tackling climate change, Jaccard said. “In 2011, the gloves came off.” In his career as an author,

academic, and adviser to different governments since the Mulroney era, Jaccard also criticized the Liberals for a climate approach he still derides as a “labels-on-fridges-andRick-Mercer-ads” strategy to encourage behaviourial change. More drastic policies are in order, he told his audience: greenhouse-gas emissions need to drop 50 to 75 per cent by 2050 to limit temperature growth to a 2C target – an impossible task with a growing oilpatch, Jaccard said. The event, and the choice of location, were designed to arm-twist the Obama administration as it faces its Keystone dilemma. It was in the same Georgetown neighbourhood that President Barack Obama delivered a speech last June saying Keystone will not be approved if it risks significantly increasing greenhouse-gas emissions. The title of Monday’s event was, “Can Keystone Pass The President’s Climate Test?” One speaker after another suggested that, no, Keystone cannot clear the bar set by Obama. In the hallways, the many Obama supporters speculated about when the long-awaited decision might finally come down. And some suggested they’ve become increasingly hopeful the project will be

blocked, given Obama’s choice of words. Former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm even allowed herself to daydream about what an eventual presidential rejection might sound like. A decision is expected in early 2014. “I think he could deliver a speech that could give him a legacy he would be proud of,” Granholm, the event moderator, said from the stage. Earlier, Steyer described Keystone as a logical investment for the oil industry that would drive up the value of Canadian oil and ramp up development – which is precisely why he believes it shouldn’t be allowed to proceed. “(Keystone) is a literal and a figurative line in the sands,” Steyer said. “Keystone is the economic key to unlocking the tarsands and, as such, it fails the president’s test.” The other side of the Keystone debate was not represented at the event. TransCanada boss Russ Girling and Gary Doer, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., both declined to attend. The federal government later

issued a lengthy statement condemning the characterization as a “rogue state.” Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said that, whether or not Keystone goes ahead, the Canadian oil industry will represent a minuscule fraction of global emissions. His statement also noted that 62 per cent of Canada’s electricity is generated from renewable sources – first in the G8, compared with 12 per cent in the U.S. Canada has taken action to shut down coal plants, the largest source of greenhouse gases in the world, he added. While the Obama administration has taken steps to impose emissions restrictions and is believed to be planning more, coal remains an important source of energy in the U.S. TransCanada, for its part, dismissed Monday’s event as a sham. It said the project had been reviewed for five years by nearly two dozen state and federal agencies and that the “professional opponents” of Keystone are obscuring the central question: “about where America wants to get a source of oil from that it clearly needs.”

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Fixing First Nations relationships key to energy development Lauren Krugel Canadian Press

LAKE LOUISE, Alta. overnments and industry must fix their relationships with First Nations communities if large-scale energy projects are to move forward in Canada, speakers at a business forum in Lake Louise, Alta., said Friday. The warnings, from both First Nations and industry leaders, came as regulators are expected to rule within weeks on a the contentious Northern Gateway pipeline proposal by Enbridge Inc. Miles Richardson, former president of the Haida Nation in northwestern British Columbia, said aboriginal right and title must be recognized. “Canada needs to build a constructive relationship with the Pacific Rim. Canada needs markets for our energy and abundant resources around the Pacific Rim. We’re all a part of

that,” said Richardson, who was also chief commissioner of the B.C. Treaty Commission. “And if you move goods ... from the east of Canada over to the Pacific Rim, who’s there? In B.C., the First Nations are there and I want you all to understand that the situation of First Nations in B.C. is unique in this country. The situation of First Nations in B.C. is unique for one reason – we have never concluded treaties.” Richardson told the audience populated with prominent corporate leaders: “You need to, as a business community, push the federal Crown.” A joint review panel decision on Northern Gateway, which would ship 525,000 barrels of oilsands crude per day to the northern B.C. port city of Kitimat, B.C., is expected by year-end. Proponents of the project say Northern Gateway would be a crucial link to Asian countries

hungry for Canadian energy, diversifying markets and providing a big economic boost for the country. But environmental groups, several First Nations communities and other opponents say those benefits are far outweighed by the risk of a spill from the pipeline itself or from supertankers traversing inhospitable coastal waters. Enbridge CEO Al Monaco said his company has a “ways to go” toward building more support that goes beyond winning regulatory approval, adding that about 26 agreements have been signed with First Nations communities. “What I do is look at things that we can control and certainly having a very thorough application, making sure we’re speaking to people in the community, making the project the safest it can be and making sure we’re looking after the environment – those are the things

that we can do,” Monaco told reporters. “Obviously there are some broader issues with First Nations rights and title that the government is looking after.” Ian Anderson, who heads up the Canadian division of U.S. pipeline giant Kinder Morgan, said First Nations issues need to be addressed. His company is planning to nearly triple the size of its Trans Mountain oil pipeline between Alberta and the B.C. Lower Mainland, also with an eye to expanding Canada’s oil export reach to Asian markets. “Facing up to our situation … is mission critical. It’s not someone else’s problem to solve. It’s our issue to resolve – all of us,” he said. “Governments, industry, average citizens, members of the public – we all have to recognize that there is work to be done to advance the ball down the field, one step at a time,

but in a very committed way,” Anderson added. “We’ve got to listen. We’ve got to learn. We’ve got to help create economic certainty for industry for our country, but only through hard work with our First Nations communities to make them partners in what we’re trying to accomplish.” Douglas Bloom, president of Canadian LNG at Spectra Energy, said First Nations “discontent” gets noticed on the world stage. For companies looking to build multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas facilities on the B.C. coast, that’s a concern. “First Nations issues in Canada are important, complex and not likely to be solved in the short run,” said Bloom. “But it’s during that short run that we must convince customers and investors that these projects can be done, and to do this we must ensure that First Nations benefit economically from these developments.”

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Nuclear deal with Iran may cause oil prices to fall on easing tensions Jonathan Fahey

ment and how it is implemented.” Iran reached an agreement with the U.S. and five other world powers NEW YORK to freeze its nuclear program for six orld oil prices could be head- months while the two sides work ed lower after the preliminary on a more permanent deal covering nuclear deal between Western naIran’s development of nuclear techtions and Iran, even though the deal nology. In exchange, some sanctions does not loosen sanctions on Iran’s against Iran will be relieved, and it oil exports. will get access to some frozen overIn the short term, the deal may seas assets, including $4.2 billion in make it easier for Iran to sell the oil oil revenue. it is already allowed to sell under Kevin Book, an analyst at the sanctions, which would increase ClearView Energy Partners in Washsupplies on the world market. And ington, predicts the price of Brent the newfound co-operation between Crude, an international benchmark Iran and the West eases tensions used to price oil used by many U.S. that pushed oil prices higher in refineries, could fall to $90 a barrel recent years. by the end of next year if talks yield But the deal, described by both a final agreement. sides as only a first step, raises the Analysts caution, though, that if possibility that a more comprehen- talks on a final deal fall apart – or sive agreement would eventually al- even appear to be faltering – oil low Iran to restore oil production to could instead rocket higher. Iran pre-sanctions levels. That could add and the West have been seemingly 1 million barrels per day of oil to close to an agreement on nuclear world markets – enough to meet the issues in the past, only to abanentire global growth in demand for don talks and descend deeper into 2014 projected by the International acrimony. Energy Agency. “Even the slightest hint of an un“The initial reaction is going to raveling of the Geneva accord could be a more stable oil market,” says restore a vibrant risk premium to Anthony Cordesman, a Middle East crude,” Book says. and energy expert at the Center for But oil prices appear to be headStrategic and International Studies ed lower for now, in part because in Washington. “But everything will the prospect of more Iranian oil is coming at a time when production depend on if there’s a final agreeAssociated Press

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While modest, that could help lower global prices by making up for a sharp drop in Libyan crude exports in recent months caused by civil unrest. The simple fact that the two sides reached any agreement at all will also help reduce prices. Oil has been more expensive in recent years in part because traders worried that the heightened tensions between Iran and the West would lead to a sudden interruption of oil supplies. Iran in the past has threatened to block or attack oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow passage in the Persian Gulf through which one-fifth of the world’s oil passes. Also, traders worried that the West would further tighten limits on Iran’s oil exports. While those limits won’t be loosening soon, the threat of even less Iranian oil on the world market has all but evaporated – for now.

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Amazon.com considering using unmanned aircraft to deliver purchases Scott Mayerowitz

the roads or skies without hitting Manhattan will be much trickier. But the savings of such a delivery anything? And, if an accident system only come in large, urban does occur, who is legally liable? NEW YORK areas. Then there are the security mazon.com is working on a issues. Delivering packages by Besides regulatory approval, way to get packages to cusAmazon’s biggest challenge will drone might be impossible in a tomers in 30 minutes or less – via city like Washington D.C. which be to develop a collision avoidself-guided drone. ance system, said Darryl Jenkins, has many no-fly zones. Consider it the modern a consultant who has given up on Bezos founded Amazon.com version of a pizza delivery boy, the commercial airline industry in 1994 after quitting his job at minus the boy. and now focuses on drones. a Wall Street hedge fund. With Amazon.com said it’s workWho is to blame, Jenkins Bezos’ parents and a few friends ing on the so-called Prime Air asked, if the drone hits a bird, as investors, Amazon began opunmanned aircraft project in its erating out of the Bezos Seattle crashes into a building? Who is research and development labs. going to insure the deliveries? garage as an online bookseller But the company says it will take on July 16, 1995. The first book There are also technical years to advance the technology questions. Who will recharge sold on the site was Douglas and for the U.S. Federal Aviation Hofstadter’s Fluid Concepts and the drone batteries? How many Administration to create the nec- Creative Analogies: Computer deliveries can the machines make essary rules and regulations. Models of the Fundamental Mech- before needing service? The project was first reported anisms of Thought. In the nearly “Jeff Bezos might be the single Sunday by CBS’ 60 Minutes. person in the universe who could two decades since, Amazon has Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said make something like this hapgrown to become the world’s in a primetime interview that largest online retailer, selling ev- pen,” Jenkins said. “For what it while the octocopters look like erything from shoes to groceries worth, this is a guy who’s totally something out of science fiction, to diapers and power tools. changed retailing.” there’s no reason they can’t be The biggest losers could be Amazon’s business plan has used as delivery vehicles. package delivery services like the been to spend heavily on growBezos said the drones can ing its business, improving order U.S. Postal Service, FedEx and carry packages that weigh up to UPS. fulfilment and expanding into five pounds, which covers about new areas. Those investments FedEx spokesman Jess Bunn 86 per cent of the items Amazon have come at the expense of said in an email: “While we can’t delivers. The current generation speculate about this particular consistent profitability. Invesof drones the company is testing tors have been largely forgiving, technology, I can say that makhas a range of about 10 miles (16 focusing on the company’s longing every customer experience km), which Bezos noted could outstanding is our priority, and term promise and double-digit cover a significant portion of the revenue growth. Though it could anything we do from a technolpopulation in urban areas. be years before it’s reality, drone- ogy standpoint will be with that While it’s tough to say exactly powered delivery fits well into in mind.” how long it could take the project the company’s plans of making The U.S. Postal Service to get off the ground, Bezos told delivery as convenient – and fast wouldn’t speculate about using 60 Minutes that he thinks it could – as drones for mail delivery. 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Friday, December 6, 2013

Thugs in east China harass lawyers for defending rights activists, as China hails rule of law Gillian Wong

relatives as they approached the court, hurling abuse – and clumps of mud – at them. The BEIJING court barred most of the public bout 200 thugs harassed from attending the trial. lawyers and relatives of “They called us traitors, three civil rights activists scumbags and hooligans,” Pu outside a courthouse in eastern said. “Today is China’s constiChina on Wednesday, as top tution’s anniversary. But we judges in the capital marked see how Xinyu is treating us. the anniversary of China’s None of our rights have been constitution by hailing the rule respected.” of law. At this time last year, newly The three activists were appointed Communist Party standing trial in the city of leader Xi Jinping, who is now Xinyu on illegal assembly China’s president, marked the charges that supporters say anniversary of the constituwere trumped up to punish tion by pledging to uphold the them for being part of a group rights of Chinese citizens and that urges citizens to embrace urging officials to build confitheir constitutional rights. dence in the law. The trial’s second day, ironiXi’s remarks last December cally, coincided with the 31st prompted the country’s libanniversary of China’s constitu- eral intellectuals, activists and tion, and top judges in Beijing others to advocate that China marked the day with pledges adopt constitutionalism – in to promote the rule of law and which the government’s power judicial transparency. is restricted by the country’s In Xinyu, lawyer Pu Zhiqiang laws. said the thugs surrounded six The three Xinyu activists – Liu Ping, Wei Zhongping attorneys and the defendants’ Associated Press

and Li Sihua – are among those who sought to push the party’s new leadership to live by the promises laid out in the constitution, which guarantees freedoms of speech, assembly, religion and other rights that in reality are rarely protected in China. The three are part of the New Citizens Movement, a loose network of campaigners who have lobbied for officials to declare their assets to help curb corruption. Participants have held small, peaceful demonstrations and organized dinner parties. The three activists are accused of “illegal assembly” – a charge their lawyers say stems from a photo of them holding signs calling for the release of other protesters – and other charges. A woman surnamed Peng who answered the phone at the Xinyu public security bureau said police had not received any reports of anyone being harassed at the courthouse.

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Friday, December 6, 2013

Number of European fighters in Syria rises sharply Lori Hinnant And Jan M. Olsen

through online rebel videos. He made two trips into Syria that Associated Press totalled a little more than one month. He drove trucks carrying COPENHAGEN, Denmark relief supplies and transported new wave of Europeans is people, he said, but never fought. heading to Syria, their ranks Nevertheless, he posted photosoaring in the past six months as graphs online of himself with tales of easy living and glorious heavy weapons. martyrdom draw them to the “It is my duty to travel down rebellion against Bashar Assad. there. This is a Muslim cause,” The western Europe-based said the young man, a Muslim rebels, mostly young men, are convert who did not want to be being recruited by new networks identified for fear of pursuit by that arrange travel and comfort- authorities. able lodging in the heart of rebel On his third trip this year, he territory, and foster a militant said, he was stopped at passport form of Islam that Western secu- control in Istanbul and sent back rity officials fear will add to the to Denmark. No reason was terror threat when the fighters given, but he believes his time return home. with the opposition put him on The 11 western European the intelligence community’s countries with the biggest conradar. He described being questingents in Syria are estimated tioned multiple times by Danish to have some 1,200-1,700 people intelligence agents, including at among rebel forces, according to the Copenhagen airport after government and analyst figures returning from Syria for the first compiled by The Associated time. Press. That compares to estimates “Right now, I cannot go to of 600-800 from those countries Syria,” he said. “I wanted to help in late spring. with humanitarian work and The surge has occurred fight.” particularly in France, Germany, Recruitment drives targeting Belgium and Sweden. It reflects people like the Dane are growing the increasing ease of travel to in intensity. The Islamic State of Syria’s front lines and enthusias- Iraq and the Levant, one of two tic sales pitches by the first wave main al-Qaida linked groups of European volunteers. fighting in Syria, is producing A 21-year-old Dane became a video featuring a battalion interested in Syria during a of British fighters “who will be prison term in Denmark for talking to other British Muslims assault and robbery, mainly

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A 21-year-old from Denmark poses for a photo as he sits on a Soviet-made anti-aircraft gun in Syria near Aleppo. A wave of European fighters are being drawn to the rebellion against Bashar Assad.

to try and motivate, inspire and recruit them,” said Shiraz Maher, a researcher at the Londonbased International Center for the Study of Radicalization. In France, authorities in recent weeks say they have dismantled two networks of former fighters who have returned from Syria to recruit. Governments have reported no examples of ex-fighters from Syria creating trouble on their return. But France remains haunted by the case of Mohammed Merah, a French youth of Algerian descent who trained in

Pakistan and returned to southern France to attack a Jewish school and kill seven people in 2012. The French government has since outlawed training in terrorism camps abroad. The United States has also sounded the alarm about young Americans headed to Syria. But distance and expense have kept the numbers from the U.S. far lower: about 20 American citizens, according to the ICSR. For the Syrian rebels, attracting fresh bodies for the fight has become a matter of urgency as Assad makes gains in the civil

war with the help of Iran and Shiite militant group Hezbollah. And despite their lack of battlefield experience, Europeans are also a powerful propaganda tool for a rebel force that is trying to show that its appeal goes wider and deeper than the Middle East. The Europeans have the added potential of being able to raise money in places far wealthier than Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya, where many of the other foreign rebels have their roots and fighting background. Many, if not most, are from second-generation immigrant families from outside Europe with parents who describe themselves as secular and fully integrated. Others – like the Dane – are converts with no prior ties to Islam. France has counted between 300 and 400 European rebel fighters in Syria; Germany has counted more than 220; Belgium puts its number at 150-200, according to the International Center for the Study of Radicalization, citing recent figures that double previous estimates. Sweden is about to double its estimates to 150-200, according Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism specialist with the Swedish National Defence College. Britain’s total has stayed stable at less than 150, according to recent estimates from U.K. security officials. The Netherlands estimate, which offi-

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cials said is rising rapidly, is 100200, according to government and analyst figures. Denmark’s intelligence service estimates “at least 80” fighters from there – with similar numbers from Spain, Austria and Italy. Norway believes about 40 of its citizens have left for Syria in the past year. “More Europeans have gone to Syria than have gone to all the other conflict zones put together,” including Iraq and Afghanistan, said Thomas Hegghammer, an analyst at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment. “It’s hard to overstate the importance of this for the future of Islamic radicalism in Europe. They’re radicalizing and training a whole new generation of militants.” Ranstorp agreed: “In the last two months, there has been an acceleration in the number of people going to Syria.” The first Europeans to leave for Syria tended to do so haphazardly – catching a flight to Turkey, hopping a bus and hoping for the best. That’s how the 21-year-old Danish man first went, meandering into a refugee camp and stumbling upon people who told him where to go. Those men are returning home or contacting friends and acquaintances by Skype, Facebook, text message, YouTube, or word of mouth to encourage them to follow. They provide the travel arrangements, and say the life of a fighter in Syria is one of comfort punctuated by the adventure of war. “I talk to fathers and mothers of young people who have left my

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Friday, December 6, 2013 city. It’s all well-organized. The air tickets are paid for,” said Hans Bonte, mayor of Vilvoorde, a city of 41,000 in Flemish-speaking Belgium that has seen at least 22 young people leave for Syria, including the most recent group in early November. Bonte, who is chief of security for his town as well as a federal lawmaker, speaks at length to each family and is in constant touch with both them and Belgium’s intelligence services. Bonte said Belgians who are leaving are younger now – teenagers instead of men in their late 20s, and adolescent girls are beginning to appear among the lists of the missing. “It’s a process of following others (who) are trying to convince people to go over there. They are telling stories that it’s fun over there ... they are living in a villa with a pool.” One Vilvoorde mother, whose older son had already left for Syria, was sleeping on her front steps to keep her 15-year-old from slipping out to follow his brother, Bonte said. One night this fall, the boy pushed his mother aside – threatening to kill her if she stopped him from joining the fight in Syria – and stepped into a waiting car. She has heard from neither son since. Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said the Assad government is discussing the issue with Western officials “and there is co-operation,” although he did not name any countries. And authorities have encountered teens trying to board airplanes, including some carry-

ing large amounts of cash for the rebellion, said Martin Bernsen, a spokesman for the police security services. “Of course it is difficult to prove where the money goes,” Bernsen said, “so we are worried that it goes to terror-related activities.” Hegghammer said Syria has worrisome parallels with Afghanistan of the 1980s, where a young Osama bin Laden was among thousands of Muslims to wage battle against Soviet forces. “The gross number of departures is so high that almost whatever the return rate is, you’re going to have substantial numbers of terrorists,” he said. Recent comments from Andrew Parker, director general of British intelligence agency MI5, underscore those concerns. “A growing proportion of our casework now has some link to Syria, mostly concerning individuals from the UK who have travelled to fight there or who aspire to do so,” Parker said in a recent speech. Maher, who is in regular contact with a contingent of Britons in Syria, said their cheery photos of fighters living bachelor-pad style in comfortable houses, with all the food they can eat and all the weaponry they could hope for, will continue draw ever larger numbers. “They send pictures of sweets – of candy – and of pop. You can get all this out there. It’s not a life full of privation,” Maher said. “You get this comfortable life in Syria with the option, the possibility to die a martyr.”

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Number of European fighters in Syria rises sharply Lori Hinnant And Jan M. Olsen

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Father Jean-Marie Mouchet skis during the Canada Winter Games in 2007. Mouchet started the Territorial Experimental Ski Training program at Inuvik in the 1950s, introducing aboriginal youth to the sport.

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tween Old Crow and Inuvik. Twenty years ago he received the Order of Canada “in recogni’m at 1,900 metres on a British tion of his half-century of dedicaColumbia mountain when I find tion to the people of the North.“ out Father Mouchet has died. Part Until last year people in Whiteof me feels gutted, but another horse could glance him on cold part feels a deep building joy. The early mornings shuffling on his classic track I’m skiing on is hard- classic skis up and down the gruelpacked today and deep groves of ing 7.5-km trail. He was 96. fresh corduroy glint like crocodile Glenna Tetlichi Frost was with teeth against the sun. I make a bid Father when he died. Their relafor the summit. tionship began decades ago when The legend of Father Mouchet Father Mouchet taught her mother is widespread throughout the how to ski in Old Crow. North. He was a French Oblate “I don’t know how he got the Priest who fought Nazis on a pair equipment but he lobbied someof skis during the Second World one and got it. They were so heavy, War. He immigrated to Canada after the war and in the mid-1950s we called them army skis,” she remembers, laughing. was sent to Old Crow to convert It wasn’t long before Frost the Gwich’in people to a Western and her friends were skiing. In concept of God. the First Nation people, Father Finding the Anglican church found natural athletes. As he once doing a thorough enough job, recalled, “they were trappers, they Father turned his attentions to were hunters. They were living in another form of conversion and the very cold climate doing ordininstead taught the people of Old Crow to cross-county ski. In 1960s ary work, like cutting and packing wood and going down to the river he formed the Territorial Experimental Ski Training program with to bring water up. It gave them the heavy wooden skis donated by the right components.” They had the physical talent, U.S. Air Force and a big, drafty but for athletes like Frost, skiing warehouse in Inuvik as a home with the TEST program was about base. By the 1970s, the Canadian something greater. National Ski Team was filled with “Skiing was like fun for us,” athletes Father had produced beSpecial for the News

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said Frost. “Not like the other hard physical work that we had to do. When we started travelling for races, what a gift that was. We got to see that there was an outside world. That experience prepared us for when we had to leave our homes for school in Whitehorse.” Angus Cockney was another TEST athlete who began skiing with Father Mouchet in Inuvik in 1963. He remembers him as being an odd priest. “He didn’t look like a priest. He dressed like a human being. In residential school it was really hard to trust anyone, but when Father came in … we thought he was different from the others. It didn’t take long for us to trust him.” Cross-country skiing became an incredibly important part of Cockney’s life. “For me back then, being in that system, skiing became my escape hatch from the abuse that happened at that school. For me skiing was a way out. I adopted it as a lifestyle and I’m glad my kids did, too.” Cockney’s son, Jess, now races regularly on the World Cup circuit. Gary Baillie, a former National Ski Team athlete who began skiing with Father at the age of eight, recalls the tough lessons of the TEST program. “It was all charac-

ter building. The aim of the TEST program was to develop character in young children through crosscountry skiing. People who have good work ethic, and know how to be healthy and how to live well will be successful in their rest of their lives.” Bailey is now the coach of the Kwanlin Koyotes. He credits Father for changing his life in a positive way. In a time when Canada’s relationship with religion was growing increasingly tenuous, Father Mouchet established relationships of profound respect that would last lifetimes. “I’m getting a lot of phone calls,” Frost said. “A lot of people are mourning for Father Mouchet in their community. We’re grieving. We’ve lost a family member. That speaks for itself. That’s how much he impacted Old Crow.” Here on the side of this snowblown mountain, I’m struggling through the last section of switchback trail. At this elevation my breath comes in short bursts, white in the cold morning air. In the last two weeks of his life I was fortunate enough to see Father every day. We shared breakfast and spoke about trail conditions, about the athletes we’ve known over the

years, and of course, about skiing. In our last conversation before I left to meet my ski team in Silverstar, B.C., Father reminded me that skiing was another form of prayer. When I crest the summit the sun pours out, lighting the clouds below me with fire. The First Nations say when a respected elder passes away and arrives in paradise, that person sends days of sunshine to where they left. Today it seems that both Father and I have skied our way to paradise. When my team – a pack of laughing teenagers who love skiing – find me, we descend the mountain together. Saturday they will race with Whitehorse’s Knute Johnsgaard, one of Father’s last athletes. Angus Cockney will join us, and in Europe his son will race another World Cup. In Whitehorse, the ski club will be packed and on the trails he built himself, Gary Bailey will go for a ski. Father’s legacy continues to live and breathe on ski trails around the world. Pavlina Sudrich is a born-and-raised Whitehorse skier and coach who, like many in the North, first learned to ski with Father Mouchet. She is now the head coach of the Ontario provincial ski team.

he long trail for JeanMarie Mouchet, the last member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in the Yukon, ended on Monday, December 2. He died at 96 years surrounded by friends at the Copper Ridge Place long-term care facility in Whitehorse, after struggling since the end of August with the debilitating consequences of a fall. His passing marks another milestone on the collective journey of Yukoners, the end of 115 years of continuous Oblate presence in the territory. The first Catholic missionary to arrive in the Yukon was an Oblate, Father Gascon, in 1861. But the Oblates would only establish a permanent Yukon presence following the Klondike gold strike. Log and tent churches quickly sprang up in settlements across the territory. Oblates mushed and packed into First Nations seasonal encampments as well. They had their own trail markers to assist them in finding their way. One of the Oblate rules reads, “Whoever wishes to become one of us must have an ardent desire for his own perfection, and be enflamed with the love for Our Lord Jesus Christ and his Church and a burning zeal for the salvation of souls.” Sharing these spiritual gifts, many Europeans and North Americans would come to serve in the Yukon, JeanMarie Mouchet among them. He would join them after his February, 1945 ordination in France. His trail, though, began on May 1, 1917 in Malbuisson, a small community on the edge of the Jura Mountains bordering Switzerland. Early into his teen years he felt a vocation to the priesthood. He pursued this calling with the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate whom he learned about from the adventure-filled stories told by clergy visiting his family. The Oblates’ particular call to be “in solidarity with those who are poor and most abandoned in our world” must have attracted him also. Young, newly arriving Oblates like Jean-Marie Mouchet were met by Jean-Louis Coudert, Yukon’s Oblate bishop. He gave them a toolbox and the charge “to go build the church.” With no experience of

contemplation of and engagement with the people and the land. The exertion of his mind and muscles continued to shape his unique vision of a way he could be present to the people of Old Crow and the North. His well-known Territorial Experimental Ski Training program (TEST) emerged. Father Mouchet possessed the ability to share his vision with others who would come to build on his passion for developing the full potential of youth using skiing as a tool. Many honours would eventually flow to him as a result of his years of dedicated service. With a militant modesty, he emphasized the work ahead rather than achievements of the past. In our increasingly “polluted and overcrowded” world he saw “the idea of a simple life” with a “balance between nature and man” revealing its value to him in this isolated northern community. However, he saw the intrusion of negative aspects of the modern world and its technologies threatened it and ultimately all of us. With his Oblate zeal, whether in Old Crow, Teslin, Whitehorse or Carcross, he refused to give up despite the forces working against his dream. Even in his last months, Pere Mouchet continued to seek ways to energize initiatives to engage youth. New proposals and reworking of old ideas preoccupied him. Physically he always challenged himself, as he did the generations of youth with whom he worked. At 93 years of age he set a goal for himself of skiing 2,000 kilometres over the winter season. He achieved this and much more with his faith-filled determination. Father Mouchet, zealous, faithful, visionary and activist, remained in his adopted land until the end of his trail. He, as Derek Crowe/Yukon News the many other Yukon Oblates Father Jean-Marie Mouchet in 2002. Mouchet died in Whitehorse at age 96 on Monday. before and after him, came following the lived example of the people’s traditions often a mission? What is opening First Nations cultures or realthe Oblate founder, St. Eugene ity of the country and climate, before my eyes would certainly obscured by visible signs of de Mazenod. He chose to offer reject any attempt at superior- their material poverty to the Father Mouchet set out first his life in service, faith and ity on my part. The land is too outsider. These and the rigours prayer among us. He truly for Telegraph Creek, British strong and too powerful to ac- of mountain trails challenged Columbia. lived the pledge, as the mission cept anyone who would come his European categories and How did he feel charting statement of the Anglo-Irish claims. with a will. Humility should a new trail for himself? He Oblate province in part reads, In 1954 Bishop Coudert shape my attitude. Listening is wrote down the reflections of “We commit ourselves to transferred him to Old Crow. the only stance.” a 30-year-old travelling to his building a new society in the The fact of the Anglican Father Mouchet arrived at first post in the opening chaplight of Gospel values – a way Church being already wellter of his 2002 book, Men and a time in the North when the of being where justice, peace, established there left him to world was rapidly changing Women of the Tundra. love, forgiveness and hope are around First Nations peoples. evolve another way to witness commonplace.” “Why do I come here? The to his faith. question is not easy to answer. He came to respect and Mahsi’choo, merci and In his memoir he tells of his thanks, Father Mouchet! Am I an intruder? A man with learn from the strength of

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Dance/movement therapy enjoying growth spurt in Canada TORONTO ver since Kelly Marie was young, she loved to dance. At four, she was learning ballet and jazz dance; by 13, she was dancing competitively. “It became an integral part of me and it’s something that I couldn’t imagine living without,” said Marie, 24. “Dance was always an outlet. For me, being able to go to dance every night as a teenager helped me work through a lot of stuff that I didn’t really understand.” She pursued her love for the art form through her studies, attending York University for a bachelor’s degree in dance. But when she came across dance therapy in her fourth year, while looking to simply fulfil a thesis project, even she didn’t foresee dance being involved in helping her deal with some mental health issues that had begun to creep in. “I didn’t come into (dance therapy) for necessarily specific therapy reasons, at first. But like anyone, they came up,” she said. At the outset, Marie had no idea what she was getting into. Little wonder, since within Canada, dance/movement therapy, or

DMT, remains a niche practice in the realm of psychotherapy. The plot of Silver Linings Playbook it is not: premised around the integration of the body and mind, the practice believes that the health of one means the health of the other. While dance does have natural therapeutic qualities, dance therapy is different: it deploys movement for a vast number of specific purposes. Sometimes, after an improvised dance while thinking of a particular element of a trauma, clients unpack the reasons behind a particular movement with their therapists; other times, it’s used to try to better access the mind among patients with Alzheimer’s. “It’s just like what’s happening in the education system: every child does not have the same learning style or learning needs,” said Megan English, a Torontobased private practitioner. “So if we think of psychotherapy as a learning process, which I think it is, it’s a process of change which involves learning, then that must carry true for people engaging in therapy. There isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution.” Practitioners say DMT is enjoying something of a growth

spurt in Canada. There are now 19 registered dance therapists in Canada, a number that is still small but has grown from 14 in three years. English says she’s receiving more requests than ever to be a clinical supervisor for students, a necessary condition to complete a degree. And in Montreal, Les Grands Ballets recently announced a new National Centre for Dance Therapy, which will undergo three first-of-their-kind pilot projects over the next few years to provide much-needed quantitative research, as well as provide the country’s first homegrown graduate-level dance therapy training program. Mary Moncrieff, a dance/ movement therapist at Ottawa’s Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre, recently went to a conference in New York and said she couldn’t remember the last time she saw so many young people attend. She credits the resurgence to a change in how society as a whole looks at the body. “People are looking at trauma, people are looking at physical health, at awareness of the body, and there’s a lot more readiness from the population to attend to the body and their life in gen-

eral,” she said. “And on top of that, dance itself appears to have risen in profile. You can take it in a tacky way, like with shows like ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ or how Ellen (DeGeneres) dances, or with Zumba, but the fact is, people are allowing themselves to dance.” The growth that the 60-yearold Moncrieff has seen, while slight, is particularly remarkable because of the odds stacked against dance therapy: a lack of awareness, a paucity of evidencebased research, and the lack of a coherent body to train and represent Canadian therapists. “I think it should be in every hospital and be an everyday program, and it’s not,” said Andreah Barker, 36, who works in dance/ movement therapy at Toronto’s Baycrest Centre. Barker, who wrote a research thesis on the history of dance therapy, said it was first conceived in the 1940s in the United States to treat non-verbal war veterans, a tradition that explains why the practice is more common there. Most Canadian DMT therapists take their cues from the best practices and ethics of the American Dance Therapy As-

sociation, she said; there is no such regulatory body for Canadian therapists. (A Canadian association was founded in 2011, but a spokesperson said that the creation of a regulatory body is still “in the works.”) While it did gain some ground in Canada during the 1970s, according to Barker, it faded in large part because the country lacked a developmental pipeline: until the Grands Ballets program was announced, those interested in pursuing dance therapy had to go to places like the U.S. and England because there were no homegrown master’s degree or diploma-granting programs. “I think it’s important to have a Canadian standard of practice,” said Barker. “I think our system is very different from the American system, and I think that people who practise here should train here rather than follow an American way of doing things.” There are also questions as to whether mainstream psychologists see dance therapy as a viable complement to more traditional therapy techniques. Dr. Martin Antony, a professor of psychology at Ryerson University, says there is a lack of evidence-based research that dance therapy

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deliver it, so there’s something concrete that can be shown, and with dance and movement, it’s often happening in the moment, so to document those things is a little bit more challenging. It’s not that it’s not possible, it’s just more challenging.” Moncrieff agrees that the work will eventually pay off: “I often think of occupational and physical therapy and what they’ve gone through for so many years to prove themselves.” As for Marie, whose treatment has now shifted to more traditional therapy, she says she could not have got to where she is today without dance therapy. “I think if I sat down or just laid down on a couch like the traditional stereotype, I don’t think I would have gotten this far ... it would have been too intense,” she said. “It really improved me as a person, in a lot of really minute ways. As long as you’re coming into it with an open mind, it’s absolutely beneficial. And I think it’s beneficial in lots of ways that someone’s not going to expect.”

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really works, beyond dance’s natural therapeutic qualities. “What we’d need to see is a study that looks at traditional therapy without dance therapy and traditional therapy with dance therapy, and there is nothing. I haven’t seen any studies like that,” he said, citing cost as a possible reason. “My guess is that mainstream psychologists don’t know a lot about it.” Christian Senechal, director of Les Grands Ballets’ National Centre for Dance Therapy, agrees research is needed for credibility and funding. “We need quantitative research to have some proof, and we are trying to build our research around that,” he said. “All the projects we have now, we are trying to create quantitative data.” English said dance therapy is up against techniques that have been around longer, and that collecting data about something so organic has proven tricky. “Cognitive behavioural therapy has been successful in creating almost a manual to

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Tourism Times TIA Yukon, Chair

Neil Hartling

As I told the nearly 100 delegates who came out to the TIA Yukon Fall Round Up in October: Tourism in the Yukon these days is “Living the Dream”. Yes, there are challenges, and I know that some sectors may not be performing as well as others, but in general our numbers and revenues are hitting record highs. We can likely expect this growth to continue into next year with air access to the Yukon becoming even easier and more affordable. Air North’s recent announcement of flights from Ottawa via Yellowknife twice a week beginning early next year will create the Yukon’s first gateway in the east and make government conferences that much more appealing. It’s this kind of visionary, out of the box thinking that we often see coming from our industry that keeps tourism a pillar of our economy.

and will work with them on any problems that arise moving forward. We have also lent our voice to the discussion on CANNOR’s future, which is critical to the development of all industries in the north. We hope to hear an announcement before the New Year about decisions pertaining to these funds. Our industry has identified new directions and seized them, from transportation, accommodation, marketing, culinary and many other parameters; we have “flown in formation” fine-tuning our efforts to collectively benefit the territory. On behalf of the TIA Yukon board of directors, have a safe and happy holiday season!

At TIA we are constantly keeping a close eye on any issues that may pose a threat to our industry’s prosperity. We are closely watching the development of the Air North and Holland America Dawson to Fairbanks flights

Minister of Tourism and Culture

Mike Nixon As Minister of Tourism and Culture, I have the honour to work with dedicated individuals in the public and private sectors who believe in Yukon as a tourism destination. At this special time of year, I extend warm holiday wishes to you, and thank you for your continued commitment to an industry important to Yukon’s economic stability and growth. We know Yukon is a spectacular place to live and work. Tourism marketing and partnerships strengthen Yukon’s attraction and help to make our territory a much sought after destination. This year we celebrated the first ever Premier led tourism trade mission to Europe, Air North Yukon’s Airline interline agreement with Condor, and the nomination of three tourism businesses for national tourism awards. Yukon was recognized by Lonely Planet, Reader’s Digest and Outside Magazine as a major outdoor travel destination. Montana Mountain in Carcross grew in stature as a world class mountain biking venue. The Klondike Gold Rush theme park Yukon Bay at the Hannover Zoo in Germany continued to draw crowds.

All of this is integral to the health of Yukon’s tourism and culture sectors. Added to that is the ongoing support of the many individuals and businesses who believe in Yukon as the place to be for holidays, meetings and conventions. Thank you to TIA Yukon board and members, the Tourism Marketing Committee, NGOs, tour operators, local government agencies and the many others who help to promote Yukon as a world class travel destination. I wish you, and yours, a safe and happy holiday. I look forward to 2014 where our combined energies and ideas will take us forward into another great year.

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Season’s Greetings… Yukon Historical & MuseuMs association Season’s greetings on behalf of the Yukon heritage community! As we reflect, it has been a busy and productive year for YHMA and its members. January brought us our new Executive Director, Nancy Oakley, who has been kept busy as she settles in to our offices in the historic Donnenworth House. May saw over 250 museum professionals from across Canada descend on Whitehorse to attend the Canadian Museums Association conference. Yukon heritage was showcased in a big way as attendees were given a warm, Yukon welcome at the conference and on several highly popular study tours to the communities. In June, we unveiled new marketing for Yukon heritage

2013 has been a very productive year for the YFNTA. We have lots of exciting news to share including our new name -- the Yukon First Nations Culture & Tourism Assn. (YFNCT). This year, we set out to build a stronger organization with dual mandates: to foster the development of Yukon First Nations arts and culture, and to expand opportunities in the cultural tourism sector. We have made great progress in reaching this goal. Our year started off with a complete office upgrade to support our expanded mandate and programming. Thanks to funding assistance from Yukon Economic Development and CanNor, we have been working on a variety of projects that will lay a solid foundation for YFNCT. We worked with a small team to build an extensive database of stakeholders within the cultural and tourism sectors. We are just putting

attractions: with an updated strategy and an attractive new Heritage Yukon brand, we continue to encourage both residents and visitors alike to connect with our heritage at museums, cultural and interpretive centres. July saw the collective fruits of our labours realized with the inaugural Yukon Culinary Festival. YHMA collaborated with the Boreal Gourmet, TIA Yukon, Yukon Quest, the local Filipino community and others to present a ‘taste and tell’ demonstration of the Yukon’s rich culinary heritage.

available, demonstrating the importance of the Yukon cultural sector to both community and economy. YHMA continues to be a voice for Yukon heritage, representing the territory in various national and international circles, such as the Heritage Canada Foundation conference held in Ottawa in October. On behalf of the Board and staff of YHMA, all the best for the holiday season, and here’s to a happy and healthy New Year!

In September, Culture Days and Doors Open activities were held across the territory. Residents were encouraged to be tourists in their own town. YHMA and several of its members hosted many of the over fifty free activities

the finishing touches on our new logo and website, as well as a business plan which will include our new membership structure and programs for members. Our new website has been designed to serve as a virtual hub for all our stakeholders and partners, and a place where visitors can learn about Yukon First Nation communities and culture. We also worked with many partner organizations to present National Aboriginal Day and the 3rd annual Adäka Cultural Festival at the beautiful Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. Attendance at both events far exceeded expectations and saw an increase in the number of visitors from outside Yukon. We have received amazing feedback from our local and visiting audience about these events. In July and August, we showcased the work of 10 visual artists at the Pacific Northwest Economic Region Summit in Anchorage,

Alaska and participated in the Premier’s tourism trade mission to Europe. We are very excited about the coming year and look forward to unveiling our new logo, website and membership program and working closely with all our stakeholders. On behalf of the YFNCT board and staff, I’d like to send everyone holiday greetings and best wishes for the coming year. Shirlee Frost Board President Yukon First Nations Culture and Tourism Assn.

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2013 has been another great year for the staff and Board of Directors of the Wilderness Tourism Association of the Yukon (WTAY). The year started with a change in staff. In late 2012, Justine Hobbs left in order to pursue other interests. Chris Wilkinson took over the position of Office Manager in December 2012. The Board of Directors also said goodbye to Christoph Altherr, Joost Van Der Putten, and Anne Tayler, who all stepped down from the board. Trevor Braun was good enough to step up and fill one of the empty seats. Through 2013, WTAY has strived to meet its mandate as the collective voice of the wilderness tourism sector. One of the bigger issues that came across our plate in 2013

was the Peel Watershed Regional Land Use Plan to which WTAY presented feedback through the Yukon Government consultation process. WTAY’s position is, and will remain, that we fully support the original planning commission’s findings, and what is known as the 80% Protection plan. WTAY will continue to be involved in the process using all our resources to ensure the wilderness operators are represented in this issue. WTAY has also continued to tirelessly promote the Yukon to adventure and wilderness seekers, by working with OTC to run the Yukon Wild Cooperative Marketing Program. Using the tagline “Experts know the best spots”, Yukon Wild has promoted members through FAM tours, adverts

in national publications, social media, and sponsorship of events such as Yukon Quest. Looking forward, WTAY has some exciting projects in the pipeline, including a complete re-working of our Code of Conduct, designed to make the Yukon adventure sector stronger and safer. Look out for this being promoted in the spring. The WTAY staff and Board of Directors would like to take this opportunity to wish all our members and partners a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and we look forward to a great 2014.

Now that winter is in full swing, the Yukon Outfitters Association (YOA) is getting ready for the holiday season by buckling down in our offices to reflect on our past fall season, sharing our stories and getting ready for the winter show season. Once again, the members of our outfitting association had another successful season thanks to unbelievable weather, hardworking crews and a good mix of Canadians and international guests who were new to hunting in the Yukon and the repeats who came back to visit and have more adventures with us, too. Members especially want to thank the many Yukon businesses that support each outfitter, guide, expeditor or hunter whether it is the hotels, restaurants, service stations, stores, transportation, industrial supplies, farms or that one Yukoner who went out of their way. This does not go unnoticed; many of our guests are world travellers who appreciate ‘Yukon hospitality’. If we hear about it, you bet they go back home and tell their friends. They return with more family and friends to have them share in another great Yukon experience. In turn, we try our best to support you whenever we can. The YOA is currently celebrating 50 years as an association; however, outfitting continues to be sustainable and has been a viable part of Yukon’s economy and rich history since the early 1900’s. With that said, we continue our longstanding tradition of taking time out to host our annual Wild Game Round Up, held at the end of the year, where we will once again celebrate our successes with many stories, dancing and enjoying our well-prepared, wild game dinner. See you there! Teena Dickson TIA Yukon Board of Director’s Representative

Greetings from the Klondike. 2013 is winding down and it’s a good time to look back with year-end perspective on successes, challenges and opportunities. x As always, Dawson lived up to its well-deserved reputation for unsurpassed variety, quality and quantity of festivals, events and activities during the year. Actually, too many to list here so please visit dawsoncity.ca for much more information. Plus, don’t forget our anchor ‘yukonic’ attractions: Tombstone Territorial Park & the Dempster Highway corridor, Gold Fields, Klondike National Historic Sites, Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre, Dawson Museum and Gerties, to name a few. Talk about marketing pillars and outstanding

universal values! Although there is ever growing upside in winter tourism, summertime (which didn’t really start until June this year) is still a sweet spot. We’re good at coping but wouldn’t it be great if our four wonderful seasons came and went on schedule, without unwanted, weather-related ‘special events’. And, we hear overall Yukon tourism is increasing. Won’t it be great when Dawson gets back to visitation levels of the gold rush centennial years? On that note, KVA spent a lot of 2013 renewing a forward-looking marketing plan including the website overhaul in progress. We continue to evolve and adapt in a changing marketplace.

Finally, we value Parks’ so much, wouldn’t it be great if KNHS visitor programs and season were not ‘under siege’. Sadly, 2013 marked the passing of three greatly respected Dawsonites: Bill Bowie, Dick North and Ken Snider. In different ways their unique lives and diverse accomplishments reflect true Klondike spirit and each of them was a champion of Yukon tourism. On behalf of Klondike Visitors Association and Dawson City’s visitor industry, we wish you the very best of the Holiday Season and a Happy New Year. Web: dawsoncity.ca

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TIA Yukon, Executive Director

Blake Rogers The holiday season and the lead up to the New Year always causes us to reflect on the year that’s past and look at the year ahead. This past year at TIA Yukon, we’ve continued to advocate for the need to sustain the tourism product that our territory offers, while drawing attention to the impact of film on tourism and emerging trends like culinary tourism. As we move forward into 2014, TIA Yukon will continue to support the Yukon’s traditional tourism product, continue to support the industry’s interest in developing new product, and continue to look for emerging trends that can help support tourism in the territory.

Last week, TIA Yukon joined forces with Nakai Theatre and the Yukon Convention Bureau to host our annual Holiday Open House. It was great to see everyone in the lead up to the holiday season and get into the festive spirit!

In October, TIA Yukon hosted our annual Fall Round Up at the Transportation Museum. It was both fun and informative, with talks from Air North, Yukon’s Airline, each member of the TIA Yukon board, Minister Nixon and the Premier. Almost 100 people attended.

On behalf of the TIA Yukon staff, Season’s Greetings and Happy New Year!

For the Yukon Convention Bureau (YCB), 2013 certainly has proven to be a year of success in further establishing Yukon as the destination for outside organizations to hold their conferences and business events. In 2013, Yukon saw an upswing of interest in convention and event organizers not only considering but choosing Yukon as a unique destination to host their meetings and events.

With over five thousand delegates attending events we have organized so far this year, YCB is well on its way to achieving an estimated $5 million dollar injection into Yukon’s economy. Our crowning achievements this year include attracting the Canadian Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (CAMIC) annual Convention and Trade Show, the Canadian Museum Association (CMA) Convention, The Conference Board of Canada annual conference/trade show and the Assembly of First Nations – Annual General Assembly. The picture for 2014 looks just as bright with Yukon being chosen as the destination for many national business events. These events will surely bring extensive national coverage, which only boosts the exposure that Yukon is the place to be!

YCB’s continuous message being: traveling to an event or hosting an event in Yukon is affordable. YCB continues to produce extensive research, which says Yukon is attractive, accessible, and affordable. Utilizing this research data, YCB offers a cost comparison analysis to its stand-alone marketing bid package. These cost comparison packages have the stats which back up a long-time secret that Yukon is not only a great value, but its a great place for people to experience and do business while they’re visiting the Yukon. Recently, Air North, Yukon’s Airline, has announced direct service from Whitehorse to Ottawa. This new route will offer key MICE markets, direct and affordable service, further establishing Yukon as a top contender for convenient and affordable access. YCB actively pursues business and, earlier this year, attended trade shows in its key target markets including Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Ottawa. These trade shows allow us to display the special energy of the Yukon and establish real time, face-to-face relationships with our prospective clients.

At the time of this writing, three Yukon operators have been shortlisted for Canadian Tourism Awards – and hopefully by today all three have won. Congratulations to Carcross Tagish Management Corporation, Ceasar Lake Outfitters, and Canadian River Expeditions for the work they have done to set the bar high, not just in the Yukon, but on a national scale!

YCB’s target markets, which include Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto and Ottawa, are changing. Our incentives attract producers, corporations and associations, who are looking for value and most of all that renowned “Yukon experience” that many only dream of. With the hard work, dedication, and cooperation of our partners and sponsors, we are more than confident YCB will help visitors reach the Yukon to Experience the Rush in 2014. From the Board of Directors and YCB staff: Happy Holidays! May the New Year bring health, happiness and prosperity to all.

Individuals could receive up to $3,000 per year and businesses/groups up to $5,000 per year for tourism-related training in: 1. Entry-level skill development 2. Seasonal employment training and (re)certification 3. Professional skills enhancement and development The YTTF may cover up to 75% of eligible costs incurred for training that meets fund criteria. You must apply to the fund before training begins and application approvals will occur only 4 times a year. THE NExT APPLICATION DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2014 AT 5:00 P.M. There is also an opportunity to represent your sector of tourism on this committee as a member. The YTTF review committee is comprised of between five to seven members and is looking to diversify so as to be responsive to industry and employee training needs.

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Fertility doctors report an epidemic of twins

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BOSTON octors are reporting an epidemic – of twins. Nearly half of all babies born with advanced fertility help are multiple births, new federal numbers show. In the five years since the “Octomom” case, big multiple births have gone way down but the twin rate has barely budged. Twins aren’t always twice as nice; they have much higher risks of prematurity and serious health problems. Now fertility experts are pushing a new goal: One. A growing number of couples are attempting pregnancy with just a single embryo, helped by new ways to pick the ones most likely to succeed. New guidelines urge doctors to stress this approach. Abigail and Ken Ernst of Oldwick, N.J., did this to conceive Lucy, a daughter born in September. Using one embryo at a time “just seemed the most normal, the most natural way” to conceive and avoid a highrisk twin pregnancy, the new mom said. Not all couples feel that way, though. Some can only afford one try with in vitro fertilization, or IVF, so they insist that at least two embryos be used to boost their odds, and view twins as two for the price of one. Many patients “are telling their physicians ‘I want twins,”’ said Barbara Collura, president of Resolve, a support and advocacy group. “We as a society think twins are healthy and always come out great. There’s very little reality” about the increased medical risks for babies and moms, she said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent numbers show that 46 per cent of IVF babies are multiples – mostly twins – and 37 per cent are born premature. By comparison, only three per cent of babies born without fertility help are twins and about 12 per cent are preterm. It’s mostly an American problem – some European countries that pay for fertility treatments require using one embryo at a time. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine is trying to make it the norm in the U.S., too. Its guidelines, updated earlier this year, say that for women with reasonable medical odds of success, those under 35 should be offered single embryo transfer and no more than two at a time. The number rises with age, to two or three embryos for women up to 40, since older women have more trouble conceiving. To add heft to the advice, the

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Ken and Abigail Ernst with daughter Lucy, who was concieved through in vitro fertilization.

guidelines say women should be counselled on the risks of multiple births and embryo transfers and that this discussion should be noted in their medical records. “In 2014, our goal is really to minimize twins,” said Dr. Alan Copperman, medical director of Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York, a Manhattan fertility clinic. “This year I’m talking about two versus one. Several years ago I was talking about three versus two” embryos. The one-at-a-time idea is catching on. Only four per cent of women under 35 used single embryos in 2007 but nearly 12 per cent did in 2011. It’s less common among older women, who account for fewer IVF pregnancies, but it is gaining among them, too. “Patients don’t really want multiples. What they want is high delivery rates,” said Dr. Richard T. Scott Jr., scientific director for Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey, which has seven clinics in that state. Better ways to screen embryos can make success rates for single embryos nearly as good as when two or more are used, he contends. The new techniques include maturing the embryos a few days longer. That improves viability and allows cells to be sampled for chromosome screening. Embryos can be frozen to allow test results to come back and more precisely time the transfer to the womb. Taking these steps with single embryos results in fewer miscarriages and tubal pregnancies, healthier babies with fewer genetic defects and lower hospital bills from birth complications, many fertility specialists say. Multiple studies back this up. In May, doctors from the New Jersey clinics did the kind of research considered a gold standard. They randomly assigned 175 women to have either a single embryo transferred after

chromosome screening or two embryos with no screening, as is done in most IVF attempts now. Delivery rates were roughly equivalent – 61 per cent with single embryos and 65 per cent with doubles. More than half of the double transfers produced twins but none of the single ones did. Babies from double transfers were more likely to be premature; more than one-third spent time in a neonatal intensive care unit versus eight per cent of the others. Chromosome testing and freezing embryos adds about $4,000 to the roughly $14,000 cost for IVF, “but the pregnancy rates go up dramatically,” and that saves money because fewer IVF attempts are needed, Scott said. Using two or more embryos carries a much higher risk of twins and much higher rates of cerebral palsy and other disorders. After explaining the risks, “this is the easiest thing in the world to convince patients to do,” Scott said of screening and using single embryos. But Dr. Fady Sharara of the Virginia Center for Reproductive Medicine in Reston, Va., found otherwise. For a study, he offered 48 couples free medications and embryo freezing if they would agree to transfer one at a time instead of two. Eighteen couples refused, including one-quarter of those whose insurance was covering the treatment. Some who refused said they viewed twins as two for the price of one. “I tell my patients twins are not twice the fun,” Shahara said. “One is hard enough. Two at a time is a killer for some people. Some marriages don’t survive this.” The New Jersey couple who had a daughter using a single embryo has eight more frozen embryos. When it’s time to try again, Abigail Ernst said, “we would do the same thing” and use one at a time.

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Parks and Protected Areas Bylaw Task Force Calling out all community associations and stakeholders for a seat on this Task Force, which will meet several times in 2014 to assist with recommendations for a new Bylaw. Application forms and supporting information may be downloaded at whitehorse.ca/bylawinput or picked up at the Public Safety Building, 305 Range Road. Please respond by December 13.

Finance Committee The responsibility of this Committee is to consider and assess the financial implications of existing and proposed policies, programs and actions, and to recommend to Council the measures or adjustments required to make the best use of the City’s financial resources. For more information and an application form, visit whitehorse.ca/financecommittee or call the Manager, Financial Services at 336-0011. Please apply by January 10, 2014.

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Consumers push for changes to chemical makeup of toiletries Bruce Cheadle

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rtists, like everyone else, work better when they’re well-fed. So say Jane Isakson and Jennifer Walden, two painters with solo exhibitions at the Yukon Arts Centre. The topic arose on opening day because Isakson’s From the Outer Edges and Walden’s The Land at the End of the Sticks were begun during artist residencies in remote geographic locations. Both painters regularly spend time in the wilderness. But it’s difficult to go out to remote locations and paint. “Usually you’re going out with a group of people, and you’re hiking through,” says Isakson, a Whitehorse-based painter. “You can get inspired, but at a residency you have a focused time in a set place to paint. And you’re supported in doing it. Your meals are looked after and you can lose yourself in the work.” Walden agrees. “When I go out near Yellowknife, where I live, I need my lunch and the canoe I’m moving around. I’m lucky if I can squeeze in a pencil sketch.” In contrast, when Walden was invited to the Dechen La Wilderness Retreat in late summer 2012, her gear was mostly paint and equipment – not food. Playfulness aside, the paintings in these exhibitions are deeply considered large-scale works. Both artists offer emotionally thoughtful translations of remote locations that few people can see first-hand. From the Outer Edges displays Isakson’s works inspired by time in three national parks: Gros Morne in Newfoundland (2008), Ivvavik in the Yukon (2009), and Gwaii Haanas in Haida Gwaii (2010). The paintings are grouped in the gallery by their geographic locations. Isakson’s attention to subtle colour shifts is sophisticated. She differentiates the silky grays of West Coast mist against cedars from the purple-hued fogs of East Coast haze against steep rocks. In paintings from Ivvavik, low-angled yellows of northern sunlight form pale highlights against the rich greens of the Mackenzie Delta. The skies are always surprising in Isakson’s works in this show. She builds angular planes of distinct colour in the landscapes below, and then forms triangular and lozenge-shaped masses of muted colours in the skies. At times the shapes tease: an angled blue sky form first looks like a mountain peak, then a patch of cloud, then a temperature gradient change in the air. It could also be a splash of water coming up from the foreground. The total effect combines the

“Every time I went to put together a composition, I had my own photographs to go to,” she explains. “And there’s such a difference. Instead of looking at someone else’s photography, this way there’s a direct emotional contact. You were standing there. I found that made an incredible difference in how I was able to express myself on canvas.” Born in Ottawa, at age 13 Walden moved with her mother to East Africa and then South India. The international years gave her an early appreciation for lush colours and nearly-pristine animal habitats. As a young adult, she studied in Cuzco, Peru, with a painter named Marcos Ramos. She learned about natural pigments from the forest, but she also saw how he used art-making to involve youth in environmental issues. On her return to Canada, Walden earned an education degree and then moved to Yellowknife in 2002. She started an art program at an elementary school there and kept painting, focusing Ian Stewart/Yukon News mostly on wildlife. After her first Top, Yellowknife artist Jennifer Walden’s monumental landscape series, Land at the End solo show in 2007, she turned to of the Sticks, is on display at the Yukon Arts Centre gallery. Bottom, Whitehorse’s Jane painting full time. Isakson brings a geometric touch to her landscape series, From the Outer Edges. The “powerful experiences” Walden drew from the Mackenzie Mountain Barrens now burst out into vivid, rhythmic canvases for The Land at the End of the Sticks. In particular, there are three three-panel paintings in the exhibit that are 10 by 12 feet. The towering canvases immerse the viewer in Walden’s fascination with texture and colour. The triptych Cotton Grass Haven, for example, shows dramatic mountain peaks in its top third. But the foreground, filled with bas-relief stalks and puffs of cotton grass, also offers plenty to linger on. So does the midground, where bands of red and green grasses stream across the canvas at about waist-height. “Rarely am I trying to capture ‘the mountain,’” she comments. “What I’m really trying to do is capture the wind, the light, or how I felt at that time of day. The Dechen La Lodge and Wilderness mountain becomes a vehicle to through studies at the Univerpleasure of turning a kaleidoexpress something else.” scope with the thoughtful experi- sity of Alberta, she moved to the Retreat. The family-run lodge is The Land at the End of the Yukon and completed the degree between the Selwyn and Mackence of watching cloud formaSticks and From the Outer Edges enzie mountains, in the Northtions that will affect your hiking from a distance. That’s when are visual documents of gratefulwest Territories near the Yukon or canoeing plans later in the day. landscape painting took over. ness for pristine wilderness areas. border. A partnership with the “In a way, the sports career Isakson, a former Albertan, They can be seen at the Yukon Kaska First Nation, it takes its spent close to a decade as a mem- gave me the courage to do the Arts Centre until February 22, name from the Kaska phrase for 2014. art,” she says. Professionals in ber of the Canadian Biathlon the area, translating as “The Land both fields had advised her that Team, participating in the 1992 In a time when Canadians at the End of the Sticks.” she wasn’t cut out for the work. and 1994 Winter Olympics. face challenging questions about Walden spent her eight days “The moral of the story is, you Subtle distinctions now found land use – from pipeline proposthere going for long hikes, takhave to be careful about listenin her art between snow, snowals to watershed protection – the ing more than 2,000 photos ing to anybody! But what sport shade, horizon and sky would emotional thoughtfulness of and making small paintings on have once been tools for compe- taught me is that it’s a matter of these landscape paintings offer a putting in time. If you put in the her portable easel. Back home, tition. welcome addition to the convershe spent 18 months turning work, you will go someplace.” Retiring from skiing, Isakson sation. those compact images into large Caribou were a main feature decided in 1998 that it was time Meg Walker is an artist canvases. of Walden’s experience at the for a fine arts degree. Halfway and writer in Dawson City, Yukon.

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Egypt’s best known satirical poet Ahmed Fouad Negm dies at 84 Hamza Hendawi

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a postal worker. He was jailed for a total of 18 years for his political views under the rule of former presidents Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Anwar Sadat. He saved his harshest criticism, however, for Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for 29 years but never jailed the poet. “Compared to Mubarak, AbdelNasser was a prophet and Sadat was a very kind man,” he said in 2006. His poetry took added significance during the years of Mubarak’s rule, when its sense of deep-seated dissatisfaction spoke to growing numbers of Egyptians and their seething anger with that era’s corruption, heavy-handed police tactics and broken promises of reform. Negm’s appearance and lifestyle matched the bluntness and the nature of his verse, immersed in the language of the poor. He wore a galabiya, a flowing Egyptian robe, at all times. His last home was a small apartment in a government housing project given to him by authorities when he lost his humble home in a 1992 earthquake. “Poverty is my choice. My whole family is poor, so why should I be different?” he said.

“I live with people, eat what they eat and am surrounded by the same pollution and garbage,” said Negm, who in recent years sported a mass of silver hair, a face deeply lined by age and decades of heavy cigarette smoking. Negm held court at the roof of his ramshackle apartment building. To get there, visitors had to climb up a wooden ladder and through a narrow hatch to the dun-colored shack with bright blue window frames. Scrawled on one of the walls was “Poetry is like a horse that freely roams the world despite the prison bars.” He is the father of prominent activist and columnist Nawara Negm, an iconic figure of the 2011 revolt that toppled Mubarak. He has two other daughters in addition to Nawara, Zeinab and Afaf. “You may not find in the life of your father something to brag about, but you will certainly not find anything that you will be ashamed of,” he wrote in the dedication of a book of his verses to his three daughters. His funeral was held on Tuesday at the historic Imam Hussein mosque in the medieval section of the Egyptian capital.

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Please touch! Blind visitors feel ancient objects on tactile museum tours Kathy Matheson

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and anthropology centre that offers touch tours for the blind and visually impaired. Ayala can now feel the eroded limestone of an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus and the intricate hieroglyphs on the statue of a pharaoh. “When I touch things, it’s my version of a sighted person’s eyes. It tells me way more than a person describing it would ever,” Ayala said. The institution, which is part of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, began offering the tours last year in an effort to make their extensive collections more accessible. Museums should serve the community at large, and that includes the unsighted as well as the sighted, said program co-ordinator Trish Maunder. “Just because a person has low vision or can’t see, doesn’t mean that they’re not completely interested in culture or learning about ancient artifacts,” Maunder said. Most major U.S. metro areas have at least one museum that offers some type of hands-on experience, from touching objects with bare hands or gloves to feeling replicas, according to Art Beyond Sight, a group that makes visual culture accessible to the blind and visually impaired. Such accommodations began well before the Americans with Disabilities Act and have increased as museums “have transformed from institutions that house objects to institutions that work with audiences,” said Nina Levent, executive director of the New York-based art

organization. Museums that don’t offer tactile tours often have personal or audio guides for the blind. But Levent contends that developing touch components can benefit a wide range of visitors, including children’s groups and students with learning disabilities. “I’d be hard-pressed to Jacqueline Larma/ AP Photo think of an audience that Visually impaired high school studoes not want to touch,” Levdents touch a replica of a mummy ent said. at the Penn Museum in PhiladelThe Penn Museum has phia. The museum began offering held hands-on tours twice touch tours in 2012 as part of an each Monday – when the building is otherwise closed – initiative to make their extensive collections more accessible. for the past two fall seasons. Ayala’s recent visit came the mummification process – and during a field trip with about a dozhandled facsimiles of relics found in en classmates from the Overbrook tombs. They also felt ancient linen, School for the Blind. The students smelled scented oils and touched a got to feel a quartzite likeness of Ramesses II, a black basalt statue of reproduction of a mummy. Overall, the museum is engaging the goddess Sakhmet and two stone with nearly 250 blind or visually coffins. Smaller reproductions of the pharaoh and deity were available for impaired people this fall, up about 32 per cent from last year, Maunder those not tall enough to touch the said. Educators are already planning tops of the statues. next season’s curriculum on ancient Students sanitized their hands Rome. before feeling the pieces, which The response from participants were pre-selected by conservators. has been encouraging, said docent Though thousands of years old, Austin Seraphin, who is also blind the artifacts shouldn’t be damaged and helped develop the tour. by clean fingers and a light touch, “Everyone seems really happy,” Maunder said. Seraphin said. “We asked them to The free tours include a classfill out surveys and reportedly we’ve room lesson on how Egyptians been getting universally positive prepared a body for burial. Students jiggled a gelatin mould of the reaction. The one complaint we get brain – which is removed during is that students wish it were longer.”

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seafood, cactus pads and chiles, with Mediterranean flavours, such as olive oil, vinaigrettes, and sun-dried tomatoes. Foodies from San Francisco to Brooklyn have followed the celebrity chefs in a deepening path to Baja’s chic restaurants, like Javier Plascencia’s Mision 19 in Tijuana that offers panoramic views of the borderlands while serving tamarind Martinis topped by whipped coconut milk. “The world of gastronomy has helped us transcend the border,” Tintos said. “It has helped people overcome their fears.” The more sophisticated travel industry is largely the result of the industry turning to the domestic market to make up for the lost tourist dollars from foreigners. A string of boutique hotels that mix traditional Spanish architecture with modern twists have opened in the wine-growing region of Valle de Guadalupe, a region nicknamed the Napa of Baja that is little more than an hour’s drive from the border. Some offer wine-making, cooking and yoga classes or tours to tasting rooms where visitors can enjoy seafood caught off nearby Ensenada’s coast, homemade cheeses made at the surrounding ranches paired with local wines. The Mexico City boutique hotel developer, Grupo Habita, opened Endemico, a sleek cluster of wood-and-steel cabins perched among giant boulders with a sweeping view of the valley. Along the coast, Ensenada has gone from Mexico’s sixth cruise ship destination in 2010 to its second this year. It is surpassed only by Cozumel, Tintos said. The number of ship passengers visiting the port is expected to double from 339,000 in 2013 to more than 700,000 next year, based on the cruises’ contracts. Carnival Cruise Lines plans to make 200 calls a year to Ensenada starting in January when it will add a second ship to operate three- and four-day cruises from Long Beach,

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Friday, December 6, 2013

Scientists recover 400,000-year-old DNA from human forerunner Malcolm Ritter

cave in northern Spain. It is among thousands of fossils from at least 28 individuals to NEW YORK be recovered from a chamber cientists have reached called the “Pit of the Bones.” farther back than ever into The remains are typically clasthe ancestry of humans to re- sified as Homo heidelbergencover and analyze DNA, using sis, but not everybody agrees. a bone found in Spain that’s The age of the bones has estimated to be 400,000 years been hard to determine. A old. So far, the achievement rough estimate from anahas provided more questions lyzing the DNA is around than answers about our an400,000 years, which supports cient forerunners. what Meyer said is the curThe feat surpasses the rent view of the anthropoloprevious age record of about gists excavating the site. Todd 100,000 years for genetic ma- Disotell, an anthropology terial recovered from memprofessor at New York Unibers of the human evolution- versity, said geological techary line. Older DNA has been niques suggest the remains are mapped from animals. older than 300,000 years but Experts said the work it’s not clear by how much. By shows that new techniques for comparison, modern humans working with ancient DNA arose only about 200,000 may lead to more discoveries years ago. about human origins. The researchers mapped alResults were presented on- most the complete collection line Wednesday in the journal of so-called mitochondrial Nature by Matthias Meyer and DNA. While the DNA most colleagues at the Max Planck people know about is found Institute for Evolutionary in the nucleus of a cell, mitoAnthropology in Leipzig, chondrial DNA lies outside Germany, with co-authors in the nucleus. It is passed only Spain and China. from mother to child. They retrieved the DNA Researchers used the DNA to construct possible evolufrom a thighbone found in a Associated Press

prehensive information about evolutionary relationships between species, perhaps telling a story much different from the mitochondrial DNA evidence, Meyer said. Nucleus DNA is harder to recover, but Meyer said he’s optimistic that some small fraction might be retrievable. He also noted that the cave has acted as “the perfect fridge” to preserve the DNA for eons, and said it will be hard to find comparable situations elsewhere. Experts in ancient DNA called the new paper exciting Madrid Scientific Films, Kennis & Kennis/AP Photo because it showed scientists This artist’s rendering show Sima de los Huesos hominids, can recover older DNA than who are estimated to have lived approximately 400,000 many had thought outside years ago. the deep freeze of permafrost areas. Much of human evotionary family trees that ininstead showed a closer relalution happened in warmer clude the Spanish individuals tionship to Denisovans, who places. and two groups that showed lived in Siberia and appar“We had been operating for up much later: Neanderthals ently elsewhere in Asia, far a while under the assumption and an evolutionary cousin of from the Spanish cave. Scienthat the oldest DNA we’re Neanderthals called Denisotists are uncertain of how to going to get is about 100,000 vans. They assumed the DNA explain that, Meyer said. years,” said Disotell. Now, “we would show similarities to The picture should get might take a shot at some Neanderthal DNA, since the clearer if scientists can recover older samples that we just Spanish fossils have anatomi- the other kind of DNA, found never would have bothered cal features reminiscent of in the nucleus, from the Span- with in the past.” Neanderthals. ish bones, he said. Nucleus In warm places like Africa, But surprisingly, the DNA DNA would give more comwhere DNA does not preserve well, even getting genetic material that is just tens of thousands of years old would be an advance, said David Reich of Harvard Medical School.

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Acidifying Arctic Ocean threatens food web in the North

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Ice floes in Baffin Bay above the Arctic Circle. Research conducted at an ice camp high in the frozen North suggests climate change is threatening the Arctic Ocean’s food web by making those waters more acidic.

They took samples of copepods and exposed them to sea water in which the acidity Scientists huddled in a sea had been increased to levels ice camp on the Arctic Ocean expected in about 100 years. have produced new evidence “We’re putting animals in that climate change could be a time machine and transthreatening the food web in porting them 100 years into the Far North. the future,” said Lewis. The researchers found that The copepods who stayed at shrimp-like creatures eaten by one depth didn’t do well at all. everything from fish to whales “They were really suffering,” are likely to react poorly to Lewis said. increasingly acidic water Even the ones who swam caused by high levels of carbon up and down and were accusdioxide in the atmosphere. tomed to different pH levels “There were certainly poswere noticeably harmed. Their sibilities for these animals to young, it seems, don’t move be affected,” said Ceri Lewis of around and aren’t as adaptthe University of Exeter, lead able. author of a paper published “We did see mortalities,” this week in the Proceedings of said Lewis. “They were quite the National Academy of Scisensitive.” ences. “They’re one of the key Lewis cautioned that her excomponents of the Arctic food periment amounted to “shock web.” treatment” for the copepods. Lewis and her colleagues In real life, the tiny creatures spent months at a time on the will have a century to get used sea ice off Ellef Ringes Island, to a more acidic environment. which is west of Ellesmere But, she said, 100 years isn’t Island and just south of the very long. magnetic North Pole. “In terms of evolutionary They were studying the effect of pH levels on different types of the tiny crustaceans called copepods. They found WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY some stayed at one depth, while others moved up and down, which exposed them to Advertise your Home different pH levels. in 3 issues (3 consecutive weeks) The levels are a measure for only $60+GST of acidity or alkalinity. The PHONE: 867-667-6283 lower the pH, the more acidic a substance. Bob Weber

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adaptation, that’s not very much.” The stakes are high. The Arctic Ocean is acidifying faster than any other on Earth and all oceans are gradually losing pH. Copepods are one of the foundations of the marine ecosystem. It’s been two years since Lewis folded away her tent, rolled up her sleeping bag and left the Ellef Ringes ice camp, so memories of the hardships are gradually fading. “It hurt my fingers a lot on the days where I worked with sea water at -40, but you forget that quickly and you just remember how beautiful it was,” she said. “It was a really tough two months doing the work, but you forget that bit and just remember all the amazing moments. “I fell in love with the Arctic. My colleagues are desperately trying to get some money together to come back. But I don’t think it will be an ice camp. “Unfortunately.”

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Grinding fish heads for the goodness within

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n a chilly building across Cook Inlet from the white pyramid of Mount Redoubt rest a few dozen plastic-lined cardboard totes filled to the brim with an amber liquid. Each chest-high cube holds about a ton of fish oil extracted this summer from the heads of salmon. It’s a product that would have been lost to the Kenai River if Pat Simpson had not recovered it. Simpson, 49, is a fishermanturned-entrepreneur who has for the past few summers purchased salmon heads from fish processors who do business here in this small industrial town north of the Kenai River. Using precision equipment made in Europe, Simpson’s team steams and grinds the heads of pink, chum and red salmon to render a product now available in box stores as 90-count bottles of “Wild Alaskan Salmon Oil” gel tablets. “We sold all our fish oil the first three years (to companies that put it in capsules and sold it to large retailers),” Simpson said at his Nikiski plant, shut down and unheated for the offseason. Simpson’s venture with his company Alaska Marine Nutrition is part of a dream to enable fish processors in remote places to use the oiliest part of a salmon – its head – a portion of the fish prized in other cultures but often returned to the ocean in Alaska fisheries. Simpson first sensed an opportunity to extract and sell fish oil when he was a boy growing up in Cordova. There, as in many rural Alaska places where commercial fishermen catch salmon, processors kept the high-value filets but ground up the carcasses and released the slurry back into the ocean. With all the recent publicity on the health benefits of the omega-3 fatty acids in salmon oil, Simpson calculated the amount of wild Alaska salmon heads that made their way to fish processors near the mouth of the Kenai River. The numbers worked for him. He approached the owners of the area’s seven fish-processing plants and told them he’d buy their fish heads. They agreed to fill Simpson’s totes with fish heads during the intense midsummer commercial salmon fishing season. He and his partners, his dad Ken Simpson and Richard Mullins,

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Pat Simpson of Anchorage holds up sockeye salmon oil he extracted from fish heads processed at his Nikiski plant.

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Oil tablets produced from Alaska salmon fish heads.

purchased a fish-processing facility in Nikiski and converted it to hold the specialized equipment used to extract oil from fish heads. Their plant stands amid refineries processing natural gas and oil from Cook Inlet rigs and metal-sided buildings of contractors who support the oil industry. “We seem a little out of place here,” Simpson said at his 12-acre facility, which includes his processing plant, office and bunkhouse for summer workers. Simpson grew up working on his father’s tender boats every summer. There, he and his crewmates would motor over to commercial fishing boats, pick up salmon and carry the fish to local processing plants on shore. Sometimes he would travel as far from Cordova as Bristol Bay, a six-day trip. On those trips, he learned his future was not on the decks of boats. “I’d be lucky if I wasn’t throwing up half of that,” he said of the long run to Bristol Bay. “To be a successful fisherman, you have to be able to work in lousy weather.” Simpson looked to another passion, computer science. He went to the University of California at San Diego for college. After having success developing sonar devices for the military and the fishing industry, he returned to Alaska, longing to

be connected to the industry he knew best. That’s when he saw there might be a niche on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula. Of the more than 200 fish processors scattered throughout the state, only about half of them recover the fish heads and guts. The fishing industry produces and dumps back to the ocean more than 1 million metric tonnes of fish waste each year. He sees a chance for them to get more out of the fish they’re catching. He’s started with extracting fish oil, but wants to produce more from the fishwaste stream, including fishmeal made up of ground-up fish carcasses and bones. That’s in the future for Simpson, but for now he’s pulling out the best fish oil he can and hustling to sell it to distributers in the Lower 48. Back in his home office in south Anchorage, Simpson pulled a Mason jar of chum salmon oil from a shelf. He opened the jar of viscous, reddish blond liquid and took a swig. “I wanted to build something I could hold in my hand,” he said. “Wild Alaska salmon oil – that’s our oil. It’s very gratifying to produce.” Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in co-operation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.

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ere is a new northern book that was brought to my attention, just in time for Christmas. Death Wins in the Arctic, a book written by B.C.’s Kerry Karram and published by Dundurn Press of Toronto, is a narrative of the ill-fated “Lost Patrol” of 1911, and the subsequent search to find the missing party. Karram has a son who is a member of the Mounted Police. It was during a visit to Regina to attend her son’s graduation that she was first introduced to the tragic diary of Inspector Francis Fitzgerald, the leader of an ill-fated winter patrol from Fort McPherson to Dawson City. She was captivated by the gripping account and decided to write a book about it. Based upon the Fitzgerald diary and other documents detailing the events of the illfated patrol, Karram weaves a colourful day-by-day account of the patrol, leading to its sad conclusion. She details the harsh weather, the brutal travelling conditions and the numbing routine as the party struggles against blizzards and extreme Arctic conditions to find the trail and arrive in Dawson City. On December 21, 1910, four men of the Royal North West Mounted Police departed Fort McPherson on their annual winter patrol. This year, however, they were traveling in the opposite direction from the usual trip from Dawson. The party consisted of Inspector Fitzgerald, Constables Richard Taylor and George Kinney and Special Constable Sam Carter. In addition to carrying 20 kilograms of mail and dispatches, these men had an additional

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purpose for their patrol: to serve as part of the Mounted Police contingent to attend the coronation of King George V, in England in June of 1911. With them, for a few days, they had Esau George, a native guide, who had been hired along the way, after they had missed a turn on the trail. Despite this alarming miscue, Fitzgerald was confident they could find their way, so he did not retain George to accompany

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ster’s search is as gripping as misplaced his trip over the trail formed, if less detailed account that of the Fitzgerald patrol. from Edmonton to Fort Selkirk in Dick North’s classic work, They battle overflows, temThe Lost Patrol. Let’s hope that by a decade. peratures reaching minus 45 more Yukon books are written By the conclusion of the Celsius, and rough trails, but in the future, if not by people story, I was left questioning the who actually live here, then at eventually begin finding clues accuracy of other facts scatto the Fitzgerald patrol: first, a tered throughout the narrative. least by people more informed cached toboggan and seven sets Clearly, an editorial review by a of Yukon history. Michael Gates is a Yukon historian of harnesses and dog bones; knowledgeable Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in then, the RNWMP dispatch bag would have given this interestWhitehorse. His latest book, Daland a mail sack. ing story greater factual credton’s Gold Rush Trail, is available in Other equipment was found ibility. Yukon stores. You can contact him at abandoned beside the trail; then msgates@northwestel.net I much prefer the better inthe frozen remains of Constable Kinney and Taylor are found beside a burned out campfire. ABEst large kettle contained the parAnD… SaShimi • Tempura • robaTa • bbq • Teriyaki! tially cooked sled harness that revealed the level of desperation Private room for of the dying men. Large grouPs. S Karram speculates about the ope N 7 Day ! thoughts and actions of the two a We e k Mon. - Fri. 11:00-3:00, parties as each approached its Sat: 12pm-3pm distinct destiny. I found this Free Delivery approach thoughtful and enjoyDowntown & Riverdale on food orders $45 or more Mon. - Sat. 4:30-10:00 able, and it sustained my interSun. 4:00-10:30 In Porter Creek, Crestview, Granger, KK, Hillcrest, est. The narrative is supported Takhini on food orders $70 or more. in its 232 pages by 35 wellTAKE OUT 10% DiscOUnT chosen though murky photoon pick-ups $40 and over! graphs of dog mushing and trail conditions, as well as key individuals and places associated with the story. These visual Japanese prompts enhance the descripRestaurant tions contained in the story. Two maps accompany the 404 Wood text. The first one provides an overview of the trail from McFuLLy LiCeNSeD (867) 668-3298 Pherson to Dawson with significant places and events identified along the route. The second is a more detailed map of the missed trail and the actual route followed by the doomed party. At the end of the book are brief chronologies of the careers of Fitzgerald and Dempster, endnotes, a bibliography and an index. Although I enjoyed the story, and found it to be a good read, Lots of other I was put off by the frequent great gift misstatements of fact that were ideas! scattered throughout the text. This is a common flaw in books Don’t Plush Forget: where the author does not have Ou Stuffe d Ani r a strong foundation in Yukon mals history. In the foreword by Corporal Sean Chiddenton, for example, gold was said to have been discovered in 1898, which misses the mark by two years. 206 Main St • WhitehorSe • 456-4228 Reference is made to the boundHOLIDAY HOURS: MONDAY-SATURDAY 9-8 • SUNDAY 9-6 ary dispute having started in 1903, when it actually began in 1898 and was resolved five years later. On page 78, the caption inJapan Receptive correctly identifies an RNWMP officer overseeing the packing of Tour Operators Marketplace supplies on the Chilkoot trail. InvItatIon to PartIcIPate The photo was taken in 1898, six years before the name of the Tuesday, January 28, 2014 NWMP was changed. Captions VanCouVer, BC for photographs on the next two pages get this fact correct, Meet with companies that sell tour products for the although the caption for the Japan market to showcase your business and tourism experiences. image on page 80 incorrectly identifies some of the mounted Trade-ready Yukon tourism businesses working policemen as members of the in the tourism sector are invited to apply. Yukon Field Force. On pages 164 and 165, InTeresTeD In parTICIpaTIng? reference is made to the infamApplication Deadline: 5:00 pm Friday, December 13, 2013 ous O’Brien murder case, and misplaces the event by several For guidelines and application information hundred kilometres, stating that Contact the Department of Tourism and Culture it occurred on the very route www.travelyukon.com/industry followed by Corporal Dempster or call 867-667-8410 or en route to the Wind River. In toll free 1-800-661-0408, ext. 8410 the chronology of Fitzgerald found in Appendix “A,” it has

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them for the remainder of the journey. Special Constable Carter had also been over the trail before, though in the opposite direction. Near the mouth of Mountain Creek, George was paid for his work, and he then returned to his home encampment. He was the last person to see the Mounties alive. Six weeks later, in February, Esau George arrived in Dawson City, but the Mounted Police patrol had not. The Mounties should have reached their destination by the third week of January. Alarmed that the patrol had not yet arrived in Dawson, Superintendent Snyder sent out a search party under the command of Corporal W. J.(Jack) D. Dempster to find the missing patrol. I particularly liked the way in which Karram describes the growing concern for the late patrol when other parties arrive in Dawson after having travelled over the same trail that the Fitzgerald party should have followed. It was Dempster, himself a veteran of several patrols over this route, who uncovered the grisly facts: the members of the Fitzgerald patrol had become lost, ran out of food, and perished in their attempt to return to McPherson. Karram’s account of Demp-

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Dinner table whispers are saved for special times to continue any kind of communication. Despite that our respective lives have taken us in different directions, I still enjoy sending out a greeting once a year. But I respect that others may not share my feelings, and that by Judith my card may become a bother Martin and a burden rather than being seen as a friendly greeting. So, is this the new etiquette rule — if you don’t get a Christmas card, but get a New Year’s card instead, it means you weren’t DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it on their Christmas card list to impolite to whisper at the dinner begin with, and they are trying to table? tell you (hint, hint) to stop sendGENTLE READER: Yes, but ing unwanted cards? DEAR MISS MANNERS: After Miss Manners admits that there GENTLE READER: For somethe start of each new year, I look are exceptions. You are allowed to one so heavily invested in an act over the holiday cards we have whisper, “I think there might be of friendship, you have a rather just received. Every once in a DEAR MISS MANNERS: some food caught on your teeth” unfriendly attitude. Why does it while I notice that someone has When my husband and I went or, “If you don’t stop putting your matter whether your friends greet not, for the second year in a row, on a cruise, we were seated with hand on my knee I’m going to returned our Christmas greeting, you on one holiday or week than several other couples at a large stab you with my fork.” and I come to the realization that another? round table for dinner. The othOh, yes, you explained. They we have obviously been removed ers had arrived before we did and, DEAR MISS MANNERS: I like only appear to be greeting you. from their card list. I graciously as there was a bread basket on the to give gifts that have meaning Actually, they were caught trying table, they had chosen their bread accept (is there another alterto me with the receiver in mind. to get rid of you. native?) this fact and allow the plates. What should be the purpose beWell, maybe not. Maybe they yearly card swap to cease. However, some of them had hind the type of gift that is given? decided that the New Year, rather But this year I was confronted taken the one on the right side of For example, this Christmas than a religious holiday, was a with a brand-new scenario. Two their place setting. My husband I mailed religious gifts to family families with whom we exchange more suitable time to greet their was seated on my right and he and did not receive one thankChristmas greetings did not send friends. Maybe they were just late correctly chose the bread plate you, but did receive raves for the us Christmas cards. Instead, a full getting out cards. Maybe they had to his left, which left me with no doghouse I built for my neighlost your address until your card week after New Year’s Day, they bread plate. bor’s dog, aside from my neigharrived. each sent a “Happy New Year” How should I have handled bor. Another Gentle Reader wrote card. I am quite positive it is not this situation? The woman to my What should be the motivaMiss Manners: “Our family has because they do not celebrate left had an unused bread plate to tion in choosing a gift? Need or found the tradition of a twelveher left, so I asked if I might have Christmas. want? Sharing an interest? day Christmas can solve many I am not terribly surprised that one. This clued her in that GENTLE READER: Building holiday problems. Sitting down that they would choose not to she had chosen the wrong one, that doghouse was a spectacuwith a cup of tea or eggnog a day exchange cards. There are some but it wasn’t made into a big deal. lar present, and Miss Manners or two after the event to write people, like these two families, It seems that many people, doesn’t wonder that it attracted thanks and catch up with friends who we do not see during the even well-educated adults, are admiration beyond that of the in a newsy letter can be very course of the year, and I can unaware or forgetful that their recipient. She trusts that the dog relaxing after the pre-Christmas understand if they see no reason bread plate is to the left of their has been licking your hand in

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gratitude. But unless your relatives are simply too rude to acknowledge presents, something must have gone wrong. With religious items, that can easily happen. Even if you chose presents that you know to be in keeping with their beliefs and practices, the implication can arise that you have something in mind besides just pleasing them — that you want to change or expand these in some way. It is an extremely sensitive area, and while your relatives were deeply remiss in failing to acknowledge your presents, Miss Manners supposes they were flummoxed about how to do so.

place setting. I didn’t want to embarrass anyone by saying, “Your bread plate is the one to your left,” but I did want to have some bread and butter with my dinner. GENTLE READER: But you did get your bread and butter, and the lady to your left does not seem to have died of humiliation. Miss Manners is gratified to know that your effort to acquire a plate unobtrusively triumphed over your impulse to criticize the manners of people who might then be tempted to pitch you overboard.

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Team Hilderman second Doug Hamilton takes a shot during the final of the Polar Eyes Cashspiel at the Whitehorse Curling Club on Sunday. Hilderman defeated Team Smallwood 8-7.

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extra. “We just tried to get a lot of rocks in play and we were looking eam Hilderman took in the for a mistake,” said Hilderman. gravy on Sunday. “The opposing skip there was The Whitehorse rink took first throwing a guard and it just over to pocket a cheque for $1,800 at curled a little and it gave me an the Polar Eyes Cashspiel at the open hit for my four. Whitehorse Curling Club on “It didn’t react like it should. It Sunday. was a good break for us.” “This is my seniors team – “The game was good, everyone we’re all over 50 – and we threw threw great,” said Smallwood skip this team together this year to Scott Odian. “We just didn’t get take a run at nationals,” said skip enough points in the end. George Hilderman. “We’re into “We had a bit of misfortune December now and, believe it or there (in the seventh), but that’s not, as a team we’ve only played just the way curling goes sometwo games because of work com- times.” mitments and I was on vacation The Smallwood rink, which for two weeks. won $1,300 in the weekend spiel, “This was a good tune-up for lost their skip Bob Smallwood to us. I felt really good about it. What a business trip to Arizona shortly I was looking for was consistency before the final. in the team and we found it.” So the remaining members Team Hilderman, which brought in Ladene Shaw for the includes third Doug Gee, second last game, taking over third as Doug Hamilton and lead Dale Odian moved to skip. Also on Enzenauer, captured the coinage board was second Jody Smallwood with an 8-7 win over Team Small- and lead Tamar Vandenberghe. wood in the final. Hilderman Odian, who is from Atlin, and jumped out to a two-point lead Bob curled together at the junior nationals and the Brier two decafter scoring four in the seventh end. Smallwood scored one in the ades ago. Both finalist teams contained final end, needing two to push the News Reporter

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Team Smallwood skip Scott Odian, centre, watches his shot during the final.

a player who helped make Yukon curling history recently. Hamilton curled on Team Paskawski and Shaw on Team Baldwin as both Whitehorse teams became the first from the territory to reach the semifinal

of the Dominion Curling Club Championships last month. The Smallwoods and Vandenberghe competed with Adam Pleasant at the 2014 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in Ottawa last month. The Yukon

rink opened the double-elimination pre-qualifier with a 6-4 win over Nunavut, but losses to Newfoundland and N.W.T. eliminated the rink from the championships. The Willingham team of skip Walter Wallingham, lead Ed Kormendy, second Wayne Braga and third Nelson Lepine, placed third on Sunday and grabbed $700. B Pool winners, Team Mikkelsen with skip Ray Mikkelsen, third Dustin Mikkelsen, second Scott Williamson and lead Darrin Fredrickson, also pocketed $700. George Hilderman will attempt to qualify for his fifth Canadian championships with the Yukon Senior Curling Championships at the end of February at the Whitehorse Curling Club. “It was a very well run tournament,” said Hilderman of the cashspiel. “We have a new sponsor with Polar Eyes (Optometry with owner) David Rach – hats off to him because we have to keep these bonspiels going. We need this experience if we’re going to be more competitive in playdowns.” Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Whitehorse runner takes fourth at cross-country nationals little bit better than that,” said Roots. “The race overall, I didn’t feel like it was one of my better ones. I still beat quite a few people, so that was good.” Saturday was Roots’ first time competing at the cross-country nationals. The 20-year-old completed the 10-kilometre course in 35:44.41. “The times were terrible. No one liked the times,” said Roots. “Even the winner’s time was considerably slower than any other 10-kilometre. “Some might call that great conditions for cross-country, I didn’t like it too much. It was pouring rain all day and since we were the last race of the day, the track was really, really muddy.” Whitehorse’s Kieran Halliday had a rough race in junior men. Halliday withdrew from the race after the first of four laps in the eight-kilometre race. “After a lap, I really wasn’t feeling too good,” said Halliday. “I wasn’t tired, per se, my stomach was just having a really bad day. I felt like I was going to puke, was cramping up, I couldn’t breathe. “I just couldn’t imagine doing three more laps after that, so I just had to call it quits.” The 17-year-old ran to 19th out of 242 runners in the senior boys division at the B.C. High School Cross Country Championships at the start of November. “This was my first nationals, so I’m a little disappointed, but I’m going to train really hard this winter and try to come back,” said Halliday. Roots, who competes for Prairie Inn Harriers Running Club in

Victoria, placed 16th at the British Columbia Cross Country Championships in the open division (men 20-34) at the end of October. He also finished 12th overall and was third for men 20-24 in the halfdistance of the Victoria Marathon in the middle of October. Roots and Halliday were on Yukon’s athletics team at the Canada Summer Games this past August in Sherbrooke, Que. And both marked firsts for the territory’s team. Roots became the first Yukoner to make a final at the Canada Games. He made the A final in the 1,500-metre race, setting a personal best time of 3:59.95 to place 11th overall out of 22 runners. In Sherbrooke, Halliday became the first from the territory to compete in the 3,000-metre steeplechase in athletics, placing 12th out of 16 runners with a time of 10:02.02. Halliday, who was Yukon’s flagbearer during the Games, was one of just two athletes on the team to compete in two different sports at the Games, in tennis in week one and athletics in week two. Carson also had a productive season. She took 60th in the senior women’s race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships last March in Poland. She placed fourth in the 5,000-metre at the Canadian Track and Field Championships in Muncton, N.B., in June. She was also the top female – and second overall – in the half distance of the Yukon River trail Marathon in August. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Whitehorse’s Lindsay Carson during a race in August. Carson placed fourth at the Canadian Cross Country Championships on Saturday in Vancouver.

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sure was compared to the rest of the field. The 24-year-old took fourth place in the senior women’s division, completing the race in 25:05.99, just 18 seconds behind the bronze finisher. “It went really well, I definitely surpassed a lot of my expectations going into the race,” said Carson, who moved to Whitehorse from Ontario during the summer. “This my first season training in the Yukon. I’m not going to lie, it’s been pretty tough, especially with the late cross-country season. Most Yukon athletes pack it up and go snow-

shoeing come October, but I still had to train hard in November. “It was a big confidence builder, showing I still got it.” Carson has competed at several other cross-country nationals, but Saturday was just her second time in the senior women division. Her best placement was second place in junior women at the 2008 nationals in Guelph, Ont. Carson took 10th place last year in senior women. Whitehorse’s Logan Roots ran to 46th in the senior men’s division on Saturday. “I was hoping to do maybe a

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peedskating outdoors can be a drag. Literally. Without the controlled conditions of indoors, the ice can be too soft or too hard, and dust and other particles trapped in the ice can cause friction. It can be a slog. Whitehorse speedskater Troy Henry went from placing fifth at an international event indoors, to struggling to crack the top-25 outdoors over the last two weekends. “The season has gone really well so far, aside from the results I got in Quebec,” said Henry. “I am disappointed with the results I got in Quebec, but I’m not dismayed over it. They are not bad for outdoor results for me, but they’re not where they should be. “I have to learn how to skate outdoors better … I’m doing really well at indoor right now and I’m happy with Stephen Maunder photo that.” Whitehorse’s Troy Henry competes at the CanAm International at the Calgary Oval on Nov. 22. Henry placed fifth in the The 24-year-old long-track 5,000-metre against an international field of skaters. skater took in a fifth-place

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in the 1,500-metre (2:07.86) and 41st in the 500-metre (41.17). “Quebec is outdoor ice, which is quite a bit different than indoor ice,” said Henry. “I’m used to skating on indoor ice because I started with short-track, which is only indoor, and I moved to the (Calgary) Oval, which is indoor as well. “I never skated that much on outdoor ice. It requires a bit of a different technique. The whole approach is different, which I’m not really used to yet. I don’t have it figured out yet and it was really affecting my results.” Skating on outdoor ice requires a more frequent pumping of the legs to overcome the ice’s drag, said Henry. “The technique is different because you have to have a faster turnover,” said Henry. “You don’t glide along in outdoor, you have to keep moving the whole time. The ice doesn’t glide as well.” In his first meet of the season, Henry placed seventh out of 13 skaters, with a time of 14:11.59, in the 10,000-metre at the World Cup Long Track Trials at Calgary’s Olympic Oval in October. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Koltun rink grabs wins in Lloydminster

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Whitehorse’s Sarah Koltun competes at the Boundary Ford Curling Classic Lloydminster, Alta., last weekend. Team Koltun came away with two wins.

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head to the Scotties – the weeks ago. Canadian women’s chamThey won 7-6 over Team pionships – in Montreal. Nichol and 7-5 over Team hitehorse’s Team KolThe weekend after the Kaufman in Lloydminster. tun grabbed two more Their losses came against women’s championships, wins on the World Curling Koltun will also compete in Saskatchewan’s Team HolTour over the weekend as the land and Alberta’s Martineau the territory’s junior chamrink turns its attention to a pionships with a slightly and Rogers. run at the Scotties Tournadifferent team that includes Team Koltun – includment of Hearts. Sinclair as third, Wallingham ing third Chelsea Duncan, The Koltun crew beat remaining as second, and second Patty Wallingham two Alberta teams before Jenna Duncan – Chelsea’s and lead Andrea Sinclair – getting eliminated in the little sister – as lead. is now gearing up for the triple-knockout format at the If successful, it will be KolYukon Women’s Curling Boundary Ford Curling Clastun’s eighth consecutive trip Championships in a little sic in Lloydminster, Alta., on to the junior nationals. over a week. Sunday. Last season Team Koltun The top two teams will “It went pretty well, we placed fourth in the women’s then travel to Yellowknife to were playing pretty strong,” division of the 2012 Cancompete against N.W.T.’s top said skip Sarah Koltun. “The adian Junior Curling Chamtwo teams for a playdown, first two games that we lost pionship in February. the winner of which will came down to the last rock. We were in good positions but the other skips made their shots. Sometimes you Yukon/Stikine just can’t do anything about Regional that. “But we played well and Science Fair we’re pretty proud of how we Saturday december 7, 2013 did and it’s a boost of confiYukon College Cafeteria dence going into our upcoming playdowns.” The Boundary Ford spiel Public Viewing: marked Team Koltun’s fourth 12 Noon – 1:45 pm World Curling Tour event of the season. They were held to Awards Ceremony: 2:00 pm one win in their first two, but Come support our Yukon students then won three straight to reach the quarterfinal of the Spruce Grove Cashspiel two News Reporter

The accomplishment helped the rink get named team of the year at the annual Sport Yukon Awards Night last week. “We think it’s a pretty big deal because we are very proud of where we’re from and the place we represent,”

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Carlyle and his coaching staff have tried to do is lighten the mood in recent weeks. TORONTO “What we’ve tried to do is hen 24/7: Road to the remain as positive as we posWinter Classic debuts sibly can,” Carlyle said. “There’s later this month, viewers might enough pressure being applied find out what caused Phil Keswhen you don’t have success in sel to abruptly leave a practice the NHL from outside sources.” because HBO cameras followed Beyond the regular media him to the locker-room. attention, HBO represents What no one will see is what another outside source of presToronto Maple Leafs goaltender sure. James Reimer and Carlyle were “It’s something that you’ve talking about on the ice, only got to be used to,” Phaneuf said. because coach Randy Carlyle “And you’ve got to be able to turned off his microphone. And work with because they’re not no one will hear what Mark going anywhere and they’re in Fraser would’ve yelled at James our room for the next month.” van Riemsdyk during a drill Over the next month, viewers because the defenceman bit will catch a glimpse of playhis tongue instead of making a ers’ lives away from the rink, joke. too. Kadri’s looking forward to This is the new reality for the seeing what the show features struggling Leafs as HBO’s 24/7 about Kessel. cameras began filming them at “Phil, he likes to kind of keep practice Wednesday. Mired in a to himself a little bit, but I know five-game losing streak, they’ll the HBO cameras are going to try to turn things around with kind of want to get on him a the spotlight brighter than ever. little bit and have him in the “Guys are just going to kind show. And he’s a big part of this of be themselves, but maybe in team, so why not?” Kadri said. the back of their minds they’ll “I think he should embrace it a want to provide a little bit more little bit.” entertainment, too, and that Fraser wondered if Kessel might calm us down or just might remain subdued with the make us a little more at ease,” cameras on him, but hopes the Fraser said. “It’s definitely not a shy superstar opens up a bit. As panic situation for us right now. for the rest of the Leafs, Fraser But we definitely want to be in thinks reporters already have a comfortable environment to a good idea of personalities in get back to the hockey we want the locker-room, however he to play.” allowed for the possibility that From injuries to a lack of HBO will get to see different discipline and a rough stretch aspects of players. on the penalty kill, the Leafs are “Some guys will defindealing with a bevy of problems. Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press itely enjoy maybe more of a They’re also in the midst of a Toronto Maple Leafs winger Phil Kessel, right, celebrates his career 200th goal on Tuesday. A social aspect of this career than brutal segment of the schedule new HBO television show will follow the team through their ups and downs. others,” he said. “So you might that continues Thursday when find out who goes out and does “There are certain things that interesting cool things and who “They’re around and they’re goes into playing in the Winter the Dallas Stars visit Air Canada we do believe have to remain in just sits on the couch and plays Classic next month against the in most meetings, so you’re Centre. house,” Carlyle said. “But this Detroit Red Wings. The documentation of a team going to see a lot of stuff that video games.” is a little different experience. The veteran NHL coach would never get outside of this in a tailspin is probably isn’t Phaneuf hopes his ping-pong When you have people inside room because of the access they hasn’t instructed players on what former general manager rivalry with Kessel makes an your room living with you it’s have,” Phaneuf said. “When they what to say and not say with Brian Burke wanted when he appearance on the show, but obviously different. It’s going to beyond that he doesn’t know say 24/7 access, that’s what they the cameras rolling. Just like signed on for the Leafs to take be challenging through the next what will make it on air. when dealing with members of got.” part in the all-access program. Carlyle has made little secret the media, he wants them to be month, that’s for sure.” And even though captain Dion “I can’t tell you what you’re Players pointed to watching Phaneuf praised the production of the fact that he’s not a big fan fair and honest when possible going to see because it’s a daytheir language as the biggest of letting cameras have such un- but also recognizes that secrets staff for staying out of the way to-day basis that they cover challenge. But previous incarna- everything from when you’re are harder to keep with more in the infancy of this project, he fettered access to his team. But tions of the show, including the at the rink to when you’re at he understands it’s part of what invasive access. knows there’s nowhere to hide. Emmy Award-winning first ver- home, and you’re going to see sion with the Pittsburgh Pena lot of stuff that you wouldn’t guins and Washington Capitals, see on a normal basis,” Phaneuf said. Complete equipment featured plenty of cursing. would like to invite you to our That’s just bleeping hockey Whatever makes it on to the sometimes. But Leafs centre show, which debuts Dec. 14 on Nazem Kadri will be conscious HBO in the United States and of what he says. then Dec. 15 on Rogers Sports“Obviously you’ve got to net in Canada, Phaneuf said on Friday, December 13th, 2013 watch it a little bit,” he said. “Be he respects the process. He has yourself, just really watch your watched 24/7 in the past and between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m language and just do what you appreciates the end result. at 117 Industrial Road at the TKC office. always do.” “I think that they do a really What the Leafs have been good job of showing the fans Please join us. Skate Sharpening doing of late is losing. They last what happens behind doors,” he you can trust Snacks and refreshments will be provided. won Nov. 23 against the Capsaid. “You can see that they get 305 Main St. the little things that a fan would itals and have struggled to put EvEryonE wElcomE! 668-6848 together a 60-minute perform- never see, and I think that’s /SportslifeYukon great for our fan base to see it.” ance since. The Canadian Press

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Friday, December 6, 2013

Kakuro

By The Mepham Group

Level: Moderate

Sudoku Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in blod borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

FRIDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

To solve Kakuro, you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares. The clues are the numbers in the white circles that give the sum of the solution numbers: above the line are across clues and below the line are down clues and below the line are down clues. Thus, a clue of 3 will produce a solution of 2 and 1 and a 5 will produce 4 and 1, or 2 and 3, but of course, which squares they go in will depend on the solution of a clue in the other direction. No difit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. © 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.

Puzzle A

Puzzle B CLUES ACROSS 1. Disrupt the arrangement of 7. Don’t know when yet 10. Dawn 12. Terrestrial frog 13. Water crops 14. Sucking onion louse 15. Struck a heavy blow 16. Rock guitarist Clapton 17. Fed 18. Big man on campus 19. Tough Asiatic grass

21. To copy the behavior of another 22. M_____: soaked meat 27. Dover is the capital 28. Outdoor cooker 33. Farm state 34. More bleak and dismal 36. Large northern deer 37. “L’Eggo My ____” 38. Thais (alt. sp.) 39. No (Scottish)

40. Civil wrong 41. Be suitable for 44. Spider-Man actor Maguire 45. Put up with something 48. A plank for sliding objects 49. Coated a metal with an oxide 50. A companionship animal 51. Archaic “to commit”

14. Poster paints 17. Physician’s organization 18. Boy Scout merit award 20. Same name son (alt. abbr.) 23. The quality of being capable 24. Outdoor furniture woods 25. Emotional intelligence 26. An explosion fails to occur 29. Trauma center 30. Anger 31. Brown coal 32. Sent as an official emissary 35. Egg mass of a lobster

36. Dog-_____: shabby 38. A Hebrew captive in Nineveh 40. Take a puff 41. Binge Eating Disorder Assoc. 42. Pitcher Bedard 43. Disconcert 44. Tea spoonful (abbr.) 45. The bill in a restaurant 46. Being a single unit 47. Grounds of a film studio

CLUES DOWN 1. Novice or beginner 2. Notice of someone’s death 3. An instinctive motive 4. A very large body of water 5. Broad flat back muscle 6. Supplement with difficulty 7. Shaped like a torus 8. Spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan 9. Automatic data processing 10. Move deeply 11. Yerevan is the capital 12. Severe spasm of pain

Puzzle C

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2-BDRM LEGAL bsmt suite, Copper Ridge, avail Dec. 1, reasonably priced, 336-1406, for info. 668-6446. BACHELOR APT 15 mins fr downtown, private entrance, on bus route, N/S, N/P, dd&refs req, avail Jan 1, $950/mon incl cable, 333-0497 MARSH LAKE 3-bdrm 2-bath house (1,000 sq ft) w/d, N/S, avail immed, $1,000/mon + elec & dd. (250) 864-4499 2-BDRM BASEMENT suite, Wolf Creek, 5 appliance, large fenced yard, N/S, no parties, one dog ok, refs&dd reqʼd, $950/mon + utilities. 393-3728 HOUSEMATE WANTED, furnished room in Riverdale by bus stop, seeking responsible tenant, ref req'd, 2 cats, med friendly dog, $550/mon, $400 dd, avail immed. 456-7490 LOOKING FOR mature quiet female. $550 all in, very near downtown, avail Dec. 1. Leave voicemail 336-0465 FURNISHED BDRM. in Copper Ridge home, N/S, N/P, refs reqʼd, $575/mon. 336-1406 3-BDRM 2.5-BATH townhouse, CR, garage, fenced/landscaped, N/S, pets may be considered, avail Jan. 1, $1,750/mon + utils + 1 mo. dd. 334-3012 or 335-8910 FULLY FURNISHED 2-bdrm suite available for weekly/monthly terms, sep ent, laundry, fully equipped kitchen, basic cable, wifi, fireplace and utilities incl, NS, NP. $700/wk 334-1249. BACHELOR APT 15 mins from downtown, clean, private entry, parking, N/S, N/P, dd&refs reqʼd, $950 incl. 333-0497 NEW TOWNHOUSE in Ingram, room, N/P, N/S, $750/mon, utils incl. 668-2848 SMALL FURNISHED cabin, elec, propane cook stove, wood stove, internet, firewood, no running water, $500/mon. 660-5020 LARGE FURNISHED room in spacious, shared trailer in Crestview, near bus, w/d, cable & internet all included, $750/mon + $375 dd. 335-5310

2-BDRM LEGAL basement suite in C/R, sep ent & driveway, fridge, stove, w/d, discount for 1-yr lease, avail Jan. 1, $1,250/mon + utils. 668-6446 or 336-1406 2-BDRM CABIN with addition, recently renoʼd, on Spirit Lake, wood heat and propane monitor. 45 min from Whitehorse. $875/mon + utils. 667-7268 eves 2-BDRM TRAILER, fully renoʼd, wood/oil heat, fridge, stove, w/d, avail Dec. 1, refs&dd reqʼd, $1,500/mon + utils, we pay the pad rent. 668-4070 1-BDRM BASEMENT suite in C/R, nice & clean, private entrance, N/P, N/S, $900/mon. 332-8801 1-BDRM FULLY furnished apt in d/t, incl heat, lights, hot water, basic cable, N/P, no parties, responsible tenant, avail immed, $950/mon. 668-5558 BACHELOR APT 15 mins fr downtown, private ent, cable incl, on bus route, N/S, N/P, dd&refs reqʼd, avail Jan. 1, $950/mon. 333 0497 SMALL BACHELOR apt, fully furnished d/t area, incl heat, lights, basic cvable, N/P, no parties, resonsible tenant, avail immed, $800/mon. 668-5558 2-BDRM + den, attached garage, upper level of triplex in PC, bright, energy efficient, near bus stop, N/S, no parties, one cat ok, $1,350/mon + utils. 333 0866 3-BDRM HOUSE in Ibex Valley, wood stove, elect heat, shower, w/d, phone/internet., refs reqd, avail Jan. 1. $1,200/mon. 668-1045 OFFICE SPACE, 454 sq ft, heat/elec included, reception & 2 sep rooms, 2nd flr corner of 4th & Wood, lease required, $965.95/mon includes GST. 333-0085 2-BDRM CONDO-STYLE apt, Hillcrest, clean, 5 appliances, elec heat (not included) carport, N/S, no dogs, responsible tenants, $1,150/mon + dd. 333-0085 OFFICE SPACE, 257 sq ft, heat/elec included, 2nd flr, corner of 4th & Wood, lease required, $530/mon includes GST. 333-0085

FURNISHED ROOM in spacious shared trailer in Crestview, near bus, w/d, cable, internet all included. $500/mon + $250 dd. 335-5310

2-BDRM HOUSE in PC near Jack Hulland w/basement, w/d, heat and utilities incl, bright, clean, quiet area, N/S, no partying, pets okay, avail immed. 336-0112

LEGAL 2-BDRM basement suite avail Dec 1st, Mt. Sima subdivision, $1,200/mon including utils. 336-0455

CHARMING CABIN on Takhini river w/private sauna,/electricity/phone/internet, no running water. Both wood & toyo stove. Refs reqʼd, avail Jan. 1, $650/mon. 668-1045

700 SQ ft cabin located in Wolf Creek, fully supported with all the amenities. Asking $750/mon + dd. 334-9230 700 SQ ft fully supported cabin 15 min from downtown, c/w septic field, water holding tank, has all amenities, $750/mon + dd. 335-8089 FURNISHED ROOM w/double bed, bedding, TV, cable, internet, phone, parking available, on bus route, laundry facilities, avail immed, $700. 667-7733

1-BDRM SEMI-FURNISHED walk-out apt on greenbelt/bus route in PC, bright&clean, w/d, sep. ent, incl heat, N/S, N/P, no parties, dd&refs reqʼd. $800/mon. 336-4416 2-BDRM CONDO-STYLE apt, Hillcrest, newly renoʼd, clean, 5 appliances, elec heat (not included), carport, N/S, no dogs, responsible tenants, $1,450/mon + dd. 333-0085

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2-BDRM UPPER floor furnished unit shared duplex in CR, lg bdrm, small bdrm/office, open kitchen, dining, living, private bath, shared laundry, $1,100/mon all incl, avail immed to July 1, 393-2700

FULLY FURNISHED room for rent close to bus and grocery store, incls all utilities, cable, wi-fi. N/S, N/P. Available until April 30th. $525/mon. 456-7855

2-BDRM HOUSE d/t, laundry, parking incl, sm fenced backyard, N/S, no parties, pets considered, $1,200/mon+utils. Contact whse@hotmail.com.

CARCROSS CUT Off, full plumbing, Oil heat/ elec, L/R, bedroom, dining area, bathroom, elec. stove/fridge, great location, N/S, 10-12 min from downtown, 667-6970

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FULLY FURNISHED room including double bed in d/t house, $550/mon + utils. 335-5175

WANTED: FEMALE roommate in d/t house, N/S, N/P, refs & dd reqʼd, $600/mon includes elec & laundry. 668-5185 or 667-7840

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3-BDRM UPPER level of house, Ingram, avail Jan. 1, heat, hydro & laundr incl, first/last month rent, $1,750/mon. 334-4755

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4-BDRM, 2-BATH bi-level house in Riverdale. 1800sqft, N/P, no parties, ref reqʼd, avail immed, $1,700/mon + utils. 335-5976

2-BDRM HOUSE in Riverdale, partially furnished, N/P, N/S, laundry facilities, avail Dec 15, $1,100/mon. 867-634-3887

2-BDRM BSMT suite, Granger, clean & bright, new renos, private ent, laundry room, N/S, N/P, avail immed, $1,100/mon + utils & dd. 667-4463

2-BDRM APT in D/T, N/S, N/P, dd&refs reqʼd, avail immed, $1,100/mon + elec, 334-9087 2-BDRM BASEMENT suite, Riverdale, avail immed, $1,200/mon includes everything, $500 dd required. Call Pink, 334-6283 LG 3-BDRM suite in PC, avail Jan 1st, new reno, satellite TV, dishwasher, shed, garden, $1,600/mon all incl, text or leave msg 336-0306 2-BDRM APT Riverdale, N/S, no dogs, daycare in building, avail Jan. 1, $950/mon + dd all included. 633-3940 after 3pm FULLY FURNISHED home for January, February & March, 2014. 668-4835 1-BDRM APT downtown, N/P, N/S, avail immed, $950/mon all incl. 633-3940 after 3pm

1 OR 2 bdrms in family home, private bath, shared kitchen/laundry, N/S, N/P, refs reqʼd. 667-6579 STUDIO/OFFICE SPACE available on Copper Road. Two spaces available or able to combine for one large space. First unit, 780 sq. ft. Second unit, 1,080 sq. ft. Full lunchroom and utilities included. Contact Brenda or Michelle at 667-2614 or email totalfire@northwestel.net 3-BDRM 1.5 bath condo, Riverdale, newly renoʼd kitchen/bath/LR, small fenced yard, shed, lots of parking, dog friendly, avail Jan 1 or sooner, N/S, L/T, refs reqʼd. $1,450/mon. 334-1614

ROOMMATE WANTED in shared home in Porter Creek, one unfurnished room for $600/mon, one furnished room for $700/mon, 335-3973 or 334-2832

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Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.

Expression of Interest - Casual Hire Curriculum Developer Skills for Employment - Childcare School of Academic & Skill Development January 20, 2014 to March 31, 2014 Hourly Rate: $32.30 to $36.33 Competition No.: 13.152 Initial Review Date: December 10, 2013

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$479,500 9 Topaz Crescent Whitehorse

867-667-6828

HOUSE HUNTERS

Yukon College is looking for qualified person(s), for developing and organizing Adult Basic Education (ABE) curriculum at Yukon College. Reporting to the Director of Academic and Skill Development, this position is responsible for developing curriculum for a Childcare, Skills for Employment program. The incumbent will be responsible for creating, planning and organizing new curricula; selecting appropriate instructional materials for inclusion in the curricula; meeting regularly with the course advisory committee and other content experts; and submitting completed curricula. The ideal candidate will have a post-secondary degree preferably at the graduate level with experience in adult educational programming and curriculum development. Additional experience in Early Childhood Education would be considered an asset.

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667-7681 or cell 334-4994 23 Lorne Rd. in McCrae

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NO Pad FEES UNTil FEB 2014! 2-bedroom upscale mobile home. $ Reduced to FOR QUick SalE

124,000

Call 334-6094 for more information.

For additional information please contact: Erica Bourdon, Instructor/Coordinator, School of Academic and Skill Development Email: ebourdon@yukoncollege.yk.ca Phone: (867) 456-8641 Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca

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Friday, December 6, 2013

À LA RECHERCHE D’UN EMPLOI?

has a vacancy for an:

AnimAl cAre worker (except farm) Aquarist for Arctic chArr fAcility (Noc 6563) Pay rate $16/hour, 40 hours per week.

RAYMOND BROS TRUCKING LTD Accepting resumes for WATER TRUCK OPERATORS Fort Nelson oil patch $27-$30/hr + overtime Seasonal camp work Class 1 or 3 First Aid, H2S & GODI required sraymond@northwestel.net Gold Village Chinese Restaurant Looking for experienced full-time kitchen helper and server Apply with resume to 401 Craig Street, Dawson City, YT Y0B 1G0 867-993-2368

to assist Management in maintaining and improving husbandry practices in all aspects of the aquaculture facility; participate in vaccination and brood stock programs; undertake research including recirculation technology. the applicant should have at least 12 months experience of fish health, breeding and genetics issues. An understanding of hAccP both for internal and export use, is required. high School, and college vocational qualifications in fish or animal health are required.

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