The Klondike Gold Rush would have been a lot more convenient if Ama-

zon had been around. Instead of starving out on the creeks, miners could have just placed an order at www.amazon.com/bannock.

This thought crossed my mind one recent Saturday as I did battle with the Shanghai-subway style crowds at a Whitehorse grocery store. I was talking to a techie friend in the cheese aisle who told me Ama-zon now delivers groceries to the Yukon.

Since retailing was one of the few relatively robust sectors in the Yukon’s recent economic forecast, I thought I would do an experiment and try to fi gure out what Amazon means for our retail industry.

Amazon is clearly making a serious effort to attack the grocery market. They had a wide range of non-perishable items, plus a “subscription” service. This gives you a discount of up to 15 per cent if you sign up to have at least fi ve items delivered on a regular schedule. It’s an attractive idea to have staples

like cereal, diapers and deodor-ant arrive automatically at your door.

I ordered muesli, coffee and – searching for something appropriately “Yukon” to qualify for free shipping – some baked beans. Dorset muesli was $6.49 for 620 grams, about the same as the Alpen brand locally ($6.48 for 650 grams). A pound of fancy Kicking Horse coffee was $11.95, less than the $11.47 I paid for 340 grams of Starbucks at the store.

Heinz baked beans from Amazon were more expensive $2.27 per can, while the bricks-and-mortar store offered them for 97¢ on sale (regular $1.54). However, when the shipment arrived it turned out that I had mistakenly ordered the Brit-ish version of Heinz beans. As I learned at Wright’s breakfast bar at the London School of Eco-nomics, these are slightly dif-ferent from the North American version.

This might explain part of the cost differential, as well as providing the most carbon-in-tensive beans on toast breakfast in the history of climate change.

It also highlights one nui-sance about Amazon – the selection process. You have to pick from a confusing array of products offered by Amazon or its partners. I clicked on choco-late Hobnob biscuits and was shocked to see they cost $96. This was because you have to buy them in packs of 24, like at Costco. That works out to $4 per

pack compared to $2.64 at the store.

All in all, my not-particularly-random sample showed many products cost about the same, a small number were cheaper and quite a few were signifi cantly more expensive. However, you can order from the convenience of your home at any time of the day or night and delivery is free. The groceries took only fi ve days to arrive, which is actually pretty fast considering that I have sometimes had grocery lists on the fridge for longer.

Amazon promised my beans would “ship in Amazon certifi ed Frustration-Free packaging.” My eight-pack of beans was in its own little cardboard box. If you care about minimal packaging, Amazon groceries are not for you.

Then there are the carbon emissions. Amazon uses more packaging (bad), but doesn’t have to heat a giant grocery store here at forty below (good). I once spoke to a grocery lo-gistics analyst in Sweden who told me that if you tracked the carbon emissions of shipping a kilo of frozen lamb from New Zealand to a Stockholm kitchen, most of the CO2 was emitted during the Volvo SUV ride from the grocery store to the house. Shipping eight cans of beans up the highway by truck is not an emission-light delivery system. But if my beans were fl own here, as they may have been given the shipping time, then they were indeed a climate crime of Brob-

dingnagian proportions.And how did having the

Internet for breakfast taste? I tested it on a panel of breakfast experts: i.e., teenage boys. We served muesli, beans on toast and coffee (my plan to spring Internet pickled herring on them having failed, since even Amazon doesn’t sell this tasty and nutritious breakfast treat). They said it was no worse than my usual attempts at making breakfast.

They also came up with the idea that Yukoners in remote localities could get around high prices at the local store by ordering from Amazon. A good idea but, unfortunately, North-ern News Services reported from Nunavut six months ago that Amazon was cutting free shipping to “remote” communi-ties.

I don’t expect Internet gro-cery delivery will put our local grocery stores out of business any time soon. However, I can see people starting to order specifi c staples like diapers. But in 10 years, who knows? The In-ternet is a powerful thing. Who would have guessed 20 years ago that Mountain Equipment Coop would have over 8,000 members in the Yukon, ordering a huge amount of outdoors gear by computer?

So what does it mean for the Yukon if the Internet does hollow out the our retail sec-tor, further undermining local shoe and apparel retailers and moving into hitherto untouched

sectors like groceries?Plenty of jobs will be at

risk at the cash register and in customer service and warehous-ing. Owning your own retail business has long been a viable business opportunity in the Yu-kon, but there may well be fewer locally-owned retail businesses in the future. We may be on the losing side of a trend that sees more high-wage web-developer and logistics-robot-engineer jobs created Outside while some traditional retail jobs in the Yukon disappear.

Yukon government personal income tax revenue will also go down, since Amazon workers in Vancouver don’t pay Yukon income tax. Amazon doesn’t pay corporate income tax here either. And we don’t have a sales tax so the Yukon government skims 0 per cent of Internet orders. If fewer retailers means less demand for commercial real estate in Whitehorse, then the city’s property tax revenues will be affected too.

Backhoe operators in Fort Nelson sometimes cut us off from the Internet, but relying on them is not a long-term strategy. If you work in retail or own a business in the space, you will want to watch this trend very carefully.

Keith Halliday is a Yukon econo-mist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon se-ries of historical children’s adven-ture novels. He won this year’s Ma Murray award for best columnist. You can follow him on Channel 9’s

“Yukonomist” show.

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LETTERSThanks for your support

In order to bring closure to my political life, it seems appropri-ate to thank my supporters of 32 years.

It’s not possible or wise to name specifi c people who have played a signifi cant role over such along period of time. However, l must thank my brother-in-law John Ferbey, who fi rst suggested I should run for city council; Conrad Boyce, who ran my fi rst campaign; and Lorraine Hoyt, who came up with a wonderful idea that got me elected in the fi rst place.

Many others I worked with along the way I cannot remem-ber, but you will know who you are and I thank you. It has been a privilege to serve the commu-nity and be able to work with so many wonderful people.

Council is often credited with the development of the community, but our role is small compared to the work our administration and employees do. Over the years I have been continually impressed with the calibre of the administration and employees in carrying out council’s wishes.

Sometimes the public says we merely rubber-stamp administrator’s directives, and very often this is true because the advice and suggestions we

receive make sense. Council may have a vision, but the administration and employees make this vision a reality.

I have worked with fi ve may-ors and 11 councils and can credit them all with the positive developments that have moved the city forward. It has not always been a love-in, but for the vast majority of my time on council it has been an enjoy-able experience and lots of fun and I thank my colleagues for this time in my life.

Since the election, I have had many positive comments from people thanking me for my ser-vice, and saying they voted for me. So many, in fact, I was con-sidering asking for a recount. As for myself, this will be a time of refl ection and an opportunity to clean out my basement and begin to know what real retire-ment is all about. So far I have enjoyed it and look forward to a new episode in my life. I would like to wish the new council well and know they will do their best to improve our quality of life.

Pundits often say public service plays havoc with fam-ily life, but for me this has not been the case. I have always been very involved in commu-nity activities as a volunteer, much of the time with my own children.

Having said that, I cannot fail to appreciate the role my wife has played in my political life and community involve-ment. She has always been very supportive, and in case any of you are wondering how she is handling my being home so much now, all I can do is quote what she said to a friend when asked that very question: “As long as he stays in the base-ment it’s alright by me.”

Dave StockdaleFormer Whitehorse city councillor

Selwyn is committed to doing mining right

This letter is in response to the Nov. 18 commentary by the Yukon Conservation Society’s mining analyst, Lewis Rifkind, titled “A mine that environmen-talists like.”

In his commentary, Mr. Rif-kind concluded that the Selwyn project is a “complete non-starter” and an “environmental horror show.” Considering that Mr. Rifkind acknowledges that the mine plans are still in devel-opment, his comments are both perplexing and misleading in nature.

Yukon has established a regulatory process that is in-tended to protect the environ-ment while supporting the best social and economic outcomes

for all Yukoners. In seeking project approval,

the Selwyn project will go through this rigorous process. YESAB and the Yukon Water Board will consider the envi-ronmental and socio-economic effects of our project. First Nations, the general public, interests groups, businesses and others will have meaning-ful opportunities to participate and voice their interests and concerns.

Their feedback and con-tinued analysis during this process will further inform the mine plan so that it will meet all environmental criteria while providing progressive socio-economic benefi ts to Yukon. Nonetheless, before we even enter this process, we are working diligently toward developing a plan that will be recognized as environmentally responsible and socially accept-

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able, we are “the one to watch” for all the right reasons.

We may even satisfy those that seem to have to swallow hard when professing that they are not really anti-mining. Our relationship agreement with the Kaska, our $250 million investment to date, and our ongoing developmental work are demonstrations of our com-mitment to doing it right.

Mr. Rifkind states that “all YCS asks is that mining be done right and in socially and environmentally acceptable areas.” All we are asking is that YCS takes a fair and reasoned position rooted in facts, and allow the regulatory process to do what is was designed to do – foster responsible development in Yukon.

Richard (Shilin) LiChief Executive Offi cerSelwyn Chihong Mining

Bruce CheadleCanadian Press

LONDON

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has used an interview with an infl uen-

tial BBC current affairs show in London to issue his most pun-gent retort yet to his Canadian detractors.

Trudeau, 43, endured more than two years of Conservative party attack ads declaring him “just not ready” before sweeping prime minister Stephen Harper from power in last month’s fed-eral election.

Asked by BBC television’s NewsNight program about his famous family name, Trudeau didn’t deny that having had his father Pierre Trudeau lead the country for almost 16 years opened some doors.

“I think the way I was raised was that I have to work two or three times as hard as anyone else to walk through that door now that it’s open,” he said.

Trudeau then delivered a sharp retort that could be seen as a direct shot at Harper and other Conservative partisans.

“There’s an awful lot of

people who sort of shrugged and said he has nothing but a name to go on and found them-selves slightly bewildered as I left them in the dust,” said the prime minister.

Trudeau also had sharp words for what he described as people running as anti-polit-icians, citing U.S. Republican party presidential hopeful Don-ald Trump and “our own Rob

Ford in Toronto.”Trudeau told the BBC that

this year’s federal election cam-paign showed the momentary appeal of divisive policy stances.

“But when you get right down to it, when citizens take a long hard look in the ballot box at actually voting against your neighbours, against someone who’s different from you – in pluralistic societies like we have it becomes very diffi cult to sustain the hatred or the fear of the shopkeeper down the street or your colleague two cubicles over,” said Trudeau.

The interview aired on BBC’s fl agship nightly current affairs show on the day the British gov-ernment brought down its fall economic update, guaranteeing a large and infl uential audience.

Using an international audi-ence to score domestic political points is routinely denounced by federal politicians of all stripes. The Conservatives often accused their critics of “trash talking” Canada while abroad, although Harper wasn’t afraid to dish up some sharp partisan commentary of his own when overseas.

At a G8 summit in Italy in 2009, Harper apologized after using the closing news confer-ence to rip then-Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff for a quote that actually came from some-one else.

Trudeau left London for a Commonwealth summit in Malta on Thursday after having an audience with Queen Eliza-beth and a sit-down with British Prime Minister David Cameron the previous day.

His week-long international trip wraps up at the UN COP21 climate conference Monday in Paris.

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CALGARY

Businesses and entrepre-neurs across the country are stepping in to help

settle the thousands of Syrian refugees coming to Canada over the next few weeks.

Real estate companies are contributing apartments, airlines are offering seats and individual business leaders are chipping in cash.

Calgary-based Mainstreet Equity Corp. offered at least 200 apartments across western Canada to house refugees at a discounted rate.

Wednesday’s offer follows a similar one last week by fellow Calgary-based Boardwalk Rent-al Communities to provide 350 apartments across the Prairies and in Montreal, and Westbank Corp.’s donation of 12 fully fur-nished and stocked apartments in downtown Vancouver.

Bob Dhillon, the CEO of

Mainstreet, said his experience immigrating to Canada from war-torn Liberia with his family in the 1970s helped motivate him to assist the refugees.

“I can relate to what these guys are going through. They’re going through turmoil, hard-ship, a diffi cult time, and if we can make their lives easier on their entry to Canada, why not?” Dhillon said in an inter-view.

“I think how we made this country so beautiful is to open our hearts up at times like this.”

The company says it hasn’t fi nalized what kind of discount will be provided, but said it could include temporarily waiving the rent or offering the discounted rate for a longer period of time.

David McIlveen, director of community development at Boardwalk, says his company will be offering discounts of $150 a month for the fi rst year, similar to what it offers in its other affordable housing pro-grams.

“We follow the news like any-body else, and we knew there was a need,” said McIlveen.

In Ontario, meantime, a businessman in Guelph has spearheaded the future settle-ment of 50 Syrian families in his community.

Jim Estill, chief executive of Danby appliances and a former Blackberry Ltd. director, says he’s helped organize chari-

ties in Guelph to prepare for the refugees and called on his business associates to help set up accommodation and other necessities.

Estill says he’s also agreed to post the cash needed to spon-sor refugees, which amounts to an estimated $27,000 for each family of four – but he’s down-playing the commitment.

“This isn’t about the money,”

he said in an interview Wednes-day. “It’s about landing people properly and integrating them …. I just know what’s going on is horrifi c and we need to do something, and I didn’t see people doing things,” said Estill.

He added that Canada’s busi-ness community can help out both fi nancially and by tapping into business networks to pro-vide necessities for the infl ux of refugees.

“I think the best way to help is stand up and say you’re going to do it, and go do it,” he said.

Earlier this month, Air Cana-da offered to help ferry refugees to Canada, and Calgary-based charter airline Enerjet says it will make its fl eet of aircraft available to the government to assist with refugee resettle-ment.

Following the govern-ment’s revision of its refugee plan Tuesday, Canada is set to resettle 10,000 refugees by the end of the year, with another 15,000 set to arrive by the end of February 2016.

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OTTAWA

Thousands of Syrian refugees will learn they may have a chance at a new life in

Canada from a beep on their mo-bile phone.

A simple text message from the United Nations asking if they’d be interested in the Liberal govern-ment’s resettlement program will start a process of multiple inter-views, security screens and health scans.

If all is in order, next is a check mark on their fi le indicating they’ve passed UN muster to be among the 25,000 Syrians set to arrive in Canada by the end of February.

But the fact that processing will now be handled entirely overseas and will take longer than expected, are two elements forcing agencies in Canada and abroad to re-exam-ine what’s required of them to sup-port the Liberal commitment.

Offi cials with both the UN’s refugee agency and the Canadian Red Cross were caught somewhat off guard by the news Tuesday that the original year-end deadline for the program had been tossed aside, along with a plan to process cases both in Canada and in the host countries.

The scope of the military’s role has been altered as well; Opera-tion Provision is no longer focused on an immediate requirement to arrange housing for thousands of people, potentially for months and instead the Canadian Forces will be called upon only if needed.

But despite the seemingly last-minute changes, all say the effort remains essential and just as urgent.

“Families I’m meeting at the moment, they are saying that if we don’t get more help, we’ll either transit to Europe illegally or we’ll go back to living in Syria,” Aoife McDonnell, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refu-gees in Jordan, said in an interview.

“It’s a pretty tough choice for families to be making.”

In Jordan, the UN began weeks ago to identify 7,000 Syrians so they could be in Canada by the end of the year in line with the original Liberal plan.

While 22 staff in Jordan pore over fi les, about 40 more are inter-viewing candidates. Working on weekends and evenings, they fi rst alert families by text message that their fi le has been chosen and fol-low that with a phone call and then in-person meetings.

Many refugees have been in Jordan since 2013 and are being selected for resettlement because they are identifi ed as vulnerable for socio-economic or medical reasons.

The UN fi rst chooses the cases, then passes them off to Cana-dian offi cials for fi nal review and approval. But the fi rst batch of refugees to be resettled in Canada will largely be those with private sponsors; those the government is taking in through the UN will mostly arrive in 2016.

While the Liberals said Tuesday they want to identify all 25,000 people by year end, it wasn’t clear whether that meant the only thing remaining for next year is travel or if processing will still be required.

What that all means for UN timelines is unclear; McDonnell said the original plan had been to have all fi les to the Canadians by Dec. 20.

“There’s so much goodwill, from

the Canadian side and from our team here, hopefully everything goes smoothly,” McDonnell said.

About 85 per cent of Syrians in Jordan aren’t living in refugee camps but in urban centres, scrap-ing by below the poverty line and resorting to what the UN calls crisis coping strategies – skipping meals, pulling kids out of school, some-times arranging for child marriages just to provide homes for daugh-ters.

And there’s the matter of the coming winter, something the Ca-nadian Red Cross is keenly aware of as well.

With the Red Cross active on the ground in Syria and in countries like Jordan, their signs will be a lone familiar sight for many Syrians as they arrive in Canada.

Initially, the agency thought they’d be managing the temporary housing strategy, a program they expected to play out across military bases as refugees were to undergo fi nal security screenings here.

But that’s been scrapped and the Red Cross is pivoting towards co-ordinating efforts to welcome the refugees as they land in Montreal and Toronto and spread out from there.

That, too, could be an around-the-clock task, as fl ights may take off and land at all hours. It’s still not clear whether some temporary ac-commodation will be required, nor the extent to which the provinces

will need help, said Conrad Sauve, the chief executive offi cer for the Canadian Red Cross.

The change in plan isn’t a prob-lem, he said, given the organiza-tion’s expertise in quick response to humanitarian emergencies.

“The more phases we remove in this, the more directly we bring them here to the communities – for people who’ve been running away from war and settling here and there and living in their suitcases, the better it is,” he said.

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Kristy KirkupCanadian Press

OTTAWA

Refugees are at a high-risk for mental health issues and often suffer spiked

rates of depression and sub-stance abuse, Canadian experts say.

Dr. Kwame McKenzie, a psychiatrist with the Centre for

Addiction and Mental Health, says challenges for newcomers often stretch far beyond post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following time in war zones or refugee camps.

“The truth is, the studies have shown that the rates of mental health problems are increased, for every mental health prob-lem,” he said.

Some of those issues include

a higher-risk of schizophrenia and depression, McKenzie said, adding he is pleased the gov-ernment plans to help refugees settle immediately in host com-munities.

Unlike the 5,000 refugees who came to Canada from Kosovo in 1999, Syrians will not be housed on military bases unless it is deemed necessary.

“Some of the studies that have been seen worldwide say that you can decrease the risk sig-nifi cantly if you’re careful about what you do when people come to the country,” he said.

The effects of confl ict, dis-placement, travel and family separation were all considered when the federal government crafted its plan, Health Minister Jane Philpott said Tuesday as the Liberals announced they intend to bring 10,000 refugees to Canada by year’s end and another 15,000 by February.

“Mental health concerns are amongst the concerns that we expect to see,” Philpott said.

The minister also said the government determined it would be in the best interest of refugees to ensure a quick transition into communities.

“We believe that as soon as they can get to their ultimate destination, that will be the bet-ter,” Philpott said.

One of the highest risk popu-lations is young people, says Dr. Morton Beiser, a psychiatric epidemiologist based at St. Mi-chael’s Hospital in Toronto.

Beiser says research indicates up to 20 to 50 per cent of refugee children can suffer from PTSD.

“I don’t think that we are suffi ciently equipped yet to deal that,” Beiser said. “It is impor-tant that we develop resources quickly and effectively …

“Post-traumatic stress dis-order, for example, is an awful disorder. It is a disorder in which people experience horrible situations that they’ve been in, they’re back in the torture cell, they’re back being raped.”

The challenge of mental health among Syrian refugees has been on the radar of gov-ernment offi cials for several months, according to docu-ments obtained through Access to Information.

A Canadian clinical psycholo-gist, Rebecca Dempster, gave a presentation to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees core group on Syrian refugees to teach offi cials on dealing with trauma victims.

“The training offered insight into the impacts that traumatic incidents have on victims’ mem-ories,” a senior policy analyst in the Immigration department

said in a e-mail earlier this year.“The presentation explored

the psychosomatic responses and various recovery stages that trauma victims go through.”

McKenzie says he is hope-ful the Syrian refugee crisis will lead to a greater conversation about mental health supports for newcomers.

“I really welcome the fact the government is interested in the mental health of Syrian refu-gees,” he said.

“Syrian refugees are like most of the other refugees that we take in each year. Canada already takes in 25,000 refugees a year.”

McKenzie said mental health services are a sound fi nancial investment, especially when women, children and families are at the core of the govern-ment’s pledge for Syrian refu-gees.

“From the children’s perspec-tive, for every dollar you put into mental health promotion, you’re going to get $7 back,” he said. “From an economic perspective it is a no brainer …

“We haven’t got all of the therapists we possibly need but if we just connect up what we’ve got and then we try to build capacity, we should be able to of-fer a mental health response that will make us what we should be, which is world leaders in this.”

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WASHINGTON

The upcoming Paris climate summit won’t result in a binding target for limiting

greenhouse gas emissions below disaster-averting levels, the White House said this week.

But it said the talks starting next week could still be a historic moment in the global fi ght against climate change, as it described its objectives in a media briefi ng.

The Obama administration said the summit will be a success if a larger-than-ever number of countries agree to: limit emissions, report on their progress and set up a system that allows increasing rounds of emissions cuts over time to keep temperature growth to 2C.

“That’s important and un-precedented progress,” said Paul Bodnar, senior director for climate change at the White House’s Na-tional Security Council.

“But (it’s) still above the two-degree threshold the scien-tifi c community acknowledges is necessary to avoid the most severe aspects of climate change.”

The UN climate panel says human civilization would suffer catastrophic consequences under a 4C temperature growth that would be caused by business as usual by century’s end.

The panel says it would require emissions cuts of more than 40 per cent by mid-century to achieve a lesser disaster: a 2C temperature increase. That kind of temperature shift, it says, would still quadruple the number of people exposed to once-in-a-century fl oods, degrade a third of the world’s coral reefs and signifi cantly reduce ground-water access.

According to its analysts, the submissions from countries so far would see temperatures grow 2.7C. Bodnar said that’s already better than the business-as-usual forecast.

He said the strategy going into Paris is to bring everyone to the table – including big-emitting

developing countries like China, India and Brazil, which avoided any commitments in the 1997 Kyoto accord.

He said that gradual approach has already helped elicit commit-ments from 170 countries – com-pared to a few dozen under Kyoto. So instead of short-term targets, the countries will focus on long-term promises, binding mecha-nisms for tracking progress and a system that can toughen targets over time.

The new Alberta plan is part of that global movement, said an American analyst.

Canada is still far from being on-track to meeting the climate targets set by the former Harper government, and the new Liberal government hasn’t announced a target yet.

But he said the oil-producing powerhouse is a key player – and he called the new provincial plan a turning point.

“It is a dramatic turnaround,” said Anthony Swift of the Natural Resources Defence Council, a big environmental group that clashed with the last Alberta government over the Keystone XL pipeline.

“There’s absolutely no ques-tion the province of Alberta made a very ambitious climate an-nouncement. That was a major step forward. It’s not the end of the fi nish line. More will be needed over time.”

The previous Harper govern-ment had a relatively similar target to the U.S.’s with a 30-per-cent emissions cut by 2030 – although, unlike the U.S., it had no plan for reaching its stated target.

Canada would need to shave off almost 250 megatonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions to achieve that target. Alberta – by far Canada’s largest emitter – would reduce 50 megatonnes under its new plan.

The province produces almost two-fi fths of Canada’s emissions; it would chip in less than one-fi fth of the 250 megatonnes in national reductions under its new plan and even those cuts would not bring

the province below its emissions levels from the baseline year used to calculate the cuts, 2005.

Still, it required considerable ef-fort to achieve that. Alberta’s new NDP government has proposed a $3-billion-a-year carbon tax, a cap on emissions from the oil sector and promise to phase out coal – all while the energy industry is strug-gling with job losses.

Premier Rachel Notley said her government did its best to strike a balance between cutting emis-sions and chasing resource-sector jobs outside the province.

“We don’t want to construct a system that simply serves to move emissions to another jurisdiction,” Notley said.

“We want to keep the business here and improve and reduce the emissions here.”

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OTTAWA“We wanted to show this is the situation that we’ve inherited.” – Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau on Nov. 20 after tabling the new Liberal government’s fi s-cal and economic update.

The Liberals opened the federal books last week to reveal that Ottawa was

headed for a $3-billion defi cit in this 2015-16 fi scal year.

The prediction marked a considerable turnaround from the $1.4-billion surplus forecast just seven months ago by their Conservatives predecessors.

Morneau’s fi scal update also represented a swing away from the $1.2-billion surplus the parlia-

mentary budget offi ce projected less than two weeks earlier.

On top of that, the update’s year-end fi scal projection means the government bank account will endure a rough six months because the federal balance had a $1.6-billion surplus after the fi rst half of 2015-16, according to monthly tallies.

Morneau blamed the down-grade on the further decline in commodity prices, the unexpect-edly fragile global economy and the economy’s unanticipated con-traction over the fi rst two quarters of 2015.

But some experts have ques-tioned whether those economic changes are enough to siphon $4.4 billion from the Tories’ April pro-jection, which raises a query: Did the Liberals inherit the defi cit?

Spoiler alert: The Canadian Press Baloney Meter is a dispas-sionate examination of politi-cal statements culminating in a ranking of accuracy on a scale of “no baloney” to “full of baloney.” This one earns a rating of “a little baloney.” Here’s why.

The facts

Since April, when the former Conservative government released its budget projecting a $1.4-bil-lion surplus for 2015-16, there’s no doubt the already-fragile econom-ic situation has deteriorated.

The new Liberal government said last week that conditions had worsened to the point that Ottawa was now on track to run a $3-bil-lion shortfall, without factoring in the cost of measures promised in its election platform. The update said it would rack up an additional $2.5 billion in expenses and lose $1.9 billion more in revenue.

Among the biggest changes, the updated projection for the cat-egory of “other revenues” was now expected to bring in $1.4 billion less cash than the April prediction. That classifi cation, the Finance Department says, includes revenues from sources such as Crown corporations, returns on investments and the government’s foreign-exchange account.

The government said the downgraded forecast for the category is primarily due to lower expected revenues from Crown corporations and the drop in interest rates.

The extra $2.5 billion in govern-ment expenses are primarily tied to an extra $1.5 billion in costs this fi scal year – compared to the April estimate – in Employment Insurance payouts. The govern-ment is expected to make more withdrawals from the fund due to the struggling economy.

Ottawa also anticipated a $1-billion increase in direct program expenses, mostly related to higher costs for public service pensions and benefi ts, which are pushed upwards by lower project-ed long-term interest rates.

However, just 10 days before the fi scal update, the parliamen-tary budget offi ce predicted a $1.2-billion surplus for 2015-16.

And up until the end of July – after the fi rst four months of the fi scal year – the Finance Depart-ment’s monthly fi scal monitor reported a $5.2-billion budgetary surplus. That year-to-date tally has since deteriorated to a $1.6-billion surplus, for April to September.

Morneau and the Liberals, who took power earlier this month, say they inherited the defi cit situation.

What the experts say

Stephen Gordon, an econom-ics professor, said it’s diffi cult to determine if the defi cit was indeed passed down from the previous government because some of the key negatives in the fi scal update remain murky.

Gordon, of Quebec City’s Laval University, added he was puzzled by the projected, $4.6-billion drop in the balance over the fi nal six months of the fi scal year and the contents of the “other revenues” category.

He said it’s possible there might be a certain amount of discretion whether the Finance Depart-ment books some of the revenue decreases this year or in future budgets.

“We still don’t know if it’s the Conservatives or the Liberals, ba-sically, who were padding things one way or the other – or if it really is all honest and above board,” said Gordon.

“We don’t know and there’s just not a lot of transparency there for that.”

He added it might be in the Liberals’ interest to show that things were worse than they had expected as a way to defl ect future fi scal criticism.

“You want to get as much bad news as possible shovelled out the door and dumped on the previous tenant.”

Asked to provide more infor-mation about the fi scal impact of Crown corporations, a Finance Department offi cial emailed that the biggest decline in expected revenue will come from the Can-ada Mortgage and Housing Corp. But the department declined to provide more details about CMHC or other Crown corporations.

The department also said the 2015-16 projections were updated to refl ect year-to-date revenue and expenditures, the most-recent 2015 economic data, the results of the new survey of private sector economists and the fi nal 2014-15 fi scal results.

The Liberal government made no changes to the methodology, the offi cial said.

Jack Mintz, an economist from the University of Calgary, agreed that economic conditions have declined since April. But when he looked at the latest number in the fi scal monitor he wondered whether September’s $1.6-billion year-to-date surplus could possi-bly transform into a $3-billion an-nual shortfall in only six months.

“I’m not sure that’s going to happen, but we’ll see,” Mintz said.

But another expert says the numbers appear to make sense and he expects the government to run a shortfall in 2015-16.

Peter DeVries, a former senior Finance offi cial, pointed to the recent deterioration in the fi scal balance due to factors like lower-than-expected oil prices and an extended period of zero growth.

He also highlighted the nega-tive effects of the weaker exchange rate and lower interest rates on things like the public-service pen-sions and benefi ts.

And when it comes to the de-cline in recent months in the fi scal monitor’s budgetary balance, DeVries noted it happened under the watch of Stephen Harper’s Conservatives.

“There defi nitely is an element of an inherited defi cit in it,” said DeVries, who helped put together roughly 20 budgets between 1985 and 2005.

The verdict

While it’s true the economy and the 2015-16 fi scal situation eroded during the Conservatives’ reign, the fi nal few months of the fi scal year will fall under the Liberals’ tenure.

And the public still needs more information on the makeup of that defi cit to determine whether it’s truly one to hang on the Con-servatives.

For that reason, Morneau’s statement rates “a little baloney.”

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ANKARA, TURKEY

Turkey has released audio recordings of what it says are

the Turkish military’s repeated warnings to the pilot of the Russian plane before it was shot down at the border with Syria – audio that grows increasingly more agitated.

The recordings, made available to The Associated Press on Thurs-day, indicate the plane was warned several times Tuesday that it was approaching Turkey’s airspace and asked to change course.

Turkey shot down the Rus-sian Su-24 bomber on Tuesday, insisting it had violated its airspace despite repeated warnings. It was the fi rst time in half a century that a NATO member had shot down a Russian plane.

A surviving Russian pilot has denied that his jet veered into Tur-key’s airspace and rejected Turkey’s claim that it had issued repeated warnings to the Russian crew.

The downing prompted duel-ing comments Thursday from the two countries’ leaders. While Russian President Vladimir Putin complained that Turkey still hadn’t apologized for downing the plane or given assurances that “the culprits of this crime” will be punished, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in no mood to apologize.

Erdogan instead lashed out at Russia, accusing it of using its fi ght against the Islamic State group in Syria as a pretext to target opposi-tion groups including the Turk-men, in a bid to strengthen Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Erdogan said Turkey had not specifi cally targeted Russia when it shot down the plane, saying it was “an automatic response” in line with its rules of engagement.

“Faced with the same viola-tion today, Turkey would give the same response,” Erdogan said. “It’s the country that carried out the violation which should question itself and take measures to prevent it from happening again, not the country that was subjected to a violation.”

The series of 10 audio clips were released by the prime minister’s offi ce and sourced to the Turkish

Armed Forces.In the recordings, a voice is

heard saying in broken English: “This is Turkish Air Force speak-ing on guard. You are approaching Turkish airspace. Change your heading south immediately.”

Most of the audio is garbled and barely comprehensible but the tone of the voice gets more agitated as the warnings appear to go unnoticed.

The audio that was released only involved Turkish warnings, no replies by a Russian pilot. It was not clear if Turkey had received any replies from the Russian pilots but did not release them, or if the Russian pilots never replied to the warnings or if the Russians never even heard the warnings.

One of the Russian pilots was killed by militants in Syria after ejecting from the plane, while his crewmate was rescued by Syrian army commandos. A Russian ma-rine was also killed by the militants during the rescue mission.

Speaking in televised comments from the Russian military base in Syria, the surviving navigator of the downed plane, Capt. Konstantin Murakhtin, insisted the plane did not enter Turkish airspace “even for a single second.” Turkey insists the plane was in its airspace for 17 seconds.

In retaliation for the downing, Russia announced Wednesday it will deploy long-range air defence missiles to its base in Syria and de-stroy any target that may threaten its warplanes. The state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Thursday that the Russian S-400 air missiles had been delivered in Syria.

Speaking at the Kremlin, Putin complained that he has not received an apology from Turkey nor an offer “to make up for the damages.” He said he regretted the fact that relations between Turkey and Russia have been driven into a stalemate.

Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow believes that the U.S. State Department has information about the men who shot the Rus-sian pilot as he parachuted down and was waiting for Washington to share information about “who was dancing over the body of the Rus-

sian pilot.”Zakharova also urged Turkey

to speak up about the rebels who killed the pilot.

Zakharova said: “Either confi rm that these are the people that you defend, then we will fi nally see what this moderate opposition is.

Or say that you don’t have anything to do with it and express your posi-tion about their actions.”

Erdogan, meanwhile, chal-lenged Russia to prove its accusa-tion that Turkey is buying oil and gas from IS, calling the claims “shameful” and making the coun-

terclaim that IS was selling its oil to Assad.

Erdogan also lamented reports that Russia was stopping projects with Turkey, saying political and leaders should talk fi rst.

“We are strategic partners” with Russia, he said.

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The threat of a mining disaster similar to the tailings pond

collapse of Mount Polley in cen-tral British Columbia has prompt-ed the province and Alaska to sign an environmental protection pact.

Premier Christy Clark and

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker signed a deal this week that includes commitments to protect trans-boundary rivers, watersheds and fi sheries after both sides ex-pressed concerns about proposed mining projects.

The agreement comes after ongoing protests from U.S. politi-cians and aboriginal and environ-mental groups over B.C.’s aspira-tions to develop mines bordering Alaska, or near the Stikine, Taku and Unuk rivers that support the state’s fi shery.

An independent, government-ordered report last January into the Mount Polley disaster con-cluded the spill was caused by an inadequately designed dam. It found the design didn’t ac-count for drainage and erosion failures associated with glacial

till beneath the pond, causing 24 million cubic metres of silt and water to stream into nearby lakes and rivers.

Alaska’s Lt.-Gov. Byron Mallott was dispatched to the mine site last spring after concerns were raised about proposals for mines with similar tailings facilities near the B.C.-Alaska border. Aboriginal and conservation groups from Alaska also visited the Mount Pol-ley mine area.

B.C.’s Energy Minister Bill Bennett made two trips to Alaska in the past year to meet with political, industry and aboriginal offi cials aiming to alleviate worry about B.C.’s mining industry and environmental regulations.

“What this signifi es is the will-ingness to work together, to spend some money, to share informa-tion and to collaborate,” said Ben-nett about the agreement.

“Our rivers fl ow into Alaska waters, so this is a very important threshold for the two jurisdictions to come together, shake hands and say, ‘OK, we’re going to be better neighbours in the future.”’

The agreement establishes plans for a bilateral working group on the protection of trans-boundary waters. B.C. and Alaska will also develop a joint water-quality monitoring program for trans-boundary waters, and ensure the data is made publicly

available.The agreement further estab-

lishes plans for a framework en-abling government and scientists to be involved in each jurisdic-tion’s environmental assessment and permitting processes for projects, including mines.

But a coalition of aborigi-nal and conservation groups in Alaska said the agreement is not binding. Members of Salmon Beyond Borders argue it lacks details on measures to protect people and the environment from mining impacts.

“We wanted to see very specifi c commitments over the long term about maintenance and the stability of tailings dams,” said spokesman Chris Zimmer, from Juneau.

“We wanted to see some bind-ing commitments here to get this stuff done, but all we see in this memorandum of understanding is basically a state and a province pledging to talk a bit more.”

Zimmer said the coalition also wants a mechanism for determin-ing compensation of people living downstream, in the situation their livelihoods are damaged by min-ing development and pollution.

The coalition wants the issues to become part of international negotiations between the Cana-dian and U.S. governments.

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Despite recent challenges faced by Canada’s retail sector, analysts have a

rosy outlook for the looming holiday shopping season – par-ticularly on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Rob Cameron, chief product and marketing offi cer of process-ing payments fi rm Moneris, said there has been an increase in sales on both days for the last four years.

Despite the high-profi le departure of U.S. discount chain Target from Canada, along with the closures of Mexx, Boutique

Jacob and Smart Set, consumers continue to spend. Cameron said retail sales are up around six per cent this year.

“I think this Black Friday … we would anticipate it being a larger increase than last year, so we tell retailers to be ready for more sales,” said Cameron.

He added that e-commerce retailers are also expecting strong sales and experts predict a surge in online transactions.

“We expect Cyber Monday to again be a double-digit increase year over year.”

An online survey conducted this fall by IPG Mediabrands re-vealed that 68 per cent of respon-dents said they would shop at stores in Canada on Black Friday, while only 15 per cent said they

planned to shop at U.S. stores – a 37 per cent decline compared to a previous survey.

The poll of more than 1,000 Canadians also revealed 68 per cent planned to shop online through Canadian websites on Cyber Monday, while 42 per cent said they’d do so through U.S. sites – a decrease of 18 per cent.

Respondents said they plan on spending, on average, $332 per person on Black Friday, said Lo-raine Cordery, insights manager at IPG Mediabrands. Clothing and accessories were the top category, followed by technology and home electronics, books, music and DVDs, and computer hardware or software, she added.

The polling industry’s profes-sional body, the Marketing Re-

search and Intelligence Associa-tion, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error as they are not a random sample and therefore are not necessar-ily representative of the whole population.

“Beforehand, Boxing Day was a big sales day. But now, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are be-coming just as important and a big part of this holiday shopping period,” said Cordery.

The survey also revealed that about one-quarter of the respon-dents believed deals in Canada are just as good as those in the U.S., compared to 14 per cent in a similar survey last year, she noted.

The bargain bonanza events have been longtime hallmarks of

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“When the dollar was at par and Canadian retailers were los-ing sales to the U.S. because of all of this excitement of Black Friday, the two things combined meant Canadian retailers said: ‘Enough is enough,”’ said Michael LeBlanc, senior vice-president of marketing and digital at the Retail Council of Canada.

“Retailers don’t necessarily create demand. They follow it. In other words, they refl ect the con-sumer. And the consumer was clearly interested in Black Friday-Cyber Monday excitement.”

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A pair of golden caribou antlers poke above the snowy horizon. A group of 20 caribou saunter past with confused yet quizzical looks in my direction.

The silence is broken by the whizzing sound of a bullet fl ying overhead.

I hunker down behind the safety of a rock and wait for the shooting to stop. It sounds like the bullets are only feet above me, but I know they’re not. I’ve never been attracted to war photojournalism, but am getting a small taste of what it must be like.

I begin calculating the odds of being hit by a stray bullet. Maybe 1 in 100,000, although I recall hearing of a hunter struck by a stray bullet on the Dempster over a decade ago.

A snowmobile comes fl ying up the hill chasing a group of caribou. Two excited youth give me a quick wave and head down the other side. Their enthusiasm is infectious.

It has been two long years since the Porcupine caribou herd have visited the part of their traditional wintering grounds that lie along the Dempster Highway. When I heard from friends that the caribou had fi nally returned, I loaded up my camper and headed straight North. I thought I’d be gone for fi ve days, tops. At least that’s what I told my partner Terri.

It would be two weeks before I fi nally returned home to my girls.

After a marathon 17 hour drive I arrive at the Yukon-N.W.T. border. There are caribou and Gwich’in every-where and the joy is palpable. I wander over to a group of hunters with a pile of caribou. Peter Tetlichi and Dakota Koe are cleaning animals behind their vehicles. They are two young men, probably still in high school, but missing classes for a more important education.

Like most young men from Fort MacPherson, they are hunting for their families and community. They load

up a truck of caribou for their parents, a truck for their grandparents, a truck for their great grandparents, and they have also harvested two caribou for an elder in the pullout who doesn’t have a snowmobile.

The 20 caribou they harvested seems like a lot, but it is split between fi ve or six families and will be consumed by spring. The boys are understandably proud. They have spent the last two days on the land, hunting at the same

site their people have hunted for generations. The Gwich’in of Fort McPherson are caribou people.

After thousands of years of surviving on caribou, they are caribou. Their stories tell of how every caribou heart is part Gwich’in and every Gwich’in heart is part caribou.

After spending the day photographing the harvest, I strap on my skis to shoot a few caribou with my camera. The inclement weather on the Dempster is perfect for photography, and I can’t go 100 metres without tripping over a caribou. Thousands of caribou trails braid across the fresh snow.

I spot a wounded caribou limping along a trail, her useless leg dangling by a tendon. Likely injured by a

hunter, she won’t survive long. Injured caribou is an unfortunate reality of the Dempster hunt. In my two weeks following the migration I witnessed two instances where caribou were injured by hunters and managed to escape their prey: once by licensed hunters and once by Gwich’in. In both cases the hunters lost the caribou when it reached the forest. A three-legged caribou can easily outdistance a hunter on foot.

A few days later I hit the land with some Gwich’in youth from Fort McPherson. Only in Grade 10, Tony Alexie and Clifton Francis have a wealth of knowledge and experience in hunting, trapping and living on the land. During our hunt we bump into a pair of con-servation offi cers from Dawson who are enforcing good practices along the highway. Clifton informs them of four bull caribou that had been killed near the border and left to rot. Like the vast majority of the people from Fort McPherson, the boys are really upset about the wasting of meat and the disrespect shown to the caribou.

After a long day of hunting, Tony and Clifton are cleaning caribou alongside the road. They place the kid-neys, liver, hearts and gut sacks in the clean snow beside a can of coke. The contrast of red and white is striking. So is the contrast of old and new. A pair of bull caribou crack antlers in the background. It is easy to picture a pair of young men on dog sleds cleaning caribou beneath the rounded mountains a hundred years earlier.

Hunting caribou along the Dempster involves many complex issues and many different perspectives. Too many animals are injured, perhaps too many cows are taken, and the hunting season must to be shortened to ensure the caribou return. However, there is also so much to be celebrated. The return of the caribou to the Demp-ster is a hugely positive experience leaving all the people along the highway fi lled with joy and excited to be out on the land fi lling their freezers, their bellies, and even their memory cards.

Peter Mather is a Whitehorse writer and photographer.

YUKON NEWS22 Friday, November 27, 2015yukon-news.com

Return of the caribou

A caribou from the Porcupine caribou herd pokes its head out from behind a hill off the Dempster Highway. See slideshow at yukon-news.com.

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YUKON NEWS 23Friday, November 27, 2015 yukon-news.com

Photography by Peter Mather

Top, hunters chase after a small herd. Tony and Clarence Alexie butcher caribou

at the Yukon/N.W.T. border, middle left, and Liz Vitrekwa has her morning coffee

while drying caribou meat in Fort McPherson, N.W.T., left.

Mike Blanchfi eldCanadian Press

OTTAWA

European offi cials are warning that climate change is a major threat

to global security on par with terrorism and cyber attacks.

And that should give world

leaders and their governments some extra impetus, the of-fi cials say, to reach a binding plan to curb global warming when they meet at the interna-tional climate change summit next week in Paris.

The connection between climate change and interna-tional security was the subject

of a day-long meeting in Ot-tawa, which assembled diplo-mats and security experts from Europe, the United States and Canada.

The meeting took place as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to depart for a three-country trip that will end on Monday at the United Nations climate talks in Paris.

Nicolas Regaud, a special ad-viser on international relations for the French defence minis-try, said droughts and famines caused by climate change will force mass migrations of people into already crowded cities – fu-elling terrorism and organized crime.

The connection is some-thing that French offi cials are mindful of as they prepare to welcome the world to Paris for the climate summit, known as COP 21.

Regaud said that “all of France’s political energy, to the highest level” is committed to making COP 21 a success, and “these senior political authori-ties have repeatedly stressed the close connection between climate change and interna-tional security.”

The disruptive infl uences of climate change are already affecting poor countries with

weak institutions, particularly along North Africa’s Sahel belt, where encroaching deserts are destroying farmland, and ac-cess to food and water, he said.

“How can we ignore the fact that climate change will exac-erbate economic, social and political tensions in countries where weaknesses are already blatantly obvious?” asked Re-gaud.

Climate change will force ru-ral dwellers into already teem-ing cities “while poverty creates fertile ground for organized crime, violence and sometimes terrorism,” he said.

Gen. Finn Hannestad, the Norwegian defence attache in Washington, said the melting of Arctic ice is “amplifying and accelerating” climate change across the planet – creating serious foreign policy questions for trade, mass migration, hu-manitarian assistance, confl ict prevention and security.

“We must deal with it for what it is – a major global secu-rity threat,” Hannestad said.

“Climate change belongs to the same category as violent extremism, cyber attacks, or-ganized crime and pandemics. It’s no less serious than armed confl ict.”

He said the extreme weather

will lead to even more severe droughts in North Africa and the Middle East, leading to a halving of food production in the region in the years to come.

“We may think that today’s refugee crisis in Europe is dra-matic,” said Hannestad. “But we don’t want to see the results when absence of food and wa-ter is added to a mix of religious extremism and international terrorism in already fragile states.”

A report prepared for G7 foreign ministers earlier this year also drew a link between climate change and security threats.

The issue of climate security has been part of the interna-tional discussion for several years, albeit at a less-prom-inent level than the general discussion about the harmful environmental effects of rising greenhouse gas emissions.

The militaries of the United States and the United Kingdom have written strategic docu-ments that discuss the need to respond to drought, fl oods, massive storms and fam-ines that could force massive displacements of large popu-lations and food shortages, leading to wars and regional confl icts.

YUKON NEWS24 Friday, November 27, 2015yukon-news.com

Climate change a major security threat

on par with terrorism: European offi cials

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EDMONTON

Alberta’s new climate change policy is partly rooted in a series of low-profi le dinner

meetings that took place well before the election of Premier Rachel Notley and her fellow New Democrats.

In 2014, the province’s envi-ronmental reputation was creat-ing increasing resistance to its energy products and the Progres-sive Conservative government of the day, led by Jim Prentice, had made it clear that something had to happen, said Chris Severson-Baker of the Pembina Institute.

“He actually started talking about climate change in a differ-ent way,” said Severson-Baker of the clean energy think-tank.

Prentice “opened a space.”“It started to create a sense

that maybe we could agree on some things, or at least under-stand what would work and what would not work.”

People on different sides of the fence started getting together for dinner. Environmentalists behind some of the loudest anti-oilsands campaigns met with executives behind some of the largest oil-sands expansions, just to talk.

“We weren’t even speaking the same language,” recalled Cenovus spokesman Brett Harris. “You’ve got to learn to speak the same language. It’s a matter of moving from that environment of confl ict to that of co-operation.”

“It was testy,” Severson-Baker said. “There were a lot of things that pushed each others’ buttons … (but) the result of them was that people started to understand each other’s point of view.”

The talks got more intense when the New Democrats came to power last spring with a prom-

ise to address climate change.Dinners evolved into meetings

between technical experts. Issues were thrashed out.

The hardest topic was emis-sion levels.

“The whole notion that emis-sions would rise before they peaked was really hard for (en-vironmental groups),” Severson-Baker said.

Industry fought any sort of emissions cap, fearing that would strand projects already under construction. The 100-mega-tonne limit agreed on was big enough to allow those projects to proceed, but low enough to force future development to fi nd ways to radically reduce emissions.

“(Environmentalists) recog-nized that it’s going to be very, very hard for the government of Alberta to put in place policies that would actually result in proj-ects that are under construction today never going into produc-tion,” Severson-Baker said.

Meanwhile, an expert panel was appointed last spring by the NDP. Led by energy economist Andrew Leach, it began holding public consultations and doing its own research.

Leach acknowledged that the informal discussions between industry and environmentalists fed into the report he and his col-leagues delivered on Sunday.

“The opportunity to bring these parties together in agree-ment around the majority of what the climate panel recommended, as well as a few additional policy changes, was an opportunity that you have to take,” he said.

“The fact that there was a new government and the sense that there was going to be action – and probably some of this carries from Prentice as well – there was a different level of conversation. Just the simple fact that we had Greenpeace representatives in our oil and gas technical sessions, that’s probably a change.”

Those changes won’t stop with Sunday’s announcement.

The panel report acknowl-edges that the greenhouse gas re-ductions it estimates won’t bring Alberta into line with what would keep global warming under two degrees C.

“What we’ve laid out is a path

to increase the stringency over time,” Leach said.

He points out that the interna-tional competitiveness of almost 20 per cent of the Alberta econo-my is directly affected by carbon prices. He insists a $30-a-tonne carbon price is as high as Alberta can go without simply shifting emissions to other jurisdictions.

“If there are more stringent polices applied in our competitor and peer jurisdictions, then the costs of imposing policies in Al-berta become much lower. I don’t think this is the last greenhouse gas policy that Alberta will ever announce.”

For now, though, he calls Alberta’s policy more comprehen-sive than anything proposed by the province’s critics, including the United State or the European Union.

And on Sunday, representa-tives of Forest Ethics –a group that once tried to get Americans to stop buying Alberta oil – stood on the same stage as the four companies behind most of the industry’s growth.

Said Harris: “It was just a mat-ter of talking.”

YUKON NEWS 25Friday, November 27, 2015 yukon-news.com

Alberta’s climate policy

development ‘just a matter of talking’

Amber Bracken/CP

Premier Rachel Notley unveils Alberta’s climate strategy in Edmonton, Alberta, on November 22.

Yukon Soccer Association will be holding ID camps for the 2016 Arctic Winter Games Futsal teams in the following age categories:

Intermediate Female: born in 1998 or later December 12th 9:00-10:30 am December 13th 10:45-12:15 pmJunior Male: born in 2000 or later December 12th 12:30-2:00 pm December 13th 9:00-10:30 amJunior Female: born in 2000 or later December 12th 2:15-3:45 pm December 13th 12:30-2:00 pmJuvenile Male: born in 2002 or later December 12th 10:45-12:15 pm December 12th 4:00-5:15 pmJuvenile Female: born in 2002 or later November 28th 12:00-1:30 pm November 29th 12:00-1:30 pm

The trials will be held at Vanier Secondary School Gym, in Whitehorse. An information sheet is available at Sport Yukon and on the YSA web-site (www.yukonsoccer.yk.ca) with the schedule for each division.

Juvenile Female participants are asked to register no later than 5:00pm on November 25th, 2015, and all others by December 9th at Sport Yukon.

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One of the key tech-nologies that could help wean the globe off fossil

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If batteries can get better, cheaper and store more power safely, then electric cars and solar- or wind- powered homes become more viable – even on cloudy days or when the wind isn’t blowing. These types of technological solutions will be one of the more hopeful aspects of United Nations climate talks that begin next week in Paris.

“If you are serious about eliminating combustion of fos-sil fuels to power anything – a

house, a city, a state – you can’t do it without (energy) storage,” which usually means batteries, said Carnegie Mellon University battery expert and inventor Jay Whitacre.

Former Vice-President Al Gore, former U.S. Geologi-cal Survey chief (and current editor-in-chief of the journal Science) Marcia McNutt and others point to better batteries as one of the bright spots in the fi ght against climate change.

While batteries have been around for more than 200 years, this year the technology has amped up.

In October, an international team of scientists announced a breakthrough in overcoming major obstacles in next genera-tion energy storage and creat-ing a battery that has fi ve to 10 times the energy density of the

best batteries on the market now. In September, Whitacre won a $500,000 invention prize for his eco-friendly water-ori-ented battery. And in April, Elon Musk announced plans for his Tesla Motors to sell high-tech batteries for homes with solar panels to store electricity for night time and cloudy day use, weaning the homes off dirtier power from the burning of coal, oil and gas.

“The pace of innovation does seem to be accelerating,” said JB Straubel, chief technical offi cer and co-founder of Tesla with Musk. “We’re kind of right at the tipping point where the cur-rent performance and lifetime of batteries roughly equal that of fossil fuels. If you are able to double that, the prospects are huge.”

At its massive Nevada Gigafactory, Tesla has started producing powerwalls to store energy in homes. They can’t make them fast enough for cus-tomers worldwide.

In November, a Texas util-ity announced it was giving wind-generated electricity free to customers at night because it couldn’t be stored. That’s where Tesla hopes to come in – not just in cars, but in homes.

Within 10 years, Straubel fi gures it will be considerably cheaper (and cleaner) to get energy through wind and solar power and store it with batteries than to use coal, oil or gas.

“What has changed is the Gigafactory,” said Venkat Srini-vasan, deputy director of the Joint Center for Energy Stor-age Research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. “Two years ago I didn’t think anyone would have thought you’d in-vest $5 billion in a big (battery) factory.”’

Tesla is using existing tech-nology, just mass producing and marketing it. That’s one of two key changes in the fi eld. The other is work to make the bat-tery itself much more effi cient.

Start with that lithium ion battery in your pocket. It was invented by John Goodenough, a professor at the University of Texas. His next task is a safer battery that uses sodium, a more plentiful element that can produce a faster charge.

“Now I hope to help free yourself from your dependence on fossil fuels,” he said on the same October day he was awarded part of a $1 million innovation-in-alternative-fuels prize from Israel.

“I believe in the next year there will be a breakthrough,” he said. “I’m hopeful, but we’re not there yet.”

Glenn Amatucci, director of the energy storage research group at Rutgers University, called it “a race against time. Every day and every hour is critical in terms of getting an advance.”

But Goodenough is in a spe-cial hurry, working more than eight hours a day on his battery: He’s 93.

There are many teams around the world working on breakthrough batteries of dif-ferent types. One of the most promising materials is lithium oxygen, which theoretically could store fi ve to 10 times the energy of a lithium ion battery, but there have been all sorts of roadblocks that made it very ineffi cient. Then, last month a team led by Clare Grey at the University of Cambridge an-nounced in the journal Science that they had, on a small scale, overcome one obstacle so that its effi ciency could compete with lithium ion batteries.

The potential gains in this technology are high, but it is still at least seven to 10 years from commercial availability, Grey said.

At Carnegie Mellon and Aqui-on Energy, Whitacre is honing a water-oriented battery with sodium and carbon. Others are looking at magnesium.

Tesla’s Straubel sees all sorts of different battery possibilities.

“It’s an ongoing revolution,” Straubel said. “It’s a critical piece in the whole puzzle in how we stop burning fossil fuels completely.”

YUKON NEWS26 Friday, November 27, 2015yukon-news.com

Experts amped up about better battery

tech helping to limit global warming

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A report by the Royal Soci-ety of Canada says there are major research gaps

when it comes to understand-ing the environmental impacts of oil spills in water.

The expert panel is calling for a nationally co-ordinated research program involving academia, government and industry that includes studying controlled oil spills in the fi eld.

The report’s release comes as Canada’s oil producers clam-our for ways to get their oil to market and industry critics sound alarms over the safety of moving crude via pipelines, train and tanker.

The panel says the heavy oilsands-derived crude that would move through proposed pipelines like Energy East and the Trans Mountain Expansion has components that are less likely to break down in water

than lighter types of oil.But the panel cautions the

chemical makeup of the crude is only one variable. Weather conditions and response time are big factors in how environ-mentally damaging a spill ends up being.

The roughly 400-page report was commissioned by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and the Canadian Energy Pipeline As-sociation. But those industry groups did not have a say in who sat on the panel or the content of the fi nal report.

Industry groups and govern-ment bodies often enlist the Royal Society – an association that includes some of Canada’s top scientists and scholars – to conduct research on their behalf.

Kenneth Lee, who chaired

the seven-member panel, said CAPP and CEPA only saw the report 24 hours before its release.

He said one of the big take-aways is that it’s not necessarily the case that diluted bitumen from the oilsands – often re-ferred as dilbit – is more dam-aging if spilled into water than other types of crude, given the myriad other factors at play.

“It’s much more than ‘Gee – dilbit’s really bad and light oil evaporates,”’ said Lee, director of oceans and atmosphere at Australia’s Commonwealth Sci-entifi c and Industrial Research Organization.

“There are so many factors that you have to understand and where’s the data for those areas of risk?”

The National Energy Board is

weighing two major oil pipeline proposals – the Trans Moun-tain Expansion to the Vancou-ver area and the Energy East pipeline to New Brunswick. The process has been criticized by environmental and First Na-tions groups and the new Lib-eral government has signalled changes are coming.

Lee said it’s not for him to say what the NEB or the federal Natural Resources department ought to do with the report’s fi ndings.

“There are knowledge gaps, but how much risk they’re willing to accept is up to them. That’s something that the regu-lator does. We’re scientists that provide the facts to them to make those decisions.”

The panel identifi ed seven “high priority research needs,”

which are:• The impact of oil spills in

high-risk and poorly un-derstood areas, such as the Arctic.

• The effects on aquatic wild-life.

• A national baseline research and monitoring program for areas that may be affected by a spill in the future

• Controlled fi eld research to understand how a spectrum of crude types behave in dif-ferent ecosystems and condi-tions

• Investigating the effi cacy of spill response and being able to learn from spills soon after they occur.

• Improved spill prevention

• Improved risk assessment protocols for oil spills.

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Royal Society report urges more

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Police need warrantless ac-cess to Internet subscriber information to keep pace

with child predators and other online criminals, says RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson.

The top Mountie said this week that a Supreme Court of Canada ruling curtailing the fl ow of basic data about customers – such as name and address – has “put a chill on our ability to initi-ate investigations.”

“I’m all for warrantless access to subscriber info,” Paulson told a security conference, comparing the process to his beat-cop days of entering licence-plate data into a computer and coming up with a vehicle owner’s name.

“If I had to get a judge on the phone every time I wanted to run a licence plate when I was doing my policing, there wouldn’t have been much policing getting done.”

In June last year, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled police must have a judge’s authorization to obtain customer data linked to online activities.

The high court rejected the notion the federal privacy law governing companies allowed them to hand over subscriber identities voluntarily.

Police say telecommunica-tions companies and other service providers – such as banks and rental companies – now demand court approval for nearly all types of requests from authorities for basic identifying information.

The Supreme Court judgment came amid mounting public concern about authorities quietly gaining access to customer data with little oversight or indepen-

dent scrutiny.Paulson said after his speech

that he advocates giving police ready access to basic subscriber information while respecting the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

“I think we’ve been consis-tent in recognizing that we are very respectful of the charter and people’s charter rights and nobody is recommending that we go any further,” he said. “But there needs to be some sort of administrative access to basic subscriber information.”

The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police revealed in August that government of-fi cials were mulling just such a scheme – though it’s not clear exactly how it would square with the court ruling. The chiefs said a discussion paper spearheaded by the Department of Justice was presented to the federal, provin-cial and territorial cybercrime working group of senior offi cials.

The paper outlined three legislative options for allowing access to basic subscriber infor-mation:

• An administrative scheme that would not involve court ap-proval;

• A new judicial order process or a tweak to the existing regime;

• A judicial order process for subscriber information with a greater expectation of privacy and an administrative, non-judicial one for less sensitive subscriber data.

Paulson said while the Internet is a marvellous boon to communication, education and commerce, it is also a place where a vast array of crime takes place – including rampant sexual abuse of youngsters.

Children are “being hurt at a pace and a frequency that is alarming,” the commissioner said.

“Technology is fuelling that.

So now these people can encrypt their communications and they can exploit children for sexual purposes and it’s a little harder to get at them from a police point of view.”

Many people want the Inter-

net to be completely free, without rules, Paulson noted. “That’s fi ne if we don’t want justice there.”

It’s time for a public conversa-tion about how best to prevent all kinds of exploitation in cyber-space, he said.

Allies in the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zea-land are confronting the same issues, Paulson added.

“We’re all struggling with this. It’s hard to keep people safe on the Internet right now.”

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access to online subscriber information

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You might be hard-pressed to remember the last time you cracked open a can of

soda and thought to yourself: “There’s gotta be an easier way to drink this.”

Yet the problem that prob-ably doesn’t exist is now the project that Keurig is leaning its hopes on.

Nearly 18 years after the company revolutionized how coffee drinkers prepare their morning cup of joe, Keurig is searching for its next stage of growth amid dwindling sales of the Keurig brewer.

That’s where Keurig Kold comes in.

The cheekily misspelled cold drink machine, which launched in Canada on Tuesday, prom-ises to serve up “fresh” glasses of popular soft drinks and fl a-voured waters using a variation of the same K-cup technology from its coffee machines.

But there are several other distinct differences with the new cold drink-maker – in par-ticular its lack of convenience and the price.

At a hulking 23.7 pounds, the Keurig Kold machine weighs almost as much as a small microwave oven and sells at more than twice the cost. Its suggested retail price is $399.99 in Canada.

Each K-cup makes 8 ounces of the beverage, a convenient serving, but that amounts to about $1.30 to $1.50 per glass. Simple math says that’s more expensive than a 12-ounce can of soda.

“It’s for the one that really wants to have a premium ex-perience,” said Keurig Canada president Stephane Glorieux when asked about the hefty costs that come with buying a Keurig Kold. “Although it seems very simple, there’s a ton of technology behind this.”

The Keurig Kold is more complex than its predecessor, which boils up some water and shoots it through a plastic pod and into a cup.

Inside the Kold machine, an “aerospace-inspired” contrap-

tion of thermoelectric conduc-tors and a small propeller draw water from a reservoir up into the machine and help cool it to about four degrees Celsius, meaning ice is unnecessary.

Then the machine fi res the liquid into a larger version of the K-cup, which stores both the fl avour syrup and – in the case of some beverages – a new carbonated bead technology that adds the fi zz.

The end result is a tasty and sweet treat that for a brief mo-ment distracts from the real-ity that none of this process is really needed for a glass of soda or fl avoured water.

Keurig built its reputa-tion as a symbol of speed and convenience with machines that tucked into the corner of kitchen counters and eliminat-ed the need to brew an entire pot of coffee just for one or two good cups.

The new machine is almost an antithesis to the company’s early appeal. Aside from its large size, the Keurig Kold takes 90 seconds to make a bever-age, which is a lot longer than it takes to pry open a can of Coke.

Keurig Kold is a direct play at a corner of the drinks market dominated by Sodastream, which uses CO2 cannisters to carbonate water and create fl avoured sodas.

Sodastream does not have partnerships with the world’s major soft drink makers, but Keurig counts Coca-Cola as its biggest outside partner, which means Coke, Coke Zero, Diet Coke and Sprite are among its 13 fl avours in Canada.

Keurig Kold launched in the U.S. earlier this fall, but in Canada it will only be available online through the Keurig web-site and a couple other retailers during the crucial holiday sea-son. The company said it plans to be in Canadian retail stores next year.

The approach suggests that even Keurig executives aren’t entirely convinced the machine is going to be a hot seller.

“It’s going to be a very struc-tured approach to make sure that we build the install base,” Glorieux said as he described the rollout. “This is not going to

be a wild fi re.”Last week, Keurig Green

Mountain Inc. chief execu-tive Brian Kelley told investors the new machine is still in its infancy.

“We know that the fi rst product we put out in a new technology is never going to be perfect,” he said.

“Consumers want it to be smaller. They want it to be less expensive. They want to have more sizes of drinks available. They want a broader selection of drinks. They want all of the brands they are used to drink-ing, just like they have in Keurig hot.”

YUKON NEWS30 Friday, November 27, 2015yukon-news.com

Coffee brewer Keurig hangs growth

on its new cold drink machine in Canada

Darren Calabrese/CP

Stephane Glorieux, president of Keurig Canada, makes a drink

with the Keurig Kold in Toronto on Tuesday.

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The latest addition to Whitehorse’s plethora of festive craft sales wants

Yukoners to take items from the trash pile and put them under their Christmas trees.

The Re:design craft fair this Saturday at the Old Fire Hall will feature more than 15 artisans who use repurposed items to create their wares.

It’s not just about creating zero waste, according to orga-nizers Leslie Leong and Darren Holcombe. Products like these actually create “negative waste.”

“Zero waste is when you’re not throwing things away,” Leong said.

“But if you’re actually taking things out of the landfi ll, that’s actually negative waste, so it’s

going back the other way.”Leong and Holcombe are

part of a subset of Yukon cre-ators with an eye for what an item could become once it has outlived its original purpose.

The show’s offerings in-clude carvings fashioned from old wooden gun stocks, and burned-out spark plugs turned into butterfl ies.

“And why not, instead of bringing it up the highway?” Holcombe asked.

Using repurposed material means gifts can be sustain-able and ethical by preventing new material from having to be shipped north, Leong said.

“We have way too much stuff in our society already, so I just don’t like seeing us locally here making stuff out of new materi-als,” she said.

“We’ve got so many materials

here that are useful and we just throw them away.”

In her Riverdale studio, Le-ong spends her time taking old computer bits and turning them into jewellery, or looking at a dented teapot from the thrift store and thinking, “Hey, that might make a good lamp.”

She’ll take broken furniture, replace the missing parts with metal pieces, and Frankenstein together “bionic” chairs.

“I don’t know why I think these things. When I say it out loud it’s kind of crazy,” she laughed.

Holcombe always has an eye out for salvageable wood and metals. “I guess I see potential. I see wasted potential,” he said.

Living out near Lake Laberge, Holcombe sees lots of pieces of wood washed up on shore. They’re relics from decades

ago when an old dump used to bump up against McIntrye Creek and unwanted lumber would be discarded into the water, he said.

Time in the water means that when he gets his hands on the wood, “it’s sort of like ocean driftwood almost,” he said.

He’s used that grayed Lake Laberge wood for bird feeders, he said.

Among his other offerings this weekend are birdhouses created from recycled material.

The roofs are made from different tin scraps. Some of the perches are doorknobs.

He’s even “squirrel-proofed” them by placing a bicycle gear or pieces of tin around the outside of the entrance hole. That keeps the squirrels from chewing on it.

“If they don’t have a place

to start, they don’t enlarge the hole,” he said.

After fi ve years of organizing the 12 Days of Christmas fair for the Fireweed Community Mar-ket Society, Holcombe decided to take a break this year.

He hopes this fl edgling event will inspire people to look at the potential in the items they are thinking of tossing out.

“I would like to have just a good turnout of people to come and see what potential can be realized from materials that are salvaged from your waste stream,” Holcombe said.

“Before you throw them out, you could have done something with them, or someone could have done something with them.”

Saturday’s sale starts at 11 a.m. and goes until 4 p.m.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

YUKON NEWS 31Friday, November 27, 2015 yukon-news.com

THE ARTS

Crafty types take trash, create treasures

Joel Krahn/Yukon News

Artist Leslie Leong shows off a lamp made from repurposed milk jugs and pop bottles at her Whitehorse studio on Monday.

‘We’ve got so many materials here that are useful and we just throw them away.’

Alison AuldCanadian Press

ST. JOHN’S, N.L.

The death of one of New-foundland’s most beloved musicians should serve as

a wake-up call to the worsening scourge of drug addiction in the province, say friends and fam-ily members who watched the artist struggle for years with the disease.

Ron Hynes died at age 64 last week in St. John’s, N.L., following a return of cancer that was fi rst diagnosed in 2012 and which re-cently spread to his lung and hip.

But his nephew, Joel Hynes, said in an unfl inching 869-word post on his Facebook page that while cancer may have caused his death, it was a persistent drug addiction that was central to his demise.

“He remained a hardcore ad-dict right to his fi nal days. And it killed him,” he said in the mes-sage, intended to be a note of thanks to his fans and friends.

“He passed the point where he was strong enough to save himself. And he was surrounded by so much love, so much worry and heartache and concern. … And in the end he choose drugs over everything and everyone he ever loved.”

Hynes, an actor and writer himself, wrote that his uncle was destitute when he died, going so far as to sell his treasured guitars “for a pittance to feed his demons and line the pockets of drug dealers.”

Sandy Morris, a lifelong friend and fellow musician, said people in St. John’s were heartbroken as they watched the acclaimed singer-songwriter “waste away” from drug use over the years.

Many tried to help by encour-aging him to go to rehab centres. But, in the end, Morris said the draw of crack cocaine and co-caine was too strong for the artist known for his gritty folk songs and famous laments about the hardships of life in Newfound-land.

“We did a fundraiser for him two years ago and we raised a pile of money and the emotion he got from people who were rooting for him, knowing he had cancer and it meant nothing to him,” said Morris, who knew Ron Hynes since they were teens and started The Wonderful Grand Band with him.

“I mean, I’m sure it meant something to him somewhere, but the addiction had such con-trol over him.”

White, who goes by the single name and manages The Wonder-ful Grand Band, said she tried

dozens of times to get Hynes to seek help but without much success. She said he did get clean for a time and spent weeks in a rehab facility, but started using again after he was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2012.

White said the drugs helped him get through cancer treat-ments that left him fatigued and sick.

“People did everything they

could and Ron knew that and he

did everything he could to avoid

the people who were most trying

to help him,” she said with a laugh from her home in Avon-dale, N.L.

“He tried a lot to shake it, but there was not much he could do in the end.”

White, Morris and Joel Hynes all say there should be more help and treatment services for drug addicts in the province, which they say has seen a spike in crime and drug use in recent years.

“Newfoundland and Labrador needs help. We are crying out for real leadership. We are … dying for proper facilities to treat our addictions and our mental ill-nesses,” Joel Hynes wrote.

“The whole province is privy to what drugs and addiction did to one of its most cherished sons. A brilliant musician who could have had the world in the palm of his hands, but instead chose to hide in the back alleys and bathroom stalls of grungy bars, who sold his life’s blood chasing a darkness that deceived him right to his fi nal breath.”

YUKON NEWS32 Friday, November 27, 2015yukon-news.com

Family, friends hope death of Ron Hynes

draws attention to drug addiction

Jacques Boissinot/CP

Ron Hynes performs at the dress rehearsal at the East Coast

Music Awards on March 1, 2009 in Corner Brook, Newfoundland.

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Canada’s aboriginals were far more likely to die violently than other Ca-

nadians in 2014, with aboriginal men at greater risk than women, Statistics Canada reported on this week.

Aboriginals are also much more likely to be accused of vio-lence, according to the agency.

Overall, aboriginals account-ed for 23 per cent of all homicide vic-tims last year, even though they made up only fi ve per cent of the population.

“Aboriginal people were vic-tims of homicide in 2014 at a rate that was about six times higher than that of non-aboriginal people,” Statis-tics Canada said.

Experts have long blamed residential schools, poverty and lack of supports for the dispro-portionate rates of violence and substance abuse among Cana-da’s aboriginal communities.

Lisa Monchalin, a crimi-nology professor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, said the statistics refl ect the sorry history of how Canada’s aboriginals have been treated.

“We had seven generations of our people put through those residential schools where we experienced violence,” Moncha-lin said.

“All of the trauma and the impacts resulting from that are

still felt in our communities.”However, last year marked

the fi rst time StatCan’s homicide survey had complete police-reported data on the aboriginal identity of victims and those accused of homicide.

The data show that aboriginal males were seven times more likely to be homicide victims compared with non-aboriginal males and three times more likely than aboriginal females. The rate for aboriginal females was six times higher than for

non-aboriginal women.The data also show police

had a signifi cantly higher suc-cess rate in solving killings involving aboriginal victims – 85 per cent as opposed to 71 per cent.

Most aboriginal victims knew their killers, with aboriginal women much more likely to be killed by family members than their non-aboriginal counter-parts but less likely to die at the hands of a current or former spouse or acquaintance.

The odds of an aboriginal man being killed by a spouse is nine times higher than for non-aboriginal males.

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being killed by a stranger.When it comes to perpetra-

tors, however, aboriginals are much more likely to be accused of homicides than their non-aboriginal counterparts.

Overall, one-third of Canadi-ans accused last year of homi-cide were aboriginal – 10 times the rate for non-aboriginal accused.

The differential was espe-cially marked for aboriginal women, who accounted for fully half of all females accused.

The agency also made police-reported data available on the aboriginal identity of female homicide victims for the years 1980 to 2013.

The proportion of homicide victims who are aboriginal women has climbed sharply in recent decades,

even though the number of victims has not changed much. That’s because the number of non-aboriginal women killed has been declining since 1991.

Between 1980 and 2014, police reported a total of 6,849 women killed. Female aborigi-nals accounted for 1,073 or 16 per cent of those.

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likely to die violently

than other Canadians

“Aboriginal people were victims of homicide in

2014 at a rate that was about six times higher than

that of non-aboriginal people.”

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Teach your dog or cat a few tricks, and your golden years will be better for it.

The movement to improve care for older pets has been going on for some time. But the idea of training pets to help out aging baby boomers is relatively new.

Between 1946 and 1964, 76.4 million baby boomers were born. By this time next year, about a third of them will be be-tween 65 and 70. Millennials will outnumber their predecessors, but boomers were the genera-tion that made cats and dogs part of the family.

Gayle Krigel of Kansas City,

Missouri, just turned 65 and doesn’t need help now, but she’s training her dogs so that when the time comes, they’ll be ready. She has two rescues, a very intelligent husky mix named Shammy and a slightly less brilliant St. Bernard mix named Mousse.

After Shammy learns how to fetch the newspaper from the yard during the winter, the dog will start learning to fi nd the remote, which is always lost. And then, because they live in a three-story house, Shammy will learn some “upstairs, down-stairs, fetch” commands.

Krigel also drills the dogs twice a day on “sit and stay.” Those commands and a few others are crucial to keeping you and your pet safe, especially for older owners who may have a

harder time physically restrain-ing an active animal. “Sit and stay” will keep dogs from jump-ing on you or a visitor, from darting out the door and from straying, said Krigel’s trainer, Geralynn Cada. If you drop your medicine, “leave it” or “wait” will stop your dog from taking it. “Off” will warn him off a table, chair or even you.

Teach your dog or cat to come immediately if you call, in case you need help or the pet is in danger. Then throw in some fun commands like “shake,” ‘’give me fi ve“ or ‘’roll over,“ Cada said.

A well-trained dog should walk on a leash without pulling so he doesn’t jar achy old bones or pull you down on an icy street. A short leash with a fat handle works best, Cada added.

Treats and/or praise are key to reinforcing the learning. (Treats work better than praise for cats because feline attention spans are shorter, only minutes at a time, while dogs can pay at-tention for 20 or 25 minutes.)

Some retirement homes of-fer training classes for seniors with pets, Cada said, and some veterinarians and trainers have training videos online. Cada’s are free to watch at http://www.petcha.com , a site owned by Dogster and Catster magazine.

You can mentally challenge your dog if you go through a series of commands – sit, stay, lie down, shake, off, roll over, speak, come – in random order at least once a day, Cada says.

Dr. Janet Cohn treats cats at her Purrfect Care Feline Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. She already makes house calls and in January will open a hospital to allow longer visits for clients who can’t come and go easily.

She recently visited a sick cat owned by a 93-year-old. The owner told Cohn how she only left the cat alone once a week – on Fridays to play chess. “For a lot of older people, a huge part of life is having another living being in the house,” Cohn said. “Their routine, cats or dogs, give a lot of people purpose,” she added.

Here are some products that can make taking care of pets easier, for aging owners or any-one else:

• iFetch is an automatic ball launcher, using a miniature ball for small-to-medium dogs ($115) and tennis-sized balls for bigger dogs ($199.99), http://www.goifetch.com .

• Groom Genie is a detangling brush that doubles as a calm-ing massaging brush. Large and paw-like, easy to grip ($19.99), http://www.groomgenie.com .

• Raised food bowls help dogs, but also keep owners from having to bend down too far. Cats can be trained to jump on a counter for meals.

• Some vets, groomers, train-ers and stores will make house calls or deliver for a fee. Pooper-scooper services will keep your yard clean.

• Lightweight cat litter can be a godsend, and if you can’t bend down to a litter box on the fl oor, you can put it on a table or plat-form and teach the cat to jump up. You can also get automatic scooping litter boxes and litter delivery services that clean the box.

• Stickers on doors letting fi refi ghters or paramedics know what pets are in the house will alert fi rst responders in case of an emergency.

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More than nine in 10 Canadians follow the example of reformed

miser Ebenezer Scrooge and give to charity every year, but experts advise taking a page from his tightwad ways and treat those charitable donations like an investment.

Philanthropy professionals and charity watchdogs say that as the holiday season approaches and the airwaves fi ll with mes-sages of altruism, you should still analyze your chosen charities the same way you would research the purchase of mutual funds or property.

Financial adviser Kate Bahen, managing director of watch-dog group Charity Intelligence Canada, says key things to look for include whether the charity’s fi nancial statements are audited and up-to-date, if the charity has an independent oversight board, and if it spends more on pro-grams than administration and fundraising.

“People need to look at that giving as an investment,” she says. “If they could bring that business brain to the giving table, I think that’s where we would see such huge change in Canada for the good.”

Bahen says charities will often play on the heartstrings by telling one story of one client in need, but big businesses don’t ever limit their quarterly reports to talking about just one customer.

While Tiny Tim’s blessing brought a smile to Scrooge’s face, he would surely also be pleased by the charity tax credits offered by the federal government that can reduce your total income

and therefore, your tax bill.The Canada Revenue Agency

gives a tax credit of 15 per cent on the fi rst $200 you donate, rising to 29 per cent for amounts over $200. If you haven’t donated before, you can claim an addi-tional 25 per cent tax credit for any donations made before the end of 2017, up to $1,000. The provinces have their own tax credits.

The CRA posts a searchable list of the more than 85,000 regis-tered charities in Canada online and provides a detailed break-down of their fi nances. Third-party organizations such as Charity Intelligence Canada also provides guidance on giving and ratings on individual charities.

Lawyer Mark Blumberg says people are happiest when their tax savings refl ect their values.

“It would be nice if people would have a sense of how they want to give, so that at the end of the year when you look at all the receipts you have it is a fair refl ection of what you want to support,” he says.

He says Canadians shouldn’t

just rely on the grades given out by third parties to make their decisions.

The best way to get to know if a charity is worthy of your sup-port is to volunteer, he adds.

Financial planner Cynthia Kett says it’s best to form long-term relationships with charities that share your values, instead of doling out many smaller gifts throughout the year.

“We often have a tendency to make donations on the fl y, and I think it’s useful to be strategic in your giving,” she said.

When it comes to taxes, Kett says it’s important to understand the nuances of the charitable giv-ing tax credit.

Because the fi rst $200 has a lower credit, married couples can save a little money by combining their donations on one return and having the higher-income

spouse claim the credit.Kett says Canadians should

report their charitable donations every year, but can hold off on claiming for up to fi ve years in order to maximize their returns. You can also use your spouse’s unclaimed charitable donations towards your returns.

Sandra Miniutti, chief fi nan-cial offi cer of American watchdog group Charity Navigator, says

that over the last decade, more and more charities have begun to measure the impact of their work and publicize the results.

She says those looking to give should make sure their chosen charity is monitoring the out-come of its work.

“If you’re not measuring and tracking your impact, how do you know you’re doing good and not harm?”

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Important:

It’s encouraging that our newly elected federal government has agreed to

improve efforts to safeguard Canada’s oceans. Ocean protec-tion here is shamefully defi -cient, currently at around one per cent. The new government has restated our country’s com-mitment to protect 10 per cent of our oceans by 2020, as part of a global agreement Canada

signed in 2010 at the 10th meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Increased ocean protection was one change called for in a recent peer-reviewed paper written by 19 scientists from across the country (including my daughter, Sarika). “Canada at a Crossroads: The imperative for realigning ocean policy with ocean science” offers recom-mendations for government to step up its game when it comes to ocean health.

The report highlights recent federal conduct that has in-creased the vulnerability of our coasts, including changes to the Fisheries Act (most notably, decreasing habitat protec-tion), disregard for the Oceans Act (an important framework

that emerged in the late 1990s outlining ocean management and protection) and inaction on species at risk.

Weak ocean protection hinders our coasts’ ability to remain resilient in the face of many challenges. A recent report in Science estimated that globally in 2010, fi ve to 13 mil-lion tonnes of plastics ended up in the oceans. Plastics often break down into tiny, toxic pieces called “nurdles”, which are turning up in the stomachs of many marine birds, fi sh and turtles.

Agricultural runoff, untreat-ed sewage and coastal develop-ment have added to the ocean sludge and created hundreds of wastelands devoid of oxygen, or “dead zones”, which can change

fi shes’ sex organs and leave animals gasping for air.

Over the past two years we were also hit by the “the blob”, a large patch of water in the Pacifi c Northwest that is 3 C warmer than average. It’s a product of unseasonably hot, dry weather and is the high-est water temperature ever recorded in this area. When I heard triggerfi sh were showing up in the North Pacifi c, I was shocked. They’re tropical fi sh! The blob brings some warm-water hitchhikers.

Carbon dioxide is perhaps the most dangerous human waste found in our oceans. CO2 from the atmosphere is absorbed at the water’s surface, where it reacts with seawater and turns into carbonic acid before breaking down further into acid and bicarbonate ions. We know changing the pH of seawater is dangerous for mar-ine life.

On the West Coast we’ve recently seen scallops strug-gling to make shells, a chilling portent of what might come as oceans become more acidic. A study published earlier this year in Nature Climate Change found that many shellfi sh are extremely vulnerable to ocean acidifi cation and that some areas most at risk are also least prepared to respond and adapt to the crisis.

Still, there are signs that Canada is ready to take ocean health seriously. “Canada at a Crossroads” ends by offering a constructive to-do list to help this country get back on track, and our newly elected govern-ment has made a number of commitments that align with its recommendations. They include reassessing the recent

Fisheries Act amendments, reversing funding cuts to Fisheries and Oceans Canada, increasing marine and coastal protected areas and allowing government scientists to speak freely about their work. The government has also moved to formalize the moratorium on crude oil tankers on B.C.’s North Coast, which will help ensure coastal biodiversity is protected from spills.

The government should also ensure that oceans are an integral part of the upcoming UN climate summit in Paris November 30 to December 12. Because they absorb carbon di-oxide, oceans are critical in the fi ght against climate change, and they are vulnerable to its effects. I hope Canada plays a constructive role in Paris and at home to ensure that oceans and all the life they support are protected and cared for.

It’s refreshing to see studies with constructive recommen-dations for these serious issues, and to see the federal govern-ment respond positively. Let’s hope we’ve entered a new era in maintaining and enhancing the health of our oceans.

Oceans supply half our oxygen, absorb a quarter of our emissions, produce food, regu-late climate and weather, give us medicine, culture, renewable energy and jobs, and support a diversity of life. We can’t live without them.David Suzuki is a scientist, broad-caster, author and co-founder of

the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from

Sarika Cullis-Suzuki, PhD, marine biologist, visiting scientist at the

University of Victoria’s Ocean Net-works Canada and David Suzuki

Foundation board member.

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Ed Berg has spent much of his life observing the natu-ral happenings on a large

peninsula (the Kenai) that juts from a larger peninsula (Alaska). The retired ecologist who worked many years for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been around long enough he might see a sec-ond version of the most damag-ing insect attack in Alaska history.

The insect is the spruce bark beetle. About the size of a grain of rice, billions of the black specks attacked spruce trees of the Kenai Peninsula during the 1990s. Their larvae girdled trees, cut off their sugar supply and slowly killed them. Three million acres of spruce trees died, includ-ing the ones on Berg’s property in Homer. After he and his wife Sara cleared the trees, their place didn’t feel the same. They moved.

Berg needed to know why the beetles attacked with such vigor. He thought about it, studied tree rings and other records of the past and combined that with a few decades of boots-on-the-ground observations. He came up with a formula, a set of circumstances that enabled what some scientists called the worst insect outbreak in North Ameri-ca’s history.

Berg, 75, wrote a recent piece on the possible return of the beetles for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Here is his lead sentence:

“If you lived in the woods on the Kenai Peninsula in the 1990s, you may not want to read this article.”

Spruce bark beetles did not kill all the spruce trees on the Ke-nai Peninsula in the 1990s. Due to what Berg termed its “peculiar ecology,” the bark beetle kills only the largest, oldest spruce. Trees smaller than six inches in

diameter are spared because they produce enough pitch to suffocate mother beetles and their phloem layer is too tight for them.

Using a “mass-attack” strategy, beetles use sheer numbers to overwhelm old-growth trees like the ones in Berg’s yard. Tree by tree, the Kenai Peninsula became a graveyard of whitish spruce snags, about 30 million of them.

But the death of the old re-leased the young spruce, sudden-ly enriched with more sunshine and water. In the 20 years since the worst of the outbreak, many of the survivors are now larger than six inches in diameter. Tim-

ber of that size is one ingredient in the Berg’s formula for another outbreak of the beetles, which never left the peninsula.

Another is a “run of warm summers” that favors beetle survival. Berg defi ned that as two or more summers in which the average May through August temperatures in Homer are at least 51 degrees F.

“The last three summers have been well above this threshold,” he wrote.

Conditions on the Kenai now seem right for another beetle outbreak. Berg does not expect it to be as large because there are not as many mature spruce as

there were in the 1990s. Then, the mature trees had been around since the 1880s, the date of the last big beetle attack on the Kenai and in other areas of southern Alaska.

After studying global climate models, Berg is not optimistic about the future of spruce trees – Sitka, white and their hybrid Lutz – in southern Alaska. Models predict summer temperatures on the Kenai will continue to be ideal for beetles.

But the forest will adjust as it always seems to, Berg wrote. He expects more hardwoods on the peninsula as beetles and fi res do their work, “which in turn should provide more winter browse for the Giant Kenai Moose, to borrow a term from the 1890s.”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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WHAT IS IT? Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that comes from the ground and can collect in houses.

WHAT’S WRONG WITH IT? Radon gas can break down into radioactive particles that can be inhaled and increase your risk of lung cancer. Your risk of cancer depends on several factors: the level of radon in your home, how long you are exposed and whether you smoke (exposure to radon and tobacco use together can significantly increase your risk of lung cancer).

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A new book was launched at the MacBride Museum last evening, which focuses on

the history of Whitehorse. Titled The Squatters of Downtown White-horse, it was written by Pat Ellis and friends.

Squatters have had a long tradition in Whitehorse. They occupied land around the perim-eter of the small community of a few hundred that existed before the construction of the Alaska Highway. The residents of these areas included First Nation fami-lies. Angela Sidney, later a highly respected elder, lived here inter-mittently in 1914-1915 when she was a young girl, along with other families accustomed to a mobile seasonal round of activities.

The main squatters’ areas included Whiskey Flats (today, Rotary Park and the area where the S.S. Klondike rests beside the Yukon River), the Whitehorse wa-terfront (including Moccasin Flats and Sleepy Hollow), and areas along the foot of the escarpment below the airport (most notably the “Wye” area at the very south end of downtown, below the Two Mile Hill, and above Sixth and Eighth Avenues in between).

Seasonal ship and train workers found inexpensive accommoda-tion here. Some train employees built small shacks on White Pass land, a practice that was tolerated by the company.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, as Whitehorse expanded, these marginal properties became more visible in the community, especially when the Robert Camp-bell Bridge was built across the Yukon River. Each day, commuters from the new middle class suburb were reminded of the squatters as they drove past them when travel-ing back and forth across the river.

Eventually, the squatters in Whiskey Flats were moved out, with some assistance from the government, and the area became scenic waterfront parkland. Squat-ters in Sleepy Hollow and Mocca-sin Flats, who weren’t so visible to the public, remained for two more decades before they scattered to other places.

Today, it is remembered in the colourful art of Jim Robb, in the memories of former residents, and in family photo albums. Jim Lotz, a community planning offi cer in the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources deter-mined that the squatter commu-nity at one time comprised a third of the population of downtown Whitehorse, but his reports do not detail the personal and human elements of squatter life.

The squatter communities along the waterfront had an unde-served reputation for bootlegging and partying. However, it is worthy

of note that several members of the legislature, as well as two future mayors, at one time lived in squatters’ areas of Whitehorse. Other former residents remain scattered throughout Whitehorse today.

“The Squatters of Downtown Whitehorse” goes a long way to putting a human face on places like Whiskey Flats and Sleepy Hollow. In fact the strands of the squatters’ lives are now woven into the broader fabric of modern day Whitehorse. What Pat Ellis does, with the help of numerous friends, is present the story of the people who lived there in their own words.

Former senator Ione Christens-en remembers living for a short time in a small one-room cabin in Whiskey Flats; the airplanes were taking off and landing in the river just a few metres from their front door. She also recalls later when her father, a former mounted policeman, while serving as public health inspector, had the pain-ful duty to see that the squatters, many of whom he knew, were relocated.

Pat Ellis remembers living in a little cabin rented from old-timer Shorty Roils that she shared with another young girl. The chemical toilet was hidden behind a curtain in the porch. They had a tempera-mental oil cook stove and a small cupboard, but no refrigerator.

Those who did not have outhouses had “honey buckets” within a toilet container that Jimmy Murphy emptied into his hand-made honey wagon once a week. They had running water: you ran down to the river with your bucket and ran back to the house. In the winter, water would be drawn from a hole chopped in the ice.

Some remember rooms so cold in the winter that the bed-ding froze to the walls and meat

didn’t spoil when stored inside as it never thawed. Others talk about the water delivery and being able to dispose of grey water by draining it or simply dumping it into the river. Many of the squat-ters lived in these areas because it was all that they could afford, but others even paid property tax and had water delivered and garbage removed.

Henry “Shorty” Roils lived in North Whiskey Flats, the area now occupied by Rotary Park. A veteran of the First World War, Roils called himself a gardener. He owned a cabin, a garden and a greenhouse. When he wasn’t working on the longshore gang, he raised and sold vegetables.

Andy Hooper, renowned for moving houses using his World War II vintage 4X4 truck, lived in Sleepy Hollow, as did iconic Yukon artist Jim Robb, who lived with a pioneer squatter family for several years.

Former Sleepy hollow resident Jerry Bruton remembers that his mother, who presided over a fam-ily of eight, took in many kids who weren’t hers but raised them as if they were. There was much drink-ing going on among the adults and they would be left on their own: “…she would say, ‘you stay the night.’ The night would turn into a couple of days, then weeks to months. The house was always full.”

These areas were homes for families. Cabinet minister Doug Graham recalls growing up in Sleepy Hollow where the Harley Davidson dealership used to oper-ate. As a child, he remembered it was a safe place for children to play. The older kids watched over

the younger kids.Ellis and friends have captured

the memories and the circum-stances of life as squatters in vivid and poignant fashion. It’s an interesting read.

The fi rst 15 pages provide some background context, using a timeline and maps, followed for the next 38 pages by the squatters’

own accounts. The fi nal fi ve pages contain photos of former squat-ters’ homes that have been demol-ished, followed by images showing what these areas look like today.Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based

in Whitehorse. He is currently writing book about the Yukon in World War I. You can contact him

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: When I am drinking lemonade or iced tea in a restaurant, sometimes a small lemon seed gets sucked up through the straw into my mouth. I know that one properly removes unwanted items with the utensil that brought it to the mouth, but how could that apply with a straw?

I suppose I could not use the straw, but it seems more sanitary than drinking directly from the glass. So I have been discreetly removing the offending little pip with my fi ngers, but your image pops up in front of my face, and I get the uneasy feeling it’s a no-no.

GENTLE READER: Not as much of a no-no as it would be to shoot the pit out through the straw — especially with Miss Manners’ face right in front of you.

Despite that personal danger, she appreciates your question. Others who have tried to alert her to excep-tions to rules seem to believe that etiquette is either callous or gullible. For example, they will dispute a direc-tive to shake hands on the grounds that it would be wrong to expect this

of someone who had lost a hand or an arm. (Well, yes, and thanks for pointing that out.) Or they will claim immunity from thanking their benefactors on the grounds that they are too busy, in presumed contrast to those who put time and trouble into pleasing them.

Please forgive Miss Manners from straying so far from your lemonade. It is just that she is tickled to hear of a legitimate exception to a common rule. Right you are: This is a problem she had not contemplated. In her excitement, she gives you her bless-ing to continue to deposit the pit discreetly into your hand.

However, here is a complication you may not have considered: Sup-pose the pit gets stuck in the straw, and you are unable to tap it out?

In that case, you have her blessing to ask for a replacement straw.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am expecting, and my husband and I have been invited to the wedding of a friend that falls three days before my due date.

Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t dream of replying with anything other than a yes or no, but in this case, would it be appropriate to respond that we would be delighted to attend so long as our little one hasn’t made his or her appearance yet?

GENTLE READER: All right, this is a justifi ed exception, but Miss Man-ners cautions you not to make a habit of it. She prohibits “maybe” as a re-

sponse to a social invitation because it implies that one is holding out for a better offer. In your case, however, no one could dispute that the birth of your baby is at least a more urgent one.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I would appreciate your point of view on when Christmas decorations should begin appearing in residential front yards.

I grew up with an unwritten rule that you do not put anything out until the Friday after Thanksgiving. With holiday creep continually pushing retailers to put Halloween out in Au-gust, I am appalled that my neighbors begin their Christmas decorating the fi rst weekend of November.

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Miss Manners recognizes the problem of creeping holidays, but she also recognizes property rights. And property courtesy, even toward those whose tastes you fi nd troublesome.

If you can fi nd an inoffensive way to say, “Christmas already! My, how time fl ies,” Miss Manners would con-sider it. But frankly, she does not trust you not to growl.

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Tom PatrickNews Reporter

Members of the White-horse Rapids Speed Skating Club were

increasingly rapid as they kicked off a new season over the weekend.

The speedy skaters set a total of 32 personal best times in their fi rst club races of the season at the Canada Games Centre on Sunday.

“I know a lot of kids were skating quite well compared to what they were at last year, so I’m not surprised they got that many personal bests,” said Rap-ids head coach Phil Hoffman. “A lot of the younger kids seem to crank them out quite frequently … They’re growing and getting better at skating, too.”

However, personal best times couldn’t be partially attributed to physical growth for all the skaters. Masters (over-30) skater Andy Muir was the only one to set a PB in every event he raced, coming away with four.

“Andy is one of our masters skaters and he’s getting better too,” said Hoffman. “He’s been skating for a couple years – he’s one of the parents who got into it because his kid was skating, so he decided to come out and skate too. He’s getting better for sure.”

Rapids’ Cord Hamilton, Emma Hamilton, and Marsh Lake brothers Micah, Lucas and Caius Taggart-Cox all posted three PBs Sunday.

Isaac McPherson set four PBs in six events, breaking the one-minute mark in the 500-metre event.

“He was in our development group last year and I brought him up into our advanced group this season,” said Hoff-man. “So it looks like he’s responding to skating more, getting more training in, more coaching, and he’s speeding up.”

Muir also beat one other skater in his division to win all four of his races, as did Joshua Lauer. Emma Hamilton beat two others to win all four of hers.

Winners were less consistent among the club’s top young skaters, who took part in fi ve-person races. Micah Taggart-Cox won the 1,000-metre and the 3,000-metre, Shea Hoffman took the 500-metre and Mi-chael Ritchie – who represented Yukon at the Canada Winter Games in February – won the 1,500-metre.

“The other kids were kind of using Shea as their rabbit and trying to chase him,” said Hoffman. “It paid off for them a little bit. They were able to take advantage of him pulling them for most of the race and take him at the line.”

The three Taggart-Cox broth-ers, Tristan Muir, Shea Hoffman and Ritchie will represent the Rapids club at a meet in Ed-monton this weekend.

A total of 17 skaters took part in the season-opening races on Sunday.

“A few of those kids it was the fi rst time they were racing because they just started,” said Phil. “So if was nice for them to get to race, see what it’s like.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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SPORTS AND RECREATION

Rapids skaters accelerate into new season

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Rapids Speed Skating Club’s Michael Ritchie, left, gets set at the start line during club races at the

Canada Games Centre on Sunday. Rapids skaters set 32 personal best times to start the season.

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Shea Hoffman leads a pair of skaters through a turn.

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Isaac McPherson (61), Lucas Taggart-Cox (66) and Caius Taggart-Cox (1) fi ght for the lead.

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Huxley Briggs rounds a turn ahead of Eddie Schneider.

Tom PatrickNews Reporter

The Yukon Graylings Masters Swim Club was represented by one swim-

mer, in just one event, at the UBC Masters Swim Meet in Vancouver on Sunday.

With the one swim the club went undefeated.

Graylings’ Victoria Ryan won the women’s 35-39 category in the 100-metre individual med-ley at the short-course meet that saw 159 swimmers from 21 clubs hit the water.

“I won my age group in the 100 IM but since it was my fi rst meet since having my third child six months ago I partici-pated mainly because I love the sport and the atmosphere at these meets,” said Ryan.

Ryan, who is president of the Graylings club, took fi rst with a time of one minute, 17.39 sec-onds – not that she’s bragging about it.

“My time was a little bit embarrassing, to be honest,” said Ryan. “It was the fi rst swim meet I’ve done since I had my third child. He was with me, on the pool deck, together with my oldest child. So I had two chil-dren with me at the swim meet this time.”

The Graylings club, which is in just its second season, has grown to 15 members, up from about seven or eight last season.

It also has a pretty big name

on its coaching staff. White-horse’s Stephanie Dixon, who is one of the most decorated Para-lympians of all time, has been coaching Graylings swimmers this season.

Dixon, who was born with one leg, won 19 medals, includ-ing seven gold, over three Para-lympic Summer Games and was inducted into the Canadian Disability Hall of Fame in 2013. She is the former head coach of the Whitehorse Glacier Bears Swim Club and has coached Yukon swimmers at the Canada Summer Games.

“We really want to pro-vide coaching because a lot of swimmers really need that extra direction and help with their swimming,” said Ryan. “It seems to attract more swim-mers that way.

“We’ve really made an effort to always have a coach on deck this year. Last year the club would always provide a work-out, but there was no coach on deck. This year we said we’d do our very best to have somebody there at all times.”

The Graylings club is a registered member of Masters Swimming of B.C. and Masters Swimming of Canada. The club holds practices at the Canada Games Centre on Sundays, but members also get together dur-ing public swimming hours.

Those interested in learning more can contact the club at graylingsmasters@gmail.com or fi nd it on Facebook.

“We really try to cater to a wide range of swimmers, so it’s not like you have to be a super fast, former Olympian or com-petitive swimmer,” said Ryan.

“We want to see triathletes or fi tness swimmers … We write our workouts to adapt to a wide range of abilities.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

YUKON NEWS42 Friday, November 27, 2015yukon-news.com

Lone Yukon Graylings

swimmer represents in Vancouver

Harry Kern Photography

Yukon Graylings Masters Swim Club’s Victoria Ryan, seen

here in a fi le photo, competed at the UBC Masters Swim

Meet in Vancouver on Sunday. Ryan won her category in

the 100-metre individual medley.

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Whitehorse’s Jeff Wig-gins recently notched a career-fi rst he’d rather

forget.For the fi rst time in his play-

ing career the director of golf at Mountain View Golf Club missed a cut in tournament play, last week at the PGA Club Professional Championship of Canada in Buck-eye, Arizona.

The 38-year-old hit a 79 in the opening round on Nov. 16. He then carded an 89 following an unfortunate 10 on the par-4 eighth hole at the Verrado Golf Club.

Ontario’s Danny King regained the title with an 11 under after three rounds. With the win the 48-year-old became the fi rst player ever to win three PGA of Canada national championships in the same year, having also nabbed the PGA Championship of Canada and the PGA Team Cham-pionship of Canada titles.

Wiggins earned a spot at the club pro nationals when he tied for fi fth at the PGA of B.C. Club Professional Championship at the Richmond Country Club at the end of September.

“I owe a lot to our own Moun-tain View Golf Club team. Our championship golf course here in Whitehorse has the foundation to be a spectacular training facil-ity for competition development

amongst all golf athletes,” said Wiggins in a news release fol-lowing the B.C. championship. “I would hope that in the near future we can build on that foundation and attract more athletes to the game and provide them with an

even better facility to work and train for competitions that will inevitably lead to better results in provincial and national champi-onships.”

In 2011, while becoming the fi rst club pro to represent the Yu-

kon at the event, Wiggins fi nished tied for 20th in his best fi nish to date.

Wiggins did not respond to interview requests for this story.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Mountain View club pro Jeff Wiggins tees off during the Skookum Asphalt Charity Pro-Am Golf

Tournament in July. Wiggins missed the cut at the PGA Club Professional Championship of Canada

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If you feel you have the qualifica ons and desire to meet the challenges of this posi on please forward a cover le er and resume

outlining how your experience and qualifica ons relate directly to the posi on.

A job descrip on is available at the YESAB Head Office,Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse,

or on our website at www.yesab.ca.

Please submit applica ons to:Finance and Administra on Manager, YESAB

Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9Ph: 867.668.6420 Fax: 867.668.6425 or email to yesab@yesab.ca

Toll free: 1.866.322.4040

Resumes must be received by December 20, 2015.

is inviting applications for

Administrative AssistantLands & Resources Department

This is a 9 month Term Position

In pursuit of our Vision, the Teslin Tlingit Council is mandated to cooperatively continue to preserve and develop social, economic, political and cultural well-being of the Teslin Tlingit First Nation, to maintain our pride and independence based on trust and to conserve the wildlife, fish, their habitat and our traditional territory for the well-being of future generations.

Under the direction of the Lands and Resources Director, this position manages and coordinates the department’s administrative records; provides a wide range of secretarial and administrative support; provides meeting arrangements and secretarial support for meetings, including minute taking and transcribing

The successful candidate shall have Grade 12 supplemented with a certificate in Administrative Services or equivalent in training or experience. The successful candidate shall have knowledge in the TTC Final Agreement, Self-Government Agreement and Implementation Plan. The successful candidate shall have excellent oral and written communication skills, be able to work independently and as team player.

We encourage those who are interested to call for more information and a full job description.

For a job description please call 867.390.2532 ext 317To apply, please submit a cover letter and resumeHR & Staff Development OfficerWorkforce DevelopmentTeslin Tlingit CouncilBox 133Teslin, Yukon Y0A 1B0f. 867.390.2176humanresources@ttc-teslin.com

Closing Date: Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015**no later than 4pm**

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITYwww.ttc-teslin.com

Cook needed FULL TIME-PERMANENT

for Talbot Arm Motel Ltd.,located at Mile 1083 Destruction Bay, Yukon, Y0B 1H0

Start Date: ASAP

Main Duties include:

Education:

Salary:

Employment Opportunity

COUNSELLOR

For complete details, visit www.kwanlindun.com/employment

Position Type: Part Time (24.5 hours weekly) for 9 months, with possibility of extension

Department: Health, Counselling ServicesClosing: Monday, December 7, 2015 at

4:30pmSalary: Level 6 - $36.32 to $43.59 per hour

Ta’an Kwäch’än Council117 Industrial RoadWhitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2T8Telephone: 867.668.3613Facsimile: 867.667.4295

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNIT Y

Office ManagerRegular Full-Time TKC wage scale 9

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Office Manager

provides administrative assistance and support to,

management and leadership and staff. The Office Manager

will supervise and work as part of the administrative team

that includes the clerical and administration staff. The

Office Manager ensures that the TKC office is running in an

efficient and effective manner

For a complete job description, contact: rkufeldt@taan.ca.

As per policy, preference will be given to TKC citizens who

self- declare in their cover letter and/or résumé

Closing date: Monday, December 7, 2015.

Please submit a cover letter and résumé to:

Human Resources Department

Email: human.resources@taan.ca

WANTED: RestaurantManager &Full & Part TimeServers

Email Anne at:newannie10@hotmail.com

Miscellaneous for Sale

WINDOOR RECYCLERWe buy & sell:

• Brand new/used double/triple panevinyl/wood windows.

•Brand new steel/vinyl exteriordoors with frames.

Now selling:•Brand new unfinished oak kitchen cabinets.

333-0717

We will pay CASH for anything of valueTools, electronics, gold & jewelry,

chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear,hunting & fishing supplies,

rifles & ammo.G&R New & Used

1612-D Centennial St.393-2274

BUY • SELL

TRADING CARDS, binder full of non-sporttrading cards (James Bond, X-men, DesertStorm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards.$40. Ross 633-3154

CFL FOOTBALL cards, 17 different com-plete sets of cards, including early OPC. Al-most 2,600 cards. $1,400. Ross 633-3154

WORLD HOCKEY Association, 5 completehockey card sets from the 1970s. Exc cond.$750. Ross 633-3154

MCDONALDS HOCKEY cards from1991-92 to 2009/10, almost every card is-sued incl. 27 unopened paks from each year,over 1,200 cards, $1,000 firm. Ross633-3154

THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets(1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some shortprints. Over 900 cards. $150. Ross 633-3154

YUKON WILDLIFE Conservation stamps,rare and unique collection of 13 stamps,from 1996-2008, beautiful artwork depictingYukon birds and wildlife, $150. 633-3154

BRASS WALKER, no wheels, good cond,$30; Honeywell oil-filled heater, used very lit-tle, $25. 334-8318

BOX OF Nevil Shute paperbacks, 38, someduplication, $25. 633-3154

HOUSE PLANTS for sale, large Spiderplant, Begonias, Umbrella Tree, from $3 to$45. 660-4321

TOILET, LOW flush, like new, $60.668-2919

BINDER FULL of baseball cards, $20.633-3154

WORLD HOCKEY Association, rememberit? Two rare books, (history, statistics, pho-tos). Exc. shape, $50. 633-3154

Native Brain-TannedMOOSE HIDES

At Reasonable PricesTanned beaver & other

furs also available.Phone (780) 355-3557

or (780) 461-9677or write:

Lodge Fur & HidesBox 87, Faust, AB. T0G-0X0

SELF PROPELLED SNOW Blower, clears30" wide path, electric start, 6 forward &two reverse speeds, excellent condition, can-opy available extra, $800. 333-9020

HOT WATER system for wood stove, tank,fittings, gauges, $150; 110ʼ free-standingtower with windmill, $5,000. 633-9022

PROFORCE ELECTRIC generator, 2875max watts/2300 running watts, $175 obo.334-8030

MASTERCRAFT 14” cut-off saw w/laserline, $125; Mastercraft 10” heavy duty tablesaw, $175. 334-8030

GENERAL WOODWORKERS bench visew/purple heart jaws, $50; Purox oxy/acetelyngauges c/w cutting & welding torches, $125.334-8030

HITACHI SLIDING compound mitre saw, 6mos old, paid $720, asking $400 obo; De-luxe mitre saw stand, $225 obo. 334-8030

WOODEN CIRCULAR staircase. 668-5188

YUKON NEWS48 Friday, November 27, 2015yukon-news.com

Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca

Casual, Temporary PositionMultimedia Technician Northern Adult Basic Education (NABE)School of Academic and Skill DevelopmentAyamdigut (Whitehorse) CampusFrom December 14, 2015 to March 31, 2016Hourly rate: $30.09 (Anticipated up to 75 hours bi-weekly)Competition #: 15.130Initial review date: December 7, 2015

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

Employment Opportunities

Expression of Interest for:Sessional Instructor, Math 101Applied Science & Management Ayamdigut Campus (Whitehorse)Duration: Winter Term (January to April, 2016)Competition#: 15.129Initial Review Date: December 2nd, 2015

www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions.

Join our team and become a member of a premier northern provider of value

added mining and construction services. Nuna is an Inuit Owned Aboriginal

Company with a track record of over 20 years of safe, successful major project

delivery.

In conjunction with the upcoming proposed Care and Maintenance work at the Faro Mine site, Nuna Logistics Limited is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

Health and Safety Lead: 5+years’ experience developing & implementing H&S programs, NCSO or CRSP certification, knowledge of Yukon’s Occupational Health and Safety Act (YOHSA) and COR.

Planning and Control Lead: 5+ years of work experience in executing cost control function, including invoicing, financial reporting, financial projections and change control programs and strategies, excellent reporting skills, Accounting designation preferred.

Environmental Lead: 5+ years of work experience in water sampling (includ-ing surface water, effluent, groundwater), Experience with environmental data management & running a chemical analysis laboratory that included meeting CALA proficient requirements

Site Superintendent: 10+ years’ experience managing operations/maintenance in cold climate remote locations. Knowledge of heavy equipment, site water man-agement, electrical generation and transmission infrastructures.

Site Manager: 5+ years’ experience with large mining remediation projects, knowledge of earthworks, erosion, sediment control and environment reclama-tion (Brownfield projects)

INTERESTED CANDIDATES ARE ASKED TO APPLY ONLINE

BY VISITING OUR CAREER PAGE AT

www.nunalogistics.com or via fax at 780-434-7758.

Nuna Group of Companies is committed to providing dependable and comprehensive construction, logistics, contract mining, and support services to the mining industry in northern Canada.

www.nunalogistics.com

is currently recruiting for the following positions:Mine ManagerMine Site SuperintendentMine site health and safetyMine site environmental leadMine site planning and controls leadHeavy equipment operatorsWater treatment plant operatorsMine site Security

Please send resumes by fax to:867-873-9620 or

Email to: jobs@nahannincl.com

SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE LISTINGS: EducationAdvanced Education

Funded by:

Habitat for HumanityVOLUNTEERS FOR HOMES FOR CHRISTMAS ➥

Driving ForceFLEET COORDINATOR ➥ AND PART-TIME RECEPTIONIST

Tr’ondek Hwench’in GovernmentBUSINESS & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVISOR ➥

Denison Environmental ServicesAYFN AND YUKONER OPPORTUNITIES COORDINATOR ➥

Salvation ArmyVOLUNTEER CHRISTMAS KETTLE HOSTS ➥

NorthwestelDIRECTOR ➥ ➥ CUSTOMER SERVICE

Gwaandak TheatrePROJECT COORDINATOR ➥

Capstone MiningMINE ENGINEER IN TRAINING (EIT) ➥

Icy WatersMAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR ➥

Medicine Chest Pharmacy PHARMACY ASSISTANT ➥

MORE @ yuwin.ca

HAND CROCHETED kitty & small dog blan-kets, pretty colours, buy 4, get one free, $10ea. 456-4554

IN-HOME XMAS shopping experience, largeselection of Xmas decor items & great giftideas, all items are new from high-endstores, selling at 50% off retail. 667-7467 toshop

WOMENʼS SHOES & boots, size 10, pur-chased from Shoes R Us, all new, neverworn, selling at 50% off retail prices.667-7467 to shop

VICTORIAN-STYLE TABLE lamps w/match-ing floor lamp, custom made shades in pat-terned cream fabric make these an elegantaddition to any room, paid $950, asking$350. 667-7467 to view

LARGE SELECTION of crystal, pinwheel &Princess House (German company), all atreasonable prices, great for holiday gifts orpersonal collection. 667-7467 to shop

SILVER PENDANT with French lily, $100;Book, Part of the Land, Part of the Water,$100; Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous, 1988,signed by Cris Caldwell, #3 of 500, $100.633-2236

WOMENʼS 14+ fashions, (14, 16, 18, XL),large selection including business attire, cas-ual wear, outerwear, lingerie, formal gowns,dress pants, tops perfect for the upcomingXmas & New Yearʼs parties. 667-7467 toshop

NIKON D3100 DSLR camera, body only, c/wVello battery grip & 2 EN-EL14 rechargeablebatteries, battery charger, accessories, mint,$400. 668-4732

2 BI-FOLD doors, solid, new in box, 2-6doors x 6-8, $40/ea. A 4-0 door x 6-8, $60. 2interior doors, solid, 36”, $60/ea obo.335-0806

RANCILLO SILVIA espresso machine, exccond, $100. Text 334-2693

8 BOXES of vinyl records, approx 1050 al-bums, exc shape, take all for $1,000. Text334-2693

RIELLO BURNER for an oil furnace, $100.Text 334-2693

DUAL STAGE Sears Snowblower, 8HP, 24”,runs but needs a starter motor, $300.668-2919

TRACTOR WITH snow blower attachment,electric start, tire chains & weights, exccond, $1,800.00. 333-9020

MENʼS WINTER North Face coat, XL, red &black, exc cond, $250. 689-2191

DIESEL GEN set, also used for welding, 180amp, $750 obo. 633-2760

SIZE 10 Aircast, used 4 weeks, always worea sock & indoors only, $200. 335-3331

PHANTOM BEAVER fur coat, sheared, fitsplus size 3-4X, knee length, worn only about5 times, $,3500 firm. 633-3416 or 334-2041

ERZGEBIRGE SPIELUHR, new, in box &papers, worth $200, asking $100. 633-2236

INSULATED STAINLESS steel stovepipe,7", w/2" insulated walls (Canadian Tire style).2 pieces 36" long, one piece 24", rain cap, &

2 pieces of 36" single wall pipe, $120.668-5511

WOODTURNING LATHE, Nova DVR 3000.professional quality, no vibration, lightlyused, exc cond, Cole jaw for bowls, 4 jawchuck or centers, several turning tools,$2,500 firm. Andy @ 668-5871

26" CRAFTSMAN snowblower, self pro-pelled, electric start. Works great, $ 675.867-333-0916

HOUSE PLANTS, $15, $20, $40;spider/split-leaf Phila, 6ʼ rubber plant. 311BHanson St after 6pm

MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT down vest, wmssm, $50; MEC pile lined jct, wms lg, $40;wms size 6 mid-calf winter boots, $25. 311BHanson St after 6pm

SKI SHOES, Salomon SR511, blue, size 47.660-4321

SCHACHT LOW Castle Loom, maple, 8 har-ness, 48”, bench & bags, warping mill, boats,shuttles, lamp, weaving books/magazines,weaving supplies, excellent condition,$3000. 668-4976

WOMEN'S SHOES, size 7.5 $80 obo; brownwomen's coat size S $45 obo; women's win-ter jacket, purple/white, clean, size M $30;men's XL hand-knit green sweater, new, $55obo. 667-7840

RIELLO OIL burner, serviced last fall withonly 4 months use, recent fan motor, reliableunit, $225. 668-7228

NEW WOMENʼS mink & silver fox fur jacket,size small, $2,000 obo. 667-7057

Electrical Appliances

KENMORE WASHER & dryer, matching set,5 yrs old, great cond, $250 for pair.633-2837

GE CONVECTION stove, 1-yr old, stainlesssteel, exc cond, ceramic top, came with newhouse, must sell, $350. 689-2327

GE PROFILE top load washer & dryer, 4 yrsold. Good cond, $450 obo. 335-2282

2013 MAYTAG Bravos X top load water, lowwater wash, uses 70% less water/energy,2014 7.0 cu ft capacity Whirlpool dryer w/Ac-cuDry Sensor system, great cond, $1,000for both. 332-2566

TVs & Stereos

SONY TV, 27”, c/w stand, $100 obo.668-2919

LG SURROUND sound system, 4 towerspeakers, 1 center, 1 base, receiver with dvdplayer, $300 obo. 335-3331

26 PS3 various games, retail over $1000,take all for $400 or $20 each. 331-3331

Computers & Accessories

FREE, HEWLETT Packard scanner modelScanJet 3400C w/software, works fine, I up-graded. 633-3154

IPHONE 4S Bell/Virgin, black gd cond, c/wcharge cord, $150. 334-6087

MAC MINI Apple Computer, adaptable &linked to TV screens via HDMI or ThunderBolt Cable, works with computer screens,usb or blue tooth keyboards & mice, $510obo. 335-5911

COMPLETE WII system with 8 games inclbalance board, 2 Wii fit and instructionmanuals, $400 obo. 335-3331

COMPUTER CHAIR, good condition, $10.667-7840

Musical Instruments

PIANO TUNING & REPAIRby certified piano technician

Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com

CERTIFIED ORGANIC red Russian garlicfrom the Okanagan, $16/lb. 332-0417

NEW COMPOST toilet, call for details.633-6502