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he City of Whitehorse voted May 23 to accept responsibility for hosting the 50th annual Arctic Winter Games in 2020. The vote saw the city accept a memorandum of understanding between itself and the Yukon government. The agreement commits the territorial government to covering any cost overruns. Nunavut was originally supposed to host the 2020 games, but was unable to, and the Yukon government asked the city to step in. “I think (Nunavut) couldn’t afford it, they didn’t have the infrastructure,” said acting city

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ix bears have been killed in the Whitehorse area in recent weeks after coming into conflict with humans. Two of the most recent kills — one on May 19 in Hidden Valley and one in Mount Lorne on May 22 — involved bears attracted to livestock, said conservation officer Ken Knutson. The Hidden Valley bear entered a pen containing two goats, one of which was killed, before the bear was “destroyed for safety reasons” by conservation officers, said Knutson. The Mount Lorne bear was lawfully shot by a property owner after it raided three other chicken coops in the area, said Knutson. The property

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result of the games. “Our contribution typically tends to be in-kind services,” she said. “I don’t see that we should have any big capital expenses,” she said. “We don’t need to build facilities or anything.” Coun. Rob Fendrick said the 2012 games actually had a “small surplus” at the end. The extra money was reinvested into sports development within the community, Rapp said. The city has set aside a budget of $200,000 for the games and will also contribute in-kind services, such as transportation, snow removal and use of sports facilities, said Rapp. The federal government also typically contributes $1 million, she said.

The games offer social and financial benefits to the city, Rapp said, such as increased business for local restaurants and shops and promoting sports within the community. “It’s great for sports development,” she said. No official date has been set for the games. Rapp said they usually coincide with spring break, so they will take place around late February or early March 2020. Now that the MOU is signed, Rapp said the next step is to organize a host society, which will work with the international governing body of the Arctic Winter Games. “That’s when the real hard work will start,” Rapp said. Contact Lori Garrison at lori.garrison@yukon-news.com

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manager Linda Rapp. Nunavut only had the facilities to host nine of the 21 sports for the games, Rapp said. While the MOU ensures the city will not have to cover any deficits, there has still been no official word on how much the games will cost. Rapp said she expects about $50,000 in startup costs, with costs increasing as the games approach. “We are still anticipating more funds (from the Yukon government),” she said. Whitehorse last hosted the games in 2012. The territorial government contributed $1.7 million overall to those games, she said. Rapp said she doesn’t expect any financial surprises for the city as a

owner lost 15 chickens. Chickens are particularly tempting to bears, Knutson said, because they are high in fat and calories. Once a bear gets a taste for chicken it is very hard to deter them in the future which can be a death sentence for the animal, he said. “I often say, ‘chickens kill bears,’” Knutson said. “We’ve destroyed many bears over the last five years over chickens. We have yet to see an instance of a bear that has gotten into chickens and doesn’t come back.” The best way to protect chickens and other livestock from bears — and bears from being shot for eating chickens and livestock — is to use electric fencing, said Knutson. “A shock from a fence is a deterrent, it’s not a very comfortable feeling

… you don’t want to do it again,” he said. It’s the responsibility of people to try to deter animals from entering their property in search of food, said Knutson. Livestock should be secure and people should take steps to manage bear attractants such as garbage or unlocked outdoor freezers. “Just because you haven’t had a problem doesn’t mean you won’t,” he said. “No one is immune to bears.” The number of bear interactions and bear kills from previous years in the Whitehorse area were not readily available for comparison. Bear-human conflicts can occur at anytime outside of the animal’s hibernation period, Knutson said. Bear sightings were

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reported earlier in the month along the Riverdale trail, a popular hiking area within city limits, although those bears — a sow and cubs — haven’t been seen recently Knutson said. “We haven’t had any calls about that sow in a while — she’s being a good mama and keeping her cubs away from people,” he said. People can report bear sightings or problem animals to Environment Yukon at 1-800-661-0525. The department is also currently running a survey on grizzly bear management and conservation. The online survey closes May 27. “We’re hoping a lot of Yukoners will contribute to it,” Knutson said. Contact Lori Garrison at lori.garrison@yukon-news.com

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carbon tax in the Yukon could look different than what is being proposed for provinces down south. Premier Sandy Silver said this week Ottawa will be looking at the impact of a carbon tax on the North and consider “sector-specific” concerns for the territories. However a spokesperson for federal environment minister Catherine McKenna has stated unequivocally that the federal government is not considering a full exemption. “A complete exemption is not on the table,” press secretary Marie-Pascale Des Rosiers said May 25. That appears to contradict unnamed sources quoted in other media outlets suggesting a full range of options are on the table, including no carbon tax at all. Des Rosiers blamed misinterpretation or miscommunication in those stories for the contradiction. In a statement McKenna said a study to “address the unique circumstances of the North” should be completed in the fall. “In particular, we will discuss how a price on pollution will apply given the unique circumstances

of the North; not whether a price on pollution will apply,” she said. The statement mentions unique differences like the high costs of living and energy in the North. “That work is ongoing and a decision on how a price on pollution will be applied in the North will be made following those discussions before a price on pollution comes into effect across Canada in 2018.” Last week McKenna unveiled a technical paper outlining the federal government’s plans for a carbon tax. Ottawa will force it on provinces that haven’t come up with their own model by 2018. The carbon tax will be collected partly through levies on fuel, the document says. The federal levy on gasoline starts at 2.33 cents per litre in 2018 and increases to 11.63 cents per litre in 2022. Dirtier fuels like heavy fuel oil will be taxed at a higher rate. Levies will also apply to other fuels like diesel, aviation gas and jet fuel. Governments and Canadians have until the end of June to comment on the technical paper via the federal government’s website. While there may be a better sense now of what’s not being offered to the territories, the picture of

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Premier Sandy Silver said Ottawa was looking at the impacts that the federallymandated carbon tax would have on the territories. what carbon pricing in the Yukon could look like in 2018 is still murky. Details of the federal government’s study are unclear. “We have not received details yet as to how this study will be conducted but we will share information about the study when the federal government makes it available,” Yukon government spokesperson Sunny Patch said. “We don’t expect more from them until after June 30.” Silver said it is import-

ant that a carbon tax be implemented in industries where carbon can actually be reduced. “If you take a look at the placer (mining) industry, they can put solar arrays on their cabin if they’re running a diesel generator. That’s somewhere where you can change. If you’re a commuter in the communities you can buy a more energy efficient car. So those are areas where you could put a mechanism on. But if you’re running

a D9 Cat what is your option? That’s what you need to run that industry,” he said. He also hinted at potential consideration for the airline industry. The official Opposition has accused Silver of changing his tune on the carbon tax. The premier has repeatedly insisted there would be no exemption for the North. Silver told the legislative assembly May 24 that he’s always been referring to the lack of a blanket

exemption. “We fully expect to explore how flexibility and sector-specific solutions will apply to the north. However, no decisions have been made to this point. At no point was there an option for the Yukon to opt out of carbon pricing,” he said. The Yukon Party has been vocally opposed to the idea of the Yukon paying a carbon tax at all. Interim leader Stacey Hassard appears to have not given up hope that the territory may be excluded despite the comments from McKenna and her press secretary. “I think there are options and I think that the premier needs to explore all options,” he said. “Just because someone tells you that the door is closed doesn’t necessarily mean you should just give up and go home.” When asked whether he would be happy with anything short of a complete exemption, Hassard said he’ll “be happy with any exemptions that we get.” “But the point is, we were elected to fight for Yukoners and the day that we stop fighting is the day that we should just go home.” With files from Chris Windeyer. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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he inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is willing to return to the Yukon if more hearings are required after the three days set for next week, said Jeanie Dendys, the minister responsible for the women’s directorate. The territory will be the first place in the country to hold public hearings from May 30 to June 1 in large tents outside the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre. Opening events are scheduled for May 29. The hearings come after national criticism that there has not been enough communication by the commission with families who want to participate in the process. “We’re been assured by the commission that they will come back to conduct further hearings in the

Yukon if that is required,” Dendys said May 26. She said both the local advisory committee, which includes representation from the territory’s women’s groups, and a community liaison recently hired by the commission, will make sure everyone’s voices are heard. “Really that’s our job, to help to facilitate the communication to happen.” Last week a group of 30 advocates and indigenous leaders published an open letter criticizing the commission. “We are deeply concerned with the continued lack of communication that is causing anxiety, frustration, confusion, and disappointment in this long-awaited process,” it said. Chief commissioner Marion Buller has promised to improve communication. Krista Reid, president of the Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle and a member of the territorial

advisory committee, said she couldn’t speak for local families when it comes to how they are feeling about the hearings. “It’s a mix. I can tell you that some of the families are ready, they want to be here, they are ready, they are aware, they are ready to testify publicly. Then there are others just entering this process. Everyone is at a different place in their grief.” Reid said the advisory board is aware of the concerns about communication and has been trying to help. Earlier this month representatives from the commission travelled to three communities outside of Whitehorse to speak to people about participating in the hearings. “I think that the commission has made good efforts, they’ve taken our advice well in Yukon,” Dendys said. The first public itinerary for Whitehorse’s events was

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A large tent is set up outside the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre which will hold the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The inquiry is scheduled to start May 29. not released until May 25 but Reid said those involved in the process have known about the dates for “some time.” Dendys said her understanding is that families who will be testifying have more details. Yukon families who signed up with the inquiry and choose to speak pub-

licly will be able to do so in front of the commissioners. Those testimonies will also be live streamed. Others can give their statements privately. The commission is also accepting testimony in less conventional forms like art, poetry or song, for example. Dendys said going first means the commission is

“testing the ground with us and I think taking the experience really seriously in terms of how they move through the rest of the country.” The Whitehorse hearings were originally scheduled to happen at Yukon College. The location was moved, on the advice of the local advisory committee, Dendys said. College spokesperson Michael Vernon said construction at the college meant there would have been noise. The kitchen is also closed. Being outside is appropriate, Dendys said. “Our Indigenous people feel very connected to the land, to the water.” It’s not clear how many families have signed up to participate in the Yukon hearings. Multiple emails to various community liaisons and media representatives requesting more information were not returned. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-new.com

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ment of Justice is continually looking at ways to work with our colleagues to ensure that we are providing appropriate services,” said Nicole Benson. Hanley will also be speaking at the conference. He said he’s not sure if the issue of transferring healthcare responsibility will come up. Instead he said he plans to talk about a “bigger view” of justice and wellness. That means talking about early child development, quality child care, parenting support, housing and access to mental health support for youth, he said. “We need to hammer at not just institutional changes like say limiting segregation, or putting much more restriction on segregation, as a health care issue in corrections. Or changing over who administers healthcare, but (also) looking at the bigger picture.” Effie Snowshoe, the Northwest Territories mother whose son Edward died after spending 162 days in solitary confinement, is also slated to speak at the conference. Sapers said he is looking forward to meeting her. “I think often in these discussions we lose sight of the fact that we’re talking about real people and often people who are in conflict with the law get reduced to nothing more than their crime,” he said. “That’s a shame. People who are in conflict with the law come from communities and come from families and those families are often just as impacted as the individuals are themselves.” Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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reater care by doctors when prescribing medication would help curb North America’s opioid crisis, say experts who will speak at a conference on managing opioid addiction in Whitehorse May 31 and June 1. Opioids are a class of narcotic drugs which include prescription medications such as morphine, codeine and oxycontin, as well as illicit drugs like heroin. They are commonly prescribed by doctors to manage both chronic and short term pain, which can lead to dependencies and addiction said Dr. Launette Rieb, a family physician, addictions specialist and clinical associate professor with the University of British Columbia who is presenting at the conference. “People who have prescribing abilities for opioids need to be much more careful about how you prescribe … this will help curtail future problems for addictive disorders,” she said. “Eighty per cent of people who use heroin started with a prescription from their physician for an opioid.” Fentanyl, which has been linked to five deaths in the Yukon over the last year, is also an opioid. In clinical settings it is sometimes prescribed in patch form for long-term

pain management. It has become a popular street drug in recent years, and has been finding its way into other drugs, such as oxycontin and cocaine. Dr. Brendan Hanley, Yukon’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, said the conference is “one part of our response to the opioid crisis.” “The conference is to offer education,” he said. “But we are also deliberately cultivating ideas. Where are the gaps in services and care? Where are people seeing these gaps and how can we fill them? What about integrating care for additicts and mental health, optimiazing pain management … without going down the opioid route.” Rieb likens opioid addiction to chronic conditions like diabetes, where the focus is not on a cure, but on managing the symptoms to allow people to have normal lives. “We look at addiction as a brain disease — the target of dysfunction is your brain. It’s not curable, but it’s manageable,” Rieb said. Rieb said it helps to look at any addiction through a three-tiered model which assesses the type of drug, the person’s history and genetic dispositions alongside the environment the person lives in. “This is a really great way to frame what is happening with addiction,” she said. “If people do develop an

addiction disorder, getting them help as soon as possible is key,” she added. Tighter controls, education, intervention and faster referrals would all help stem the tide of opioid addiction and its consequences, Rieb said. Opioids are extremely hard to kick, partly because of their severe withdrawal symptoms said Mae Katt, a nurse practitioner from Thunder Bay, Ont., who will be speaking at the conference. Katt helped pilot an opioid treatment program in a First Nations high school using the replacement drug buprenorphine/naloxone, which is sold under the brand name Suboxone. Suboxone is a pill meant to help wean people off opioids without the brutal withdrawal symptoms. The drug, which belongs to a class of treatments called opioid agonists, works by binding to the receptors in the body the opioids would normally adhere to, thus blocking the effects that cause a pleasureable opioid high, she said. Katt works with the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, which encompasses 49 Ojibwe-Cree communities in Ontario with a population of 50,000. This community, she said, experienced a “suicide epidemic,” in which 500 people took their own lives over the last 20 years. This, along with the trauma of residentials schools, has caused deep disturbances

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Dr. Brendan Hanley, Yukon’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, said the upcoming opioid addiction conference in happening in Whitehorse May 31 to June 1 is part of the Yukon’s response to the ongoing opioid crisis. for people living in these communities. “There is a backdrop to every addiction. We had a suicide epidemic … they had no outlet and some people used the drug to mask the pain,” Katt said. “We have people who’ve been harmed.” Part of the difficulty of opioid addiction in small northern communities, she says is the high cost of the drugs, and what people do to get the money to pay for them. A single pill of oxycontin that would sell

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Katt also specializes in a form of land-based addictions therapy. She said this is something which might work well in the Yukon, which bears certain geographical and cultural similarities to Thunder Bay. Like Whitehorse, Thunder Bay is a more remote northern city which services many small, isolated First Nations communities. Katt said this sort of treatment can be conducted with limited resources within the community. “It’s not that expensive to do,” she said. “You just take people out onto the land — your treatment centre is basically nature.” “The Yukon is like northwestern Ontario,” Katt said. “We don’t have an abundance of health care professionals.” “Addictive disorders are similar wherever you go,” said Rieb. “The biological chemistry is the same and the issues people face are similar.” The Yukon, said Rieb, has some advantages by being smaller and more isolated than other jurisdictions. “You can help transform things together,” said Rieb. “If the government is on board together … the advantage of being small is that if you see something you need, you can distribute it to everyone.” With files from Ashley Joannou

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f you have a question about a government policy in this country, odds are fairly good that the government’s response will amount to: “Get bent.” At every level of government, the cloistered mandarins who really run our government still treat public policy like their own personal domain, and information like it must be jealously guarded from the public, because, well, the reason must qualify as advice to cabinet, so it’s exempt from access to information rules. Writing shortly after Justin Trudeau’s Liberals took power, veteran CBC scribe Neil MacDonald wrote that Trudeau’s cabinet ministers swore an oath that included secrecy as the prime directive. “[T]he oath-takers also swore something much more serious: to ‘keep secret all matters committed and revealed to me’ during the discussions of Privy Council, ‘or that shall be secretly treated of in Council.’ “Which means pretty much everything they’re told. In Canada, the Privy Council is an abstruse concept that can stretch to encompass whatever the prime minister wants it to. “The last PM (Stephen Harper) took a view that would have made the mutton-chopped mandarins and ministers of 19th-century Whitehall grunt their approval.” This paranoid obsession with secrecy is a longstanding feature of British-style parliamentary government, which we have allowed to spread throughout the country, to every level of government. The territories, which for most of their time in Confederation were ruled by distant and opaque federal bureaucrats, appear to have gleefully adopted Ottawa’s heavy-handed taste for secrecy. Some recent examples from the Yukon: 1) The government may recommend sheep and goat owners put up fencing to reduce the risk of transmitting disease between farm animals and wild sheep. The exact course of action is still under discussion. A member of a public board called this newspaper, incensed that we published a story about the issue. The reason? The caller said there were no factual errors in the story. He was upset because various government departments are still talking about possible solutions to this problem. It was, he alleges, irresponsible of us to publish a story about a matter of public interest — that was already published in one agricultural newsletter — because his board wasn’t ready to discuss the matter yet. “You can’t control the outcome,” he said. That’s not our problem. One of the roles of the press is to discuss contentious policy issues outside the halls of government, whether the government wants to discuss them or not. 2) We recently asked the Yukon Hospital Corporation to tell us how much funding it

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requested from the Yukon government. The Yukon Party alleged in the house that the government gave the hospital corporation less than it asked for. Health Minister Pauline Frost said in the house that the difference was $5.2 million. Yet hospital corporation refuses to confirm what it asked for. Instead it responded to our question with a block of obfuscatory bullshit: “YHC asked for funding that it felt was required. In fact, we are working with the government on a number of fronts at the moment — and discussions are on-going. This includes taking a more collaborative, system-wide approach to health delivery, so we and our health system partners are aligned to serve the health needs of Yukoners. We also address our top priority which is providing safe and excellent hospital care to all Yukoners, recognizing that our hospitals must live within our means, while meeting significant and growing pressures.” In other words: none of your business. It would have been less insulting if the response had been to simply invite us to go to hell. 3) The City of Whitehorse withheld, at the Yukon government’s request, the text of a memorandum of agreement between the two publicly elected governments outlining the 2020 Arctic Winter Games, which Whitehorse will host because nobody else wants to. The YG will cover any cost overruns, but Whitehorse city councillors were originally to vote on a document that was not available for the public to examine. The YG released the text, which had to be vetted by lawyers, after we complained. A better solution would be to ensure the lawyers have their work done before such a document goes to a vote. It is not acceptable for the territorial government to ask the city to vote on a document the public isn’t allowed to see. Some other examples: Writing in March, the CBC’s MacDonald outlines the “sclerotic ineptitude” of the federal commission on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The commission employs a communications advisor who can’t speak to

the press. Families who want to testify have been systematically ignored by commission staff. The Native Women’s Association of Canada waited months to learn if they would receive standing. No inquiry meetings, apart from next week’s hearing in Whitehorse, are scheduled. And the CBC this week reported that the Privy Council Office and Communications Security Establishment are sitting on more than a million pages of classified documents, some as much as 70 years old. Foreign Affairs, CSIS and the RCMP won’t even say how many secret historical documents they have. Matters of national security are justifiable grounds for state secrecy. Suffice to say decades-old wiretaps of hapless Marxists are not. There are few areas the territorial government deals in where such secrecy is justified. The government absolutely should keep your health records secret, as it should most information about its employees. The government has the same right as you and I to receive legal advice in private. Sealed tender documents, for obvious reasons, should remain secret until the winning bid is selected. The business of government is the business of the people. This should seem self-evident, but many decades of bureaucratic creep have seen the development of an elaborate lattice of justifications why information should be kept secret. At the territorial and municipal levels, beyond a precious few exceptions, every memo, every email, every report should be a matter of public record. We, after all, paid for all of that material. It’s our property. Both the Trudeau and Silver governments have promised badly needed overhauls of our obsolete access to information rules. They should hurry up and introduce those changes, even if the smart money is on that legislation never seeing the light of day. The reasons why will be spelled out in a memo you’re not allowed to read. Contact Chris Windeyer at editor@yukon-news.com.

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ne of the good things about democracy is that it surfaces ideas the political elite may not be worried about. The latest is Yukon time. The Association of Yukon Communities recently unanimously passed a motion asking the Yukon government to reconsider daylight saving time. Newly-elected Liberal backbencher Paolo Gallina chose the issue to make his policy debut in the Yukon legislature, introducing a motion last week. To my knowledge, policy analysts at the Yukon government have not been working on this topic. Instead, they’ve been spending their time on things like interprovincial trade, carbon taxes, the opioid epidemic and so on. The Yukon time question has two angles: our time zone and, whatever

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Open letter of Dawson City council on water rates Why has city council decided to increase, at a minimum, the commercial water rates by 13 per cent and the commercial sewer rates by 15 per cent? Increases of this magnitude to only the commercial sector cannot be imposed without providing property owners with a cost of service study on which the decision is based. This critical step must precede a decision of this magnitude as it is the only ways citizens can hold their council accountable. Without evidence

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we decide on that, whether to participate in daylight saving time. On our time zone, if you look at one of those world time zone maps you’ll see that the Yukon is not actually lined up with the rest of the Pacific Time zone. In fact, the entire Yukon is west of Vancouver. So, if we were ignoring history and national borders, we would be on our physical time zone which is an hour behind Pacific Time. The Alaskans are currently time zone squatting. But we could let them keep using “real” Yukon time, especially since we can’t stop them anyway. We would be quite unique in this time zone. If you look at the map, only a few distant islands like Pitcairn Island — home of the Mutiny on the Bounty crew — share real Yukon time with us. Some Yukoners have suggested moving to Mountain Time. This would be two hours from our “real” time zone as the sun moves. But we could do it if we wanted more time in the evenings after work. In effect, if you got off work at 5pm Mountain Time, then it would feel like 3pm in terms of Yukon

arising from a cost of service study that the cost of responding to the demands by the commercial sector for water and sewer services has sharply escalated, thus making an increase of such magnitude inevitable, how can council justify its decision? A thorough cost of service study does more than anticipate cost increases, it also provides evidence of distinct increases in the cost of providing services to the commercial sector in past years to provide the rationale for a new rate increase. It may also reveal cost-saving opportunities

sunlight. This would be good for golf and mountain bike aficionados, but enthusiasts of morning activities like sunrise yoga would be annoyed. There is nothing to stop us at Mountain Time. We could even adopt Eastern Time to have lots of evening sunlight. This would give our officials three more hours of working time every day to lobby officials in Ottawa for money. China does it this way. Cities in the far west of China have to use Beijing time, even though they should be three time zones behind. One problem with moving to real Yukon time is that the time zone squatters in Alaska have already branded that time zone as Alaska Time. So perhaps we should move 30 minutes to be in between Alaska and BC. This would literally put us on the map, or at least time zone maps. This would give a nice boost to our tourism marketing, since every radio and TV channel would have to start saying, “and half an hour earlier in the Yukon.” India, Iran, central Australia and Newfoundland are already 30 minutes different from their

neighbours. To really stand out and avoid accusations we were copying Newfoundland, we could go 15 minutes off the hour, like Nepal. Then there is the question of daylight saving time. According to the surprisingly enthusiastic community of people on the internet who comment on daylight saving time, it was Benjamin Franklin who first came up with the idea. Then a New Zealander named George Hudson in 1895. The first major implementation was by Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the First World War, in part since the Allied blockade was causing severe energy shortages. However, it turns out that there is a significant debate among experts as to whether daylight saving time really saves energy. Some studies find that it does save a few per cent, which can be a significant benefit over a large population, while others are inconclusive. There have even been a few studies that found it may cause extra energy use. A lot depends on the habits and energy use patterns of the jurisdiction

in question. If you are in effect getting up earlier and using more light and heat in the cold, dark morning, that may balance out similar benefits in the evening. Changing the clocks can also affect the sleep patterns of people, pets and farm animals. This may be negative, although it may also give us more time for healthy evening exercise. It also affects some industries differently. Dairy farmers tend not to like it, while purveyors of outdoor sporting events in the evening are in favour, for example. In the north, where our daylight hours change so greatly over the year, the results are even harder to pin down. One thing is certain, however. The switch takes effort and can be confusing. How many minutes does the nation spend resetting clocks, or looking for the manual for the microwave oven to avoid having it wrong half the year? And, as I can attest, it is very annoying to find yourself at a dark hockey rink with the kids an hour before it really opens. Nor do the children enjoy standing at the bus stop

for an hour, or walking to school that one day a year when the bus drives by an hour early while they are still in their pyjamas. The change causes persistent trouble for airlines and TV programmers. Overall, the case for daylight saving time is debatable. However, as a small jurisdiction dependent we may find it easiest to keep doing whatever B.C. and Ottawa do. It would be annoying to miss transfer payment conference calls and flights in Vancouver because our relationship with our neighbours was inconsistent over the year. While I’m glad our politicians invest some time in thinking outside the box, I’m not convinced that Yukon time is one of our biggest problems. Government can’t do everything at once. I suggest any review of our time zone be fast and focused, and not distract from efforts on things like the opioid crisis or green energy.

that may not be evident in the absence of such a study. Without a cost of service study providing such information summarized commercial water and sewer users are left to assume that their rates are being increased because council has the legal power to do so. ls that what council is telling commercial users? Could it be that council has decided that commercial users must subsidize residential and institutional users? Without a cost of service study, how are citizens to hold their council accountable for decisions of this kind?

In closing, I respectfully ask that you rescind the decision to increase commercial water and sewer rates and that you reconsider the matter once you have completed and published a comprehensive cost of service study.

with veterinarians at Government of Yukon’s animal health unit, staff at the agriculture branch and with the Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board. We will continue to work with our key partners collecting

information and identifying methods that will support both farmers and their flocks and protect wild sheep populations.

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Space for all artiodactyls On behalf of Yukon farmers, the Yukon Agricultural Association is seeking a measured approach to the public discussion about the management of Yukon’s domestic sheep and goat populations. YAA continues to participate in meetings and discussions

Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels. He is a Ma Murray award-winner for best columnist.

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Free trade, climate among issues on Trudeau agenda at G7 summit in Italy Joanna Smith Canadian Press

TAORMINA, ITALY anada is planning to champion the benefits of free trade and action on climate change at the G7 Summit in Taormina, Sicily, even as U.S. President Donald Trump tries to steer the world in another direction. “There are clearly some areas where the Canadian position may not be universally embraced,” Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters Friday morning. A senior Canadian government official with intimate knowledge of the negotiations says the Paris Agreement on the fight against climate change, which Trump might back out of, and international trade remain major sticking points that will likely keep talks going through the night. The official noted there are also likely to be gaps between the leaders on migration policy, particularly when it intersects with the issue of international security. The official also said that aides in the White House are directly involved in the talks. There are four new leaders, including Trump, at the summit this year. The others are French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Theresa May and the host of the summit, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni. But rather than a clash

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump leave the Ancient Greek Theater of Taormina after a G7 family photo May 26 in Taormina, Italy. of old versus new, the twoday meeting is expected to be a battle between Trump and everyone else, at least on the issues of trade and climate change, as everyone tries to arrive at a consensus. The official said that if no consensus is reached on a hot issue like climate change, the text of the final communique will likely reference that fact, rather than remaining silent. Freeland, though, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who now has the third-most seniority, will be looking to find common ground among the seven leaders around the table while standing firmly behind Canada’s positions on those issues. “We’re always going to be clear at these meetings

that climate change is a hugely important issue. It’s hugely important for Canadians, and we are proud to be taking a strong stand at home, a strong stand around the world on this issue,” Freeland said. She said the same thing goes for free trade. “Canada believes very strongly in a rules-based international trading order. We’re a trading nation and we’re always going to stand up for that,” she said. Trudeau was expecting to find an ally on that front in Macron, with whom he had a bilateral meeting Friday. The prime minister is also set to meet with Trump briefly on Saturday. The Liberal government had been hoping to secure a meeting in order to con-

tinue to press its case on the North American Free Trade Agreement and other big cross-border issues. Freeland says one thing the leaders can agree on is that they must work together to counter the threat of violent extremism, which is expected to play a bigger role in the talks in the wake of Monday’s deadly terrorist attack on a concert arena in Manchester, England that killed 22 people. “This is truly a global struggle,” Freeland said. “It is truly one in which we are working arm in arm with our allies.” Freeland noted the G7 is now planning to issue a separate statement on the issue of terrorism and radicalization, while working the other issues into the main communique. While the summit in Japan last year produced a 32-page agreement, the official said the text to be released Saturday will be much shorter and strategic. It will also have a narrower focus than the wide-ranging discussions on everything from innovation in African countries to the empowerment of women and girls that leaders are taking part in would otherwise suggest. Canada will be hosting the G7 summit next year and an official says Trudeau is expected to make inclusive growth and gender equality the major themes of the gathering at a remote luxury resort in the Charlevoix region of Quebec.

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OTTAWA ormer prime minister Stephen Harperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s onetime chief of staff was never prosecuted for his role in Mike Duffyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Senate expenses fiasco but now Nigel Wright is getting a belated slap on the wrist from the federal ethics watchdog. In a long-awaited report released Thursday, ethics commissioner Mary Dawson says Wright broke both the Parliament of Canada Act and the Conflict of Interest Act when he personally gave

servative bagman Sen. Irving Gerstein and the Conservative Fund Canada to dip into party coffers to reimburse Duffyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expenses. Wright never faced any criminal charges for his role in the affair, although Duffy was charged with 31 counts of fraud, breach of trust and bribery. Wright was a prosecution witness during the subsequent trial, which ended last spring with Duffy being found not guilty of all charges. Questions have long persisted about how Duffy could have been charged with accepting a bribe when

Duffy $90,000 to repay the Senate for questionable living expense claims. By giving Duffy the money as part of an agreement in which the senator was to reimburse the Senate and acknowledge the error of his ways, Dawson says, â&#x20AC;?Mr. Wright was improperly furthering Sen. Duffyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s private interests,â&#x20AC;? sparing him the need to use his own funds. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a violation of conflict of interest rules. Moreover, she says Wright broke another section of the act when he used his position as Harperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right-hand man to try to influence Con-

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Five things to know about how the Conservatives will choose a new leader Canadian Press

OTTAWA onservative party members have begun voting to select their new leader, with mail-in ballots now returning to a depot in Toronto ahead of the official vote count on Saturday. Here are five things to know about the process. 1. There are 14 names on the ballot — including Kevin O’Leary, who dropped out too late for his name to be removed. The party doesn’t expect many members to still vote for him, but if they do those votes will still be counted. 2. Voting is underway. Members must mail in their ballot by Friday, or can vote in person on Saturday either at the convention location or at one of the polling stations being set up across Canada. The party is opening mailed-in ballots to verify voters also submitted a copy of their ID and a signed declaration form along with their choices. But the votes won’t be actually be counted until Saturday. 3. There are 259,010 party members eligible to vote. But while it’s one vote per member, the winner isn’t chosen based on those totals. Instead, each of the 338 federal ridings in Canada are allocated 100 points. How many points each candidate gets is determined by what percentage of the vote they get in a given riding. To win, a candidate will need 16,901 points. 4. It’s a ranked bal-

lot. Party members can choose up to 10 people they’d like to see as leader, ranking them from first to last. But even if they only choose one, that ballot will still be counted. The votes are counted electronically, and the machines being used can process about 20 batches of 100 votes per hour. 5. Second choices matter. Ranked ballots are counted in rounds. If in the first round no candidate gets the majority, the person with the lowest number of points is removed from the ballot. Those who voted for that person will then have their ballots counted again, with their second choice being counted. The process continues until a winner is selected. The party expects to announce the winners of each round of balloting, until the overall winner is identified.

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Top court to hear federal government’s appeal on residential school records Kristy Kirkup Canadian Press

OTTAWA he Supreme Court of Canada was set to hold a hearing May 25 on the federal government’s appeal of a decision that allows personal records from survivors of residential schools to be destroyed after 15 years unless individuals decide otherwise. Ottawa argues it controls the documents and that they are subject to legislation pertaining to access to information, archiving and privacy. “To ensure that the history of what happened at the residential schools is not forgotten or lost on future generations, the documentary record must be preserved,” the attorney general argued in her factum to the court. The government also argues that the use of the court’s “inherent jurisdiction” to order the wholesale destruction of the records “fails to respect the intentions”of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement, which settled the largest class action in Canadian history. “Many of the records at issue in this appeal often contain deeply personal accounts of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse of former students,” the factum says. “The information was provided in the context of an independent assessment process to provide compensation for this abuse.” Carey Newman, a First Nations artist who formed a group called the Coalition to Preserve Truth, agrees the impact of destroying the

documents would be enormous, calling them a very important piece of Canadian history. Newman said he plans to attend the court’s hearing on Thursday. The coalition believes traumatic events are only part of the complex history of residential schools, Newman said; the ensuing personal trauma has been resonating through the lives of families for generations. Newman, the son of a residential school survivor, decided to push for the preservation of the records after a friend asked him how he would feel about their destruction. “It just kind of sat on my heart,” he said in an interview. “That was the question for me that sort of convinced me that I had to do something … I think it is important for people to know this is the very final decision and that the largest number of stories about the worst things that happened in residential school are at stake.” Many survivors are either gravely ill or have already died and do not have the capacity to make a request to preserve the records, Newman added. The federal government and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission both agree the survivor accounts are a critical part of Canadian history that should be preserved. For its part, the independent claims adjudicator has maintained that claimants were promised confidentiality, which means that only they have the right to waive their privacy.

A lower court judge ruled the material should be destroyed after 15 years, but individuals could consent to have their stories preserved at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation in Winnipeg. In a split decision in April 2016, the Ontario Court of Appeal agreed, noting the documents were not government records subject to archiving laws. The court also rejected the idea the documents were “government records” but fell under judicial control. A dissenting justice maintained, however, that documents should be turned over to Library and Archives Canada, subject to normal privacy safeguards and rules. “If the IAP documents are destroyed,” wrote Justice Robert Sharpe, “we obliterate an important part of our effort to deal with a very dark moment in our history.” The Assembly of First Nations argues the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the promises of confidentiality made to former students of residential schools by ordering the destruction of records and ensuring former students maintain control over the accounts of their residential school experiences. “The future release of IAP records without the consent of claimants will result in the re-victimization of former students and will pose real harms to First Nation communities,” the organization said in its factum to the court. “This is particularly problematic in the case of victims and perpetrators related to student-on-student abuse.”

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Parties trade barbs as poll shows Nova Scotia race tightening in ﬁnal days Canadian Press

ova Scotia’s party leaders were largely off the campaign trail ahead of Thursday night’s debate, but the parties duelled by press release as a new poll suggested a tightening race. The NDP and Progressive Conservatives attacked the incumbent Liberals over health care, while the Liberals highlighted the Tory promise to “cut taxes for big business to unprecedented rates.” A Mainstreet poll released Thursday suggested the Tories have gained ground on the Liberals

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Nova Scotia NDP Leader Gary Burrill, left, N.S. Progressive Conservative Leader Jamie Baillie, centre, and N.S. Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil wait for the start of the leaders’ debate in Halifax May 18. care delivery problem. Dave Wilson, the NDP candidate for Sackville-Cobequid, said his party is the only one that will address the “crisis” in health care. The Liberal candidate

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Supreme Court to look at constitutionality of victim surcharges Canadian Press

OTTAWA he Supreme Court of Canada agreed Thursday to look at whether it’s unconstitutional to make a poor person convicted of a crime pay a surcharge that helps victims. The case at issue involves Alex Boudreault, a high-school dropout who had never held a steady job and who pleaded guilty in September 2013 to four counts relating to various breaches of probation orders. A few months later, the Quebec man pleaded guilty to several other counts, including breaking-and-entering, possession of stolen property and assault with a weapon. In 2015, a Quebec court sentenced Boudreault to 36 months in prison and ordered him to pay a victim surcharge of $1,400 — rejecting his argument the fee infringed the charter guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment. The Quebec Court of Appeal rejected Bou-

dreault’s challenge of that ruling last year. The Supreme Court, as usual, gave no reason for agreeing to hear to hear the case. The federal victim surcharge, imposed on offenders at the time of sentencing, is used by provinces and territories to help fund programs and services for victims of crime. The surcharge has existed for decades. But under changes brought in four years ago by the previous Conservative government, judges lost the discretion to waive the fee for offenders who genuinely cannot pay. The Conservative move had prompted something of a revolt at the lower court level. Judges in a number of provinces either refused to impose the surcharge for impoverished offenders, gave them a payment deadline decades into the future or levied fines so small that the surcharge amounted to nickels and dimes. In turn, several appeal courts overruled those decisions.

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victims of crime. The amount may be increased if the court is satisfied that it is appropriate in the circumstances and that the offender has the ability to pay the increased amount. Some defence lawyers complained that the surcharge produced a two-tier system divided between those who can afford the

surcharge and those too poor to pay. Last October, Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould introduced legislation that would again give judges discretion to waive the charge if an offender is truly unable to pay. It awaits second reading in the House of Commons. The legislation would authorize a sentencing

court to exempt payment of the surcharge if an offender applies for a waiver and demonstrates that payment would cause undue hardship. The bill makes clear that undue hardship relates to the financial inability to pay for reasons such as unemployment, homelessness, and significant financial obligations to dependants.

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Put risky ice rescue courses on hold, jury at coroner’s inquest into ﬁreﬁghter deaths recommends Paola Loriggio Canadian Press

TORONTO isky ice rescue courses that send firefighters and firefighting students into treacherous, fast-moving currents should be put on hold until they can be performed safely, a coroner’s inquest into the deaths of two Ontario men recommended Thursday. Jurors looking into what led to the deaths of Gary Kendall, 51, and Adam Brunt, 30, in separate ice rescue training exercises said the province should convene an expert committee to determine whether such training can be carried out in swift water without endangering participants. The committee should consider what equipment, techniques, locations and standards would be required to bring the risks down to an acceptable level, the jury suggested. The jury’s 15 recommendations, which are not legally binding, were issued after the inquest heard from multiple witnesses, including fire officials, over more than two weeks. Brunt’s father, Al Brunt, said the recommendations brought some hope that others would be better protected in the future. But he said the real relief will come when the government adopts the jury’s suggested policies. “The people that are opting to get into first responders as a career deserve to be protected, deserve safety … Just to take a training course they shouldn’t have to put their life on the line and that’s hopefully what these

policies, once enacted, will protect going forward,” he said outside the inquest. “The closure aspect will come in time,” he added. The lawyer representing Kendall’s family said they were pleased to see issues that had haunted them for years finally get attention. “One of the questions that came up time and time again during this inquest is whether it’s possible to do this training safely at all, and everyone who testified only gave anecdotal evidence,” Alex Van Kralingen said after the hearing. Now, he said, experts will make that call. “The only sad thing for me is that we did not have this coroner’s inquest after the 2010 death of Gary Kendall,” he added. ”The family, as you know, asked for an inquest at the time because they felt that there were systemic issues surrounding this sort of training, which were not being properly managed. No one listened to them and Adam died in 2015.” Kendall, a veteran volunteer firefighter, and Adam Brunt, a firefighting student, died five years apart during ice rescue courses involving the same training company. Kendall died in January 2010 after getting trapped under a fast-moving ice floe in waters near Sarnia, Ont. Brunt drowned in February 2015 while trying to float through a narrow gap in the ice on the Saugeen River near Hanover, Ont. Their deaths — which the inquest jury deemed accidents — brought scrutiny to the industry surrounding private training courses for firefighters,

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which is currently unregulated. The inquest jury zeroed in on that industry, urging the province to create a certification system for all firefighter safety instructors. The province should also build and maintain a database of firefighter training courses that includes safety records and any complaints made against the providers, the jury recommended. That database should be given to all Ontario municipalities to ensure they retain certified instructors. Brunt’s mother, Christy Brunt, said that information could have saved her son’s life. “He looked online to see what courses were the best out there and this one was one of the ones, all the kids were taking it, so he took this one, he thought it would be the best one,” she said. “So if the accident was on there already, if Gary’s death was on there, then maybe he wouldn’t have taken the course.” The inquest heard that firefighters looking to learn about ice rescue practices

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may have no other choice than to turn to private instruction, since the Ontario Fire College suspended its own program three years ago. Jurors heard the college, a provincial body that offers training to members of municipal fire departments, has yet to replace the program with an updated version. The jury said the province should give regular reports on its response to the inquest’s recommendations over the next three years.

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Trudeau praises beneﬁt of sharing intelligence with the U.S. and others Joanna Smith Canadian Press

BRUSSELS anada will continue as usual when it comes to sharing intelligence with allies, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says, even as U.S. President Donald Trump is being accused of playing fast and loose with sensitive secrets. “The track record has shown that collaboration and co-operation between allies, friends and partners

has saved lives and keeps all of our citizens safe,” Trudeau said Thursday in Brussels, where he is attending a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. “We are going to continue to collaborate and to work together to ensure we’re doing everything we can to keep citizens and our communities safe.” The prime minister made the remarks when asked whether he had any concerns with an agreement by NATO to increase intelligence-sharing, particularly

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when it comes to foreign fights, as part of efforts to curb the threat of terrorism. The White House has come under fire in recent days over revelations that Trump shared Israeli intelligence in a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The British government, meanwhile, has criticized U.S. officials for leaking sensitive details about the investigation into Monday’s deadly terrorist attack at a concert arena in Manchester. Trudeau said Canada has benefited from intelligence-sharing, but would not go into detail. “There are many, many occasions upon which we have directly participated and in other occasions directly benefited from information-sharing between security agencies and at the highest level.” Trump issued a statement Thursday saying the White House intends to get to the bottom of what he called “deeply troubling” leaks of information. “These leaks have been going on for a long time and my administration will get to the bottom of this,” said the

statement, which promised a Justice Department review. “The leaks of sensitive information pose a grave threat to our national security.” NATO leaders are gathering in Brussels to discuss how they can better share the cost of defence and co-ordinate efforts in the fight against terrorism, but the main motivation is to woo Trump, who once called the military alliance “obsolete.” To that end, NATO Sec.-Gen. Jens Stoltenberg said the military alliance will formally join the U.S.led coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, although without any involvement in combat operations. “NATO joining the coalition to defeat (ISIL) is a strong political message of unity in the fight against terrorism,” Stoltenberg said. All 28 NATO allies, including Canada, are already part of the anti-ISIL coalition, and the military alliance has been involved in training Iraqi forces. Still, Trump had been urging the alliance to take on a bigger role. Stoltenberg said that by formally joining the coali-

tion, NATO will be better able to co-ordinate its efforts there with practical support, such as more flying hours for surveillance aircraft, information-sharing and airto-air refuelling. NATO will also set up a new terrorism intelligence cell at its Brussels headquarters and appoint a special co-ordinator to oversee the counter-terrorism efforts. Trump has also been vocal about his demand for the other members of NATO to pick up their fair share of the tab when it comes to defence spending. Canada spends just over one per cent of its GDP on defence, just half of NATO’s target. “Canada has always been recognized as one of the goto partners in NATO, a country that consistently steps up and steps forward and delivers on the capabilities needed internationally for NATO operations,” Trudeau said. “We continue to work very closely with our American partners to ensure that we are having, individually and collectively, the right impact around the world.” The Liberal government says its contribution is bigger than the numbers sug-

gest, citing its commitment to send up to 455 troops to head up a multinational mission in Latvia, as part of efforts to curb Russian aggression in the Baltics. “All our allies understand that Canada has always been there, and I can assure them — and I will continue to assure them — that Canada will continue to be there.” Stoltenberg, for his part, appeared to indicate some sympathy for the Canadian position. “This is not just about cash, but also modern capabilities and meaningful contributions to NATO’s missions, operations and engagements,” he said. “Today, we will take steps to keep up the momentum.” NATO members will agree to come up with annual national plans to help them meet the target, he added. There has been much speculation about the role that Russia will play in the talks, especially given explosive allegations and domestic U.S. investigations of close ties between the White House and Russia. Eastern European partners are concerned with Russian aggression and there are also growing concerns around the relationship between Turkey and Moscow, and their roles in the Syrian conflict. Stoltenberg, though, tied the issue of Russia to the one of burden-sharing, which is top of mind for Trump. “One of the reasons why we are investing in our collective defence, why we are increasing our presence in the eastern part of the alliance, is of course as a response to the aggressive actions of Russia we have seen in the Ukraine.” Stoltenberg also said that NATO will assess its “level of support and the future of the mission” in Afghanistan, where the alliance currently has 13,000 troops involved in training.

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B.C. Liberals make pitch to continue government as a minority in legislature Dirk Meissner Canadian Press

VICTORIA ritish Columbia entered a new stage of political uncertainty May 24 as the final vote count from an election held more than two weeks ago confirmed the province’s first minority government in 65 years. But with the balance of power firmly in his grasp, Green Leader Andrew Weaver indicated he wants to end the confusion that has gripped the province since May 9 by trying to reach a deal with either the Liberals or the NDP on a minority government by next Wednesday. “We’re committed to bring stability to this province and we’re committed to ensuring the decisions we make in the next few days are those that actually make government work in British Columbia,” he told a news conference. “We recognize it’s important over the next week or so … to give certainty to British Columbia and that’s our target as we stand

today.” Weaver said he’s aiming for Wednesday or earlier to broker a working agreement with either the Liberals or the NDP, but he’s open to an extension if required. “It’s not a deal breaker if we’re so close and we still need more time,” he said. The Liberals finished one seat short of a majority, with 43 seats in the 87-seat legislature. The NDP has 41 seats and the Greens have three — a historic achievement for the party as it built on the lone seat held by Weaver before the election. The focus during the final count was on the riding of Courtenay-Comox, which the NDP won by 189 votes after holding a slim nine-vote lead on election night. The Liberals had hoped to swing the riding in their favour once absentee ballots were counted. Elections BC says none of the races finished close enough to trigger automatic applications for judicial recounts. Exploratory talks involving possible political

collaborations with the Greens have been underway since the election, but the parties have said they were awaiting the final results to begin the talks in earnest on the shape of a minority government. Premier Christy Clark issued a statement saying the Liberals intend to form a government. “With 43 B.C. Liberal candidates elected as MLAs, and a plurality in the legislature, we have a responsibility to move forward and form a government,” she said. “The final result reinforces that British Columbians want us to work together, across party lines, to get things done for them.” The Liberals were trying to win their fifth successive majority government in the general election. As the incumbent premier with the most seats, Clark would normally be given the first chance to form a minority government by the lieutenant-governor. But NDP Leader John Horgan said the results of

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B.C. Green party leader Andrew Weaver speaks to media following election results in Victoria, B.C. May 14. the election show voters want change and he believes he can work with Weaver to govern. “Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals came up short and after 16 years, it’s time for a new government,” Horgan told a news conference at the legislature. “The popular vote between the two major parties was absolutely split down the middle and this is an opportunity to build on a minority situation, to demonstrate, in my opinion, that people can have a

government that works for them, can have a government that co-operates with like-minded people to bring in things like proportional representation, to finally ban the big money the B.C. Liberals have been so, so addicted to over the past 16 years.” The popular vote tightened as Elections BC finished counting almost 180,000 absentee ballots to finalize the results. The Liberals received just 1,566 more votes than the NDP from almost 1.8 million

total ballots cast across the province. Weaver has said the major demands his party will be seeking in a minority government include being granted party status in the legislature. The Greens fell one seat short of official status after the election. The Greens also want reforms to the electoral system to allow for proportional representation and changes to party fundraising rules that currently allow unlimited donations from corporations, unions and individuals. Michael Prince, a social policy expert at the University of Victoria, said Clark is gambling that British Columbians are not in the mood to head back to the polls and the longer she can stay in power, if she can reach a deal with the Greens, her chances of winning another election improve. “I think she’ll be hoping there’ll be no appetite for an instant election,” he said. “She can try to bring in a throne speech and a budget with a lot of green tinges.”

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Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre June 1 – July 6, 2017

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS // WEEK 1

JUNE 1 – 10

Celebrate traditional watercraft of Canada’s North. Throughout the month of June and early July witness the construction of four northern boats including a birch bark canoe, a spruce dugout canoe, a seal skin qayaq and a moose skin boat. Enjoy stories and demonstraions by Elders and knowledge keepers, and sign up for a workshop. SUNDAY

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Our boat builders will be on site throughout the month of June.

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Dugout canoe pre-forming begins May 23. Visitors welcome.

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DUGOUT CANOE COPPER CANOE

One-day only! Guest boat builders Paddy & Jim Wayne will build a traditional raft.

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Shaping a spruce dugout canoe.

Interpretive Tours

Traditional Knowledge Demonstrations

Lunch Time Talks

Daily, 11:00 am & 3:00 pm

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Noon – 1:00 pm Bring your lunch

JUNE 3 • Fish Camp Set-up

JUNE 4 • Łu Ghą-Klukhu — A Place for Fishing

Wednesdays & Saturdays Noon – 1:00 pm

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<+85 #637 #>9<C +8. Tour of S.S. Klondike Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays 2:30 pm – 3:10 pm

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JUNE 3 • Traditional Camping Shelter Chuck Hume

Chuck Hume Hear stories about Klukshu where people have fished for countless generations.

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JUNE 9 • Tlingit Dugout Canoes

Daily, 11:00 am & 2:00 pm JUNE 4 • The Last Voyage of the Keno JUNE 5 • The Last Moose Skin Boat & The Voyagers JUNE 6 • The River of Life JUNE 7 • Qatuwas: People Gathering Together JUNE 8 • César’s Bark Canoe JUNE 9 • Between Generations: The Transference of Kayak Knowledge – and – Sinew Thread, Waterproof Seam JUNE 10 • The Dugout, Awaking Spirits Director

Wayne Price Learn about river and ocean going dugout canoes, past and present.

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A family in their dugout canoe.

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HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS SCHEDULE Try your hand at many forms of art and craft. Sign up for a workshop! To register visit WWW.YFNCT.CA /CAN150 or call 867.667.7698

JUNE 3 • Fish Scale Art $55 10:00 am – Noon or 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm with Dawna Hope

JUNE 22 • Traditional Fish Net 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm with Paddy & Wayne Jim

Learn how to use dyed whitefish scales to make beautiful art.

Learn how to make sinew fishnet and conical shaped willow fish traps.

JUNE 10 & 11 • Hide Fleshing Tool Making $125 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (Two day workshop) with George Roberts

JUNE 24 & 25 • Ulu Knife Making $150 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (Two day workshop) with George Roberts

Make a traditional bone hide flesher for preparing moose/caribou skins.

Make a traditional ulu for scraping hides and cutting meat.

JUNE 10 & 17 • 1:30 pm, 3:00 pm, 4:30 pm JUNE 11 & 18 • 1:30 pm, 3:00 pm Bannock Making with Gramma Treesaw

JUNE 24 & 25 • Birch Bark Basket Making $150 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (Two day workshop) with Christine Sam Make a birch bark basket from start to finish.

Learn how to make traditional fried bannock — YUM!!!

JUNE 17 & 18 • Drum Making $200 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (Two day workshop) with Wayne Carlick

JUNE 25 • Qulliq - Traditional Inuit Oil Lamp 10:00 am – 4:00 pm with Gary Rasmussen

$100

Make an oil lamp from stone using traditional techniques.

Make a traditional 20-inch rawhide drum.

JUNE 17 & 18 • Cedar Bark Hat Making $200 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (Two day workshop) with Debra Michel Learn how to make a coastal style woven cedar bark hat.

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Man who killed children struggles with anger management: psychiatrist Geordon Omand Canadian Press

COQUITLAM, B.C. man found not criminally responsible for killing his three children because of a mental disorder is making slow progress but still faces serious anger issues, a psychiatrist says. Dr. Marcel Hediger told a British Columbia Review Board hearing Wednesday that it’s unlikely he would recommend Allan Schoenborn be granted supervised outings into the community within the next year, saying he would first need to see a sustained period of at least six months of healthy anger management. The board granted the director of a psychiatric hospital in Coquitlam, B.C., the discretion to allow Schoenborn escorted outings into the community two years ago, but he still hasn’t been allowed to leave. “Mr. Schoenborn quite consistently doesn’t feel he has a significant anger-management issue,” Hediger told the three-person panel. “He does say he has a short fuse, but that is the extent to which Mr. Schoenborn acknowledges he has a significant management issue.” Hediger said he believes anger played a role when Schoenborn stabbed his 10-year-old daughter Kaitlynne and smothered his sons Max and Cordon, eight and five, at the family’s home in Merritt in April 2008. Schoenborn has repeatedly denied that anger factored into the killings, Hediger added. The hearing ended Wednesday without a conclusion and another date to complete the arguments hasn’t been set. The brother of Schoenborn’s former spouse,

Mike Clarke, told reporters during a break in proceedings about the toll the process is taking on his family. “It’s a day-by-day thing for my sister,” he said. ”As time goes by it’s getting a little worse for her.” It is clear Schoenborn needs a lot of treatment, Clarke added, saying he wants the man who killed his niece and nephews locked up “until the day he eventually passes away from old age.” Crown attorney Wendy Dawson asked the three-person review panel to reverse a 2015 decision giving the hospital director the discretion to authorize supervised excursions, arguing Schoenborn poses too much of a risk. She said Schoenborn’s anger issues are entrenched and that any earlier progress was a ploy to earn privileges from the review board. Dawson said Schoenborn had gone through nearly three years of cumulative counselling for anger management and he still struggles with applying his lessons in the heat of the moment. Schoenborn attended the review hearing wearing a collared, blue work shirt and torn jeans. He spent most of the time staring into his lap and slowly rocking back and forth in his seat. Schoenborn interrupted with an unintelligible comment while Dawson was questioning Hediger about the night of the killings. “Altruistic was found,” Schoenborn said. “This has got to be said.” Barry Long, chairman of the review panel, told Schoenborn he would have his turn to offer his version of events. Schoenborn apologized, agreeing with Long’s suggestion everyone take a five-minute break.

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Allan Dwayne Schoenborn is shown in an undated RCMP handout photo. Both the lawyer representing the hospital director and counsel for Schoenborn want the conditions imposed in the 2015 review board decision left unchanged. Two years after the children were killed, a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled Schoenborn was not criminally responsible because he was experiencing psychosis and believed he was protecting his children from sexual abuse, though

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no evidence was heard suggesting they were being abused. When the review board granted him escorted community outings, it said Schoenborn was diagnosed as having a delusional disorder, a substance abuse disorder and paranoid personality traits, but that his symptoms have been in remission for years. The Crown has also filed a separate court application to have Schoenborn designated a high-risk accused, which would end the possibility of the outings and extend the time between annual review hearings up to three years. The former Conservative government used Schoenborn as an example in 2014 to introduce the new designation, which can be applied to people found not criminally responsible because of mental disorder. Schoenborn’s next appearance in that case is scheduled for mid-June in the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

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heila Watt-Cloutier is one of the most highly regarded Inuit activists and politicians of our time. Her work with the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) — a multinational non-government organization representing approximately 150,000 Inuit people in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Russia and the United States — has lead to her championing the environment as well as the traditional way of life of her people. She has directed her efforts towards putting an end to both the use of persistent organic pollutants and to global warming — a reflection of her concern for the health, livelihood and lan-

guage of Inuit. Sheila’s work has been awarded numerous times and in 2007 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for demonstrating how global climate change impacts on human rights. Sheila was born in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, where she was raised traditionally, travelling by dog sled and canoe and eating local game. At 10 years old she was sent to live with a family in Nova Scotia for the purpose of earning an education. As a young woman she attended McGill University in Montreal, where she studied sociology and psychology before returning to Northern Quebec to work in education

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— came directly from Denmark and established communities in Ontario near Thunder Bay and London, others came by way of the American Midwest and Northwest and settled in the Prairies. Another large influx of Danes occurred throughout the 1950s and over a ten-year period the number of Danish-Canadians doubled. This group migrated to major urban centres in

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ANCHORAGE he world’s most famous sled dog race has lost a major backer, and Alaska race officials are blaming animal rights organizations for pressuring corporate sponsors outside the state like Wells Fargo with “manipulative information” about the treatment of the dogs. Wells Fargo spokesman David Kennedy said Wednesday the banking institution’s investment in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has declined since 2010. He said he could not discuss specific reasons for the San Francisco-based bank dropping the sponsorship altogether. “Wells Fargo regularly reviews where we allocate our marketing resources to build and enhance relationships with customers and the broader community,” he said in a statement. “As part of this process, we have decided not to sponsor the Iditarod in 2018.” PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, lauded the decision. The organization has been a longtime critic of the race and said it alerted the bank that five dogs connected to this year’s race died. Those deaths bring the total dog deaths to more than 150 in the Iditarod’s history, the group said. “The Iditarod can count on losing more sponsors, and PETA is now urging Coca-Cola to do right by dogs and be the next one to flee,” PETA Executive Vice-President Tracy Reiman said in a statement. Iditarod CEO Stan Hooley said there’s no doubt the decision is related to activists like PETA wrongly implying the Iditarod condones cruel treatment of the dogs. “These misguided activists are implying that the Iditarod condones and engages in cruelty to sled dogs that participate in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race,” he said in a statement. “Nothing could be further from the truth. We honour the sled dogs who participate in the Iditarod. We take every step to

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Alaska aquiver: State hosts plate tectonics research effort Dan Joling Associated Press

ANCHORAGE laska averages 40,000 earthquakes per year, with more large quakes than the other 49 states combined, and America’s shakiest state is about to have its ground examined like never before. A federal agency that supports basic science research is completing installation in Alaska of an array of seismometers as part of its quest to map the Earth’s upper crust beneath North America. When the magnitude 9.2 Great Alaska Earthquake ripped through the state in 1964, there were two seismometers in Alaska. At the end of this summer, there will be 260, swathing the state with instruments that record seismic waves and give geologists a picture of the upper 50 miles (80 kilometers) of the Earth. Alaska state seismologist Michael West calls it a “big freaking deal.” “This footprint of instrumentation rolled across the country and is now wrap-

ping up this grand, 15-year project” in Alaska, West said. The seismographs are deployed for the National Science Foundation by a consortium of U.S. universities that acquires and distributes seismological data. Engineering them for Alaska was a challenge. A helicopter flies in a lightweight drill rig to dig into bedrock or permafrost for the seismograph, said Bob Busby, transportable array manager for Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology. Solar panels mounted on fiberglass huts must gather energy throughout summer to charge lithium iron phosphate batteries — equivalent to two or three batteries in a Prius — that power equipment through the long winter. The array of seismometers, part of the science foundation’s EarthScope project, has the ambitious goal of explaining how continents formed as well as something of more immediately interest: where dangerous earthquakes of the future may occur.

It’s tied to the theory of plate tectonics, which holds that Earth’s rigid outer layer is broken into large, mobile plates, like pieces of shell on a hard-boiled egg, if the shell pieces moved along, over and under each other. Tectonic plates average 50 miles (80 kilometers) thick and move only as fast as fingernails grow. But when they intersect, pressure builds until plates slip, causing earthquakes and volcanoes. “Any kind of ground shift is somehow related to the tectonic plates,” said Maggie Benoit, EarthScope science program director. The study of plate tectonics is only about 40 years old, Benoit said, and the National Science Foundation made a quarter-billion-dollar commitment to advance the field. Alaska is especially active, with 11 percent of the world’s earthquakes every year, because it’s located where two great plates converge, with the Pacific Plate slowly being pushed under the North American Plate. There are three big pieces to EarthScope. One is a

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A seismic station installed at Anaktuvak Pass is seen in Alaska’s Brooks Range. borehole into the San Andreas Fault to understand fault structure. A second is a series of GPS stations that document plate movement. The third part is USArray, the network of hundreds of portable seismographs. The array was placed first in western states and over a decade moved east to other states. In the Pacific Northwest, the data has contributed to imaging chambers of molten rock at Mount St. Helens. Scientists in California are using GPS data to

study groundwater use. A Brown University researcher is using data to study the formation of North America in southern and eastern states. Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas but has nearly 350,000 fewer people than Rhode Island. Earthquakes that would devastate cities elsewhere often go unnoticed in Alaska because they occur in the Aleutian Islands or other sparsely inhabited areas. The 260 seismic stations

in Alaska will be about 50 miles (80 kilometers) apart. For added value, many are piggybacked with equipment to monitor weather and soil temperatures. “That wasn’t the original goal,” West said. “But frankly, if you’re going to go out and plop down a power system and real-time communications to some remote locations, you might as well hang a bunch of widgets off of it.” West said it’s interesting to think about the evolution of the Earth over 100 million years, but his use of the data will be for less theoretical purposes. Every public structure, he said, uses building codes created on historical earthquake data. The data helps set insurance rates and design tsunami evacuation zones for Alaska coastal communities. Companies routinely make hundred-million-dollar design decisions for mines, pipelines and ports based on knowledge of earthquake hazards. “If they know what the hazard is, they can build to it,” West said.

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Trump plan to sell off half of oil stockpile sparks debate Matthew Daly Associated Press

WASHINGTON resident Donald Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal to sell nearly half the U.S. emergency oil stockpile is sparking renewed debate about whether the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is still needed amid an ongoing oil production boom that has seen U.S. imports drop sharply in the past decade. Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget, unveiled on Tuesday, calls for selling an additional 270 million barrels of oil over the next decade, raising an estimated $16.6 billion. The proposal, on top of planned auctions expected over the next few years, could push the reserve below 300 million barrels by 2025. It now is at 688 million barrels. The petroleum reserve, created in the wake of the 1970s Arab oil embargo, stores oil at four underground sites in Texas and Louisiana. The reserve guards against disruptions in the flow of oil from the Middle East and other countries, and lawmakers from both parties have long warned against using it to raise money. But some Republicans say North Dakotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oil-rich Bakken region offers a de facto reserve that can be tapped if needed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s changed a lot in the last decade,â&#x20AC;? said Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., a senior member of the House energy committee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re one of the largest oil producers in the world.â&#x20AC;? Asked if he was worried that Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal could deplete the reserve,

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Crude oil pipes are seen at the Bryan Mound site near Freeport, Texas. Shimkus laughed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not when you have North Dakota and the Dakota (Access) Pipeline,â&#x20AC;? he said. Not all Republicans agree. The petroleum reserve â&#x20AC;&#x153;is not an ATM for new spending,â&#x20AC;? Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski said in 2015 as the Obama administration proposed selling off a smaller of portion of the reserve to help fund a budget agreement. Murkowski, who chairs the Senate energy committee, was reviewing Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal but â&#x20AC;&#x153;is generally opposed to selling off emergency oil reserves, particularly as pay-fors for unrelated measuresâ&#x20AC;? a spokeswoman said Wednesday. Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington state, the senior Democrat on the energy panel, vowed to defeat Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are not going to let Donald Trump auction off our energy security to the highest bidder,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The SPR exists to keep energy available and affordable in times of crisis or natural disaster, which helps low-income communities most,â&#x20AC;? said Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona, the top Democrat on the

House Natural Resources Committee. Selling the reserve â&#x20AC;&#x153;to pay for tax cuts for the extremely rich is especially cruel,â&#x20AC;? Grijalva said, calling the plan a â&#x20AC;&#x153;short-sighted favour to oil billionaires.â&#x20AC;? Budget director Mick Mulvaney said the proposed sale would not cause a security risk, citing increased oil production from fracking and other drilling techniques that have opened up areas once out of reach. The sales should not affect global oil prices because they would be carefully staged over a decade, Mulvaney said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to take this much of your money and bury it in the ground out in western Texas someplace for domestic security and national security reasons when we have domestic

surpluses like we do,â&#x20AC;? he said at a budget briefing this week. Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center on Global Energy Policy, warned that selling off large parts of the reserve could cause a price spike if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a supply disruption in Venezuela or elsewhere. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The national security asset of the SPR helps provide a cushion. It would be foolish to sell it off because of a domestic oil production boom, the longevity of which remains somewhat uncertain,â&#x20AC;? said Bordoff, who served as an energy adviser to President Barack Obama. Energy analyst Kevin Book said sale of the whole 270 million barrels â&#x20AC;&#x153;appears to be a heavy liftâ&#x20AC;? in Congress, given likely opposition from Murkowski, Cantwell and other lawmakers. But Book said some additional sales beyond those now scheduled â&#x20AC;&#x153;seem more likely than not.â&#x20AC;? Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., chairman of the House Energy Committee, said the reserve â&#x20AC;&#x153;made sense when we were hostage, potentially, to others. But now with a changed landscape, it calls for a review.â&#x20AC;?

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NOTICE OF GRANT OF POLL Public notice is hereby given to Liard First Nation electors that a poll has been granted to elect to Liard First Nation Chief and Council: Nomination papers have been successfully filed by the following candidates: One (1) Chief (Yukon or BC resident) Don MAGUN George MORGAN

Dorothy HAYES Daniel MORRIS

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After 30 years, a ﬁnal trip for Whitehorse’s resident Greyhound driver Creek — 60 km away — and tried the same procedure on the first bus. Eventually, he got it running again and drove it back to back to Watson Lake, picked up his passengers, and drove to Whitehorse. The trip was extremely cold, because the bus had been sitting out and the heater wasn’t powerful enough to warm it. “We froze and froze and froze. We had blankets but it was a cold, cold night,” he said. “We were 12 hours late getting in. I’d say that was my worst trip ever. Don’t get me wrong though — I’m going to miss it,” he says. “All I can say is that I’m glad I was on the Alaska Highway… I consider myself very fortunate. I’m energized at the end of every ride.” “On a beautiful, clear full moon … you can’t beat (the view). It’s beautiful. You can see everything for a long, long ways. It’s incredible.”

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here is nothing particularly auspicious or festive about the Whitehorse Greyhound Station. At 4:30 in the afternoon in mid-May, the squat, square station casts a long shadow over the parking lot. Passengers in loose, colourless clothes sit with the tense laziness that comes with waiting, feet dangling, glossy magazine pages turning. One woman chews a stick of gum, smacks it, chews it again. On the curb outside, Roger Veilleux’s wife is sitting with another woman, who is having a cigarette. The two are still laughing when Veilleux drives up in his little blue Toyota pickup. “Hey!” the smoking woman says. Her cigarette is almost gone and she rolls the near-butt between her thumb and her forefinger. “So we gonna get to have a party on the bus tonight?” Veilleux laughs and leans out his rolled-down window, drives into the back. He’s a short, slight man with greying hair and the rough but neatly-trimmed close beard common to sailors, bush folk, truckers and other travellers. Out of the truck, he moves with a much younger man’s step as he busies himself getting the bus ready. A handful of his friends stand in the room behind courier desk, waiting for him amid brown paper-wrapped boxes and bubblewrap. When he comes in, his friends cheer and his wife presents him with a bouquet of yellow flowers and a blue balloon. “We’re kicking your ass out of here!” someone says, laughing. The balloon bobs above his head, skipping and turning as he talks animatedly. It reads, in silver letters, HAPPY RETIREMENT. Veilleux has been a bus driver with Greyhound for 31 years. He’s been driving the same run, between Whitehorse and Fort Nelson, for the last 16. This night, May 17, when he pulls the long, heavy bus with its trailer bouncing along behind it, when he turns the bus southbound down the Alaska Highway, it will be for the last time.

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Roger Veilleux stands in front of his bus before his final run to Fort Nelson. Veilleux retired after driving the route for 16 years. * * * From Whitehorse to Fort Nelson, it’s Judas Creek, then Deadman. Teslin Lake stretches out on the right, long before the village. There’s the iron buzz of Nisutlin Bridge, then that long, seemingly endless stretch of near-nothing to Watson Lake. Then it’s Coal River, the bison lumbering along Liard, the turquoise water of Muncho Lake, up the arching back of Stone Mountain and then down down down again into the flatlands where the natural gas crews work. Then, finally, Fort Nelson. Twelve hours, if you’re driving nonstop, which Veilleux did each time he made the run, 4:30 p.m. to 4:30 a.m., ferrying passengers and cargo along this same stretch of highway. Then 12 hours rest and then back on the road again, everything in reverse. “It’s not really twelve hours rest, really,” Veilleux says. “ By the time you get in, you’re really hyper. It takes time to wind down, before you can sleep.” Veilleux got his start with Greyhound as a sort

of fill-in driver, going where he was needed, driving anywhere between Whitehorse and Grande Prairie, Alta., — some 1,500 kilometres of highway. It was simply a chance assignment that first brought Veilleux to the Yukon. “First year, I didn’t even know the Yukon existed. I didn’t want to come here. I was sent for seven weeks to do a holiday for a fella … I wasn’t too keen on it, the first time,” he says. “All of a sudden, about my second summer, I really started to love the Yukon.” He met his wife Christine at the tavern in Watson Lake, where she used to be a bartender. He’s been here ever since. Of the countless times he travelled that same stretch of highway, one trip in particular sticks out in his mind. Veilleux says he was driving a busload of 12 or 13 people up Stone Mountain, a remote stretch of the highway known for its tight, twisting passes, far from cellphone service. He was nearing the summit when something went wrong. “A red light came on, buzzers are going off. I

look at the engine and it’s overheating,” he says. “People were saying ‘what’s the matter, what’s the matter?’” He had blown a hose and lost all the coolant in the radiator and engine. He found a spare piece of hose and repaired it, but they needed water before they could go anywhere — both the rad and engine block were empty. All the passengers gathered together and collected empty water bottles among them, he says. Then they climbed up to a creek and hauled water back and forth in their bottles for half an hour, pouring it into the engine. “The rad alone takes five gallons!” he says. “It was unbelievable, everyone was happy to help. They even flagged down a passing car, who gave us a case of bottled water.” Over the course of his time as a driver, Veilleux says he has seen a lot of changes. “Thirty years is not long, but I’ve seen — good lord — all these lodges. I’ve seen them open from 24 hours to not open at all. Even the highway (has seen big changes) in 30

years. It’s unbelievable,” he says. Veilleux says he isn’t retiring because he doesn’t like the job, but because he’s tired of the night work — and the rough weather, driving in sleet and snow in the middle of the Yukon winter. One time his bus had “frozen up” at Contact Creek — when this happens, moisture in the air in the brake lines freezes, causing the brakes to seize up and the bus to remain stationary — and he had to call in a second bus. When it arrived, he drove it to Watson Lake, where he took it to a mechanic. Freeze-up can be prevented by adding alcohol to the brake lines, but when he went to add some as a preventative, it backfired. “It was -58C in Watson Lake that night,” he says. “Everything froze up immediately … now we had two frozen buses: one in Watson Lake and one in Contact Creek.” He and the mechanic tried to thaw the lines, but couldn’t get the replacement bus working again, so Veilleux borrowed a pair of insulated coveralls and hitchhiked back to Contact

Over the years, he says, one of the most amazing things was all the people who helped him when he needed it. Lodges would stay open late to make sure passengers got in safely and truckers would halt their rigs to help him repair the bus during a breakdown. “I owe a big thank you to everyone who helped us along the way over the years, the truckers, the travellers and the lodge owners,” he says. “And to my wife Christine, for putting up with me for the last 29 years of being away from home and taking care of business by herself a lot of time, being considerate when I was getting sleep in the daytime, and plainly putting up with me being grumpy at times.” Now that he is finished his time on the highway, Veilleux isn’t quite done with driving; he’s working part time with the city as a bus driver. Still, he might have a little bit of extra time, he says, which he plans to use riding his Harley Davidson and working in his garden, where he is especially fond of growing petunias. “This might surprise some people,” he says with a grin, “but I like to play with flowers.” Contact Lori Garrison at lori.garrison@yukon-news.com

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Jerusalem still suffers from divisions, 50 years after war Josef Federman Associated Press

JERUSALEM srael is marking this week the 50th anniversary of its capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war — an event it celebrates as the “unification” of its eternal capital. But for Palestinians, there is little to celebrate. They also claim east Jerusalem as their capital, and live in neighbourhoods under Israeli control that suffer from poverty, neglect and poor services. These stark contrasts are on display this week. Parades, light shows and festivals are being held throughout the city as Israeli Jews celebrate the capture of Jerusalem’s Old City from Jordanian troops half a century ago. The victory was hailed by Jews as marking the symbolic return of control over Judaism’s holiest sites after 2,000 years in exile. The Old City is home to the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, and the adjacent hilltop compound revered by Jews as the Temple Mount, the spot where the biblical Temples once stood. The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Jerusalem. Palestinians revere the same hilltop compound as the “Noble Sanctuary.” This compound, home to the Al Aqsa Mosque and goldtopped Dome of the Rock, is Islam’s third-holiest site. The conflicting claims to this tiny patch of land lie at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They also have helped turn Jerusalem into a city of jarring contradictions — from beautifully restored archaeological sites, gleaming pedestrian malls and bustling nightspots in renovated Jewish areas to the potholed streets, overcrowded classrooms and impoverished neighbourhoods in Arab sections of east Jerusalem. After the 1967 war, Israel annexed east Jerusalem and some neighbouring West Bank villages and declared all of expanded Jerusalem to be its capital. The international community has never recognized that annexation and considers east Jerusalem, like the West Bank, to be occupied territory. Even this week’s visit by President Donald Trump failed to put the issue to rest. Despite professing his deep support for Israel, he has backed away from a campaign promise to move the

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Israelis carry national flags outside the Old City’s Damascus Gate in Jerusalem May 24 during Jerusalem Day celebrations. U.S. Embassy to the city and pointedly rebuffed Israeli requests to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the city. After 50 years of Israeli control, Jerusalem remains deeply divided in many ways. Here is a look at the contradictions of modern Jerusalem:

POPULATION The city has 883,000 residents as of the end of 2016, according to provisional figures provided by the Jerusalem Center for Policy Research, a research centre that compiles data for the municipality. Sixty-three per cent of the population is Jewish, while 37 per cent are Palestinian Arabs. Many of the Jews — some 200,000 — live in new Jewish areas in the occupied east.

STATUS Jewish Jerusalemites have automatic Israeli citizenship. Palestinians hold residency rights, allowing them to work and granting them access to Israeli health care and social benefits. They also can vote in municipal elections, though most boycott the balloting. But they are not citizens and cannot vote in national elections. A small but growing number of Jerusalem Palestinians have begun to apply for Israeli citizenship — a process that they say is bureaucratic and far from certain.

POVERTY Seventy-nine per cent of Arab families lived in what Israel defines as poverty in 2015, according to the Jerusalem centre. The definition is around $2,000 a month for a family of four. Only 27 per cent of Jewish families are in poverty, the centre said.

EDUCATION The average class size in a Palestinian classroom is 37 students, compared to 22 in state-run Jewish schools, according to the centre. While the city has begun to build additional classrooms for Arab students, Ir Amim, an advocacy group that promotes coexistence and equality in the system, estimates that there is a shortage of 2,672 classrooms. Some 13 per cent of Palestinians drop out of school, compared to 1 per cent in state-run Jewish schools, the group says.

LAND Before the June 1967 war, Jerusalem was just 38 square kilometres (15 square miles) in area. After the postwar annexation, its area expanded to 108 square kilometres (42 square miles). Jews and Arabs overwhelmingly live in separate neighbourhoods, with nearly all Palestinians located in the eastern part of the city. Israel has also ringed east Jerusalem with Jewish

housing developments to cement its control. These developments are de facto neighbourhoods of the city, enjoying the same schools and public services as other areas, despite being considered illegal settlements by the Palestinians and most of the world. Palestinians, meanwhile, struggle to get permissions to develop their areas and in dozens of cases each year, their homes are demolished for illegal construction.

BUDGET Just 10 per cent of the municipal budget is devoted to Palestinian areas of the city, resulting in reduced services across the board, according to Ir Amim. As a result, Palestinian areas receive disproportionately fewer services across the board, including education, fire and rescue and health care. For example, there are about 1,000 public parks in west Jerusalem. East Jerusalem has just 45, according to the B’tselem human rights group. Among those hardest hit: the estimated 80,000 Palestinians living in neighbourhoods placed behind the Israeli-built separation barrier.

prefers to think of the city’s problems as “gaps,” not divisions. “Are Jerusalem residents of all kinds and all groups receiving the proper level of

services? Are there people who should be receiving specific help who are not receiving it?” he asked. “This is the conversation we should have.” Assaf-Shapira said the problems plaguing the Palestinians include neglect and discrimination, but also go further. A historically high birthrate and low participation in the work force, particularly among Arab women, have also contributed to the high poverty rate. Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox population also suffers from poverty, in large part because of the decision by many males to spend their days studying religious texts instead of working. But Assaf-Shapira sees some hope for the city. Jews and Arabs mingle in public spaces like malls and playgrounds far more than they used to, the education rate is improving in the Arab sector and the birthrate among Palestinian women has slowed. “The gaps are huge. Huge challenges are faced by the municipality and the state trying to narrow or close these gaps,” he said. “Still, I think there are many reasons for optimism.”

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Marijuana extract helps some kids with epilepsy, study says Marilynn Marchione Associated Press

medicine made from marijuana, without the stuff that gives a high, cut seizures in kids with a severe form of epilepsy in a study that strengthens the case for more research into pot’s possible health benefits. “This is the first solid, rigorously obtained scientific data” that a marijuana compound is safe and effective for this problem, said one study leader, Dr.

Orrin Devinsky of NYU Langone Medical Center. He said research into promising medical uses has been hampered by requiring scientists to get special licenses, plus legal constraints and false notions of how risky marijuana is. “Opiates kill over 30,000 Americans a year, alcohol kills over 80,000 a year. And marijuana, as best we know, probably kills less than 50 people a year,” Devinsky said. The study was published Wednesday by the

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Marijuana plants are seen on display at a medical marijuana provider in downtown Los Angeles April 15. New England Journal of Medicine. For years, desperate patients and parents have argued for more research and wider access to marijuana, with only anecdotal stories and small, flawed studies on their side. The new study is the first large, rigorous test — one group got the drug, another got a dummy version, and neither patients, parents nor doctors knew who took what until the study ended. It tested a liquid form of cannabidiol, one of marijuana’s more than 100 ingredients, called Epidiolex. It doesn’t contain THC, the hallucinogenic ingredient, and is not sold anywhere yet, although its maker, GW Pharmaceuticals of London, is seeking U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval. The company paid for, designed and helped run

the study, and another doctor involved in the study has related patents. Patients in the study have Dravet syndrome , a type of epilepsy usually caused by a faulty gene. It starts in infancy and causes frequent seizures, some so long-lasting they require emergency care and can be fatal. Kids develop poorly, and their mental impairment seems related to the frequency of seizures — from four to as many as 1,717 a month in this study. Allison Hendershot’s 12-year-old daughter Molly was four months old when she had her first. It lasted an hour and a half, and emergency room doctors medically induced a coma to stop it. Molly, who lives in Rochester, New York, has tried more than half a dozen medicines and a special diet, but her seizures

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continued. “We literally could not count how many” before she started in the study, her mom said. It included 120 children and teens, ages 2 to 18, in the U.S. and Europe. They took about a teaspoon of a sweet-smelling oil twice a day (drug or placebo) plus their usual anti-seizure medicines for 14 weeks. Their symptoms were compared to the previous four weeks. Serious seizures with convulsions dropped from around 12 a month to about six for those on the drug and did not change in the others. Three patients on the drug became seizure-free during the study. It’s no panacea, though. Diarrhea, vomiting, fatigue, sleep problems and other issues were more frequent in the drug group. Twelve patients quit the study — nine on the drug and three in the placebo group. Hendershot thinks her daughter got the dummy medicine because they saw no change in her seizures

until the study ended and all participants were allowed to try the drug. By the second day they saw a difference, and “she went seizure-free for two months. It was pretty remarkable,” Hendershot said. The fact the drug came from marijuana “did not matter to me at all,” she said. “If it helps, we’re happy. I think people hear ‘cannabis’ or that it comes from marijuana and immediately there’s a stigma attached to it.” For those who swear marijuana helped them, “anecdote has been confirmed by data,” Dr. Samuel Berkovic writes in a commentary in the medical journal. He is an epilepsy researcher at the University of Melbourne in Australia, where medical marijuana was legalized last year, and has worked with Devinsky in the past. The drug is being tested in a second large study in kids with Dravet syndrome, and in studies of some other types of epilepsy.

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Melting pot Manchester stresses unity after concert attack Mike Corder Associated Press

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND n the Manchester street they call the “Curry Mile,” there are no longer just Indian or Pakistani restaurants. A hungry diner can now choose Halal snacks from Beirut, kebabs from Afghanistan or garishly colored sweets from India, among many others. Traffic along the busy road is just as varied — hipsters on vintage race bikes zoom past a mother in full-face veil pushing a stroller. A block away, Paulette Greig, the daughter of a Jamaican Indian and a white English woman, drinks water in the Albert Inn, a traditional English pub. The kaleidoscope of Mancunians — as the city’s residents are known — reflects the proudly multiethnic city’s long history of welcoming migrants and, on the whole, successfully integrating them. “Obviously, you get the odd idiot, but you get them everywhere,” Greig said. Manchester’s race relations have been in the spotlight since suicide bomber Salman Abedi, a British citizen of Libyan descent, killed 22 people and injured dozens more on Monday night outside an Ariana Grande concert. The attack has been claimed by Islamic State, drawing attention to the city’s Muslim population. Some 80,000 Muslims live in Manchester, according to data from the 2011 census, making up nearly 16 per cent of the population at the time. Alongside many churches and a handful of Sikh temples, there are dozens of mosques dotted around the sprawling city. The large, modern Central Mosque is tucked into a leafy street in the Victoria Park neighbourhood just a few blocks from the Curry Mile, and smaller establishments cater to national minorities who tend to be bonded by language. Mohammed Fadl, a spokesman for Libyan expatriates in Manchester, said there are no exact figures but the community numbers in the tens of thousands and is the largest in the United Kingdom. It remains unclear how exactly Abedi became radicalized. Libyan anti-terror forces arrested his father in Tripoli on Wednesday, Special Deterrent force spokesman Ahmed bin Salem told

the Associated Press. Two of Abedi’s brothers also have been arrested — one in England, the other in Libya. In the aftermath of Monday’s deadly attack, community leaders have been keen to stress that attackers like Abedi are a tiny minority in the Muslim community, and to underscore the spirit of unity in this melting pot city. “If you look at Curry Mile and people across the community generally, people are understanding each other’s cultures,” said Irfan Chishti, Imam of the Central Mosque. On Wednesday evening, girls in school uniforms stood near women in Islamic headscarves at a multi-faith vigil next to a statue of 19th-century Manchester industrialist and lawmaker Richard Cobden. A sea of flowers, candles, football scarves and balloons surrounded the statue. One pink, heart-shaped balloon was emblazoned with the message “RIP Angels” on one side and “”Manchester together” on the other. Many tributes included pictures of bees — the community-minded insect has been a symbol of Manchester for years, dating back to when its booming textile mills helped power the industrial revolution. A rabbi, Islamic leaders and Christians addressed the short meeting, vowing not to let hate drive a wedge between the city’s diverse religious groups. So far, they seem to be succeeding; the city appears to have avoided a concerted anti-Islam backlash in the aftermath of Monday’s attack. Law enforcement authorities also are playing a role. A police car briefly drove into the deserted car park of the Central Mosque Wednesday morning and asked staff if they had experienced any trouble since

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Two women sit in a bar in Curry Street in Manchester, Britain, May 24. the concert blast. They said they had not. Manchester, a city 160 miles (260 kilometres) northwest of London, now has a population of some 530,000. It has long been a magnet for migrants and others seeking work. After its economic boom in the 19th century, Manchester gradually lost its sheen, becoming a gritty post-industrial city in the late 20th century. It was then that it became a creative hub and a launching pad for influential bands ranging from The Smiths to Britpop powerhouse Oasis. In the late 1980s and early ’90s, the city was dubbed Madchester because of its hedonistic nightlife and bands. All the while, migrants were arriving, weaving their cultures into the city’s tapestry. In the past, they came from Britain’s former

colonies like India, Pakistan and the West Indies. More recently, they have come from the Middle East, but also from Russia and Poland. One recent arrival is Aatef Otman, a 46-year-old Syrian refugee who works in the Sweet and Salt Middle Eastern Goods store, which sells everything from snacks like seeds, nuts and dates to water pipes. Otman, who fled his home in the town of Daraa, arrived in Manchester 18 months ago after initially being settled in the Scottish city of Glasgow. “I find Manchester more

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made by Muslim leaders in recent days, Otman said he was horrified by the attack in his adopted homeland. “It is just crazy,” he said. “Not crazy — more than that. Unhuman. That is what I believe in my heart.” The one glaring source of division in this city is soccer. Fans are either supporters of Manchester United or its cross-town rival Manchester City. Even those lines blurred Wednesday night as fans of both teams watched United beat Amsterdam club Ajax 2-0 in the Europa League cup competition final in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Fans spilled onto the streets of downtown Manchester after the match, kicking a ball around as heavily armed police looked on. “We needed it,” said 22-year-old Connor Ward. “It was that boost that everyone needed.”

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What to do if you get in an accident

s they say on an airplane, in the unlikely event of a crash, what should you do? We will discuss the dos and don’ts, but first let’s look at the ways to reduce our chances of getting in an accident in the first place. High risk driving like failing to yield, following too close, improper passing and failing to observe traffic signals will increase your chances of getting in a crash. Habits like using a phone, reading, personal grooming or anything that takes your eyes or mind off the road also increase your chances of getting in a crash. Speeding or impaired

driving obviously greatly increase your chances of crashing. They are both illegal and incredibly foolish. Notice I went from using “accident” to using “crash.” The word “accident” implies it was unavoidable. Crashes that occur as the result of the habits I just decribed are very much avoidable. If you are in an accident or crash, the first thing to do is to stop. Leaving the scene of an accident is a criminal offence. Remain calm and take a moment to get your bearings. Turn on your hazard lights. If it’s safe, get out of your car and assess the situation. If anyone is hurt, call 911 immediately. Unless absolutely necessary, do not move anyone who is injured. Even if no one is hurt and there is minimal damage, you should still call the police and get a file started. Make a note of this file number. Your insurance company may need this and it may be important if the other driver suddenly

develops amnesia about the accident. After hearing the details, the police may or may not attend the scene. Take pictures with your smart phone (or a disposable camera kept in your glove box) of the scene and the damage. Include the license plate number of other vehicles in pictures. Only when it’s safe to do so, should you move your vehicle off the road and out of traffic. If it’s not safe to do so, put out cones or flares. Flares should not be used obviously if there are fuel leaks, or too close to any vehicles. Regardless of who you felt was to blame, remain courteous and avoid arguing with other drivers. Do not assign or accept blame, sign anything, or agree to pay for damages at the scene. Save your interpretation of what happened for the police and insurance company. Record all information that you can. Including the names of all other drivers and passengers, their phone

numbers, and addresses. The name of their insurance company, and policy number if possible. Record the names and phone numbers of any and all witnesses to the crash, police officers, or tow truck drivers. The more information you can record at the scene, the better. Call your insurance company and report the accident as soon as you can, share your information and ask for the next steps. It’s fairly common for drivers at fault to be worried about their insurance rates increasing and so offer to pay for damages themselves. The risk for you agreeing to this is that the other driver may not want to cover the bill later or may want the repairs done as cheap as possible without concern for quality. There’s really no benefit for you to agree to this off the books remedy. Regardless of who’s at fault, the insurance company paying for the damages will likely want three quotes for the repairs, and may

steer you to a recommended body repair shop. You almost always have the right to choose the repair shop as long as your repair shop matches quotes and guarantees of workmanship. If the dealership you bought your car from has a body shop, or you have dealt with another body shop in the past, you may be more comfortable dealing with people you know. Let your insurance company know your preference. Being properly prepared in case of a crash is often overlooked, but very important. It’s a good idea to keep the following in your glove compartment: disposable camera, pen and notepad, a good first aid kit with thermal blanket, flashlight with spare batteries, water, gloves, hand wipes, and maybe some non-perishable food. Having a card with important phone numbers for police, tow truck, insurance company, body shop and roadside assistance is also handy. In your trunk you should

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walked around the chainlink fence of Pump Station 12 of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, apprehensive about the human encounter to come. It was time to send a weekly column. I needed a Wi-Fi signal or a cellular bar or two. I had walked more than a week through air devoid of communications waves. With Cora on a leash and me having not spoken to anyone all day, I reached the gate of the pump station. No one was there. No guard at the shack behind the fence. The green buildings, which looked like an occupation base on Mars in their best days, bled with rusty stains. The place had a post-apocalyptic feel. There was a phone inside a box near the fence. I picked it up. Before it rang twice, a security guard named Jeff answered. Jeff was sitting at a desk in Anchorage. He did not laugh when I asked about Wi-Fi, but he might have smiled. “You’re in the Big Lonely,” he said. “There’s not much around Pump 12.” The decommissioned pump station was quiet, its turbine engines no longer needed to push a smaller volume of crude oil down to the Valdez terminal. There were two heavy-equipment operators inside the compound moving snow with loaders, but there seemed to be no one in the buildings. The stunning mountain-and-waterfall country between Valdez and Glennallen was a lively place

20 years ago. The last time I walked this path, I met people and stopped to chat every day. This time, there have been days I have not talked with anyone but Cora. Is that a product of timing, with me starting my hike before summer visitors arrive? Or have people moved out? Since 1997, Alaska’s population has increased, from about 613,000 then to 737,000 today. But most of those people have moved into Alaska’s cities. In the Valdez-Cordova Census Area through which I walked, there were fewer people in 2013 than in 2000, according to researchers with the state of Alaska. “It’s the bleeding of the Bush,” said my friend Doug Vollman, whom I sought out near Copper Center. Vollman and his daughter Taylor hosted me and Cora for an enjoyable day and night on his farm. It’s a hay-scented place of open fields and darting swallows, with a resident great gray owl. Vollman, with whom I golfed on his homemade muskeg course 20 years ago, thinks the lack of jobs in the area have led to people moving out. His wife Marnie is in Jackson, Mississippi, for a two-month training program with her employer, the Bureau of Land Management. He grows vegetables for area farmer’s markets and drives a travel van from Glennallen to McCarthy. From Vollman’s house, I hiked one day to the aspen hilltop home of Mike and Lanette Phillips. The Phillips, whom I also met 20 years ago and wrote about in my book, Walking my Dog, Jane, said a good barometer of population change was the health of local schools. Lanette, who worked in the homeschool program with Copper River School District for 18 years, used her fingers to count area schools

that had closed in the last two decades due to enrollment dropping to fewer than 25 students: Chistochina, Copper Center, Gakona, Paxson and the Lottie Sparks School in Nelchina. Only schools in Glennallen and Slana remain open. So maybe the quietness of this stretch is the real deal. In a world of 7.5 billion people, expected to increase to more than 11 billion by the end of the century, a place going the other way seems significant. But my solitary stretch seems to have ended, with visits to friends met by chance 20 years ago and a few spontaneous meetings. Thanks to LJ and Logan for the coffee at 46-Mile, bear hunters Josh and Fred for another mug at a highway crossing, my friend Elizabeth Schafer for feeding me lunch on her way to McCarthy from Anchorage. And whomever left me the bag of snacks near the Tonsina River. And, of course, Doug and Taylor Vollman, along with Mike and Lanette Phillips. These guys haven’t seen me in 20 years, but they pulled me in like a lost brother. They have fed me, let me shower and wash clothes. With a few phone calls, Mike even enabled my crossing of the Tazlina River, finding a loaner packraft on deadline (thanks to John Rigo). Staying with these friends the past few days, I’ve appreciated what they like about the Big Lonely: It’s full of good neighbors you don’t see all the time, but who always show up when you need them. Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.

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“As my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold — everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment — an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by - I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, ‘Can you see anything?’ it was all I could do to get out the words, ‘Yes, wonderful things.” - Howard Carter, looking into the tomb of Tutankhamen for the first time

hen I visited the old courthouse in Dawson City this past weekend, where I had an office for 18 years as curator for Parks Canada, it was like seeing the place for the first time, and yes, I saw wonderful things. The courthouse was designed by T.W. Fuller, a government architect, in 1901, while he was in Dawson City constructing six government buildings just after the gold rush. The other buildings remain scattered around town — the old territorial administration building, post office, telegraph office and Commissioner’s residence all still stand. The public school was destroyed by fire in 1957. The old courthouse building, which is located on Front Street beside the RCMP detachment, is not what I remember during my tenure there: the walls of my office, and several other rooms, were painted a pale institutional green over cheap fibreboard finishes. Only the staircase retained the grandeur of its earlier times. Now, the later wall coverings have been removed to expose the underlying fir planking stained in a dark, rich finish. Bruised and battered as they are, they still reveal the elegance that the old building once displayed. To get an idea of what it looked like, peer into the lobby of the

old administration building, which now houses the museum. The finishes of this restored building will give you an impression of what the interior of the old courthouse must have been like. Tom Buzzell of Parks Canada is the project manager for the building, which is being restored over the next three years to once again serve as the headquarters for the Parks Canada staff in Dawson. As we entered the building, we discussed the functions the various rooms served when I worked here. Just inside the back entrance on the right was where the stores operation was located. Straight ahead was the superintendent’s office. To the right down the central hall was the general works office, while to the left, beyond the grand central staircase, were the administration and personnel offices. A plan of the original configuration of the building was pinned to one of the walls; we stopped to discuss the changes from then to the period when I worked here. I reminisced to the acting superintendent, Sean Nardela, who was entering the building for the first time. I am not sure if much of what I said made sense to him as I referred to people and events from my past. But the greatest surprise of all was yet awaiting us as Buzzell ushered us to the second floor. At the top of the staircase, we turned right to what, in my memory, was a hallway with various rooms along either side. These rooms, and the walls that divided them, have been stripped away to reveal the original function of this area: courtroom. Gone were the regulation-height drop ceilings; instead, a vaulted ceiling arched four meters high over the entire south wing of the building. The courtroom now revealed is large enough to house dances or other social functions. I gazed in wonder at the openness of the space, the colours now revealed and the intricate woodwork now exposed. After this, everything else in the building seemed rather ordinary by comparison. When examining the remnants of the north courtroom, I was shown details that had not survived in the more spectacular south wing. Markings on the wall and ceiling hinted at the contour of the crown molding that ran around the top of the wall where it intersect-

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When the Sisters of St. Anne converted the old courthouse in Dawson City into a hospital in the early 1950s, they simply covered over the original finishes with cheap fibre board paneling. Over the past two years, the paneling has been removed, as part of the renovation of the building, to expose the elegant original finishes that date back to the original construction. ed with the slope of the vaulted ceiling. The courthouse built by Fuller was designed to replace the original two-storey log courthouse that stood nearby. Its imposing neo-classical design was one of dignity and elegance that signaled the permanence of the community, and the presence of British justice. Symmetrical in its original form, the second storey contained a courtroom on either side of the central staircase. The building served as a courthouse for a mere nine years, after which the judicial function was moved to the administration building to save money. The Royal North West Mounted Police moved into the building in 1914 when one of the many fires that plagued Dawson destroyed police headquarters. On Jan. 10, 1950, St. Mary’s hospital, located at the far north end of Front Street, was destroyed by fire, and the Sisters of St. Anne, who operated the hospital, arranged with the federal government to convert the vacant courthouse into a replacement for the charred ruins. The Sisters never destroyed the original finishes; they simply covered them over, thus saving much of the original fabric. The installation of a dumbwaiter in the original north courtroom damaged the aesthetic as well as the structural integrity of the space. An extension, which included an operating

theatre, was added to the north end of the building, ruining the elegant symmetry of the original building. I have talked to many people who remembered spending time in this building when it was a hospital; several told me that they were born in this building. The building continued to serve as the hospital until it was replaced by the nursing station that was recently demolished. Shortly after that, the courthouse was occupied by Parks Canada for more than 20 years, until it was rented out to the Yukon government from 1995 to 2005. The building underwent asbestos abatement over three winters, followed in 2015 by the installation of a new foundation. The past two winters have been spent stripping the interior back to its original appearance and configuration, revealing the marvelous details now visible. By the end of March, 2020, the Parks staff from various other buildings will be consolidated within this single structure. And Fuller, the architect who engineered this magnificent building? He eventually became the Chief Dominion Architect for Canada from 1927 to 1936. Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His new book, From the Klondike to Berlin, is now available in stores everywhere.

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Yukon gymnasts prevail in Juneau

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Maya-Pearl Hudson placed second in her division in Juneau. “When we were in Skagway on the ferry, we were all doing gymnastics stuff on the deck and it was pretty fun because when the boat started to move we were doing handstands and we’d literally get blown over,” said Nelson. This wasn’t the first time the Polarettes have produced strong results at the Juneau competition. At last year’s event Polarettes won gold all-around in all five of the divisions they were entered in. “There were some big moments for the girls, for sure,” said Jones. “Kate Koepke competed her round of handspring-back handspring for the first time, which has been a struggle in the gym for her to learn. “Sasha Kozmen competed a brand new floor routine and the judges actually came up to me after the competition and complimented how well she did in her performance. She was second on floor, but they said, ‘Wow, that kid can really dance.’” Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

All-around podium finishes

Junior Olympic 3 (group C) 1st

Mackenzie Tonner (Yukon) — 35.0 2nd Camille Belanger (Yukon) — 34.5 3rd Kara Strong (Juneau) — 32.55 Junior Olympic 3 (group D) 1st

Sascha Nelson (Yukon) — 31.9 2nd Kristie Kulbeth (Juneau) — 30.4 Junior Olympic 4 (group A) 1st

Helene Platt (Juneau) — 29.2 2nd Mariah Schauwecker (Juneau) — 27.2 3rd Reese Ayd (Juneau) — 27.15 Junior Olympic 4 (group B) 1st

Kate Koepke (Yukon) — 34.6 2nd Ava Gauthier (Juneau) — 28.7 3rd Eva Miller (Juneau) — 27.5 Junior Olympic 5 1st

Stella Moran (Juneau) — 27.5 2nd Kaelin Tibbles (Juneau) — 26.9

Junior Olympic 2 1st

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ome Yukon gymnasts made the podium at a Juneau meet last weekend. How many? All of them. A team of 11 from Whitehorse’s Polarettes Gymnastics Club all medalled in all-around categories at the

Gold Rush Invitational, hosted by Juneau Gymnastics in Alaska on May 20. “We’re pretty happy with the results,” said Polarettes head coach Kimberly Jones. “They haven’t had a lot of competition experience before, so it was a pretty good confidence boost for them.” Polarettes gymnasts competed in eight divisions and won gold all-around in seven

of them. In one of the Junior Olympic 3 groups, in which three Polarettes competed, they swept the podium. “It was fun. The gym is nice and small, so it’s not too big, and we got to cheer on our team during the first part where the older girls were competing,” said Polarette Sascha Nelson. “I did quite well, so I thought it was a really fun

competition.” Nelson won gold allaround in a Junior Olympic 3 division. The 11-year-old was at her first competition out of Yukon, just like teammates Adria Gallina and Talia Campbell, who also won gold all-around in their divisions. Not all the highlights for Nelson were from the competition.

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Junior Olympic 3 (group A)

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Polarettes gymnast Olivia Vangel practices on the beam in Whitehorse on May 23. Vangel was one of 11 Polarettes to compete at the Gold Rush Invitational in Juneau, Alaska on May 20.

Adria Gallina (Yukon) — 34.5

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Olivia Vangel (Yukon) — 32.9 2nd Ava Severance (Juneau) — 31.5 3rd Jadyn Cook (Juneau) — 28.8

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Sydney Strong (Juneau) — 35.45 2nd Sasha Kozmen (Yukon) — 34.0 3rd Abigail Booton (Juneau) — 29.0

Junior Olympic 3 (group B) 1st

Talia Campbell (Yukon) — 35.5 2nd Maya-Pearl Hudson (Yukon) — 35.15 3rd Amelie Guilbeaut (Yukon) — 35.05

Kalina Morrison (Yukon) — 34.65

Junior Olympic 7 (group B) 1st

Megan Lujan (Juneau) — 34.05 2nd Cadence Campbell (Juneau) — 32.875 3rd Kaidence Bernaldo (Juneau) — 32.55

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ukon orienteerers were among thousands and thousands searching out control points midweek. Seventy-six Yukoners celebrated World Orienteering Day on May 24 downtown Whitehorse along the river front, with the start and finish at Shipyards Park. The event, hosted by the Yukon Orienteering Association (YOA), was one of 2,129 held around the world with 115,515 participants at last count. Events took place on every continent, including Antarctica where 11 registered participants joined in at Australia’s Casey Station. Not only is World Orienteering Day a celebration of the sport, it’s intended to introduce it to new people. “There seems like there were a lot of new faces,” said YOA treasurer Ross Burnett. “We’ve got a fairly active junior program right now and a lot of those kids were

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Leif Blake takes part in a World Orienteering Day event in downtown Whitehorse on May 24. The Whitehorse event was one of 2,129 to take place around the world.

here. But generally, lots of old-timers and newcomers too.” Wednesday’s event offered four different courses. Whitehorse’s Leif Blake posted the fastest time on the 4.7-kilometre expert course. Blake and fourth place’s Caelan McLean will race for Canada at the Junior World Orienteering Championships this July in Tampere, Finland. Their presence on the team marks the 11th straight year Yukon will be represented at the championship. This summer’s JWOC will be Blake’s second and McLean’s third. The YOA will host the Yukon Orienteering Championships over three Wednesdays in June. The middle distance event will take place June 7 in Copper Ridge, the sprint June 14 at Mount McIntyre and the long June 21 at the Magnusson Trails off Grey Mountain Road. See the full results of YOA’s World Orienteering Day event at www.yukon-news.com. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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f racing a 19-kilometre course climbing roughly 1,000-metres in altitude wasn’t tough enough, try throwing near-freezing temperatures and rain into the equation. That’s what cyclists dealt with on the final day of the Tour of Skagway, held May 20-21. With cyclists perhaps frightened off by weather forecasts, numbers were down this year at the fourth annual event hosted by the U Kon Echelon Cycling Club. Sixteen raced last year and about 30 in 2015. “This year did not see big numbers as only 12 riders participated. It was extremely wet, only two degrees and very hard,” said U Kon coach Trena Irving. “In order to win the overall category, riders must participate in all three events, which many did not. Standout efforts go to all riders participating due to the horrible weather, and Mollie Fraser did a great job on the hill, not stopping until she got to the top. David Jackson broke his record on the hill

as well, and Ava Irving-Staley stayed with it although it was a tough climb in rainy cold conditions.” Whitehorse’s David Jackson kept a win streak going in Skagway. The 20-year-old, who won the expert men’s general classification the previous weekend at the Tour de Haines Junction, did the same in Skagway. He also won U Kon’s season-opening time trial event on May 10. “His goal is to go to the Canada Games this season, so he’s started this season off just on fire,” said Irving in an interview last week. Jackson completed the 20-kilometre time trial in 31:19, the 48-kilometre road race in 1:12:43 and the grueling hill climb in 1:16:06. He was fastest in the trial and climb while Eric Campbell was fastest in the road race at 98:53. Irving also made it two in a row with GC wins in the Junction and Skagway in the sport women’s division. She was fastest in the trial and road, while Sandy Birell topped the field on the hill. Mollie Fraser took first in the GC of under-15 girls, though second place’s Ava Irving Staley outpaced her

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Whitehorse’s David Jackson leads a small pack of riders during the Tour de Haines Junction on May 14. Jackson made it two in a row with a win at the Tour of Skagway this past weekend. by two seconds in the time trial. Johna Irving Staley climbed to the top of the under-13 GC results in Skagway, ahead of Eleanor Setterington.

Under-15 boys didn’t have a GC winner, but Oscar Setterington finished the 48-kilometre road race in 1:09:33 and Noah Wright the 20-kilometre time trial in 44:55.

U Kon Echelon will host the Tour de Whitehorse this coming weekend. It will begin with a criterium on Friday at Titanium Way, followed by a time trial Saturday on the North

Klondike Highway and a road race Sunday beginning at Jakes Corner. Visit ukonechelon.weebly.com for more information. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Special Olympics Yukon executive director Serge Michaud speaks at a press conference on May 24 at the Sport Yukon building. It was announced Urban Realty Group has become a sponsor for Special Olympics Yukon, which will send a team to the B.C. Games this summer.

Religious Organizations & Services Whitehorse United Church

Yukon Bible Fellowship

601 Main Street 667-2989

FOURSQUARE GOSPEL CHURCH 160 Hillcrest Drive Family Worship: Sunday 10:00 am

(Union of Methodist, Presbyterian & Congregational Churches) 10:30 am - Sunday School & Worship Service Rev. Beverly C.S. Brazier

Grace Community Church 8th & Wheeler Street Pastor Jim Joe 668-2003

PASTOR SIMON AYRTON PASTOR RICK TURNER www.yukonbiblefellowship.com

Church Of The Nazarene 2111 Centennial St. (Porter Creek) Sunday School & Morning Worship - 10:45 am Call for Bible Study & Youth Group details

Quaker Worship Group RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Meets regularly for Silent Worship. For information, call 667-4615 email: whitehorse-contact@quaker.ca

website: quaker.ca

Seventh Day Adventist Church

First Pentecostal Church

1607 Birch St. 633-2647

149 Wilson Drive 668-5727

Sacred Heart Cathedral

Sunday 10:00am Prayer / Sunday School 11:00 am Worship Wednesday Praise & Celebration 7:30 pm Pastor Roger Yadon

4th Avenue & Steele Street • 667-2437 Masses: Weekdays: 12:10 pm Saturday 5:00 pm Sunday: 9:00 am - English; 10:10 am - French; 11:30 am English

Whitehorse

Bethany Church

Saturday Evening Mass: 7:00 pm Confessions before Mass & by appointment. Monday 7:00 PM Novena Prayers & Adoration Tuesday through Friday: Mass 11:30 am

ALL WELCOME

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church 4th Avenue & Strickland Street

668-4079 tlc@northwestel.net pastor.tlc@northwestel.net EVERYONE WELCOME!

10:00 am

Riverdale Baptist Church 15 Duke Road, Whse 667-6620 Sunday Worship Service: 10:30 am Pastors: REV. GREG ANDERSON MICHELLE DREWITZ

www.rbchurch.ca AfÀliated with Canadian Baptist Ministries and Canadian Baptists of Western Canada

Baptist Church 2060 2ND AVENUE • 667-4889

www.whbc.ca Family Worship & Sunday School at 10:30 am

St. Nikolai Orthodox

Christian Mission

Saturday Vespers 6:00 pm Sunday Liturgy 10:00 am FR. JOHN GRYBA 332-4171 for information www.orthodoxwhitehorse.org

403 Lowe Street Mondays 5:15 to 6:15 pm

www.vajranorth.org • 667-6951

Christ Church Cathedral Anglican Dean Sean Murphy, Rector

TAGISH Community Church

Our Lady of Victory (Roman Catholic)

Meditation Drop-in • Everyone Welcome!

OFFICE HOURS: Mon-Fri 9:00 am to 12 Noon

10:30 am FAMILY WORSHIP WEEKLY CARE GROUP STUDIES Because He Cares, We Care.

633-4903

Vajra North Buddhist Meditation Society

1609 Birch St. (Porter Creek) 633-5385 “We’re Open Saturdays!” Worship Service 11:00 am Wednesday 7:00 pm - Prayer Meeting All are welcome.

PASTOR NORAYR (Norman) HAJIAN

www.whitehorsenazarene.org

Rigdrol Dechen Ling,

(Roman Catholic)

4TH AVENUE & ELLIOTT STREET Sunday Communion Services 8:30 & 10:00 am Thursday Service 12:10 pm (Bag Lunch)

668-5530

Meets 1st & 3rd Sunday each Month Service starts at 4:00 pm Details, map and information at:

www.tagishcc.com 867-633-4903

ECKANKAR

Religion of the Light and Sound of God

For more information on monthly activities, call (867) 633-6594 or visit www.eckankar-yt.ca www.eckankar.org ALL ARE WELCOME.

Bahá’í Faith Box 31419, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6K8

For information on regular community activities in Whitehorse contact:

867.393.4335 whitehorselsa@gmail.com

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Meeting Times are 10:00 am at 108 Wickstrom Road

Calvary Baptist

The Salvation Army

1301 FIR STREET 633-2886

311-B Black Street • 668-2327

91806 Alaska Highway | Ph: 668-4877

Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 am Sunday Evening Worship 6:00 pm Wednesday Bible Study 7:30 pm

Sunday Church Services: 11:00 am

www.bethanychurch.ca

Pastor L.E. Harrison 633-4089

The Temple of Set

Church of the Northern Apostles

Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada First Service 10:00 - 11:00 am Sunday School (ages 0-12) 10:00 - 11:00 am Second Service 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

The World’s Premier Left Hand Path Religion

A not-for-prophet society. www.xeper.org canadian afÀliation information: northstarpylon@gmail.com

An Anglican/Episcopal Church Sunday Worship 10:00 AM Sunday School during Service, Sept to May

BISHOP LARRY ROBERTSON 45 Boxwood Crescent • Porter Creek 633-4032 • All Are Welcome

EVERYONE WELCOME!

Yukon Muslim Association 1154c 1st Ave • Entrance from Strickland

www.yukonmuslims.ca For further information about, and to discover Islam, please contact: Javed Muhammad (867) 332-8116 or Adil Khalik (867) 633-4078 or send an e-mail to info@yukonmuslims.ca

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

FRIDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: characterized by grotesqueness, extravagance, complexity, or flamboyance

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Isodor __, American Nobel physicist 5. One a day keeps the doctor away 10. Extents 12. Noticing 14. Scriptural 16. Star Trek character Laren 18. “The Crow” actress __ Ling 19. Not good 20. Measures gold 22. TV network 23. Wasting 25. Money in Ghana 26. Young girls’ association

27. Title of respect 28. High schoolers take this test 30. Crunches federal numbers 31. Wild or sweet cherry 33. Celestial bodies 35. Fruit of the oak tree 37. Royal Navy ship during WWII 38. Of cherished symbols 40. Satisfy 41. 5th. day (abbr.) 42. Swiss river 44. Royal Albert Hall (abbr.) 45. Cool!

48. Flat metal shelves 50. Enclosed 52. A way to pass 53. City in Iraq 55. Printing speed measurement 56. Twitch 57. Indicates position 58. Made lawful 63. Took down 65. A way to travel on skis 66. North winds 67. Tunisian metropolis

17. Serving no purpose 18. Container 21. Breathes new life into 23. Beloved dog Rin Tin __ 24. A bag-like structure in a plant or animal 27. Yemen capital 29. Sacred book of Judaism 32. Make a mistake 34. Wrestlers wrestle here 35. Respiratory issue 36. In league 39. Resinous insect secretion 40. Unhappy

43. Turbulent area of a river 44. Neglectful 46. Sours 47. Calendar month (abbr.) 49. Grooves 51. Sony Pictures Television 54. Monetary units 59. Command right 60. 1,000 cubic feet 61. Expression of triumph 62. Dinner jacket 64. The ﬁrst two

CRICBEA

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: a person who is a bore or nuisance

CLUES DOWN 1. Seafood 2. Incan god of mountains 3. Ritzy LA neighborhood __ Air 4. Line that connect points of equal pressure 5. Audience-only remarks 6. Chest muscle (slang) 7. Pointed top 8. Lavender 9. Linear unit 10. Knifes 11. 2016 World Series champs 13. A way to arrange 15. Talk

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Puzzle C

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COYOTE ENTERTAINMENT Full-time Sales Clerk Wages $15.70/hr High School Graduate Operate computerized inventory system; Provide product advice; Prepare product sales; Process payments. Effective interpersonal skills & team player Resumes: coyotevideo007@gmail.com

Apartment size washer & dryer, $100. 334-5032

8.5” mag-fed Grizzly 12 gauge shotgun, Magpul stock, 2 mags, Dlask forend, side saddle, perfect truck gun, $575. 335-2788

Marlin 1895 lever action 45-70, very good to like new condition, Williams aperture rear sight, 22” barrel, $750. 668-2396

Early Childhood Educator (NOC4214) Develop and implement child-care programs that support and promote the physical, cognitive and emotional and social development of children. The successful candidate must possess a diploma in early childhood education or equivalent education to qualify for a level three childhood education certiﬁcate in the Yukon. Full Time/ 40 hours per week. Wage $20.00/hour. Email resume:

Computer CPU, monitor, keyboard, mouse for $180. Wireless keyboard $65. Wireless TouchPad $40. 6684186

LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN riﬂes & ammo at G&R NEW & USED 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY * SELL

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FIL-CAN CLEANERS Light Duty Cleaner NOC 6731 Permanent full time $15.57/hour Criminal Record Check required Applicants with relevant experience preferred Apply by email: gayangosjubilee@yahoo.ca HOUSE CLEANING WANTED

5 days a week 2 hours per day Year long, not student job Well paid if efﬁcient 867-336-4112 KATHY’S KITCHEN Watson Lake Cook needed ASAP $18/hr Accommodations available Call Gerry or Kathy for more info or email: gkvigeant@northwestel.net 867-536-4536

Computer Equipment 2 computers, 1 great entry-level gaming computer running Linux, $299; 1 restored ofﬁce computer w/ minor cosmetic damage and Windows 10 Pro, $80. Email for more info: lexowjason@gmail.com.

CZ512 .22lr brand new, (in original box) it’s too long for my comfort, c/w 25 round mag, $750 ﬁrm valid PAL req’d. 689-2127

Ruger 1022-22 calibre riﬂe, new, stainless steel, semi automatic action, has installed a Butler Creek pistol grip folding stock & a 4-power scope. New $600, asking $500 obo. 335-4749

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The Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) is seeking a researcher and report writer for the Yukon First Nations Health Survey Report 2016. A detailed RFP including scope of work, deliverables and evaluation criteria is available on the CYFN website at www.cyfn.ca. For more information, please contact: Helen Stappers, Regional Health Survey Data Analyst Phone: 867.393.0902 Email: helen.stappers@cyfn.net RFP Deadline: June 9, 2017 at 4:30 p.m.

ROUTE 13 DIESEL requires a domestic diesel, light pick-up truck technician. Minimum of 3 years experience. Dealership experience an asset. Full time, permanent position. Call Adam at 867-333-6001 or fax 867-333-6002 for more info

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THE HUE OASIS RESTAURANT is looking for an experienced cook for full time work. NOC 6322 Wage is $17 per hour. Apply by email: thehueoasis@gmail.com or call:867-668-6440

The Teslin Tlingit Council (TTC) operates as a self-governing First Nation in the Village of Teslin, 180 kilometres southeast of Whitehorse. Teslin is a beautiful community situated at the confluence of the Nisutlin River and Teslin Lake offering a lifestyle attractive to people who enjoy small town life and outdoor recreation opportunities. The village is comprised of approximately 400 citizens and provides schooling to grade nine, a nursing station, general store, college campus and a large recreation complex. Reporting to the Executive Director, this key senior management position establishes and directs Capital and Infrastructure services in accordance with the TTC’s mission statement, strategic plan and operational work plans. Supervising a variety of positions in the Capital and Infrastructure department, this position is a member of Management Board, and is responsible for the overall planning, organizing, implementing, controlling, and evaluating programs and project activities. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring that programs and projects identified in the TTC annual work plan are implemented.

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HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782

Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed Everything over 8" split Prices as low as $245 per cord Single and emergency half cord deliveries Scheduled or next day delivery

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Furniture 62” entertainment wall unit, shelves & glass door on right-hand side, cupboard underneath TV area, fits approx 40” TV, exc cond, $100. 6672922 Beautiful coffee table with drawer for dining room, 112cm long, 65cm wide, 44 cm high. $80. 333-9604 Large dresser with mirror, exc cond, matching headboard, $250. 6332602 Sealy king size mattress only, 768 coils, flipable, lux firm, no pillowtop, in plastic bag, you pick-up, vg cond, $100. 633-3114 lv msg Set of 2 bedside tables, dark brown, c/w 2 large drawers, $75 for set. 633-2602

Heavy Duty Machinery 10x6 CORNELL PUMP MODEL: 6RBEM18 6 CYLINDER JD ENGINE ENGINE & PUMP JUST REBUILT; NEW SUCTION HOSE, SCREEN, FOOT VALVE. 3800 GALLONS PER MIN. AT 100 FT T.D.H. SEE PICTURES ON WEBSITE FOR RENT, SALE, OR RENTAL PURCHASE Email: a1cats@telus.net or call 780-538-1599 2013 Toolcat by Bobcat, a/c, aux hydraulics, heavy duty battery, c/w forks, general bucket, snow bucket, V plow, 1500 lb lift, 2000 dump box, 550 hrs, exc cond, $45,000. 3347635 3 D7 Cat rollers, 2 top rollers, 1 double ﬂange track roller, $200 obo. 668-3675 Complete portable Pioneer crusher, good for processing bed rock plaser, or processing hard rock for a mine; semi loads to move, $5,500 as is, where is. Peter @ 633-4606

Misc. for Sale 10 sheets of stucco wire, 3’x8’ plus 240 kg premix finish coat stucco, white, $50. 456-4087 16’ trampoline, 14’ round mat, gd cond, $350. 334-5500 250 sq ft thinstone ledgestone rock from Van Island, 3 pallets; 16 linear feet corners, 100 sq ft hanging mesh, for outside house accents, or inside feature wall/fireplace, great deal. 334-7635 2 5/16 ball solid steel 2” receiver hitch with attached broom rock guard, $25. 633-5575 2 Inuit prints, “Guided by Stars” by Mary Pudlat, $500; “High Kick, 1984”, by Agnes Nanogak, $300, oak frames, non-reflective glass. 332-0067 4’ culvert 30’ long, 2 # pieces. 3346285 9’ solid wood picnic table, $40; box of 33 VHS tapes, $20; 14’ Lund aluminum boat, $1,000. 667-2601 Gas lawn mower, $125. 335-1681

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Cabin solar system, includes panels, batteries, charge controller, inverter, and cables, $6,500 obo. 334-7296 for more info

Plastic water tank, never used, 30”Wx36”Hx56”L, $350; 1 300’ roll 2” blue lay-ﬂat water hose, $150; 1 300’ roll 3” blue lay-ﬂat water hose, $250, never used. 334-6101

Canvas Tents & Wood Stoves Lowest Prices in Canada Tents will ship by Greyhound from Castlegar, BC Canvas Tent Shop www.canvastentshop.ca 1-800-234-1150 Call for Prices Da-Lite heavy duty fast fold deluxe projection screen, 11’ wide x 7’ 6” high, exc cond, transport case included, $800. Call 668-5014 Double sized blow up mattress with pump. Only used twice for visitors. Never outside, $50. 667-7715 Dress & sport fabric by the bag; various dishes including baking dishes. Call 633-3463 for more info Free: 500 gal underground oil tank, empty, no leaks. Call 633-2575 Front wheel only, rim/tire/brake disc assembly, for fat tire bike, 26”x4” complete, $100. 633-4311 Fuel tank cradle for up to 250 gal tank, 4’ high, steel construction, exc cond, paid $375, asking $200. 6334656 Invacare Meteor scooter, for outdoor use to assist with mobility issues, like new, $4,500 new, asking $1,750 obo, 867-994-2442, tsbaker@northwestel.net. Iridium sat phone, new condition, comes with external antenna and other attachments, $800. 335-3331 Kodak 4600 slide projector. 7715

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Omni charger 21.A for iPhone, new, $25. 334-8318

Apple

One 150 gal. Tidy Tank $ electric pump, $600; locking Somona Job Box, 2’x2’x4’, $200. 334-6101 after 6pm

Ron’s Small Engine Services Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATV’s, Small industrial equipment. Light automotive & welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg Underground miner’s lamp, new in box, $150 obo; 6 lamp charging station, $100 obo; backpack diamond drill, gas powered engine, 4 new bits incl, $700 obo. 668-3675 Viessmann Vitodens 200 Propane heating system, ultra efficient German made, 2 years old, excellent condition. Call/text 332-9292 We will pay CASH for anything of value. Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, rifles & ammo. G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY * SELL

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

Everlast heavy bag, as new, $140; speed bag w/gloves, as new, $120. 456-4927

Heavy Duty Machinery

Sporting Goods 16” Spawn Banshee bike, as new. Best bike made for 5-7 yr old, $400. 633-4315

Tandem spraydeck for 17’ canoe by Totem Outﬁtters, rugged PVC coated polyester, large cargo hatch, ﬁts Old Town/Prospector etc, good cond, $350. 668-5014

Double kayak, skirts and paddles not included, $350. 334-5297

Two sets of golf clubs and carry bags, one left and one right handed, a few dozen golf balls with each, $100 each. 633-3113

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Cars - Domestic 8176888 SALES • BODY SHOP • PARTS • SERVICE 2012 Can Am Spyder 3 Wheel ATV Green Mint! Like New!

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Misc. Wanted

railway

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4x4, red hot color, free headache rack, rails and toolbox

The Teen Parent Centre is hiring for 2 full time/1 part-time positions for Early Childhood Educators for the summer. Must have level designation from CCSU and required documentation. Level 3 starting wage $24.75. full-size

79,650.00

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

Woods 3-star sleeping bag, canvas shell, goose down liner w/snap-in wool blanket, $175 obo. 332-0067

Wanted: 2 332-7797

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One 5 fold-up camper step, $200 obo. 334-6101 after 6pm

Wanted: Crab or Prawn traps. 6334493

One white wood door frame to ﬁt door size 79” x 3’, $50. 668-2919

Wanted: Outhouse in good condition. 633-2533

Orange Spilsberry XBX radio w/antenna, very good condition, $500 obo. 996-2509

Wanted: Portable folding table with a solid wooden top, approx 3’x6’. 668-1944

Party Lite, large variety of candle holders, new, never used. 668-4186 Thule box, Combi 250, circa 6’ long, 1.4’ wide, $200. 456-4087

Yukon Learn is looking for Volunteers to sell Rafﬂe Tickets. If you would like to volunteer, please call Yukon Learn at 668-6280.

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2003 Pontiac Grand Am, GREY 2,995 $ 2014 Ram 1500 crew 4X4 SLT, WHITE 28,900 $ 2012 Jeep Liberty, 4X4, RED 18,900 2013 Hyundai Accent 5dr hatch back WHITE $8,995 $ 2003 Ford E150 VAN WHITE 895 $ 2015 Wildwood 23’ double slide RV 25,995 2011 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport Limited RED $15,900 2016 Ram 1500 Crew 4X4, 3K MILEAGE, BLACK $42,000 $ 2006 GMC 2500 CREW, 4X4, BLACK, SLE 18,900 $ 2013 Ford F150 S/C 4X4 XLT WHITE 22,900 $ 2009 Ford F150 Crew 4X4, PLATINUM MODEL 29,995 ............................................................ ..........................................

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Merchandise for Sale

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Transportation

Stereo / DVD / TV

Motorcycles

Trucks & Vans

Boats

2005 Dodge Caravan, 231,000kms, $2,000. 334-5032

1998 Virago II Hundred Special addition, 37,000kms, black, all original, $3,200. 667-7223 2009 Honda CRF150R Special Edition dirt bike, excellent condition, Pro Taper bars, FMF Power core II pipe, almost new tires, c/w stand and full parts bike, including plastics, $2,700 obo. 393-3564. 2009 Yamaha 1300cc street cruiser, low kms, serviced, last fall, new windshield, leather saddle bags, tires, plug in for heated accessory, reduced to $4,500. 333-9020 2010 Yamaha 250 Virago Star, like new cond, always stored in garage, 2,200kms, recently serviced at Yamaha, $5,400 new, asking $3,500. 335-1410 Suzuki 1500cc Boulevard. Windshield, saddle bags, less than 5000kms, $8500. 633-3638 Trail bike, MX Yamaha 80, $295. 456-4087

1995 Chevy, K-3500, 4x4, 180,000 km, many new parts, new tires, runs great, $5,500. 335-333119

1.2 hp Gameﬁsher gasoline-powered outboard motor, new, never used, suitable for canoe, inﬂatable boat, trolling, $400. 668-3532

Tools Blacksmith tools; forge, 80 lb anvil, $160; 120 lb cast iron leg vice, $200. 456-4927

Transportation

Aircraft McCulloch 4318 Drone engine complete, 72hp, 77lbs, 4,100RPM, 4-cyl, 2-stroke, 20:1 mix, $550 obo. 6683675

Auto Accessories/Parts 4 good tires, 80% rubber with studs, 235/15/75, $200. 689-6194 4 Michelin LTX A/T M&S 265-75R16. Good shape lots of wear left, $200. Lockable white tailgate ﬁts F350 Lariat 2003/2004 short box, $300 obo. 667-2232 4 used all season Goodyear Eagles, 225/55R17, tread depth 8/32. 6891450 4 used Hercules Avalanche winter tires, 225/50R17, tread depth 8/32. Call/text 689-1450 New 305 V-8, $1,000 obo. 633-6502 TRUCK CANOPIES in stock *New Dodge long/short box *New GM long/short box *New Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100

Cars - Domestic 1997 Chevy Lumina, V-6, auto, 4-dr, exc tires, clean, great on gas, $1,800 obo. 689-6254 2001 Toyota Corolla, silver, runs well, serviced regularly, oil changed, good tires, great for work or new driver, 175,000kms, $3,900. 3932275 2002 Ford Taurus LX, 4-dr sedan, A/C, P/W, P/B, seats 6, under 117,000km, clean & good condition, $3,600. 456-4696 2002 Mazda Miata MX5, 130,000kms, black, convertible, 6-spd manual, 2 owners, garage stored, exc cond, $8,500 obo. 3345047 2003 Taurus SEL, auto, moon roof, dark grey, last 200,000kms mostly highway, 328,000kms total, summer & winter tires, $2,800. 668-1103 2005 Mercedes-Benz, 248,649kms, loaded, all options, new snow tires, $6,500. 667-7777

Recreational/Sale 1996 truck camper, 10’ 6”, fridge with freezer, stove with oven, toilet, sink, shower, north/south bed, furnace, lots storage, well maintained, $8,000 obo. 660-4103 2000 Toyota 4-Runner & 2002 Streamline 22’ trailer, excellent condition, ready to drive away, $13,000. 668-2919 for more info 2006 19’ Wildwood travel trailer, full kitchen, toilet/shower, furnace,, new tires & bearings, well maintained, exc cond, $11,500 obo. 633-2318 2008 28’ Toyhauler RV, loaded, genset inside & out, TV, shower. 335-3243 2008 F350 Lariat Superduty 6.4 Diesel 4x4, auto, crew cab, 75,400kms, with Adventurer camper 86 SBS w/dinette slide, well maintained, fridge/freezer, bath/shower, stove/oxen sleeps 4, exc cond, $42,500. 335-1128. 26’ Evergreen trailer, leather seats and chesterﬁeld upholstery, lightweight, easy to haul, large frig, stove, oven, TV, multiple storage areas, $27,000. 633-3113 RV propane forced air furnace. 6336502

Sport Utility Vehicle 2000 Jeep Cherokee, Inﬁnity Gold Limited Edition, $5,300. 667-7777 2012 Dodge Journey RT, AWD, V6 auto, most options, 2 sets of tires & wheels, must sell, $17,745 obo. 333-0186 or 667-7774

1999 Hiace Van with truck body, ex firetruck, 3y engine, RWD, great condition, 62kms on odometer but in reality less, little wheels, new muffler, wearable parts, $7,500, serious inquiries only. 334-1859 2007 Chev 2500HD crew cab 4x4 great unit, 190,000 kms, many options, trailer tow, fully serviced, new brakes & battery, $13,500 obo. 6334311. 2007 Ford 1/2 ton, extended cab, 4x4, $12,000. 667-7777 2007 GMC 3500 4X4 standard cab dually, duromax 6.6L turbo diesel, Allison auto transmission, remote start, 12’ flat deck with stakeboards, 82,000kms, great condition, $30,000. 334-7635 2007 Sierra 1500 4x4, 5.3l vortec, exc cond, ext’d cab, long box, tow pkg, tonneau cover, 250,000km. 867-993-3134 2008 Ford F250 4X4, crew cab, SB, $7,500 obo. 335-3243 2009 Chev, 3/4 ton, extended cab, $12,000; 2009 Chev extended cab, $9,000. 667-7777 2009 Ford Taurus X Limited AWD SUV, air, cruise, tilt, AM/FM/CD, P/W, P/L, mirrors, seats, tailgate 7-passenger, heated leather, memory seats, moon roof, must sell, $9,975 obo. 667-7774 2011 BMW X5, diesel, AWD SUV, command start, 4-way cameras, backup camera, panoramic sunroof, navigation, dual DVD players, reduced to $29,800. 333-9020

Utility Trailers 2016 Rainbow HD equipment trailer, 7,000lb tandem axles, stake pockets, headache rack, slide away ramps, loading stabilizers, new spare tire, ex cond, $5,500. 6334656.

2010 Camry, one owner, 128,000kms, remote start, 8-way power driver seat, block heater, loaded, great cond, upgrade package. 667-2966 2012 Dodge Gran Caravan, 187000Km, loaded, excellent condition, $13,999 obo. 322-2404

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Misc Services

Great reliable vehicle, New muffler, wearables $7,500 OBO

Call 334-1859

1998 Bayliner Capri 2050 LS, great shape, new 5.0 Mercery inboard motor, 4 blade prop, 2016 Garmin Striker 5 ﬁsh ﬁnder, seats 8, great family boat, $11,500. 334-1020 or 334-1019. 19’ motor boat w/inboarder and 21’ trailer, $4000 obo. 633-4826

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2017

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Help control the pet overpopulation problem have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL

633-6019

Annual General Meeting on TUESDAY, MAY 30TH Location Whitehorse Public Library Time 7:00 pm

Grew 21 runabout with 250 V8 inboard-outboard, EZ-Loader tandem trailer, 9.9 Johnson kicker, ready for the lakes, many spare parts, $6500. 334-5959

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

Inﬁniti whitewater kayak, 11.5’, paddle, spray skirt. $600 obo. 633-4311 Kayak, 16’ Cosma TX Sea Kayak by Seaward, plastic thermoform construction with rudder, yellow and white, c/w sprayskirt and cockpit cover, responsive, maneuverable, suitable for experienced paddler. 332-4073

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Wanted: Teslin freighter canoe, 22’ or 24’, preferably in poor condition. Tim @ 250-715-5109 or hcc.tom@me.com

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668-2963 1999 TOYOTA HIACE 3Y RWD, JDM, 62,000KM,

1984 Zeta 24’ Hard Top, 350/260 leg, 15hp kicker, dingy, BBQ, galley, head, canvas enclosure, GPS chart plotter ﬁshﬁnder, radio, sleeps 5, tandem trailer, rough water boat, bottom paint. Call for price. 3321374 or 633-6506

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

2005 Taurus SE, automatic transmission, remote start, great condition, $3,000. Call/text 335-0870

2008 Toyota Yaris, 167,000 mi, new tires, snow tires, fresh battery, $5,900. 332-0067

18’ Ally folding canoe in green with spray skirt, stable, high load capacity, 47 lbs, compact for portage or ﬂoatplane, $1,200. 668-5014

4 ST235/85R-16/14 Geostar G574 trailer tires, 14 ply, steel belted sidewalls, 2 already on 16” trailer rims w/8 on 6-1/2” bolt pattern, $750, near McQuesten. email us3wards@q.com

2005 Nissan Altima, black, 160,000kms, 4-dr, fully loaded, great running order. 322-2404

2006 Ford Focus Wagon, set winter & summer tires (new) 4 cylinder, great gas mileage, hatchback with good storage, great condition, ready to drive away, $4,500 obo. 3343456

16’ Hourston Glasscraft. good condition, spare parts, reconditioned seats, 60hp motor in excellent condition, with EZload trailer, downriggers, 2 gas cans, $4,500. 335-3331

Pontoon boat, propane fridge, stove, double bed, 28’, 14’ wide control inside cabin, new motor w/70 hrs on it, good price. 867-399-4002

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

Trucks & Vans

14’ aluminum boat, 20hp Johnson outboard motor, $2,200 obo. 6683675

30’ PJ ﬁfth wheel trailer, 2-10,000 lb tandem axles with dual wheels, ready to haul, tires & brakes are good, $9,000 obo. 633-6502

TAIT’S TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers for sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon

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Transportation

Services

Obituaries

Boats

Home Care

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YUKAN CANOE Canoe Instruction Courses Learn to Canoe with Yukan Canoe. We provide a safe, supportive and fun environment for you to learn or perfect your paddling skills. Many courses available: Intro, Whitewater, Lapie River, Swift Water Rescue, solo or tandem. We provide all needed gear. Check out our schedule at WWW.YUKANCANOE.COM

HOME CARE AID I am a Qualiﬁed, Experienced Home Care Aid. Are you looking for a companion, someone for errands, appointments, respite or light housekeeping? I can help! Call me. 333-9398

Leslie Murray Murdoch October 25, 1939 – May 20, 2017 It is with great sadness that the family of Les Murdoch announces his passing on Saturday, May 20, 2017, at the age of 77 years. Les will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 37 years, Barbara and his children Cal (Rose), Lynda (Jamie), Barb (Rene), and Judy (Dean). Les will also be fondly remembered by his nine grandchildren, Alexander, Amanda, Alexx, Katie, Meghan, Shea, Dawson, Taran and Ainsley, and by his sister Bonnie Pastro (Ken). Les was predeceased by his parents, Les and Lillian Murdoch, and his son Clayton.

Good Night! Wind up your day with everything you need.

In Memoriam

JOSEF GRAF PAINTING Certiﬁed Journeyman for 20 seasons Residential & Commercial Free estimates & Consultations 335-2300 Master quality in the Yukon

In Memoriam

IIn Loving Memory of

Doreen Kreitzer

A Service in Memory of Les will be held on Sunday, May 28th, at 2:00 p.m. in the Grey Mountain Room at Mount McIntyre Centre. His presence was larger than life and he will be lovingly remembered and fiercely missed.

Carpentry/ Woodwork

November 21, 1941 - May 28, 1997 N Today’s T d ’ the h anniversary of the day that we lost you, And for a time it felt as though our lives had ended too. But loss has taught us many things and now we face each day, With hope and happy memories to help along our way. And though we’re full of sadness that you’re no longer here, Your influence still guides us and we still feel you near. What we shared will never die, it lives within our hearts, Bringing strength and comfort while we are apart. Your life was a blessing and your memory a treasure, You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.

Love

Brad & Cathie, Shayne, Kate, Elizabeth, Annaleigh, Heather & Jack, Russ, Kim, Doreen, Jacob & Derek

Obituaries 8177565

e are sad to announce the sudden, but peaceful, passing of Clark Van Steinburg, on May 14th, 2017. He was a father, partner, brother, brother-in-law, uncle, nephew, cousin -- and friend. He was born in Trail, B.C., on March 7, 1941 to Lyle (Van) and Elsie Van Steinburg and went to school in Dawson City, then Edmonton. He had a talent for inventing and repairing heavy equipment, and worked in Cassiar, Edmonton, and then Whitehorse at the Whitehorse Copper Mine until it shut down. As a Maintenance Superintendent at Whitehorse Copper, he designed an underground service vehicle named the Clarkmobile. He loved the rustic lifestyle and lived in a stone house he built himself, outside of Whitehorse, with no running water and wood heat. He used his mechanical talents to work on various vehicles of his own design, and those of friends. He did some gardening, and especially liked to grow spuds and petunias and was always expanding his lawn. He was a very intelligent and interesting person to converse with and was a pretty good cook, with a particular interest in making bannock and beans. His warped, sarcastic sense of humour will live on through his offspring. He was a staunch conservative, monarchist, and deeply involved in politics. He leaves his beloved and dedicated partner of 17 years, Starr, and his children: Kristin (Ralph), Martin (Paige), Clark (Lori), Cameron (Oryana), Cindy (Bill) and Niilo (Sara) and grandchildren (in order of appearance) Ian, Jessica, Angela, Macpherson, Brooklyn, Kobe, Kendra, Landon and Leith. He was predeceased by his parents and his sister Lylla and brother John and survived by his sister Lorraine. No service by request.

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“Thank you for my life in the Yukon!”

Judy Lane December 7, 1944 – March 31, 2017

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Andrea Klassen November 17, 1965 May 8, 2017

Andrea passed away on May 8, 2017 in Whitehorse at the age of 51 years. A Celebration of Life will be held on Sunday May 28, 2017 at 2:00pm at Whitehorse United Church, located at 601 Main Street.

Obituaries

MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated ﬂoor, siding, decks, tiles. Kitchen, bathroom, doors, cabinets, windows, framing, board, painting. Drop ceiling, fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com

Cleaning Services CLEAR SPACE...ARE YOU READY? I will help you clear your clutter, clear your mind, lighten your load & make room for new possibilities. Clear Space also offers spring and bi-weekly cleaning. Call Sue @ Clear Space 334-1010

Legal Notices

Liquor Corporation

LIQUOR ACT New Licence T Existing Licence T TAKE NOTICE THAT, 42289 Yukon Inc of Box 20, Beaver Creek Yukon, Y0B 1A0 is making application for change(s) to RV Park liquor licence(s), in respect of the premises known as Discovery Yukon Lodgings situated at Km 1818 Alaska Highway in Beaver Creek, Yukon. Any person who wishes to object to the granting of this application should file their objection in writing (with reasons) to: President, Yukon Liquor Corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4P9 no later than 4:30 PM on the 14th day of June, 2017 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant. The first time of publication of notice is May 26, 2017. The second time of publication of notice is June 2, 2017. The third time of publication of notice is June 9, 2017. Any questions concerning this specific notice are to be directed to Licensing & Inspections, Yukon Liquor Corporation 867-667-5245 or toll-free 1-800-661-0408, x 5245.

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Liquor Corporation

LIQUOR ACT New Licence T Existing Licence T TAKE NOTICE THAT, 40078 Yukon Inc., of 1-29 Wann Road., Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4A2, is making application for or change(s) to Off Premises and Food Primary – Beer/Wine liquor licence(s), in respect of the premises known as Heather’s Snack Haven situated at 1-29 Wann Rd. in Whitehorse, Yukon. Any person who wishes to object to the granting of this application should file their objection in writing (with reasons) to: President, Yukon Liquor Corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4P9 no later than 4:30pm on the 14th day of June, 2017 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant. The first time of publication of notice is May 26, 2017. The second time of publication of notice is June 2, 2017. The third time of publication of notice is June 9, 2017. Any questions concerning this specific notice are to be directed to Licensing & Inspections, Yukon Liquor Corporation 867-667-5245 or toll-free 1-800-661-0408, x 5245.

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Services

Pets & Livestock

Announcements

Contractors

Misc Services

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Livestock

Tenders

Yukon Wood and Steel Contracting Construction, Renovations, Decks, Bathrooms, Flooring, Ceiling, Plumbing, Greenhouse. We offer a all inclusive home improvement service. Please call for a free estimate. 867-399-3671 sangerer@hotmail.com

FOR SALE NATIVE BRAIN-TANNED HIDES and Tanned Beaver Pelts at reasonable prices. Phone (780)355-3557 If no one available please leave message or call (780)461-9677

Painting & Decorating

Need A Roof? ALPHA ROOFING CONTRACTOR Residential * Commercial New Roof * Shingles Roof Inspection Re-roof * Leak Repair Torch-on * Tin Roof Journeyman High Quality Workmanship 332-4076

2 electric fencers, 1 solar powered, one is 110V, includes lots of wire, $200 obo. 668-3675

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

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

393-2275

Misc Services 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

FROSTY’S PLUMBING, HEATING, GAS and FIREWOOD SERVICES Plumbing repairs and installations. Special on ﬁrewood: May 1 - July 31, $200 per cord, Fox Lake burn wood. Call Frosty @ 867-689-8671 frostysﬁrewood@gmail.com

LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187 Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6M9 668-3632 Advertising It’s good for you.

Tenders

PUBLIC TENDER PRODUCE AND STOCKPILE VARIOUS AGGREGATES AND BLEND SAND-SALT MATERIAL AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS: KLONDIKE HIGHWAY #2 AND DEMPSTER HIGHWAY #5 YUKON 2017-2018 Project Description: The project includes clearing, grubbing, stripping, room and board, environmental compliance and various combinations of producing, blending, hauling, and stockpiling of aggregates and sand-salt material at various locations on the Klondike Highway, Dempster Highway, and Silver Trail. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 14, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to David Lorenzi at david.lorenzi@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy may apply to this project. Bidders and/or Proponents are advised to review documents to determine CertiÀcate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

PUBLIC TENDER INTERIOR RETROFIT UNIT #130700 - 605 A&B LIARD, WATSON LAKE, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 15, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Robert Kostelnik at robert.kostelnik@gov.yk.ca. Site Visit: May 31, 2017 at 11:00am All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review.

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

Tenders

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SALE OF SURPLUS VEHICLES AND MISC.

DESTRUCTION BAY HEALTH CENTER CRIBBING AND SKIRTING REPLACEMENT Project Description: Replacement of the cribbing and skirting at the Health Centre in Destruction Bay, Yukon. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 14, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Ryan O’Donovan at ryan.o’donovan@gov.yk.ca. Site Visit: June 6th, 2017 @ 12 PM All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy may apply to this project. Bidders and/or Proponents are advised to review documents to determine CertiÀcate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

Tenders

Two x one-year-old black Orpington roosters, healthy birds, just too many, $25 ea or both for $40. 6672276

Highways and Public Works

Village of Haines Junction

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS STAINED GLASS ARTWORK

For the Atrium of the St. Elias Convention Centre The Art Acquisition Selection Committee, on behalf of the Village Of Haines Junction, invites proposals from artists for a piece of stained glass artwork to be placed in a window of the Atrium of the St. Elias Convention Centre. Information packages may be obtained from ƥ the St. Elias Convention Centre or from the Village Website at www.hainesjunctionyukon.com.

PUBLIC TENDER SELECTIVE DEMOLITION, 204 ROBERT CAMPBELL HIGHWAY, WATSON LAKE Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 14, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Robert Kostelnik at robert.kostelnik@gov.yk.ca. Site Visit: May 31 at 12:00pm

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 14, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Robert Hinchey at robert.hinchey@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

PUBLIC TENDER SURPLUS TRAILER IN DAWSON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 7, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Robert Hinchey at robert.hinchey@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

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PUBLIC TENDER STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT (SOA) FOR THE SUPPLY OF GENUINE WESTERN STAR PARTS & ACCESSORIES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 13, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Jenny Richards at jenny.richards@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

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PUBLIC TENDER SUPPLY OF EDUCTION SERVICES CARMACKS/ ROSS RIVER AREA YUKON, 2017-2018 Project Description: To provide all labour, equipement, and material required for the supply of eduction services for the Government of Yukon outhouses, holding tanks, and septic tanks. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 15, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Myran McLaughlin at myran.mclaughlin@gov.yk.ca.

CORRIDOR LATERAL STABILITY REINFORCEMENT COPPER RIDGE PLACE #1389 Project Description: Installation of steel columns to reinforce the lateral stability of two building corridors. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 14, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Ryan O’Donovan at ryan.o’donovan@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

Site Visit & Time: May 31, 2017 @ 3:30PM All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy may apply to this project. Bidders and/or Proponents are advised to review documents to determine CertiÀcate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

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YUKON NEWS

Friday, May 26, 2017

Announcements

Livestock

Coming Events

Tenders

Case David Brown 885 tractor, good cond, diesel, 47.3hp, PTO & drawbar, 3-pt hitch, quick detach Allied front end loader, incl John Deere 503 brush cutter, $8,000 obo. 6683675

2017 Predators Dog Puller Summer Championship Saturday, June 3, 2017, 9:00-3:00 at Shipyards Park. Running, jumping, puppies, newbies. Fast, fun, exciting. Spectators welcome. More info Carol Foster 668-3556. AGM and Appreciation Party, Dog Powered Sports Association, May 26th @ 6pm at Muktuk Adventures, Board members needed! Free movie: “Dog Power”, Free BBQ, cash bar, chili cook off, sign up: dogpoweredsports@gmail.com

PUBLIC TENDER

PURCHASE OF GUIDERAIL AND ACCESSORIES

STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT FOR THE SUPPLY OF SIGN POSTS AND HARDWARE

STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT (SOA) FOR THE SUPPLY OF GENUINE VOLVO CE PARTS & ACCESSORIES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF YUKON

Hay & Straw For Sale Excellent quality hay Timothy/grass mix 60+lb $14.50 Alfalfa/grass mix 60+lb $15.50 Straw bales (baled in springnot prime) $5 Nielsen Farms Maureen 333-0615 HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix No weeds or sticks Small squares 60 lbs plus 4 ft x 5 ft rounds 800 lbs Free delivery for larger orders Straw square bales available 335-5192 * 668-7218 QUALITY YUKON MEAT No hormones, steroids or additives Grass raised grain ﬁnished. Hereford beef - $5.50/lb Domestic pork - $5/lb Domestic wild boar - $6/lb Order now for guaranteed spring or fall delivery. Whole, half or custom order. Samples available 668-7218 * 335-5192 WEANER PIGLETS for sale Available Immediately Leave a message at 667-2568

Pet Services CANINES & COMPANY Dog Obedience School Classes Starting: May 23 and June 27 Tracking & Dog Puller Intro May 20-21 Private Lessons School Rental for Groups For info call 867-333-0505 www.caninesandcompany.ca

Tenders

PUBLIC TENDER STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT (SOA) FOR THE SUPPLY OF GENUINE CUMMINS PARTS & ACCESSORIES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 13, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Jenny Richards at jenny.richards@gov.yk.ca.

Al-Anon Meetings, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someone’s drinking? Wednesday 12Noon @ new Sara Steele Bldg, main entrance. Friday beginner’s meeting, 7pm, regular meeting 8pm at Lutheran Church, 4th and Strickland. Are you interested in reducing human-wildlife conﬂict? Looking for a dynamic board to join? Come to our AGM. We look forward to seeing you there, June 1st, 7:30pm, Whitehorse Public Library

REQUEST FOR TENDER 2017 Marwell Lift Station Upgrades Project - Process Piping Replacement RFT 2017-ENG0009 Closing June 14, 2017 at 3:00:00 pm (PT). For more information visit whitehorse.ca/ procurement

Attn: All artists and crafts people. Cranberry Fair is now accepting applications for Nov. 26th sale. Info and application: cranberryfair@live.com or visit our new website: www.cranberryfair.com Application deadline July 31st. Bird festival hosted by Friends of Dempster Country & Yukon Parks, Tombstone Campground, FridaySunday, June 2-4. Info friendsofdempster@gmail.com Corey Hirsch, former NHL goaltender, now mental health advocate to speak at Mental Health Association Yukon annual dinner on Thursday, June 8. For tickets call 668-6429

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Request for Proposals (RFP) Program Review and Financial Sustainability Forecast Submissions due by: May 30, 2017 RFP Background The Deisleen Development Corporation (DDC) is a federally incorporated, non-proÀt local community economic development agency. Its mandate is to foster a positive environment for economic growth in Teslin and the surrounding area. In April 2017, the DDC began its third year of operation under the auspices of a contractual agreement with the Teslin Tlingit Council (TTC). The contractual agreement calls for the TTC to loan the corporation interim core funding (O&M) for four years. After that time, the corporation will be responsible for ensuring that its own core funding requirements are met. Failure to do so may result in liquidating the corporation’s assets.

RFP Requirements The Program Review and Financial Forecast calls for i) an indepth assessment of the DDC and its subsidiaries and their programs, projects, priorities and future plans, and ii) the development of a multi-year funding strategy. The program assessment will include (although will not be restricted to): • A narrative account of the history of the DDC and its subsidiaries; and

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

• A Ànancial analysis of the corporation’s activities and budgets; and

The funding strategy will include (although will not be restricted to):

• A multi-year Ànancial sustainability forecast that embraces corefunding self-sufÀciency as its ultimate goal.

Proponent Requirements The successful proponent will possess a proven background in Ànancial planning, program evaluation, strategic planning and community and economic development. The successful proponent will begin work on the Program Review and Financial Forecast as soon as is reasonably possible, but no later than 15 days after the contract is awarded.

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All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 13, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Jenny Richards at jenny.richards@gov.yk.ca.

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• A thorough evaluation of the corporation’s current and past projects, programs and initiatives.

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Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 19, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Germaine George at Germain.George@gov.yk.ca.

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

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

For a complete RFP package, please contact: Submit by: May30, 2017 Rachel Netro 390-2532 ext. 302 or Rachel.netro@ttc-teslin.com

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

Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire

Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu

Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise

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

MS17-035

YG – Community Services

Groundwater, Tributary of Yukon River

Miscellaneous

June 9, 2017

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

Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis. Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.

Yukon Water Board Office des eaux du Yukon

Updated Notice of Type A Application and Public Hearing Avis de demande de permis et d’audience publique

TOWN OF WATSON LAKE (AMENDMENT) Application Number / Numéro de la demande: MN03-050-2 Applicant / Demandeur: Town of Watson Lake Type of Undertaking / Type d’entreprise: Municipal Water Source/ Point d’eau: First & Second Wye Lakes and Groundwater Location / Emplacement: Watson Lake Public Hearing Date / Date de l’audience publique: To be determined Public Hearing Location / Endroit de l’audience publique: To be determined Intervention Deadline / Date limite d’intervention: June 9, 2017 @ 4:00 pm Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat a Telephone: 867-456-3980 - Fax: 867-456-3890 - Email: ywb@yukonwaterboard.ca Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au Téléphone: 867-456-3980 - Télécopieur: 867-456-3890 - Courriel: ywb@yukonwaterboard.ca

Friday, May 26, 2017

Announcements

YUKON NEWS

Announcements

Coming Events

Lost & Found

Yukon Bird Club is hosting early bird walks along the Yukon River every Monday until July 3. Meet at Shipyards Park at 7 am. (1 hr) Everyone welcome.

$500 reward for return of 2001 Honda ATV TRX500Fa in good cond, serial #478TE262514002557 missing since March in Whse. Cracked headlight with Honda Foreman Rubicon in white on gas tank. 6333616 or 332-7228

Yukon Bird Club trip with Dr. Katie Aitken, Wednesday May 31, along McIntyre Creek near Yukon College. Meet at student parking lot 6:30pm, some hill climbing Yukon Humane Society AGM Tuesday, May 30, 7pm in Library Meeting Room. Everyone welcome. Yukon Kennel Club 46th Annual Dog Show & Trials June 9 - 11, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm daily at Mount McIntyre. Yukon Orienteering Association meet June 7 on Copper Ridge map. Register at 6:00pm in Lo-Bird Subdivision. All members are welcome to this Middle Distance Yukon Championships event. For info call Afan at 335-2287

Personals N.A. Meetings - Wed 7pm-8:30pm 404A Ogilvie St, BYTE Ofﬁce; Fri: 7pm-8:30pm - 4071 4th Ave, Many Rivers; Sunday 7pm-8:30pm, BYTE Ofﬁce, 404A Ogilvie St. Whitehorse Duplicate Bridge Club May 23, 2017 1st - Mark Davey & Chic Callas 2nd - Chris Bookless & Bill Grandy 3rd - Lorraine Hoyt & Noreen McGowan We play every Tuesday at 7:00 pm at the Golden Age Society. New players are welcome. For more information call 633-5352 or email nmcgowan@klondiker.co

Tenders

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL TOWN OF FARO INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADES Project Description: Engineering services for Town of Faro Infrastructure Upgrades Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 22, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Gareth Earl at Gareth.Earl@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

Community Services

Found: camera bag with camera on Alaska Hwy between airport and Valleyview Monday May 15. Call to describe the bag, list it’s contents and identify the make/model of camera. 336-3000

LOST: Male tabby cat with white belly, paws, green eyes, Rowdy, approx 200 miles south of Whitehorse on Alaska Highway en route to Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 907-3106688

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GARAGE s Sale SATURDAY, MAY 27TH ALASKA HIGHWAY

T WHITEHORSE FLEA MARKET, Saturday May 27, 9am-2pm, 30 tables, 91810 Alaska Highway @ ChangingGear beside Bethany Church. Food & Music!

ARKELL

T 84 SANDPIPER DR, Arkell, Saturday May 27, 8:30am1pm, multi-family T 47 SANDPIPER DR, Arkell, Saturday May 27, 10am12:30pm, men’s/women’s clothing, fishing rods, chainsaw, kid’s toys, boots, shoes etc T 42 HERON DRIVE, Arkell, Saturday May 27, 9am start, cancelled if wet out, new/like new women’s clothing, men’s jeans, everything must go

COPPER RIDGE

T 4 NORTH STAR DRIVE, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 27, 9am-1pm, tons of stuff! T 141 FALCON DRIVE, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 27, 9am-2pm, housewares, kitchen/bathroom items, small appliances, canning jars, outdoor/indoor games, office electronics & misc items, no early birds please T 22 WINZE PLACE, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 27, 10am-2pm, Canadian Celiac Association Yukon Support Group annual garage sale, some pics in Whitehorse Buy’n Sell.

Bernie’s Race-Trac Gas Bigway Foods Coyote Video Goody’s Gas Green Garden Restaurant Super A Porter Creek Trails North

T 4TH AVENUE & STEELE STREET, downtown, Saturday May 27, 8am-12Noon, Knights of Columbus annual yard sale

38 Famous Video Super A Riverdale Tempo Gas Bar

T 710 STRICKLAND STREET, downtown, Saturday May 27, 9am-12Noon, household goods, camping gear, tents, climbing gear, tents. Call 335-9234.

DOWNTOWN:

GRANGER

Canadian Tire Cashplan Coles (Chilkoot Mall) The Deli Edgewater Hotel Your Independent Grocer Fourth Avenue Petro Kakuro: Mac’s Fireweed Books Ricky’s Restaurant Riverside Grocery Riverview Hotel Shoppers on Main Shoppers Qwanlin Mall Superstore Superstore Gas Bar Tags Walmart Well-Read Books Westmark Whitehorse Yukon Inn Crossword: Yukon News Yukon Tire

T 19 WILLIAMS ROAD, Granger, Saturday May 27, 8:30am-1pm, household items, sports equipment etc T 18 THOMPSON ROAD, Granger, Saturday May 27, 8:30-2pm, HH items, newer 6-pc cherry wood sofa, wooden music cabinet, stove, laundry, homemade samosa, plants.

HILLCREST

T 21 CHALET CRESCENT, Hillcrest, Saturday May 27, 9am-12Noon, kids stuff, knick-knacks, something for everyone

LOGAN

T 122 FINCH CRESCENT, Logan Subdivision, Saturday May 27, 9am-1pm, multi-family, something for everyone T 36 FINCH CRESCENT, Logan Subdivision, Saturday May 27, 8:30am-12Noon, various household items, no early birds please

The Yukon News is also available at no charge in all Yukon and AND … communities Atlin, B.C. Kopper King McCrae Petro Takhini Gas Yukon College Bookstore

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T 537 GROVE STREET, Porter Creek, Saturday May 27, 9am-12Noon, lots of clothing, household items, some furniture, other goodies T 45 BOXWOOD CRESCENT, Porter Creek, Saturday May 27, 9am-1pm, Church of the Northern Apostles garage sale, everything from clothes to kitchen ware, outdoor gear to furniture, concession & rock bottom prices

RIVERDALE

T 15 DONJEK ROAD, Riverdale, Saturday May 27, 9am12Noon, household items, laminate flooring, free stuff T 40 ALSEK ROAD, Riverdale, Saturday May 27, 10am3pm, downsizing, men’s/women’s clothes, furniture, fridge, shelves, household items

T VAN GORDA PLACE, Riverdale, Saturday May 27, 9am12Noon, lots of household and children’s stuff

DOWNTOWN

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T 912 GROVE STREET, Porter Creek, Friday May 26, 6pm-9pm, and Saturday May 27, 9am-3pm. Miscellaneous items.

T 52 TIGEREYE CRESCENT, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 27, 9am-1pm, household, gardening, adult clothing, gift & sportswear, single & double air mattress, slide projector & screen, DVDs

19 BLACK BEAR LANE, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 27, 9am-1pm, rain or shine, everything must go, moving out sale, clothes $1 each plus sizes

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T 14 WILLOW CRESCENT, Porter Creek, Friday May 26, 6pm start, Saturday May 27, 8am start, household, clothing, baby, TV, exercise equipment, printers. Call 335-3385

T 36 HART CRESCENT, Riverdale, Saturday May 27, 9am-12Noon, lots of kid & baby clothes, & toys, gears, household items, home-made lemonade

T 16 ZIRCON LANE, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 27, 9am-12Noon, kids stuff, kids bikes, books, household stuff, exercise equipment, no early birds place

PORTER CREEK

T 1200A ELM STREET, Porter Creek, Saturday May 27, 9am-12Noon, kids clothes, shoes, bikes, toys, girls 8-12, boys 4-5, ladies clothes, scooter, Lego set

T 146 NORTH STAR DRIVE, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 27, 9am-12Noon, household goods, quality children’s clothing, toys, tent trailer, 8’ truck canopy, 18” truck tires, etched glass door, corner kitchen sink

T TIGEREYE CRES & RUBY LANE, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 27, 9am-1pm, street sales

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Yukon Bird Club trip Tuesday, June 1, 1pm, Spruce Hill walk to Cowley Creek with Betty Sutton & Clive Osborn. Register at 335-3232

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Announcements

Book launch of Patti Flather’s play Paradise. Readings by Flather and Lillian Nakamura Maguire. Music by Jordy Walker. Wednesday June 7, Baked Cafe. Mingle 6:30 pm, readings 7 pm. Free. City of Whitehorse Downtown and Marwell Plan-a-Thon, June 7-8, The Old Fire Hall, 1105 Front Street. Visit www.whitehorse.ca/downtown or www.whitehorse.ca/marwell for more event details. Elijah Smith School Council regular council meeting is Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 6:30pm in the school library. Everyone is welcome. FH Collins Grads of 1977 are having a 40th Grad Reunion July 14 to 16, 2017 in Whitehorse. If you are interested in attending please email: 40thGradReunion2017@gmail.com Gigantic Wolf Creek Community garage sale, Saturday June 3, 9am2pm, in Wolf Creek. Follow the balloons. Golden Horn School Community Garage Sale Saturday June 3, 9am3pm. Rent a table for $10 to sell your items or donate to the school for fund raising. Contact ameliakenny1@gmail.com Hospice Walking Group: Mondays May 29 - June 19, 6:30-8pm. Walk the Millennium trail with others on their grieving journey. To register: 667-7429 or administrator@hospiceyukon.net Jack Hulland School Council meeting is Wednesday, June 7, 2017, at 7pm in the school library. Everyone is welcome. LOOKING FOR donations of household items for Humane Society sale. Please drop off at the Shelter, 126 Tlingit Road, any day of the week. No televisions or computers please. Porter Creek Secondary School Council regular council meeting is Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at 6:30pm in the school library. Everyone is welcome. Puck Pockets will hold their AGM on Saturday June 03, 2017 at 13:30 hrs at 17-9th ave Whitehorse, Yukon. Queer Yukon: upcoming events for the LGBTQ+ allies community. Community Clean Up, May 13. Yukon Pride, June 10. www.queeryukon.com. Rendezvous Rotary Club 21st Lobster Dinner & Kitchen party, Friday May 26, Mt. McIntyre Rec Centre, 5:30pm-9pm, also famous BBQ ribs, Keitha Clark and The Slainte North Band, silent auction, tickets $60 at Yukon Inn or call 633-8526, for Shelterbox Canada and local projects Seniors amateur dart shooting starting October 3, 2017. Bring your own beverage. For more info contact Allan at 867-689-4946, phone or text Summer gun show, July 29, Gold Rush Inn. Interested? Call 667-2278 Ted Harrison Artist Retreat Society is holding its AGM on Tuesday, June 6 at 12Noon at the MacBride Museum. Everyone is welcome! Teen Parent Centre summer daycare now has open registration for toddlers to school-age. Program pamphlets will be available soon. Fore more info call 667-3421 or email info@teenparentcentreyukon.ca The Reuse & Repair Fair is happening June 3rd. This Free event features workshops on repair, artwork created from redesigned materials, live music and a beer garden. From noon - 5pm at Winterlong Brewery on Mt. Sima Rd. The Teen Parent Centre is now offering New Summer Childcare to the Whitehorse Community. Registration now open for preschool to school-age through June 15th to Aug 18th. For info: info@teenparentcentreyukon.ca The Yukon Child Care Association will be hosting its annual general meeting on June 2 at 1pm . Location Whitehorse Westmark banquet room. Thursday June 29, Yukon Film Society AGM, YFS Office 212 Lambert Street 2nd Floor. Free BBQ 5pm, AGM 6pm. Info 393-3456 or email: gm@yukonfilmsociety.com. Trash Pick Up-Burning Away Winter Blues, Winterval. Meet: Fish Ladder Whitehorse Dam 1PM Sat. May 27 clean up Chadburn L. rd. Dress for weather, bring backpack+water, gloves, bike. 633-4255 Yukon Bird Club field trip, Tuesday June 6, meet at Whitehorse Fish Ladder, 6:30pm, wheelchair accessible, 2 hrs. Everyone welcome.

Yukon Bird Club trip Friday May 26 with Jim Hawkings & friends, meet 5pm at SS Klondike. See www.yukonbirds.ca

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MACPHERSON

T 15 MACPHERSON ROAD, Saturday, May 17, 9am-4pm, furniture, hh goods, tools.

MARSH LAKE

T LOT 25, JUDAS CREEK, far end of Marsh Lake, Saturday May 27, 9am start, jewelry, clothes from small to + sizes, household items etc. Early birds welcome T LOT 49, JUDAS CREEK, Marsh Lake, Saturday, May 27, 10am-2pm, new microwave, smoker, bikes, shelving, cabinet, lounge chair, large bird cage, exercise bike, plants, golf bags. Rain or shine.

PORTER CREEK

T 95 TESLIN ROAD, Riverdale, Saturday May 27, 9am1pm, multi-family, huge variety of items

T 16 MORLEY ROAD, Riverdale, Saturday May 27, 9am1pm, lots of stuff T 2 VAN GORDA PLACE, Riverdale, Saturday May 27, 8:30am-3pm, Trail-a-bike, dressers, golf clubs, hockey gear & skates, goalie bag, toys, books, desk, plants T 47 BELL CRESCENT, Riverdale, Saturday May 27, 9am-12Noon, something for everyone

TAKHINI

T 59 ORTONA AVENUE, Takhini, Saturday May 27, 9am12noon, multi-family T 134 SEINE SQUARE, LANSING POINT CONDOS, Takhini, Saturday May 27, 9am-12Noon, rain or shine, multi-unit garage sale

TAKHINI - NORTHLAND MHP

T 220 NORTHLAND TRAILER PARK, 986 Range Rd, Saturday May 27, 8am-12Noon, mostly kids & baby stuff, no early birds please T 178 NORTHLAND TRAILER PARK, 986 Range Rd, Saturday May 27, 9am-2pm, ladies clothing, tools, baked goods

VALLEYVIEW

T 368 VALLEYVIEW CRESCENT, off Sumanik Drive. near CGC, Saturday May 27, 6:45 am start, tons of quality items for kids/adults, come check it out

SUNDAY, MAY 28TH MARSH LAKE

T LOT 25, JUDAS CREEK, far end of Marsh Lake, Sunday May 28, 9am start, jewelry, clothes from small to + sizes, household items etc. Early birds welcome

PORTER CREEK

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PLEASE READ THE FINE PRINT: Offers valid until May 31, 2017. See toyota.ca for complete details. In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between Toyota prices, rates and/or other information contained on www.getyourtoyota.ca and that contained on toyota.ca, the latter shall prevail. Errors and omissions excepted. *Toyota Safety Sense™ (TSS) Drivers should always be responsible for their own safe driving. Please always pay attention to your surroundings and drive safely. Depending on the conditions of roads, vehicles, weather, etc., the TSS systems may not work as intended. Please see toyota.ca, your local Toyota Dealer or Owner’s Manual for details. 1. Lease example: 2017 Corolla CE Automatic BURCEM-A MSRP is $18,030 and includes $1,640 freight/PDI and fees leased at 0% over 48 months with $1,225 down payment (after application of the $1,500 customer incentive), equals 208 weekly payments of $35 with a total lease obligation of $8,499 (after application of the $1,500 customer incentive). Applicable taxes are extra. Lease 48 mos. based on 80,000 km, excess km charge is $.07. 2. Up to $1,500 customer incentives available on select 2017 Corolla models and can be combined with advertised lease and finance rates. 3. Lease example: 2017 RAV4 LE FWD Automatic ZFREVT-B with a vehicle price of $29,355 includes $1,910 freight/PDI and fees leased at 0% over 39 months with $2,475 down payment (after application of the $1,000 customer incentive and $350 Lease Assist), equals 169 weekly payments of $65 with a total lease obligation of $13,460 (after application of the $1,000 customer incentive and $350 lease assist). Applicable taxes are extra. Lease 39 mos. based on 65,000 km, excess km charge is $.10. 4. $1,000 in incentives for cash customers is available on 2017 RAV4 models and cannot be combined with advertised lease offer. 5. Customer incentives on 2017 Corolla and RAV4 models are valid until May 31, 2017. Incentives for cash customers on 2017 RAV4 models are valid until May 31, 2017 and may not be combined with Toyota Financial Services (TFS) lease or finance rates. If you would like to lease or finance at standard TFS rates (not the above special rates), then you may be able to take advantage of cash incentive offers by May 31, 2017. Cash incentives include taxes and are applied after taxes have been charged on the full amount of the negotiated price. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash incentive offers. 6. Weekly lease offers available through Toyota Financial Services (TFS) on approved credit to qualified retail lease customers of new and demonstrator Toyota vehicles. Down payment and first weekly payment due at lease inception and next weekly payment due approximately 7 days later and weekly thereafter throughout the term. ®Aeroplan miles: Miles offer valid on vehicles purchased/ leased, registered and delivered between May 2 - May 31, 2017. Customers must be an Aeroplan Member prior to the completion of the transaction. Offer subject to change without notice. Some conditions apply. See Toyota.ca/aeroplan or your Dealer for details. ®Aeroplan and the Aeroplan logo are registered trademarks of Aimia Canada Inc. Visit your Toyota Dealer or www.getyourtoyota.ca for more details. Some conditions apply; offers are time limited and may change without notice. Dealer may lease/sell for less. Each specific model may not be available at each dealer at all times; factory order or dealer trade may be necessary.

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Toyota Safety SenseTM P Standard: *

- Pre-Collision System with Pedestrian Detection

- Automatic High Beam

LEASE FROM

65 3

GET

WEEKLY / 39 MOS. 6 @ 0% A.P.R.

Friday, May 28, 2017

LEASE AND FINANCE FROM

0 COROLLA SE 6M WITH UPGRADE PKG SHOWN MSRP incl. F+PDI $23,745

2017

COROLLA COROLLA CE MSRP FROM $18,030 incl. F+PDI

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1,000 1

GET UP TO

35 OR

WEEKLY / 48 MOS. @ 0% A.P.R. 6

1,500

IN CUSTOMER INCENTIVES

WITH $1,225 DOWN PAYMENT

ON SELECT 2017 MODELS

- Lane Departure Alert with Steering Assist

NOW AVAILABLE AS A HYBRID

- Dynamic Radar Cruise Control

2017 RAV4

RAV4 LE FWD MSRP FROM $29,355 incl. F+PDI

RAV4 AWD LIMITED SHOWN MSRP INCL. F+PDI $40,115

IN INCENTIVES FOR 5 CASH CUSTOMERS

WITH $2,475 DOWN PAYMENT

Earn Aeroplan® miles on purchase, lease 8 and test drives. See dealer for details.

Your Dealer may charge additional fees for documentation,administration and other products such as undercoat, which range from $0 to $789. Charges vary by Dealer. See your Toyota dealer for complete details.

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