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orkers at the River View Hotel in Whitehorse have filed with Canada’s Industrial Relations Board to join the United Association Local 310 union. If successful, the staff would be following in the footsteps of employees at the Coast High Country hotel, who unionized last summer. Front desk, housekeeping and maintenance workers at the River View filed to join the union on Monday, along with serving staff and kitchen workers at the hotel’s Fusion Restaurant. According to one River View employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, two of the staff ’s largest concerns are high turnover and potentially unsafe working conditions. The hotel is near some of the city’s rowdier bars, and sometimes those patrons wander into the River View lobby after hours. Currently, only hotel guests are allowed into the building after 11 p.m. They can register an overnight guest ahead of time, but enforcing those rules can be hard. Front desk employees work the overnight shift alone, and if a situation with an unwelcome visitor gets out of hand, the only recourse is to call the manager or the police. Staff say they want to see security features like a key-card entry system put in place to allow guests to come and go after 11 p.m. but restrict access to others. Hotel owner Daniel Jung could not be reached for comment. Hotel manager Kaitlyn Spurvey, who answered questions on his behalf, said the hotel shares its employees’ concerns and takes security very seriously. They have put in “pretty extreme” security measures to deal with the issue, she said. While there are no guestonly locks on the doors, the lobby does have a video camera. Guests are asked to show ID

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Jeff Sloychuk is a union organizer with Local 310 and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, who helped with the push to get both the Coast High Country and now the River View hotels unionized.

after 11 p.m. and both she and the police are only a phone call away, Spurvey said. As for the unionization push itself, Spurvey read from a prepared statement by the owner. “We’ve had a lot of discussion about it, and this is really something for our employees to decide. We deeply value our employees and we know that together we will continue to provide the best hospitality in the business for our guests,” she said. Jeff Sloychuk, a union organizer with Local 310 and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, said there’s a push to get service industry workers into unions across Canada, as lifelong, stable jobs disappear. “You’re seeing a decline in pensionable jobs, and people are having to take more precarious employment,” Sloychuk said. “Yes, this is a strategic move for us to get more of these workers in the union, but we don’t seek them out. They come to us.” Often, workers will come in with concerns about labour standards violations or unfair employment practices. Sloychuk’s office can help them make a formal complaint, but in the small workplaces common to the Yukon’s service industry,

keeping complainants anonymous can be challenging. And after a complaint is heard and ruled on, there is no protection for those workers. Joining a union is an alternative, Sloychuk said, to dealing with workplace problems while also encouraging staff retention. “We’re not at the same level of tourism and hospitality up here as some of the big destinations down south, but we’d like to be. While mining and industry are key to the territory’s economy, they fluctuate a lot. Tourism isn’t going anywhere,” he said. He compared service industry jobs here with those at places like the Banff Fairmont Springs Hotel or even some of the smaller restaurants in the Canadian Rockies. Many of those jobs are well-paying and unionized, he said, which makes them very competitive positions to get into. That in turn helps increase the quality of service, which is good for the business and the tourist economy itself, he said. The River View staff will have to wait about a month while the Industrial Relations Board reviews its files to find out if the unionize drive is successful. Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

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Former reporter claims Kwanlin Dun chief’s seat Jesse Winter News Reporter

oris Bill is Kwanlin Dun’s new chief. Bill won Wednesday’s election with 152 votes, a narrow 13-vote margin over runner-up Jessica Edzerza, who claimed 139. “I knew it was going to be a tough race, and that Jessica would be my closest rival,” Bill said yesterday after her win was announced. “In the last election, Jessica ran for a councillor position and won the most votes in that race, so I knew she’d be tough,” Bill said. Bill comes to the role after more than two decades as a reporter for CBC North in Whitehorse. She retired last April and spent some of the intervening time working as a communications consultant for Kwanlin Dun. The campaign was a hard one for Bill, made harder by a lastminute complication on voting day when a NorthwesTel technical problem knocked out cellular service for part of Wednesday. “I’ve covered enough elections to know that you never take anything for granted. When I woke up and our phones weren’t working, we couldn’t talk to each other. I had to run and find a landline, so we were really scrambling,” Bill said. “We worked hard to get the votes out that we did. There were a lot of people telling me it’s going to be a landslide, but I never thought it would be,” Bill said. Raymond Sydney finished third with 97 votes and Wayne Jim claimed the remaining 60 ballots. In all, 448 Kwanlin Dun citizens cast ballots in the election, for a voter turnout of 54 per cent, a slight increase over 2011’s polls. In the race to fill the council seats, Jessie Dawson claimed the most votes, with 214. Charlene Charlie was only one vote behind her and Alicia Vance finished third with 190. All three held on to their seats from 2011.

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Doris Bill was elected chief of Kwanlin Dun First Nation on Wednesday night.

Newcomers round out the last three council seats: Howard MacIntosh, Sean Smith and Dennis Calbery. “I’m really excited about this new council,” Bill said. “I know all of them personally, and they are good, solid people.” During the campaign, Bill said she knocked on every single door in the McIntyre Village and met with as many KDFN citizens around Whitehorse as she could. Some of the recurring messages she heard were concerns over inadequate housing, wishes

for home ownership and worries about community safety. “What do we do with dangerous offenders coming back to our community? How do we address that?” Bill said. These issues will take centre stage for Bill and her new council once they finish the lengthy orientation process required for new chiefs and councillors. Bill takes over from a government with a strong financial footing. Outgoing chief Rick O’Brien leaves behind a roughly $3 million surplus that Bill said she wants to

put to work, starting with looking at the possibility of new infrastructure for the community. “We’ve outgrown our administration building, and we could use a new elders facility. I don’t know if we’ll be able to do all of that in one three-year term, but we can at least start laying the groundwork.” That isn’t the only area Bill wants to look at expanding, either. “Capacity development is a big one. Our economic development branch is doing some great work, but they could really use some more resources, another body or

two,” she said. Kwanlin Dun is the largest landowner in the city of Whitehorse. There was concern in some corners that former chief O’Brien didn’t do enough to maintain ties with the city and with the Yukon government, but Bill said that’s not something she’s worried about. “I know that O’Brien did meet with city officials from time to time. I can’t say how often, but I’ve spoken to the folks at the city, and they are keen to sit down and talk,” Bill said. Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

Former government employee sues after losing his job Ashley Joannou

of lay-off, the Yukon Housing Corporation had systematically removed the plaintiff ’s job former high-ranking offiresponsibilities and subjected cial with the Yukon Hous- him to unreasonable demands ing Corporation is suing and harassing conduct in the for wrongful termination. workplace, to the extent that the Marc Perreault, who worked plaintiff took three weeks of sick for the corporation for 12 years, including as acting vice president, leave in August 2013,” the court documents say. filed the lawsuit this week in YuPerreault does not provide any kon Supreme Court. specific examples of this type of Perreault, 49, was working treatment in the short statement as program director when he received notice of being laid off in of claim he filed. The government has not filed September 2013. “Prior to receiving the notice its statement of defence yet. News Reporter

“Upon returning from sick leave and without prior notice or warning, the plaintiff was given the notice of lay-off on Sept. 11, 2013,” the lawsuit says. Perreault claims he was laid off without cause or the appropriate notice. “The dismissal by the defendants without just cause and without reasonable notice constituted an arbitrary and willful breach of the plaintiff ’s contract of employment with the defendants and a wrongful dismissal of the plaintiff.”

Perreault says that while he was working for the housing corporation he was a valued and reliable employee. He was the public spokesperson for the department on a number of occasions. In 2012 Perreault, who is also a certified oil burner mechanic, chaired the oil-fired appliances working group that was created by the government following the deaths of five people in Porter Creek. According to court documents, at the time of his dismissal, Perreault was making $113,091 an-

nually plus vacation leave, various bonuses and medical benefits. He says his wrongful dismissal means he’s lost those type of benefits. “In particular, the plaintiff ’s wrongful dismissal has deprived the plaintiff of certain retirement benefits,” the lawsuit says. He is also suing for mental distress, claiming the government laid him off when they knew he was “particularly vulnerable.” The sides are scheduled to meet for a case management conference in May. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Whistleblowing laws don’t work: advocate Jacqueline Ronson

not working,” said David Hutton, executive director of the Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform. opying whistleblowing laws from We usually think about a whistlethe provinces won’t do anything blower as someone who speaks out to protect people who speak out in the in the media about corruption, shady public interest, according to a national deals, mismanagement of funds or group that advocates for the protecother unethical behaviour. tion of whistleblowers. But that’s not the sort of whistleThe Yukon has recently begun blower Canadian laws are intended to public consultation for its proposed protect. whistleblower protection laws. A docuIn fact, Yukon’s discussion document describes what is being done in ment has a section that strictly limits other Canadian jurisdictions and how the ability for whistleblowers to get Yukon intends to follow suit. information to the public. It says they can only do so in an “They’re copying legislation that’s News Reporter

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I hereby certify that at the Kwanlin Dün First Nation Council Election held on March 19, 2014 the following named candidates received the number of votes set opposite their respective names: CHIEF # OF VOTES Bill, Doris ................................................................................... 152 Edzerza, Jennifer ......................................................................... 139 Jim, Wayne ................................................................................... 60 Sydney, Raymond ......................................................................... 97 COUNCILLORS-AT-LARGE .................................... # OF VOTES Baker, Edith .................................................................................130 Bien, Shirley ..................................................................................66 Burns, Susan ...............................................................................140 Calbery, Amanda ............................................................................75 Calbery, Dennis............................................................................145 Charlie, Charlene .........................................................................213 Dawson, Jessie ............................................................................214 Fox, Jacine ....................................................................................91 MacIntosh, Howard ......................................................................166 Shorty, Jason .................................................................................98 Shorty, Steven................................................................................86 Smarch, Buck ............................................................................. 107 Smith, Sean .................................................................................156 Stanley, Mike ...............................................................................126 Vance, Alicia ................................................................................190 Ward, Teresa ................................................................................115 Webb, Ray ...................................................................................144 and further that 9 ballots were rejected/spoiled. KWANLINDÜN FIRST NATION COUNCIL I also hereby declare the following Candidates received the greatest number of ballots cast at the polls, and are therefore elected as the members of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation Council: CHIEF .......................................................................... Doris Bill COUNCILLOR.................................................... Charlene Charlie COUNCILLOR...................................................... Jessie Dawson COUNCILLOR........................................................... Alicia Vance COUNCILLOR.................................................Howard MacIntosh COUNCILLOR........................................................... Sean Smith COUNCILLOR.......................................................Dennis Calbery Dated at Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, this 19th day of March 2014. Mary Anne Carroll, Chief Returning Officer

urgent matter of public health and safety, and only after telling the police or chief medical officer of health, and their disclosure must follow the instructions of that authority. Instead, Canadian whistleblower laws set up a very narrow process for dealing with complaints. Typically, people must first go through internal processes, and only if that doesn’t work can they go to an ombudsman or special office set up to deal with complaints. “It just becomes a black hole where whistleblowers go and their allegations die, and they die with them,” said Hutton. Only one or two per cent of whistleblowers ever go public with their concerns, according to the group’s research, said Hutton. Usually, they just want the issue dealt with as quietly as possible. But the threat of going public is important, since it puts pressure on agencies to resolve the issue internally, he said. “Whistleblowers should be able to go basically anywhere that they think they’ve got a good chance of getting the issue dealt with,” said Hutton. “They go to the media as a last resort. If they don’t have that last resort, then there’s absolutely no pressure on the agencies or the departments to do anything.” Some jurisdictions in Australia have a clause in their legislation that

permits whistleblowers to take their complaint public if it is not being effectively dealt with internally. Perhaps surprisingly, this has led to stronger and more effective internal processes to deal with complaints, said Hutton. Hutton’s group is currently working on a report reviewing the effectiveness of whistleblowing legislation in the provinces. Six Canadian provinces currently have whistleblower legislation. Between them there are 19 annual reports from the offices set up to deal with whistleblower complaints. While those offices have received 170 formal disclosures of wrongdoing, they have not concluded that wrongdoing occurred in a single case. That doesn’t mean that no wrongdoing occurred, said Hutton, just that the language of the legislation is not strong enough to account for it. He mentioned the case of Linda Merk of Saskatchewan, who called out her union bosses for double-claiming expenses and was fired for it. When she took it to court, lawyers for the union argued that no wrongdoing occurred because there was no explicit policy against double dipping. Hutton mentioned also the Maid of the Mist scandal, where an untendered 25-year contract was quietly awarded to a Niagara Falls tour operator. After a whistleblower took the matter to the media the decision was overturned

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and the contract put out to tender, resulting in $300 million in additional revenue for the Ontario government over the life of the contract. That case did go before Ontario’s integrity commissioner, but no wrongdoing was found, as there was no explicit policy requiring the contract to be open for public tender. So the laws don’t work to expose wrongdoing, and they also do not protect whistleblowers, said Hutton. “It’s almost unheard of for a whistleblower to be protected in Canada.” He has personally taken calls from more than 350 whistleblowers, and almost every one of them has lost their job or suffered some other sanction for speaking out, he said. The laws typically offer protection by threatening fines or sanctions against people who punish whistleblowers for speaking out. But it’s an empty threat, since it is almost never used, said Hutton. His group has never heard of a single incident where someone has been penalized for a reprisal against a whistleblower, he said. Yukon’s discussion document on public interest disclosure of wrongdoing is available at www.psc.gov.yk.ca. The Public Service Commission will accept comments by mail or email through April 16. Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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Pharmacists could see expanded powers Ashley Joannou News Reporter

he Yukon government is moving to dust off the territory’s pharmacist legislation. Officials with the departments of health and social services and community services plan to create an advisory committee to help modernize the legislation. The Pharmacists Act was last revised in 2002, though some of its regulations were updated in 2010. In some Canadian jurisdictions, pharmacists can provide emergency prescription refills, renew or extend prescriptions, change a drug’s dosage, order and interpret lab tests or prescribe treatment for minor conditions. None of these things happen in Yukon pharmacies. Earlier this year, a local pharmacist called for the ability to provide vaccines. According to the Canadian Pharmacists Association, only the three territories and Saskatchewan do not allow their

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The Yukon government wants to update the Pharmacists Act.

pharmacists to administer drugs by injection. Updated legislation is pending in Quebec, P.E.I. and Newfoundland. Fiona Charbonneau, director of professional licensing and regulatory affairs for the

Yukon hits pause on Ross River bridge demolition

bridge,” said cabinet spokesperson Elaine Schiman on Thursday. The government is now considering next steps, which will likely The demolition of the Ross River include further discussions with bridge is on hold. the Ross River Dena Council, said The Yukon Party’s principal Schiman. secretary Gordon Steele and chief Until that work is completed the of staff Rick Nielsen travelled to the contractor hired to take down the community Tuesday to meet with bridge will stand by, she said. Ross River Dena Council Chief Meanwhile protesters have Brian Ladue and councillors from camped out around the clock on the the First Nation. Pelly River ice to prevent the demoli“The intent of the meeting was to tion from occurring. hear directly from Ross River Dena Schiman would not speak to how Council on the matter of Yukon the government intends to deal with government’s planned removal of the protesters, but said that public dangerous portions of the Ross River safety will remain the priority.

Department of Community Services, says the possibility of Yukon pharmacists being allowed to give vaccines is one of the things that could be considered. “Updating the legislation

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will take into account changes to the profession across the country, and the possibility of pharmacists providing vaccinations is something that may be considered as an expanded scope for Yukon pharmacists.”

eral exploration company. The money, announced this week, is to negotiate plans with Kaminak Gold Corporation on the development of the Coffee Creek Gold project. The Coffee Creek project is a high-grade oxidized gold site about 120 kilometres south of Dawson City. The communication and co-operation memorandum with Kaminak Gold is to protect traditional knowledge and define business opportunities, environmental issues and job opportunities during the exploration phase of the project, the federal government said.

The advisory committee will include representatives from the Yukon Pharmacists Association, Yukon Medical Association, Yukon Registered Nurses Association, and Yukon Hospital Corporation, as well as pharmacy owners, other local health professionals and members of the public. The government placed newspaper ads this week looking for members of the public from the communities. Once it’s created, Charbonneau said the group will meet regularly over the next several months to identify issues and concerns and make recommendations to the government. “When complete, the new legislation will allow for more collaborative health care and enhance the safety, efficiency and cost effectiveness of health care services,” she said. Once the committee is done, the public will also have a chance to provide feedback on the recommendations. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

“WRFN is thankful to Canada for helping facilitate the development of an agreement on Kaminak’s mineral exploration activities taking place in our traditional territory,” said Janet VanderMeer, lands co-ordinator for the First Nation. “Should we conclude an agreement, it will establish the terms of a respectful, mutually beneficial bilateral relationship with our government and the company during the exploration phase.” Since 2010, Kaminak has drilled 16 separate and distinct gold discoveries, according to the company. (Ashley Joannou)

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faction and transportation. “We strongly believe that the fuel is the project, essentially, and therefore they really needed to have been looking at that.” But the board declined the request, saying that what happens before the fuel gets to the Yukon border is not within its jurisdiction. If the board had considered those impacts it would have come to a different conclusion about the project, said Middler. A growing percentage of North America’s natural gas is produced through a controversial technique called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. That process uses large amounts of water and according to critics poses an unacceptable risk of contaminating groundwater with toxic chemicals. Yukon Energy has secured, at least for now, a frackfree source of natural gas in Alberta to fuel the proposed new generators. But fracking is not the only

beef the Yukon Conservation Society has with the project, said Middler. “Fracking aside, just the processing of the natural gas fuel, the liquefaction, is so energy intensive and greenhouse gas intensive.” And she’s not at all convinced that it will save Yukoners money on their utility bills in the long run, she said. Yukon Energy’s projections assume that natural gas will stay cheap in the long run, and that Yukon will burn a lot of it, said Middler. “The upfront capital cost of this project is very high, upwards of $40 million. For an emergency backup system that’s pretty extreme. That’s one of the reasons that we suspect and fear that this is not in any way intended to be exclusively for backup.” The utility should instead be investing in renewable options, she said. “This project will have really far-reaching ramifications for ratepayers, for the environment, for our ability

to invest in renewable energy, which is what we know we need to be doing, as opposed to expanding and entrenching our use of fossil fuels, this project will be a barrier to the kind of energy development that we know needs to take place.” The Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board will accept comments on the draft screening report through April 22. It will then develop its final recommendations. The project must also be approved by the Yukon Utilities Board. The board will host a public hearing on March 31 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Westmark Hotel in Whitehorse. Anyone who wishes to speak must register with the utilities board by March 28. The board will also accept written comments until March 31. More information is available on the Yukon Utilities Board website. Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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huck Eaton’s proposal to mine magnetite out of tailings at the old Whitehorse Copper mine has hit another serious snag. The project, which had been fully permitted to go ahead, is no longer. The Yukon Supreme Court has found that the Yukon government did not properly consult a company with mineral claims in the area before permitting the project. H. Coyne and Sons Ltd. owns 376 claims in northern portions of the Whitehorse

Copper Belt, including three quartz claims known as the Oro claims. The proposed magnetite mine is adjacent to those claims. At one point Eagle Whitehorse LLC had an agreement with Coyne and Sons to dump some tailings on the Oro claims, providing that some yet-to-be-determined compensation was granted for the access. Those details were never agreed to. The court found that the Yukon government should have consulted Coyne and Sons when Eagle amended its application so that tailings

would be placed on the Oro claims. The government “breached its duty of procedural fairness by not advising (Coyne and Sons) of Eagle’s application for the second amendment and failing to provide (the company) with any opportunity to make comments on the application,” wrote Justice Leigh Gower in his decision. This is the second recent setback for the mining project. In October, Eaton said that plans could be derailed because he could not reach an acceptable deal with Skagway’s port authority over a necessary expansion of the terminal for

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the start. Yukon winger Jarrett Malchow scored just 21 seconds after the FAIRBANKS, ALASKA puck dropped. Alaska responded f the gold medal midget hockey with four goals over the next six game is any more exciting than minutes and ended the first period the Yukon-Alaska semifinal, va- up 4-1. lium will be required for spectators. Malchow’s line-mate Wyatt Gale Paramedics may be required. didn’t let Alaska get off so easy. He A valiant comeback attempt by scored a natural hat trick in the secYukon sent fans of both sides into a ond as Yukon made it a game again, frenzy at the Arctic Winter Games going into the second intermission on Thursday. down 6-4. In the end Yukon lost 8-6 to the “We dug ourselves quite a hole Alaskans in midget male hockey, there in the first period, but they sending Yukon to the bronze game sure didn’t quit at all,” said Grant. and Alaska to the gold. “I’m sure not disappointed with “It was probably one of the more the effort, that’s for sure. They did a entertaining hockey games they’ll good job, came back. see here,” said Yukon head coach “There’s definitely a little bit John Grant. “I noticed none of the of disappointment in (the locker fans were leaving.” room) but they should be proud The building shook with the of themselves. They didn’t fold up. stomping of feet and vibrated from They could have turtled in the first screams in the stands. Spectators period after being down 4-1.” directed unpleasant criticisms at The ice surface may have referees immediately before loudly struggled to remain solid as things applauding their astute officiating. really heated up in the third. It was an emotional event on Yukon pulled within one of and off the ice. It was the right Alaska on a goal from Alex Hanson, atmosphere to propose marriage or assisted by Gale and centre Riley Pettitt. plan a murder, depending on the Pettitt, who assisted every Yukon period and who you were cheering goal in the game, then had the for. weight of the world tossed on his The game had all the indicashoulders. tions of a barnburner right from News Reporter

coffin with an empty-netter with 33 seconds on the clock. “It’s pretty heartbreaking,” said Pettitt. “We’re the defending champions and we know we could have beat this team. With a few bounces their way, it didn’t come out the way we wanted it to.” Not only did Pettitt assist every goal, when Gale wasn’t scoring, he was assisting. The two had 12 points between them in the semiTom Patrick/Yukon News final. Yukon centre Riley Pettitt goes in for a penalty shot during Gale and Pettitt are now the the midget male semifinal at the Arctic Winter Games on tournament’s top scorers. Gale has Thursday. Yukon lost 8-6 and will play for bronze on Friday. seven goals and six assists and Pettitt has four goals and eight assists. Coming out of the penalty box, before Pettitt scored on a breakaway “Me, Jarrett and Wyatt have been Pettitt stormed into a breakaway, with 1:41 left to force the stalemate. playing together a long time,” said getting pulled down as he ringed “They were ready to come out Pettitt. “Coming back and playing the puck off the post. in the third – they did it to us yeswith the guys one last time has been Yukon fans groaned as he put terday in the third,” said Grant. “We great from the get-go. It’s been easy the ensuing penalty shot off the knew we had a good chance if we to gel. We all know how each other post as well. just bear down and give it everyplay, so it’s been easy to play with “It’s probably going to eat away thing we have and we just came up them.” at me for a long time,” said Pettitt. a little bit short.” Yukon will face Nunavut for the “I knew I had that side on him and Even when Alaska scored a bronze Friday afternoon in Fairit hit the post. What else could I do? shorthanded goal with 3:30 left to banks. Yukon defeated Nunavut 6-1 It’s heartbreaking, knowing that make it 7-5, Yukon wouldn’t roll on Tuesday. could have been the deciding factor over. “We’re just going to go out and in the game.” Malchow scored his fourth of give it our all,” said Pettitt. “It’s our There was pushing and shoving the game on a two-on-one rush last kick at the can for all of us. So between whistles as tempers flared. with 1:19 left as Yukon goalie we might as well go out there and The two teams tied 6-6 the previTomas Jirousek skated to the bench show them what we’ve got.” ous day with Alaska scoring four to get the extra attacker on. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com third-period goals to take a 6-5 lead Alaska put the final nail in the

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ohn Streicker’s weakness as a politician has always been that he is far more reasonable than many of his followers realize. On the subject of oil and gas development, this has led to some sparks lately. In a long-winded commentary recently published by the Whitehorse Star, Peter Becker made some flamboyant and, as far as we can tell, unfounded accusations of Streicker, who is described as a paid oil-and-gas lobbyist and a “Manchurian gas candidate.” What had Streicker done to draw such accusations? Well, the city councillor and climate change expert was guilty of trying to be a good empiricist. That didn’t sit well with some of the territory’s more virulent anti-frackers, who, in their fervour for their cause, seem to mistake anyone who doesn’t recite their mantra that “fracking must be banned in the Yukon” as an enemy. This is a shame, for Streicker has some important contributions to the oil and gas debate, and by tarring him as a traitor to the environment, opponents of oil and gas development do a disservice to their own cause. In his submission to the Yukon legislature’s standing committee on oil and gas development, Streicker doesn’t outright demand that legislators ban fracking. Presumably, this is because he understands that’s a decision for our MLAs, and not him, to rightly make. But if you were to ask Streicker, as the News has, where he stands on fracking, he is clear in opposing it. As well, his recommendations to the standing committee propose a number of tight restrictions that could very well produce a similar effect as an outright ban. Streicker says that the Yukon should establish baseline water quality levels at any development, and to then monitor these levels with the requirement that groundwater pollution be essentially kept at zero.

Streicker also suggests the territory should set tough limits on the amount of so-called fugitive emissions. That refers to gases, particularly methane, that escape into the atmosphere during production. Because methane is an especially potent greenhouse gas, only a small quantity of the gas needs to escape to make natural gas, which is touted as the cleanest of fossil fuels, as dirty as alternatives. As far as Streicker could tell from his research, no jurisdiction has required industry to quantify and regulate fugitive emissions. If our legislators were to adopt these rules, it’s entirely possible that industry would balk and set up shop elsewhere. Yet, for Becker and other shriller opponents of fracking, suggesting such rules is no different than lobbying in favour of fracking. You are either with them or against them, it seems. Don Roberts, who helps head up Yukoners Concerned About Oil and Gas Development, has taken a similar swing at Streicker. In a recent open letter, he asks how Streicker, a past Green Party candidate and party president, could seek anything but an outright fracking ban, when that is what the party leader has sought. You would think someone like Roberts, who as an MLA quit the Yukon Liberal Party in a spat with its leader of the day, would appreciate the Green Party’s willingness to tolerate diversity of thought. Apparently not. Instead, he’s busy making the same insinuation as Becker, which is that Streicker is some sort of environmental sell-out. Streicker has found himself at odds with green orthodoxy before. For example, he views nuclear power as a necessary evil if we want to lower the world’s carbon emissions. It’s a stance that makes a lot of sense if you accept that most people aren’t willing to drastically reduce their energy consumption, but one at odds with the long-held Publisher

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opposition to nuclear power by many environmentalists. Reasonable people can disagree over whether the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing can be safely regulated. It’s not hard to find scary stories associated with the practice. It’s also not hard to notice that fracking is commonplace in much of North America, and there have been relatively few health or environmental scares at most sites where it has occurred. Anyone who hasn’t made up their minds on the issue, meanwhile, will be frustrated to soon realize how much partisans on both sides are prone to make exaggerated claims. Many readers will be familiar with the opening scene to the documentary Gasland, a film that is often cited by fracking foes. It shows a Colorado man setting his faucet on fire. Nearby drilling is faulted in the film. In fact, Colorado officials concluded otherwise. They found the homeowner’s water well had been drilled through a naturally occurring pocket of methane. To further complicate things, methane actually has been found to migrate into groundwater near some fracking sites where the wellbores had not been properly cemented. This problem seems to be solved with better sealing around the wellbore. Critics, however, point out that Reporters

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leaky pipes seem to be far from unusual in the gas industry. They doubt the ability of drillers to build wells that can be trusted to remain permanently tight, and of regulators to sniff out scofflaws. There are also many other concerns associated with fracking, from the vast amounts of water consumed to the poisonous additives used in fracking fluid. None of these worries are trivial. But our politicians will have to weigh them against the potential jobs and royalties that could flow from development. It’s yet another sign of the Yukon’s prosperity that we can afford to contemplate banning an entire industry. We can thank our generous federal transfer payments for that. It’s also hard to be too sanctimonious about oil and gas extraction as long as most of us depend on the stuff to fuel our cars, heat our homes and haul our food and other necessities up the Alaska Highway.

The real solution to curbing the amount of carbon being burned isn’t to fight local development, because fossil fuels will continue to be extracted elsewhere to support our lifestyles. Instead, Canada needs to put a price on carbon, whether as a simple tax or a fancy cap-andtrade system. Of course, when the Liberals’ Stephane Dion proposed such a measure in 2008, he faced a disastrous showing at the polls. Most Canadians like the idea of greening our economy, provided they don’t need to pay one penny for it to happen. It would be nice to see more people do as Streicker has, and champion this unpopular but necessary idea. The anti-fracking crusaders, meanwhile, should be careful to remember that by attacking people like Streicker for daring to express thoughts that don’t easily boil down to a bumper sticker, they only manage to damage their own credibility. (JT)

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Hard to put a price on ulu fever the time people took off work, the one-time expenses for specialty the amount Alaskans spent by Keith venues, in Canada at previous Arctic Winter Halliday Games and the emotional distress endured watching Team Yukon lose a nail-biter. The benefits of the Games are intangible but, in my opinion much bigger than any short-term boost to gross domestic product. I don’t have any numbers or an economic model to prove it, but let’s see if I he Arctic Winter Games will pump US$13 million into the can convince you. First of all, Arctics are a truly local economy, says a story in great learning experience for the the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. 2,000 young people lucky enough According to my credit card bill, to go. As legendary Yukon Commisthe Halliday family is doing more sioner Jimmy Smith foresaw when than its share to achieve this fiscal he founded the games in 1970 with fillip for the 49th state. his Alaskan and N.W.T. counterBut even an enthusiastic econoparts, a person can learn a lot from mist like me has to admit that competing with circumpolar peers. economics has its limits. You can’t A few personal stories bear this really justify an event like the Arctic out. I know a few dozen Yukon Winter Games by its fiscal impact teenagers who worked hard training alone. for biathlon, skiing, snowshoeing or Some fun-hating economist other sports and are now seeing the could probably even make a model pay-off, either in gold ulus or just showing the economic impact making a personal best in a strong field. I recognize athletes who were was negative after factoring in all

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14 years old at previous games, and are now leaders who coach and support the younger kids on their teams. I see teams get beaten, and learn how to get back up and try harder the next time. These lessons will last a lifetime. Secondly, as Alaska Governor Parnell noted in his speech to the opening ceremonies, many of the athletes in attendance will be leaders in their home regions in 20 or 30 years. Gathering them together in the formative late-teen years to make friends and share perspectives across borders is very important in the long-run. This is especially important for the kids from Russia, whose government is doing its thuggish best at the moment to isolate Russia and portray us Westerners as Russiahating villains. The Sochi Olympics may have given an unfortunate prestige boost to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, but we have done our bit to make a lasting positive impression on a small number of Russian youth. Hopefully they will remember their Games experiences in Whitehorse or Fairbanks and

what an open, democratic and modern capitalist society looks like when they get to positions of authority in Salekhard (the capital of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in case you didn’t know). Arctics are also a chance to celebrate our northerness. It is a sort of character-building exercise to go to Canada Games and get trounced by Ontario. But there is something special about competing in northern sports with our northern peers. All of the Games jurisdictions have strong north-south links, whether that is Fairbanks-Seattle, Whitehorse-Vancouver, YellowknifeEdmonton, or Yamal-Moscow. It broadens the mind to meet people from across the circumpolar world. The University of Alaska Fairbanks – quite an impressive institution – had this in mind when they put on a university fair for participants, reminding Yukon kids that they qualify for in-state tuition like Alaskans. It is also worth pointing out how the Games celebrate both the North’s First Nation and non-First Nation heritages. There are aborig-

inal kids on basketball teams and non-aboriginal kids in Inuit Sports and Dene Games. This isn’t just celebrating diversity in theory, it is living it in real life. Finally, the Games are just plain fun. The whole community can get involved in a positive way, either competing, volunteering or just sponsoring the events. The Fairbanks flower shop near my hotel has a big sign out front that says “Go Team Alaska! We’re So Excited We Wet Our Plants!” The News-Miner says the budget for the Games is about $6.5 million, plus whatever the Yukon and other places spend sending their teams. The Arctic Winter Games are worth it. I hope future governments keep funding them generously. And I’m glad we had visionary leaders like Jimmy Smith to get the ball rolling. Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels. You can follow him on Channel 9’s Yukonomist show or Twitter @hallidaykeith

Celebrate diversity and human rights Jolene Waugh

Historically, Canada is seen as a leader in the advancement of human rights: it was a Canadian, John Humphrey, who drafted n March 21, 1960, 69 people died in Sharpeville, South Africa when police the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson who mapped opened fire on peaceful demonstrathe way for international peacekeeping bodies tors protesting “pass laws”: a repressive tool and Canada was the fourth country to legalize of apartheid that prohibited free movement same-sex marriage. In 2010, Canada also supof black South Africans. Today, the world recognizes March 21 as the International Day ported the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. for the Elimination of Racism and DiscrimiHere at home in Yukon, many organizanation. tions strongly voice the need to eliminate The Sharpeville massacres are a defining event in our global history of racism and dis- racism and discrimination in our own comcrimination. There are so many more: slavery, munity. We applaud the City of Whitehorse for recently joining the Canadian Coalition the Holocaust, human trafficking, genocide, and murdered and missing aboriginal women, of Municipalities Against Racism and Disall based on differences in ethnic background, crimination and establishing its first advisory skin colour, religious belief, gender and sexual committee. However, Canada is not without its own orientation. human rights violations. Written into our The international community took notice history are the Chinese head tax and various of the Sharpeville massacre and demonstraprohibitions against Chinese-Canadians in tions took place in many countries, condemning the act of the South African govern- the late 1800s, the internment of JapaneseCanadians during the Second World War, ment. Canada supported the expulsion of the turning-away of Jewish refugees seeking South Africa from the Commonwealth and denounced apartheid by taking a leading role sanctuary from Canada at the height of the Holocaust and the forced relocation of Inuit in forcing economic sanctions against South citizens into the High Arctic in the 1950s to Africa.

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protect Canadian sovereignty. Systemic racism and discrimination in Canada was manifested in the government policy of “aggressive assimilation” under which aboriginal children were taken from their families and made to endure the tragically ill-conceived system of residential school. The ongoing effects of residential school are traumas many still live with daily. In a report published in 2012 by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Canada was commended for endorsing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. However, there was also deep concern over long-standing issues that still need to be addressed, particularly for aboriginal people. Among the 31 concerns set out in the UN report were the continuing rise of racial profiling and disproportionately high rates of African Canadians and aboriginal people in the criminal justice system. The United Nations’ highest body for combating racism and discrimination is strongly pressing Canada to take more comprehensive action to end racism and discrimination. It is time for Canada to restore its role as a world leader in challenging racism and

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discrimination. At the same time, here in the Yukon, we must also take the opportunity to learn from our own community’s diversity and embrace our differences. It is the only way we can grow as a human family. If we acknowledge that diversity is an asset for the advancement and welfare of our community we are in a unique position to enrich our territory – politically, economically, socially, culturally and spiritually. Come to the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, from 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., Friday, March 21, on International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Join us in celebrating diversity, promoting equality and building a territory where racism and discrimination are not accepted. The Yukon Human Rights Commission is an independent commission created by the Yukon Legislative Assembly. Our mandate is to promote equality and human dignity through research, education and enforcement of the Yukon Human Rights Act. For questions or concerns call our Help Line at 667-6226 or 1-800-661-0535. Jolene Waugh is a member of the Yukon Human Rights Commission

Russia will not allow the West to absorb Ukraine and have NATO missiles placed there. That is a non-startThe morning of March 10, Ned er. I don’t want to see any Canadians Cathers from Cathers Wilderness like this that make you realize what a for Israel and your support for this going to Canadian Tire. I stopped die over this or our government Adventures dropped me off in wonderful world we live in. repugnant regime change? two young ladies, coming out of throw money they don’t have at this. downtown Whitehorse to pick me Russia’s agreement with Ukraine Baked, and asked them where The U.S.-led NATO is risking war up to take me to the airport a couple Canadian Tire was, at the same time Peter Jensen on the use of the naval base at Sevasof hours later; I had spent a weekend telling them my predicament. The Tsawwassen, B.C. topol allows it to protect its interests in this dangerous aggression in Eastout at Cathers’ place mushing – there. Where in the world did Europe, ern Europe. It must not be supported young ladies were quick to tell me fantastic. In defence of Russia the U.S.A and others think that Rus- by our government. that it was too long of a walk, and no, If Kosovo can declare independI looked around Main Street a bit I could not talk them out of it, both sia would allow them to undertake ence, so can Crimea. The hypocrisy is and then felt like a coffee. Walking I wish to express my profound disand sponsor regime change in the reached into their purses and gave into Baked, I realized that I had left me money to buy myself a coffee. pleasure of our government spending Ukraine, putting a bunch of neo-Nazi beyond belief. my wallet in my luggage, and the lug- Young ladies, thank you again! $220 million on supporting an illegal thugs in charge of the majority, who Neil Rollinson gage was in Ned’s truck. Now what? I have travelled a lot in my life, all neo-Nazi government in the Ukraine. want nothing to do with this illegal government in Kiev? I remembered Ned saying he was over the world, and it is moments How can you balance your support Whitehorse

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Shorthanded Yukon rink wins gold by an inch Tom Patrick

Yukon defeated Alberta North 7-6 for the top spot. Making the win all the FAIRBANKS, ALASKA more dramatic, there were oe Wallingham’s loudest only three Yukoners on the yells came in the last game, sheet for the gold medal game in the last end, on his last – and for most of the week, shot. for that matter. The rock the Yukon skip Teammate Will Klassen had sent down the ice for the was out of action on Day 2 win was misbehaving. with a sports hernia, leaving “I threw it and I thought it just Wallingham, Jensen and was pretty good, but then it Brayden Klassen, Will’s older started dying,” said Wallingbrother. ham. “It dug in and dug in, It meant more throws for and when it hit the house it Jensen and Brayden, and a lot pretty much stopped. I don’t more sweeping for all three, know how it moved an extra but they got it done. foot to get shot, but it was “The three of us have been close. curling all year and we know “We were all yelling … it how each other plays and was pretty exciting.” whatnot, we know how to Wallingham’s rock, with read each other’s rocks,” said some frantic sweeping from Wallingham. “So it wasn’t that teammate Trygg Jensen, found difficult transitioning to three its target. players. It is different because With the shot Yukon’s there’s only one sweeper most Team Wallingham won gold of the time, so you have to in junior men’s curling at compensate for that.” the Arctic Winter Games on The final was tense. The Thursday by an inch. team scored four in the third News Reporter

win over Yukon. “We knew we’d have to play them three times once we sized up the competition,” said Yukon coach Kevin Patterson. “After we lost to them the first time, we learned a lot of what we needed to do next time in terms of game plans. We definitely executed that in the semi and most of the final and then got it done when we Tom Patrick/Yukon News needed to.” Yukon skip Joe Wallingham releases a shot as Trygg Jensen Thursday marked the sweeps against Alberta North at the Arctic Winter Games in second Arctic Games in a row Fairbanks, Alaska, on Wednesday. Yukon hoisted gold in junior male curling. “It was definitely a strugend to make it 5-1 only to The Wallingham rink, with gle,” said Brayden. “We went watch the lead erode as Alberta scored individual points up four and then having them Spencer Wallace as second, come back was a real shocker.” placed ninth at the Canadian over the next four ends. Junior Curling Champion“It was pretty nerve-rackAlberta North and Yukon ships in January. locked horns three times ing,” said Wallingham. “We “For me this is the climax got kind of down on ourselves in the tournament. Yukon reached the gold medal match of the year,” said Patterson. because they were coming with an 8-3 win over Alberta, “We put in a lot of hours back on us after we were up who then had to beat Alaska by so much. They kept stealfrom the beginning of Octoing on us and we couldn’t to get into the final. ber up to now. So to cap Yukon went 3-1 in the score. It was definitely getting it off with a very big win round-robin placing second old, not scoring, so we just is very satisfying.” behind Alberta North, who stuck in there and pulled it Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com went undefeated with a 6-4 out in the end.”

Alberta North sends Yukon to bronze game Tom Patrick

last game we had played two in the day. But from yesterday to today it was a 100 per cent FAIRBANKS, ALASKA improvement. ukon’s female hockey “I know the shots on net team will attempt to make are lopsided, but I’m proud of it two bronzes in a row for the the girls. They worked hard territory at the Arctic Winter every shift. Our third line got Games. the goal.” The Yukon squad will play Yukon goalie Abigail Turnfor third after a 3-1 semifier stopped 40 of 43 shots sent nal loss to Team Alberta on her way while her team only Thursday. delivered 13 to the Alberta’s The fact that Yukon lost 6-0 netminder. to Alberta North on WednesYukon evaded the shutday seemingly made the loss out on a goal from Yukon’s less unexpected and easier to Mykhaila McInroy. The swallow. winger put her team on “It was a real improvethe board when an Alberta ment from the last game, defender lost her footing and we brought our game up,” coughed up the puck in front said Yukon head coach Louis of the Alberta net and McInBouchard. “Of course in our roy seized the opportunity for News Reporter

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Yukon captain Chyanne Spenner puts a shot on net against Alberta North in the junior female semifinal at the Arctic Winter Games on Thursday. Yukon lost 3-1 and will play N.W.T. for bronze.

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better than we did yesterday. Despite the score, I know we played great. “I think we just believed in ourselves more – I know it sounds sappy. We came together as a team more.” Yukon, who finished third in the pool of five teams in the round-robin with a 2-2 record, will play Team Northwest Territories for bronze on Friday. Yukon defeated N.W.T. 2-1 on Tuesday with goals from captain Chyanne Spenner and defenceman Tamara Greek. Alberta North will take on Team Alaska for the gold on Friday. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Oliver is Harper’s man for the pre campaign Economic Action Plan sales pitch Jennifer Ditchburn

no muss. As Joe Oliver stepped into the Finance portfolio Wednesday, OTTAWA replacing longtime minister Jim or a time, the Conservative gov- Flaherty, some wondered whether ernment used something called he would be given any latitude, or “event in a box” to help guide MPs simply be rolling out a pre-election on public announcements, a ready- package. made communications kit that “My overarching priority is to continue the government’s agenda could be rolled out with no fuss, Canadian Press

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of creating jobs and growth right across the country,” Oliver told The Canadian Press in an interview. Oliver will preside over just one federal budget before the fall 2015 election, one that is guaranteed to feature a surplus for the first time since 2007. Whatever moves Oliver makes in his new portfolio will be done at least partly in the context of electoral strategy and the shape of the next Conservative platform, elements highly controlled by the prime minister and party headquarters. Keith Beardsley, a former aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, said there’s a perception of 73-yearold Oliver as a place holder before the next election. “You now have someone stepping in those shoes with a prime minister who certainly has his own opinions on the economy, and tax cuts, and everything else. So I think leading up to the election it’s probably going to be largely controlled from PMO, through the PM directly,” said Beardsley. On the other hand, the former investment banker was not one to shy away from a conversation about his portfolio at Natural Resources. Oliver is also regarded as a straight shooter, a bilingual one to boot. He has much more business

experience than Flaherty did when he began in 2006. Sandra Buckler, a former director of communications to the prime minister, said it is a disservice to Oliver to think of him as a mere spear carrier. Buckler worked on Oliver’s 2011 election campaign, and called him indefatigable and highly personable. She said Oliver fit right into cabinet, despite the fact he was a first-time politician, and has never been afraid to say “tough things publicly.” “I think he will be able to provide a steady hand to make sure the government will deliver on what it promised, which will be a pretty good surplus, but the needs and emphasis will have to be fine tuned,” said Buckler, vice-president of Bluesky Strategy Group. “Will there be discussions around the cabinet table? Absolutely. … Will there be discussion between the prime minister and the finance minister about what the final product will be? For sure. And I trust Joe to make sure he speaks up for what he believes should be there.” How he navigates the debate inside the Conservative caucus over the controversial platform promise to extend income splitting to couples with children will be

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Greg Rickford could bring more collegial approach to Natural Resources portfolio Bruce Cheadle

knowledging Rickford’s reputation. nounced it had hired Jim Prentice, The Greenpeace activist said a former Harper environment minthe real test for the federal Natural ister, to help broker a deal with First OTTAWA Resources portfolio will come later Nations who oppose its Northern he arc of Greg Rickford’s career this spring when the government Gateway project. isn’t the norm but should give makes a decision on the controver“They’ve recognized the imporhim an interesting perspective on his sial Northern Gateway pipeline from tance – the necessity – of building latest professional challenge. Alberta to Kitimat, B.C. better relations with First Nations From nurse to lawyer to MBA “Acknowledging that this pipeline and arriving at economic partnerto member of Parliament, and now cannot be built in the face of an un- ships with First Nations that are the new federal Natural Resources broken wall of resistance from First respectful of the environment and minister, Rickford, 46, has spent a lot Nations and their supporters would First Nations’ jurisdiction,” Prentice of time dealing with First Nations issaid at the time. Adrian Wyld/CP send a very clear message that this sues in Ontario’s rugged and remote Rickford’s promotion may indiGreg Rickford leaves Rideau Hall after he was sworn in as the government is listening to more than northwest. just the oil industry,” Stewart said. cate the government has heard and new Natural Resources minister on Wednesday in Ottawa. Since last July, he’s been imEarlier this month, Enbridge an- acknowledged the same message. mersed in helping shepherd a resources minister. opment and the need for a much massive northern Ontario mining “We’ve said this is a project of namore proactive outreach by both Our goal: development proposal through the tional significance that they should government and business to ensure 50% less waste federal-provincial funding labyrinth and build the successful involvement partner with us on,” said Gravelle. to the landfill – a file fraught with political oneThe Ontario Liberal said Oliver’s of First Nations communities in the by 2015. upmanship that Rickford has mostly resource economy.” promotion to finance minister also avoided. bodes well, as two top cogs in the During a housing crisis in AtSo when Prime Minister Stephen tiwaspiskat in the winter of 2011-12, Harper cabinet are now fully up to Harper tapped the Kenora, Ont., MP Rickford stepped in to handle the As of May 1, 2014, all CARDBOARD speed and cognizant of the imporon Wednesday to replace Joe Oliver, public diplomacy for then-minister tance of the huge mining developneeds to be recycled. the newly promoted finance minisJohn Duncan, managing to lower the ment. ter, even the Conservative governNDP natural resources critic temperature somewhat on a battle ment’s critics were ready to cut him that was threatening to shatter the Peter Julian said the Harper governsome slack. ment has done a poor job of ensurrelationship between First Nations Those who know Rickford say ing there is “social licence” for major and the Harper government. he’ll bring a collegial, level-headed resource development projects, He has lived and worked as a approach to some of the biggest eco- nurse and later a lawyer in Pikangiparticularly pipeline developments. nomic files on the Harper govern“For the government’s sake, if kum, Ont., among the poorest ment’s plate. nothing else, the government needs aboriginal communities in the “He’s a practical, smart and to set a whole new tone,” on resource country, so Rickford has first-hand down-to-earth guy,” said Geoff knowledge of the desperate econom- development said Julian, who said he Cardboard is 7% of what currently Norquay, a former senior aide to personally likes Rickford and looks ic conditions and isolation of some Harper who knows Rickford well. goes into our landfill. forward to working with him. First Nations. Rickford was not available for an “Does he have the background? Michael Gravelle, Ontario’s interview Wednesday but issued a Recycling cardboard will save you a Yes. Will he establish that new tone? I provincial minister of Northern statement saying “I will be a staunch Development and Mines, has dealt certainly hope so.” $250/tonne disposal fee! advocate for Canada’s abundant Keith Stewart, a politically atwith Rickford on a number of issues natural resources and the thousands – notably the proposed Ring of Fire tuned researcher for Greenpeace of jobs this sector creates for all Canada, groused that all impormining development in northwestDo you have cardboard? Canadians.” ern Ontario – and calls him a friend tant decisions in the Conservative His record tells something of government come straight from the despite their partisan party differYes, a lot: what he brings to the new job. Prime Minister’s Office. ences. 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Tory MP on cusp of retirement laments decline of Commons civility Jennifer Ditchburn Canadian Press

OTTAWA is military background meant that MP Laurie Hawn was involved in some of the most heated Commons debates on matters such as the torture of Afghan detainees, the treatment of veterans and the purchase of new fighter jets. The Edmonton Tory, who announced this week he will not seek re-election, was often the government’s key attacker in the parliamentary committees he sat on. With a suffer-no-fools style, he would question the credibility of witnesses and correct what he saw as mistakes in the public record. But as he looks towards retirement, Hawn says he’s concerned about a general decline of civility in Parliament over the eight years he’s been in Ottawa. “It’s no secret, obviously Parliament has been combative,” said the 66-year-old former lieutenant-colonel in the Royal

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Hawn doesn’t lay the blame for the lack of civility on any particular party, or expect any particular leader to produce a solution. “I think it does come down to individuals thinking about what they’re doing and saying every day and just the simple things. People fire a shot, a nasty shot, instead of just saying, ‘Well you know what, maybe they’ve got some good ideas’,” said Hawn. “I’ve always said, the opposition aren’t stupid people, we’re all here for the same reason, they all came to Ottawa to make a positive difference and we all want to get essentially to the same destination … we argue about the road we’re on to get there.” Behind the scenes, Hawn says

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there has actually been decent camaraderie among MPs of different stripes, but question period isn’t the best place to detect that. “I can say that in the veterans affairs committee we do have good discussions and we don’t all read from talking points … “It is very free-flowing and we do have good co-operation across the floor.” Hawn says he feels serene about his decision to leave federal politics, just as he did after he decided to leave the military.

He is awaiting the birth this month of his second grandchild. “The best part of the job is the people and the worst part of the job is the people,” says Hawn. “Dealing with constituents and being able to solve local problems for constituents, that feels good – when you get stopped on the street and somebody says out of the blue, ‘Hey, thanks very much for fixing my problem or for doing a good job’.”

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Investigators found a significant amount of water inside his clothing. One of the other rescuers had noticed Gilbert’s zipper hadn’t been done up all the way before the jump. “Sources for water may have been the open zipper observed prior to his jump, or his neck seal, if it was not sufficiently tensioned prior to the jump,” says the report. “The exact status of the zipper and the neck seal before the jump were unknown.” The report also recommends many improvements to equipment and procedures. It notes the decision to jump was made without a plan for how the rescuers would return to safety. “This investigation identified gaps and deficiencies in training, equipment and operations,” the report concludes. “Although (the) crew ultimately rescued the men in distress, the mission’s cost of one (search-and-rescuer’s) life was extreme. “This tragic outcome emphasizes the need for dedicated training in open sea, cold water rescues and the need for highly specialized equipment, specific procedures and realistic contingency plans.”

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OTTAWA he Conservative party is blanketing the country with a fresh round of television ads attacking Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau – but unlike past campaigns, it hasn’t posted the spots online nor informed its supporters about the big ad buy. Vigilant politics watchers began posting ad sightings on Twitter on Monday, and by week’s end it was evident that three different Trudeau ads are being aired on everything from morning news shows to prime time network TV and sports channels. Sharply worded spots playing off Trudeau comments on deficits, terrorism and marijuana legalization have been reported airing during popular fare such as The Bachelor finale, Grey’s Anatomy, Jeopardy, Corner Gas, Modern Family, The Goldbergs and Hell’s Kitchen. All the ads feature Trudeau peeling off his shirt, a video clip from a 2011 charity fundraiser for the Canadian Liver Foundation. Cory Hann, a spokesman for the Conservative party, would not agree to an interview Friday but said in an email that “Canadians should know where a man who wants to be prime minister stands on important questions like how to balance the budget, create jobs, manage the economy and keep communities and families strong.” The governing party launched a barrage of television ads against Trudeau last spring immediately after he was elected Liberal party leader and have had a long-running series of Trudeau-focused radio ads airing across the country. Unlike previous high-profile Conservative ad campaigns, the party has not posted the latest spots online where they can be shared, reviewed and critiqued. Hann would only say the ads are for television only. He wouldn’t comment on the scope and duration of the current ad buy.

Alex Marland, a professor at Memorial University who specializes in political communication, says the Liberals under Trudeau have become adept at using Conservative attacks to stir the Liberal base and raise funds – which may explain why the Tories haven’t provided an online record of the ads. “Now the Liberals seem to be using these Conservative ads to try to galvanize their own base – ‘My goodness, look at this latest attack on Justin! Why don’t you donate to the Liberal party to help us prevent this from happening again?’ ‘’ said the academic. Marland said the tactic of getting media coverage in order to amplify paid advertising campaigns may have reached the point of diminishing returns. “They’re focused on bypassing the mainstream media and going directly to their target audiences.” Allan Middleton, a marketing professor at York University’s Schulich School of Business, also suspects the Conservatives are trying to do an end run around media scrutiny of the campaign. “You (reporters) get to see the whole campaign and comment on it,” he said. “That part might be making them nervous.” Middleton notes the Conservatives have been highly successful with negative ad campaigns during non-election periods targeting previous Liberal leaders Stephane Dion and Michael Ignatieff. “But the first time they seemed to have got a real push back was on Trudeau. They undoubtedly recognize they’re dealing with a slightly different property here.” MP Dominic LeBlanc, the Liberal deputy leader, said the latest Conservative barrage isn’t surprising. “They’re obsessed with Mr. Trudeau,” said LeBlanc. The pricey TV ads targeting Trudeau come as some NDP MPs are noticing a much more lowtech Conservative attack directed their way. Cheap, single-page leaflets – known as 10-per-centers – are

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scarcity. The act will also help officials measure and report large-scale Balancing the budget protects our economy and keeps VICTORIA use and regulate and protect it strong. Economic Action Plan 2014* includes proposed nvironment Minister Mary groundwater. investments in things that matter to Canadians like: Polak has turned the taps on The minister said that durBritish Columbia’s Water Act, • Enhanced broadband internet service for rural ing the consultations, which refreshing the century-old law and Northern Canadians began in 2009, the government with new legislation and vowing received thousands of ideas and • A new Search and Rescue Volunteers Tax Credit to make the province a steward- recommendations. • The New Horizons for Seniors Program ship leader. Polak also announced the Following years of consultagovernment will be reviewing its • New measures to support apprentices in the trades tions with First Nations, outapproach to water pricing and • Improved and expanded snowmobile and door and recreational groups, has released a set of principles recreational trails across the country Polak introduced the Water that will help set up a new fee Sustainability Act in Victoria on and rental structure. • Enhanced funding for Nutrition North Canada to Tuesday. She said the government will help improve access to healthy foods in isolated Expected to come into effect be engaging British Columbians Northern communities in the in the spring of 2015, the on the issue during the next *Subject to Parliamentary approval new law will replace one that has month. been on the books since 1909 – a “That feedback will help us time when B.C.’s population was as we go about designing a new just 350,000, said Polak. framework for fees and rentals,” “The development of the new she said. Water Sustainability Act is an Not all large-scale water users achievement of historic imporhave been paying for their water, tance for British Columbia,” said in one case the Nestle Canada Polak. “The act will respond to plant has been paying nothing to and future pressures bottle an estimated 256 million Find out more about how Economic Action Plan 2014 current on our fresh water including, litres of water for sale annually. groundwater, and position our Under such a framework, new can help you at province as a leader in water fees could apply to Nestle. stewardship.” Mark Angelo, spokesman for The Environment Ministhe Outdoor Recreation Council try said in a news release that of British Columbia, welcomed the new law will better protect news of the new legislation, saySUN. MAR 23 aquatic environments such ing it was something his group as streams, consider water in 7:30pm wanted for a long time. DOCKET NUMBER : FD-3035 PRODUCER DATE PROOF # land-use decisions and regulate He said the Water Act was Beringia Centre Claire Esseltine Mar 5, 2014the resource during 3 times of FILE NAME : FD3035_EAP2014_E_4C_North developed during an era when Whitehorse Canadian Press

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Friday, March 21, 2014

Yukon News

Pro-Russian crowds seize 2 Ukrainian warships; EU considers more sanctions against Russia Jim Heintz And David Rising

indefinitely. Russia holds the presidency of the G-8 and PresiAssociated Press dent Vladimir Putin was due to host his counterparts, including KYIV, Ukraine President Barack Obama, at a ro-Russian crowds seized two G-8 summit in Sochi in June. Ukrainian warships Thurs“So long as there aren’t the day and Ukraine said its troops political circumstances, like now, were being threatened in Crimea for an important format like as the European Union conthe G-8, then there is no G-8,” sidered new sanctions against Merkel said. “Neither the sumRussia for its annexation of the mit, nor the format.” Black Sea peninsula. The EU and the United Tensions in the region reStates have slapped sanctions mained high despite the release on individuals involved in what of a Ukrainian naval command- they say was Crimea’s unlawful er held by pro-Russian forces. referendum over joining RusShots were fired but there sia. Moscow formally annexed were no casualties as the Ukrai- Crimea earlier this week in the nian corvette Khmelnitsky was wake of the poll. The Black Sea seized in Sevastopol, according peninsula had been part of Rusto an AP photographer at the sia for centuries until 1954 when scene. Another ship, the Lutsk, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushwas also surrounded by prochev transferred it to Ukraine, Russian forces. and many residents were happy The Defence Ministry had no about rejoining Russia. immediate information on the Russian forces effectively took incidents. control of Crimea some two Ukraine’s Deputy Defence weeks ago in the wake of the Minister Leonid Polyakov acouster of Ukraine’s pro-Russia cused Russian troops of conpresident, Viktor Yanukovych, stantly threatening to storm after months of protests and military bases where Ukrainian sporadic violence. The crisoldiers were located, according sis erupted late last year after to the Interfax news agency. Yanukovych backed out of an In Geneva, Ukraine’s ambasassociation deal with the EU in sador to the United Nations favour of a promised $15 bilwarned of a sharp deterioration lion bailout from Russia. That in relations between the two angered Ukrainians from the neighbours, saying that Russia country’s pro-European central appears to be preparing for a and western regions. military “invasion” in more areas Merkel said EU leaders would of his country. increase those “level 2” sancAmbassador Yuri Klymenko tions against Russia when they said there were “indications that meet later Thursday in Brussels Russia is on its way to unleash a to widen the list of those whose full-blown military invention in assets are being frozen and who Ukraine’s east and south” since are banned from travelling. its annexation of Crimea. He She also reiterated that if said his statement was based on things worsen, the EU is prepared to move to “level 3” information from non-governmeasures, which would include mental organizations. economic sanctions. In an address to the German “The European Council will Parliament in Berlin, Chancellor make it clear today and tomorAngela Merkel said the EU was row that with a further deterioreadying further sanctions and ration of the situation we are that the G-8 forum of leading always prepared to take level 3 economies had been suspended

shopping or garbage bags filled with their belongings. They weren’t evacuating, they said, just transferring their things to a safe place. They were worried that pro-Russian mobs might loot the facility, as they heard happened the day before in nearby Sevastopol. Since Russian forces took charge in Crimea, Ukrainianenlisted personnel and officers have been bottled up in barracks and other buildings at one end of the Belbek base, with the Russians in control of the airfield. “We’re waiting for what Kyiv, Maxin Vetrov/AP our leadership, tells us,” said one major, who declined to give his A man shakes hands with soldiers in unmarked uniforms on name. The major said he exguard outside the Ukrainian Military Prosecutor’s Office in pected about half of the personSimferopol, Crimea. nel still at the base to accept the measures, and those will without share of Soviet nuclear arsenals Russian offer to stay and join the a doubt include economic sanc- to Russia after the Soviet Union Russian armed forces, since they broke up in 1991. tions,” she said. were Crimea natives. With thousands of Ukrainian Merkel’s tough approach Humbled but defiant, Ukraine soldiers and sailors trapped on came as the commander of lashed out symbolically at Russia military bases, surrounded by Ukraine’s navy was freed after by declaring its intent to leave heavily armed Russian forces being held by Russian forces the Moscow-dominated Comand local Crimean militia at the and pro-Russia militia, the Kyiv monwealth of Independent government said it was drawing States, a loose alliance of 11 navy’s headquarters in Crimea. up plans to evacuate its outnum- former Soviet nations. The last Rear Adm. Sergei Haiduk bered troops from Crimea back and an unspecified number of nation to leave the group was to the mainland and would seek Georgia, which fought a brief civilians were held for hours U.N. support to turn the penin- war with neighbouring Russia after the navy’s headquarters in Sevastopol was stormed Wednes- sula into a demilitarized zone. in 2008 and ended up losing two Just how many retreating day. Acting Ukrainian President separatist territories. troops Ukraine will have to abOleksandr Turchynov, who UN Secretary-General Ban confirmed the release, said Rus- sorb in what amounts to a mili- Ki-moon was visiting Moscow tary surrender of Crimea was sian forces were involved in the on Thursday and was to come to unclear. Many servicemen have storming. Ukraine on Friday. already switched sides to Russia, In response, Ukraine on “We are working out a plan but authorities said they were Wednesday said it would hold of action so that we can transfer prepared to relocate as many as joint military exercises with not just servicemen, but first 25,000 soldiers and their families of all, members of their family the United States and Britain, to the Ukrainian mainland. signatories, along with Russia, who are in Crimea, quickly and At Belbek airbase in the wine- effectively to mainland Ukraine,” of the 1994 Budapest Memorangrowing country near Crimea’s dum – a document designed to said Andriy Parubiy, secretary of southwestern coast, airmen were Ukraine’s National Security and guarantee Ukraine’s territorial integrity when it surrendered its leaving Thursday toting plastic Defence Council.

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In Scotland’s independence battle, many find hearts say ‘aye’ but heads say ‘nae’ Jill Lawless Associated Press

EDINBURGH cotland’s swithering “middle million” has Britain’s future in its hands. “Swithering” means wavering, and it’s a word you hear a lot in Scotland right now. Six months from Tuesday, Scottish voters must decide whether their country should become independent, breaking up Great Britain as it has existed for 300 years. Faced with the historic choice many find their hearts say “aye” but their heads say “why risk it?” Polls suggest as many as a quarter of Scotland’s 4 million voters remain undecided, and their choices will determine the outcome. Many long to cut the tie binding them to England, but fear the risks – and the financial fallout. “I’m swithering a bit,” said Sarah Kenchington, an artist from Balfron in central Scotland. “It’s getting really right-wing down in England and it would be quite a good thing to separate from that. But then, politics can be quite a temporary thing – and this is a very permanent split.” Overcoming such doubts is the challenge faced by Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and the “Yes Scotland” independence campaign backed by his Scottish National Party. Salmond has appealed to Scots’ patriotic hearts, painting the referendum as a choice between starkly different economic and social models: English austerity and Scottish social democracy. Salmond is critical of Britain’s budget-cutting, Conservative-led government, and says an independent Scotland will follow a different path, using its resourcefulness and North Sea oil revenues to create a dynamic economy and a strong social safety net. He says Scotland will be a “northern light” to balance the “dark star” of London’s economic and political

glossing over difficult details. He says Scotland will remain a member of the European Union, but EU leaders have said the country could face lengthy negotiations to get back into the bloc. Edinburgh and London disagree on what share Scotland should get of Britain’s North Sea oil money – and of its trillion-pound national debt. “I think the Yes campaign is largely based on emotion,” said Murray Ogston, a retired accountant from Edinburgh. “I’m a passionate supporter of Scotland, but I think it’s a step too far. “At the moment we have the best of both worlds. We’re part of a bigJill Lawless/AP ger entity in the U.K., but also have a A man wears a multitude of ‘yes’ campaign badges during large degree of control over our own a pro-independence march in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the affairs.” upcoming vote on Scotland’s independence from the Most polls show the anti-indeUnited Kingdom. pendence side ahead by 10 points or more, and long-term trends suggest Sunday that the British governdominance – a vision that strikes a only about a third of Scots are firmly ment’s threats to Scotland meant chord with many Scots. committed to independence. it forfeits the “moral authority” to “I’m just looking forward to University of Edinburgh history criticize Russia and the region’s snap professor Tom Devine said the No a different kind of government referendum. that has the interests of the Scotside’s negative campaigning had Heated rhetoric is nothing new in dented support for independence. tish people at heart,” said Jeannette this debate. The Scottish and English He said a warning from British Wiseman, an art student from Oldmeldrum in northeast Scotland. have always had a complicated Treasury chief George Osborne that “I think the Scottish people deserve relationship – and long memories. an independent Scotland wouldn’t In June, Scotland is planning a a government they vote for. We’ve be able to keep using the pound – as 700th-anniversary reenactment of ended up with a Conservative govSalmond has long promised – had the Battle of Bannockburn, in which exposed the lack of a “plan B in the ernment we didn’t vote for.” Scottish King Robert the Bruce The anti-independence campaign, backed by Britain’s three main defeated the army of England’s national political parties, stresses the Edward II. The two countries united in 1707 uncertainties an independent Scotland would face. It warns businesses to form Great Britain, with a shared will flee and thousands of shipbuild- monarch, currency, and a Londoning jobs for the Royal Navy will head based government. It has always been a lopsided south. Scots will forfeit the pound relationship – England’s population currency and could face passport is 10 times Scotland’s 5.3 million. checks at the English border. But opponents of independence Britain could even lose its stress that Scotland already has nuclear-power status if Salmond considerable autonomy, with its carries through with his threat to own parliament, established in 1999, evict the country’s fleet of nuclearand separate legal and educational armed submarines from their base systems. at Faslane in western Scotland. They wonder how independent Salmond dismisses such warnScotland will afford to fund schools, ings as scaremongering, and has universities, health care and social even compared the situation to programs, and accuse Salmond of the conflict over Crimea. He said

nationalist camp.” But Devine said the pressure could backfire. “Scots don’t like to be bullied, and especially don’t like to be bullied by creatures like Osborne,” an aristocratic Conservative from the south of England. Despite its poll lead, the No campaign is nervous. Salmond is a canny leader who is widely regarded as Britain’s most skilful politician. The Yes side also has a strong grassroots campaign that is targeting younger voters through social media and music gigs. Ironically, the preferred option of many voters is a compromise that’s not on the ballot – more autonomy, but not full independence. Cameron endorsed that idea last week, saying “a vote for ‘No’ is not a vote for ‘no change.”’ But there will only be two options on Sept 18: In or out. Few people are willing to predict the outcome. “The Yes campaign’s narrative, its aspirations, its aims, really do speak to many aspirations and disgruntlements that Scots have had in recent decades,” said John MacDonald, director of the Scottish Global Forum think-tank. “The polls consistently point to a No vote, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see a Yes vote.”

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Friday, March 21, 2014

Transfixing mystery of Malaysia Airlines jet unfolding in region where air travel is booming the world deepen. Airports are scrambling to expand as they bulge with passengers and an HONG KONG upstart Indonesian carrier has he transfixing mystery of given Boeing and Airbus their the Malaysia Airlines jet that biggest jet orders ever. went missing with 239 people on The region’s economic boom, board has unfolded in a region seeded in the early 1990s by where air travel is undergoing China’s embrace of market supercharged growth after destyle reforms, is the underlying cades of being beyond the reach reason. of most people. “When you’re poor you can’t The still unknown fate of afford to fly,” said Andrew HerdFlight 370, which vanished from man, director general of the Ascivilian radar on a nighttime sociation of Asia Pacific Airlines. flight from Kuala Lumpur to “The big development of the deBeijing on March 8, has riveted mographics of Asia in the past 20 the flying public and baffled years has been the sheer number experts. The backdrop is also of people who have been lifted compelling even if far removed out of poverty into that middle from the headlines. income segment” of $10-$100 of Air travel in Asia is surging disposable income a day. as the middle class gets bigger, The International Air Transdiscount airlines proliferate and port Association has forecast business ties with the rest of airline passengers to grow by Associated Press

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In Asia alone, Airbus has 1,375 unfilled airplane orders or about a quarter of its worldwide order book. The low cost carriers are the hungriest buyers. Malaysia-based AirAsia and its affiliate AirAsia X together have orders for 385 new planes. Those new planes alone have enough seats to put an additional 60,000 passengers in the sky at the same time. Many of those planes will make multiple flights a day, sending that figure even higher. Indonesia’s Lion Air has an order for 234 jets from Airbus and another 301 from Boeing. That’s in additional to the 107 Boeing jets it currently flies. They’re just two of the numerous low budget airlines that have opened up in the past decade, mostly in Southeast Asia, to service the growing demand for affordable air travel. Even China, which for years has enforced restrictive policies aimed at supporting the three dominant state-owned carriers, is starting to give budget airlines a chance. Last month, China’s aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said it would lower barriers for setting up a low cost airline, simplify approval procedures, cut charges

for airports in lower-tier cities and encourage older airports to revamp terminals for budget carriers. “The reins are loosened,” said Will Horton, an analyst at CAPA The Center for Aviation. To keep up, Asian governments are scrambling to build new terminals and runways. Singapore, a wealthy city-state off the southern tip of peninsular Malaysia, expects additions to its airport will within a decade more than double the number of passengers it can handle yearly to 135 million. Airport construction is most rampant in China, with authorities in the world’s secondbiggest economy authorizing the construction of dozens of new airports and the expansion of others. “It is clear that airport infrastructure must be expanded to accommodate demand,” said Campbell Wilson, CEO of Singapore-based budget carrier Scoot. He said several airports in the region are already operating near or at capacity including Hong Kong, Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi, Manila, Jakarta and Beijing. “Many more airports will soon reach their limits,” said Wilson.

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Friday, March 21, 2014

25 years after Exxon Valdez, some damage heals, some effects linger in Prince William Sound

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An oil-soaked bird is examined on an island in Prince William Sound in April 1989.

Three factors could have had an not recovered. Numbers were declinimpact on the otters’ ability to survive. ing before the spill. An estimated Oiled fur loses insulating value. Otters 2,000 to 6,000 guillemots, or 10 to ingest oil as they groom, and research- 15 per cent of the population in spill The grounded tanker Exxon Valdez, left, unloads oil onto a smaller tanker near Valdez, ers years after the spill found blood areas, died from acute oiling. Alaska, on April 4, 1989. Twenty five years later, the region, its people and chemistry evidence consistent with Researchers suspect river otters, its wildfire are still recovering. liver damage. Grooming takes time mink and other predators targeted away from feeding. Dan Joling compensation checks, minus what program manager for the Oil Spill guillemot eggs as an alternative to “One of the lessons we can take Associated Press Recovery Institute in Cordova, Alaska. fishermen earned on spill work, arforaging on oiled beaches. from this is that the chronic effects of Here’s what’s known: Adult herring rived too late for many. oil in the environment can persist for Like sea otters and another bird ANCHORAGE, Alaska feed on zooplankton, which crashed The fisheries today are not the decades,” said Brenda Ballachey, who that took years to recover, harlequin efore the Deepwater Horizon for three years after the spill. With less same. “The shrimp are slowly, slowly moved to Alaska a few months after oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of ducks, pigeon guillemot’s forage for to eat, herring may have been more coming back. The crab aren’t back. Mexico, there was the Exxon Valdez susceptible to disease normally fended the spill and spent the next summer The herring aren’t back. The salmon invertebrates in sediment and likely dissecting sea otter carcasses collected disaster in Alaska, at the time the na- are back in abundance,” he said. off within a herring population. were affected by lingering oil, said from beaches and frozen. tion’s largest oil spill. Herring populations can stabilize David Irons, a seabirds expert with the The U.S. Geological Survey reThe 987-foot tanker, carrying 53 at a low or high number, but someIndustry search biologist is the lead author of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. million gallons of crude, struck Bligh thing has prevented a rebound. Oil At the time of the spill, complaThe decline of its other prey, Reef at 12:04 a.m. on March 24, 1989. likely is no longer a factor, Pegau said. federal study released last month that cency among government officials juvenile herring, didn’t help. Numbers Within hours, it unleashed an esticoncludes that sea otters have finally and the oil industry had set in after mated 10.8 million gallons of thick, returned to pre-spill numbers. continue to decline in both oiled and Sea otters toxic crude oil into the water. Storms a dozen years of safe shipments, said non-oiled areas. Irons has proposed Mark Swanson, director of the Prince Responders estimated that as many and currents then smeared it over reducing mink numbers on the heavWilliam Sound Regional Citizens Pigeon guillemots as 3,000 sea otters died the first year. 1,300 miles of shoreline. ily oiled Naked Islands, once prime Advisory Council and a former Coast The pigeon guillemot (GEEL’-ahHundreds more died in the years after For a generation of people around Guard officer. habitat for guillemots, to restore mot), which looks like a black pigeon of exposure to oil that persisted in the world, the spill was seared into When the tanker ran aground, sediment, where otters dig for clams. with web feet, is one species that has their numbers. their memories by images of fouled coastline in Prince William Sound, of for instance, spill response equipsea otters, herring and birds soaked in ment was buried under snow. Alyeska oil, of workers painstakingly washing Pipeline Service Co. in 1989 had 13 oil skimmers, five miles of boom and crude off the rugged beaches. Twenty five years later, most of the storage capacity for 220,000 gallons of spilled oil. species have recovered, said Robert Now, Alyeska has 108 skimmers, 49 Spies, a chief science adviser to govmiles of boom and on-water storage ernments on the oil spill restoration program from 1989 to 2002. But some capacity of almost 38 million gallons. wildlife, as well as the people who live North Slope oil must be transported in double-hull tankers, which must be in the region, are still struggling. escorted by two tugs. Radar monitors Here’s a look at what’s changed the vessel’s position as well as that of since the spill: icebergs. The company conducts two major Fishermen spill drills are conducted each year. Bernie Culbertson was preparing And nearly 400 local fishing boat to fish cod when the Exxon Valdez ran owners are trained to deploy and JOIN DEVENEZ aground. With oil in the water, fishing maintain boom THE RCMP MEMBRE DE LA GRC came to a standstill and life for he and

other fishermen drastically changed. “The bottom fell out of the price of fish,” he said. Pink salmon that sold for 80 cents per pound fell to 8 cents per pound. Consumers turned to farm fish or tuna out of fear of tainted salmon. His boat caught 2.5 million pound of pinks one season and lost money. Culbertson turned to other fisheries, travelling as far as California. Fishing 12 months a year, his marriage failed. Friends couldn’t repay loans and lost boats or homes. Exxon

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Joe Fresh’s Mimran reaffirms commitment to helping victims of Bangladesh tragedy Lauren La Rose

za, making it the world’s worst garment industry accident. Items created for Joe Fresh TORONTO were among those manufacs the one-year anniversary tured on-site, but a number of the fatal factory collapse of other clothing makers were in Bangladesh approaches, the also housed in the complex. creative director of Joe Fresh Last October, Joe Fresh said the brand’s parent combrand owner Loblaw Companies Ltd. said it would provide pany remains committed to short-term financial support helping victims and families to all workers or dependents affected by the tragedy. of New Wave Style (which “There’s been a lot of work done with respect to that,” said produced Joe Fresh items) and Joe Mimran in an interview at planned to join with British retailer Primark to provide Toronto’s World MasterCard financial assistance to workers Fashion Week on Wednesday. of all retailers in the factory “There’s about 40 brands that are involved, and I know about plaza. Bob Chant, senior vice-pres15 of them have all committed ident of corporate affairs and so far.” communications for Loblaw, More than 1,100 people died told The Canadian Press in an in the April 24 tragedy at the interview last December that illegally constructed Rana Plathe company was proceeding with short-term compensation GALA GARAGE SALE plans and had plans for longHAITI FUNDRAISER term compensation as well. Saturday, April 12 at 10:00 AM Loblaw has also contributed Whitehorse Elementary School Gym $1 million to Save the Children If you have items to donate, or if you’d Bangladesh and the Centre for like to help, call: 456-4434 or 335-0333. Or email: karenwienberg@gmail.com Rehabilitation of the Paralysed, or deborahtd@gmail.com in support of programming for workers in the garment industry. The company also joined www.littlefootprintsbigsteps.com several retailers in signing a Canadian Press

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Joe Fresh creative director Joe Mimran greets the crowd on the runway during Toronto Fashion Week in Toronto on March 19.

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labels, and German retailer Tchibo. Mimran said he was proud of how his brand’s parent company had rallied around what was “a tragic situation.”

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Reactions mixed to approval pause for shallow oilsands drilling in Alberta Bob Weber

the Pembina Institute, an environmental think-tank. In late January, the Alberta EDMONTON Energy Regulator announced nvironmental groups are giv- it would delay approval for all ing Alberta’s energy regulator oilsands proposals in a 1.2-mila rare pat on the back over its lion-hectare region around Fort decision to delay approvals for McMurray that planned to use certain types of oilsands projects unconventional steam injection over concerns about the intento recover bitumen from shallow sity of development. deposits. The regulator said it “It’s encouraging that the was increasingly concerned non(regulator), despite the presconventional drilling in the area sure to increase development, is could be degrading the ability of willing to take a pause when it’s subterranean rock to keep biturequired,” said Erin Flanagan of men trapped underground. Canadian Press

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Critics call Alberta’s plan for Athabasca River ‘pathetic,’ not science based Bob Weber

to regulate how much water could be removed at different times of the year. The river’s EDMONTON flow varies wildly: from 88 lberta’s plan to protect the cubic metres per second in Athabasca River from the January to more than 3,500 in escalating pressure of oilsands July. development reveals how little Using 50 years of flow data, the government understands the report lays out varying about the environment it withdrawal limits for five claims to protect, say promi“seasons.” At all times, total nent scientists and critics. withdrawals would be a small “It’s pretty pathetic,” said fraction of the river’s flow and David Schindler, a retired would nearly stop when the University of Alberta ecoloAthabasca was flowing at its gist and a leading expert on lowest rate. fresh-water systems. “If you Companies would be enwere to put this before a panel couraged to store water to use of international scientists, they during low-flow periods. would be incredulous.” The problem, say critics, Government officials say is that there’s no research the draft plan, obtained by justifying those withdrawals. The Canadian Press, is the best Fish habitat, bug populations, they can do with what they water quality, groundwater, have. connections to tributaries “The challenge we have is – none of those factors was that we’re using what I’d call considered. the best available science,” said “It’s not based in anything,” Andy Ridge, director of water said Bill Donahue, a water scipolicy for Alberta Environentist and a member of a panel ment. “It’s not necessarily the that advises the province on best possible. environmental monitoring. “It “Most people are going to involves no assessment of the say we need to improve the capacity of the river to tolerate science. But of what’s availreductions in flow.” able, (we’ve) used it.” Even a couple inches in waLast December, the provin- ter levels can be critical, said cial government distributed Schindler. its draft surface water quantity “The main fear about low management framework for flows is that it will leave eggs the Lower Athabasca River to and embryos high and dry. industry, interest groups and It’s like nobody wants to get First Nations. Its measures are out into the field and do some expected to be implemented actual biology to see what by the fall. flows the (plants and animals) The report points out require.” industrial water demand on Worse, Donahue said, is the Athabasca is expected to that the report assumes the increase by nearly 500 per cent Athabasca will reach its very by 2020 and provides ways lowest levels with the same Canadian Press

frequency it has for the last 50 years. That ignores that most of those low-flow years occurred within the last decade, probably because of climate change. Even then, waiting for the river to hit the lowest levels on record before cutting off withdrawals is too late, he said. “A characterization of the draft framework as ‘protective’ of the health of the Lower Athabasca River is wildly aspirational.” Ridge acknowledges in-thefield science is scarce in the report. He said Alberta used state-of-the-art computer modelling to fill in the gap. “The science is less in the actual looking at the trends in the flows and more in the running of scenarios – using raw data from different sources and running through models that are generally accepted water models.” Ridge said the current framework is an attempt to manage risk to the ecosystem. If things change, so will the rules, he said. “If the amount of water that’s being used by oilsands, or if the degree to which we’re seeing low flow periods, is deviating from what we assumed in our base modelling, then we need to revisit this framework.” More and better research is on its way, he said. Schindler has doubts. “I would swear I’ve seen this document 10 years ago,” he said. Donahue said the framework is as much political as it is scientific.

“Scientists have been asked, ‘We need this framework and we need it yesterday,”’ he said. Donahue said the province is gambling with its major industry. “This industry is expanding on the absolute assumption that water supplies are going to be stable and at levels they’ve been at in the past for at least the next 50 years. All the trends say that’s not the proper way to look at it. “It wouldn’t surprise me if companies have to shut down if we get one or two or five years that are drier than normal.” Those who actually live on the river aren’t impressed either. “When we hit low water levels, a lot of our people

won’t even be able to get into their traditional territory,” said Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, a band of 1,000 people at Fort Chipewyan, where about three-quarters of the people are on the river several times a week. “This government – both federal and provincial – are, in more ways than one, catering to industry needs and looking after the whole economic front.” Adam’s band has filed for a judicial review of a land-use plan for the area that includes the water-use framework. “We will lobby government and bring it to their attention that this is wrong. If that continues to happen, you will always have confrontation.”

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Inuit students stage sealskin fashion show on Parliament Hill to protest EU ban Ben Makuch

OK for us to hunt our seal traditionally, which is why we feel this cultural prejudice: they’re allowed to slaughter OTTAWA their animals and we’re not allowed to nuit youth clad in traditional sealharvest ours?” skin garb used Parliament Hill as a Canada’s National Inuit organizacatwalk Tuesday for a fashion show to tion, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, as well as protest the World Trade Organization’s students from the Ottawa-based Nurecent decision to uphold a European navut Sivuniksavut training program Union ban on imported seal products. organized the rally. Students strutted to the beat of It came on the heels of recent eftechno music before a gathered crowd forts by Environment Minister Leona of about 100 people, twisting like Aglukkaq, herself an Inuk, to appeal runway models to show off their authe landmark decision by the WTO, thentic sealskin jackets with elaborate which she said was wrong to cite fur trim. moral grounds in its ruling late last “We’re very much in favour of year. hunting seal,” said Terrie Kusugak, a Aglukkaq wants the ruling struck student from Rankin Inlet who helped down because it unfairly discriminates lead the rally. against Canadian seal hunters while “They have slaughterhouses full of allowing the EU to ban products from any type of business that involves the cows, pigs and chickens. But it’s not Canadian Press

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An Inuit student poses in a sealskin jacket during a rally on Parliament Hill on Tuesday in Ottawa.

killing of animals, including the beef and poultry industries. On Tuesday, several of the protesters on hand for the Parliament Hill event carried signs with a photo of two Inuit hugging a calf with the words, “Save the Baby Veal, Avoid Cultural Prejudice.” Seal hunts are a time-honoured Inuit tradition that involve a vital food source in an Arctic ecosystem with little arable soil for crops, Kusugak said. “The knowledge is passed down from generation to generation and there’s that direct link to your history and your grandparents,” she said. “There’s a very deep connection when you’re out hunting.”

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami maintains the real objective of the ban is to destroy the market for Canadian seal products. “Inuit should be able to engage in free and open trade that is unrestricted by cultural and moral bias,” president Terry Audla said in a statement. “We are citizens of the 21st century and participants in a modern economy, and the EU’s Orwellian trade obstruction is a relic of a distant era when lawmakers unilaterally determined the tastes of a nation.” The three-day WTO appeal hearing wraps up Wednesday and a final ruling is expected next month. If Canada succeeds in having the ruling overturned, the European

Union will have the option of amending its legislation or offering compensation to Canada and Norway. If the WTO rejects the appeal, the Canadian sealing industry and Inuit groups will push ahead with a legal appeal that is working its way through the European Court of Justice. The Fisheries Department says the seal hunt employs about 6,000 people on a part-time basis, virtually all of them in Newfoundland and Labrador. The 2010 EU ban has hurt Canada’s 300-year-old commercial sealing industry, which landed 38,000 harp seals in 2011, less than 10 per cent of the total allowable catch. About 70,000 seals were killed in 2012 and another 91,000 last spring.

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Record $1.2B fine to settle US criminal probe signals relief for Toyota again pursuing growth Yuri Kageyama Associated Press

TOKYO oyota Motor Corp., headed to a record profit, can afford the $1.2 billion fine levied by the U.S. government for hiding information about defects in its cars. If anything, the settlement may even deliver relief for Toyota shareholders and customers as a sign the automaker has put the four-year recall debacle behind it. Toyota President Akio Toyoda declined to comment directly Thursday on the U.S. settlement, in which the Japanese automaker said it hid information about defects that had caused unintended acceleration in Toyota and Lexus vehicles, resulting in injuries and deaths. All that Toyoda told reporters was what he has repeatedly said before: “We have returned to basics and are putting customers first.” He said he had nothing to add to a company statement that reiterated it had changed its operations to become more responsive. The recall fiasco has prompted Toyota to take measures, including empowering regional management, speeding up checks into complaints and taking more care and time with product development. Starting in 2009, Toyota announced one recall after another for a variety of problems, spanning sticky gas pedals, faulty brakes and ill-fitting floor mats that eventually covered more than 14 million vehicles. The $1.2 billion fine is the largest of its kind ever imposed on an auto company. “Toyota can now bring the curtain down on the whole affair and focus on its real business,” said Shigeru Matsumura, analyst with SMBC Friend Securities Co. “Its

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Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda delivers a speech in November 2013. Toyota, headed to record profit, can afford the $1.2 billion fine levied by the U.S. government for hiding information about defects in its cars.

momentum is back in the U.S.” When the recall mess began, Toyota was still reeling from the hit it took from the global economic slowdown after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. More recently, Toyota was badly hurt by the earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan in 2011, which destroyed suppliers of components and disrupted car production. These days, Toyota is on a roll. It has been helped by a weakening of the yen, which boosts the value of overseas earnings for Japanese exporters.

Toyota, which makes the Prius hybrid, Corolla subcompact and Lexus luxury models, is expecting a record profit of 1.9 trillion yen ($19 billion) for the fiscal year ending March 31, a doubling of profit from the previous fiscal year. Sales are doing so well that Toyota, the No. 1 automaker in the world in vehicle sales for the last two years, says it’s on its way to selling more than 10 million vehicles a year – a feat never accomplished in auto history. There is also a chance Toyota could benefit from the U.S. government investigation into General Motors Co., which is beginning as Toyota’s ends, allowing Toyota

to grab market share in the U.S., although manufacturers such as Ford Motor Co. that make models similar to GM are the more likely beneficiaries. The U.S. market is still a big money-maker for the world’s automakers. But they are all trying to grow in other markets, such as China. Toyota may face unexpected obstacles in other markets, even as it gets over the U.S. crisis. Toyota suffered a sales drop in China in 2012, when anti-Japanese sentiment exploded over a territorial dispute. Toyota officials are still banking heavily on China, where a government decision to support hybrid

vehicles to counter epic pollution could work as a plus for Toyota. Toyota is a world leader in hybrid technology. Potholes wait elsewhere in the world as shown in the lockout of workers at Toyota’s India plants, outside Bangalore, which began this week over a wage dispute. Even good fortune can prove frightening. Toyota is doing so well some superstitious pessimists are pointing to the 10 million-vehicle mark as a possible omen, Matsumura said jokingly. It was right after then-president of Toyota, Katsuaki Watanabe, announced a sales target of 10 million vehicles that quality lapses began to skyrocket Satoru Takada, analyst at Toward the Infinite World Inc., a research firm in Tokyo, laughs at the idea, noting the global pie is growing as sales expand in emerging markets and 10 million vehicles no longer sound highly ambitious. “That will just be another passing milestone for Toyota. Next, it’s going to be 20 million vehicles,” he said. “What counts for Toyota is that it avoided further criminal consequences. It’s over. I am sure it feels totally refreshed.” Toyoda, the grandson of the automaker’s founder, has acknowledged afterward that he had headed to the 2010 grilling by U.S. Congress over unintended acceleration problems, prepared to have his career ended. Toyoda had become Toyota president a few months earlier. When the Congressional ordeal was over, he cried at a meeting of American dealers selling Toyota cars. Four years later, he has emerged one of the most successful Toyota presidents in recent history. He has said the automaker had grown too quickly. But today it is still growing and as fast as ever.

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Odd Irish play arrives in Whitehorse ‘Everything’s not neatly tied up in a bow. The plot isn’t anything you’re going to expect. You can’t guess.’ Ashley Joannou News Reporter

arah Dodd promises that if you just hold on, things will eventually make sense. Dodd is one of the three performers taking the stage starting next week in Terminus at the Yukon Arts Centre. The play, which has been described as “a Tarantino film set to poetry,” is far from typical. To start, the audience sits on risers on the stage, looking out at the seats they would normally occupy. The actors, who stand on the stage’s edge, tell three interlocking monologues. None of the characters directly interact with each other, and none of the major plot points are acted out – they are only described. Oh, and one last thing. The whole thing rhymes. “It’s about three people who are lonely and feeling alone in the world, who are isolated,” Dodd said. “They all choose to do things that affect the rest of their lives. It’s a fateful night for all three of them in Dublin. Through the events of the play we see that their stories begin to merge in very odd and unexpected ways.” Violent portions of the play may only be described, rather than acted out, but that doesn’t diminish the impact, said Dodd, who is currently with the cast in Victoria. “Last night when we previewed it, there is a section of violence being spoken (of),” she said. “And the audience, it was like we were actually doing it.” Dodd first saw the play as a member of the audience and jumped at the opportunity to act in it. “I automatically said yes, because I had such an experience as an audience member.” She plays “A” – the characters don’t actually have names. “She’s a mom,” Dodd says, and leaves it at that. After about 20 years acting on stage, Dodd says she still feels

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Terminus is running at the Yukon Arts Centre from March 26 to 29.

invigorated to be part of something that is played directly to the audience, as opposed to between characters. “The audience is different every night so the energy is different every night. So the experience is always unique,” she says. In the case of Terminus, that audience energy is particularly important. The play’s unusual seating arrangements mean each show will only have an audience of about 120 people. That’s significantly smaller that the arts centre’s normal capacity of 418. “I think (director) Mitchell (Cushman) wanted to have an intimate experience,” Dodd says. “When I saw it, it was incred-

ibly moving and very surprising how he used it. He’s a master of turning things around, Mitchell. He’s a great director,” she said. “Everything is absolutely intentional and it is really exciting to sit on the stage.” While other actors may get tongue tied in terror at the prospect of messing up a line when the entire production follows a set rhyme scheme, Dodd says the poetry actually made everything easier to commit to memory. “It is actually much easier, believe it or not. Shakespeare is the same. In some of Shakespeare’s plays there is rhyming and it makes it much easier to memorize. Also, the play is very well-written, so that makes it easier to memo-

rize.” The play is the brainchild of Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe. It premiered at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2007 and has been revived a number of times since. This incarnation is being put on by Toronto’s Outside the March Theatre Company. Dodd is reluctant to give away too many twists in the show. Half the fun is allowing the audience to come along for the ride and figure out things as they’re reveled, she says. “I want them to walk away feeling like they never have after a show. Everything’s not neatly tied up in a bow. The plot isn’t anything you’re going to expect. You can’t guess,” she said.

The New York Times called the play “a dense, musical brand of colloquial poetry that sounds like a mix between Jay-Z and Tom Wolfe on a gonzo riff.” “I hope the audience gets out of the experience the same thing I got,” says Dodd. “To be really excited about the writing and the experience of going on a journey that is completely unexpected. “You have really no choice but to go, ‘OK,’ and then go along with it. You have this incredible roller coaster ride of emotions that happen.” The play is running at the Yukon Arts Centre from March 26 to 29. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Canadian rocker Randy Bachman surprised at how much he opened up in new book Nick Patch Canadian Press

TORONTO andy Bachman’s new book, Tales From Beyond the Tap, isn’t a memoir, and yet in writing the tome the Winnipegreared guitar wizard found himself spilling as abundantly as a jittery bartender. Among the touchy subjects touched upon? Bachman’s still-contentious relationship with former Guess Who partner Burton Cummings, the dissolution of his first marriage and the ongoing acrimony swirling among some of his ex-Bachman-Turner Overdrive bandmates – and siblings – who are soon to be ushered into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame together at the Juno Awards. Even Bachman himself seems surprised by how much he revealed in the chatty new book. “I think that’s probably ‘cause (collaborator) John Einarson got it out of me or something,” the cheerful Bachman said in a recent interview in Toronto. “It wasn’t all done at once. It was over a period of a year, where he’d send me a bunch of questions and compile all that stuff. Nathan Denette/CP “So I wasn’t really aware of Musician Randy Bachman has a new book called Tales From Beyond The Tap as well as an the cathartic outpouring of so upcoming induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. much stuff.”

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Well, how did it feel reading it back? “I haven’t read it,” Bachman chimes back in response. “It’s like an album. By the time you’re done it, you’re so full of it you don’t really want to play it in your car for a good couple of months.” A follow-up to his 2011 book Vinyl Tap Stories – and an extension of his likably rambling CBC-Radio show – Bachman’s latest again finds the 70-yearold pulling from his deep well of rock and roll stories.

Breezy anecdotes abound, including Bachman’s brushes with rock heroes including Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry (“most of the times I’ve seen him, he’s been grouchy,” he concedes of the infamously ornery rock inventor) and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, whose Boston band once opened for a thenclueless Bachman. “The show hasn’t started and this guy comes in our dressing room,” he recalled. “Usually a dressing room is hallowed ground, you kind of knock on

the door and say: ‘Hi, I’m so and so, can I come in?’ This guy just comes in. And he’s dressed like ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ – these pants that Barbara Eden would wear, flowing kinds of things, and scarves. “I remember looking at (manager) Bruce Allen. I said, ‘Who’s this guy who thinks he’s Elvis, he comes walking in here?’ And Bruce goes: ‘Out! Out! Out!’ “Then they start to play onstage, I go out to see Aerosmith and hear ‘Dream On,’ and he’s the lead singer. So that became a joke over the years.” But much of the book is given over to more serious subject matter. An entire chapter is devoted to whether Bachman will ever work again with Cummings, his partner in authoring such hits as “These Eyes,” “American Woman” and “Laughing.” At issue, Bachman explains in the book, is what he sees as the inequitable distribution of publishing profits between the two songwriters. Bachman says he’s tried to persuade Cummings to amend the situation multiple times over the years without any success. Bachman sued over the situation, and lost. In the book, he writes: “I can’t turn the other cheek and smile anymore.” “I have no idea what his response will be,” Bachman said now of Cummings. “I totally respect him as a singer – he’s one of the greats. And as a songwriter. We had a great career together. “I tried for the last 10 years,” he continued with a sigh. “I learnt one thing in the past, or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself and it has to come from within. I can’t change him or what he is. Only he can change that. “I’ve changed myself certain times, or reinvented myself,

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or remodelled myself, or took assessment, or asked people for forgiveness. “It is what it is,” he added. “I’ve left the ball with him. Done.” He’s four years older than Cummings, and he writes that Cummings’ mother asked Bachman early on to look after the talented young singer with a protective paternalism. Bachman’s book posits that this ultimately contributed to the schism, as did the contrast between his sober lifestyle and that of the hard-partying Cummings. In fact, Bachman argues that his refusal to partake in the rampant drug experimentation that was de rigeur in the ‘60s and ‘70s led many in the industry to distrust him. “Most people who drink

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Friday, March 21, 2014 don’t like to be told they drink too much,” he said. “Four hundred pound guys – and I was one, or 350-360 – don’t like to be told, ‘Don’t finish off that chocolate cake. You’ve already eaten half of it.’ You don’t want to hear that. “So there is animosity that comes when somebody’s telling somebody else, ‘Enough already.”’ However, Bachman’s commitment to sobriety “made (him) a success.” “It’s hard enough to deal with things when they come up being totally straight and on it all the time, nevermind being blottoed,” he said. It’s a point over which he recently found common ground with another of his idols: Neil Young. Young, a Winnipeg compatri-

ot who held a formative influence over Bachman, wrote in his recent memoir “Waging Heavy Peace” that he had quit drinking and smoking pot. Bachman and the 68-yearold rock icon linked up for dinner prior to Young’s recent performance at the Air Canada Centre. The impromptu meal turned into a warm family gathering when a couple of Young’s aunts materialized. And, Bachman says, he and Young bonded over the sudden similarities in their lifestyles. “I said to him, ‘You’ve really changed. You’re like the Neil I used to know in Winnipeg,”’ Bachman remembered. “I said, ‘What made you do it?’ He said, ‘It’s an old Jewish expression: enough already. I’ve already done enough. Why keep doing this thing that wasn’t doing me

any good?”’ At the time, Bachman says Young was fretting that he hadn’t been able to write a song since giving up his mood-altering substances. Bachman told him to “hang in there,” that the tunes would come. “And they’ve come, and they are good,” Bachman beamed. “I’m pretty proud of him. It’s a big leap to take and a hard thing to hold onto.” Well, the inspiration works both ways. Even though Bachman writes in the book about his dislike for the touring life, he has no plans to retire. He has songs ready for a new album, though he declines to delve into much detail. Bachman-Turner Overdrive records are being re-issued and Bachman plans a symphony tour, where his broad catalogue of

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hits will receive an orchestral boost. “When I look out there and I see Willie Nelson and B.B. King and (Mick) Jagger and (Paul) McCartney and Neil Young and (Bob) Dylan … why stop?” he said. “It’s what I do. I think if you’re a painter you paint, if you’re a golfer you golf, if you’re a fisherman you fish, if you’re a musician you play music. “You just go and do it,” he added, of touring. “You expect a bad hotel room, a TV that doesn’t work, a lousy bed, a room that hasn’t been cleaned really properly, the PA to blow up, the monitors to feed back. You expect all the bad and if that doesn’t happen it’s a good day. “You keep going. There’s no stop button on my thing.”

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A notice of the hearing was published on January 17, 2014, and in that notice the public was advised that the oral hearing of the Application is scheduled to commence at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, March 31, 2014, in Whitehorse, Yukon, and is tentatively scheduled for four days.

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says, adding that he expects inand helping you relax, being able novation in the sensors will help to slow your mind down, give InteraXon’s future work as well. yourself a pause and take a break. TORONTO It’s tremendously helpful.” “Right now the sensors we’re Canadian-made brain-sensing using need to contact the skin Coleman says he expects anheadband called Muse can’t other app might be ready by year’s directly but they’re already workunderstand your thoughts and ing on sensors that can read from a end or early 2015. InteraXon has feelings or help control your also made a software development millimetre away or so. That’s about phone or tablet without touch – as far as you’ll ever be able to get, kit available so programmers can yet. because the signals are so low, but design their own apps to tap into But the team at Toronto-based it means you could have a baseball the Muse. startup company InteraXon, the It probably won’t be long before cap (with sensors) and then it’s creators of the new wearable tech- the technology can better intervery easy to have sensors all over the head,” he says. nology product, believes that type pret brain activity that’s linked InteraXon is behind schedule to arousal, pleasure, pain and of functionality isn’t the stuff of on delivering the first Muse units discomfort, Coleman says. science fiction. It’s coming. “That’s definitely the low hang- to its Indiegogo supporters, which The Muse will soon be shipped isn’t uncommon for crowdfunded out to supporters who placed early ing fruit, we have a researcher projects, but the delay has irked who’s here studying that and in orders on the crowdfunding site some buyers. laboratories they can do it where Indiegogo, where a campaign to “This is an incredibly sensiraise US$150,000 brought in more they show…whether you like or tive technology,” says Coleman in dislike something, and I think than $287,000. explaining the delay. that ideally you’ll be able to sense At launch, the US$299 device “When you look at a brainwave will be able to measure brain activ- emotion – that’s not that far off,” we’re talking about something he says. ity and a paired mobile app is dethat’s millionths of a volt – a But it is possible that further signed to help train users to calm very, very tiny, tiny signal – and their frazzled minds on command. applications of the technology amongst a huge amount of noise might require a new headband “(The Muse headband) has from your brain, from the interseven sensors that read the electri- with sensors placed in different ference of dirt on your skin, the locations cal signals that come out of your “Whether we can do it with this electrical noise from the electrical brain, those signals are then sent particular electrode configuration, grid in the world around you. by Bluetooth to a smartphone “So part of it is just getting that the sensors being where they are, or tablet and on there we do a stuff to work and it’s baffling even (is unknown) because your brain bunch of complicated math to to really huge companies.” is spatially organized,” Coleman sort of tease out signals that tell us meaningful things about what’s happening in your brain,” says Trevor Coleman, co-founder of InteraXon. “A lot of people worry, ‘Can it read my thoughts?’ but if you think about it like a heart rate monitor, when your heart beats residential and commercial construction fast you can’t tell if it’s because you Visit us on serving the Yukon for 20 Years facebook. just ran a mile or because a pretty Paul+Lillian Martin • 867-332-1042 • 867-996-2046 girl walked by. 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Friday, March 21, 2014

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Yukon aid worker’s legacy lives on ‘It’s like that old saying, teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for his whole life. The only difference is that Susan taught them to grow fish.’ Jesse Winter News Reporter

usan Thompson may be gone, but the ripples of her legacy are still being felt both in the Yukon and half a world away, in Kakamega, Kenya. Thompson, a Yukon fish biologist, created the Fish4Kenya program to help struggling catfish farmers get access to funding and technical support for their farms. She passed away in October 2012, but more than a year after her passing, the micro-farming project is still changing lives. “The program is going really well,” said Nick de Graff. “It’s really empowered a lot of people in the community, especially women. It has helped pull people out of poverty.” De Graff toured the Kakamega fish farms recently with his wife Nancy, and two other long-time friends of Susan’s – Corliss and Gordon Gilgan. The program works by bringing together co-operatives of Kenyan farmers and giving them the tools to create and run their own fish farms, surprisingly similar to the one at Whitehorse’s Icy Waters, de Graff said. Even though the farmers don’t have access to the kind of infrastructure at Icy Waters, they are able to make up the difference with knowledge, hard work and co-operation, Gordon Gilgan explained. “One of the things Susan found when she started working on the project was that even though many people in rural Kenya might own land, that alone isn’t enough for them to make a living,” Gilgan said. The most successful element of the Fish4Kenya project is that it allows the farmers to have a starting point, a place to start earning even a modest income from their land, which they can then reinvest in their fields. “You’re seeing farmers take that money and invest it in diversifying. They’re using it to buy cows and poultry and other crops,” Gilgan said. The capital and sweat equity that Susan’s project brought to the community helped get it off the ground, but it’s the spirit of co-operation that she instilled there which keeps it alive. It’s no secret that Kenya is a troubled country. When Fish4Kenya first started out in 2005, ethnic tensions were high and government rules prevented Kenyan’s from assembling in groups of more than a few people. That’s where the idea to form

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Kenyan farmers collect fish with a net from one of the project’s 36 fish ponds as part of the Fish4Kenya program which was started by Yukon’s Susan Thompson, who passed away in October 2012.

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official co-operatives came in, de Graff said. By formally outlining where and how farmers would work together to support their farms, Thompson’s organization was able to create a spirit of co-operation that keeps things running today. “Working together is not something the Kenyan people do very well,” Gilgan said. “That’s part of the charm of Susan’s work. Now they share everything, even their nets, their pots. When one farmer’s pond needed to be fixed, other farmers helped him fix it,” Gilgan said.

The program gets about $10,000 a year in subsidies that come from donations raised in Canada. With that, and the help of the indispensible Hussein Wechuli – Thompson’s local partner since the beginning – the program now supports 36 fishponds and 36 farms. Each of the 36 ponds produces about $600 in talapia and catfish per year, more than $21,000 a year in total. Gilgan said that each of the 86 farmers is able to support a family of up to six or seven on the profits alone. “We’re talking about 800 to

900 people who are getting access to high-quality protein on a regular basis, who are supported by the farms,” Gilgan said. One of the biggest successes the program has had is in empowering local women. “Many of them own farms themselves,” de Graff said. “They are becoming leaders in their community.” The de Graffs and the Gilgans weren’t just on holiday when they visited Wechuli and the farms he and Thompson helped build. They were doing research, finding ways to make the program run even more efficiently. They’ll present their findings along with video interviews and a slide show at a fundraiser tomorrow night at the Old Fire Hall. The event runs from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Admission is by donation, and there will be a silent auction and Kenyan crafts for sale. The whole event is geared towards raising enough money to build some much-needed infrastructure and make the program self-sustaining. “The goal is to make the whole thing self-sufficient,” Gilgan said. “We want to essentially put ourselves out of business within the next three years and let the Kenyans run it entirely on their own.” That approach differs signifi-

cantly from many other Western aid projects, which can sometimes lead to unhealthy relationships of dependence with local communities. That was something Thompson identified and wanted to avoid from the very beginning, both men said. Right now, the Fish4Kenya project supplies the feed for the farms, but the local farmers are doing most of the technical work. Even highly specialized breeding programs are being used, with the knowledge being shared among all involved. During their trip, the two couples focused on interviewing the workers involved, finding out what was working and where the struggles lay. They also did some water sampling and collected other data to bring home for analysis. “We didn’t really know how well it was working before we went to visit,” de Graff said. “But it’s working beyond our wildest dreams.” “It’s like that old saying, teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for his whole life. The only difference is that Susan taught them to grow fish. The possibility for the project was there all along, she just supplied the spark,” Gilgan said. Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

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Introducing ‘Nanuq,’ the mini tyrannosaurus of the North Slope large eye sockets. Larger eyes possibly gave Troodon an advantage in the dark season. With its by Ned long nasal cavity, Nanuqsaurus Rozell probably had a great sense of smell useful for snuffling around in the dark. Nanuqsaurus being half the size of T. rex could also have been an adaptation to the extreme latitude, Fiorillo said. Seventy million years ago, the eventy million years ago, Colville River was even farther the baddest predator on top north than it is today. Durof the world was a pygmy ing the long dark season, many tyrannosaur about half the things Nanuqsaurus ate probably size of Tyrannosaurus rex. The migrated away or hibernated. creature became known to the Nanuqsaurus may have evolved world in mid-March 2014, when a smaller body size to deal with Texas-based dinosaur hunters the lean times, though how any Tony Fiorillo and Ron Tykoski northern dinosaurs flourished is unveiled it in a scientific journal. a mystery. Nanuqsaurus hoglundi was “We still don’t know how they named for the polar bears that survived an arctic year,” Fiorillo walk the sea ice not far from said. where its bones turned to stone One thing Fiorillo knows is and for a donor to the Perot that Nanuqsaurus has left its Museum of Nature & Science tooth marks in many bones from in Dallas. Fiorillo and Tykoski Courtesy Tony Fiorillo the Colville, including his prized named the dinosaur. Fiorillo is Tony Fiorillo on the North Slope of Alaska, where he discovered a pygmy tyrannosaur. Pachyrhinosaurus fossil. curator of earth sciences at the “We knew some big predator museum and a frequent visitor he revealed the Pachyrhinosaurus fragments from the skull,” rocks, Fiorillo spotted broken was eating them,” he said. to Alaska. Tykoski is the fossil skull, now a display piece for the Fiorillo said. “We had exactly the dinosaur bones poking from a In introducing Nanuqsaurus preparator at the museum. parts we needed to tell this was museum. few. He set them aside. to the world, Fiorillo finds it Like the polar bear, Nanuqsomething different. It wasn’t the hard to fathom the paleontoWhen he had time, Tykoski At the end of the dig, he saurus was in its day the domin- included the surface rocks in a logical richness of a quiet, rocky quantity but the quality.” picked up the blocks Fiorillo ant meat-eater of the far north. bluff above the Colville River Nanuqsaurus looked a lot had found on the hill as the helicopter slingload from the The prehistoric North Slope was river to a small airstrip. From where it turns north and runs like T. rex, except for its size. A team was preoccupied with the a green plain spilling beneath for the Arctic Ocean. man would stand about as high Pachyrhinosaurus. He chipped there, a fixed-wing pilot carried the baby Brooks Range with a “It is absolutely mind-bogas Nanuqsaurus’s hip. It was 20 down to the bones, saw somethe rocks to Fairbanks. A truck climate that could have been gling to me that out of the same feet long from tail to nose. Filled thing curious and called Fiorillo. hauled the dinosaurs down the something between Portland and hole in the ground we got two On an upper jaw fragment, they with killer-whale teeth, its skull Alaska Highway and all the way Calgary today. Fiorillo calls this new animals,” he said. was two feet long. Two twiggy noticed a suturing pattern that to Dallas. the “ancient greenhouse Arctic.” Since the late 1970s, the University of arms extended from its torso. only occurs on adult dinosaurs. There, at the Museum of NaRoaming that land of ferns and Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical InstiFiorillo and his colleagues ture & Science, Tykoski chipped It was enough to tell them they small trees were at least four tute has provided this column free in have pointed out that Troodon, a were looking at a species as yet other meat-eating dinosaurs and and carved dinosaur bone fragcooperation with the UAF research smaller meat-eater that probably unidentified. ments from the rock to which community. Ned Rozell is a science four plant eaters. ran from Nanuqsaurus, had very “We had just two or three they were fused. Like a sculptor, writer for the Geophysical Institute. His 2006 discovery of Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum, a fourYukon Indian Hockey Association ton plant-eater with a massive presents shielded head and a horned beak, led Fiorillo to Nanuqsaurus. On a rocky hillside above the Colville River, Fiorillo and his colleagues were clearing surface rocks from what they suspected was a Pachyrhinosaurus skull th turned to stone. Before they Where: Elks Hall chucked the basketball-size

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Nellie Cashman: the angel of the north HISTORY

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f Father William Judge was known as the “Saint of Dawson,” then Nellie Cashman deserved the title of “Angel of the North.” According to one observer, “Nellie Cashman led a humble life. Her principal business was to feed the hungry and shelter the homeless, and her chief divertissement was to relieve those in distress and to care for the sick and afflicted.” Nellie Cashman was a highly respected businesswoman, prospector and miner, and humanitarian in gold camps all over the United States (Including Alaska), British Columbia and the Yukon. She was born into a poor Irish Catholic family in County Cork, Ireland, in 1845. Victims of the Irish Potato Famine, she and her mother and younger sister, Frances, emigrated to Boston in the United States when she was still young. It is not known whether her father died, or simply abandoned his family. When she was 20 years old, the three women moved to San Francisco, where Frances married Thomas Cunningham and bore five children. Nellie first moved to a mining camp in Nevada in 1872 where she and her mother ran a boarding house, and therein followed a pattern of arriving early in new mining camps, and leaving before they had gone into decline. She first came north to British Columbia in 1874 on the toss of a coin, heading to Dease Lake via the Stikine River in the remote Cassiar mining district. There she established a saloon and boarding house and made enough the first season to take a trip out with the onset of winter. While Outside the winter of 1874-75, she learned of the plight of

starving and scurvy-stricken Cassiar miners trapped in the snow-locked interior region. She enlisted the aid of a half-dozen men and returned with nearly a ton of supplies, including a quantity of potatoes and limes, and she nursed the sickened miners back to health. This was the first of many compassionate acts that earned her the “Angel” epithet. Cashman, a devout Catholic, supported many churches, hospitals and schools, including the establishment of the hospital in Victoria that was run by the Sisters of St. Anne. But she was not sectarian in her compassionate work. Over the years, she supported the Salvation Army, the Episcopal church and other religious or civic groups that performed important social services in the remote mining camps of the north. She left the Cassiar gold fields in 1877, and for the next 20 year, she gained respect while she prospected and ran other businesses in Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Colorado, Mexico, and even South Africa. When her brother-in-law Tom died in 1881, leaving her sister a widow with five children, she supported them, and when her sister died in 1884, she took over the sole responsibility of caring for the five orphaned nieces and nephews. In later years, her nephew Mike repaid her by sending her cheques for thousands of dollars, but she never cashed them. She returned to Juneau in 1895 for a brief visit, and then after news reached the world of the Klondike strike, she came to the Yukon from 1898 to 1904. After that, she moved into Alaska, where she continued to mine until a few months before her death. I decided to do some history hunting into Nellie Cashman’s activities in the Yukon. In the newspapers, she can be found making plans to go to the Klondike in the fall of 1897. She left Arizona and

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This popular photo of Nellie Cashman was taken when she was younger. By the time she stampeded to Dawson City, she was in her 50s, and she continued to prospect and mine until she was 80 years old.

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laboured over the Chilkoot Trail to the headwaters of the Yukon River. By the time she headed for Dawson City, she was more than 50 years old, but her durable temperament and her sturdy constitution served her well in the thriving gold rush camp. While in Dawson City, she per-

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formed numerous charitable acts, raised money for the hospital, and helped down in their luck miners, all the while operating a restaurant and small grocery store. Like many others, she pursued mining at every opportunity, and engaged in the popular mining activity of litigation. She eventually secured a share in Claim No. 19 Below Discovery on Bonanza Creek, earning a cool $100,000 from the venture. Today, that would be worth more than $2.5 million, but she gave it all to charity or invested in more prospecting. She became seriously ill late in 1902 and underwent major surgery. She was given one chance in 10 of surviving the procedure, but she recovered. Within months, she was again active with her mining claims. Returning from a trip outside in February 1904, she stampeded to the Kluane goldfields, where she optimistically purchased several claims. She then continued north over the Dawson trail, on foot, in temperatures of minus 55 Celsius. Not bad for a woman just shy of 60 years of age! Nellie moved on to Alaska, where she continued to prospect, speculate, and mine for another 20 years. In the Fairbanks area, she helped to raise funds for the St. Matthews Episcopalian Hospital. She remained there until gold was found in the Koyukuk region. In 1907, now more than 60 years old, she harnessed a dog team and mushed to the southern foothills of the Brooks Range. She was as tough as they came and almost twenty years later, on the verge of her 80th birthday, she mushed to Seward with her dog team and sled, a distance of 1,200 kilometres in 17 days, by running behind her team, or standing on the runners. She was going Outside to raise money for her mining. A short time later, she was on her way back to her claims in the Koyukuk region. She turned back to Fairbanks with a case of pneumonia. When her health rallied, she made a second attempt to reach her claims but had to turn back 130 kilometres short of her objective. Continuing to suffer from her lingering case of pneumonia, she headed south. At St. Joseph’s Hospital, in Victoria, the establishment she helped the Sisters of St. Anne to build 40 years earlier, she finally succumbed to her lingering illness on January 4, 1925 and was buried in the Ross Bay cemetery. Cashman was commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp that was released in October of 1994, and was inducted into the Alaska Mining Hall of Fame in 2006. Considering the historic stature that she has achieved in recent times, it is surprising how scant the historical record at first appears for her Dawson City years. Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His latest book, Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail, is available in Yukon stores. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net

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No need to waste time and good wine on boorish neighbours an occasional wave from across the fence should be about right. But first you will have to let go of the idea of impressing them with your knowledge of wine. DEAR MISS MANNERS: I by Judith underwent a breast augmentation surgery during the summer, when Martin I was off work anyway for holidays, so I didn’t need to explain to any co-workers why I wasn’t at work. Some friends and family were aware before, but otherwise I consider it a completely private matter. DEAR MISS MANNERS: We I’m surprised to find how many have moved to a small town in acquaintances and co-workers have a popular wine-growing region, asked me about my breasts. (It was and our next-door neighbor is a well-known winemaker. We invited a modest increase and I dress very modestly as well ... although even him and his wife over for dinner, if I didn’t, I don’t think that would and I shared a bottle of one of my excuse them from asking.) favorite (and not inexpensive) Is there some way I can save face wines that I have been collecting in front of people when they ask for years. me if I’m on a new birth control, It was delicious, but he drank wearing a new bra or if I’ve had only a few sips and went into the kitchen and poured his almost-full surgery? I don’t want to lie, but I glass down the drain right in front also feel like it’s none of their business. of me! GENTLE READER: Really? You Another time, I brought to his feel that the size of your breasts is house a well-regarded, expensive wine that I had hand-carried back none of your co-workers’ business? In that case, Miss Manners from a visit to a winery in South Africa. He hardly tasted it, and after would expect you to have a bit dinner I took the open bottle back more conviction about rebuffing home rather than have him dump these inquiries. They do not arise from compassionate concern about this one too. your health. They are lewd, as well We may have different tastes as nosy, and the correct response is in wine, but I’m thinking that I should not waste my generosnothing more than a frosty “I beg ity and hospitality on this boor. I your pardon!” followed by a silent should add that he and his wife are stare. Far from being meant literoften loud and drunk. Am I overally, those words are an indication reacting? that the questioners should beg GENTLE READER: Well, if yours. you really need Miss Manners to DEAR MISS MANNERS: A tell you that your neighbors are college friend asked me to be a part not ideal drinking companions, of her wedding — not technishe cannot say that your reactions cally in the wedding party, but in a are sharp. Nor are your neighbors’ challenging category of “more than reactions likely to be, if they are in guest and less than bridesmaid” the habit of over-sampling their that I like to refer to as “JV string product. bridesmaid.” You cannot decrease the At the time I was asked, I had no geographical proximity of your commitments, but now there may neighbors, but you can increase be a conflict. Although my main the social distance. Reducing it to career is that of a teacher, I am also

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an actor, and my career as an actor is very important to me. Many summer shows that I would like to audition for have performance conflicts with the wedding. I first met the bride while we were both theater majors, so she does understand the importance of my career. In addition to the wedding, the other obligations (the bridal showers, plural, and the bachelorette party) are starting to pile up. I don’t live in the same town as the bride, so travel expenses and gift expenses will be costly. I feel as though my obligations to this wedding are requiring me to put my life on hold. I do love my friend and want to support her happiness, but we have drifted apart over the years. I usually see her only once or twice a year. Help! I’m feeling so overwhelmed and conflicted. GENTLE READER: Please save the drama for the theater, my dear, and wait until you have an actual conflict before working yourself into a tizzy. Telling the bride that her wedding is getting in the way of your potential career is not going to be looked upon kindly, no matter how sympathetic she is to a life in the theater. Audition for the shows. If you do get cast in one that coincides with the wedding or a related event, tell your friend that you never in a million years thought that this would happen — you were just trying out for practice — but you got the part of a lifetime and you don’t know what to do. Here is the place to put histrionics to good use. If your friend is as sympathetic as you say, she might understand — but only if you act truly devastated. Miss Manners suggests that

you start rehearsing. DEAR MISS MANNERS: On the invitation for a birthday party for a 2-year-old, the parents had the child registered for gifts. I was under the impression that you register for a bridal shower or first baby shower. I thought it was quite rude to ask for gifts for a child’s birthday. I was not brought up this way. Am I wrong or were they? GENTLE READER: All right, everyone, that is quite enough. Has Miss Manners been too subtle about her position on Gimme Lists? Stop it! Registries are never proper. Not for weddings, not for baby showers and not for birthdays; not for christenings, bar mitzvahs, quinceaneras, sweet sixteens, graduations, engagements or debutante balls; not for announcing gender, changing gender, getting a job, losing a job, buying a house, divorcing, retiring or dying. It is simply never polite to ask someone to buy you a present. Everyone is just going to have to go through life’s milestones without thinking of them as free shopping sprees. DEAR MISS MANNERS: On more than one occasion, I have heard a woman say, “We’re pregnant!” when referring to the fact that the couple is expecting a baby. My in-laws will even say, “Did you hear that John and Jane are pregnant?” I think that phrasing it in such a way is ridiculous, and I often find myself responding in a manner such as, “Wow, he’s pregnant, too?” How should I respond to statements such as this, when it is so obvious that the woman is the only one who is pregnant?

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Yukon’s Janelle Clethero, left, and Kayla Armstrong, above, perform in the Ladies 2 competition at the Arctic Winter Games in Fairbanks on Wednesday.

very proud of her,” said Yukon coach but sometimes you can’t get the Tom Patrick Michelle Gorczyca. mental aspect across until you’re News Reporter “She did very well and held her own. actually at the venue. I think nerves Most of the girls are twice her size. FAIRBANKS, ALASKA caught up to them.” “She’s our cool cucumber. She While the strain of a major com- keeps it all composed.” figure skater can practise her petition hindered the performances axels all she wants, but she Teammates Morgan Madden and can’t practise dealing with the of a few, some Yukoners skated Kelcy Armstrong placed 10th and like it was a practice back home in pressure of competing at a major 11th, respectively, out of 11 skaters Whitehorse. event. in Ladies 3. Yukon skaters took in seven topSome Yukon skaters felt that “Our Ladies 3 did better than pressure at the Arctic Winter Games 10 finishes with two in the middle of yesterday,” said Gorczyca on Wedthe pack in the combined event on this week. nesday. “I think all of them could Tuesday and Wednesday. “We had a couple in the bottom have skated a bit better than they Yukon’s Mikayla Kramer kept half, but most of the girls skated did.” really, really well,” said Yukon coach her nerves in check in the Ladies 3 Yukon skater Landyn Blisner competition. Kramer skated to sixth leapt up the standings on WednesCharlene Donald. “The Level 2s in the short and fifth in the free for could have had a better skate. They day in Ladies 1. Blisner placed 12th sixth overall. didn’t do bad at all. It’s the first in the short program on Tuesday “This is her first Arctic Winter Winter Games they’ve ever been and moved all the way up to fifth Games and she’s jumping right to. As coaches, we want to prepare after taking fifth in the free program. them both physically and mentally, into Ladies 3 and she’s 11, so we’re Blisner landed her double-salchow

in competition for her first time. Yukoners Meghan Birmingham and Tessa Moore came ninth and 10th, respectively, out of 12 skaters. Moore was eighth in the short program and Birmingham ninth. “Meghan and Tessa more just learned their axel last week and both of them landed it in competition today, so they were pretty pumped,” said Donald. Yukon’s Janelle Clethero skated to eighth in Ladies 2 combined event. Teammate Kayla Armstrong placed 10th out of 10 but was ninth in the short program. Kelcy Armstrong is the only skater of the eight Yukoners with previous Games experience. She competed at the 2012 Games in Whitehorse, placing fourth in the Ladies 3 free program. She also competed at the 2010 Arctic Games in Grande Prai-

rie, Alta., taking fourth overall in the Ladies 1 division. “We have a whole new team this year, except for Kelcy,” said Gorczyca. “So they’re all newbies. So they don’t know what to expect, they don’t know the calibre of skating either. I think this week has been a bit of an eye-opener for them. So I think they’ll go home more motivated than when they came. “So hopefully at the next Arctic Winter Games they’ll know a little bit more of what to expect and how to prepare.” All eight are members of Whitehorse’s Arctic Edge Skating Club. Figure skating at the Arctic Games wrapped up with the team event on Thursday. Results were not available by press time. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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in an 11-1 win, Yukon’s Team Horte was eliminated from medal contention by the hostFAIRBANKS, ALASKA ing rink at the Arctic Winter t was a loss few could preGames on Wednesday. dict. “We just had a bad day,” Just two days after running said Yukon skip Bailey Horte. roughshod over Team Alaska “The Alaska girls played really News Reporter

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Yukon skip Bailey Horte delivers a shot against Alaska in female curling at the Arctic Winter Games in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Wednesday. The Yukon rink lost 8-7 and placed fourth.

well, and we just didn’t catch any breaks in the game today.” Team Horte was handed a fourth-place finish in junior female curling with an 8-7 loss to Alaska. The Alaska rink went on to face Team N.W.T. in the bronze match, the winner of which competes against Alberta North for gold, with the loser taking bronze. (Final results were not available by press time.) “Alaska played a really strong game,” said Yukon coach Rhonda Horte. “They just executed really well and had amazing draw-weight and they deserved to win. They just out-curled the girls today.” Team Horte, which includes Kelsey Meger, second Kelly

Mahoney and lead/vice-skip Alyssa Meger, fought back from trailing situations three times against Alaska. They scored three in the ninth end to tie it 7-7, but Alaska, who had the hammer, scored the winning point without having to throw their final stone in the 10th. The Yukon rink, which had beaten Alaska in just six ends on Monday, finished the round-robin with a 2-2 record for third, a spot up from Alaska. Alaska lost 9-7 to N.W.T. and 10-4 to Alberta North in the round-robin before getting their first win, a 9-6 victory over last place’s Nunavut. “The tables really turned,” said Rhonda. “Alaska got stronger as the week pro-

gressed and they just executed very well today. They made all their shots.” Team Horte includes three curlers from Yukon’s silverwinning rink at the 2012 Arctic Games in Whitehorse. Bailey, Kelsey and Mahoney competed in 2012 with Mahoney as skip. However, the Horte curlers won’t necessarily go home without medals. A mixed doubles tournament, introduced to the Games this year, begins on Friday. In the doubles tournament female curlers will be paired up with male curlers from different Games jurisdictions to compete for ulus. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Female volleyball squad fights to the end

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Yukon middle Chloe Turner-Davis bumps the ball against Team N.W.T. at the Arctic Winter Games in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Thursday. Yukon lost 27-25, 25-19 and was eliminated from the tournament.

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Games. Yukon’s female volleyball team was eliminated from the tournaFAIRBANKS, ALASKA ment in their final round-robin hey had grit, determinagame with a 27-25, 25-19 loss to tion, but not enough wins to Team Northwest Territories Thurscontinue on at the Arctic Winter day morning. News Reporter

“I’m very proud. The girls finished stronger than they started, which was amazing for our team,” said Yukon head coach Kasia Leary. “I’m sad it’s over and I’m exhausted, but they played so hard. Our big thing was in the end they wanted

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to play classy and fight right to the end, and I think they did that.” Yukon prevailed through some tough moments in their final game. They fought off three set-points for N.W.T. in the first set. Down 2421, Yukon captain Chanel Newell tipped the ball over N.W.T. blockers for a point and teammate Avery Bramadat put an ace down the line before a missed N.W.T. attack evened it 24-24. Facing another set-point at 26-25, Yukon’s Tayla McNally hammered a kill to tie the set again. N.W.T. then took the set on a pair of kills. “We had some struggles with the team, with relationships and emotions, but we’ve really come through it and got rid of it on the court and I’m really proud we were able to do that,” said Yukon middle Chloe Turner-Davis. “We came here wanting to get a medal of course, like every team does, but I’m happy with how we played. We can still smile after the

games because regardless of what we placed, we still had a really good Games.” Yukon finished the round-robin with a 1-9 record in a very busy five-day span. Their one win came in their first game in Fairbanks, beating Nunavut 26-24, 25-22 on Sunday. Nunavut also finished with a 1-9 record in the round-robin but placed sixth behind Yukon in fifth. “They’ve had their moments of brilliance in every single game,” said Leary. “Whether it was amazing defence or our hits were going so well or our serving was consistent. When we played against Yamal yesterday, they dug every ball. It was phenomenal. I’ve never seen these girls play defence like that.” Team Yamal went undefeated in the round-robin with 10 straight wins. Final results from the female volleyball were not available by press time. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Snowshoers continue to clean up in Fairbanks Tom Patrick

1,500 for the overall gold. “I feel pretty good about them, they were a lot of fun,” FAIRBANKS, ALASKA said Bradley. ukon snowshoers are In the 400-metre, “at the 200 stomping snow and mark I knew I could do it, get competitors at the Arctic first place.” Winter Games. The gold is Bradley’s first After just two days of racing in an individual event in three the team has accumulated a Arctic Games. He was on a goldtotal of 12 medals including winning relay team at the 2010 four gold. Games in Grande Prairie, Alta. Yukon won eight ulu medHis gold meant the end of als from the combined short a win-streak spanning three distance races and relays on Arctic Games. Wednesday. Yukon teammate Kieran HalOne gold was a long time liday took silver in the junior in the making. Yukon’s Aidan male event. Before Wednesday Bradley claimed first in the Halliday had won eight straight short distance combined event gold medals at the Arctic Games for junior male. Bradley placed since 2010, including a fivefirst in the 100- and 400-metre kilometre cross-country race on distances and second in the Monday. News Reporter

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Yukon snowshoe athlete Aidan Bradley races at the Arctic Winter Games in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Monday. Bradley won gold in the short distance combined event in junior male on Wednesday.

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“I was really going for it today, but if you look at the results, Aidan and I were in different heats and were within a second in two of the races, which is pretty amazing,” said Halliday. “If there’s someone I’m going to lose to, I’m glad it was Aidan. He trained really hard all season and I think he really deserved it.” Halliday ran to gold in the junior male five-kilometre cross-country race to start the Games on Monday. After placing fourth in a 2.5-kilometre race on Monday, Yukon’s Alice Frost-Hanberg found redemption with gold on Wednesday. Frost-Hanberg placed first in the 100-, second in the 400- and second in the 800-metre for first

in the juvenile combined event. The Yukon team picked up a second silver on Wednesday. Sara Burke-Forsyth took second in the junior female event for her 10th career ulu over three Arctic Games, including a bronze from Monday. She placed just 0.9 seconds ahead of teammate Kate Londero, who snatched the bronze. Yukon’s Angus Clarke was Got any fastest in the 100-metre event, came third in 400-metre and Sports sixth in the 1,500-metre, on his Tips? way to bronze in the juvenile male division in the combined event on Wednesday. “I was sure I’d get a medal. I was hoping for a different colour, but it’s good,” said Clarke. The Yukon team also claimed medals in the mixed relay events

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Clockwise from the top: Yukon snowboarder Adam Waddington catches air in slopestyle at the Arctic Winter Games. Waddington placed fourth in junior male; Yukon’s Galen Clarke bumps the ball against Team N.W.T. Yukon took the game in straight sets; Yukon’s Solstice Sarin-Toews races in the sprint event for junior female on Tuesday and Yukon’s Jacy Sam goes over a block from Team Alaska on Wednesday. Yukon lost 85-44.

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www.yukon-news.com • 211 Wood Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2E4 • Phone: (867) 667-6285 • Fax: (867) 668-3755 For Rent ATLIN GUEST HOUSE Deluxe Lakeview Suites Sauna, Hot Tub, BBQ, Internet, Satellite TV Kayak Rentals In House Art Gallery 1-800-651-8882 Email: atlinart@yahoo.ca www.atlinguesthouse.com HOBAH APARTMENTS: Clean, spacious, walking distance downtown, security entrance, laundry room, plug-ins, rent includes heat & hot water, no pets. References required. 668-2005 SKYLINE APTS: 2-bdrm apartments, Riverdale. Parking & laundry facilities. 667-6958 $575, $785, $900, ROOMS. BACHELORS. 1-BDRMS. Clean, bright, furnished, all utilities incl, laundry facilities. Close to college & downtown. Bus stop, security doors. Live-in manager. 667-4576 or Email: barracksapt@hotmail.com

WEEKEND GET AWAY Rustic Cabin-45 minutes from town Hiking Trails in the summer Skiing in the winter Includes sauna. Reasonable rates. Rent out by the week or for a weekend. 867-821-4443 ARE YOU New to Whitehorse? Pick up a free Welcome to Whitehorse package at The Smith House, 3128-3rd Ave. Information on transit, recreation programs, waste collection & diversion. 668-8629 GARAGE, COPPER Ridge, 24ʼx20ʼ, detached, insulated, cement floor, 12 shelves, worktable, 240 plug-in, great for mechanical, carpentry or art. Short term, $400/mon, long term w lease, $250/mon. Refs reqʼd. 668-2889 Available Now Newly renovated OFFICE SPACE & RETAIL SPACE Close to Library & City Hall A short walk to Main Street Phone 633-6396 RIVERDALE: FURNISHED room in home, N/S, N/P, N/D, clean, quiet home, internet, laundry, close to DT, $600/mon all incl. 667-2452 DOWNTOWN BACHELOR suite, furnished, for quiet person, clean and bright, hardwood floor, nice house, laundry/utils incl, N/S, avail immed, $1,000/mon. 332-3598.

Beautifully finished office space is available in the Taku Building at 309 Main Street. This historic building is the first L.E.E.D. certified green building in Yukon. It features state of the art heat and ventilation, LAN rooms, elevator, bike storage, shower, accessibility and more.

ROOM FOR rent, N/S, N/P, immed, $750/mon. all incl. 393-2275

Horwood’s Mall Main Street at First Avenue Coming Available Soon! Two small retail spaces. 150 & 580 sq. ft.

3-BDRM APT in a house, 2 full baths, dbl garage, shared laundry, N/S, pets negotiable. Refs & DD reqʼd, avail immed, $1,550/mon + utils. 334-1907 FURNISHED ROOM for female roommate until end of April, d/t house, N/P, N/S, refs reqʼd, $600/mon + $400 dd. 668-5185 days or 667-7840 eves, weekends RENT ONE of our cozy cabins with sauna for a weekend getaway Relax and enjoy the winter wonderland on the S. Canol Road 332- 3824 or info@breathofwilderness.com.

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2-BDRM (1-BDRM, 1 lg loft) 1-bath 3-storey home 20 mins south of town on shared acrege, N/S, pets welcome, looking for long term renter/s, $1,800/mon + water delivery. 335-6746 1-BDRM SUITE, PC, full bath, in-suite laundry, attached greenhouse, on bus route, N/S, $795/mon + utils. suites@auroramusic.ca

Downtown Vacation Suites 2 & 3 bedroom executive class furnished suites with well equipped kitchens, Cable TV, internet & utilities included Perfect for relocation, corporate, and for short or extended stay in mind Offering a less expensive alternative to hotel rooms A home away from home 667-2255 or www.midnightsunvr.com

PRIVATE ROOM downtown, avail Apr. 1, $800/mon all incl. CAll/e-mail to view. 647-996-7531 1-BDRM GROUND floor suite, PC, new renos, large, bright, private ent, full bath, kitchen, shared laundry, N/P, N/S, no parties, $1,250/mon incl heat, power, TV, wifi, avail May 1. 633-6389

ROOM IN PC, L/R w. 46” TV, satellite, wifi internet, bathroom, shared kitchen, laundry facilities, avail Apr 1, $600/mon. 334-4113 1-BDRM FULLY furnished apt in d/t, incl heat, lights, hot water, basic cable, N/P, no parties, responsible tenant, avail Apr 1 $950/mon single, $1,000/mon for double. 668-5558

SPACIOUS ROOM w/own bath, 31-67 River Ridge Lane, N/S, N/P, avail immed, $600/mon, 668-4073 2-BDRM LOWER level of Crestview home, N/P, N/S, dd&refs reqʼd, avail Apr 1, $1,150/mon + utils. 667-4858 3-BDRM UPPER level of Crestview home, landscaped, deck, mountain view, N/P, N/S, dd&refs reqʼd, avail Apr 1, $1,600/mon + utils. 667-4858

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Office Space for Rent 550 sq. ft., ground floor Wheelchair access Close to Law Centre, City Hall $25/sq. ft. includes heat, power, taxes, basic janitorial, free off-street parking with plug-in 335-3123

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TAKING APPLICATIONS for 1,750 sqft 3-bdrm condo in PC, N/P, N/S, no parties, $1,800/mon. Dave 334-3032 2-BDRM, 1.5 bath, greenhouse, garden, lawn, covered deck, close to school, 20 mins south of town, avail May, $1,200/mon + utils. 336-1998 2-BDRM, 1.5 bath, 3-level condo, Granger, master w/walk-in, finished family room, deck, attached garage, 5 appliances, immaculate, avail immed, $1,500/mon + utils. 334-1170 ROOMMATE WANTED to share Marsh Lake waterfront home, animals welcome, N/S, $500/mon + shared elec. 660-4321 1-BDRM, RIVERDALE, avail immed, N/S, N/P, $700/mon, incl heat & elec. 334-3878 3-BDRM 1.5 bath condo, Riverdale, new renos, new kitchen/living room, avail immed, N/P, N/S, dd&refs reqʼd, $1,450/mon + utilities. 332-8686 ROOM FOR rent, Ingram, N/P, N/S, no drugs, utilities included, single person only. 668-2848 ROOMMATE REQUIRED, big, clean, newly painted/carpeted room for rent, 7 mins to downtown, female only, $750/mon. Contact 336 -0499 Tracylee ROOMMATE WANTED for duplex on greenbelt in Riverdale, am out of town and come into town every second weekend and for meetings. No parties or habitual drinkers. $875/mon. 334-9695

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2-BDRM 1.5 bath, Teslin, L/R, family room, large arctic entry, well and sewer, lakeview, in town, oil/woodstove, large fenced yard, w/d, pets ok, N/S, $750/mon + utils. 335-4460 3-BDRM 2-BATH home on corner lot in Arkell, great condition, avail Apr 1, $1,350/mon. 333-9157 or 335-9100 ROOMMATE WANTED to share upper floor of Riverdale house, elec, heat, internet, cable TV incl, N/P, avail Apr 1, $650/mon. Rick 332-6020

Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 HOUSE-SITTER IN Whitehorse, many seasons of experience, good with animals, plants, gardens, have local references. No fees. Discount on painting for longer sits. 335-2300 SINGLE MALE, N/S, hard working, looking for room with family or roommate within 10-15min drive to DT or in DT, can afford $400-$500/mon, 393-8270 lv msg, or email israelmounted@gmail.com LOOKING FOR a clean, quiet, legal 2 bedroom. I am a single mother with a 12 year old child. N/P, N/P, N/S. Needed May 1st. $1,200. Quietfamily123@gmail.com HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE year-round, professional, non-smoking, non-partying, mature female, offering unequalled care for pets, plants, yards, and house. References. Call Tracy 334-2882

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Friday, March 21, 2014 Real Estate HAINES JUNCTION, 2-storey 2-bdrm house, contemporary design, open concept, 10-acre lot, cul-de-sac, fire-smarted around house, 85% completed, 1,350 sq ft, $275,000 as is. 634-2240 3-BDRM 2 bath house on large corner, treed lot, basement suite, close to schools, across from zoned green space, will sell furnished or unfurnished, 49 Redwood, Porter Creek. 633-6553 RIVERDALE LOT, 100x50, zoned RS but new services to support duplex or triplex, S-facing back, quiet street, alley, close to trails, 21 McQuesten, $169,900. wallymaltz@mac.com. Build in Riverdale LAKEFRONT ACREAGE, approx 9.7 acres & 1,000ʼ waterfront on beautiful Crag Lake, treed & sloped, several good building sites, $230,000. 821-6011 MAYO, 3-BDRM retrofitted home, double lot, for sale in town. 867-393-3853 for details 5 ATLIN lake view town lots. Prime location, Discovery Ave & 3rd St. 1 double lot incls old log house. Reduced to sell, $150,000 takes all. Email: mjbhome14@live.co.uk or John 250-676-9597 3-BDRM HOME, Teslin, 8ʼx44ʼ covered deck, well maintained in good shape, currently rented to good tenant who wants to stay, excellent investment, $116,000. 334-2262 5 ACRES in Robinson Sub (Mt. Lorne) with cute little 1-bdrm house, water delivery, septic field, hydro, shed, $265,000. 335-2034

INCREDIBLE LAKEFRONT property 26 Beachfront Rd (California Beach), Tagish Lake. Well built open concept 2 bdrm cabin, insulated for winter use, approved pit privy, seasonal water system. $325,000. 334-7863 TINY HOUSE on trailer, 144 sq.ft main + 72 loft, airy, beautiful, healthy, high quality, sheep wool insulation, incinolet, Bosch on-demand hotwater, Dickson propane F/P, R-30, $75,000. wallymaltz@mac.com. Live anywhere 2 HECTARES in Robinson Subdivision (Mt.Lorne) with small 1 bedroom fully serviced house. 335-2034

Help Wanted 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 Fax resume to: 867-993-2336 CANADIAN LYNDEN TRANSPORT Looking for Class 1 drivers with superb experience Please e-mail resume to abjork@lynden.com or Fax 867-668-3196 Phone: 668-3198 CLARK BUILDERS Now Hiring in Whitehorse and Yellowknife Project Managers Project Coordinators Estimators Superintendents Apply at www.clarkbuilders.com

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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.

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Science, Trades, Technology & Munchkins Camps Continuing Education - Extension Services Casual Hire from: May 12, 2014 - August 22, 2014 Hourly rate: $16.52 Initial Review Date: March 28, 2014 Competition No.: 14.28 Yukon College is looking for enthusiastic Summer Camp Facilitators who enjoy working with youth in both an indoor & outdoor, experiential setting and travelling throughout the Yukon. The successful candidates will help coordinate and facilitate weeklong Science, Trades, Technology & Munchkins summer camps, for ages 5-15, to both Whitehorse and the communities throughout the Yukon from mid-May to midAugust. The successful candidates will be post-secondary students in the following disciplines of Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Education, Computer science and/or candidates with teaching experience and previous experience in the trades/construction industry. Candidates with an acceptable combination of education, training and experience may also be considered. A criminal record check will be required upon hire. A valid Yukon driver’s license and Standard First Aid/CPR-C certification would be considered assets.

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Kluane First Nation EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

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TERM: Regular Full Time LOCATION: Burwash Landing, Yukon Territory SALARY: L4 - Commensurate with experience APPLICATION DEADLINE: 4:30 p.m. – March 28, 2014

PurPose of Position: To work within the Kluane First Nation government to regulate the archival management system and activities. Reporting to the Heritage Manager, this position is responsible for the administration and maintenance of the Kluane First Nation Archives. In addition to meeting archival industry standards, the position is also responsible for the appraisal, selection, arrangement, and description of KFN government records and relevant donor collections. This position is responsible for the management of KFN archive facilities, the development of archival procedures and policies, and delivery of delegated special heritage projects. The position may be required to write and manage funding proposals. Conduct primary research and assist in preparation of reports for KFN projects. Sit on various boards or committees dealing with archives and collections management.

Kluane First Nation JOB OPPORTUNITY EnvironmEntal officEr Full Time/Regular Salary: $45,000. - $65,000. Per year, depending on experience Based on 70 hours biweekly/ Burwash Landing Application deadline: 4:30 – march 28, 2014

ovErviEw: Under the direction of the Natural Resources Manager, the Environmental Officer is responsible for monitoring and administering environmental acts, regulations, policies and procedures. This includes assessing development applications where KFN has jurisdiction and making recommendations regarding those applications to senior staff or Council. As well, they are responsible for monitoring projects within KFN jurisdiction or in co-management areas and serve as the overall technical support to KFN in matters relating to the environment.

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The successful candidate must be a high school graduate with training &/or experience in Archive, Library, and Information Management studies. Cultural resource management, museology or university level courses in equivalent fields would also be considered an asset. The incumbent should have strong technical writing, research, analytical and communication skills with a high level of attention to detail; the ability to work independently; strong organizational skills; and, as a member of a team.

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Computer proficiency including word processing (Word), spreadsheet (Excel) and presentations (Power Point) and current database systems knowledge.

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Please submit resume, cover letter to: Kluane First Nation P.O. Box 20, Burwash Landing, Yukon Territory, Y0B 1V0 Ph. (867) 841-4274 Fax: (867) 841-5900 attention: Human Resources Officer hr.capacityofficer@kfn.ca We thank all applicants who apply; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Ensuring KFN meets their responsibilities under the YESSA agreement Conduct and perform environmental assessments Monitoring by on-site visits and reviewing developer/operator terms Collecting and disseminating YESSA information Monitoring environmental clean-ups Assisting with developing strategies for dealing with environmental issues Conduct water samples and other testing as may be required Assisting the KFN Lands, Resources and Heritage Department with other duties relating to environmental issues as may be required

The candidate will have a minimum of 2 years Post-secondary education in the field of environmental assessment or completion of the Environmental Officer Training Program or equivalent. They are required to possess work experience in environmental assessment and monitoring.

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candidates can submit their resume to: HR Kluane First Nation email: hr.capacityofficer@kfn.ca We thank you in advance for your application, however only qualified candidates will be contacted.

Employment Opportunity

Expression of Interest for: Renewable Resources Management (RRMT) Instructor(s) Upcoming Terms – September 2014/January 2015 Applied Science & Management School of Science Competition#: 14.35 Initial Review Date: April 4, 2014

Are you interested in teaching part-time? Yukon College is looking for qualified person(s), on a casual/sessional basis, to teach: RRMT 201: RRMT 237: RRMT 238: RRMT 241: RRMT 242:

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For more information on our individual courses, please go to: http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/courses If you have relevant experience and education and are interested in teaching in a post-secondary setting, please send us your resume. For more information, please contact: Robert Ferro at rferro@yukoncollege.yk.ca 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

General Assignment Reporter with photography skills. We’re a twice-weekly community newspaper that often punches above our weight, producing probing, award-winning journalism. Last year we won six Canadian Community Newspaper Awards – more than any other publication in our circulation size. This is a full-time job. We’re looking for someone to preferably start June 1. We’re looking for someone who has a proven ability to work as a newspaper reporter. In exchange for your hustle and drive, we’ll give you an opportunity to do some of your best writing in your career. As one of three or four news reporters, you’d be expected to divide your time between writing news assignments and producing features for our arts, business and life sections in the back of the paper. The ideal candidate is able to pound out a hard-hitting news story on deadline and write a thoughtful, entertaining feature during a lull. News judgement, attention to detail, the ability to meet daily deadlines and a cool head under pressure are all essential. Having competent photography skills is an asset. The Yukon News supplies the camera equipment. Please also indicate if you have a driver’s licence. Please send editor John Thompson a cover letter, resume and five published stories that show the depth and breadth of your reporting experience, as well as samples of your published images. Applications may be emailed to editor@yukon-news.com. DeADLINe Is MArCH 31.

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Amber Enterprises is looking for: CAMPGROUND ACCOMMODATION ATTENDANTS, NOC #6435 May till Nov, full time, shift work. Requirements: Front desk customer service, accommodation registration, barista, and office staff Must speak English with a second language preferred (German, French, Spanish) Contact: rsc@klondiker.com Apply with cover letter, resume, and references. Amber Enterprises is looking for: SEASONAL LIVE-IN ONSITE CAMPGROUND OFFICE MANAGER NOC #0632 $12.50 per hour. May till Oct, full time, shift work. Requirements: Accommodation Registration Management, Payroll, Scheduling, Staffing, Customer Service Must speak English and also have one of the following: German, Spanish or French Contact: rsc@klondiker.com Apply with cover letter, resume, and references.

ACMG HikinG BACkpACkinG SnowSHoeinG Guide Duties: • Safe Outdoor guiding with interpretation, transporting, emergency procedure, cooking at camp. Wage: • $18.95 / hr, Permanent position • Full time position (min. of 35 hrs / week) • WCB, Staff Accommodation Job Location: • Whitehorse, Dawson City, Haines J. area requirements: Skills and certification requirements: • Must speak and write in English • ACMG Hiking certification • Valid wilderness First Aid (80 hrs) • Previous guiding experience 1 yr to less than 2 yrs. consiDer as an asset: • Japanese speaking skill. • Local guiding knowledge / Good fitness level YM Tours LTd o/A Yamnuska Mountain Tours Box 31112 Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A5P7 job2@yamnuskaguides.com DOWNTOWN DAYS CHILDCARE CENTRE Looking for an early childhood caregiver Training in early childhood or a related field required This position is 9:00am-5:30pm, Monday to Fridays Wage dependent on training and experience Call 667-6776, Echo or Lynda, for further information Resumes may be dropped off at 478 Range Road, faxed to 667-6736 or emailed to rustic@northwestel.net FULL TIME DENTAL ASSISTANT REQUIRED Full Time Assistant required immediately for Pine Dental. Experience required. Please fax resume to 867-668-5121 or drop off at clinic at 101-204 Black St.

Miscellaneous for Sale BETTER BID NORTH AUCTIONS Foreclosure, bankruptcy De-junking, down-sizing Estate sales. Specializing in estate clean-up & buy-outs. The best way to deal with your concerns. Free, no obligation consultation. 333-0717 We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, cameras, furniture, antiques, artwork, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, vehicles & ATVs. G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS STARTECH 7 Port USB 3.0/2.0 Hub with Charging Port ST7320USBC, $35, 667-6472 MOVING OUT, white entertainment centre, stereo stand, new breadmaker, area rug 7ʼx10ʼ, dishes, pots, lamps, white microwave stand, etc. 393-3113 for info NEW ENVIROLET compost toilet, waterless, includes ducting, $2,200 obo. 633-6502 :) = full woodshed. Super-dry straight-grained lodgepole pine, $190/cord delivered in Whitehorse. Text or call Doug Martens/Teslin @ 334-7364 2” HONDA water pump, like new, with hoses & nozzle, $600. 335-0164

BRAND NEW Murdoch gold nugget watch, double ram head design, paid $4,700, asking $4,000 firm. August @ 393-4796

APPLE AIRPORT Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi Model #A1354, 4th generation, $50. 667-6472

EXTRA LARGE suits for sale for women, different colours & materials, different prices, one is new. 667-7840 evenings & weekends, 668-5185 days

LEXAR PRO Compact Flash Reader ExpressCard PCLe Interface, $35. 667-6472

MARMOT LIKE down jacket, womenʼs small, $40. MEC hydro foil pants, womenʼs medium, new, 311B Hanson St. after 6:00 pm. EARLY CHILDHOOD Education Books for different courses, Learning Through Play, Science for Young Children, Guiding Young Children and more. Selling 1/2 a price, good cond, 668-5185

ESATA KIT: G-Technology 4 Port eSATA PCIE Host adapter, 2x Startech 2 Port PCI ExpressCard, 4x 6ft cable male/male, 5x 3ft cable male/male. $350 new. Asking $135, 667-6472 SANDISK COMPACT Flash CF cards, 9 cards/4GB Extreme IV, 6 cards/46B Extreme III, 1 card Ultra II 1GB, $125. 667-6472

We will buy your musical instrument or lend you money against it. G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS

1960'S BLONDE-COLOURED Sterling Piano, needs to be tuned, $800. 334-4236 lv msg

SONNET TEMPO SATA PRO, 2 port expresscard/34 expansion card, $35. 667-6472

MURPHY bed and frame.

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TWO BLUE Lenses for 10” Lightforce lights, $35. 667-6907

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

FIREWOOD FOR SALE Beetle killed Approximately 20-cord logging truck loads $150 per cord Delivered to Whitehorse Call Clayton @ 867-335-0894

GAF SLIDE projector, like new, spare bulb, numerous slide trays, $60. 667-6907 AIR ROCK drill c/w 3 section of drill rod and bit, $1,200. 334-3237 17 HP Kolher 225 amp Hobart arc welder, on wagon with hitch pull, low hours, $2,400 obo. 633-6502 CANON 5D Mark II DSLR Camera, 21.1 Megapixel, full frame sensor, 1080p, broad ISO, Live View, 3.9 fps, weather resistant, original box, new fall 2011, excellent condition, $1,250. 667-6472

YAMAHA DIGITAL piano, $700. 336-3093

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4ʼ X 8ʼ pool table, cues, three sets of balls, $250. 633-3041 TECK CABLE 40 or 50 feet, armored, suitable for outdoor locations such as a hot tub, very thick, high current type. 332-2449 MENʼS 10K 61 gram gold bracelet, appraised at $4,000, asking $2,500. 335-5465

PACKER/SWAMPER Whitehorse, YT (91870 Alaska Hwy) We need summer help for a busy household moving company. You must be able to carry weights of 10-50 lbs, taking inventory and disassembling and re-assembling furniture. This is a temporary summer position starting at the end of April, 2014 and ending August 31, 2014. Daily/weekly overtime and weekend hours may apply. Training provided. **End of Summer Retention Bonus Available $500** Please apply by sending your resume to Marica MacDonald at

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TEEGATHA’OH ZHEH ON-CALL Relief Support Worker

GRIPPING HAND tool design for lifting, carrying, moving building materials, like new condition, retail $57 each, asking $45 for pair. Save your back. 335-0177 LOW BUSH cranberries, 20 cups, 4 cups $10, nice, clean and frozen. 633-4079

SUMMER EMPLOYMENT

YAMAHA CLARINOVA CPL-820 digital piano, $500. 333-0329

FIBERGLASS BONGOS, red, heavy duty double-braced tilting stands chrome. Ideal for use within a drum set or stand alone. Tools. $175. 668-5701

WANTED: 821-2938

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JACQUES COUSTEAU Collection set of 4, #1 Life & Death in a Coral Sea, #2 Dolphins, #3 Sharks, #4 Whales, $100. 633-3113 BEAUTIFUL LONG length mink coat, size 14, dark colour w/hat, $750. (250)723-0944 SOLAR E Q U I P M E N T , Trace DC disconnect/over-current module, Trace charge/load controller, Trace power conversion centre, Nexen back-up charger, misc cables & fittings, ready to go, $1,500. 668-3647 VINTAGE GLASS milk jars, 13 qt, 3 pint size for vases or craft projects, $30; various cutlery, some silver, good for craft projects, $25. 821-6011 ROYAL WEDDING Album, $20, King Tutankhamenʼs Treasures, $20, Mandrell family album, signatured, $20, assorted novels, $5. 633-3113 HONDA GENERATOR, needs some work; Yamaha generator, needs a fuel tank. 633-3116 or 334-3160 QUEEN SIZE Cdn. Tire air bed on legs, like new, $50. 667-6991 PROPANE TANK/BOTTLE, 100 lbs, full of propane, no rust, great cond, never used, $200 obo. 393-2110

Electrical Appliances KENMORE DRYER, front loader, works great, $300. Also nw pump out of Kenmore washer, $40. 332-7797 HOTPOINT (GE) washer, works great, (we upgraded) $150. 334-5323

TVs & Stereos Paying cash for good quality modern electronics. G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS STEREO SYSTEM incl JVC AM/FM computer-controlled receiver w 5-band equalizer, JVC double cassette-deck, audiotape selection, continuous play, Yamaha 5-CD players, 2 BSM speakers, $175 obo. 821-6011 3DHD SAMSUNG TV, 2 glasses, $800. 336-3093

Computers & Accessories PANASONIC KX-FP250 plain paper fax and copier, incl spare roll of ink film (KX-FA136A). $30, 667-6472 HP LASERJET 6P C3980A plain paper B+W Laserjet printer w nearly full cartridge, quality results, $40, 667-6472 CANON CANOSCAN 5600F scanner, exc cond, rarely used, c/w setup guide and installation software, $40, 667-6472

Des services personnalisés et des ressources utiles.

www.yukoncollege.yk.ca Éducation

Direction de l’enseignement postsecondaire

CENTRE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE 302, rue Strickland, Whitehorse (Yukon) 867.668.2663 poste 223 www.sofa-yukon.ca

Employment Opportunity

Instructor

OUTSIDE the CUBE is looking for T W O new C U B E R S ! If you are energetic and have a sense of humour, then we want to hear from you! We are looking for two new members to join our awesome team: • Digital Ad Manager • Finance Director As part of the digital team, the Digital Ad Manager will be responsible for strategy, implementation and optimization of our client’s SEM, display and social ad campaigns. As the Finance Director you will bring expertise regarding bookkeeping and standard accounting procedures, budget management, strategic financial insight, and innovative thinking in order to create value for OTC.

OTC is a fast-paced, actiondriven workplace that takes pride in exceeding our clients’ expectations. From campaigns to sporting events to social media strategies, OTC tackles each project with enthusiasm, fearlessness and a team approach. Check out the job descriptions at outsidethecube.ca, then tell us why you want to become our newest CUBER. Send your resume and cover letter by March 24, 2014 to jobs@outsidethecube.ca

Bachelor of Social Work Program

School of Health, Education & Human Services Applied Arts Division Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Term Position from: July 2, 2014 - May 15, 2015 Salary: $1390.00 to $1657.00 bi-weekly (based on 37.5 hours bi-weekly) Initial Review Date: April 22, 2014 Competition No.: 14.26 Reporting to the Chair, School of Health, Education and Human Services, this position will be responsible for instructional duties within the Bachelor of Social Work program. Duties include student advising, practica supervision, supporting instructional administration and participating in cultural events. The ideal candidate will have an MSW or PhD in Social Work combined with experience teaching, preferably at the post-secondary level, working as a Social Worker and developing community links and partnerships with First Nations communities. Experience teaching with distance learning technologies, CPR/Standard First Aid certification and/or a valid Class 4 Yukon Driver’s license would be considered assets. 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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Duke’s Firewood standing dry beetle Killed spruce

avoid the Fall rush & prices! spring Wood prices: 6 cord load $210/cord $230 for multiples of 2 cords Approx 8 cord loads of 20ft dry logs $1300 cash and debit accepted

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EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery • Dry accurate cords • Clean shavings available • VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise. ORDER NOW 456-7432

1987 Eight Wheel

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DONʼS FIREWOOD 100+-cord bucked firewood always available No-charge emergency delivery Kwanlin Dun/Social Services Why wait? Prompt delivery $240/cord City limits No excuses 393-4397

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FIREWOOD Clean, beetle-kill, dry Ready for pick-up, $210/cord or Local delivery, $250/cord 1/2 cords also available for pick-up only Career Industries @668-4360 TEN TON Firewood Services $150/cord for 10-cord load - 30ʼ lengths $200/cord - 3-cord load 11' lengths $240/cord - bucked up, discounts on multiple-cord orders Call or text David 867-332-8327

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ch 2500lb 700km. Warn win 1995 21.5’ Starcraf r 2wd or 4wd ifte sh d 4w h t 5th Wheel wit 5-Spd king $7000 oboEverything works great!! Fridg As . ITP h inc 25 e, freezer, a/c, Brand new mic row ave , furnace, HW he 0-0000 ater stove/oven. Half-ton towable! Call or text 000-00 Full bthrm w/showe r/tub. Tires in excellent shape. $5000 obo.

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The Patty Maker We process wild meat. We offer: Cut, grind, cut & wrap Fresh sausages 1/4 lb patties All natural casing Werner Fischer 7 Locust Place (off Ponderosa) 633-2346 300 SAVAGE bolt action rifle, $400, PAL reqʼd, August @ 393-4796 NORINCO 97 Bullpup unfired, mint condition in .223, $1,000 firm. 335-7154 8'' MEADE Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, many accessories, must go ASAP, $700 obo. 335-7154 WTB NON-SPORTERIZED Lee Enfield .303. Call or text 335-2034 NEW BUSHNELL scope (banner) 3-9x 40mm including mounting rings, $80. 335-0177 NON-RESTRICTED FIREARMS course presented by Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club, April 5 & 6. For more info call 633-6536 or 334-1688 BOLT ACTION Browning Safari 30-06 classic hunting rifle, c/w Leupold base, $750. 336-2789 WINCHESTER MODEL 70 243 win, good cond, $600. 336-2789 1866 DATED Remington rolling block chambered in 8x58 Danish perfect bore, c/w brass & dies, $650. 336-2789

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1979 Peterborough

18’ Boat

Fibreglass. 1985 70HP Evinrude bo at motor (recent ma intenance) worki ng like a charm. Boat in good shape ready to go. Trailer included. Asking $4200 ob o.

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WINCHESTER MODEL 77 semi-auto .22 long rifle, c/w vintage Weaver B4 3/4” tube scope in Weaver mounts, 10-shot mag, good cond, $335. Bill 633-2443 WINCHESTER MODEL 47 single shot .22 bolt action w Lyman target sights front & rear, 24” barrel, exc cond, missing safety button, $400. Bill 633-2443

2007 DODGE Caliber, like new condition, 128,000 km, standard, heated seats, remote start, 6 CD stereo, 2 sets tires, $9500 obo. 333-0236 or 456-4112 2006 PONTIAC Solstice convertible sports car, 65,000 km, 2.4 4 cyl 177hp, 5-spd standard, Immaculate, great sound, great heater. $19,500. Spring is coming! 633-5470 2004 HONDA CRV 4 Cyl. all wheel drive, std. Single owner, regular maintenance, good condition, 170,000 km and $8,800, negotiable. Call 633-5002 2003 FORD Focus, 25k, stick, good cond, sunroof, heated seats, 6-cd's-music player, $5,000. 647-996-7531 2003 SUBARU Forester AWD, great shape, well-maintained, summer/winter tires, roof racks, auto-start, $6,250 obo. 335-3784 2002 C H R Y S L E R Concorde LX, 117,000kms, spotless cond, runs/drives exc, well cared for, $3,800 obo. 335-3868 2002 MUSTANG 4.6L, 5-spd, new tires/battery, exc looking/running cond, low kms, $8,500. 633-2740 2001 DODGE Neon, 44,000kms, maroon, sunroof, auto start, $5,500 obo. 334-3376 2000 CADILLAC DTS, pearl white on beige leather, rare night vision option, low kms, 130,000, beautiful condition, $9,800 obo. 335-5465 1999 VOLKSWAGEN Jetta TDI, 1.9L, 5-spd, invested $5,000, asking $4,000. August @ 393-4796 1 9 9 7 I N T R E P I D Sport 3.5 ltr auto, 114,000kms, nice running car, newer summer tires ,inspection done, body/glass in good cond, $2,500. 335-3868

LOOKING FOR monitor heater 442 ,441,or 2400 working or not for parts only, 994-3322

1992 BUICK Regal Grand Sport, 4-dr, 170,000 miles, good all-around car, $1,000. 335-5046

WANTED: OLD lifebuoys in good condition. 456-2019, lv msg WANTED: WASHSTAND in oak or pine in good condition. 456-2019, lv msg WANTED: SOMEONE to service a cassette deck and/or an 8” reel-to-reel tape recorder. Len @ 393-4732 WANTED: CASSETTE player in good working condition, 633-3664 WANTED: WALL tent, 8x10 or larger, 4ft walls, window, with stove if available, no frame needed, good condition, no mildew! Call 332-2113

1990 SUBARU SW Legacy, good runner, $1,500. 633-2740 1988 FORD Cougar, 2-dr hard top, power everything, gd tires, new shocks, runs well, $3,000 obo or trade for Ski-doo or same value 4-wheeler. 668-7976 1987 DODGE 600, 4-dr, runs fine, good on gas, $1,500 obo. Text only to 867-336-3529

the yukon’s best pre-owned vehicles!

WANTED: PROPANE stove & fridge. 633-3494, lv msg WANTED: USED furniture, just moved, anything will help. 334-0745 WANTED: BEE keeping equipment (used/new), bees & queen, 5 cu ft chest freezer. Christina 390-2004 WANTED: DRESSMAKING form on a stand, inexpensive. 668-5188 WANTED: LOOKING to purchase a meat band saw, 633-8416 WANTED: DOG-SITTER in your home for 8 lb dog, no other pets, please, for June, July & Aug, Monday through Thursday overnight. Will pay well. 633-6401 for info. WANTED: PLEXIGLAS floor mat for home office chair. Must be thicker material for use on plush carpets. Call Ken @ 633-4686

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Trucks

ANDYʼS FIREWOOD SERVICE February 1st Price Drop! Limited time quantity offer Haines Junction Standing Dry Fully stacked, measured cords $220/cord - 7-cord loads $230/cord - small orders Stock up now! 667-6429

Case cutlery, high quality hand-crafted pocket and hunting knives available at G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS

2009 NISSAN Maxima Sport 58,000 kms, exc cond, winter/summer tires on rims, bose, remote start, leather heated seats and steering, much more, $25,750. 335-9976

WANTED: OLDER style double paned wooden framed windows for solarium, 4x3ʼ, 4x4ʼ, or 4x5ʼ, 668-5964

We Sell Trucks! 1-866-269-2783 • 9039 Quartz Rd. • Fraserway.com

Guns & Bows

Pro Street Chopper 2003 Big Dog PitbucllFlame in colour. Black & Classi 107 V-Twin - 1750cc OHV 45-Degree ar Baker Ge 6 tor Mo S Cubic Inch S& o. 00k. $13,900 ob Transmission. 50

DIMOK TIMBER 6 CORD OR 22 CORD LOADS OF FIREWOOD LOGS BUNDLED SLABS U-CUT FIREWOOD @ $105/CORD CALL 634-2311 OR EMAIL DIMOKTIMBER@GMAIL.COM

Friday, March 21, 2014

2011 CHEVY Aveo hatchback, auto, 27,000kms, summer/winter tires on rims, great gas mileage, must sell, $8,500 obo. 334-1006 2011 KIA Forte SX Koup, 6-spd manual, black, great cond, like new, c/w set of winter/summer tires, 37,000kms, 2 yrs warranty left, need something different for work, $14,000. 335-3210 2010 MAZDA 3 GS Sport, 6-spd manual, 2.5 L 4 cyl, fully loaded, power everything, full size/factory spare, 16" studded winter tires, low kms, well maintained, $14,900. 335-3691

2010 FORD Escape XLT Sports Edition, 55,300kms, V-6, 4-WD, power everything, hitch, moonroof, leather, remote start, Blue Tooth, Sirius, LED interior lights, paid $37,000 new, asking $18,900. 336-3033 2002 GMC Sonoma SLS 4X4 quad cab, auto, 4.3L V6, power everything, 192,000 kms, exc cond, good rubber, full size spare, tow package, canopy, racks, $8,500. 335-3692 2009 DODGE Caravan with stow and go seating, 134,000km, new all season tires, in excellent condition, $11,500.00. 333-0236 or 456-4112 2007 TOYOTA Tundra 4X4 crew cab, V8, auto, loaded, dealer serviced, matching canopy, 2 sets wheels/tires, 150,000kms, exc cond, $25,000. 334-8912 lv msg

4 M O T O M A S T E R all terrain tires, 225/75R16, studded, 3,000km, 4 steel wheels (rims), 5 lug bolt pattern, 4.5" or 114.3mm, fits on Jeeps and many others, $650 obo. 660-4646

SALES • BODY SHOP • PARTS • SERVICE 2008 GMC Envoy SLE, GREY ..........................................................................$16,500 2009 Nissan Versa bluE, 4-dooR .................................................................. $8,250 2008 Arctic Cat M1000 Snowmobile ................................................... $6,900 2007 Pontiac Torrent, AWd, REd..................................................................$12,995 2005 Ford F350 Crewcab, 4X4, diEsEl ................................................. $11,995 2003 Ford 4x4 Excape Limited ................................................................. $8,395

TRUCK TOPPER/CANOPY, heavy duty, side sliding windows with screens, front sliding window, back window with lock, 98"x72"x22", dark red, $650 obo. 660-4646

IN-HOUSE FINANCING AVAILABLE!

4 LT Nokia tires, 245/75 R16 studded, used one winter, mounted on Chevy rims, centre bolt 3 1/2”, $400 firm. August @ 393-4796

2008 Toyota Corolla SE

2001 DAKOTA tailgate, new cond, $175, 633-2740

4 door, Auto, White

10,550

Pets

2014 Dodge Dart SXT

DOG RADIO fence containment system, never used, $25. 633-6603

20 GAL fish tank and stand. Lots of extras including live plants, under-gravel heater, moonlights, decorations and timer. $200 335-5018

2014 Dodge Ram 1500 Quad Cab 4x4

TO GIVE away Lab/Shepherd cross puppies, weaned, ready for a good home. 393-1953

23,595

Blue, Trailtow and More!

29,995

NEW!!

2014 Jeep Cherokee North Edition 4x4 Auto, Black

31,000

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OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK In-House Financing Available

For Quick Approval call: 668-5559 #4 Fraser Road, McCrae, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5S8 EMAIL: woloshyn@northwestel.net

2011 1-TON diesel crew cab 8 ft box 40,000km, still under warranty, great condition command start, $39,000. 456-7157 2008 GMC 2500 Sierra ext cab, long bed, 4x4, 200,000km, new rims and tires, $14,000 obo. 334-4923 2007 3500 Dodge Laramie diesel, low mileage, 2 sets tires on rims, winter studded and summer, $38,000 obo. 336-1701 2007 CHEVY Colorado LT 4X4 Crew Cab 110,000 kms, great cond. 336-8161

2009 DUCATI Monster 696 in showroom cond, 2,700 kms, 1 owner. Incls cover, charger, & more, $8,750. Serious inquiries only. 335-3349 RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg 2011 YAMAHA 25hp LS 4 Stroke outboard w/ 5gal tank/stand, less than 60 hours, well maintained, yearly maintenance on lower unit oil/lube changes, quiet, easy to start, $3,950. 334-8324 2007 BRP 400 Outlander quad, $4,000 obo. 336-1701

Black, Auto

Recreational Powersports and Marine (RPM) Repairs Service, repair and installations for snowmobiles, ATVs, motorcycles, chainsaws, marine and more Qualified and experienced mechanic Great rates 335-4181 1995 340 Arctic Cat, good shape, good track, new front ski, $1,000. 633-3303

LARGE MIXED breed dog needs good home with outdoor environment, she is quiet and good with children, have a lung condition which requires we find her another home. 660-5213

2013 SKIDOO Exp 550F, $6,500 obo. 335-0164

2 YEAR old, medium sized husky cross to give to a loving, cat free home, great with kids/other dogs, quiet, gentle disposition, but needs active interaction. Playful and intelligent. 668-2952

2014 SWT Skandic 4 stroke, take over monthly payments. 867-336 -3833

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles TAITʼS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com 2010 KAWASAKI KLR 650 cc, 1,850 kms, on/off road, XL pants, jacket, helmet, saddle bags, exc cond, $5,400. 334-8912 lv msg

ICE FISHING auger, as new, 33 cc, 8” auger, $300 obo. 633-6502

2003 MOUNTAIN Cat 600, 1,600 miles, runs good w trailer, $3,700. 1995 Polaris Indy 500 electric start, reverse, new seat/windshield, 3,300km, 2-up seat, $2,900. 333-0717 2000 POLARIS 550 Sports touring, reverse, 2-up seat, 742ms, runs nice, $3,700. 1993 Polaris Indy 500, runs good, 2-up seat, $2,400 obo. 333-0717 2009 SKI-DOO Summit 800, exc cond, has c and a skis, ceramic can, 1800 miles, c/w Ski-doo team cover, spare upper/lower a arms, tie rod ends, $7,000 obo 333-0484

In honour of the Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary of

Clarence & Lamona Allen

Their children, grandchildren & great grandchildren Request the pleasure of your company April 05, 2014 Between 1:00 – 4:00pm Christ the King Church Hall 344 – 50th Avenue W Claresholm, Alberta

2001 FORD F-250, ext cab, long bed, 7.3L diesel, auto, bed liner, air bags, wired for camper, new tires, good shape, $9,000. 335-7878

RSVP 1-403-293-0216 or Clallen1954@gmail.com

1998 DODGE Dakota Sport, 4x4, std, candy apple red, new tires, front end & brakes, $5,800. 336-3566 or 393-3490

1990 DODGE 1-ton van, V8, auto, rear cabinets c/w heater, mint cond (needs differential), near-new rubber, $1,400. 667-7777

Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 3 14” trailer tires, with white spoke rims, $225. 633-2740 4 255/70 R17 tires, good tread, $200. 633-2740 FULL SIZE truck bed liner, fits 1974-1996 Ford, $200. 633-2580 GOODYEAR NORDIC 4 non-studded 15” winter tires/steel wheels, Chev/Buick 5-bolt pattern, approx 70% tread remains, $375. 821-6011

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2001 DODGE Dakota RT, 5.9L, auto, loaded, fast truck, low kms, $6,500. 633-2740

1992 GMC 2500 4X4, new motor, exhaust system & transfer case, good cond, low kms, very powerful, $4,800 obo. 334-5032

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• Porter creek area, 5-6 month old cat, male, black answers to Salem. if found contact morgan @ 334-0126. (04/03/14)

2004 DODGE 1500 crew cab, 4X4, Laramie, fully loaded, 185,000kms, $11,000 obo. 456-4377

1994 7.3 diesel 17-passenger shuttle bus, 270,000km, no passenger seats, made into work truck, shelving in back, $3,500. 335-5046

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2005 F350 diesel Lariat, 4wd, long box, fully loaded, all engine updates, orig owner, exec cond, 160,000kms, $18,000. 334-9436 or 667-4463

2002 MAZDA B2300 2.3L 4 cyl manual RWD,150,000km, new timing chain, c/w canopy, summer/winter tires on rims, $4,000 obo. 334-8287

Pet Report

1991 HARLEY Davidson Electra Glide, has newer motor, 1,450 cc, twin cam, $13,000. 335-5046

2005 F150 Super Crew, loaded, leather int, FX4, sun roof, 135,000kms, black, $16,500. 334-3160 or 633-3116

2003 FORD E-350, 1 ton cargo van, clean, with shelves & separator, gas, 5.4l engine, auto, good 4 season tires, new battery, 210,000 kms, $8,000, 335-3674

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Friday, March 21, 2014

• Granger, small grey/white female cat, DSH, no collar contact Hauff or Holly @ 668-3372 (10/02/2014) • cowley creek, medium, black and white akita and Husky, wearing a blue harness contact rebecca @ 403-891-4827 (14/02/14)

• 8th and Jarvis street, medium, brown and white chest, husky wearing a leather studded collar no tags. contact Joanne @3933573 (15/03/14) • Hamilton Blvd near Falcon drive, medium dog, long black curly hair, not wearing a collar. contact Kristen @ 3348622 (17/03/14)

RUNNING AT LARGE... if you have lost a pet, remember to check with city Bylaw: 668-8382

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

IN FOSTER HOMES DOGS

• 6 months old, female, Husky / labX, blonde ( Winnie) • 3yr old, neutered male, akita, grey and white (a.J.) • 7 weeks old, female, corgi X, black and brown (Pippa)

• 4 yr old, neutered male, husky, black and white (rikki)

cATS

• 11 month old, neutered male, DlH, grey (Deegan)

AT THE SHELTER

Pet of the Week!

ikki

Hi I’m Rikki! I’m a bit shy when meeting new people but if you bring a toy, brush or leash, I warm up very quickly! The staff think I would do well in an active home as I love going out for walks and runs. I am currently in foster, contact the 126 Tlingit Street shelter for info on how to meet me. www.humanesocietyyukon.ca

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DOGS

• 3 yr old, neutered male, GSD/rottie, black and brown (trouble) • 8 months old, neutered male, StaffordshireX, black ( tank) • 7 yr old, spayed female, beagle/houndX, brown and black (tootsie) • 2 yr old, neutered male, chihuanua, brown (Gilligan)

• 3 yr old, DmH, black and white, spayed female (cece) • 3 yr old, DSH, white and black neutered male (Jax) • 2 yr old, DSH, brown spayed female (minou) • 2yr old, DSH, grey and white, neutered male (Sappy) • 10 months old, DSH, grey and white, neutered male (moss)

cATS

• 2 yr old, DSH, white and black, neutered male (tom)

SPEcIAL • Homes needed for retired sled dogs. they would make excellent pets. Please contact 668-3647 or kennelmanager@muktuk.com if your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 Tlingit Street.

Pets will be posted on the Pet report for two weeks. Please let us know after that time if you need them re-posted.

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2010 M8 Sno Pro, $6,000 obo. Must sell. 689-8738 2011 PROWLER 700 DTX sideXside, tilt cargo box, winch, seats 3, upgraded 6 ply tires, c/w original tires, power steering, front/rear hitch receiver, below market, $6,800 or trade. 335-7436 2011 PROWLER 700 HDX sideXside, seats 3, tilt cargo box, winch, power steering, upgraded, new 6 ply tires, gun holder, skid plates, storage, selling below market, $6,800 obo. 335-7436 WANTED: SKANDIC SWT with the 600 ACE motor in good condition with low km. 634-2559 2010 ARCTIC Cat BearCat 570 XT, wide track, 2-up seat, reverse, hand warmers, elec start, 3,630 Miles, great trail machine and/or work horse, $6,500. 393-2111

Marine 21ʼ CAMPION Fishing Machine 210, walk around with cuddy, 225hp Mercury outboard, GPS, fish finder, marine radio, 2 downriggers, $11,000. 333-0740

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

ALUMINUM FUEL tank, pup trailer holds 30,000 litres, 3 compartments, all good valves, new 40X40 foot liner, no registration, good for mine or private yard, $6,500. Wesley 250-235-3333

18ʼ FREIGHTER canoe & trailer, 20 hp Johnson, exc cond, $3,200. 334-8912 lv msg 2002 16.25ʼ Harbour Craft boat & trailer, 50 HP Johnson & 9.9 hp Yamaha, down rig, new winch, life jackets, exc cond, $14,000. 334-8912 lv msg

Heavy Equipment

PJ TRAILER 2008, 20ʼ tandem axle flat deck 13,800 gvwr, 16" rubber, 2 5/16 ball, brakes on all 4 wheels replaced 2012, bearings done 2012, $4,500. 633-5470

NEW PORTABLE sawmill. Manufactured in Yukon. Cuts logs 2ʼ diameter, 20ʼ long. $4,850 obo. Check it out on www.pro-cut.com 334-6094

PORTABLE, GAS powered. 225 amp arc welder/ gen set on 4-wheeled wagon with hitch. $2,000 obo. 633-6502

SHAKER SLUICE box on skids, spray bar, gas engine, spray bar, $5,000. 867-536-7610 for info. 843 BOBCAT, 4,500 hrs, c/w bucket, blade, well maintained, ready for work, $14,000. 456-8833 (cell) or 867-399-7010

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2006 STARLITE enlosed cargo trailer, 14ʼ inside, 6ʼ wide, man door & side, exc cond, $4,700. 334-8912 lv msg

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SNOWBEAR UTILITY trailer, 4' x 8' deck, 2,090 lb axle, weights 450 lbs, removable steel rails/ramp tilting deck, 4-way flat elec trailer connector, 1ʼ ball receiver, $1,150 obo. 660-4646 2004 FLEETWOOD RV trailer, 21ʼ, $14,800. 335-6574

1988 DODGE camper van, immaculate, 4-burner stove w/oven, toilet, microwave, roof fan, new tires/tran, low mileage, lots of storage, sleeps 4, $10,000 firm. 668-2866

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20ʼ ENCLOSED cargo trailer, dual axle, 8ʼ wide, side window & barn style doors, $6,500 obo. Gary 335-9596

A Tribute to Love, Courage, Hope and Beauty Remembering

Marilyn McCormick

2001 DODGE Pleasureway camper van, 5.9L gas engine, low mileage, stove, fridge, microwave, toaster oven, shower, toilet, a/c, $26,000. 668-2866

2000 9ʼ Okanagan truck camper, bathroom with shower, furnace, fridge, stove, queen bed, good working cond, $7,800 obo. 335-7436

YUKON OUTDOORS Club meeting March 27th 7:00 p.m. Sport Yukon Board Room (4061-4th Avenue) to discuss the disbanding of the Club

2006 FORD F350 Super Duty crew cab 4x4 with Diplomat Camper. Loaded. 6.0L direct injection turbo diesel, 248,000km, auto, locking hubs, exc. cond, truck and camper: $29,500. 633-5470

TAGISH PANCAKE Breakfast, March 23rd, 9:30 am-12:00pm, Tagish Community Centre, hosted by the Tagish EMS Team, $8.00 per adult, $3.00 per child. Everyone is welcome

Coming Events

BLUEGRASS CAMP, June 9-13, Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Camp at Sundog Retreat. Don't miss out, registration now open. Stellar lineup of instructors. Details at www.yukonbluegrass.com or email camp@yukonbluegrass.com

ATLIN GUEST HOUSE Deluxe Lakeview Suites Sauna, Hot Tub, BBQ, Internet, Satellite TV Kayak Rentals In House Art Gallery 1-800-651-8882 Email: atlinart@yahoo.ca www.atlinguesthouse.com ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away” Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail sidkatours@ atlin.net www.glacierviewcabins.ca THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. A group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info and register call Cathy 633-7337 or Joanne 668-7713 FALUN GONG, an advanced practice of Buddha school self-cultivation. Fa study Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Wood Street School from 6 p.m. No charge. For an introduction to the practice call 633-6157 HOSPICE WORKSHOP "LIVING with Loss" Thurs Feb 27, 6:30-8:30pm for anyone living with personal loss or supporting others who are grieving. Register: 667-7429, administrator@hospiceyukon.net EVEREST NIGHT, dinner and slideshows of Himalayas, April 10, United Church basement 6:00pm, tickets for sale March 10 at Well-Read Books, Fundraising Event for Hands of Hope, www.hands-of-hope.ca 668-7082 YK-AK COFFEE House, Sat. Apr. 19, 2014. Open Stage By Invitation, bring potluck 4:30PM, help set-up 5:30PM, 7:00PM show! $5 United Church Bsmt, 6th+Main, 633-4255 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Action Circle. Letter writing to protect and promote human rights worldwide, Tuesday, March 25, Whitehorse United Church (upstairs) 7:00pm-9:00pm. www.amnesty.ca Call 667-2389 CRESTVIEW CROSS-COUNTRY ski group meets Sundays at 12:00 noon at 222 Squanga Ave to ski Pine Forest Loop, 2-3 hours, free HABITAT FOR Humanity Yukon will be holding its AGM March 29, 2014, at the Whitehorse Public Library at 1:00 p.m. Everyone welcome! YUKON RESIDENTIAL Landlord Association AGM Wednesday, March 26, 7:00pm, Whitehorse Public Library, membership purchases/renewals at 6:30pm. Questions/comments about AGM or survey are welcomed, YRLA Facebook or ytrla2014@gmail.com READING & Talk with Yukon fiction writer Dan Dowhal, Mon Mar 31 at 7:00pm, Dawson City Library. For info call 993-5571

René Carlson June 4, 1941- February 28, 2014

Your words and spirit guide us still.

rené came to the yukon in 1975.

We thank you, dearly miss you, and wish you peace and never-ending joy as you continue your journey on the other side.

She cared deeply about the Territory. She lived in “old Whitehorse” and was an avid advocate of retaining its historic heritage. She was also a loyal volunteer for the new Democratic party and her dedication to social justice included her feminism and support of northern artists.

Ten long years have passed, yet it seems just yesterday we said ‘farewell’.

rené is remembered by her many friends for her wide array of interests and passion for them. She was an avid and well informed birder, a master gardener and great cook. rené was born in Minnesota and graduated from the Oregon State university and was very proud of her norwegian heritage. She is survived by her sister Pamela Husom.

August 24, 1938 - March 22, 2004

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45ʼ VAN trailer, made into very nice home, lots of extras, 4-pc bath, kitchen, etc, water truck, generator, battery packs, inverters, 10ʼWx15ʼLx12ʼH addition, $18,000 obo. 335-5046

8ʼX12ʼ DOUBLE wide quad trailer, seldom used, $2,800 obo. 336-1701

Your family and friends.

embrace change

face challenges head on

Campers & Trailers

2002 10 1/2ʼ Frontier camper, $6,500 obo. 336-1701

We love you, we miss you...

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serve

live fully

Your loving family John Patrick, Michael, Cathleen & the many grand-children and great grand-children who followed

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3430 FLOATS with 185 gear. 399-3332

2009 T@B trailer in exc condition, fridge, stovetop, sink, dining table folds down to large bed, CD player, c/w large tent which attaches, $12,000. 334-5190

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2004 DOOSAN Ex. 300 size Was used as a spare, low hours, QA, extra bucket and hyds. to stick. $78,000 firm, located in Whitehorse. Can finance to right place Contact Wesley at 250 235 3333 or brmining@hushmail.co

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rené worked for the yukon archives and retired from the Department of education in 2007. She also had worked on projects in Kluane Park and her true interest was in the environment. Throughout her life she retained a keen interest in birding and loved her trips to australia. A celebrAtion of life will be held MArch 27, 2014 froM 5-7 pM. At hellAby hAll, 4th And elliott St.

DECADENT SUNDAY Brunch & Live Bluegrass Music, Marsh Lake Community Centre Sunday, March 30th 10:00am. Tickets $15 adults, $5 kids 6-12, age 5 and under free. 660-4999 to reserve by March 26th EVEREST NIGHT, HIMALAYA slide show presenters: Sally Wright, Dr. Zimmerman, Carlos and Petra Ferguson, Shelagh Smith, Lise Densmore. Tickets at Well-Read Books, April 10 event at the United Church POTLUCK FOOD Co-op AGM, with renowned food journalist Jon Steinman presenting "Deconstructing Dinner", March 29, 6:00pm, Old Fire Hall. Soup and refreshments. Everyone welcome! FIREWEED COMMUNITY Market Society AGM Monday March 31 7:00pm, Whitehorse Library meeting room. All members welcome. Agenda items include market reports, NEW Saturday Outdoor Market, financial summary and 2014 budget WHITEHORSE MINOR Soccer Outdoor Registration March 24 to April 4, 2014, 4:00pm to 5:30pm on weekdays, 12:00noon to 2:00pm on Saturday. For more info call 667-2445 SPRING JOB & Volunteer Fair, Wednesday April 23, 10:00am - 5:00pm, Yukon Convention Centre, where employers, jobseekers, volunteers and NGOs connect. www.yuwin.ca SEMINAR, 3 major misconceptions professional women face that keep them stuck in low back pain, March 20, 7-9 pm or March 22, 2-4 pm. $15, or free with pre-registration, 633-3154, violetvanhees@fastmail.fm HABITAT FOR Humanity Yukon will be holding its AGM March 29, 2014, at the Whitehorse Public Library at 1:00pm, everyone welcome DIVERSITY SPEAKS! International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination open dialogue, Friday March 21, 2014 5:30 to 7:00 pm at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. Info: 667-4733 YUKON SPEED Skating Championships, Sunday, March 30 ATCO Ice, Canada Games Centre. 5:00pm register, 5:30pm warmups, 6:00 pm racing starts. Open to all ages and abilities. Info Susanne 667-4348 PORTER CREEK Community Association meeting Monday, April 7th, 5:15 pm at the Guild Hall. More information 633-4829. Everyone Welcome. Come show your support. EXPRIME TA diversité! Journée internationale pour l'élimination de la discrimination raciale, vendredi 21 mars, 17 h 30 à 19 h 00 au Centre culturel Kwanlin Dun. Rens. : 667-4733 THE WHITEHORSE Oldtimer Hockey League Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, April 24 at 7:00pm, Tetra Tech EBA, 61 Wasson Place F.H. COLLINS School Council regular meeting @ 6:30pm, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, Fine Dining Room at the school. Everyone welcome MARTEN/BEAVER HANDLING workshop, 2-Mile Hall, Watson Lake, Saturday, March 22nd, 10:00am, hosted by the Yukon Trappers Association. Pay by donation. 667 7091 YUKON SCIENCE Institute presents Making Gold Green with Fraser Stoddart, Sunday, March 23, 7:30pm, Beringia Centre, Whitehorse and Monday, March 24, 7:30pm, Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre, Dawson. Free SOUTHERN LAKES Public Meeting: Groundwater, Saturation, Septic Fields and Wells, Dr Gilles Wendling Hydrologist, 27 March 7pm Tagish Community Hall. Discuss groundwater impact to your property of YEC's concept. 660-4106 YUKON SCIENCE Institute presents Understanding how ecosystems work: Comparing Serengeti with Yukon with Tony Sinclair, Sunday, March 30, 7:30pm, Beringia Centre, Whitehorse and Monday, March 31, 7:30pm, St. Elias Convention Centre, Haines Junction. Free LOVE OUR library? Want to support it? Friends of the Whitehorse Library Annual General Meeting Tuesday, April 1st 3:30 p.m. in the library meeting room. Info 633-6579 THE WHITEHORSE Children's Wish Foundation is looking for volunteers for this year's walk being held in September. Please email whitehorsewishmakers@gmail.com if interested in volunteering

TIA YUKON Annual General Meeting. Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 4:00pm to 6:00pm, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. Visit tiayukon.com for more details THE CHURCH of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Historic Worldwide Sisterhood Broadcast, Saturday, March 29, 2014, 5:00pm Yukon Time, LDS Chapel, 108 Wickstrom Rd, all women invited, 8 yrs to 88 yrs WHITEHORSE PHOTOGRAPHY Club presents a photography print display "Through our Lenses" at Yukon Art Centre April 4-26. Welcoming reception 4-6PM April 4. All welcome. www.whitehorsephotoclub.ca NORTHERN SAFETY Network Yukon (NSNY) announces the date of their AGM on April 24th 2014 at NSNY location, 478 Range Road from 12:00 to 1:00. All are welcome WANT TO grow a garden? DUGS 2014 community garden bed signup Saturday, April 5 Noon to 2:00pm at Whitehorse Food Bank 306 Alexander. For info call Randy 633-4379 FAMILY END of Winter Celebration, March 29th, 3:00pm-9:30pm, Tagish Community Hall. Outdoor games for all ages, delicious spaghetti dinner ($8 per adult, $4 per child), and live music

Services - INSULATION Upgrade your insulation & reduce your heating bills Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414 BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta. Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc. Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050 SHARPENING SERVICES. For all your sharpening needs - quality sharpening, fair price & good service. At corner of 6th & Strickland. 667-2988 MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Windows Framing, Board, Drywall, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS in Whitehorse

MONDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm New Beginnings Group (OM,NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. TUESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:00 pm Juste Pour Aujourd’hui 4141B - 4th Avenue. 8:00 pm Ugly Duckling Group (CM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. WEDNESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St.. 8:00 pm Porter Crk Step Meeting (CM) Our Lady of Victory, 1607 Birch St. 8:00 pm No Puffin (CM,NS) Big Book Study Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. THURSDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Grapevine Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 6:00 pm Young People’s Meeting BYTE Office, 2-407 Ogilvie Street 7:30 pm Polar Group (OM) Seventh Day Adventist Church 1609 Birch Street (Porter Creek) FRIDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Big Book Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 1:30 pm #4 Hospital Rd. (Resource Room) 8:00 pm Whitehorse Group (CM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. SATURDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 2:30 pm Women’s Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital (room across from Emergency) 7:00 pm Hospital Boardroom (OM, NS) SUNDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 7:00 pm Marble Group Hospital Boardroom (OM, NS)

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HOUSECLEANING, Spring Cleaning, Detailing! Safe, reliable, bondable RCMP check available on request For into call 334-7405

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LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632

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

CITYLIGHT RENOS Flooring, tiling, custom closets Painting & trim, kitchens & bathrooms Fences & gates Landscaping & gardening Quality work at reasonable rates Free estimates Sean 867-332-1659 citylightrenos@gmail.com

IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowing” •Post hole augering •Light landscaping •Preps & Backfills Honest & Prompt Service Amy Iles Call 667-4981 or 334-6369

PUBlIC TENDER INVITATION TO TENDER Supply of Light Duty Automotive and Assorted Equipment The City of Whitehorse (the “City”) is inviting tenders in writing from bona fide proponents for the supply and delivery of Light Duty Automotive and Assorted Equipment. Interested bidders must submit tenders in writing enclosed in a sealed envelope clearly referencing the specific City of Whitehorse Invitation to Tender Package. All Tender submissions must be addressed to the City of Whitehorse, Manager Financial Services, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 and received before 3:00:00 PM Local Time, Thursday, April 3, 2014. Individual Invitation to Tender documents with complete specifications may be obtained by Proponents who are or will be authorized to conduct business in the City of Whitehorse, from the Office of the Manager of Finance at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon on or after 12:00:00 PM local time Thursday, March 20, 2014. Each Individual Tender submission will be"EVALUATED IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY OF WHITEHORSE.” Tenders by facsimile WILL NOT be accepted and / or considered. All inquiries regarding this Invitation to Tender may be directed to the City’s Equipment Maintenance Supervisor at 867-668-8356 or 867-334-4256 between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm Monday to Thursday.

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MAINTENANCE AND EMERGENCY REPAIRS YUKON HOUSING UNITS CARMACKS, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 25, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Marshal Burnham at 867-863-6411. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865 FINISHING CARPENTRY & RENOVATIONS For Clean, Meticulous & Tasteful Quality Work INTERIOR Design & organization of walk-in closets, laundry & storage room, garage Kitchen & Bathrooms, Flooring, Wood & Laminate, Stairs. EXTERIOR Decks, Fences, Insulation, Siding, Storage Shed DIDIER MOGGIA 633-2156 or cell 334-2156

PUbLIC TENDER MAINTENANCE AND EMERGENCY REPAIRS YUKON HOUSING UNITS TESLIN, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 25, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Gerri Thomas at 867-390-2024. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Friday, March 21, 2014 ELECTRICIAN FOR all your jobs Large or small Licensed Electrician Call MACK N MACK ELECTRIC for a competitive quote! 867-332-7879

ELEMENTAL FARM Eat organic, fresh & local this summer! 15-week veggie box program (CSA) Free-range chickens & turkeys Must pre-order by April 1st Email elementalfarm@riseup.net for more information

SNOW CLEARING/REMOVAL Sidewalks, Driveways, Parking lots, Compounds Private and Commercial Properties Fast and reliable service Aurora Toolcat Services 867-334-8447

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Licensed and Professional Automotive Repairs 20-year Journeyman Mechanic Monday - Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm Call Brian Berg 867-633-6597

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GIRLʼS BIKE, 16” Illusion Supercycle, purple/pink, white tires, age 4-6, good cond, $30. 667-6472 BOWFLEX BLAZE, 1.5 yrs old, barely used, good cond, $500 obo. 335-6937 SUMMER TENTS: Kelty sleeps 4, $60. Eureka Cirrus for 2, $30, call 633-4887 FLOAT TUBE/BELLY boat, purchased in 2012 used once, paid $500, asking $350. 668-2866 SALSA MUKLUK, green, size large, like new, just not getting used. $1,200. 668-4634

Livestock HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Dev & Louise Hurlburt Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix Small square & round bales Discounts for field pick up or delivery Straw bales also for sale 335-5192 • 668-7218 QUALITY YUKON MEAT Dev & Louise Hurlburt Grain-finished Hereford beef Domestic wild boar Order now for guaranteed delivery Payment plan available Samples on request 668-7218 335-5192

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ATTENDANT SERVICES FOR THE CARCROSS SOLID WASTE FACILITY

ATTENDANT SERVICES FOR THE TAGISH SOLID WASTE FACILITY

Project Description: To provide attendant services at the Carcross Solid Waste Disposal Facility. This includes having an attendant on site during all hours of operation, promoting waste diversion, and other activities as described herein. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 8, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Monti Patterson at (867) 6675269. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Project Description: To provide attendant services at the Tagish Solid Waste Disposal Facility. This includes having an attendant on site during all hours of operation, promoting waste diversion, and other activities as described herein. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 8, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Monti Patterson at (867) 6675269. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 10, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Kyle Jansson at (867) 633-7922. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project. Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Project Description: To provide maintenance services at the Destruction Bay Solid Waste Facility. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 27, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Darrin Fredrickson at 867-667-5195. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

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Community Services

PUbLIC TENDER NEW WATER RECIRCULATION STATION - SOUTH DEVELOPMENT

PUBLIC TENDER DESTRUCTION BAY SOLID WASTE FACILITY MAINTENANCE

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CHOCOLATE BROWN leather couch, 7ʼ long, & love seat, 5ʼ long, good cond, $1,000. 334-5323

HAY FOR SALE Square bales kept under a shelter Great quality, $12/bale. 633-4496

KITCHEN STORAGE unit, 2 drawers, bottom lg drawer w pull-out shelf, good for counter extension, 23.5”w, 24”d, 35”h, $45 obo. 821-6011

WANTED: AGRICULTURE land for rent, long term or seasonal, fully developed or in need of improvements, large or small, irrigated or dry, all inquires welcomed. Call 334-8960

3 TABLES, kitchen/utility, $20 ea. 311B Hanson St. after 6:00 pm.

Hay & Straw For Sale Excellent quality hay Alfalfa mix 60-65lb $14.50 Timothy/grass mix 60-65 lb $14.50 Brome hay 50-55 lbs $12 Straw bales $7 Nielsen Farms Maureen 333-0615 or yukonfarm@gmail.com HORSE TRAILER, good cond, $800 obo, must sell. 334-3216 WANTED: TRACTOR with Loader 25-60hp. 335-2034 HORSE FENCING panels 4ʼx14ʼ, new, 16 pieces, $3,000. 334-3216 FORD 5000 farm tractor, 4 high speeds/4 low speeds, front end loader, Pto, 3-point hitch, 4-cyl diesel, $4,500 obo. 633-6502

Baby & Child Items CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903 KELTY KANGAROO carrier for infants up to 28 lbs, like new. $40. 334-5323

Childcare ROSIEʼS DAY HOME Opening May 1, 2014 Day/Night/Weekend Spots available Call 668-3448 MARANATHA DAYCARE has openings for children ages infant to 12 years Long-term staff qualified and experienced Fun & educational environment Call Gurnam 668-7937

Furniture LARGE OFFICE desk and matching credenza, also two large metal filing cabinets. 633-6553 SKLAR PEPLAR dining room suite, oak veneer/ash, 63”x42” pedestal table, 2 extensions, 6 chairs, hutch upper, 4 doors/glass shelves, hutch bottom, 3 drawers, 2 cupboards, $1,700 obo. 821-6011

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KROEHLER LOVESEAT, high quality construction, smoke/pet free home, factory Scotchguarded, 65.5”l, 35”w, 35.5”h, antique pattern jade/salmon/cream, $290. 821-6011

BOX SPRING, mattress, rails & headboard, $75 obo. 660-5478 HEAVY DUTY adjustable steel bed frame with centre support, rug sliders, 7-leg support system, double adjusts to King size, $150. 633-2981 DARK BROWN bar height kitchen table, 42” square, good cond, $100. 334-5323 WANTED: ALMOST new queen size bed set wanted. Prefer firm mattress. Will pay cash and pick up if necessary. 668-5701 4-DRAWER FILING cabinet, used, $75 obo. Contemporary desk, like new, $75. 633-2096 evenings

Personals DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office ARE YOU MÉTIS? Are you registered? Would you like to be involved? There is a Yukon Metis Nation that needs your support Contact 668-6845 CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community? Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime. Info: RCMP 867-667-5555

Garage Sales GALA GARAGE Sale, Whitehorse Elementary School Gym, April 12, 10:00. Fundraiser for Little Footprints Big Steps in Haiti. Donate/Help? 456-4434 or 335-0333

request for proposal traNsportatIoN asset MaNaGeMeNt proGraM DeVelopMeNt serVICes project Description: To provide program management services, in accordance with the department’s strategic plan and objectives and to develop and implement key elements of a Transportation Asset Management Plan. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. the closing date for submissions is april 9, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Nathalie Gionet at (867) 6678280. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

PUbLIC TENDER MAINTENANCE AND EMERGENCY REPAIRS YUKON HOUSING UNITS FARO, YUKON

PUBLIC TENDER BANK DEPOSIT AND DOCUMENT DELIVERY SERVICES FOR YUKON HOUSING CORPORATION WHITEHORSE, YUKON

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 25, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Leithe Minder at 867-994-3113.

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Sharon McCreadie at 867-667-5796.

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

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

Highways and Public Works

Project Description: Supply and Install Emergency Generator Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 9, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Shelby Workman at (867) 667-8874. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

request for ProPosAls

Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre National Aboriginal Day 2014 Coordinator ProjeCt DesCriPtioN: The NAD Coordinator will be responsible for the planning and implementation of the NAD events and main stage performances on June 21st, 2014 at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre. In collaboration with the KDCC team, the Coordinator will work with the programming partners to ensure the successful execution of activities at KDCC on June 21st.

Highways and Public Works

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the ClosiNg DAte for submissioNs is Sunday March 23rd, 2014. Applications should include a cover letter, resume, and relevant background in event coordination. As well as references, work plan and proposed fee of service. further iNformAtioN can be obtained at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, 1171 Front Street, Whitehorse YT. For questions regarding the contract please contact Elise Bousquet at (867) 456-5320. Documents and full job description may be obtained from the KDCC website (www.kdcc.ca)

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL #2014-007 Substation Foundations

Yukon Energy Corporation (YEC) is inviting proposals from qualified Contractors to provide construction services on a time and materials basis for the installation of new foundations in two of its existing Substations; • S171 (Riverside Substation) is located adjacent to the Yukon River along Nisutlin Drive in Whitehorse, YT and requires two new foundations.

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• S150 is located at the Main Yukon Energy site at #2 Miles Canyon Road in Whitehorse and requires one new foundation. Site visit scheduled April 9th at 10:00 a.m. at the Main YEC office building #2 Miles Canyon Road. Sealed proposals, clearly marked “RFP# 2014-007 SUBSTATION FOUNDATIONS” will be received up to 4:00 p.m. Yukon time, April 15th, 2014, at Yukon Energy’s corporate offices, #2 Miles Canyon Road, Box 5920, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Y1A 6S7 or via e-mail.

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Phone: 867-667-6283 Fax: 867-667-3755

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To obtain a Request for Proposal package contact Lynda Harlow Yukon Energy Corporation, 867-393-5302 or e-mail lynda.harlow@yec.yk.ca.

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